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# Perplexity tracker: see which brands and sources Perplexity cites.

Ranksmile tracks Perplexity answers for the questions your buyers ask: whether your brand is named, whether your pages are among the sources it cites, and which competitors and sites it relies on instead. Perplexity shows its sources openly, so they are a direct list of pages worth earning a place on.

## Get started

- [Start your free trial](https://app.tryranksmile.com/auth/sign-up)
- [See plans](https://tryranksmile.com/pricing)

## What the Perplexity tracker records

Ranksmile asks Perplexity through its API and stores the answer with the citations Perplexity returns.

| Measure | What Ranksmile keeps |
| --- | --- |
| Mentions | Whether Perplexity names your brand in its answer, per prompt |
| Citations | Whether Perplexity links your domain as a source, recorded apart from mentions |
| Sources | Every cited URL, labeled editorial, UGC, reference, institutional, corporate or competitor, with the brands it names |
| Competitors | The brands named beside you or instead of you, prompt by prompt |
| Sentiment | How each mention speaks of the brand |
| History | Every scan is kept, so each metric shows its change since the last one |
| Market | Your site's country and language by default; a CSV upload can set a country per prompt |
| Refresh | Weekly on Growth, daily on Scale and Agency; new prompts right away |
| Plans | Every paid plan (the Growth trial runs ChatGPT and AI Overviews only) |
| How it is collected | Perplexity's API answer, with its citations |

## One tracker per engine

- [AI Overviews tracker](https://tryranksmile.com/ai-visibility/ai-overviews.md): The AI summary above Google results
- [ChatGPT tracker](https://tryranksmile.com/ai-visibility/chatgpt.md): OpenAI's assistant
- [Perplexity tracker](https://tryranksmile.com/ai-visibility/perplexity.md): The answer engine that shows its sources
- [Gemini tracker](https://tryranksmile.com/ai-visibility/gemini.md): Google's assistant
- [Claude tracker](https://tryranksmile.com/ai-visibility/claude.md): Anthropic's assistant, a paid add-on
- [Grok tracker](https://tryranksmile.com/ai-visibility/grok.md): xAI's assistant, a paid add-on
- [DeepSeek tracker](https://tryranksmile.com/ai-visibility/deepseek.md): DeepSeek's assistant, a paid add-on

[All engines in AI Visibility](https://tryranksmile.com/ai-visibility.md)

## Your questions, answered

### Why track Perplexity separately?

Each engine leans on different sources, so a brand can be named by one and absent from another. Ranksmile keeps every engine apart rather than averaging them, and Perplexity's long source lists make it the clearest view of which pages shape answers in your market.

### What do I do with the sources Perplexity cites?

Sources lists them with their type. Editorial pages that name competitors and not you are outreach targets, community threads are places to take part, and competitor pages show what to out-write.