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Sources it names: a census of 124 listings

103 of 124 listings answer yes for “Sources it names”. Counted from our own datasheet, with the query that reproduces every figure.

Sep 26, 2026updated Oct 14, 20262 min read

Sources it names, across 124 settled listings

  1. Yes103 of 124

  2. Qualified19 of 124

  3. No2 of 124

Of the 124 Published listings whose datasheet settles “Sources it names”, the largest group is “Yes” at 103 (83%). Measured 2026-10-14.

Denominator: 124 Published listings whose datasheet settles “Sources it names”.Method: Counted from the stored datasheet answer for “Sources it names” across every Published listing, all of which have a recognised stored answer on that row.Measured .
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The tools that match

Sources it names: listings answering Yes or Qualified on . This can differ from the report, which counted on .

Show 122 matches
  • 5W Public Relations Yes

    Naming the sources behind the answer is the whole product: the audit maps which domains engines draw on and where the brand is present or missing.

    Checked 2026-09-10

  • Addlly AI Yes

    Citation forensics is a line item on every plan and the audit reports which specific pages engines cite, not just whether the brand appears.

    Checked 2026-09-10

  • Adobe Brand Visibility Yes

    It separates your own cited pages from the third-party domains engines lean on, and flags sources citing competitors but not you.

    Checked 2026-09-12

  • AEO Engine Yes

    The free Google checker returns the actual cited URLs and domains for a query, while the paid dashboard reports which brands were cited per prompt and your share of them.

    Checked 2026-09-10

  • AEOlens Yes

    Cited sources are broken out by domain on both paid tiers, and the product names the competing domains a model cited instead of you.

    Checked 2026-10-14

  • Aethon AI Yes

    Every logged answer carries the sources behind it, and the citation map is presented per assistant rather than pooled into one score.

    Checked 2026-09-08

  • Ahrefs Brand Radar Yes

    Cited pages and cited domains are first-class reports, available in the interface and as dedicated API endpoints, so you can see which URLs AI leans on alongside your brand.

    Checked 2026-09-19

  • AIclicks Yes

    A Sources and Domains view breaks citations down to the individual URLs and sites AI engines rely on for your tracked prompts.

    Checked 2026-10-04

  • AI Search Watcher Yes

    Reports carry citation data alongside positions, and the API docs describe retrieving that citation data for domains or topics you monitor.

    Checked 2026-09-17

  • AI Sightline Qualified

    Citation analysis is tiered — Basic on Free, Full from Starter, trends on Business and export only on Agency — and results are labelled citation, reference or passing.

    Checked 2026-09-19

  • AI Visibility Audit Yes

    The audit reports the domains AI engines cite as sources for each answer and flags whether any of your own pages appear among them.

    Checked 2026-09-16

  • AI Visibility Report Group Yes

    Reports record which sites and pages the engines drew on, alongside the citation level of the four-stage scoring, and source analysis deepens on Pro and Complete.

    Checked 2026-10-15

  • Amplitude AI Visibility Yes

    A Sources tab lists every cited domain with page counts and response counts, and a separate view shows which of your own pages get cited.

    Checked 2026-10-15

  • Analyze AI Yes

    Citation analytics resolves the exact pages and domains engines cite, with authority and risk scores and entity tracking inside each cited URL.

    Checked 2026-09-12

  • ApexGEO Yes

    The product reports which sources are cited, including a citation-source taxonomy with gap analysis and who is cited instead.

    Checked 2026-10-15

  • Archytas AISpy Yes

    Every cited domain and URL is stored per prompt and per model, rendered as a domain-by-model matrix plus ranked tables, so you can see exactly which sources each engine drew on.

    Checked 2026-09-13

  • AthenaHQ Yes

    Reports cited domains and individual URLs with citation, mention and impression metrics, plus a Sankey view of which sources feed which answers.

    Checked 2026-09-20

  • auto-geo Yes

    Every run lists the cited URLs with their rank and the total citation count for that query, plus the raw source list, so you see which pages and domains the engine actually used.

    Checked 2026-09-12

  • BabyLoveGrowth Yes

    A Sources tab ranks the domains the models cite with a citation share, flags your own pages, and expands per prompt to the exact cited URLs.

    Checked 2026-10-04

  • Big Leads Qualified

    The agency identifies which sources, directories and pages answer engines trust, and studies why competitors get cited, but it never claims to show a client a list of cited domains or URLs.

    Checked 2026-09-20

  • Bloomiro Yes

    Cited source URLs are captured per check, brand citations are matched against the project hostname, and a separate tool lists community pages that answers cite.

    Checked 2026-09-21

  • Brandlight Yes

    The visibility module reports which queries surface the brand and which underlying sources the engines lean on to answer them.

    Checked 2026-09-09

  • BrightEdge Yes

    AI Hyper Cube names the domains and the exact content behind AI answers in a category, not just whether the brand appeared.

    Checked 2026-09-11

  • Bttr. Qualified

    Scoring reads the engine's cited-source block and checks it for your canonical URLs, and the free check returns raw model output, but the vendor publishes no domain-level or page-level breakdown of everything an engine cited, only whether you were in it.

    Checked 2026-09-08

  • Canonry Yes

    Citation share is a first-class metric beside mention share, and each stored answer keeps the cited URLs and the sources that supported it.

    Checked 2026-10-03

  • CheckThat.ai Yes

    A dedicated Sources view reports which domains and pages the engines drew on when they mentioned a brand, and the paid segments screen adds cited domains and URLs for rivals too.

    Checked 2026-09-11

  • CisionOne AI Visibility Yes

    Cited sources are a headline feature, broken out as top cited journalists, outlets and domains, and cross-referenced against CisionOne's own journalist database for outreach.

    Checked 2026-09-11

  • Citadex Yes

    Source tracing attributes statements back to the domains that produced them, naming Reddit, Wikipedia, industry publications and review platforms as weighted source categories; citation analysis is listed on every paid plan.

    Checked 2026-09-13

  • CiteLens Yes

    The citations explorer lists every cited URL per prompt, categorised as owned, competitor or reference, with the engines that surfaced it.

    Checked 2026-09-21

  • CiteMentor Qualified

    The vendor advertises citation and keyword tracking plus mentions by platform, but never states that it lists the specific domains or URLs an engine cites.

    Checked 2026-09-24

  • CiteVista Yes

    Results name the exact source URLs the model pulled and rank the domains cited most often, per prompt and across a cluster.

    Checked 2026-10-08

  • Cognizo Yes

    Reports the domains and pages engines reference, split into owned, earned and competitor citations, on all plans.

    Checked 2026-09-21

  • Conductor Yes

    Citations are counted per source link and attributed to the exact cited domains and pages, with a dedicated Citations endpoint in the Data API returning the cited source URLs.

    Checked 2026-10-06

  • Dageno Yes

    Citation Intelligence maps the domains and specific pages that appear as visible sources in sampled answers, and ranks which domains build your authority versus a competitor's.

    Checked 2026-09-15

  • Digital Elevator Qualified

    Reporting shows whether the brand is cited for each tracked prompt and lists every placement URL the agency created, but no inventory of the third-party domains an engine cited on its own.

    Checked 2026-09-23

  • Distribb Qualified

    The API returns cited pages and share of voice for your own project, so you see which of your pages are cited; there is no claim of a full domain-level citation index across the web.

    Checked 2026-09-25

  • EdenRank Yes

    A source graph shows which domains shape answers and where the brand is under-cited, keeping mentions and owned-page citations as separate metrics.

    Checked 2026-09-13

  • Elmo Yes

    A dedicated Citations page reports cited domains and URLs, classifies them as brand, competitor, social, Google or institutional, and tracks new and dropped sources.

    Checked 2026-09-11

  • Emergine Yes

    Citation Intelligence reports which websites, publications and reviews each engine relies on for answers in your category, read per engine.

    Checked 2026-09-26

  • Epovest Yes

    Every check records the pages the engine cited, and those domains build the Atlas, ranked per engine by an AI Authority score out of 100.

    Checked 2026-09-23

  • Evertune Yes

    Content Analytics lists the exact domains and URLs models return as sources and scores each one for topic and brand influence rather than raw frequency.

    Checked 2026-09-12

  • Finseo Yes

    Cited domains and URLs are ranked per prompt and per engine, classified by source type, and the vendor states it is on every plan.

    Checked 2026-09-08

  • First Page Sage Qualified

    Reporting identifies which prompts and which third-party sources to influence next, but no page promises a full list of the domains and pages an engine cited.

    Checked 2026-10-13

  • Foglift Yes

    Cited URLs are stored and normalised per answer, and a source-gap view lists domains cited when the brand is missing entirely.

    Checked 2026-09-03

  • Franixo Yes

    Citation Intelligence extracts and classifies the sources appearing in monitored responses and reports how often each recurs, filterable by provider and Search Surface.

    Checked 2026-09-26

  • Frase Yes

    Reporting goes below brand mentions to the specific page cited and where it sits in the answer's citation list, plus which domains win citations across the industry.

    Checked 2026-10-03

  • Gauge Yes

    Citation analysis reports which domains and URLs each engine cites, with trend data filterable by topic, model and date.

    Checked 2026-10-05

  • GeoArk AI Yes

    The Brand Mentions view lists the domains and platforms cited in AI answers, filterable by model, source type and brand.

    Checked 2026-09-24

  • GEO Monitor Yes

    Cited sources are a headline feature, though Starter shows only the cited domains while full citation URLs and the missing-from gap list start at Pro.

    Checked 2026-09-14

  • GeoRankers Yes

    A Sources tab ranks the domains each engine draws on, so you can see who is cited beside or instead of you.

    Checked 2026-09-14

  • geoSurge Yes

    A Sources view captures every URL retrieved or cited, with a domains table, per-URL drilldown and citation rate metrics for your own domain.

    Checked 2026-09-24

  • GEO Tool Qualified

    Cited sources per question and engine are collected, typed and compared against competitors, but only inside the early-access workspace; the free check judges whether your page is citable at all.

    Checked 2026-09-14

  • GetCito Yes

    The dashboard counts total citations, domain-level references and the distinct domains mentioning the brand across AI answers.

    Checked 2026-09-25

  • getSichtbar Yes

    Source analysis reports which domains carry the answers in a category, tied to competitor presence and concrete earned-media openings.

    Checked 2026-10-03

  • Go Fish Digital Yes

    The AI Overview Analyzer reports how often a brand is referenced in Google's AI answers, and the paid SearchGPT audit returns a summary of the links the engine surfaced.

    Checked 2026-09-14

  • Goodie Yes

    Goodie reports the domains AI engines lean on when they mention you, alongside mention counts and ranking position per model.

    Checked 2026-09-15

  • Growleads Yes

    The citation tracker records which sources each engine cites per tracked query and how that changes week to week, and the reporting layer publishes cited-by-engine percentages per query.

    Checked 2026-09-27

  • HubSpot AEO Yes

    Citations tab reports top domains, top owned pages, citations by channel and content type, and owned versus competitor citation rate.

    Checked 2026-09-02

  • Indexly Yes

    Citation Analysis is ticked on all three plans and the feature page shows per-prompt domain and page level citation share against competitors.

    Checked 2026-10-07

  • iPullRank Yes

    Citations are a tracked metric and are tied back to business outcomes, with attribution work connecting citations and AI referral traffic to engagement, leads and revenue from the start of the engagement.

    Checked 2026-09-26

  • Keyword.com AI Visibility Yes

    Citation analysis shows which websites the engines reference, how often, and which sources shape answers; it is on the AI Visibility and 360 plans, not the Google-only tier.

    Checked 2026-10-09

  • Knowatoa Yes

    It reports which domains and URLs the engines cite, both the brand's own best-performing pages and the third-party sources shaping each answer.

    Checked 2026-10-10

  • Limy Yes

    Citation Sources Mapping ranks the domains AI cites for a category and flags missing ones; a case study credits it with surfacing LinkedIn as the decisive source.

    Checked 2026-09-03

  • LLMClicks.ai AI Visibility Tracker Yes

    Citation Analysis reports the domains each assistant cites, per-platform distribution and repeat frequency, and expanding a source row reveals the queries that produced it.

    Checked 2026-09-03

  • LLM Pulse Yes

    Citation and source analysis is in the entry Starter feature list, showing which domains and pages the models cite and whether they mention you.

    Checked 2026-09-27

  • LLMrefs Yes

    It extracts the source URLs and domains engines cite, filterable, and reports top cited domains plus newly appearing citations each week.

    Checked 2026-10-11

  • Local Dominator AI Tracker Yes

    The prompt detail panel lists the exact URLs each engine used to answer, and flags when your own domain is not among them, so you see which domains win the citation.

    Checked 2026-09-26

  • Local Falcon Yes

    Reports name the websites and content each platform referenced about the brand, with citation patterns compared across platforms and gaps in source coverage flagged.

    Checked 2026-10-11

  • Maple Labs Yes

    The report keeps the domains and URLs assistants returned, opened and actually used, split into discovery and coverage roles.

    Checked 2026-10-03

  • Meltwater GenAI Lens Yes

    A dedicated Sources tab ranks the publications, pages and journalists cited in answers about the brand, and each response can be opened to see its citations.

    Checked 2026-09-18

  • Mentionable Yes

    It lists every domain appearing in answers to your prompts, separating visible citations from hidden context reads and background fan-out searches, and it is on all three plans.

    Checked 2026-09-09

  • Minuttia Qualified

    The report has a dedicated Citations view, but the vendor limits it to Perplexity for now, so cited domains and pages are not shown for other engines.

    Checked 2026-09-27

  • Monroya Yes

    It extracts a source ledger per scan and tracks 'cited' separately from mentions; page-level citations are reserved for the top Intelligence plan.

    Checked 2026-10-14

  • Morningscore Yes

    Both trackers expose sources: AI Overviews shows the exact cited URLs and ChatGPT results highlight whether you appear in the footnote citations.

    Checked 2026-09-27

  • Nightwatch Yes

    Maps each AI citation back to the URL that earned it, so you see which of your pages are cited and which are ignored.

    Checked 2026-09-28

  • Omnia Yes

    Citation Tracking is ticked on every plan and the product reports the specific pages and domains engines cite, including gaps against competitors.

    Checked 2026-09-28

  • Omniscient Digital Yes

    Citation sources are an explicit part of their AI measurement model, and engagements include competitor and citation analysis to find which pages engines pull from.

    Checked 2026-09-28

  • OmniSEO Yes

    Stores the cited page, the triggering query, where in the answer it landed and who else was cited, with page-level attribution and a citation health score; it is a headline capability with its own tracker.

    Checked 2026-09-03

  • OMNIUS Yes

    Citation and source analysis is explicit: they identify which pages are cited for target topics and why those sources were chosen over the client's.

    Checked 2026-09-28

  • OpenSEO Yes

    The report surfaces the URLs, domains and platforms behind brand mentions, and Prompt Explorer shows citation URLs returned with model answers.

    Checked 2026-09-09

  • Optimist Qualified

    Citation frequency and which competitors get cited are measured and reported by model and cluster, but the vendor never claims a list of the specific domains or pages engines cite.

    Checked 2026-09-03

  • Orchly Yes

    Reports the domains and individual URLs engines cite for tracked topics, with a citation share figure and a most-cited-domains ranking.

    Checked 2026-09-29

  • OtterlyAI Yes

    It records every domain and URL cited in AI answers, checks them daily and tracks link-position movement over time.

    Checked 2026-09-29

  • Peak Answer Yes

    Every source an engine cited to build an answer is recorded, and the backlink pillar ranks domains by what the engines already quote for the category.

    Checked 2026-10-07

  • Peec AI Yes

    Source reporting is the backbone of the product: every chat records which domains and URLs were retrieved and which were cited, with retrieval counts and citation rate per URL.

    Checked 2026-09-03

  • Percepture Qualified

    Citation frequency and mention opportunity mapping are deliverables, but the vendor describes reporting where the brand appears rather than showing which third-party domains and pages engines cite.

    Checked 2026-09-29

  • Prizvox Qualified

    Reports which prompts and which engines the brand appears in, but the vendor never claims to list the domains or pages the engines cite.

    Checked 2026-09-29

  • Profound Yes

    Citation reporting names the domains and pages feeding answers about your brand and scores their authority over time.

    Checked 2026-09-09

  • PromptRush Yes

    Cited domains and URLs are aggregated per category and ranked by influence, which is the product's central pitch for Perplexity because that engine exposes its sources.

    Checked 2026-09-03

  • Promptwatch Yes

    Citation analysis reports which domains and pages the engines cite, including third-party pages that mention competitors instead of you, and which content formats carry those citations.

    Checked 2026-09-30

  • Qwairy Yes

    Source Explorer breaks out the domains and pages cited in collected answers, including the customer's own pages, on every paid tier.

    Checked 2026-10-10

  • RadarKit Yes

    Answers are broken down by cited domain with average position, and the agents read the citation data to find which sites AI quotes instead of you.

    Checked 2026-09-30

  • Rankability Yes

    Keeps a running feed of citations gained, lost and retained, and names the source pages.

  • Rank.ai Qualified

    Every answer keeps its citations and the cited sites are ranked by how many answers use them, but the Free plan does not include the cited-pages view at all.

    Checked 2026-10-13

  • Rankfender Qualified

    It reports citation rate and the position your brand holds among cited sources, plus domain authority of Perplexity sources, but nowhere promises a list of the third-party domains and pages engines cite instead of you.

    Checked 2026-10-11

  • RankLens Qualified

    Reports track whether the brand or its domain appears in sampled answers; they do not list the source pages an engine cited.

  • Rank Prompt Yes

    Every cited domain and page is grouped by site type with its own reachability score, though Reddit, YouTube and offsite pages need Starter.

    Checked 2026-10-12

  • Rankscale Yes

    Citation analysis names the cited domains and URLs for your brand and rivals, and a separate sources-box view inspects what sits beside the answer.

    Checked 2026-09-30

  • Rankshift Yes

    It records the exact cited URL rather than only the domain, with the prompt, model and date, plus first-seen, last-seen and citation-stability history for each source.

    Checked 2026-09-30

  • RankVyze Yes

    Every research session records whether one of your pages was cited as a source, and citation rate carries 30% of the published visibility score, so cited URLs are a first-class output rather than a footnote.

    Checked 2026-09-26

  • RankZero Yes

    A dedicated Sources view breaks citations down by domain and by individual URL, with usage and average citation counts.

    Checked 2026-10-13

  • Scrunch AI Yes

    Citations dashboard shows citation share by owner, top cited domains and per-URL detail.

    Checked 2026-09-02

  • Searchable Yes

    Citation tracking is an included row on every tier and the Sources view breaks out cited domains, URLs and competitor citation gaps.

    Checked 2026-10-13

  • Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit Yes

    The Sources report lists every cited domain and URL for tracked prompts, grouped by category, so you can see which pages of yours and of rivals the engines quote.

    Checked 2026-09-18

  • SEOmatic Yes

    Each answer's cited sources are stored with their URLs and labelled yours, a competitor's or other, with source types such as forums and review sites broken out.

    Checked 2026-10-03

  • SEORCE Yes

    Each answer opens into the sources that shaped it, separating cited domains from ones used without credit and showing which of your own pages was reached.

    Checked 2026-09-15

  • Serpair Yes

    Answers are stored with the citations the engines gave, which the vendor calls a receipt, so you can see the sources behind a mention rather than just a score.

    Checked 2026-10-08

  • SE Visible Yes

    Cited domains and URLs are a first-class object in the product, categorised by source type and counted per engine, and exposed as their own API resource.

    Checked 2026-09-17

  • Siege Media Yes

    Prompt-level citation mapping in month 1–2, then citations earned per asset reported monthly.

    Checked 2026-09-02

  • Similarweb AI Search Intelligence Yes

    Citation Analysis exposes the domains and exact URLs feeding AI answers for each tracked topic.

    Checked 2026-10-08

  • Sleepwalker AI Yes

    Runs capture the cited sources behind each answer, and the run summary counts responses where the brand, URL or domain appeared among them.

    Checked 2026-10-09

  • Surfer Yes

    A sources report names the pages each model draws on, with citation frequency, a confidence score and filtering by model and domain.

    Checked 2026-10-09

  • TrackAIMentions Qualified

    Citations are shown where the answer source exposes them, which the vendor says varies by source and by report package.

    Checked 2026-10-10

  • Trakkr Yes

    Every URL an engine cites is recorded and mapped to its domain, so you can see which sources shape answers and which pages competitors win with.

    Checked 2026-09-16

  • TrueRanker Qualified

    Citations are counted and the cited source is highlighted inside the stored answer text, but the reporting is brand and competitor centric: no inventory of which domains or pages an engine cites generally is documented.

    Checked 2026-09-17

  • Ubersuggest Qualified

    The vendor says it measures how often a brand is named and cited, and the prompt view lists the brands an answer mentions; no page we could read states it lists the source domains or URLs behind an answer.

    Checked 2026-09-02

  • VisibAI Qualified

    It separates a brand mention from a citation of the brand's own URL, but its own comparison table calls this monitoring passive and no cited-domain inventory is documented.

    Checked 2026-09-18

  • Vismore Yes

    Reports the source domains and specific URLs the engines draw on, ranked.

    Checked 2026-09-02

  • WebGlazer Yes

    The dashboard surfaces the cited URLs per engine plus a Citation Sources view of the domains answers are drawn from.

    Checked 2026-09-18

  • WhyIQ AI Radar Yes

    Each answer is stored with the full ordered source list, your cite position, and the third-party domains and specific threads the engines leaned on instead.

    Checked 2026-10-12

  • Writesonic Yes

    Citations pages rank the domains and individual pages AI engines cite, plus third-party pages mentioning the brand.

    Checked 2026-09-02

  • ziptie.ai Yes

    A core URLs and Competitors view shows the domains and exact pages engines cite for your prompts, which of your own pages earn citations, and the prompts behind each.

    Checked 2026-10-14

The population

124 listings in this index are Published. This is the population as of 2026-10-14. 124 of the 124 published listings in this index carry a settled answer for “Sources it names”. That row asks: Does it show WHICH domains and pages the engines cite? Every listing in the index is settled on this row, so nothing is left out.

Findings

  1. 103 of the 124 settled listings answer “Yes” for “Sources it names”. That is 83% of the settled set.

  2. 19 of the 124 settled listings answer “Qualified” for “Sources it names”. That is 15% of the settled set.

  3. 2 of the 124 settled listings answer “No” for “Sources it names”. That is 2% of the settled set.

1 of those yes answers is GeoArk AI, which still answers yes for “Sources it names”. Its listing carries the stored answer and links to the source recorded for it. This is one worked example, not an independent audit of every source in the census.

What we counted, and how

Each figure above is a count over the “Sources it names” row of the listing datasheet, taken from the same stored answer the listing page renders. The denominator is the 124 listings whose answer is settled, meaning one of yes, qualified, no, does not apply, not established. On this row that is the whole index, because every listing has a recognised stored answer. Every number here is stored with the read-only query that reproduces it and re-run every sixty seconds against the live corpus, so a figure that stops reproducing surfaces as drift rather than as a stale sentence nobody notices. Our full method covers how a datasheet row is settled in the first place.

Limitations

This counts stored datasheet answers, not independently tested capabilities. A sourced answer can record a vendor statement or our reading of published evidence; this census does not re-fetch those sources. “Not established” means we have not established an answer. That can reflect vendor nondisclosure, blocked evidence, or unfinished research, not a no. An absent or unrecognised answer is excluded rather than treated as a researched finding. The figures are restated when the stored corpus changes; the date above is the count used for this published version, not a new verification of the vendors.

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