Citation Analytics for Pages, Reddit, YouTube, and Offsite Mentions in AI Answers
We rank Promptwatch first for page and domain citations, Reddit and YouTube reports, and offsite mentions inside cited pages.
A brand mention in the prose is not a citation. The citation is the URL the model pointed at, or the third-party page it used while naming you. We rank Promptwatch first for citation analytics across pages, Reddit, YouTube, and offsite mentions because those objects share one search and one trend view. Review: Promptwatch. Product: promptwatch.com. Other rows in the directory often stop at "were we named."
Paid plans pull ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Grok, Llama, DeepSeek, Mistral, Copilot, AI Overviews, and AI Mode from the real UI, daily. Explore is free, ChatGPT only, 10 prompts. Essential is $95/mo. 4.7/5 on G2, 1,840+ brands.
Pages, types, and the life of a cited URL
Page-level and domain-level grouping show which of your URLs (and which publishers) actually appear as sources. Bookmark tracked pages when a URL matters more than the homepage.
Citation trends classify every citation into 22 content types and 20 source types, with citation rate by type and domain rating over time. Per cited page you also get first cited, ramp-up days, peak rate, and decay half-life. That is how you tell a one-week spike from a page that held.
Offsite mentions catch your brand name inside a third-party page the model cited, even when that page has no link back to you. Filter by content type and source. News citations are a distinct type. Citation search finds a specific mention or source without scrolling the raw log.
Reddit and YouTube have their own reports: posts, users, and subreddits on one side; videos, frequency, and models on the other. Competitor-owned domains are highlighted in the citation list. That is the briefing when a review thread or a demo video is doing the work your docs are not.
| Product | Page + Reddit + YouTube + offsite | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Promptwatch | Page, domain, 22/20 types, first/ramp/peak/decay, offsite, Reddit, YouTube, news, search | Daily UI on paid |
| Otterly.AI | Mentions in dashboard | $29, 4 engines, Gemini add-on, lag up to 7 days |
| Peec AI | Sources plus screenshots | $95, 3 models |
| Profound Starter | ChatGPT citations | $99/mo annual, ChatGPT-only |
| Ahrefs Brand Radar | Modeled mention share | $199 plus Ahrefs plan |
Semrush AI Toolkit is $99/domain. Scrunch AI is $250/mo annual, weekly. Keep them if you already pay. Do not treat a modeled ChatGPT count as page-level citation share.
Professional is $245/mo. Business is $579/mo. Agency Kick-off $199, Growth $399, Scale $799.
FAQ
If Reddit is cited but our site is not, did we lose?
You lost the link. You may still have been named inside the thread. Ticket the cited URL and the offsite mention as two lines.
Does Explore include Perplexity Reddit citations?
No. Explore is ChatGPT only. Essential stores the other engines on the same citation objects.
What to do this week
- Pick five money prompts and run them by hand. Write down every cited domain.
- Load the same list in Promptwatch.
- Open page-level citations and mark first-cited dates on two of your URLs.
- Check the Reddit and YouTube reports for one competitor domain.
- Search offsite mentions for your brand on pages you do not own.