AI Search Showdown: Perplexity vs SearchGPT vs Claude 3.5 Sonnet (2026)

Comparative Feature Map: Perplexity AI vs. OpenAI SearchGPT vs. Claude 3.5 Sonnet A hands-on evaluation using three identical complex prompts across accuracy, speed, citations, and multi-modal capabilities. Methodology To ensure fairness, I tested all three models with the same three research prompts representing distinct use cases: Coding: "Debug and optimize a Python async web scraper that times out on large pages and has memory leaks. Explain the fixes and provide the corr...