A Perplexity rank tracker runs the questions your buyers ask in Perplexity, records whether your brand is named, its place in the answer and the sources Perplexity cites. MentionRadar does this every week on every plan, next to ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews, and adds the web mentions those sources come from.
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Perplexity does not show ten blue links. It writes one answer, names a few products and cites its sources. Your rank is your place in that answer.
“What is the best CRM for a US home services company with 12 technicians?”
1. Jobwell is the most complete option for dispatch and invoicing. 2. Fieldline CRM is a strong pick if you want quoting and follow up emails in one place. 3. Crewdesk is cheaper for teams under five people.
AI visibility score
54
out of 100
For every prompt and every weekly run, MentionRadar stores five things: whether Perplexity named you, your position in the numbered list, whether the answer recommended you, which competitors were named and the URLs Perplexity cited as sources.
Position comes from the answer itself. The tracker reads each line, finds numbered items like "1." or "2)" and takes the number of the first item that names your brand. When Perplexity answers in plain prose with no list, the run records the mention and the recommendation and leaves position empty instead of guessing.
The same view covers ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews, so you can see whether a drop is a Perplexity problem or an AI search problem. The AI rank tracker page shows the cross engine matrix.
Perplexity searches the web for every question, reads a short set of pages and writes the answer from them. That makes it the most source driven of the big AI assistants. When a new Reddit thread, a fresh review roundup or a competitor's comparison page starts getting picked as a source, the order of brands in the answer shifts with it.
It also means one reading tells you little. Answers are generated fresh each time, so two runs an hour apart can list brands in a different order. Weekly tracking over a month shows the real direction: are you named more often, are you climbing from third to first, and which sources appear whenever you win.
The useful question is not "what is my rank today" but "which pages does Perplexity read before it names my competitor first". From Growth, every run stores the cited URLs, so you can see the review site, thread or article to work on. Our LLM SEO tool page covers how teams turn those citations into a content plan.
Public list prices. Otterly was checked on its pricing page in October 2026, Peec AI figures come from public pricing trackers. Confirm on each vendor's site before you buy.
| Otterly AI | Peec AI | Scrunch AI | MentionRadar | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $29 a month (Lite) | About $95 a month (Starter) | $300 a month, $250 billed yearly | $49 a month, $24 billed yearly |
| Prompts on the entry plan | 15 | About 50 | 350 custom | 15 weekly |
| Perplexity on the entry plan | One of the models you pick | |||
| Other engines | ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Copilot; Gemini, AI Mode, Claude paid add-ons | Fixed number of models per plan | ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Meta AI | ChatGPT, AI Overviews; Gemini and Claude from Growth |
| Cited sources per answer | From Growth | |||
| Web mentions (Reddit, news, reviews, forums) | ||||
| Sentiment and alerts on mentions |
If all you need is a cheap Perplexity position check on 15 prompts, Otterly Lite costs less, and we say so. If you run hundreds of prompts with personas and audits, Scrunch or Profound are built for that scale. MentionRadar fits the team in between: a few dozen buying questions tracked in Perplexity and four other engines, plus the Reddit threads, reviews and articles that feed those answers, in one plan. The full detail is in our Otterly AI pricing comparison and the Scrunch AI pricing breakdown.
A citation report across all tracked prompts shows which pages Perplexity keeps reading before it answers.
In this example the brand ranks second because Perplexity leans on a Reddit community and two review sites where a competitor has more coverage. That is a concrete to do list: answer in the thread, ask customers for reviews, get included in the roundup.
MentionRadar already monitors those same sources as web mentions, so new Reddit posts and reviews about you arrive with sentiment and an alert, often before they show up as a Perplexity citation.
Enter your brand and one competitor at the top of this page and see a real AI answer with your position before you sign up.
Save the questions buyers type, such as "best X for Y" and "alternative to Z". Starter holds 15, Growth 40.
Rivals are matched by name in every answer, so you see who Perplexity puts above you each week.
Get an email when you drop out of an answer and schedule a monthly PDF for your team or client.
Founder or single brand
$49 a month
15 prompts weekly in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, 3 competitors and 5,000 web mentions a month.
Marketing or SEO team
$149 a month
40 prompts in five engines with cited sources, 30,000 mentions, 5 seats and Slack alerts.
Agency with clients
$499 a month
15 client workspaces, 150 prompts, white-label reports and read-only client access.
Large brand
$999 a month
300 prompts, unlimited seats, SSO (SAML), audit log and a 99.9 percent uptime SLA.
Yearly billing halves each price. Agencies tracking Perplexity for several clients can read how workspaces and client reports work on the page about reputation management software for agencies, and the AI search visibility page shows the score that sums up all five engines.
The best Perplexity rank tracker is the one that records position, recommendation and cited sources for the prompts your buyers actually type, at a price that fits your prompt count. MentionRadar suits teams that also need web mentions. Otterly AI is cheaper for prompt tracking alone, and Profound or Scrunch suit large programs with hundreds of prompts.
You save the buying questions you care about as prompts, run them in Perplexity on a schedule and record each answer. MentionRadar reads the numbered list in the answer, takes the place of the first item that names your brand, notes whether you were recommended and stores the cited URLs, so you compare the same prompt week after week.
Yes, but not the way you rank on a results page. Perplexity searches the web, reads a handful of pages and writes an answer that cites them. Brands that appear in those cited pages, such as review sites, Reddit threads and comparison articles, get named more often and earlier. Tracking shows which pages carry that weight for your category.
Perplexity runs a live web search for the question, picks pages that answer it directly and cites them as numbered sources. Recent, specific pages with clear answers and comparison tables tend to be chosen, and community sources like Reddit appear often for buying questions. The cited list changes from run to run, so look at several weeks.
Every tracked prompt runs once a week in every engine on your plan. Starter tracks 15 prompts in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. Growth tracks 40 prompts in five engines, Agency 150 and Enterprise 300. Weekly runs keep the trend readable without paying for daily noise.
It is accurate as a trend, not as a single reading. Perplexity writes each answer fresh, so order and wording vary between runs even when nothing changed on the web. MentionRadar queries Perplexity through its own search model, which can differ slightly from the consumer app. Judge your rank over four or more weekly runs.
Run a scan with your brand and one competitor. You see a real AI answer with your position, plus recent web mentions, before you create an account.