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title: "Elastic vs Perplexity: Which is searched more?"
description: "Is Elastic or Perplexity more popular in search? Compare estimated monthly branded-search demand and Share of Search inside the Search engines set worldwide. Branded searches tell you how often people look for a brand by name or related terms. Comparing these searches across competitors helps you see how popular each brand is over time."
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# Elastic vs Perplexity: Which is searched more?

Is Elastic or Perplexity more popular in search? Compare estimated monthly branded-search demand and Share of Search inside the Search engines set worldwide. Branded searches tell you how often people look for a brand by name or related terms. Comparing these searches across competitors helps you see how popular each brand is over time.

## Key facts

- **Compared**: Elastic and Perplexity
- **Competitive set**: Search engines
- **Market**: Global
- **Month measured**: Sep 2026
- **Elastic Share of Search**: <0.01%
- **Perplexity Share of Search**: 2.4%

## Is Elastic or Perplexity more popular in search?

- In September 2026, Perplexity had more branded searches than Elastic among search engines worldwide. Perplexity had about 13.4 million branded searches, while Elastic had 3,610. Perplexity made up 2.4% of all search engine searches we track, and Elastic accounted for <0.01%.
- Perplexity was ahead of Elastic in every measured month of the 12 months ending September 2026.
- Across the 12 months ending September 2026, Elastic’s share of searches among search engines worldwide held steady at <0.01%, and its estimated monthly branded searches moved from 6.6K to 3.6K.
- Across the 12 months ending September 2026, Perplexity’s share of searches among search engines worldwide moved from 6.5% to 2.4%, and its estimated monthly branded searches moved from 36.8M to 13.4M.

## How did search popularity change for search engines worldwide in September 2026?

- Estimated monthly branded searches for Perplexity worldwide fell 63.6% over 12 measured months, from 36.8M to 13.4M in September 2026.
- Estimated monthly branded searches for Elastic worldwide fell 45.6% over 12 measured months, from 6.6K to 3.6K in September 2026.

## Month by month

| Month | Elastic estimated searches | Elastic Share of Search | Elastic rank | Perplexity estimated searches | Perplexity Share of Search | Perplexity rank |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Oct 2025 | 6.6K | <0.01% | 13 | 36.8M | 6.5% | 3 |
| Nov 2025 | 6.6K | <0.01% | 13 | 29.1M | 5.3% | 3 |
| Dec 2025 | 5.4K | <0.01% | 13 | 20.7M | 3.9% | 3 |
| Jan 2026 | 6.6K | <0.01% | 13 | 18.2M | 3.4% | 3 |
| Feb 2026 | 5.5K | <0.01% | 13 | 18.1M | 3.9% | 3 |
| Mar 2026 | 6.7K | <0.01% | 13 | 19.1M | 3.4% | 3 |
| Apr 2026 | 5.4K | <0.01% | 13 | 19M | 3.5% | 3 |
| May 2026 | 5.4K | <0.01% | 13 | 15.5M | 2.9% | 3 |
| Jun 2026 | 4.4K | <0.01% | 13 | 12.7M | 2.4% | 4 |
| Jul 2026 | 4.4K | <0.01% | 13 | 11.1M | 2.1% | 4 |
| Aug 2026 | 4.4K | <0.01% | 13 | 11M | 2.1% | 4 |
| Sep 2026 | 3.6K | <0.01% | 13 | 13.4M | 2.4% | 4 |

## How each brand is measured

Brandwave collects information about searches that people make online using Elastic’s and Perplexity’s names. When viewed over time, estimated search volumes for these branded terms can be used to understand whether interest in the brands is growing, holding steady, or fading.

- **Elastic**: Measured on the search terms “elastic stack” and “enterprise search elastic”, summed into one figure.
- **Perplexity**: Measured on the search terms “comet perplexity”, “perplexity”, “perplexity ai”, “perplexity ai app”, “perplexity ai search”, “perplexity app”, “perplexity comet”, “perplexity finance”, “perplexity ia”, “perplexity labs”, “perplexity max”, “perplexity pro”, “perplexity search” and “perplexity.ai”, summed into one figure.

- [Elastic profile](/demand/global-en/brands/elastic-search)
- [Perplexity profile](/demand/global-en/brands/perplexity)
- [All search engines worldwide](/demand/global-en/categories/search-engines): The set both shares are measured inside, 13 brands.

## Methodology

- [How is the Brand Demand Index measured?](/demand/methodology): Where the figures come from, what they compare, and how they may be reused.

## Frequently asked questions

### Is Elastic or Perplexity more popular in search?

In September 2026, Perplexity had more branded searches than Elastic among search engines worldwide. Perplexity had about 13.4 million branded searches, while Elastic had 3,610. Perplexity made up 2.4% of all search engine searches we track, and Elastic accounted for <0.01%.

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