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Perplexity alternatives

What Perplexity customers also use, ranked by public customers.

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8 of the 26 Perplexity customers on usedby also use another tool on this list. The tools most often used by the same companies are Claude (2 shared, 73 customers in all), Glean (2 shared, 49 customers in all), and You.com (2 shared, 10 customers in all).Latest check Oct 8, 2026: 414 of 530 public lines checked. Customer counts include every proof level, job-post signals included. Shared customers are counted on confirmed or observed lines on both tools.

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Perplexity customers also use another tool on this list

Claude shares the most companies with Perplexity: 2 companies use both.

Ranked by shared customers

Tools of the same or a competing category, from another vendor, used by at least one company that also uses Perplexity. A shared customer has a confirmed or observed line on both tools.

Perplexity alternatives ranked by shared customers
#AlternativeShared with PerplexityCustomersCompare
1Claude273Compare Perplexity vs Claude
2Glean249Compare Perplexity vs Glean
3You.com210Compare Perplexity vs You.com
4ChatGPT140Compare Perplexity vs ChatGPT
5Mistral137Compare Perplexity vs Mistral
6GuruMostly Fintech & Payments (4)126
7CohereMostly IT Services & System Integration (9)123
8HebbiaMostly Investment & VC (4)114
9OnyxMostly Fintech & Payments (3)114

Claude73 customers

Used by 73 companies on usedby. 2 also use Perplexity. Compare Perplexity and Claude

Source: claude.com, latest capture Oct 2, 2026.

Glean49 customers

Used by 49 companies on usedby. 2 also use Perplexity. Compare Perplexity and Glean

Source: glean.com, latest capture Oct 7, 2026.

You.com10 customers

Used by 10 companies on usedby. 2 also use Perplexity. Compare Perplexity and You.com

Latest capture across its sources: Oct 8, 2026.

ChatGPT40 customers

Used by 40 companies on usedby. 1 also uses Perplexity. Compare Perplexity and ChatGPT

Latest capture across its sources: Oct 8, 2026.

Mistral37 customers

Used by 37 companies on usedby. 1 also uses Perplexity. Compare Perplexity and Mistral

Source: mistral.ai, latest capture Oct 2, 2026.

Guru26 customers

Used by 26 companies on usedby, 4 of them in Fintech & Payments. 1 also uses Perplexity.

Source: getguru.com, latest capture Oct 5, 2026.

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Switch signals

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By industry

Which of these tools the companies on usedby use, by industry. Each row counts the companies of that industry on usedby that use at least one of these tools.

Most used tools among Perplexity and its alternatives, by industry
IndustryMost usedNextCompanies
Fintech & PaymentsGlean22%Perplexity19%27 companies
IT Services & System IntegrationCohere50%Claude17%18 companies
Artificial IntelligenceClaude29%Dust18%17 companies
DevTools & InfrastructureClaude38%ChatGPT19%16 companies
Data & AnalyticsGlean33%Perplexity20%15 companies

Read the first row as: among the 27 Fintech & Payments companies on usedby that use one of these tools, 22% use Glean. Shares can add up to more than 100% because some companies use two tools.

Questions about Perplexity alternatives

Which tool shares the most customers with Perplexity?

Claude: 2 companies use both on usedby. Claude has 73 customers in all. See who uses Claude.

Do Perplexity customers use other tools too?

8 of the 26 Perplexity customers on usedby also use another tool on this list. Claude shares the most: 2.

Which of Perplexity and its alternatives do Fintech & Payments companies on usedby use?

Among the 27 Fintech & Payments companies on usedby that use one of these tools, 22% use Glean. Perplexity comes next, with 19%.

Which of Perplexity and its alternatives do IT Services & System Integration companies on usedby use?

Among the 18 IT Services & System Integration companies on usedby that use one of these tools, 50% use Cohere. Claude comes next, with 17%.

How does usedby rank Perplexity alternatives?

Only tools of the same or a competing category, from another vendor, count. They are ranked by shared customers: companies with a confirmed or observed line on both tools, from public pages, most with a dated capture. Tools with no shared customer are listed apart. Customer counts include every proof level, job-post signals included.