--- title: "Perplexity — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/perplexity as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # Perplexity (🏢 Companies) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › Perplexity Perplexity is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 1 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 1 point higher than 7 days before. Its attention is within the normal range across the monitored sources. Its last hype episode in the 30-day window ran from Sep 2 to Sep 2 (peak 28 on Sep 2). Perplexity, an SF AI search startup (and maker of the agentic browser Comet), competing with Amazon over shopping agents. First seen on Google News (RSS) · Sep 15 — the first monitored source to go above normal for it in the last 14 days. Why this stage: within the normal range across monitored sources. - **Stage:** 💤 Quiet — within the normal range across the monitored sources - **Hype score:** 1.1 / 100 · +1.1 in 1 day · +1.1 in 7 days - **In hype since:** not in hype now - **Peak, 30 days:** 27.5 on Sep 2, 2026 - **Category:** 🏢 Companies - **Official site:** [perplexity.ai](https://perplexity.ai) - **Sources above normal:** 0 of 25 scoring it (0 independent families) - **Stories in 7 days:** 169 - **Share of voice:** 0.5% of the radar’s attention in 7 days ## Where the attention comes from “Normal” is the median of the source’s previous 14 normal days for this topic. A source is above normal when its value is at least 30% over that level and stands out from its usual day-to-day variation (z ≥ 2); the share is the part of the hype score that source explains. “× normal” is left blank when the normal level is 0. | Source | Metric | Latest | Normal | × normal | Above normal | Share of score | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | DEV Community (dev.to) | items | 4 | 1.5 | 2× | no | 90% | | Google News (RSS) | articles | 15 (Sep 26) | 13.5 | 1.1× | no | 5.4% | | Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) | items | 2 | 0.9 | 1.6× | no | 4.6% | | Hacker News | mentions | 1 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Bluesky | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | GitHub Trending | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Google Trends (Trending now) | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | ## Stories behind it 1. [Downgraded from Max \($100\) to Pro. How would you spend the other $80/month on AI tools?](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wotfn1/) — Reddit (r/ClaudeAI) · Sep 24 · score 18 · 71 comments 2. [Show HN: CiteRank, track whether ChatGPT and Perplexity cite your site](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49845916) — Hacker News (citerank.thecompound.tech) · Sep 25 · score 3 · 3 comments 3. [jayniebingyu-cyber/goaimoat-ai-visibility-mcp: GoAI Moat - AI Visibility Audit MCP server. Diagnose a brand visibility in AI answers \(ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews\). https://mcp.goaimoat.com/mcp](https://github.com/jayniebingyu-cyber/goaimoat-ai-visibility-mcp) — GitHub (jayniebingyu-cyber) · Sep 22 · score 1 4. [Best AI Research Tools 2026: What Works](https://dev.to/diflowrin/best-ai-research-tools-2026-what-works-5e8p) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#programming) · Sep 27 · score 1 · 0 comments 5. [Meta’s Muse Tries \(and Fails\) to Disrupt Amazon](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/metas-muse-tries-and-fails-disrupt-amazon) — Tech press (RSS) (The Information) · Sep 22 6. [Surreal Dinner Series: AI & Design with OpenAI, Perplexity, & Sesame](https://luma.com/surreal-hfy6) — Cerebral Valley (AI events) (Other) 7. [America’s Hypocritical Take on Intellectual Property https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/09/trump-admin-ai-copyright-lawsuits/688751/?utm\_source=feed #AITheft #CopyrightInfringement #Intellec…](https://mastodon.social/@killer_rabbit90/117334280497557099) — Mastodon (fediverse) (mastodon.social) · Sep 25 · score 4 · 0 comments 8. [bsky.app/starter-pack... CALL OUT FOR A FULLY INDEPENDENT PUBLIC INQUIRY: Investigating Boris Johnson’s Role in Russian State-Mafia Interference in UK Politics \(2010–2022\) #AIEvidentialMaterial #Ai #…](https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4sivhpo2an6off6obxrbc3oo/post/3mwirovpzjs27) — Mastodon (fediverse) (bsky.brid.gy) · Sep 27 · score 2 · 1 comment 9. [Optimizing my AI subscriptions: Claude Pro \(Opus\) vs. ChatGPT Plus vs. Perplexity Pro?](https://www.reddit.com/r/AI_Agents/comments/1wqwgz9/) — Reddit (r/AI\_Agents) · Sep 26 · score 10 · 15 comments 10. [NINFER: Ternary Bonsai 2 27B at 167-210 tok/s on a single RTX 4090, native on Windows: a custom CUDA port, 2.25× faster prefill than the reference fork, same perplexity](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLM/comments/1wpfubk/) — Reddit (r/LocalLLM) · Sep 24 · score 5 · 14 comments 11. [Has anyone else encountered "invalid" or "no credits" errors with an active Perplexity Pro subscription? I keep running into this. Does anyone know what causes it and how to fix it? Which models have…](https://mastodon.social/@tehpoet/117321647305615379) — Mastodon (fediverse) (mastodon.social) · Sep 23 · score 1 · 1 comment 12. [I need to research NSFW\(P\*\*\*\) websites. Recommendations on wich LLM to use?](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLM/comments/1wo6k8h/) — Reddit (r/LocalLLM) · Sep 23 · score 0 · 6 comments ## Themes What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 124 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes): - [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 42% of its stories - [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 31% of its stories - [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 15% of its stories - [Policy & macro](https://abovethefog.app/themes/policy_macro.md) — 11% of its stories - [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 8.9% of its stories - [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 8.1% of its stories ## Related topics - **Competes with:** [ChatGPT](https://abovethefog.app/topics/chatgpt.md), [Google DeepMind](https://abovethefog.app/topics/google_deepmind.md) - **Related to:** [Browser Use - browser agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/browser_use.md), [Agentic commerce](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agentic_commerce.md) - **Mentioned with:** [Gemini](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gemini.md) (33 stories), [Meta Muse](https://abovethefog.app/topics/meta_muse.md) (18 stories), [Nvidia](https://abovethefog.app/topics/nvidia.md) (16 stories), [Meta Superintelligence Labs](https://abovethefog.app/topics/meta_msl.md) (5 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 1.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 26, 2026 | 0.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 25, 2026 | 11.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 24, 2026 | 16 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 23, 2026 | 16 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 22, 2026 | 17.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 21, 2026 | 19.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 20, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 19, 2026 | 1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 18, 2026 | 1.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 17, 2026 | 4.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 16, 2026 | 3.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 15, 2026 | 22.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 14, 2026 | 5.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 13, 2026 | 1.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 12, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 11, 2026 | 3.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 10, 2026 | 2.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 9, 2026 | 3.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 8, 2026 | 4.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 7, 2026 | 3.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 6, 2026 | 0.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 5, 2026 | 0.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 4, 2026 | 3.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 3, 2026 | 18.4 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 2, 2026 | 27.5 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 1, 2026 | 24.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 31, 2026 | 2.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 30, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | [Open Perplexity in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=perplexity) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/perplexity) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)