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CitePulse.ai in AI answers: a dated self-measurement
Stable address: this page. Data window: 2026-09-05 to 2026-09-29. Last data refresh: 2026-09-29. New measurements are added as dated updates at the bottom; the conclusions never go beyond the questions listed here.
Short answer. Between 2026-09-05 and 2026-09-29, our panel measured 2302 answers to a question set that expanded over time. CitePulse.ai was named or cited in 594 answers, including 582 to questions that named CitePulse. Only 12 appearances came from questions without the brand name. Those questions mix informational and product-category queries, so this is not a recommendation rate. The engines returned 9087 cited URLs; 177 were on citepulse.ai. The dated answers and source URLs are available below.
1. The questions, exactly as asked
These questions include branded and unbranded prompts, plus one in Polish. The set expanded during the study; compare only runs of the same question and engine.
- AI visibility monitoring tool for agencies with white-label reports
- How do I tell a brand mention from a source citation in AI answers?
- How much do AI answers change from day to day for the same question?
- How much does CitePulse.ai cost per month and who runs it?
- What is CitePulse.ai and what does it measure?
- best AI visibility monitoring tool for small B2B companies
- best tool to check if my company is showing up in AI-generated answers
- how can I see if AI assistants are mentioning my competitors more than me
- how do I audit how often my brand is being cited by AI tools like ChatGPT
- how do I find out what AI chatbots are saying about my business
- is there a way to audit my visibility in large language model responses
- najlepsze narzędzie do monitoringu widoczności w AI?
2. The engines, the models and how they were accessed
| Engine (label in the product) | Exact model, access and search |
|---|---|
| Perplexity | model sonar via the Perplexity API; the model searches the web on every answer and returns its sources |
| Gemini | model gemini-2.5-flash via the Gemini API with the google_search grounding tool; sources = grounding chunks |
| ChatGPT (GPT-4o family) | model gpt-4o-mini via the OpenAI Responses API with the web_search_preview tool. This is the API model, not the consumer ChatGPT app; the product labels it "ChatGPT" |
| Claude | model claude-sonnet-4-6 via the Anthropic API with the server-side web_search tool (max 3 searches per answer) |
| Google AI Mode | Google AI Mode answers fetched through the DataForSEO SERP API (location United States, language en); no model name is exposed. Added 2026-09-08 |
The daily instrument panel usually asks each active question three times per engine. Weekly monitoring runs are also included, and some engines returned fewer answers. Locale is not recorded uniformly in this export; Google AI Mode uses United States / en. Each answer is scored by the published detection rule: (a) brand name in the answer text, (b) citepulse.ai in the answer's sources. Rows in results.csv carry an excerpt when a name appears.
3. Results per day and engine
Cells show answers naming or citing citepulse.ai / answers measured. A dash means the engine returned no answers that day (see gaps).
| Date (UTC) | Perplexity | Gemini | ChatGPT (GPT-4o family) | Claude | Google AI Mode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-05 | 0 / 21 | — | 0 / 30 | 0 / 15 | — |
| 2026-09-06 | 0 / 21 | — | 0 / 30 | 0 / 15 | — |
| 2026-09-07 | 0 / 15 | — | 0 / 15 | 0 / 14 | — |
| 2026-09-08 | 0 / 33 | 0 / 14 | 0 / 33 | 0 / 15 | 0 / 6 |
| 2026-09-09 | 0 / 15 | 0 / 15 | 0 / 15 | 0 / 14 | 0 / 15 |
| 2026-09-10 | 0 / 15 | 0 / 15 | 0 / 15 | 0 / 15 | 0 / 15 |
| 2026-09-11 | 6 / 51 | 6 / 50 | 6 / 51 | 0 / 15 | 1 / 27 |
| 2026-09-12 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 3 / 15 |
| 2026-09-13 | 12 / 51 | 13 / 50 | 12 / 51 | 6 / 15 | 0 / 25 |
| 2026-09-14 | 6 / 15 | 8 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 2 / 15 |
| 2026-09-15 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 5 / 15 |
| 2026-09-16 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 |
| 2026-09-17 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 |
| 2026-09-18 | 6 / 15 | 7 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 4 / 15 |
| 2026-09-19 | 5 / 14 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 5 / 15 |
| 2026-09-20 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 14 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 |
| 2026-09-21 | 12 / 51 | 12 / 32 | 12 / 51 | 6 / 15 | 8 / 27 |
| 2026-09-22 | 6 / 15 | 8 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 |
| 2026-09-23 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 |
| 2026-09-24 | 6 / 15 | 7 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 |
| 2026-09-25 | 6 / 15 | 7 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 |
| 2026-09-26 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 |
| 2026-09-27 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 3 / 15 |
| 2026-09-28 | 6 / 15 | 7 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 6 / 15 | 0 / 15 |
| 2026-09-29 | 12 / 51 | 14 / 48 | 12 / 51 | 6 / 15 | 1 / 26 |
The exported rows include excerpts where the name appears and the source list includes 177 URLs on citepulse.ai. Those are different units from the 594 answers named or cited above, so they must not be added together.
4. Sources behind these answers
Top cited domains across all 9087 cited URLs (full list in sources.csv). "Engines" is how many of the five engines cited the domain at least once; "questions" how many of the 12 questions it appeared under.
| Domain | Citations | Engines | Questions |
|---|---|---|---|
| semrush.com | 174 | 5 | 10 |
| citepulse.io | 174 | 5 | 2 |
| citepulse.ai | 169 | 4 | 3 |
| reddit.com | 165 | 3 | 11 |
| llmpulse.ai | 145 | 4 | 10 |
| linkedin.com | 143 | 4 | 12 |
| wellows.com | 127 | 4 | 6 |
| youtube.com | 86 | 2 | 10 |
| rankprompt.com | 81 | 4 | 6 |
| otterly.ai | 78 | 4 | 9 |
| g2.com | 77 | 4 | 8 |
| tryprofound.com | 70 | 5 | 8 |
| zapier.com | 68 | 4 | 7 |
| arxiv.org | 68 | 4 | 3 |
| writesonic.com | 67 | 4 | 4 |
| indexly.ai | 67 | 5 | 7 |
| medium.com | 65 | 4 | 6 |
| therankmasters.com | 62 | 5 | 8 |
| trysight.ai | 59 | 4 | 9 |
| siftly.ai | 58 | 3 | 6 |
| maxaeo.ai | 56 | 4 | 6 |
| blog.hubspot.com | 56 | 3 | 7 |
| amplitude.com | 55 | 4 | 7 |
| airops.com | 54 | 3 | 5 |
| ahrefs.com | 54 | 4 | 8 |
This list shows source domains returned for the measured questions, including branded and informational ones. It is not a ranking of tool quality or a list of pages every buyer sees.
5. Gaps and limits
- Gemini returned no answers on 5–7 September (the API credits had run out; restored 8 September). Those days show — for Gemini, not 0.
- Google AI Mode joined the panel on 2026-09-08; earlier days have no AI Mode column.
- The Claude and OpenAI numbers come from API models with web search, not from the consumer apps. Consumer ChatGPT can answer differently; we do not claim otherwise. The API model behind the "ChatGPT" label is gpt-4o-mini.
- Most questions are in English and one is in Polish. Access methods and locale differ by engine; Google AI Mode uses United States / en. A different question set or locale could give a different source list.
- Three repetitions per day is enough to see day-to-day movement, not enough to estimate a rate more precisely than roughly ±1 answer in 3.
- The first five measurement days had zero appearances in the questions measured then. Later days include branded questions and positive counts. Neither period represents every possible buyer question.
6. What we do with it
The same source data, across every company we audit, is ranked monthly on The sources AI cites most behind buyer questions.
For category questions, third-party comparison pages are common sources. This study does not show which change caused any later appearance. We track changes in the product's Action Center and compare subsequent runs with the engines' day-to-day movement (NOISE-1.0) rather than treating one result as proof.
Companion material: the real Full Audit report of citepulse.ai (no form, no demo data) and the methodology. The daily noise panel and this study have different purposes: the panel measures how much the engines move on their own; this study tracks where one site appears in a changing question set.
Update log
- 2026-09-29 — Data refreshed: 25 measurement days, 2302 answers, 9087 cited URLs.
- 2026-09-22 — Data refreshed: 18 measurement days, 1661 answers, 6746 cited URLs.
- 2026-09-09 — Data refreshed: 5 measurement days, 351 answers, 1628 cited URLs.
Data license: CC BY 4.0. Cite as: GeoFlow Solutions / CitePulse.ai, "citepulse.ai measured on itself", 2026-09-29, https://citepulse.ai/research/citepulse-ai