AI citation checker: the sources 6 AI engines cite for your prompts
The AI citation checker lists the sources ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Claude, Copilot and Grok cite for a prompt, shows whether your domain is among them, and sends you the full list by email.
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- ChatGPT
- Perplexity
- Google AI Mode
- Claude
- Microsoft Copilot
- Grok
Where should we send the source list?
Our team runs the check on the engines you ticked and emails you every cited source.
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Sample result
4 of the 6 domains cited for this prompt never name the brand
The AI citation checker's sample lists the domains cited across ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode for one sample prompt. A review site leads with 48 citations and names the brand, while four of the six domains, including an editorial site cited 31 times, never mention it. Those four are the sources to win next.
| Cited domain | Source category | Citations | Page names the brand |
|---|---|---|---|
| review-site.com | review | 48 | yes |
| pm-weekly.com | editorial | 31 | no |
| agencyforum.net | forum | 22 | no |
| loopwork.io | brand | 17 | yes |
| studio-ops.net | editorial | 12 | no |
| designers-guild.org | directory | 6 | no |
How it works
Three steps turn a prompt into a list of cited sources
The AI citation checker needs a prompt or a domain and the engines to check. We run the prompt on each engine, collect every source the answers cite, classify each domain and check whether the cited page names your brand, then email you the list. The result arrives as a table you can filter.
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Step 1
Enter a prompt or a domain
Paste a buying question, or your domain to see where it gets cited. The sample uses a prompt about project management tools.
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Step 2
Pick the engines
Three engines are ticked by default. Add the others to cover all six.
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Step 3
Get the list by email
Leave your work email and company. Our team sends the classified sources to that address.
Use cases
Source lists feed 3 kinds of work, one per audience
The AI citation checker gives each audience a list of domains to act on. Platforms preview a sources report for their customers, agencies build outreach lists from cited pages that skip the client, and brands find the review sites engines rely on in their category. Each card opens the matching pattern.
A sources report, previewed
Run the check on a customer's prompt to see the domains a sources tab would list. The API returns the same fields for every workspace.
AgenciesAn outreach list with evidence
Sort the cited domains that never name the client by how often engines cite them. Each one comes with the prompt that surfaced it.
E-commerce & brandsThe review sites that matter
Find the review and comparison sites engines cite for your product category. Those are the pages where your product needs to appear.
Comparison
1 of 4 approaches returns cited sources with domain and category as data
The AI citation checker runs on the same data as the AI Citations API, which returns each citation with its domain and category. An AI scraping API returns the URLs only, a GEO dashboard tool shows the classification inside its interface, and an in-house build has to fetch and classify every source itself.
| Capability | API for GEO | AI scraping API | GEO dashboard tool | In-house build |
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| Citations with domain + category | Yes | URLs only | In the UI | Build it |
| Raw answer text | Yes | Yes | Sometimes | Build it |
FAQ
AI citation checker, answered
How is the source list produced?
The AI citation checker runs your prompt on the engines you tick and collects every source cited in the answers. Each domain is classified by kind of source, and each cited page is checked for your brand name. Our team then emails you the full list, which takes longer than an on-screen check.
Can I check my own domain?
The AI citation checker accepts a domain instead of a prompt. Our team then checks the answers where that domain is cited and reports which of its pages the engines use as sources, so you can see what already works for you.
What do the source categories mean?
The AI citation checker sorts cited domains into kinds of source, such as review sites, editorial media, forums, directories and brand sites. The category shows what kind of page an engine trusts for a topic, which tells you whether to pitch a journalist, answer in a forum or update your own pages.
Can I monitor citations continuously?
The AI citation checker gives one list per request. Following citations over time, across a whole prompt set and every market, is what the AI Citations API does: it reads the sources stored with each run and can feed a weekly sources report.
Is the sample result real data?
The AI citation checker's sample uses fictional domains and brands with a sample prompt, so it shows the shape of the list without describing a real market. Your own list comes from the prompt or domain and the engines you enter in the form.