B
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100,000,000
100,000,000 -- monthly active users for Perplexity AI (2026-04)
Perplexity AI's usage across all surfaces passed 100 million monthly active users by April 2026.
- Covers usage across all surfaces including agent products and integrations, not only the core app
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Value
100,000,000
Unit
Count
Data Vintage
2026-04
Entity
Evidence Quality
B
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Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Perplexity AI
Primary
Tier B
https://www.honeyb.ai/blog/who-owns-perplexity-ai ↗
Source Article
Who Owns Perplexity AI? Founders, Funding, and Backers (2026)
Perplexity AI is not owned by Google, Nvidia, OpenAI or any other technology giant. It is an independent, privately held company run by its four co-founders alongside a deep bench of venture investors who have written cheques across a long run of disclosed rounds. The reason the question keeps surfa…
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Perplexity AI
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Methodology
Company-reported usage across all surfaces including agent products and integrations
Methodology documented
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Industrymarketing
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Perplexity AI: 100,000,000 monthly active users. Source: Perplexity AI (2026-04). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/perplexity-mau-100m-2026
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/perplexity-mau-100m-2026" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>100,000,000</strong> -- monthly active users for Perplexity AI<br><small>Source: Perplexity AI (2026-04) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/perplexity-mau-100m-2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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