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What is your AI citation rate?

Citation rate is the share of AI answers that name your brand with a link, not just in passing. Enter your brand and up to three prompts; helloAISearch asks Claude live, counts the answers in which a URL follows your name, and shows the rate as a percentage next to your mention rate.

  • CLClaudelive
  • GPTChatGPTin the trial
  • GMGeminiin the trial
  • PXPerplexityon paid plans

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Citation rate

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Add your domain as an alias so a link to it is recognised as yours.

How this tool works+

Your brand, optional aliases such as your domain, optional competitors, and up to three prompts. When a live check runs, they are sent to Anthropic (Claude). Live checks send your inputs to Anthropic (Claude) and to no other AI provider; a demo sample sends nothing. The result panel says which you got. Inputs and results are not stored unless you ask for an email report. Rate limits apply. Details in the Privacy Policy (Free Tools sections) and the Terms of Service (section 29).

2 live runs per day · then a labelled demo sample

One check is a snapshot. A schedule is a measurement.

helloAISearch runs your prompts on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity on a schedule, highlights every mention, and turns each gap into one move per day.

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About this tool

What is the difference between mentioned and cited?+

Mentioned means your brand appears in the prose. Cited means a URL follows your name within a few words, so a reader can click through. Citation rate counts only the second. A mention wins awareness; a citation wins the visit.

Does an answer that leads with us and links to us count as cited?+

Yes. The status label files a lead-position mention as recommended, the same way a product scan does, but the citation count is tracked separately: any answer in which a URL follows your name counts, whatever its label. So an answer can be both recommended and cited, and the per-prompt row shows both.

How is the rate calculated?+

Answers in which your brand was named with a link, divided by the number of prompts, rounded to a whole percent. One of three is 33%. In the product the same arithmetic runs per engine over 15 to 500 prompts on a schedule, which is where the rate becomes a trend.

Is 0% normal?+

For a bare shortlist prompt, often. Engines cite more for how-to and comparison questions than for “best X”. A 0% over three prompts today is a reason to try prompts that ask for evidence and to track them, not a verdict on the brand.

Related tools

  • Perplexity Citation Checkerthe domains an answer cites and whether yours is one of them, live on Claude as a proxy; Perplexity is on Studio and up
  • AI Citation Sources Finderevery domain the answers cited, ranked, with yours marked, live on Claude
  • Share of Answer Snapshotshare of AI answers for your brand versus up to three competitors on up to three prompts, live on Claude
  • Brand AI Mention Checkerlive check on Claude of whether an AI answer names your brand, with competitors highlighted
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Read next

  • What is an AI citation?
  • How to get cited in AI search
  • How we measured our own share of voice

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