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Perplexity visibility checker: does Perplexity cite you?
How it works
Free, no signup. One engine, one live answer.
Name your brand and one buying question
Type it the way a buyer would ask Perplexity. Add your domain to see whether Perplexity links it, and up to three competitors.
Perplexity searches, then answers
The question goes to Perplexity’s Sonar model through its API. It runs a live web search and returns the pages it read along with the answer.
Read the sources first
The result shows whether you were named and linked, which competitors appear, and the pages the answer was built from. Those pages are where the work is.
A real run
Example result
HubSpot, asked “best crm for a 10 person b2b startup” on Perplexity on 9 October 2026, with Pipedrive, Salesforce and Attio as competitors. Perplexity named HubSpot, Attio and Pipedrive, did not link hubspot.com, and cited 19 pages, among them attio.com, pipedrive.com, Forbes and PCMag.
Result · asked Perplexity
Perplexity mentions HubSpot.
“best crm for a 10 person b2b startup”
For a 10-person B2B startup, I’d start with Attio or HubSpot CRM
Who else showed up
- Pipedrive ✓
- Salesforce,
- Attio ✓
Sources the answer drew on
How Perplexity decides who to name
Perplexity is a search engine with a model on top. Ask it a buying question and it runs a real web search, pulls a handful of pages, and writes a summary of what those pages say, with the citations numbered down the side. That architecture has one consequence worth understanding: the pages it retrieves are the answer. The model is summarising other people's writing, so if none of the retrieved pages mention you, no amount of good content on your own homepage will get you into that response.
This is why the source list in your result matters more than the verdict. If Perplexity cited four listicles and a Reddit thread, those five pages are what you are actually competing to appear in. Getting a row added to one well-cited comparison article does more for your Perplexity visibility than a month of blogging, and it is a much less satisfying answer than most SEO advice.
Reading your result
Not mentioned, not cited. You are not in the retrieved pages at all. Read the sources it did use and work out which of them you could plausibly get into.
Mentioned, not cited. Somebody else's page named you and Perplexity repeated it. Good, and out of your hands. Your own domain being cited is the version you can defend.
Mentioned and cited. Perplexity read your site and used it. Note which page it took, because that page is now doing real work and is worth expanding rather than leaving alone.
A rank number appears when the answer listed several options in order. Position three in a list of eight is a meaningfully different situation from position one, and both beat being absent.
What one check cannot tell you
A single run is a snapshot of one question, on one engine, on one day. Perplexity re-searches every time, so the answer moves. If you want to know whether a page you published changed anything, you need the same set of questions asked repeatedly over weeks, and you need to watch the source list rather than just the yes/no. That tracking is what CueScout sells. This page is free because one honest snapshot is usually enough to tell you whether you have a problem.
Every day, not once
AI visibility tracking
One check is a snapshot. CueScout tracks your buying questions on ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google’s AI every day (Gemini on Growth) and re-asks any answer that moves, so a real change stands out from a bad day.
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How does this checker work?
It sends your question to Perplexity through its live search-grounded API, reads the answer, and reports three things: whether your brand name appears in the text, whether your domain appears in the citation list, and which other brands got named alongside you. One question, one run, no signup.
Why check Perplexity separately from ChatGPT?
Because they source answers differently. Perplexity runs a search and cites the pages it read, usually five to ten of them, with numbered links you can click. ChatGPT is more likely to answer partly from what the model already absorbed during training and cite less. That means a page can earn you a Perplexity citation quickly while barely moving your ChatGPT visibility, and the reverse also happens. Checking one and assuming the other is how people end up confused about why their traffic did not change.
What is the difference between being mentioned and being cited?
Mentioned means the answer text contains your brand name. Cited means your domain is in the source list the answer was built from. Mentioned without cited is common and it is usually the more fragile of the two: the model knows your name from somewhere but did not read your site this time, so the mention can disappear on the next run. Cited is the sturdier signal.
I ran the same question twice and got different answers. Is the tool broken?
No, that is genuinely how these engines behave. The underlying search results move, and the model samples its wording. This is the honest limitation of any single check, including this one, and it is why we do not put a big score on the result. One run tells you whether you are plausibly in the picture. Deciding whether a change you made actually worked needs the same question asked repeatedly over weeks.
Perplexity does not mention me. What actually fixes that?
Look at the sources it did cite, which the result lists for you. Those pages are the answer. If they are best-of lists and comparison articles you are not on, the fix is getting into those pages, not editing your homepage. If they are competitor blog posts, the fix is publishing the better version of that page on your own domain. Almost none of the work is on your own site, which is the part people find annoying and is also why it works.
Do you keep the brands people check?
Each run is logged with what was typed, what came back and the network it came from, so we can spot abuse and see which tools get used. The log is not tied to an account, and nobody emails you unless you ask for the report below the result. Tracking the same questions on a schedule is the paid product.
Track it every day instead of once
CueScout runs these checks on a schedule and turns the gaps into To-dos.