Track brand citations across every AI engine.
Each engine sees a different web — different sources, different levers, different answers. AuditAE checks the four core engines in parallel on every audit, and adds Google AI Mode when you opt in. None are upsells, none are gated behind a higher tier.
| Engine | Sources per answer | Fastest lever | Backed by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 3–5, sometimes none | Third-party mentions | OpenAI Responses API |
| Perplexity | Median 19, most source-rich | Fresh on-topic content | Sonar API |
| Gemini | Google-weighted | Traditional SEO rankings | googleSearch grounding |
| AI Overviews | SERP-embedded | Schema + E-E-A-T | live SerpAPI |
| AI Mode (opt-in) | Longer answers, more sources than AIO | Answers to the follow-up questions | live SerpAPI |
ChatGPT
Prose-heavy answers. Sometimes lists 3–5 sources, sometimes none. The hardest engine to move because brand recall from training data weighs heavily — unlinked mentions in places ChatGPT’s training set ingested matter as much as backlinks.
Track ChatGPT →Third-party mentions in well-ingested sources — directories, review sites, comparison posts. Earn presence in the places the training set reads, not just your own domain.
Perplexity
Most source-rich of the four default engines. A median of 19 cited URLs per answer in our Sonar API checks. Fastest engine to move with a content rewrite — fresh, on-topic pages get picked up within days. If you’re going to see early wins, they show up here first.
Track Perplexity →Fresh, on-topic pages that answer the prompt directly. Ship a rewrite, re-run the audit a few days later, and watch the cell flip.
Google Gemini
Tracks Google Search rankings closely. Often quotes Wikipedia and Reddit. If you rank well in Google for the underlying query, you’re already mostly there — strong traditional SEO is the highest-leverage AEO investment for Gemini specifically.
Track Google Gemini →Traditional SEO. Rank for the underlying query and Gemini follows — AuditAE’s 5¢ rank checks track both sides in one place.
Google AI Overviews
The SERP-embedded answer above the blue links. Sensitive to E-E-A-T signals — author bylines, structured data, site authority, freshness. The most schema-responsive of the four default engines.
Track Google AI Overviews →Schema and E-E-A-T: FAQ + Article JSON-LD, author bylines, freshness. The WordPress plugin ships these fixes in one step.
Google AI Mode
Google’s full-screen AI conversation, which searchers choose to enter. Longer answers and more sources than AI Overviews, with its own query fan-out and ranking, so a brand can win the AIO box and still be missing here. It isn’t one of the four default engines: tick it on any audit to add it as a fifth column.
Track Google AI Mode →Coverage of the follow-up questions. AI Mode splits one prompt into several related searches, so pages that answer the adjacent questions, not just the head term, have more ways in.
Every prompt runs on every engine.
Five prompts × four engines = 20 checks, ~3 minutes, $1.65 (Perplexity 5¢ · ChatGPT 7¢ · AI Overviews 9¢ · Gemini 12¢). Tick Google AI Mode and it adds a fifth column at 10¢ a check. Each cell records whether you were cited, your position in the source list, every cited URL, named competitors, and sentiment — so citation rate and share of voice roll up per engine or across every engine you ran.
Every engine. One report.
Run your first audit free — $5 of credit, about 60 checks, no card required.