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Perplexity’s 2026 story remains a pivot story: from "AI answer engine with stagnant growth" to "agent company growing revenue rapidly." Since the spring, the company has kept expanding its Computer agent product deeper into enterprise workflows, most notably into Microsoft 365, while its web traffic share and mobile app share have both remained essentially flat, in contrast to the much larger moves happening elsewhere in the market.

Key Perplexity AI Usage Statistics – July 2026

Perplexity’s global web traffic share sits at ~1.3% (Similarweb, data to May 26, 2026), down slightly from 2.0% in March

Perplexity’s valuation stands at $22.6 billion following a January 2026 Series E-6 round

Perplexity Computer is now integrated directly inside Microsoft 365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams), a significant enterprise distribution expansion announced in June 2026

Deep Research has been added inside Computer, alongside a new command panel, task forking, and enterprise controls including a Computer Analytics API

Personal Computer , an always-on AI agent running on a dedicated Mac mini, is now available to all users via a new Perplexity Mac app

The Perplexity API is now a full-stack, model-agnostic platform with four components: an Agent API, Search API, Embeddings API, and a forthcoming Sandbox API for code execution

Annualised revenue remains in the $450 to $500 million range as of Q2 2026

Perplexity went from "Google Killer" to completely vanishing from our timelines.

US daily active user share collapsed 65% in just five months. From 6% in October 2025 to 2% in March 2026.

It captures just 2% of the global AI traffic market, completely crushed by Gemini &… pic.twitter.com/d8Smvawrlq

— shirish (@shiri_shh) July 1, 2026

Perplexity’s Traffic and Market Share: Mostly Flat

Perplexity’s 2.0% web traffic share held unusually stable through the spring in a market where every other platform was moving sharply. The most recent Similarweb data suggests that stability has tipped slightly negative:

AI Platform<br>March 2026<br>May 2026

ChatGPT<br>56.7%<br>52.7%

Gemini<br>25.5%<br>27.3%

Claude<br>~6%<br>8.9%

DeepSeek<br>3.7%<br>4.0%

Grok<br>~2.8 to 6%*<br>2.8%

Copilot<br>1.1%<br>2.0%

Perplexity<br>2.0%<br>~1.3%

*See our Grok AI Stats post for a note on conflicting March-period readings.

Perplexity’s share has drifted down rather than held perfectly flat, a reminder that "stable in a moving market" is itself a form of relative decline once Gemini and Claude are compounding at the rates they are. On mobile, Apptopia’s most recent briefs don’t call out Perplexity specifically in the June update, but the April reading (2.1% US DAU share, down from a 6% peak in October 2025) remains the most recent figure available; there’s no clear evidence of the "first signs of recovery" flagged in April having turned into a sustained rebound by June.

The Product Pivot Continues: Computer Goes Enterprise-Wide

The most significant recent development for Perplexity is the deepening of its agent strategy inside one of the largest software ecosystems on Earth:

Computer inside Microsoft 365 (June 2026): Perplexity’s agentic product is now available directly inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams, letting users draft documents, analyse spreadsheets, build presentations, and manage communications using context already present across their files and email

Deep Research in Computer : a new capability letting users start with a complex research question and carry the output directly into a report, spreadsheet, deck, dashboard, or website within the same workflow; Perplexity claims this outperforms comparable deep-research products on recent benchmarks

Personal Computer : an always-on AI agent that runs on a dedicated Mac mini, merging local files, native Mac apps, and web/server-side sessions into a single persistent assistant, now available to all users through a new Perplexity Mac app

The Perplexity API has been rebuilt as a full-stack agent platform: an Agent API for multi-step workflow orchestration, a Search API for real-time web-grounded retrieval, an Embeddings API for large-scale retrieval, and a forthcoming Sandbox API for secure code execution

Taken together, this is a company continuing to bet that its long-term value lies in becoming an agentic infrastructure layer for knowledge work, deployed inside the tools people already use, rather than competing head-on with ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude as a standalone chatbot.

Funding and Valuation

Perplexity closed a Series E-6 round in January 2026 that pushed its valuation to $22.6 billion . The amount raised in that specific round has not been...