GEO consoleGEO consoleTo know whether Perplexity cites your brand, ask it your customers' real questions — several times — and analyze who gets named in the answers and which sources sit behind them. GEO console automates exactly that: it queries Perplexity with brand-relevant prompts, then tracks your mention rate, your average position, your share of voice against competitors and the prompts that trigger you. Perplexity tracking is included in the Starter (€79/month) and Pro (€199/month) plans.
Open Perplexity and ask "what's the best [your category]?" — within seconds you'll see whether your brand appears in the answer or among the sources. But one answer proves little: Perplexity runs a live web search for every question, so its answers move as the underlying results change. A reliable measure takes a panel of brand-relevant questions, repeated runs and a consistent count of who is named, at what position. That's what a tracker is for.
GEO console starts from your site: it generates the recommendation, comparison and alternative questions your customers actually ask, sends them to Perplexity, and repeats the measurement over time. The full method — question generation, multi-run smoothing, honest limits — is documented on our methodology page.
Perplexity is built as an answer engine: every question triggers a live web search, and the sources behind the answer are displayed prominently. Your visibility there is therefore twofold — being named in the answer text and being cited as a source. And because the engine follows live results, it can reflect fresh content faster than assistants that lean mostly on training memory.
That freshness makes Perplexity a useful early indicator for GEO work: engines connected to the live web can reflect new content within days to weeks. If you publish or fix something, Perplexity is often where the change shows first — provided its crawler, PerplexityBot, can access your pages. See our guide to AI crawler access for how to check.
For every Perplexity answer, GEO console extracts the same four signals as on the other engines: whether your brand is mentioned, at what average position it appears, your share of voice against the competitors cited, and the prompts that trigger you. Raw answers are kept, so every number stays traceable to its source.
How often Perplexity names your brand across every question and run of your panel.
Where you appear in Perplexity's answer — named first or mentioned at the end of the list.
Your weight against the competing brands cited in the same answers, on Perplexity and across engines.
The questions that make Perplexity cite you — and those where competitors are cited in your place.
Each question is sent to Perplexity through its API and repeated over several runs to smooth the variance that live search introduces. The results land in a search-console-style dashboard next to ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok, so you can see at a glance whether a gap is specific to Perplexity or shared across engines. Perplexity is included from the Starter plan; Pro adds Claude and Grok plus daily tracking.
Which plans include the Perplexity engine, exactly as defined in our pricing.
| Plan | Price | Perplexity | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | €0/mo | ✕Not included | Instant check on ChatGPT only — about 10 prompts, 1 site |
| Starter | €79/mo | ✓Included | ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity — 50 tracked prompts, auto re-scan every 3 days, 90 days of history |
| Pro | €199/mo | ✓Included | All 5 engines — 150 prompts, daily tracking, 3 sites, 1 year of history |
| Enterprise | On quote | ✓Included | All 5 engines, daily tracking, usage-based volumes |
✓ included · ✕ not included. Full plan details and limits are on the pricing page.
What people ask us most often about tracking Perplexity.
Ask Perplexity the questions your customers actually ask — "best tool for…", "alternatives to…" — and check whether your brand is named in the answer or cited as a source. A manual test only gives a hint: Perplexity searches the live web, so answers move as the underlying results change. GEO console automates the measurement with repeated, brand-relevant prompts and produces a stable mention rate.
Perplexity tracking is included in the Starter plan at €79 per month (with ChatGPT and Gemini) and in the Pro plan at €199 per month (all 5 engines), as well as in Enterprise on quote. The Free plan covers ChatGPT only.
Through the Perplexity API, whose Sonar search models retrieve and synthesize live web information with search grounding built in. We send brand-relevant questions, repeat them over several runs, keep the raw answers, and extract mentions, positions and share of voice following our public methodology.
It can: Perplexity displays the sources behind its answers prominently, so a citation is both a brand mention and a potential click. GEO console measures whether and where you appear in the answers; the traffic those citations generate depends on the question, your position and the reader. We report visibility, not traffic.
No, and no honest tool can. Perplexity answers depend on your content, your reputation and the sources its live search surfaces. GEO console measures where you stand, shows the questions where competitors are cited instead of you, and lets you verify whether your actions move the numbers.
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