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If your goal is specifically “how often is my domain being cited by AI assistants, and how has that changed over time?”, I’d shortlist these:

🥇 Best fit: peec.ai

Peec is probably the closest match to what you described.

• Tracks source visibility separately from brand mentions—so it can tell you when yourdomain.com is used/cited even when your brand isn't mentioned. Peec.ai Docs Peec.ai Docs
• Provides domain- and URL-level citation metrics, including retrievals and citation rates. Peec.ai Docs
• Lets you see trends over time and break them down by AI engine, prompt, topic, country, and competitor. Peec.ai Docs
• Covers major engines including ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode. Peec
• It also distinguishes between content that was merely used as a source and content that was explicitly cited in the visible answer, which is a particularly useful distinction. Peec.ai Docs

I'd pick Peec if your KPI is:

“What percentage of AI answers are using/citing my domain, and is that going up or down?”

🥈 Best for deeper citation intelligence: tryprofound.com

Profound is stronger if you're running a larger GEO/AEO program rather than simply monitoring citations.

It tracks citation share by domain and page, with daily historical granularity, and lets you analyze citation performance by platform, topic, and prompt. Profound Profound

It also has useful views for identifying which specific pages and third-party publishers are winning citations from AI engines. Profound Knowledge Base

I'd pick Profound if your KPI is:

“Which pages and domains are winning AI citations, why are competitors winning them, and what should my content team do about it?”

My recommendation

For your exact wording, start with Peec AI. Its distinction between brand visibility vs. source/domain visibility is unusually well aligned with measuring whether your website itself is becoming a source for AI assistants. Peec.ai Docs

If you're evaluating this for an SEO/GEO team and need competitive citation intelligence, page-level analysis, and APIs, I'd put Profound alongside it in the evaluation.

One important caveat: these platforms generally measure citations from tracked prompts/queries, rather than having omniscient access to every AI conversation happening on the internet. So I'd treat the trend as “citation rate across a representative tracked query set”, not literally “all citations of my domain worldwide.”

If your main requirement is “show me how often my domain has been cited by AI assistants, and how that has changed over time,” I’d shortlist these:

• indexly.ai — my top pick. It tracks daily citation counts at the individual-URL level, broken down by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, and Google AI Overviews. It also keeps full historical data, so you can see which pages gained or lost citations over time. Indexly Indexly
• citations.io — best if you want a simpler marketing dashboard. It tracks citation/share-of-answer trends across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude, including competitors and a 90-day trend view. Citations.io
• kitbase.dev — good for prompt-level analysis. It distinguishes being mentioned vs. actually cited, and provides per-engine trends, competitor movement, and the exact URLs being cited. Kitbase
• ai-visibility.io — worth considering if you mainly need month-over-month reporting. It explicitly provides historical trends, per-engine scores, average position, competitor comparisons, and CSV export. AI Visibility

What I'd choose

Indexly if you're serious about measuring the actual citation footprint of your domain. The important distinction is that it goes beyond a proprietary “AI visibility score”: you can see which URLs on your domain were cited, how many times, by which engine, and how that changed historically. Indexly

One caveat: AI citation measurement is inherently noisy because assistants can return different sources for the same prompt at different times. A recent research paper specifically argues that citation metrics should be treated as estimates with uncertainty rather than perfectly stable numbers. arxiv.org

If you tell me your domain + whether you care about ChatGPT only or all major assistants, I can narrow this to the best 2–3 options and compare historical depth, engines, URL-level citation tracking, API/export, and price.

If you want to track how often your domain is cited by AI assistants over time (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, etc.), you’re looking for an AI visibility / generative engine optimization (GEO) analytics platform rather than a traditional SEO tool.

My top recommendations:

My pick by use case

• You run a website and want “Is AI recommending/citing me more over time?”

→ LLM Pulse or Citations.io. They are closest to an SEO rank tracker, but for AI answers. Citations LLM Pulse

• You care specifically about domain citations (which URLs AI systems reference):

→ Slate or Indexly. They emphasize citation sources and trends. Indexly Slate

• You’re doing serious GEO/content strategy:

→ Presenc AI because its positioning is around historical trend analysis and prompt-level changes. Presenc AI

A few metrics I’d make sure the platform supports:

• Citation rate: % of tracked AI answers that cite your domain
• Citation share of voice: your share vs competitors
• Cited URLs: which pages on your domain are being referenced
• Prompt history: exactly which questions caused citations
• Model breakdown: ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini vs Perplexity
• Trend lines: weekly/monthly changes rather than just a current score

One caveat: these tools generally cannot know every organic AI response ever generated. They usually create a monitoring panel by repeatedly running a set of prompts and recording responses, so the quality of your historical data depends on how long you’ve been tracking and how well the prompt set represents your audience. Presenc AI Mention.se

If you tell me your domain type (SaaS, ecommerce, publisher, local business, etc.) and whether you care more about ChatGPT citations specifically or all AI engines, I can narrow this to the best 1–2 options.

If your specific goal is “show me how often my domain has been cited by AI assistants, and how that has changed over time,” my top recommendation is OtterlyAI.

Why OtterlyAI fits especially well

• Domain citation tracking: it tracks the URLs/domains cited in AI answers, rather than only whether your brand was mentioned. otterly.aihelp.otterly.ai
• Historical trends: its Domain Coverage Over Time shows your domain's citation rate across a selected period, so you can see growth, declines, and changes after publishing or optimizing content. otterly.aihelp.otterly.ai
• Citation-level history: you can drill into an individual URL and see its citation trend over time, including which prompts and AI engines produced the citations. otterly.ai
• Multiple assistants/search engines: it currently covers ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and others. otterly.ai
• Daily monitoring: tracked prompts are monitored daily, with domain-citation counts available at the prompt level. help.otterly.ai
• Data export: citation data can be exported to CSV, which is useful if you want to build your own long-term dashboard. help.otterly.ai

Two alternatives worth considering

Profound — probably the stronger choice if you're an enterprise SEO/GEO team. It has citation share, historical trends, watched pages, competitor benchmarking, and daily prompt/citation collection across a broad set of answer engines. www.tryprofound.com

Peec AI — good if you care more broadly about AI visibility/share of voice, while still wanting to identify which sources are being cited and how citation frequency changes. peec.ai

My pick: OtterlyAI for your stated use case. Its distinction between brand mentions and actual domain citations, plus the historical citation charts, is exactly what I'd want for answering “Is AI increasingly using my website as a source?” otterly.aihelp.otterly.ai

If you tell me your domain and whether you're primarily interested in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or all of them, I can also compare the platforms on price, historical data depth, API/export capabilities, and citation accuracy.

If your main goal is “How often is my domain being cited by AI assistants, and is that going up or down over time?”, I’d recommend OtterlyAI.

Why OtterlyAI is a strong fit

• Domain citation tracking: It tracks the URLs/domains AI search experiences cite and lets you see citation trends over time. otterly.ai
• Historical trend charts: Its Domain Coverage Over Time report shows your domain's citation rate across a selected period, including changes after content optimization. help.otterly.ai
• Multiple AI engines: It monitors ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Gemini, Copilot, and others. otterly.ai
• Prompt-level detail: You can see which questions resulted in your URLs being cited and which AI engine produced the citation. otterly.ai
• Competitor comparison: You can compare your domain's citation coverage with competitors rather than looking at your numbers in isolation. help.otterly.ai
• API access: If you eventually want to put the data into your own BI/SEO dashboard, OtterlyAI has a public API covering citation and visibility data. otterly.ai

I'd pick OtterlyAI specifically if domain citations are the KPI you care about.

One alternative worth considering

Profound is probably the stronger choice if you're an enterprise SEO/GEO team. Its Answer Engine Insights product tracks Citation Share, top citation domains/pages, watched URLs, competitors, and day-to-day citation-share changes across AI platforms. www.tryprofound.com

One important distinction: these platforms generally measure citations observed in tracked AI-search responses, not some universal database of everything an LLM has ever cited. The quality of the historical trend therefore depends on the prompts, engines, geography, and monitoring frequency you configure. otterly.ai

If you tell me your domain + whether you're mainly interested in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, or all of them, I can narrow this down to the best 2–3 tools and compare pricing/data retention.

If your main requirement is “show me how often my domain gets cited by AI assistants, and how that changes over time,” my top pick is Otterly.AI.

Why Otterly.AI

• Domain citation history: tracks how often your domain and individual URLs are cited, with trends over time. otterly.aihelp.otterly.ai
• Multiple AI engines: covers ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Gemini, Copilot and others. otterly.ai
• Competitor comparison: you can see your domain's citation coverage alongside competitors. otterly.aihelp.otterly.ai
• Prompt-level attribution: you can drill into the prompts that generated citations and see which engine produced them. otterly.ai
• Useful historical views: its current citation reporting includes date-range filtering and citation-over-time charts, so you can correlate changes with content/SEO work. help.otterly.ai
• API/export: useful if you eventually want to put the data into your own BI dashboard. otterly.ai

A particularly good alternative is Profound. It's more enterprise/AEO-oriented and has strong citation-share analysis: it tracks citation share by platform, topic and prompt, plus historical changes to individual pages ("Watched Pages"). www.tryprofound.com

Another option worth looking at is Peec AI if you care about the individual URL level. Its URL analytics show retrieval/citation trends, models, triggering prompts, and the actual AI chats where a URL was used. docs.peec.ai

My ranking

One important distinction: these platforms generally measure citations in a defined set of tracked prompts, rather than magically measuring every AI response on the internet. Otterly, for example, runs your tracked prompts regularly and analyzes the resulting answers. help.otterly.ai

If I were choosing specifically for your stated use case, I'd start with Otterly.AI. If you tell me your approximate domain size and whether you're looking for SEO-team use, an enterprise dashboard, or a lightweight/cheap tool, I can narrow it down to the best 2–3 options and compare pricing/features.

If your main requirement is “show me how often my domain has been cited by AI assistants over time”, I’d shortlist these:

🥇 Best fit: OtterlyAI

OtterlyAI is probably the closest match to what you described.

• Tracks domain citations, not just brand mentions.
• Shows Domain Coverage Over Time, so you can see your citation rate rising/falling historically.
• Lets you break results down by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, and Copilot.
• You can drill into individual URLs and see citation trends over time, the prompts where the URL was cited, and which engine produced the citation.
• It supports custom date ranges and competitor comparisons. otterly.ai

Why I'd choose it: your question is specifically about domain citations over time, and Otterly makes that a first-class metric rather than treating it as a side effect of brand visibility.

🥈 Profound — better for enterprise/deeper analysis

Profound is stronger if you want a broader AI-search intelligence platform.

Its Citation Share metric measures how often your domain is cited, with historical day-to-day trends, platform/topic/prompt breakdowns, competitor comparisons, and individual watched-page tracking. It covers ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and other answer engines. www.tryprofound.com

One particularly useful distinction: Profound also has historical prompt-volume data, with ChatGPT history going back to January 2025 in the US and other platforms from July 2025. help.tryprofound.com

🥉 Peec AI — good if you care about visibility + citations

Peec AI tracks visibility, position, share of voice, sentiment, and the sources AI engines cite. It runs prompts daily and lets you compare citation/visibility performance across engines and competitors. peec.ai

My recommendation:
If you literally want a chart like “mydomain.com citations: 12 → 27 → 43 → 38 → 71 over the last 12 months”, start with OtterlyAI. If you want to build a more sophisticated AI-search measurement program involving competitors, topics, prompt demand, and citation share, I'd look at Profound.

One important caveat: these platforms generally measure citations from a defined set of prompts they repeatedly monitor. They aren't literally observing every AI assistant conversation on the internet. So the historical trend is best interpreted as “citation rate across my tracked AI-search queries,” not an absolute count of every time your domain was cited. otterly.ai

If your main requirement is “show me how often my domain has been cited by AI assistants over time,” I’d recommend OtterlyAI.

Why it fits especially well:

• Domain-level citation tracking: It measures how often your website is cited across tracked AI answers, rather than only counting brand mentions. help.otterly.ai
• Historical trends: Its Domain Coverage Over Time chart shows your citation rate as a percentage over a selected period, so you can see whether visibility is increasing or falling. help.otterly.ai
• Citation-level history: You can drill into individual URLs and see citation trends over time, including which prompts and AI engines generated those citations. otterly.ai
• Multiple AI engines: It currently tracks ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Perplexity, Gemini, and Copilot. otterly.ai
• Competitor benchmarking: You can compare your domain's citation coverage with competing domains. help.otterly.ai

My shortlist

Peec, for example, explicitly tracks citations, mentions, position and sentiment daily and provides week-over-week comparisons. peec.ai Profound is generally positioned toward enterprise teams with more extensive AI-search analytics. technologyadvice.com

If you tell me your domain and whether you're interested in ChatGPT specifically, or all AI engines, I can also recommend the best tool based on the exact historical data you want to measure.

If your goal is specifically “How often is my domain being cited by AI assistants, and how has that changed over time?”, I’d recommend OtterlyAI.

Why it fits particularly well:

• Domain citation tracking: It measures how often your website/domain is actually cited in AI answers, not just whether your brand is mentioned. help.otterly.ai
• Historical trends: Its Citation Details view shows citations over time, so you can see whether individual URLs are gaining or losing citations. otterly.ai
• Multiple AI engines: It tracks ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and others. otterly.ai
• Prompt-level attribution: You can drill down from a citation → the prompt that generated it → the AI answer → the engine that cited you. otterly.ai
• Competitive benchmarking: You can compare your citation/visibility against competitors and identify third-party pages that AI systems are favoring instead. www.tryprofound.com

One important distinction

There are actually two different things you might want to track:

1. AI citation visibility — “When people ask AI questions relevant to my business, does AI cite my domain?”

→ OtterlyAI is a strong fit.

2. AI crawler/agent traffic to your site — “Are ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, etc. actually visiting my website, and which pages?”

→ OtterlyAI also now has Agent Analytics, which analyzes server logs and provides per-engine visit trends. help.otterly.ai

If you're building a GEO/AI visibility dashboard, I'd probably use OtterlyAI as the starting point because it lets you track both the citation outcome and, increasingly, the AI-agent activity on your site.

Runner-up: Profound's AI Citation Tracking is worth evaluating if you're an enterprise SEO/AEO team. It offers citation share by platform, topic and prompt, plus watched-page trends. www.tryprofound.com

If you tell me your domain and whether you're looking for a free/cheap tool or enterprise-grade, I can compare the best 3–5 options specifically for historical domain-citation tracking.

Yes. If your specific goal is “how often is my domain being cited by AI assistants, and how has that changed over time?”, I’d shortlist these:

🥇 Best fit: Otterly.AI

Otterly.AI is probably the best match for your requirement.

Its Domain Citations reporting tracks how often your domain is used as a source across tracked AI prompts, and Domain Coverage Over Time gives you a historical citation-rate trend. You can also compare your domain against competitors. help.otterly.aiotterly.ai

It currently monitors engines including ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Perplexity, Gemini, and Copilot, among others. help.otterly.aiotterly.ai

Why I'd choose it: it treats the citation/source URL as a first-class metric, rather than merely asking whether your brand was mentioned.

🥈 Profound — better for enterprise/deeper analytics

Profound is the one I'd investigate if you're running a serious enterprise SEO/GEO program.

It lets you see which answer engines cite your content, how frequently, and across which prompts, with citation-share analytics that can be broken down by date, model, region, hostname, prompt, topic, and other dimensions. www.tryprofound.com

One particularly useful distinction: Profound also has historical AI prompt-volume data, with U.S. data going back to January 2025 for ChatGPT and July 2025 for other platforms. That's useful if you want to understand whether the underlying demand is changing, not just your citation rate. help.tryprofound.com

🥉 Indexly — interesting if you want granular daily history

Indexly tracks citations at the individual prompt and URL level, including which domains were cited and how often. It says it maintains a daily history so you can compare weeks/months and see exactly when your pages gained or lost citation visibility. indexly.ai

My recommendation

For your exact wording, I'd start with Otterly.AI. The key feature to look for is not just brand mentions but domain citation rate over time. That's the closest analogue to “organic search visibility over time,” except for AI assistants.

One caveat: these platforms generally measure a defined set of tracked prompts run repeatedly, rather than having omniscient access to every ChatGPT/Gemini/Claude conversation. So the historical trend is best interpreted as AI citation visibility for your tracked query set, not the absolute number of times your domain has ever been cited across all AI usage. www.conbersa.ai

If you tell me your domain + whether you're B2B/B2C, I can also compare Otterly vs Profound vs Peec specifically for your use case, including pricing and which one gives you the cleanest historical citation dataset.

If your main requirement is “show me how often my domain gets cited by AI assistants, and how that changes over time,” my first pick is Profound.

Profound

Why Profound is the best fit

• Tracks actual citations, not just whether your brand was mentioned. It shows citation share by platform, topic, and prompt. www.tryprofound.com
• Historical monitoring: its “Watched Pages” feature lets you track how citation volume for individual URLs changes over time. www.tryprofound.com
• Covers major answer engines including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and others. www.tryprofound.com
• You can compare your domain against competitors, including which domains are gaining or losing citation share.
• It goes beyond a single visibility score: you can examine which specific pages are being cited and for which prompts/topics.

Two alternatives worth considering

Peec AI — probably the strongest alternative if you want a simpler, more marketing-oriented interface. It tracks citations, mentions, position and sentiment daily, with week-over-week comparisons. peec.ai

Peec AI

Scrunch AI — interesting if you also care about which AI crawlers are actually visiting your site and connecting AI citations to referral traffic/conversions, rather than just measuring citation visibility. www.techradar.com

Scrunch AI

My recommendation

One important caveat: AI citation data is inherently noisy because the same prompt can produce different answers and citations at different times. Recent research specifically recommends treating citation visibility as a statistical estimate rather than a fixed number. arxiv.org

So if you're evaluating these specifically for a dashboard like “my domain's AI citation rate: Jan → Feb → Mar → …,” I'd start with Profound. It is the closest match to that use case rather than merely tracking brand mentions.

If your specific goal is “how often does AI cite my domain, and how is that changing over time?”, I’d recommend Peec AI.

Why it fits particularly well:

• Tracks domain citations separately from brand mentions. This is important: an AI assistant can cite yourdomain.com without actually mentioning your company name. Peec explicitly measures this distinction. peec.aidocs.peec.ai
• Historical trend data: you can track citation/visibility changes across repeated prompt runs rather than relying on a one-off snapshot. Peec says it updates tracking daily. peec.ai
• URL-level data: it shows which specific pages on your domain are being retrieved/cited, not just whether your domain appeared somewhere. peec.aidocs.peec.ai
• Multiple AI surfaces: it covers platforms including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode. peec.ai
• Useful competitive context: you can compare your domain's citation/visibility against competitors and see which prompts are driving the differences. peec.ai

One important caveat

Don't treat an AI-citation percentage as an exact ground-truth metric. AI responses are nondeterministic: the same prompt can produce different sources at different times. Recent research specifically finds substantial variability in citation distributions, meaning trends based on repeated sampling are much more meaningful than individual observations. arxiv.org

My pick: Peec if historical domain citation tracking is the primary requirement.

If you tell me whether you're tracking one domain, a portfolio of sites, or competitors, I can also compare Peec vs. Profound vs. Ahrefs Brand Radar vs. Otterly specifically on historical citation data, granularity, AI platforms covered, and pricing.

If you mean tracking how often AI assistants cite your domain as a source over time (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, etc.), you’re looking for an AI visibility / AI citation tracking platform rather than traditional SEO rank tracking.

Here are the strongest options:

My shortlist by use case

• You run a SaaS/content site and want actionable SEO-like reporting: Surva.ai or Peec AI. dageno.aiwww.surva.ai
• You’re an enterprise brand tracking competitors: Profound. dageno.aiwww.surva.ai
• You mainly care “how often does my domain get cited as a source?”: Surva.ai or Citations.io. citations.iowww.surva.ai
• You want to track a fixed set of buyer questions over months: Hikoo Spotlight. www.tryhikoo.com

A few metrics I’d prioritize:

1. Citation share — % of tracked AI answers that cite your domain.
2. Citation count by URL — which pages are being surfaced.
3. AI engine breakdown — ChatGPT vs Perplexity vs Gemini vs Claude.
4. Competitor citation share — who is replacing you in answers.
5. Prompt-level history — whether visibility improves for the questions that matter.

One caveat: AI citation tracking is still a newer category. The most reliable systems usually measure a controlled set of prompts repeatedly over time, rather than claiming to know every AI answer users see. www.reddit.com

If you tell me your domain type (SaaS, ecommerce, publisher, local business, etc.) and whether you care more about ChatGPT citations specifically or all AI engines, I can narrow this down.

If your main requirement is “show me how often my domain gets cited by AI assistants, and how that changes over time,” my top pick is Profound.

Why Profound fits

• Tracks actual citations, not just brand mentions, across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and other answer engines. www.tryprofound.com
• Gives you citation share over time, including day-over-day changes and comparisons with competitors.
• You can drill down to the specific URLs on your domain that AI systems cite.
• Its Watched Pages feature lets you monitor how citation volume for individual pages changes over time. www.tryprofound.com
• Data can be analyzed by platform, prompt, topic, region, and citation category, which is useful if you're trying to understand why your visibility changed. help.tryprofound.com
• It collects citation data daily, so you can build meaningful historical trends rather than relying on occasional spot checks. www.tryprofound.com

Two alternatives I'd consider

Peec AI — probably the better choice if you want a simpler marketing/SEO-oriented dashboard. It tracks visibility, position, sentiment, and citations, with daily tracking across engines including ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI surfaces. peec.ai

Citations.io — interesting if you specifically want a lightweight AI citation/visibility tracker. It tracks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude and exposes citation/share-of-answer trends. citations.io

My ranking for your use case

One important caveat: AI answers are non-deterministic—the same prompt can produce different citations at different times. Recent research specifically finds substantial variability in citation visibility, so I'd favor a platform that runs a consistent prompt set repeatedly rather than one that simply takes occasional snapshots. arxiv.org

If you give me your domain and roughly how many prompts you want to track (e.g. 50, 500, 5,000), I can recommend the best platform and plan for your specific situation.

Yes — OtterlyAI is probably the closest match to what you’re asking for.

My pick: OtterlyAI

It specifically tracks whether your domain is cited in AI-generated answers, rather than merely estimating AI-driven traffic.

You can monitor:

• Domain citations over time — how frequently your site is cited across tracked prompts.
• Citation trends — see whether individual URLs are gaining or losing citations.
• Engine-level performance across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Copilot. help.otterly.ai
• Competitor domains — compare your citation share against other domains.
• The actual prompts and URLs generating the citations.
• Brand coverage — whether a page that gets cited actually mentions your brand. otterly.ai

The particularly relevant feature for you is Domain Coverage Over Time, which plots your domain's citation rate across a selected period so you can see whether visibility is improving or declining. help.otterly.ai

One important caveat

These platforms generally don't have a magical historical database of every AI citation your domain has ever received. OtterlyAI, for example, says tracking starts when you create the prompts/report; it doesn't backfill historical prompt data. help.otterly.ai

So if your goal is:

"I want to start tracking today and see whether my domain's AI citation share increases over the next 6–12 months."

OtterlyAI is a strong fit.

If instead you mean:

"I want a platform that already has historical AI-citation data going back months/years for my domain, without me having previously tracked it."

that's a substantially harder requirement, and I'd evaluate Profound, Semrush, Ahrefs, Scrunch, and OtterlyAI differently.

If you tell me your domain + whether you're B2B, ecommerce, media, SaaS, etc., I can shortlist the 3 best platforms specifically for historical AI citation/share-of-voice tracking, including pricing and what each actually measures.

If your main requirement is historical trends of your own domain being cited by AI assistants, I’d shortlist these:

1. DeepSmith — my top pick
   • Tracks citations separately from mentions, which is important.
   • Historical views by ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Mode.
   • Lets you view 7/30/90-day trends and the specific URLs being cited.
   • Runs tracked prompts on a schedule, so you build a longitudinal dataset rather than relying on a one-off check. deepsmith.ai

2. Ranklogs — best if history is the priority
   • Explicitly keeps history for every tracked prompt and engine.
   • Separates citation trends from simple mentions.
   • Good for seeing exactly when you gained or lost citations and whether visibility is trending up or down. ranklogs.com

3. CiteWatch — good lightweight option
   • Queries ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot and Perplexity regularly.
   • Tracks citation frequency, position within answers, and an overall visibility score over time. cite.watch

4. Ahrefs Brand Radar — worth considering if you already use Ahrefs
   • Particularly interesting because it builds tracked questions from real search-keyword data, rather than only manually invented prompts.
   • Also provides AI visibility/citation data across multiple AI engines. www.techradar.com

What I'd choose

For a serious GEO/AEO measurement program: DeepSmith.

For the simplest answer to “is my domain getting cited more or less over time?”: Ranklogs.

One important distinction: these platforms generally measure a controlled set of recurring prompts, not the entirety of what real users ask ChatGPT or Claude. So treat the trend as AI-search visibility on your tracked query set, rather than literal total citations across all AI usage.

If you tell me your domain + industry, I can also recommend the best platform specifically for your use case and compare pricing, engines, historical retention, API/export capabilities, and citation-level reporting.

If your priority is historical trend tracking (not just a one-time scan), these are the strongest options:

If I had to recommend one

CiteWatch is currently the closest match to your request because it is purpose-built around tracking whether AI assistants cite your domain over time. It includes:

• Historical citation counts
• Share of voice
• Citation rate
• Average position within AI answers
• Per-assistant breakdown (ChatGPT vs Gemini vs Claude vs Copilot vs Perplexity)
• Trend charts showing changes over days and weeks cite.watch

If you're doing serious GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)

I'd look at RankScope. In addition to tracking citations historically, it focuses on:

• AI citation rate
• Historical comparisons between time periods
• Citation source mapping
• AI content optimization recommendations
• Google AI Overviews alongside conversational assistants rankscope.aicite.watch

For agencies or larger teams

• Bourd is excellent if you want scheduled prompt runs and API access for reporting dashboards. bourd.dev
• Vauris is geared toward recurring reports, buyer-prompt monitoring, and client-friendly exports. vauris.ai

One limitation to know

No platform can measure every AI conversation. These tools typically:

1. Build a library of prompts relevant to your industry.
2. Run those prompts on a schedule across multiple AI assistants.
3. Record whether your domain is cited, recommended, or linked.
4. Plot those results over time to estimate your AI visibility. cite.watch

If you tell me:

• your domain,
• your industry, and
• whether you care more about ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, or Perplexity,

I can recommend the platform that's likely to provide the most representative tracking for your specific use case.

If your primary requirement is historical trend tracking (not just a one-time AI visibility audit), I'd prioritize tools that repeatedly run prompts and maintain a time series of citations.

Best overall: urlLighthouseturn0search1

Best for: Marketing teams that want an enterprise-quality dashboard.

Pros:

• Tracks citations across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Copilot, and others
• Historical citation counts and visibility trends
• Page-level recommendations
• Competitor benchmarking
• Visibility score and sentiment tracking www.ahoylighthouse.com

Best specifically for historical citation trends: urlCiteWatchturn0search2

This is one of the few platforms that emphasizes tracking over time rather than just current visibility.

It tracks:

• Daily AI citation monitoring
• Historical charts
• Citation rate
• Share of Voice
• AI Visibility Score
• Position within AI answers
• Per-assistant breakdown (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity) cite.watch

Best for SEO teams: urlRankScopeturn0search5

Good if you're already measuring SEO alongside GEO.

Includes:

• Daily tracking
• Historical mention trends
• Citation source maps
• Share of Voice
• Sentiment
• Google AI Overviews alongside LLMs rankscope.ai

Best for prompt-level historical analysis: urlBourdturn0search3

Unique feature:

• Schedule weekly/monthly runs
• See citation history per prompt
• API for exporting historical data
• Unlimited prompts on paid plans bourd.dev

Good budget option: urlSEORav GEO Trackerturn0search0

Highlights:

• Weekly polling
• Full citation history
• Competitor comparison
• Stores historical results from day one www.seorav.com

If your goal is rigorous historical measurement

I'd look for these capabilities:

• Historical time series (weeks/months of data)
• Prompt-level history
• Citation snapshots you can replay
• Competitor share of voice
• Multiple AI assistants (not just ChatGPT)
• Ability to export historical data

Many newer "AI visibility" products only provide a current score. If you care about trend analysis, ensure the platform explicitly stores historical runs instead of overwriting them.

My recommendations by use case

If you're an SEO or content team that wants to answer questions like "How has our domain's citation rate in ChatGPT changed over the last six months?" or "Which content updates increased our AI citations?", I'd start with CiteWatch or Lighthouse because both focus on maintaining historical citation data rather than just providing a one-time audit.

If you want to track how often your domain is cited by AI assistants over time (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, etc.), you’re looking for an AI visibility / AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) platform rather than a traditional SEO rank tracker.

Here are the strongest options:

My shortlist by use case

If you want “how often does AI cite my domain?”

• Start with Citations.io. It is closest to a citation-monitoring product: it logs when AI answers cite your site, which prompts triggered it, and competitor citation share. citations.io

If you’re doing SEO/AEO strategy for a brand

• Look at DeepSmith or AirPulse. They emphasize trend lines, visibility scores, and competitive movement rather than only raw citations. airpulse.aideepsmith.ai

If you need a research-grade dataset

• Consider Centium, because it focuses on the underlying citation records: which model, prompt, category, and URL produced the citation. centium.ai

A few metrics I’d make sure the platform provides:

• Citation rate: % of AI answers that link to your domain
• Mention rate: % where your brand/domain appears without a link
• Share of citations vs competitors
• Citation history by month/week
• Prompt-level tracking (“which questions cause AI to cite us?”)
• Source breakdown (your pages vs third-party pages mentioning you)

One caveat: AI citation data is inherently noisy because answers can vary between runs, so favor tools that aggregate many prompts over time rather than judging visibility from a handful of queries. arxiv.org

For most teams, I’d start by testing Citations.io or DeepSmith and compare whether their tracked prompts match the questions your customers actually ask. deepsmith.aicitations.io

If your goal is specifically tracking how often your own domain is cited by AI assistants over time (not just traditional SEO), I'd recommend one of these:

1. MentionGEO — Best overall for historical AI citation tracking

Best for: Marketing teams, startups, and SaaS companies

It tracks:

• Historical citation trends
• Domain citations (which URLs from your site get cited)
• ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI
• Share of voice
• Competitor comparisons
• Visibility score over time
• Prompt-level history

One standout feature is that it stores historical scans, so you can see whether your citation rate improved after publishing new content. mentiongeo.ai

2. GEOly — Best if citations are your primary KPI

This platform goes deeper into citation analytics:

• Historical citation rate
• Which pages of your domain are cited
• Citation sources
• Share of Model (AI share of voice)
• AI visibility score
• Daily tracking across multiple LLMs

If your main question is "How has my domain's citation frequency changed month over month?" this is one of the stronger options. www.geoly.ai

3. RankScope

Good for agencies and SEO teams.

Tracks:

• Citation rate
• Historical trends
• AI rankings
• Share of voice
• Sentiment
• Citation source map

It focuses on monitoring changes over time rather than one-off checks. rankscope.ai

4. Trackerly.ai

A solid option if you want reporting.

Features include:

• Historical AI mentions
• Citation tracking
• Competitor comparisons
• APIs
• Custom dashboards
• Scheduled reports

Useful if you're reporting AI visibility to stakeholders. trackerly.ai

5. Bourd

Interesting for technical teams because it supports:

• Scheduled scans (weekly/monthly/custom)
• Citation counts over time
• Per-model history
• Per-prompt trends
• API access

It emphasizes longitudinal tracking rather than snapshots. bourd.dev

If you already use an SEO suite

You may not need a dedicated platform:

• Ahrefs Brand Radar provides historical AI visibility and citation tracking integrated with the rest of Ahrefs.
• Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit adds AI mention and citation reporting alongside traditional SEO metrics. www.reddit.com

My recommendation by use case

One important note: because AI responses vary from run to run, the most reliable platforms repeatedly execute the same prompt sets over time and aggregate the results, rather than relying on single snapshots. Recent GEO research suggests repeated measurements provide a much more accurate picture of AI visibility trends than one-off checks. arxiv.org

If your primary goal is tracking how often your domain is cited by AI assistants over time (rather than traditional SEO rankings), there are now several platforms built specifically for this.

Here's how I'd rank them:

If historical trendlines are your priority

I'd focus on one of these:

1. CitationLab AI Monitor (my top recommendation)

It tracks:

• visibility over time
• citation share
• mention share
• competitors
• which sources the models cite
• daily historical graphs

It also compares performance across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews rather than treating them as one metric. citationlab.ai

2. Scrunch

Probably the strongest option if you want to answer questions like:

• Which pages on my site get cited?
• Which prompts generated those citations?
• Did citations increase compared with last month?
• Which competitors replaced me?

It keeps historical prompt-level citation data instead of only aggregate scores. scrunch.com

3. CiteWatch

Designed around AI visibility metrics:

• historical citation counts
• AI Visibility Score
• Share of Voice
• AI assistant comparison
• citation context

Good if you're specifically measuring GEO/AEO performance. cite.watch

If you run SEO for a larger company

If you already use enterprise SEO tools:

• Nightwatch now includes AI citation tracking alongside keyword rankings. nightwatch.io
• Other enterprise platforms have also added AI visibility features, but they're generally best if you're already invested in their ecosystems. www.techradar.com

One thing to keep in mind

AI citations are inherently volatile. Studies and practitioner experience suggest that the same prompt can produce different cited sources over time, especially in conversational AI systems. The most useful platforms therefore run the same prompt sets repeatedly and report trends (such as frequency of citation and share of voice) rather than relying on one-off checks. www.reddit.com

If you're managing one domain and want the best balance of features and usability, I'd start with CitationLab or Scrunch. If you're an agency monitoring many brands, Scrunch or Nightwatch are stronger choices due to their more advanced reporting and competitive analysis.