Listen vs Perplexity: who uses which
Customers, public proof and the companies that use both.
On usedby, 40 companies use Listen and 26 use Perplexity. No company is listed with both yet. Perplexity leads among the Fintech & Payments companies on usedby that use either tool.Latest check Oct 4, 2026: 50 of 66 public lines checked. Counts include every proof level, job-post signals included. Companies named on both have a confirmed or observed line on each side.
Who uses Listen, Perplexity, or both
Every company with a public proof for at least one of the two tools.
40
use only Listen
0
companies use both
26
use only Perplexity
40 companies use only Listen, 26 use only Perplexity and 0 use both, out of the 66 companies on usedby that use at least one of them.
Where it lands
Newest customers
We have not started tracking changes for Listen yet.
Where it lands
Newest customers
We have not started tracking changes for Perplexity yet.
Who uses both
Companies with a confirmed or observed line on both tools.
By industry
Which tool the companies on usedby use, by industry. Shares of the companies on usedby that use Listen, Perplexity or both: a share of the companies on usedby, not of the market.
Listen onlyBothPerplexity only
More common with Perplexity
- Fintech & Payments5 of the 9 Fintech & Payments companies on usedby that use either tool use Perplexity.
- Artificial Intelligence3 of the 5 Artificial Intelligence companies on usedby that use either tool use Perplexity.
- Investment & VC4 of the 5 Investment & VC companies on usedby that use either tool use Perplexity.
Source: confirmed and observed usedby lines. Job-post signals, the weakest proof level, are left out of these shares.
Side by side
Facts from our data and from each vendor's public pages. Each line says where it comes from.
ListenPerplexityWhat customers report
Results as the vendor or the customer published them, with the source and the date.
Listen
the team shipped StudyArena in roughly half the time it took to build A1Zap
A1Base
Vendor case study, listenlabs.ai, captured Oct 2, 2026
Think about it as 100 studies for the price, at least in terms of time, of five or six.
Anthropic
Vendor case study, listenlabs.ai, captured Oct 2, 2026
Perplexity
No reviewed story for Perplexity yet.
Questions about Listen and Perplexity
Which is used more, Listen or Perplexity?
Listen has more customers on usedby: 40 against 26 for Perplexity.
Do companies use both Listen and Perplexity?
usedby has not found a company with a confirmed or observed line on both Listen and Perplexity yet.
Who uses Listen?
40 companies on usedby, each with the public page that shows it. See who uses Listen.
Who uses Perplexity?
26 companies on usedby, each with the public page that shows it. See who uses Perplexity.
How does usedby count customers?
A company counts when a public page shows it: a vendor's customer page, a case study, a press release or a job post, most saved with a dated capture. Every line is a customer, at one of three proof levels: confirmed, observed or signal (a job post, the weakest). A company is named as using both tools when its lines on both are confirmed or observed.