Perplexity Visibility Tracker

Know every week whether Perplexity cites your business in its footnoted answers, how it describes you, and which competitors it cites instead. Continuous monitoring across six AI engines, from £20/mo.

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✓ 6 AI engines on every plan
✓ Weekly scans (daily on Pro)
✓ 850,000+ sites benchmarked
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A Perplexity visibility tracker continuously monitors whether Perplexity cites your business in its footnoted answers when buyers ask questions in your category. The SearchScore Tracker puts your customers' real questions to Perplexity every week (daily on Pro) and records whether you made the sources list, your position, the sentiment of each citation, and which competitors were cited instead.
Why Perplexity needs tracking

Why do Perplexity citations change from week to week?

Perplexity is a retrieval-first answer engine. Every question triggers a live web search; the answer is assembled from pages it can quote right now, with every claim footnoted to a numbered source, and the cited pages listed at the top of the reply. Being in that sources list is what Perplexity visibility means, and our free Perplexity visibility checker diagnoses the signals that get you into it. Run it first; it is free and takes about a minute.

That same design makes Perplexity the most volatile of the major engines, and the one where a one-off check goes stale fastest:

  • Freshness carries real weight. Perplexity favours recently updated pages, so the sources list reshuffles as fresher pages appear. Being cited last month guarantees nothing about this month.
  • There is no memory fallback. Unlike ChatGPT, Perplexity has no separate trained-memory layer recalling your brand from an old snapshot. If your live page slips out of retrieval, the citation is gone the same day.
  • Two agents, two failure modes. PerplexityBot feeds the index that supplies candidate sources; Perplexity-User fetches your URL on demand mid-answer. A robots.txt change that catches either can end your citations while your site looks unchanged from the front end.

The flip side of the volatility: because everything is decided at query time from your live pages, fixes show up faster on Perplexity than on any other engine. Scheduled scans catch both directions, the quiet losses and the wins your last fix earned.

How it works

What does tracking Perplexity citations involve?

  • We ask Perplexity real questions, weekly. The questions your customers ask, put to Perplexity and the other five engines. Every week on Starter, every day on Pro, with a dedicated Perplexity view.
  • We read every answer. Not just whether you appeared: exactly what Perplexity said, where you ranked when it listed options, and the sentiment of the description it attached to you.
  • We name who beat you. When Perplexity cites someone else, you see which competitors made the sources list in your place, how often, and on which engines the same rivals keep winning.
  • We turn it into next moves. Every scan produces a ranked Action Centre showing the score lift each fix could earn, with drafts you can copy for technical fixes like llms.txt or Organization schema.

The cross-engine picture matters here too. Perplexity decides from your live site while ChatGPT can recall you from training memory, so reading your Perplexity column next to the others shows whether your visibility rests on pages you can update or on a snapshot you cannot.

Doing this by hand across six engines takes four or more hours a week. The Tracker does it from £20/mo.

What you get

What does a weekly Perplexity scan record?

One dashboard, six engines, and the three keystone views built on top of the raw citations.

A dedicated Perplexity view

Perplexity's citations tracked question by question, alongside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek and Grok, so you can see at a glance where the retrieval-first engine treats you differently from the rest.

Position and sentiment

Where you ranked when Perplexity listed options, and whether each citation was positive, mixed or negative. A negative description costs you buyers you never see; here it shows up in your digest.

Competitor substitution

Up to 5 competitors tracked. When you are missing from the sources list, see exactly who was cited instead, how often, and on which of the six engines the same rival keeps appearing.

AI Visibility Score

One brand-safe number from 0 to 100, built only from decision-stage questions and weighted by sentiment, position, and whether AI cited your live site or its training memory. How it works →

Action Centre

A ranked list of next moves with every scan, each showing the score lift it could earn and the evidence behind it. Technical fixes come pre-drafted for you to copy. What it is →

Citation Trust

What share of your citations come from AI reading your live pages versus its training memory. Perplexity cites live URLs by design, so this view shows how much of your overall AI visibility is genuinely retrieval-backed. What it measures →

Brand-alias matching

Register up to 4 trading names or acronyms so citations under any of them still count. Flag hallucinations or false positives and your score recomputes to your adjusted view.

Weekly digest

New citations, sentiment changes, and where you got beaten, delivered to your inbox so a Perplexity shift never goes unnoticed.

Pricing

How much does Perplexity tracking cost?

Manual AI tracking across 6 engines takes 4+ hours a week. The Tracker starts at £20/mo, Perplexity included on every plan. Cancel anytime.

Starter
£20 /mo

For solo operators and small teams tracking the basics.

  • ✓ 25 questions tracked
  • ✓ 6 AI models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok, Perplexity)
  • ✓ Weekly scans
  • ✓ Up to 5 competitors
  • ✓ Digest + alert emails
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Pro
£79 /mo

For brands and agencies that need to catch changes fast.

  • ✓ 100 questions tracked
  • ✓ 6 AI models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok, Perplexity)
  • ✓ Daily scans
  • ✓ Up to 5 competitors
  • ✓ Digest + alert emails
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Full plan details, Enterprise options and the audit bundles are on the pricing page. Switch between Starter and Pro anytime.

FAQ

Perplexity tracking questions

A Perplexity visibility tracker continuously monitors whether Perplexity cites your business in its footnoted answers when users ask category-relevant questions. SearchScore Tracker puts structured queries to Perplexity every week (daily on Pro) and records whether you made the sources list, your position, the sentiment of each citation, and which competitors were cited in your place.
The free checker is a one-off diagnosis: it inspects the signals that decide whether Perplexity can retrieve and quote you, such as PerplexityBot and Perplexity-User access, freshness and quotable structure. The Tracker is continuous measurement: it puts real questions to the live Perplexity engine on a schedule and counts the citations, so you see changes, trends and competitor movements over time. Most customers run the checker first, then track.
Because Perplexity decides everything at query time. It runs a live web search for every question, favours recently updated pages, and has no trained-memory fallback that recalls your brand from an old snapshot. A fresher competitor page, a stale date, or a robots.txt change can move you in or out of the sources list within days. That volatility is normal; what matters is the trend, which is exactly what scheduled scans show.
Yes. You can track up to 5 competitors on every plan. When Perplexity answers a tracked question without citing you, the Tracker records which competitors were named instead, how often, and whether the same rivals are beating you on the other five engines too.
Six engines: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok and Perplexity. Every plan includes all six, each with its own view, so you can compare the retrieval-first engine against the memory-led ones. Scans run weekly on Starter and daily on Pro.
Starter is £20/mo for 25 tracked questions with weekly scans. Pro is £79/mo for 100 tracked questions with daily scans. Both include all six engines, up to 5 tracked competitors, and digest and alert emails, with no contract: cancel anytime.
Keep going

More on Perplexity visibility

SearchScore Tracker: the full tour →

The dashboard, the digest, the score and every feature, with an example view of real product data.

Plans and pricing →

Starter, Pro, Enterprise and the audit bundles, side by side.

Free Perplexity visibility checker →

The one-off diagnosis: can Perplexity retrieve, quote and cite you today?

How Perplexity cites sources →

Retrieval, footnotes and what makes a page quotable to Perplexity.

How to track Perplexity rankings →

The manual method, done properly, and where it stops scaling.

Citation Trust explained →

Live-source versus training-memory citations, and why the split matters.
Also track

Tracking more than one engine?

Every plan already scans all six engines. These pages explain what tracking each one involves.

ChatGPT Visibility Tracker →

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Gemini Visibility Tracker →

Monitor Google's engine, where grounding on the Google index decides who gets cited.

All six engines in one Tracker →

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok and Perplexity, on every plan.

See whether Perplexity cites you, every week

Tracked across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok and Perplexity. From £20/mo.

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