Perplexity rank tracking, with the noise marked
Perplexity searches the web for every question and numbers its sources. GEOFast asks it your buyers' questions each week through its API, with its search on, and counts how often the answers name you, put you first and cite your site, each with a 90% range.
Weekly on every plan, the trial included.
Perplexity's own model, through its API.
Sonar, through the API
Perplexity is asked through its API with its Sonar model, which searches before it answers. Our data provider doesn't capture Perplexity's app, so the dashboard and shared reports say which way each engine was read.
Once a week, on every plan
Its answers cost about twice a captured one's, so a project asks Perplexity again only 6.5 days after it last answered. Between those runs, a daily run's figures carry Perplexity's latest answers, so runs compare on the same engines.
The same answer for every country
Perplexity's API can take an approximate user location for its search; GEOFast sends none. Its answers come from Perplexity's own index whatever country your project tracks, so they read the same from week to week.[1]
A count of searches, not their words
The API reports how many searches Perplexity ran for an answer, and not what it typed. So Perplexity's answers carry their sources but no list of searches.
What Perplexity did with our questions.
Every Perplexity answer in the demo runs came with sources. We counted how many, whose, and how steady its answers were for Plausible.
sources per answer, on average, the most of any engine we ask. None of its 191 answers came back without one.
searches, as Perplexity counted them, for 191 answers: one each. What those searches were, it doesn't say.
first-pick rate for Plausible, 29 of 66 answers, likely 34 to 54%. Named at all: 65%, likely 55 to 74%.
products offered as options per Perplexity answer, on average. Its answers cited plausible.io in 34 of 66.
Perplexity named Plausible in 64% to 68% of a run's answers. The ranges overlap, so the dashboard would call none of those moves a change.
191 answers from Perplexity's API with search, from GEOFast's two demo projects (four runs for trygeo.fast and three runs for plausible.io, October 6 and 7, 2026), on questions about AI visibility tools and about web analytics, in US English. Plausible's rates leave out the questions that name it.
Limits: answers through the API can differ from what Perplexity's app shows. The questions came from GEOFast's onboarding, so they aren't measured demand. A site counts once per answer.
Perplexity on your dashboard.
Weekly rates with their ranges
How often Perplexity names you, puts you first and cites you, each with its 90% range, beside the engines asked daily.
Its long source lists
With about 15 links an answer, Perplexity fills the Sources page fastest. Pages that name a competitor and not you are marked there, on Growth, Agency and the trial.
Each answer as it came
Open a question for Perplexity's latest answer with its numbered sources, the brands it offered and where you stood.
Why it cites what it cites
What Perplexity documents about finding pages, and the dispute over its fetcher, are in the Perplexity SEO guide. Perplexity SEO
How often Perplexity is asked.
Watch, $29 a month
Perplexity gets all 50 prompts, once a week.
Growth, $99 a month
Perplexity gets all 100 prompts, once a week.
Agency, $249 a month
Perplexity gets all 1,500 prompts, once a week.
The 14-day trial
Perplexity gets all 25 prompts, once a week.
What Perplexity says about its answers.
Numbered citations
Perplexity says it searches the internet in real time, and that each answer carries numbered citations that link to the original sources.[2]
PerplexityBot for its search results
Perplexity recommends allowing PerplexityBot in robots.txt for a site to appear in its search results, and says the bot isn't used to crawl for AI foundation models.[3] PerplexityBot
Perplexity-User on a person's question
It may visit a page to answer a question and link it in the reply. Since a person asked, Perplexity says it generally ignores robots.txt rules.[3] Perplexity-User
Up to a day to take effect
Each crawler's setting works on its own, and Perplexity says changes can take up to 24 hours to show in its systems.[3]
Questions about tracking Perplexity.
Why does GEOFast ask Perplexity only once a week?
Its answers cost about twice what a captured ChatGPT or Gemini answer does, and a weekly run keeps every plan's price where it is. The dashboard carries the latest weekly answers into the daily runs, so the engines stay comparable.
Are Perplexity's API answers the same as its app's?
Not always. The app lets people pick other models and search modes, which read and sum up pages differently. GEOFast asks the API's Sonar model with search on, the same way every week, and says so on reports.
Why can't I see the searches Perplexity ran?
Perplexity's API reports how many searches it made for an answer, not their words. ChatGPT and Claude report theirs, so those show on their answers.
Does my project's country change Perplexity's answers?
No. GEOFast sends Perplexity no location, so a project in Germany and one in the United States get answers from the same search. ChatGPT, Gemini and Google's answers do follow the country.
Where each fact comes from.
Each numbered source is the page a fact comes from, most of them the documentation of the company behind Perplexity, read on October 21, 2026. These pages change, so check them before you act.
- 1Perplexity: Web Searchdocs.perplexity.ai/docs/grounded-llm/filters/user-location-filter
- 2Perplexity: How does Perplexity work?perplexity.ai/help-center/en/articles/10352895-how-does-perplexity-work
- 3Perplexity: Perplexity Crawlersdocs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/perplexity-crawlers
Keep reading
- ChatGPT rank tracker, counted as first picksTrack your rank in ChatGPT as a first-pick rate with a 90% range, read from the ChatGPT app signed out in your country, with the searches it ran. From $29.
- Gemini visibility tracker, from the Gemini appTrack how often Google's Gemini app names your brand, puts it first and links your site, captured signed out in your country, with a 90% range on each rate.
- Claude visibility tracker, with web search onTrack how often Claude names you and cites your site when it searches the web, asked weekly on every plan, with the searches it ran and a 90% range.
- Google AI Mode tracking, apart from OverviewsTrack how often Google's AI Mode names your brand and links your site, read from Google's results in your country and counted apart from AI Overviews.
- AI visibility trackingTrack how often ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude name you, put you first and cite your site, with a 90% range on every rate.
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