Gemini vs Perplexity comparison

By starting price alone, Gemini is $15.01 cheaper. But price is not everything, so check the highlighted rows in the table below.

Gemini and Perplexity compared side by side in AI.

CurrencyUSD KRW EUR

Gemini

Google's AI assistant. Connects directly to Google services such as Gmail, Drive and YouTube

An AI search engine that answers with source links

Highlighted rows are where they differ.

Item	GeminiVisit site	PerplexityVisit site
Starting price	≈€4.45+ ($4.99)Official USD price	≈€17.83+ ($20)Official USD price
Free tier	Free plan available	Free plan available
Korean support	Good	Good
Main models	Gemini 4 Argon Gemini 3.8 Flash Gemini 3.1 Pro Gemini 3 Deep Think Nano Banana 2/Pro (image) Gemini Omni/Veo 3.1 (video)	Sonar 2 (in-house) GPT-5.6 Terra/Sol Claude Sonnet 5/Opus 5 Gemini 3.7 Flash Grok 4.6 Kimi K3 and others selectable
Type	AI services	AI services
Category	Chatbot/Assistant, Search, Image Generation	Search, Chatbot/Assistant
Company	Google, United States	Perplexity AI, United States
Plans	Free AI Plus $4.99 AI Pro $19.99 AI Ultra $99.99 (5x), $199.99 (20x) Enterprise from $21	Free Pro $20 (annual $200) Education Pro $10 Max $200 (annual $2,000) Enterprise Pro $40 per seat Enterprise Max API pay-as-you-go
Pros	Strong integration with Google services Good with long documents and video (up to 1M context) Can start with the cheap AI Plus ($4.99)	Sources shown for every answer Strong at searching the latest information Can pick models from several companies
Cons	Fewer advantages outside the Google ecosystem Features are split up in a complicated way across plans	Weaker than general chatbots at long creative writing and conversation Source summaries are sometimes inaccurate

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Prices converted at 1 USD = ₩1,327.84 (2026-10-20). Original price shown in brackets. Taxes as listed by each provider.