AI Citation Checker: Is My Page Cited by ChatGPT & Perplexity?

AI Citation Checker - Is My Page Cited by Perplexity & Gemini

$0.12 per page checked: 10 pages cost $1.20, and the free sample run costs no page fee.

You published a page. A buyer asks an AI assistant a question that your page answers. Does the assistant cite your page, cite another page of your site, or send the buyer to a competitor? This Actor answers that for every page you give it.

Paste page addresses. For each one the Actor reads the title, description and headings, writes the questions a buyer would ask, asks Perplexity, Google Gemini and ChatGPT (all with live web search), and checks the cited sources: is your exact page there, is your site there, at which position, and which websites were cited instead.

No question list needed, no API key needed.

Try it in one minute:

1. Press Start. The prefilled input checks two public pages with 2 questions each on Perplexity and Gemini.
2. Open the Output tab: one row per page with the citation rate, the best position and the competitors cited instead.
3. Replace the prefilled addresses with your own pages. Tick Free sample run first if you want to see real output on your first page before paying.

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What you get

One dataset row per page:

Field	Meaning
url, pageTitle, h1, metaDescription	the page and what was read from it
promptsTested	the questions that were asked (promptSource: model, template or custom)
citedBy	per engine, the questions whose answer cited exactly this page
siteCitedBy	per engine, the questions whose answer cited any page of your site
citationRate, siteCitationRate	share of all analysed answers that cite the page / the site (0-1)
bestPosition, bestSitePosition	best place in an answer's source list (1 = first); null if never cited
competitorUrlsCitedInstead	up to 5 other websites cited most often: domain, top URL, citations, engines
answersAnalysed, enginesUsed, engineErrors	how many answers the rates rest on
checkedAt, status, error	when, and OK, FAILED (not charged) or NOT_PROCESSED

The key-value store record OUTPUT holds a run summary (pages checked, failed, cited) next to all rows.

Sample output

From a real run on Perplexity and Gemini with 2 of our own questions for the page (4 answers). Your numbers will differ: that is the point of measuring.

{
  "url": "https://www.atlassian.com/agile/project-management",
  "pageTitle": "What is Agile Project Management? | Atlassian",
  "promptsTested": ["what is agile project management?", "explain agile project management"],
  "promptSource": "custom",
  "answersAnalysed": 4,
  "citedBy": { "perplexity-agent": ["what is agile project management?"] },
  "siteCitedBy": {
    "gemini": ["what is agile project management?", "explain agile project management"],
    "perplexity-agent": ["what is agile project management?", "explain agile project management"]
  },
  "citationRate": 0.25,
  "siteCitationRate": 1,
  "bestPosition": 2,
  "competitorUrlsCitedInstead": [
    { "domain": "apm.org.uk", "url": "https://apm.org.uk/", "citations": 3, "engines": ["gemini", "perplexity-agent"] },
    { "domain": "adobe.com", "url": "https://business.adobe.com/blog/basics/agile-manifesto", "citations": 2, "engines": ["perplexity-agent"] }
  ],
  "status": "OK"
}

Read it like this: the site was cited in every answer, the exact page in one of four (Perplexity, second source), and competitorUrlsCitedInstead shows who else was cited, so you know whose page to study.

Input

• Pages to check (required): full addresses of your own pages, up to 100 per run.
• Questions per page: 1-5, default 3. The Actor writes them from the page; they never contain your brand name, so a citation means the engine found you on merit.
• AI engines: Perplexity and Gemini on our keys; ChatGPT with web search is included in a capped form (see Limits). Add your own OpenAI key to run ChatGPT on every question.
• Market (country) and Language: which market the buyer is in and which language the questions and answers use.
• Repeats per question and engine: 1-3, default 1. Questions x repeats per page is capped at 5.
• Your own questions per page: optional JSON, for example {"https://example.com/blog/post": ["how do I compare crm tools?"]}. Also lets you check a page that cannot be read.
• Free sample run: first page only, 2 questions, Perplexity only, no page fee.

How your pages are read

Each page is requested once with the user agent AICitationCheckerBot/0.1 (+https://apify.com/highbrow_fame/ai-page-citation-checker). The Actor reads robots.txt first and does not fetch a page that it disallows. It does not use proxies, does not retry a refusal, and does not try to get around a bot check or login: such a page is reported as FAILED with the reason, and is not charged. Only the title, meta description and headings are used.

Price

$0.12 per page checked (pay per event). A page counts as checked when its questions were written or supplied, at least one engine answered, and the citations were analysed; questions, engines and repeats do not change the price. A page that cannot be read, that no engine answers, or that the run's maximum charge had no room for is not charged. Checking 50 pages costs $6.00. The free sample run charges no page fee; Apify's small run-start fee applies to every run on the platform.

Honest limits

• It measures what the engines say today, from a small sample. AI answers vary between requests and between weeks. 3 questions on 3 engines is a first reading, not a precise percentage; run it monthly or use more questions to see movement.
• Gemini names sources by site only. Google hides the real address behind a redirect, so a Gemini citation can prove that your site was cited but not which page. For Gemini, read siteCitedBy; citedBy for Gemini only fires when your page is the home page. Perplexity and ChatGPT cite exact addresses.
• The questions are a guess at your buyers' words. They are written by a language model from your page. If the model is unavailable the Actor builds simpler questions from the page topic and says so in promptSource. For questions you know matter, use Your own questions per page.
• ChatGPT is capped on our key. ChatGPT with web search costs about three times more to run than the other engines, so on our key it makes 1 call, on the first question, for the first 10 pages of a run (2 pages on a free Apify plan). Add your own OpenAI key and it runs on every question and repeat, on your own OpenAI bill.
• A page that needs JavaScript to show its title or headings may be unreadable to us; give your own questions for it.
• Matching treats www, http/https, query strings, fragments and a trailing slash as the same page. A different path is a different page.
• Not affiliated with or endorsed by Perplexity, Google or OpenAI.

FAQ

Why is my page not cited although my site is? The engine found your site useful but preferred another page of it, or a competitor's page for that exact question. competitorUrlsCitedInstead shows who won, so you can compare their page with yours.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes. Use an Apify schedule and compare citationRate from run to run, or read the dataset through the API.

Can I check a competitor's page? The Actor is meant for pages you own. It will check any public page that robots.txt allows, but the question writer is told not to use the site's name, which suits your own pages best.

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