Free AI Citation Checker — Are You Cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity & Gemini? | GrandRanker
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Are you cited by ChatGPT?

Run real queries through ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. See which AI engines cite your domain and which queries trigger the citation. Get an embeddable badge.

What would your customers ask?

Rate-limited to 5 checks per 30 min. Cached 24h. Real API calls cost a few cents per check.

Why AI citations matter

AI search engines do not return ten blue links. They synthesize one answer and cite a small handful of sources. Being cited is the new being ranked.

ChatGPT has 200M+ weekly users. Perplexity hit 22M monthly users. Gemini ships in every Google search. None of them rank ten links — they pick 3-7 sources to quote. If you're not in those sources, you are invisible regardless of your Google rank.

This tool tells you exactly which platforms cite you, which queries trigger citations, and what other domains are quoted instead.

3 platforms checked
ChatGPT
OpenAI gpt-4o-mini with web search. Citations from web_search_preview tool.
Perplexity
sonar model. Native citation support — Perplexity is built for citations.
Google Gemini
gemini-2.0-flash with Google Search grounding. Citations from groundingMetadata.

Frequently asked

Everything to know about AI citations.

What does this tool actually do?

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It runs your queries through ChatGPT (with web search), Perplexity, and Google Gemini — three of the leading AI search engines — then checks whether your domain is cited as a source in any of their answers. You get a per-platform breakdown of which queries you appear in.

How is this different from a regular SEO rank checker?

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Rank checkers measure where you appear in Google's ten blue links. AI citation checkers measure whether AI engines actually quote you when synthesizing answers. AI search returns one answer with a small handful of citations, not a list of links — being cited is the new being ranked.

Why do I need to provide queries?

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AI citation depends on the question being asked. The same site might be cited for "best AI SEO tool" but not for "free SEO audit". Pick 3-5 queries your target customers would ask. The tool runs each through all three platforms.

How accurate is this?

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Real-time accurate at the moment of the check. AI engines can return different sources for the same query at different times due to model temperature and live web search results. Re-run the same check periodically to see citation stability.

Does this cost money?

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Free for users. We pay the API costs (a few cents per check). Rate-limited to 5 checks per 30 minutes per IP, and queries are cached for 24 hours.

My domain is not getting cited. Now what?

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Run our GEO Score Checker to identify weak spots. The most common gaps are: missing Organization/Person schema, no llms.txt, content not citation-friendly (long paragraphs, hedge words, no specific data), and lack of authoritative outbound citations.