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Perplexity vs Qwen
Compare Perplexity vs Qwen: pricing, context window, benchmarks (coding, math, reasoning), capabilities. Updated April 2026.
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perplexity.ai ↗ Qwen
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Free tier
5 Pro searches/day
Generous free tier in consumer app
Standard plan
Pro — $20/mo
Plus — API only
Top plan
Enterprise — $200/mo
API only — API only
API input / 1M tokens
$3.00
$0.40 Best
API output / 1M tokens
$15.00
$1.20 Best
Capability
Context window
200K
256K Best
Max output tokens
4K
8K Best
Knowledge cutoff
Live (web)
2026-01
Benchmarks
Coding (LiveCodeBench)
—
72% Best
Math (AIME 2025)
—
85% Best
Reasoning (GPQA Diamond)
65%
74% Best
Human pref. (LMArena Elo)
1280
1370 Best
Features
Image input
✓
✓
Voice mode
—
✓
Web search
✓
✓
File upload
✓
✓
Image generation
—
✓
Code execution
—
✓
Agent / tool use
—
✓
Persistent memory
—
✓
Perplexity
Search-grounded, not a general assistant. Best when you need cited, real-time answers.
Qwen
Frontier-tier benchmarks at the lowest API cost in the high-quality tier. Open weights for Qwen 3-235B (Apache 2.0). Chinese hosting raises data-residency considerations.
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