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Comparison2 AI assistants

Qwen or Perplexity

Qwen is ahead of Perplexity on the Celsius score: 39 against 36 out of 100. Qwen is ahead on performance, Perplexity on ethics and environment.

QwenAlibaba ↗39-36Celsius score out of 100PerplexityPerplexity ↗
First assistant
ClaudeGeminiChatGPTCopilotMeta AIVibeQwenPerplexityDeepSeekGrok
Second assistant
ClaudeGeminiChatGPTCopilotMeta AIVibeQwenPerplexityDeepSeekGrok

Gaps by category

  1. Performance49280out of 100100

    Qwen is ahead of Perplexity on performance: 49 against 28 out of 100.

  2. Ethics34390out of 100100

    Perplexity is ahead of Qwen on ethics: 39 against 34 out of 100. Largest gap: "Generated content", Perplexity 58 against 50.

  3. Environment33420out of 100100

    Perplexity is ahead of Qwen on environment: 42 against 33 out of 100. Largest gap: "Advanced queries", Perplexity 58 against 17.

  4. Use0.9 %0% of AI sites' web traffic60

    Web traffic: 0.9% for Perplexity; not measured for Qwen in our dataset.

  5. Price6 $2.50 $0$ per million output tokens, API50

    The Perplexity API costs 2.4 times less for output: $2.50 against $6 per million tokens. Subscriptions: free (Qwen) and €22 (Perplexity).

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