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Perplexity: a census of 118 listings

90 of 118 listings answer yes for “Perplexity”. Counted from our own datasheet, with the query that reproduces every figure.

Sep 24, 2026updated Oct 3, 20262 min readSource-linked research

Perplexity, across 118 settled listings

  1. Yes90 of 118

  2. Qualified15 of 118

  3. No10 of 118

  4. Does not apply1 of 118

  5. Not established2 of 118

Of the 118 Published listings whose datasheet settles “Perplexity”, the largest group is “Yes” at 90 (76%). Measured 2026-10-03.

Denominator: 118 Published listings whose datasheet settles “Perplexity”.Method: Counted from the stored datasheet answer for “Perplexity” across every Published listing, all of which have a recognised stored answer on that row.Measured .
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Current listings as of ; this set may differ from the report's original sample. Includes “Yes” and “Qualified” answers only. Read the conditions on qualified answers before treating them as a match. “No”, “Not applicable” and “Not established” answers are excluded.

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  • 5W Public Relations Yes

    Perplexity is named in the client audit list, in the Citation Source Audit baseline and as one of the five engines every published index queries.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-10

  • Addlly AI Yes

    Listed both in the scanned-engine strip and as a selectable engine on the entry plans, with only five engines running at once below Enterprise.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-10

  • Adobe Brand Visibility Yes

    Perplexity is named in the Brand Presence platform filter and is one of the three AI platforms that edge-deployed optimizations are served to.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-12

  • AEO Engine Yes

    Perplexity is one of the four engines the platform queries on every plan, counted into share of voice and citation share alongside the rest.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-10

  • AEOlens Yes

    Perplexity appears in the simulated model set on every product page and in the plan cards' list of platforms tracked questions are asked on.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-19

  • Aethon AI Yes

    Perplexity is queried through its public interface and API as one of the four assistants the vendor simulates for every workspace.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-08

  • Ahrefs Brand Radar Yes

    Perplexity is named in the index platform list and in the custom-prompt platform list, so both the instant database and self-defined prompt tracking cover it.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-19

  • AIclicks Yes

    Named in the monitored-platform list and in the Compare Plans models row.

  • AI Sightline Qualified

    Perplexity is the most gated engine: it only appears on Business at $289.95/mo and on Agency, not on Pro.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-19

  • AI Visibility Report Group Yes

    Perplexity is one of the six platforms every paid package queries, from the €29 Scan upward; the free technical check does not query it.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-20

  • Analyze AI Yes

    Perplexity is included from the $99 Growth plan upward as one of that tier's three named engines.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-12

  • ApexGEO Yes

    Perplexity is named in the seven-engine core set, and Perplexity AI appears as a declared LLM-inference sub-processor receiving brand monitoring prompts.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-20

  • Archytas AISpy Yes

    Supported as a first-class engine with citations captured on every prompt, though the vendor contradicts itself on which credential you need - this page asks for a DataForSEO key while the help centre asks for a Perplexity key.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-13

  • AthenaHQ Yes

    Listed in the model set of the free Essential plan, so it is available without paying and on both paid tiers above it.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-20

  • auto-geo Yes

    The default engine: Sonar performs grounded web search server-side and the adapter reads the citation array it returns, with sonar-pro available via a model override.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-12

  • BabyLoveGrowth Qualified

    Perplexity is named in the plan's AI-visibility optimisation and has its own free readiness checker, but the same plan list caps tracked prompts at ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini.

  • Big Leads Yes

    Perplexity is one of the three engines the vendor names by hand for its citation work, and its AI Visibility case study reports citations there within five months.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-20

  • Bloomiro Yes

    Perplexity is a supported answer surface included in all plans and one of the four providers selected by default for a run.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-21

  • Brandlight Yes

    Perplexity appears in the vendor's stated engine coverage and in its published healthcare-visibility research comparisons.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-09

  • BrightEdge Yes

    Perplexity is named in the AI Catalyst tracking set and in the Instant ranking checks, so both mentions and positions are covered.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-11

  • Bttr. Yes

    Perplexity is in the same weekly panel and the vendor treats it as the most measurable engine, tracking inline citations, the full source list and Perplexity Pages as separate surfaces.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-08

  • Canonry Yes

    Perplexity is named in the focus list and is also a supported provider in the open-source platform, so it is covered on both the service and self-hosted paths.

    Source retrieved 2026-10-03

  • CheckThat.ai Yes

    Perplexity appears in every coverage statement the vendor makes: the Overview page list, the homepage monitoring line and the GrowthOS AI Visibility segment screen.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-11

  • CisionOne AI Visibility Yes

    Perplexity is named in the supported model list in the help centre and repeated in Cision's own launch announcement for the dashboard.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-11

  • Citadex Yes

    Perplexity sits in the entry plan's four-engine bundle, so it is covered from the cheapest paid tier upward with no add-on required.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-13

  • CiteLens Yes

    Perplexity is in the shipped tracked set, queried live with the answers and cited sources parsed back.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-21

  • CiteMentor Yes

    Perplexity appears in the visibility-score engine list and again on both agency plan cards.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-24

  • CiteVista Yes

    Selectable alongside ChatGPT and Gemini in Citation Visibility and Query Intelligence, though the Brand Perception module still lists Perplexity as coming soon.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-03

  • Cognizo Yes

    Perplexity is listed among the selectable platforms for Growth and Pro and is included on Enterprise.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-21

  • Conductor Yes

    Named as a selectable tracking engine.

  • Dageno Yes

    Perplexity is among the seven platforms included on every paid plan, with a dedicated monitoring page covering mentions, citations and competitive context in its answers.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-15

  • Distribb Yes

    Perplexity is listed among the engines scanned, and the API summary view returns a per-engine cited flag with perplexity as its example.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-25

  • EdenRank Yes

    Perplexity is named in the core measurement set and in the monitoring pitch; the free plan's own monitoring list does not include it.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-13

  • Elmo Qualified

    Perplexity is a supported scrape surface, but the entry Starter plan is ChatGPT only and higher cloud plans make you choose any four platforms, so it competes with the other engines for a slot.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-11

  • Emergine Qualified

    The vendor's own pages disagree: the support FAQ lists Perplexity among ten platforms while its comparison post states Perplexity is not tracked.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-26

  • Epovest Yes

    Perplexity is a selectable engine on any tracker, billed at the base check price of $0.10 per prompt per check.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-23

  • Evertune Yes

    Perplexity is tracked through its consumer answer engine; the vendor says it has no separate base model to isolate because Sonar is a fine-tuned Llama.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-12

  • Finseo Yes

    Perplexity is a named tracked engine with its own tracker page; it counts against the three parallel models a plan includes.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-08

  • First Page Sage Yes

    Perplexity is named among the generative engines the GEO service addresses, and the agency publishes a dedicated Perplexity ranking-factors guide, but no per-tier tracking detail is given.

    Source retrieved 2026-10-01

  • Foglift Yes

    The only engine available without paying, on a weekly cadence, and it carries the highest token cost of five per prompt on paid plans.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-03

  • Franixo Yes

    Perplexity sits alongside OpenAI in the Starter entitlement, so it is covered on every recurring plan and in the one-time report.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-26

  • Frase Qualified

    Perplexity is tracked, but the plan table shows it is not on the entry Starter tier; it is added at Professional, so the cheapest plan cannot see it.

    Source retrieved 2026-10-03

  • Gauge Yes

    One of the six core platforms included on Growth.

  • GeoArk AI Qualified

    Perplexity is one of the seven models queried on Starter upward; the Free plan is restricted to Gemini only.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-24

  • GEO Monitor Yes

    Included from the $29 Starter plan alongside ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews, with no per-engine add-on charged on any tier.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-14

  • GeoRankers Qualified

    Marketing lists Perplexity on every tier, but the Help Centre marks it 'coming soon' and only alongside Enterprise or Agency.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-14

  • GEO Tool Qualified

    Perplexity is named as a verified live surface but runs only as a periodic deep measurement, not daily, and no published aggregate yet contains a Perplexity measurement.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-14

  • GetCito Yes

    Perplexity is included from the entry paid Growth plan upward; the free self-host tier's platform row names only ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-25

  • getSichtbar Yes

    Perplexity sits in the stated minimum set of measured systems and returned 1,159 cited domains in the vendor's own study corpus.

    Source retrieved 2026-10-03

  • Go Fish Digital Yes

    Perplexity is named as a surface the AI search work targets, and the agency's own published visibility study ran prompts against it alongside ChatGPT and AI Overviews.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-14

  • Goodie Yes

    Perplexity sits in the core model set available on the cheapest paid plan, and it also appears in the AI commerce engine list on Pro and Enterprise.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-15

  • Growleads Yes

    Perplexity appears in the named five-engine inventory and again in the success metric the vendor says it measures citation share against every week.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-27

  • HITZ GEO Page Audit Qualified

    Perplexity appears only in the retainer's visibility monitoring line, not in the page audit, which performs no engine query at all and scores page structure instead.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-17

  • HubSpot AEO Yes

    Perplexity is one of the three engines the vendor enumerates for AEO.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-02

  • Indexly Yes

    Named in every engine list and present in the model row of all three self-serve plan cards.

  • iPullRank Yes

    Perplexity is listed among the surfaces the agency engineers for and appears in a client result describing visibility doubling across AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity together.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-26

  • Keyword.com AI Visibility Yes

    Perplexity citation patterns are tracked

  • Knowatoa Qualified

    Perplexity is only on Growth and Enterprise; the $59 Starter plan covers ChatGPT, AI Overviews and AI Mode only.

  • Limy Yes

    Perplexity is one of five engines named in the visibility map Limy publishes for its SEE stage; no tier gating is stated.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-03

  • LLMClicks.ai AI Visibility Tracker Yes

    Listed in the tracker's multi-platform coverage card and in the citation analysis breakdown, so both mentions and cited domains are reported for it.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-03

  • LLM Pulse Yes

    Perplexity is in the five-model bundle included on every plan, so it needs no add-on purchase at any tier.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-27

  • LLMrefs Yes

    Named in the supported-engine list and in the site meta description.

  • Local Dominator AI Tracker Yes

    Perplexity is one of the six engines in the API enum and appears in the dashboard's Engine Distribution chart, so it is tracked on the same footing as ChatGPT.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-26

  • Meltwater GenAI Lens Yes

    Perplexity appears in the capability FAQ inventory, in the product page platform list and in the developer documentation for the same feature.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-18

  • Mentionable Yes

    Perplexity is in the seven-engine list included on the entry plan, and is also named as one of the engines that exposes hidden-citation signals in source tracking.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-09

  • Minuttia Yes

    Perplexity is named as a target engine and is the one platform for which the free report explicitly tracks citations today, making it the best-covered engine.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-27

  • Nightwatch Yes

    Perplexity appears in the AI platforms row for all four plans and in the hero claim about connecting rankings to citations.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-28

  • Omnia Yes

    Perplexity sits in the default set of four engines on Growth, Pro and Enterprise, named on both the tracking page and every plan card.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-28

  • Omniscient Digital Yes

    Perplexity appears in the same named six-engine tracking list used to instrument the OnBoard programme end to end.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-28

  • OmniSEO Yes

    One of the four channels on the cheapest paid plan, with a dedicated tracker page; it is not part of the 7-day trial, which is ChatGPT and AI Overviews only.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-03

  • OMNIUS Yes

    Perplexity is named in the vendor's own inventory of the search engines and LLMs its technology measures visibility and positioning across. PerplexityBot crawler access is audited as part of the technical work.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-28

  • Optimist Yes

    Perplexity appears in the same enumerated five surfaces for measurement and in the prompt-level benchmark run during the CORE Analysis.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-03

  • Orchly Yes

    Base-plan engine on all three tiers, marked Included for Essential, Pro and Enterprise in the AI engines tracked table.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-29

  • OtterlyAI Yes

    Perplexity is one of the four engines included in the base tracking on every paid tier, including the cheapest Lite plan.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-29

  • Peec AI Yes

    Perplexity is one of the six models offered on every tier, and the docs describe its distinctive pattern of listing many sources while citing few.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-03

  • Percepture Yes

    Perplexity appears both in the covered-engines bullet and in the list of platforms whose brand mentions the agency monitors each month.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-29

  • Prizvox Yes

    Perplexity is named in the vendor's closed four-engine list and is covered on Audit, Advisor and Agency alike.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-29

  • Profound Qualified

    Perplexity starts at the $399 Growth plan, which covers three engines; the Starter plan is restricted to ChatGPT only.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-09

  • PromptRush Yes

    Perplexity AI is in the five-model list on every plan; the page I was given is the engine-specific view of it.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-03

  • Promptwatch Yes

    Perplexity appears as a supported AI model in the plan comparison table with a tick on Essential, Professional and Business, and is grouped with the live-search platforms that return citations.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-30

  • Qwairy Yes

    Core model at 1 credit per answer, plus premium Perplexity API models (Sonar, Sonar Pro, Sonar Reasoning Pro, Sonar Deep Research) at 2-6 credits.

  • RadarKit Yes

    Perplexity appears in the monitored-platform answer and in the 'Available models — Tracked on every plan' row across all four tiers.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-30

  • Rankability Qualified

    Not on Starter; added at Core ($199/month) and above.

  • Rankfender Yes

    Tracked with citation position and source-authority measurement.

  • RankLens Yes

    Perplexity Sonar and 'Perplexity (Latest)' are selectable engines on the RankLens API endpoint.

  • Rank Prompt Yes

    Listed as "Included on every plan" in the methodology platform table, inside the bundled four.

  • Rankscale Yes

    Perplexity is named in the engine FAQ and its logo appears in the engine strip on each plan card, with no per-engine upsell tier.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-30

  • Rankshift Yes

    Perplexity is named in the engine inventory on both the visibility and citation pages and costs two credits per run in the published calculator.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-30

  • RankVyze Yes

    Perplexity is one of the four researched engines, and the vendor singles out citation share on it as the fastest-moving signal it tracks during the sprint.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-26

  • RankZero Yes

    Perplexity is a base tracked platform on Starter and above and has its own tracker

  • Scrunch AI Yes

    Included in the four platforms on the Core plan.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-02

  • Searchable Yes

    One of the three engines the pricing page presents as standard coverage.

  • Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit Qualified

    Perplexity appears only in the weekly Brand Performance database; it is absent from the daily prompt database and cannot be selected as a Prompt Tracking engine.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-18

  • SEOmatic Yes

    Perplexity is a selectable engine in the monitor's own options list rather than a default, so it is queried once the buyer switches it on.

    Source retrieved 2026-10-03

  • SEORCE Yes

    Perplexity citation rates sit in the Rank Tracker dashboard beside SERP positions for the same keyword, and Perplexity is in the ten-platform plan inventory.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-15

  • SE Visible Yes

    Perplexity appears in the same current-support sentence and in the per-tier engine line, and the local page confirms it is read separately rather than blended into one score.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-17

  • Similarweb AI Search Intelligence Yes

    Perplexity is named in the AI Brand Visibility engine list and in the platform-coverage comparison row.

  • Sleepwalker AI Yes

    Perplexity is a supported platform and its default model is the cheapest probe on the sheet.

  • Surfer Qualified

    Supported, but Standard tracks ChatGPT only, so Perplexity needs Pro or above

  • Trakkr Yes

    Perplexity is one of the eight engines run daily against every active prompt, included on both self-serve plans rather than sold as an add-on.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-16

  • TrueRanker Yes

    Perplexity is one of the four engines included from the entry Starter tier upward, and carries its own share-of-voice and mention/citation split per prompt.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-17

  • VisibAI Yes

    Named in the vendor's platform list and in its terms of service; excluded only from the free audit, which runs ChatGPT alone.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-18

  • Vismore Yes

    Named in the vendor's list of currently supported platforms.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-02

  • WebGlazer Yes

    Perplexity is among the five engines run daily, and the vendor says it leads with ChatGPT and Perplexity by demand.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-18

  • WhyIQ AI Radar Yes

    Named in the five-engine set queried on every check.

  • Writesonic Qualified

    Only on Enterprise for brands; Agency Starter includes it too.

    Source retrieved 2026-09-02

  • ZipTie Yes

    One of the three engines covered, on every tier including the 14-day trial.

The population

118 listings in this index are Published. This is the population as of 2026-10-03. 118 of the 118 published listings in this index carry a settled answer for “Perplexity”. That row asks: Does it query Perplexity, on the tier stated? Every listing in the index is settled on this row, so nothing is left out.

Findings

  1. 90 of the 118 settled listings answer “Yes” for “Perplexity”. That is 76% of the settled set.

  2. 15 of the 118 settled listings answer “Qualified” for “Perplexity”. That is 13% of the settled set.

  3. 10 of the 118 settled listings answer “No” for “Perplexity”. That is 8% of the settled set.

  4. 1 of the 118 settled listings answer “Does not apply” for “Perplexity”. That is 1% of the settled set.

  5. 2 of the 118 settled listings answer “Not established” for “Perplexity”. That is 2% of the settled set.

1 of those yes answers is Rankscale, which still answers yes for “Perplexity”. 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 “Perplexity” row of the listing datasheet, taken from the same stored answer the listing page renders. The denominator is the 118 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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