Felo vs Genspark vs Perplexity AI vs You.com
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
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Genspark
AI Super Agent workspace: research, slides, docs, calls, data analysis
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Perplexity AI
The answer engine that cites its sources on every live web query
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You.com
Web-grounded research and search APIs for developers and enterprises
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.4 / 10 | 7 / 10 | 8.4 / 10 | 7 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | 200 daily credits; 5 Pro searches/day; full multilingual search; web + mobile | 100 credits per day (reset every 24 hours); access to Sparkpages, Docs, Sheets, and Slides on the free tier with 1 GB AI Drive storage | Unlimited basic searches with standard model | $100 one-time free API credit for new signups |
| Paid from | $8.99/month (Pro) — unlimited searches, deep research, multi-model | Free; Plus $19.99-24.99/mo (annual/monthly); Pro $249.99/mo | $20/month (Pro); $200/month (Max, launched July 2025) | Research API per 1,000 calls: Lite $12 up to Frontier $2,000+ (contact sales) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Users | ~400K MAU (as of late 2025; ai-review.com) | 2 million+ monthly active users (as of February 2025, at Series A) | 30M+ standalone monthly active users (100M+ across all products, 2026) | 1B+ queries/month (via API/platform); no verified public figure for consumer user count |
| Founded | 2021 | 2024 | 2022 | 2020 |
| Maker | Sparticle Inc. | — | Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, Andy Konwinski | Richard Socher, Bryan McCann |
| Verdict | Felo carved out a real niche: an AI answer engine built for cross-language research rather than a translation bolt-on. Query in Japanese and get synthesis pulled from Chinese, Korean, and English sources in one pass — a... |
Genspark has ridden its April 2025 pivot from AI search to agentic workspace into real scale — roughly $250M ARR and a $2.6B valuation by mid-2026, plus a Microsoft partnership pushing its agents into Office. One prompt... |
Perplexity remains the strongest citation-first answer engine: every query triggers a live web search and each sentence links to its sources, which makes verification fast in a way plain chatbots can't match. The free ti... |
You.com finished its long pivot in February 2026: the consumer answer engine is now the shop window for a B2B Research API business, with effort-tiered endpoints (lite through frontier, roughly $6.50 to $300 per thousand... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.