Product overview — LLM Providers
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Low
Perplexity
AI search product focused on answers with citations, often compared to raw model APIs when the decision is search UX versus orchestration control.
Sources linked — see verification below.
Freshness & verification
Who is this best for?
This is the fastest way to decide whether Perplexity is in the right neighborhood.
Best for
- Products where the core user experience is AI search with citations
- Teams that want to avoid building retrieval, browsing, and citation UX from scratch
- Use cases focused on discovery, research, and “find the answer with sources” flows
- Organizations that prioritize UX speed over deep orchestration control
Who should avoid
- You need full control over prompts, tools, routing, and evaluation of a custom workflow
- Your product requires deterministic automation with strict structured outputs
- You require self-hosting or strict data residency control
Sources & verification
Pricing and behavioral information comes from public documentation and structured research. When information is incomplete or volatile, we prefer to say so rather than guess.