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AI-cited sources: which PR tools have it? 32 tools, dated

32 PR software companies have it. Otterly.ai was first, available Dec. 18, 2024. The latest to add it was Wizikey, announced Oct. 26, 2026.

Updated . Launches from Dec. 18, 2024 to Oct. 28, 2026.

What it is

Shows which outlets, journalists and pages AI assistants cite, so you know who to pitch.

Every company that has it

By the day each first shipped it, earliest first.

  1. Otterly.ai

    Site: otterly.ai. 3 launches with it: the first, then the 2 later ones, newest first.

    1. Link and citation monitoring in AI search

      Available Dec. 18, 2024.

      Otterly analyzed the links in ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews answers, so users see which pages the models cite.

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

      Source: Hunted.Space (Product Hunt launch 2, Otterly.AI, 2024-12-18; maker comment).

    2. Brand Profiling: attributes and objections AI search attaches to a brand

      Available Oct. 21, 2026.

      A new Brand Profiling tab in each OtterlyAI brand report shows the attributes and objections AI search engines attach to a brand, scores them, compares them with competitors, and links each insight to the pages AI cited. It covers ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot.

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

      Source: OtterlyAI blog.

      In PR software this week: Oct. 20 to 25, 2026.

    3. Citations Report: Winners & Losers, Starring & Citation Details View

      Available July 23, 2026.

      Adds a Winners & Losers view of citation movements, starred/bookmarked URLs, and a Citation Details View of prompts and AI engines citing a URL.

      Features: AI-cited sources, AI-answer tracking.

      Source: OtterlyAI Blog.

  2. Semrush AI PR Toolkit

    Site: semrush.com.

    1. AI-cited media finder

      Available 2025.

      AI-Cited Media Database identifies the top AI-cited media outlets in an industry, letting users build lists ranked by AI-citation influence.

      Features: AI-cited sources, Journalist research.

      Source: Semrush blog.

  3. Peec AI

    Site: peec.ai. 6 launches with it: the first, then the 5 later ones, newest first.

    1. Public Launch

      Available February 2025.

      Peec AI publicly launched its AI search analytics platform for tracking brand visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity and other AI engines.

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

      Source: Peec AI.

    2. My website

      Available Sept. 11, 2026.

      Page-level view combining server-log crawl data, Peec prompt/citation tracking and GA4 traffic to show how AI search interacts with each page.

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

      Source: Peec AI (blog).

    3. Actions

      Available Feb. 10, 2026. In beta.

      Turns AI visibility data into a prioritized, clustered list of content/outreach opportunities to close competitor gaps.

      Features: AI-answer optimization, AI-cited sources.

      Source: Peec AI (blog).

    4. Source Gap Analysis

      Available Jan. 26, 2026.

      Peec showed which sources cite competitors but not you, with next steps.

      Features: AI-cited sources.

      Source: Peec AI changelog.

    5. URL and domain classification

      Available Sept. 15, 2025.

      Peec labeled cited pages as articles, listicles, product pages, comparisons and so on, and sources as UGC, editorial, corporate and more.

      Features: AI-cited sources.

      Source: Peec AI changelog.

    6. Source attribution by model and AI Overviews tracking at launch

      Available April 16, 2025.

      At launch Peec traced mentions back to the URLs, domains and content types each AI model draws on, and tracked Google AI Overviews.

      Features: AI-cited sources.

      Source: Peec AI changelog.

  4. Ahrefs Brand Radar

    Site: ahrefs.com. 5 launches with it: the first, then the 4 later ones, newest first.

    1. Brand Radar

      Available March 2025.

      New report tracking brand mentions across LLM-generated AI search answers.

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

      Source: Ahrefs blog.

    2. AI appearances in Top Pages

      Available Sept. 29, 2026.

      Top Pages report shows how many AI responses each page appears in across AI platforms; needs a Brand Radar subscription.

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

      Source: Ahrefs blog.

    3. Grok added to Brand Radar

      Announced April 2026.

      Ahrefs adds Grok as a trackable AI surface in Brand Radar for both Ahrefs and custom prompts, plus a "found but not cited" citation-gap report.

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

      Source: Ahrefs blog, April 2026 new-features post.

    4. AI citations in Site Explorer

      Available Aug. 7, 2025.

      Site Explorer Overview shows how many AI queries linked to a site and how many unique pages were cited, from Brand Radar data.

      Features: AI-cited sources.

      Source: Ahrefs blog.

    5. Brand Radar 2.0 (Cited Domains and Cited Pages)

      Available August 2025.

      Tracks brand visibility across AI chatbots with new reports showing which domains/pages get cited as sources.

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

      Source: Ahrefs blog.

  5. Scrunch AI

    Site: scrunch.com. 3 launches with it: the first, then the 2 later ones, newest first.

    1. Expanded Sources views (brand, competitor, third-party citations) with time series

      Available April 2, 2025.

      Source views show which pages AI answers cite, split by who owns them, with trends over time.

      Features: AI-cited sources.

      Source: Scrunch (blog: March 2025 Product Update).

    2. Google Gemini monitoring

      Announced July 17, 2025.

      Tracks how a brand is featured across owned, third-party and competitive sites within Gemini responses.

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

      Source: Scrunch blog.

    3. Sources Performance Export

      Available June 2, 2025.

      Spreadsheet export of how every cited source performs across prompts, weekly.

      Features: AI-cited sources.

      Source: Scrunch (blog: May 2025 Product Update).

  6. Brandlight

    Site: brandlight.ai. 2 launches with it: the first, then the later one.

    1. Emerged From Stealth

      Available April 16, 2025.

      Brandlight emerged from stealth as an AI Engine Optimization platform to monitor brand visibility in AI search.

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources, AI-answer optimization.

      Source: Calcalistech (Ctech).

    2. Source discovery: the data sources AI engines rely on

      Available April 21, 2025.

      Brandlight's technology finds which sources AI engines draw on and points to optimization opportunities.

      Features: AI-cited sources.

      Source: New-TechEurope (21 April 2025).

  7. Knowatoa

    Site: knowatoa.com. 4 launches with it: the first, then the 3 later ones, newest first.

    1. AI Overviews Series & Citations Reporting

      Available July 7, 2025.

      Knowatoa shipped an 'AI Overviews Series' to track Google's AI Overviews, plus Citations Reporting to view the sites that influence rankings.

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

      Source: Knowatoa Updates (changelog).

    2. Competitor Sitemap Analysis

      Available April 13, 2026.

      Crawls competitor sitemaps and cross-references pages against what AI engines are citing, surfacing AI-coverage gaps and content opportunities.

      Features: AI-cited sources, AI-answer optimization.

      Source: Knowatoa Updates.

    3. Expanded Citation Categories

      Available Jan. 17, 2026.

      Citation sources classified into 20 industry-specific categories using AI-powered tagging.

      Features: AI-cited sources.

      Source: Knowatoa Updates.

    4. Domain Classification for citation sources

      Available Nov. 12, 2025.

      Citations are grouped by domain into News, Social, Reference and E-commerce categories.

      Features: AI-cited sources.

      Source: Knowatoa (product updates).

  8. Meltwater

    Site: meltwater.com. 6 launches with it: the first, then the 5 later ones, newest first.

    1. GenAI Lens

      Available July 29, 2025.

      Monitors how brands, competitors and industries appear in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok and DeepSeek answers, with cited sources.

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

      Source: Meltwater press release.

    2. Adds Top Influencers and Prompt Volumes to GenAI Lens

      Announced Oct. 27, 2026.

      GenAI Lens shows what people ask AI tools about a brand, and which creators and publishers influence the answers.

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

      Source: Meltwater press release.

    3. Adds AI Brand Visibility dashboard template and 13 GenAI Lens widgets to Analyze

      Announced October 2026.

      A ready-made Analyze dashboard tracks brand and competitor visibility, mentions, sentiment and cited sources across AI models. Thirteen GenAI Lens widgets can be added to any dashboard.

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources, Reporting and measurement.

      Source: Meltwater product updates (page 1).

    4. Adds Branded Web Reports in GenAI Lens

      Announced September 2026.

      An eight-tab report covers branded and unbranded prompts, narratives, models, the brand website, cited sources and URLs, and recommendations tied to visibility gaps.

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources, Reporting and measurement.

      Source: Meltwater product updates (page 1).

    5. Adds Microsoft Copilot to GenAI Lens monitoring

      Announced July 2026.

      GenAI Lens tracks brand visibility, sentiment and volume in Microsoft Copilot answers, with the web sources and citations behind each answer.

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

      Source: Meltwater product updates (page 4).

    6. Sources & Journalists view in GenAI Lens

      Available November 2025.

      Shows which reporters and outlets most influence AI-generated answers on a topic.

      Features: AI-cited sources.

      Source: Meltwater product updates.

  9. Muck Rack

    Site: muckrack.com. 2 launches with it: the first, then the later one.

    1. Generative Pulse

      Available July 30, 2025.

      Tracks and helps shape brand visibility and Share of Voice across AI answers from ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini.

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

      Sources: Yahoo Finance (syndicated GlobeNewswire release), Muck Rack blog.

    2. AI Visibility Badges

      Available March 5, 2026.

      Tiered badges showing which journalists and outlets are most frequently cited in AI-generated answers, from Generative Pulse data.

      Features: AI-cited sources.

      Source: Yahoo Finance (syndicated GlobeNewswire release).

  10. Agility PR

    Site: agilitypr.com. 2 launches with it: the first, then the later one.

    1. AI Reference Leader Badge

      Available Aug. 8, 2025.

      Badge on media outlet/contact profiles flagging outlets AI answer engines treat as authoritative reference sources; filterable in media lists.

      Features: AI-cited sources.

      Source: Agility PR Solutions (newsroom).

    2. Visibility Intelligence

      Available April 2, 2026.

      Monitors how AI answer engines such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini represent a brand and which outlets they cite.

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

      Source: Agility PR Solutions.

  11. Notified

    Site: notified.com.

    1. Profound AI-citation diagnostics in Content OS / GlobeNewswire analytics

      Available Sept. 18, 2025.

      Measures citations and presence of a company's content in ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity answers.

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

      Source: Notified (Content OS press release, 2025-09-18).

  12. Rankscale

    Site: rankscale.ai. 2 launches with it: the first, then the later one.

    1. Rankscale 2.0: Sources Box Analysis

      Available October 2025.

      Shows which sources and domains AI engines cite in answers (Sources Box Analysis and Query Fan Out).

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

      Source: Rankscale (Facts page).

    2. Sources as a first-class visibility metric

      Available July 16, 2026.

      Dashboards now count when an owned URL supported an AI answer even if the brand was not named.

      Features: AI-cited sources.

      Source: Rankscale (Changelog, 16 Jul 2026).

  13. Press Ranger

    Site: pressranger.com. 2 launches with it: the first, then the later one.

    1. ChatGPT web search URLs tracked

      Available Oct. 24, 2025.

      Coverage analytics now record URLs that ChatGPT's web search surfaced.

      Features: AI-cited sources, AI-answer tracking.

      Source: Press Ranger (changelog).

    2. AI Visibility reports through the Press Ranger connector in Claude, ChatGPT, Codex

      Available Oct. 20, 2026.

      Press Ranger's connector now runs AI Visibility checks from Claude, ChatGPT and Codex: per-platform answers with proof screenshots and cited sources, tracked-prompt editing, and Playbook recommendations. It can draft the recommended release, which stays a draft until published in the web app.

      Features: MCP servers and connectors, AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources, AI-answer optimization, Press release and content writing, MCP server.

      Source: Press Ranger changelog.

      In PR software this week: Oct. 20 to 25, 2026.

  14. Evertune

    Site: evertune.ai. 3 launches with it: the first, then the 2 later ones, newest first.

    1. Topic Relevance and Brand Relevance

      Available Dec. 10, 2025.

      Metrics that show how much each source URL influences AI's view of a brand and category.

      Features: AI-cited sources.

      Source: Evertune (press release, Dec 10, 2025).

    2. Agentic GEO: GEO Manager, Content Studio and an Evertune MCP

      Available Oct. 28, 2026.

      Evertune's Agentic GEO lets users ask agents why AI visibility changed and get findings with evidence and next steps, then turn a gap into a strategy, brief or draft in Content Studio. Evertune MCP brings the same data into Claude and ChatGPT.

      Features: AI agents, Chat assistant, MCP servers and connectors, AI-answer optimization, AI-cited sources.

      Source: Evertune blog.

    3. Partner Connect (impact.com)

      Announced Dec. 16, 2025.

      Pushes AI-influential source lists from Evertune directly into impact.com to launch affiliate campaigns on AI-cited publishers.

      Features: AI-cited sources, AI-answer optimization.

      Source: Evertune (vendor).

  15. Wiztrust

    Site: wiztrust.com.

    1. AI visibility monitoring with GetMint

      Announced Jan. 7, 2026.

      Partnership to track media mentions and quotes in AI assistants and optimize releases for AI search (GEO).

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources, AI-answer optimization.

      Source: Wiztrust newsroom.

  16. AirOps

    Site: airops.com. 4 launches with it: the first, then the 3 later ones, newest first.

    1. AirOps Offsite

      Available Feb. 3, 2026.

      Finds the third-party publishers that influence AI answers in a category, lands mentions there and measures citation lift; managed-service option.

      Features: AI-cited sources, AI-answer optimization.

      Source: AirOps blog.

    2. Citation trends in AirOps MCP and platform grouping in Ad Library

      Available Oct. 19, 2026.

      AirOps added citation trends and weekly history to its MCP, so a connected assistant can report which pages are losing citations, and grouped its Ad Library by platform to compare ads across ChatGPT and Google AI Mode. The same release adds deeper Query Fanout insights.

      Features: AI-cited sources, AI-answer tracking, MCP servers and connectors.

      Source: AirOps changelog.

      In PR software this week: Oct. 20 to 25, 2026.

    3. Citation lifecycle metrics in Insights

      Available Oct. 5, 2026.

      Insights shows when a URL first appeared as a citation, its peak week, rise, decline and half-life, with a weekly chart and CSV or Grid export.

      Features: AI-cited sources.

      Source: AirOps product changelog.

      In PR software this week: Oct. 5 to 19, 2026.

    4. Social and Community insights

      Available Sept. 14, 2026.

      Shows which YouTube creators, videos, Reddit threads and subreddits appear in tracked AI answers.

      Features: AI-cited sources.

      Source: AirOps changelog.

  17. Surfacd

    Site: surfacd.com.

    1. AI visibility monitoring

      Available Feb. 12, 2026.

      Tracks how brands appear across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Grok, AI Mode and AI Overviews.

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

      Sources: MarComm News, MarComm News (Clarity Global launches Surfacd).

  18. Cision

    Site: cision.com. 2 launches with it: the first, then the later one.

    1. PR Newswire AEO & GEO Brand Report (powered by Trajaan)

      Available April 6, 2026.

      PR Newswire adds a report showing how AI models mention and rank a brand, with share of voice by model.

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

      Source: PR Newswire.

    2. Adds AI Visibility Answers to the AI Visibility dashboard

      Announced October 2026.

      Users read the verbatim answers ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and others gave behind each chart point, filtered by model, entity, sentiment or cited source.

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

      Source: CisionOne help center: Product Updates October 2026.

  19. Vuelio

    Site: vuelio.com.

    1. AI View

      Announced May 21, 2026.

      Tracks what large language models (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude) cite and say when answering questions about an organization.

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

      Sources: Vuelio blog, Vuelio product updates.

  20. Onclusive

    Site: onclusive.com. 2 launches with it: the first, then the later one.

    1. GEO Analytics

      Available May 26, 2026.

      Tracks and scores brand representation across five AI search engines (ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Claude, Perplexity), flagging shifts and influential sources.

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

      Source: Onclusive newsroom.

    2. Actions Center in GEO Analytics: which sources to influence to close AI gaps

      Available Oct. 19, 2026.

      Onclusive added an Actions Center to GEO Analytics that shows which sources to influence to close AI visibility gaps.

      Features: AI-answer optimization, AI-cited sources.

      Source: Onclusive on X.

  21. aclipp

    Site: aclipp.com.

    1. AI Visibility

      Available May 26, 2026.

      Runs a brand's prompts in ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Grok and tracks mentions, share of voice, sentiment and cited sources.

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

      Source: aclipp.

  22. Signal AI

    Site: signal-ai.com.

    1. Launch of AI Citations

      Available May 27, 2026.

      Signal AI launched AI Citations, tracking brand visibility and citation sources inside AI-generated answers from ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity.

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

      Sources: Signal AI blog, Signal AI newsroom.

  23. Brand24

    Site: brand24.com.

    1. AI Visibility: Sources tab

      Available May 28, 2026.

      New tab showing which websites and source types AI models cite most when they mention a brand.

      Features: AI-cited sources.

      Source: Brand24 changelog.

  24. Profound

    Site: tryprofound.com. 3 launches with it: the first, then the 2 later ones, newest first.

    1. Pages

      Available July 10, 2026.

      Unified view of a website's content performance: AI citation status, bot-crawl activity and page health.

      Features: AI-answer optimization, AI-cited sources.

      Source: Profound (blog).

    2. YouTube Citation Breakdown

      Available Aug. 19, 2026.

      Breaks down AI-citation data by YouTube channel, video and video category.

      Features: AI-cited sources.

      Source: Profound (blog).

    3. Citation Decay

      Available Aug. 14, 2026.

      Tracks the full lifecycle of every cited URL (first-cited date, time to peak, half-life) to flag content losing AI-citation ground.

      Features: AI-cited sources.

      Source: Profound (changelog).

  25. Critical Mention

    Site: criticalmention.com.

    1. GEO Analytics launches in the US for AI-search brand visibility

      Available Aug. 4, 2026.

      Tracks how a brand appears in answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Claude and Perplexity, and which sources shape those answers. Critical Mention sells it as AI Brand Visibility.

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

      Source: Onclusive newsroom (owner of Critical Mention).

  26. PigPR

    Site: pigpr.com.

    1. AI answer tracking

      Available Aug. 8, 2026.

      Asks Gemini, Perplexity and ChatGPT about a brand every week, detects whether the brand is mentioned and ranks the sources the engines cite.

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

      Source: PigPR blog.

  27. Talkwalker

    Site: talkwalker.com.

    1. Adds citation tracking and prominence scores to LLM Insights

      Announced Sept. 2, 2026.

      LLM Insights adds a Citations & Sources table, Brand Perspective prompt setup, and Visibility Score and Average Position metrics for brand answers in ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity.

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

      Source: Hootsuite What's New (Lumen by Talkwalker).

  28. PeakMetrics

    Site: peakmetrics.com.

    1. AI Perceptions

      Available Sept. 17, 2026.

      GEO product for communications teams that tracks how ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok and Perplexity describe a brand, which narratives, citations and sources drive the answers, and benchmarks against competitors.

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

      Source: PeakMetrics.

  29. Determ

    Site: determ.com.

    1. Determ AI Visibility tracks how AI assistants describe your brand

      Available Oct. 16, 2026.

      Asks your chosen prompts every day on ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and other models. It reports brand mentions, order, sentiment and the websites the answers cite, against competitors.

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

      Source: Determ blog.

  30. RunPR

    Site: runpr.ai.

    1. RunPR MCP pilot: client research in Claude Code, drafts returned for review

      Announced Oct. 19, 2026. In beta.

      RunPR opened a limited-access OAuth MCP pilot that lets an enrolled Claude Code user read a selected client's context and saved AI Visibility citations, research a byline, and submit a pitch draft to RunPR for review. The tools cannot approve, send or delete work.

      Features: MCP servers and connectors, Journalist research, AI-cited sources, Pitch writing, MCP server.

      Source: RunPR blog.

      In PR software this week: Oct. 20 to 25, 2026.

  31. Wizikey

    Site: wizikey.com.

    1. Wizikey AEO Module tracks brand visibility in AI answers

      Announced Oct. 26, 2026.

      The module tracks how brands appear in ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude answers, with AI share of voice, rival mentions, cited sites, citation gaps and AEO reports.

      Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

      Source: Wizikey blog.

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