Perplexity citations · tracking tools
The best tools to track Perplexity citations send your buyers' questions to Perplexity on a schedule and record two things per answer: whether your brand was named, and which URLs Perplexity cited as sources. helloAISearch does both on Studio ($59 a month) and up, alongside ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, and exports every cited URL as CSV, so you can see which pages win when a competitor is named. When the engines answer this question they name Profound, Otterly AI, Peec AI, Semrush, and Ahrefs most often; we have not verified those tools' Perplexity features from their sites.
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Perplexity is the engine that shows its work, so a Perplexity tracker should capture that work. Check these on any tool you consider.
Perplexity lists its sources under every answer. The tool should store each one, so you can tell whether your own pages, a review site, or a competitor's page carried the answer.
Perplexity can name your brand while citing someone else's page, or cite your page without naming you. Those are two different results and need two columns.
The domains Perplexity cites on answers where a competitor was named are your outreach and content list.
ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini cite less often but answer the same questions. You want all four side by side, per prompt.
A citation list you cannot download is a screenshot. helloAISearch exports every cited URL as CSV on every plan that tracks Perplexity.
Your prompts go to the engines on a schedule.
A competitor was named. You were not.
One specific page to write today.
Share of voice moves. Or it doesn't.
We run helloAISearch on ourselves. Between July 17, 2026 and August 31, 2026 it recorded 350 answers from ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini across 7 category prompts; this prompt joined the tracked set on October 21, 2026, and helloAISearch has not yet been named in its answers. The “named” column is how many of those answers named each tool. Competitor descriptions are how the engines characterised them; we have not added claims of our own.
helloaisearch.com
Profound
tryprofound.com
Otterly AI
otterly.ai
Peec AI
peec.ai
Rankscale
rankscale.ai
Zero is our own number and we are publishing it. This page is step one of fixing it. If you want to see yours, type your website and the trial runs the same check on your brand.
See what the engines say about your brand.
Ten of your prompts on ChatGPT and Gemini, twice, with the actual answers and your brand highlighted.
“For boutique agencies, Your Brand is well-suited…”
ChatGPT · 04:02 UTC · best agency software
“Popular options include Competitor A and Your Brand.”
Gemini · 04:02 UTC · best agency software
“Competitor B is the usual pick; Competitor A for teams…”
Claude · 04:03 UTC · best tool for boutique agencies
4.1% → 7.2% in 28 days
Write a comparison page for “alternatives to Competitor A”
This prompt came up 4× this week and Competitor A took every mention. A direct comparison page closes a 9-point Share of Voice gap. About an hour.
Not a public one for tracking how often you are named or cited. You can see referral visits from perplexity.ai in your web analytics, but not the answers where you were skipped. That is what a tracking tool adds.
Studio ($59 a month, 50 prompts, ten scanned daily) and up. Lite ($29) covers ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. The free trial covers ChatGPT and Gemini.
Publish a page that answers the exact question in its first paragraph, keep it crawlable by PerplexityBot, add FAQ and Organization structured data, and get listed on the third-party pages Perplexity already cites for that question.
No. A mention is your brand named in the answer text; a citation is a URL listed as a source. You want both, and you should track them separately.
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10 of your prompts on ChatGPT and Gemini, twice, with the actual answers and your brand highlighted. Plans from $29 a month after.
hello, AI search.