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Meta AI vs Perplexity
Compare Meta AI vs Perplexity: pricing, context window, benchmarks (coding, math, reasoning), capabilities. Updated April 2026.
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Free tier
Fully free across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, web
5 Pro searches/day
Standard plan
Free — API only
Pro — $20/mo
Top plan
API via Together/Groq — API only
Enterprise — $200/mo
API input / 1M tokens
$0.50 Best
$3.00
API output / 1M tokens
$1.50 Best
$15.00
Capability
Context window
1M Best
200K
Max output tokens
8K Best
4K
Knowledge cutoff
2026-01
Live (web)
Benchmarks
Coding (LiveCodeBench)
64% Best
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Math (AIME 2025)
70% Best
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Reasoning (GPQA Diamond)
70% Best
65%
Human pref. (LMArena Elo)
1340 Best
1280
Features
Image input
✓
✓
Voice mode
Partial
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Web search
✓
✓
File upload
Partial
✓
Image generation
✓
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Code execution
Partial
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Agent / tool use
Partial
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Persistent memory
Partial
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Meta AI
Free across Meta apps (FB/IG/WhatsApp). Open weights for self-hosting. Imagine for image gen. No premium tier — fully free.
Perplexity
Search-grounded, not a general assistant. Best when you need cited, real-time answers.
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