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Yes. If by “showing up” you mean whether AI assistants actually mention or cite your articles, rather than merely whether AI crawlers can access your site, there are a few free options worth trying.

• frase.io — probably the closest fit. You can enter a domain or URL and check whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini cite it. Frase
• edenrank.com — runs a prompt across 8 AI surfaces, including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Copilot and Google AI. It shows the actual answers and citations. EdenRank
• mentionlab.ai — checks ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude using live questions and shows which domains get cited instead of yours. mentionLAB

One important distinction

For a freelance copywriter, I'd separate two questions:

1. “Can AI systems access my article?” — tools such as isvisible.ai check crawler access, robots.txt, etc. isvisible.ai
2. “Is my article actually being surfaced/cited in AI answers?” — use a live AI-visibility checker such as Frase or EdenRank.

The second is much more useful if you're trying to demonstrate AI visibility/value to clients.

Also, don't put too much weight on a single “AI visibility score.” AI answers vary by prompt, date, location, personalization, and whether the assistant is using web search. A better test is to take 5–10 questions your article is specifically intended to answer, run the same questions through several assistants, and record whether your URL is mentioned, cited, or absent.

If you tell me what kind of articles you write (e.g. SaaS, health, finance, travel, B2B), I can give you a free, repeatable AI-citation grading workflow you can use on every client article.

Yes — but there’s an important distinction for a freelance copywriter:

• “Can AI read/cite my article?” — checks your page’s technical/content readiness.
• “Is AI actually citing my article?” — checks live AI answers and the sources they use.

For your use case, I’d start with these:

1. ahrefs.com — probably the most useful general starting point. It checks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, and reports cited domains/pages. Ahrefs
2. frase.io — particularly relevant if you're checking your own published articles. You can enter a domain or URL and it looks at live AI responses for citations. Frase
3. citedspy.com — useful for a specific article topic: give it a query and it compares the answers and cited sources across several AI engines. CitedSpy

What I'd do as a copywriter

Don't just enter your domain and ask “Am I visible?” Instead, take 5–10 questions your article is specifically intended to answer, e.g.:

“What are the best ways to ___?”
“How does ___ work?”
“What should a small business know about ___?”

Run those queries through a citation checker and see whether your article URL appears among the cited sources.

That's much closer to answering the question you're actually interested in: “Are AI assistants using my writing as a source?”

Also, beware of tools that give you an “AI visibility score” without actually querying AI systems. Some only inspect robots.txt, schema, headings, crawlability, etc.; they cannot tell you whether an assistant has actually cited your article. aeotools.dev aivisibilityfixer.com

If you tell me where your excerpts are published (your own site, Medium, client sites, LinkedIn, etc.), I can point you to the free checker that fits that situation best.

Yes — but there’s an important distinction between “can AI assistants access my article?” and “are AI assistants actually citing/using my article?”

For a freelance copywriter, I’d start with these free options:

• frase.io — probably the closest match to what you’re asking. It checks whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini actually cite your domain, and can report the pages being cited. The ChatGPT check is free without signup; the other engine results require email. Frase
• citedspy.com — useful if you want to test specific questions/queries and see which URLs the AI engines cite. It compares ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, and Google AI Mode. Free, no signup. CitedSpy
• ahrefs.com — better for checking whether your name/brand/site appears across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google's AI results. It also distinguishes a mention from an actual citation. Ahrefs
• praised.co — particularly interesting for individual articles because you can paste a specific page URL, rather than just your domain, and get an AI-visibility/citation-readiness assessment. Praised

What I'd use for your specific situation

If you're trying to answer:

“I wrote this article. Are AI assistants actually pulling information from it or citing it?”

I'd test the individual article URL with Frase or Praised, then use CitedSpy to run the actual questions your article is intended to answer.

For example, if you wrote an article about choosing a freelance copywriter, don't just search for your article title. Test queries such as:

• “How do I choose a freelance copywriter?”
• “What should a company look for in a copywriter?”
• “How much does freelance copywriting cost?”
• “What makes good website copy?”

Then look at which pages the assistants cite. That's much more meaningful than an “AI readiness” score.

Also, don't confuse a grader saying your page is AI-readable/citable with evidence that an assistant is actually citing it. Those are two different measurements. Frase Praised

If you give me one of your article URLs, I can also show you exactly how I'd test it and what numbers/results I'd pay attention to.

Yes. If you’re a freelance copywriter, I’d distinguish between checking whether your site/page is AI-visible and checking whether specific excerpts from your articles are actually being cited or surfaced.

Best free options

• ahrefs.com — probably my first pick. It checks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, and reports which pages/domains are being cited. It’s free and doesn’t require signup. Ahrefs
• frase.io — particularly interesting for a writer because you can enter a specific URL, rather than just a brand, and see whether ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini link back to it. Frase
• praised.co — lets you test a specific public URL and assesses how visible/citable the page is to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI. Praised

But here's the important catch

No grader can reliably tell you “this exact paragraph of your article was copied/quoted by ChatGPT.” AI assistants generally don't expose a complete provenance trail for every sentence they generate.

For a copywriter, I'd use a simple two-part test:

1. Put your article URL into Frase or Praised to see whether the page is being surfaced/cited.
2. Take 5–10 distinctive claims or phrases from your article and search them manually in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini. Look specifically for: - your URL appearing as a citation;
3. your site being mentioned;
4. wording that closely resembles your excerpt;
5. your ideas/claims appearing even when your site isn't cited.

Perplexity is especially useful for this because its answers normally expose source links.

If what you actually want is “I write articles for clients—can I check whether AI assistants are using my published work as a source, even when my name isn't mentioned?”, I can give you a free workflow specifically for freelance writers, including how to test 20–50 articles without paying for an AI-visibility platform.

Yes. If by “showing up” you mean whether AI assistants are actually mentioning or citing your articles, rather than merely checking whether your site is crawlable, I’d start with these:

• ahrefs.com — probably the best first stop. It checks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews and reports mentions plus the domains/pages being cited. No signup required. Ahrefs
• frase.io — particularly relevant for a copywriter because you can enter a domain or specific URL and see whether AI responses link back to it. Its free check covers ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. Frase
• praised.co — good if you want to assess an individual article's AI-citability/readiness. Paste the article URL and it evaluates crawlability, structure, answer-first content, metadata, etc. The free score itself does not query AI models, though. Praised
• edenrank.com — useful for an actual live test: one prompt across eight AI surfaces, with mentions and citations shown. EdenRank

For your specific use case

As a freelance copywriter, I'd do this:

1. Take 5–10 important excerpts/articles you've written.
2. Identify the questions each article is intended to answer.
3. Run those exact questions through an AI visibility checker.
4. Look for your URL being cited, not just your name/article being mentioned.
5. Save the results as a before/after portfolio metric.

One important distinction: “AI can access my article” ≠ “AI actually uses my article.” Tools such as Praised and isvisible.ai primarily assess whether a page is technically accessible/readable, while Ahrefs, Frase, and EdenRank actually test AI answers for mentions/citations. Praised isvisible.ai

If you want, I can also give you a completely free 10-minute method for testing your own articles manually across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, which may actually be more useful for a freelancer than paying for an AI-SEO platform.

Yes. If by “showing up” you mean whether an AI assistant is actually mentioning or citing your article/page, rather than merely whether AI crawlers can access it, I’d start with these:

• frase.io — probably the best fit for a freelance copywriter. You can enter a domain or specific URL, and it checks ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini for citations/visibility. The free check gives you a ChatGPT result without signup. Frase
• ahrefs.com — good for seeing whether a brand/site is mentioned across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews, including which pages get cited. No signup for the free check. Ahrefs
• praised.co — particularly interesting if you want to assess an individual article URL. It gives a page-level AI visibility/readiness score; its more advanced live sampling is paid. Praised

For your specific use case

If you're a copywriter trying to answer “Is my article actually being surfaced/cited by AI?”, don't rely solely on a generic “AI visibility score.” I'd do this:

1. Put the specific article URL into Frase or Praised.
2. Take 5–10 questions that the article is intended to answer.
3. Run those questions manually in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini.
4. Record whether your article is: - cited with a link
5. mentioned without a link
6. used as a source but not visibly credited
7. not appearing at all

That's more meaningful than simply asking whether GPTBot can crawl your site. Some free “AI visibility” graders measure technical accessibility—robots.txt, crawlers, page structure, etc.—rather than whether your actual article is appearing in answers. isvisible.ai auditzap.io

If you give me one of your article URLs, I can also tell you which free checker I'd use for it and what prompts I'd test to measure whether your excerpts are actually getting picked up by AI assistants.

Yes — but there’s an important distinction: “Can AI assistants access/cite my article?” is different from “Is this exact excerpt actually appearing in AI answers?”

For a freelance copywriter, I’d start with these:

• frase.io — probably the closest match to what you’re asking. You can enter a domain or a specific URL, and it checks whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini cite your content. The ChatGPT check is free; the broader report is also available free after email capture. Frase
• ahrefs.com — excellent for checking whether a site/brand gets mentioned or cited across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews. It is free and requires no signup. Ahrefs
• rank.ai — useful if you want to supply an actual prompt and see how ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini respond, including whether they mention/cite your domain. Rank.ai

For your particular use case

If you have, say, a 1,500-word article and want to know:

“Is my paragraph about X being picked up by ChatGPT/Perplexity/Gemini?”

I wouldn't rely on a generic AI visibility score. Instead, I'd test the actual questions your article is designed to answer.

For example, if your article contains:

“The three biggest mistakes first-time homebuyers make are…”

Run several natural prompts such as:

• “What are the biggest mistakes first-time homebuyers make?”
• “What should first-time homebuyers avoid?”
• “Give me advice for someone buying their first home.”

Then look for whether the AI response quotes, paraphrases, or cites your article/domain.

That's much more meaningful for a copywriter than a generic “AI readiness” score. Tools such as Frase specifically analyze live AI responses for citations and visibility. Frase

One caveat: no free grader can reliably tell you that every sentence/excerpt from your article is being used by AI assistants. AI responses change, and whether a passage appears can depend heavily on the exact prompt, retrieval results, geography, personalization, and model version.

If you tell me where your articles are published (your own site, Medium, client sites, etc.), I can recommend the best completely free workflow for checking whether your actual excerpts are showing up in ChatGPT/Perplexity/Gemini.

Yes. If you mean “Can I check whether my actual articles/URLs are being cited or surfaced by AI assistants?”, rather than merely whether your site is technically crawlable, there are a few free options worth trying.

My picks for a freelance copywriter

• frase.io — best for individual articles. You can paste a domain or a specific URL, and it checks whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini cite you. The free checker gives a ChatGPT result without signup; email unlocks the additional engines. Frase
• citedspy.com — best for seeing the actual competing sources. Enter a query your article is supposed to answer, and it runs that query across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and Google AI Mode, showing the answers and cited URLs. CitedSpy
• ahrefs.com — best-known option. It checks whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google's AI results mention your brand and which pages/domains they cite. It's more brand/domain visibility than individual-excerpt tracking. Ahrefs

One important distinction

No free grader can reliably tell you “this exact sentence from your article was copied into ChatGPT's answer.” AI answers change, and many assistants don't expose enough information to establish that definitively.

What you can measure is:

Your article → AI answers → whether your URL is cited → whether your site/content is mentioned → which competing sources are being cited instead.

For a copywriter, I'd use CitedSpy + Frase: take 5–10 important questions your article is designed to answer, run those exact questions, and record whether your article appears among the citations.

If you give me one article URL (or paste an excerpt), I can also show you exactly how I'd test its AI visibility for free.

Yes. If you mean “Can I paste my article/URL into a free tool and see whether AI assistants are actually finding, mentioning, or citing it?”, there are a few useful options.

Best free options

• frase.io — probably my first choice for a freelance copywriter. It can check a domain or individual URL and looks at whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini cite you. The ChatGPT check is free without signup; the other results can be unlocked for free with email. Frase
• ahrefs.com — good if you're trying to see whether a personal brand/client brand is appearing in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews. It also identifies pages/domains being cited. Ahrefs
• serp.tools — particularly interesting if your question is “Is this specific article/page being cited?” It shows the AI response and the URLs/domains cited, rather than merely giving you a generic SEO score. serp.tools
• citedspy.com — free/no-signup checker covering ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and Google AI Mode, with citation information. CitedSpy

One important distinction

A lot of “AI visibility graders” are actually checking whether AI crawlers can access your site—robots.txt, structured data, etc. That's useful, but it doesn't prove that your article is appearing in AI answers.

For your work as a copywriter, I'd prioritize a tool that answers:

“When someone asks an AI assistant a question that my article answers, does the assistant cite or use my article?”

That's much more meaningful than an “AI-friendly website” score.

If you give me one of your article URLs, I can also check it and tell you which free grader I'd use for that particular article and how I'd test whether its excerpts are showing up in ChatGPT/Perplexity/Gemini.

Yes. If by “showing up” you mean whether AI assistants are actually mentioning or citing your articles, rather than merely checking whether your site is technically crawlable, I’d start with these:

• ahrefs.com — probably the best first choice. It checks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, and reports which domains/pages are cited. No signup is required. Ahrefs
• frase.io — particularly relevant to a copywriter because you can enter a specific URL, not just a brand, and see whether ChatGPT/Perplexity/Gemini cite your domain. The ChatGPT result is free without signup. Frase
• edenrank.com — runs a prompt across eight AI/search surfaces and shows the answers and citations. No signup. EdenRank

For your specific use case

If you have, say, a 2,000-word article and want to know “Are AI assistants using/citing passages from this article?”, I'd use Frase or Ahrefs, then do a manual test:

1. Pick 5–10 questions your article answers.
2. Ask those questions in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini.
3. Look specifically for your URL in the citations, not merely whether your topic or ideas appear.
4. Save the results and repeat monthly.

That's an important distinction: being mentioned isn't the same as being cited. Ahrefs explicitly separates AI mentions from citations, with citations meaning the AI links to your website as a source. Ahrefs

If you give me the URL of one of your articles, I can also tell you which free checker is best for testing that particular article and give you a set of prompts designed to see whether its excerpts are being surfaced.

Yes. If by “showing up” you mean whether AI assistants actually mention or cite your article/page when answering questions, I’d start with these free options:

• ahrefs.com — probably my first choice. It checks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, and reports mentions plus cited pages. The free version requires no signup.
• frase.io — particularly useful for a copywriter because you can enter a specific URL/article and see whether AI answers cite your domain. The free check gives a ChatGPT result; additional engine results are available after email signup.
• edenrank.com — good if you want to test one specific question/prompt across eight AI surfaces and see the actual answers and citations.
• rank.ai — lets you give it a prompt and your domain, then compares ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini and shows whether you're mentioned/cited.

For your use case, I'd do this

Suppose you wrote an article about “how freelancers should price website copy.” Don't just test your article title. Test the questions your article is intended to answer:

“How should a freelance copywriter price website copy in 2026?”
“What should I charge for a 1,500-word website article?”
“What factors affect freelance copywriting rates?”

Then check whether the AI answer quotes, mentions, or links to your article.

That's more meaningful than an “AI readiness” score. Some free graders only tell you whether AI crawlers can access your site; that doesn't mean an assistant will actually use your article. For example, isvisible.ai primarily checks crawler accessibility, while Ahrefs and Frase actually measure AI mentions/citations. isvisible.ai Ahrefs Frase

If you give me one of your article URLs, I can also tell you which free checker is best for that particular article and what prompts I'd test.

If you mean “can I check whether my published article excerpts are being quoted, surfaced, or cited by ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini?”, there isn’t a perfect free plagiarism-style grader for AI assistants yet. The best free options depend on what you want to measure:

Best free AI visibility checkers

• rank.ai — probably the closest match for a freelance writer. It tests whether AI assistants mention a site and whether they cite the site as a source. Good for checking whether your articles are becoming part of AI answers. Rank.ai
• isvisible.ai — checks whether AI crawlers can access your site and whether assistants can retrieve your content. Useful if your problem is “AI can’t see my articles.” isvisible.ai
• mentionowl.com — focuses on AI discoverability signals such as crawler access and content readability for AI systems. MentionOwl

For a copywriter specifically, I’d also do this manual test

1. Pick a distinctive 8–12 word sentence from your article (especially a phrase you wrote yourself).
2. Put it in quotation marks and ask: - “Have you seen this phrase or source before?”
3. “What sources discuss this topic?”
4. Repeat in: - ChatGPT
5. Claude
6. Gemini
7. Perplexity

Look for:

• exact phrases appearing,
• your article URL being cited,
• your ideas being summarized without attribution.

A visibility tool will usually tell you whether your site is being cited or surfaced, but it generally won’t prove that a model’s internal training data contains your exact excerpt (that information is not publicly available). Rank.ai isvisible.ai

For a freelance copywriter, the most useful metric is usually AI citation/share of voice, not “AI copied my paragraph,” because citations can drive discovery even when the assistant paraphrases your work. Rank.ai

If you’re trying to protect your portfolio/blog content specifically, I can also suggest tools for checking whether AI is quoting your work without attribution.

Yes. If your goal as a freelance copywriter is specifically to see whether your published article excerpts/pages are being surfaced or cited by AI assistants, I’d use an AI visibility checker, not an AI-writing grader.

Best free options right now

• ahrefs.com — probably my first pick. It checks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, and shows which pages/domains are being cited. No signup required. Ahrefs
• zionlabs.io — particularly interesting for a writer because it distinguishes mentioned vs. cited vs. passed over, and checks six AI answer engines. Free, no login. Zion Labs
• rankscope.ai — free/no account, with citation counts and the domains AI systems are sourcing in your subject area. RankScope
• rank.ai — useful if you want to run the exact same questions against ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini and see what sources they cite. Rank.ai

One important distinction for your use case

If you mean:

“I wrote an article about X. Is AI actually quoting or using passages from my article?”

that's a little different from:

“Does AI mention my name/brand?”

Most AI-visibility graders are designed around brand/domain visibility, not forensic detection of whether a particular paragraph was incorporated into an AI answer.

For your work, I'd do a simple test:

1. Take 5–10 distinctive excerpts from your published articles.
2. Turn each into a natural question someone might ask an AI assistant.
3. Run those questions through ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI.
4. Check whether your article/domain appears in the sources/citations.
5. Look for distinctive phrases or facts from your article appearing in the answer even when your URL isn't cited.

Ahrefs is the easiest starting point, while Zion Labs looks especially useful if you want to distinguish “AI mentioned me” from “AI actually cited my work.”

If you tell me where your articles are published (your own site, Medium, Substack, client sites, etc.), I can recommend the best free workflow specifically for a freelance copywriter trying to prove “my writing is showing up in AI answers.”

Yes. If by “showing up” you mean whether AI assistants are actually using/citing your articles as sources, there are a few free graders worth trying.

Best free options

• frase.io — probably my first choice for a freelance copywriter. You can enter a domain or individual URL, and it checks visibility/citations across ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini. It specifically reports whether your domain is being cited. Frase
• rank.ai — useful if you want to test specific questions/prompts. It runs the same prompt through ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini and shows whether your site is mentioned or cited. Rank.ai
• citedspy.com — checks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and Google AI Mode, including the sources those systems cite. CitedSpy
• quanticdata.io — particularly interesting for individual articles. You paste the URL and it evaluates whether the page is technically accessible and structured in a way that makes it citable, then tests an actual question you want the page cited for. QuanticData

One important distinction

There are really two different things you might want to measure:

1. “Can AI read/use my article?” → crawler/accessibility grader.
2. “When someone asks a question my article answers, does AI actually cite my article?” → AI visibility/citation checker.

For a copywriter, #2 is much more valuable. A page can be perfectly crawlable yet never get cited.

If you give me one of your article URLs, I can also show you exactly how I'd test it across AI assistants and what metrics I'd look at.

Yes. If by “showing up” you mean whether AI assistants are actually citing or mentioning your published articles, rather than whether the writing looks AI-generated, you want an AI visibility/AEO grader.

For a freelance copywriter, I’d start with these:

• frase.io — Probably the closest match to what you’re asking. You can enter a domain or individual URL, and it checks whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini link back to your content. It reports citations, share of voice, momentum, and sentiment. Frase
• ahrefs.com — Free, no signup. Checks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Overviews and can show which pages/domains are being cited. It also works with personal brands, which is useful if you're building your reputation as a writer. Ahrefs
• zionlabs.io — Free/no-login check across six AI surfaces. It explicitly distinguishes mentioned vs. cited, which is an important distinction for articles. Zion Labs
• rank.ai — Free and no registration; runs the same prompt through ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini and shows whether your domain is mentioned or cited. Rank.ai

One important catch for a copywriter

Most of these tools are designed around brands/domains, not “did AI reproduce this particular paragraph I wrote?”

If your real question is:

“I wrote this article for Client X. When someone asks ChatGPT/Perplexity a question related to it, does the AI actually use or cite my article?”

then Frase is the one I'd try first, because it lets you enter a specific URL. Frase

And if you're asking something slightly different—“Can I paste an excerpt and find out whether ChatGPT/Claude/etc. have learned, quoted, or reused those exact words?”—that's a much harder problem, and the usual AI-visibility graders don't really measure it.

If you tell me which of those two things you mean, I can point you to the best genuinely free test for a freelance writer, including one where you can test individual article URLs/excerpts.

Yes. If by “showing up” you mean whether AI assistants are actually mentioning or citing your articles, rather than simply checking whether your writing is AI-generated, there are some useful free tools.

My top picks for a freelance copywriter

• ahrefs.com — probably my first choice. It’s free and no-signup, and checks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode. It can show which pages/domains are being cited. Ahrefs
• frase.io — especially relevant to your question because you can enter a specific domain or URL, and it checks whether AI engines cite it. The free version gives you a ChatGPT result without signup. Frase
• rank.ai — useful if you want to test an actual question/prompt and see whether ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini mention or cite your site. Free and no registration. Rank.ai
• semrush.com — gives a broader visibility snapshot and identifies pages on your site that are generating AI citations. Semrush

One important distinction

For a freelance copywriter, I'd test this at the article level, not just the author/client/brand level.

For example, suppose you wrote:

“How to Choose the Right CRM for a 10-Person Sales Team”

You want to know whether someone asking ChatGPT:

“What CRM is best for a 10-person sales team?”

gets an answer that cites or draws from that particular article.

That's different from asking whether your client's brand is visible in AI search.

Frase and Rank.ai are particularly useful for that workflow. Ahrefs is better if you want a broader picture of the client's AI visibility.

Also, don't interpret a “0” as proof that an AI model has never seen your article. AI visibility checks are snapshots based on particular prompts and retrieval systems; results can change between queries and over time. Ahrefs Frase

If you tell me where your articles are published (your own site, client sites, Medium, Forbes, etc.), I can recommend the best completely free workflow for checking whether your actual excerpts are being quoted/cited by ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity.

Yes. If you’re a freelance copywriter, there are free tools that can check whether your work is being mentioned or cited by AI assistants—but there’s an important distinction between “AI can access my article” and “AI actually uses/cites my article.”

Best free options

• ahrefs.com — probably my first choice. It checks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, and can show which specific pages/domains are being cited. It’s free with no signup for the limited report. Ahrefs
• frase.io — particularly interesting for a writer because you can enter a specific URL, and it checks whether ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini cite your content. Frase
• rank.ai — lets you supply a prompt + domain and compares whether ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini mention or cite the site. This is useful if you want to test the exact questions your article is intended to answer. Rank.ai

One caveat for your use case

If by “my article excerpts are showing up” you mean:

“Is ChatGPT/Perplexity/Gemini actually quoting or using passages from this particular article?”

that's harder. Most free “AI visibility” graders primarily measure mentions and citations, not whether a particular paragraph/excerpt was incorporated into an answer.

I'd use a two-step test:

1. Put your article URL into Frase or Ahrefs and see whether the page is being cited.
2. Take 3–5 distinctive claims/questions from the article and ask each AI assistant the corresponding question. Check whether it cites your URL and whether the answer reflects your article's distinctive information.

Also, don't confuse crawler-access checkers with actual visibility checkers. For example, isvisible.ai can tell you whether AI crawlers are technically allowed to access your site, but that doesn't prove an AI assistant is actually using your article. isvisible.ai

For a freelance copywriter, I'd start with Ahrefs + Frase. They get closest to answering the commercially useful question: “Is my published work actually becoming a source for AI answers?”

If you mean “is my writing being quoted, retrieved, or cited by ChatGPT/Claude/Perplexity?” (rather than “is it AI-written?”), you’re looking for an AI visibility / citation checker. A few free options:

• citegrade.com — lets you test a page URL plus a target query and checks whether AI answers cite your page (currently focused on ChatGPT and Perplexity). Citegrade
• citedspy.com — runs queries across several AI search experiences and shows cited sources. CitedSpy
• fogtrail.ai — checks whether AI engines cite your domain and provides a report. FogTrail
• citatur.com — offers a free audit for whether AI assistants mention/cite a site. Citatur

For a freelance copywriter checking individual article excerpts, I’d also do a manual test:

1. Paste a distinctive 8–15 word sentence from your article into quotes in a normal search engine.
2. Ask ChatGPT/Perplexity/Claude questions your article answers: - “What are the best sources for [topic]?”
3. “Summarize the latest guidance on [topic].”
4. “What does [your article’s unique angle] say about this?”
5. Check whether your URL appears in citations or whether the ideas appear without attribution.

A caveat: there is no perfect “plagiarism checker for AI assistants.” AI systems don’t always reveal every training source, and live answers can vary from one run to another. Citation tools mainly measure whether your content is being surfaced as a source today, not whether a model has ever seen it. Citegrade

If you’re checking published client work, your own portfolio, or trying to optimize articles for AI discovery, the best tool choice differs slightly.

Yes. If your goal is specifically “Are AI assistants finding and citing my published articles?”, you want an AI visibility/citation checker, not an AI-writing grader.

My picks for a freelance copywriter:

• frase.io — probably the best first test. You can enter your domain or a specific URL, and its free check looks at whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini cite you. The ChatGPT result is available without signup. Frase
• ahrefs.com — good if you want to see your visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews. It also shows which pages/domains are being cited. Ahrefs
• rank.ai — particularly useful for a freelancer because you can enter one specific prompt + your domain and see the actual responses from ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, including whether your site was cited. Rank.ai

One important distinction

If you mean:

“I wrote an article about X. Does ChatGPT/Perplexity actually use that particular article/excerpt when answering questions about X?”

I'd test the individual article URL, not just your name or website.

For example, take an article about best hiking shoes for beginners and run prompts such as:

• “What are the best hiking shoes for beginners?”
• “What should a beginner look for in a hiking shoe?”
• “Compare lightweight hiking shoes for beginners.”

Then check whether the AI answer links to or cites your article.

That's more meaningful than a generic “AI visibility score.” AI visibility is also volatile—a single check is a snapshot rather than proof that an assistant will consistently cite you. cituna.com

If you give me one of your article URLs, I can also tell you exactly how I'd test it across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews—and which free checker I'd use first.

Yes. If by “showing up” you mean whether AI assistants actually cite or surface your article/page when answering questions related to it, there are a few useful free graders.

My picks for a freelance copywriter

• ahrefs.com — best overall starting point.

Free, no signup. It checks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, and reports which domains/pages get cited. It can work with a personal brand or website. Ahrefs

• frase.io — best if you care specifically about your articles being cited.

You can enter a domain or individual URL, and it looks at citations in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini. The free result is limited, but it's particularly relevant to a copywriter because it focuses on whether your content is being used as a source. Frase

• edenrank.com — best for testing a specific question.

You give it your brand/site and an actual prompt, and it runs that prompt across eight AI surfaces, showing the answers and citations. That's useful if you want to test something like “What are the best resources for writing a SaaS case study?” rather than simply asking whether your website is visible generally. EdenRank

One important distinction

A lot of “AI visibility” graders measure brand visibility, not whether a particular article excerpt appears in an AI answer.

For your use case, I'd test at three levels:

1. Mention: Does the AI mention your name/site?
2. Citation: Does it link to your article?
3. Content reuse: Does the answer actually reproduce or closely paraphrase material from your article?

The first two are relatively easy for these tools to measure. #3 is much harder and usually requires manually comparing the AI response with your original article.

If you're trying to answer a question like “Is my freelance writing being cited by ChatGPT/Perplexity, and which specific articles are getting picked up?”, I'd start with Frase + Ahrefs, rather than a generic AI-content grader.

Yes. If your goal is specifically “Are AI assistants actually finding/citing my published articles?”, I’d use a live AI-visibility checker rather than a generic AI-content grader.

Best free options

• frase.io — probably the best fit for a freelance copywriter. You can enter your domain or a specific URL; it checks whether ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini cite your content. The ChatGPT result is free with no signup. Frase
• edenrank.com — lets you enter your site, brand and an actual prompt, then checks 8 AI surfaces and shows the answers and citations. Good if you want to test a particular article topic. EdenRank
• rank.ai — especially useful for testing a specific prompt across ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini and seeing whether your domain was cited. Rank.ai
• ahrefs.com — stronger for checking your overall brand/domain visibility and seeing which pages/domains AI systems cite. Ahrefs

One important distinction

There are really two different questions you might mean:

1. “Can AI assistants access my article?”

Tools such as isvisible.ai check whether AI crawlers can access your site. isvisible.ai

2. “When someone asks an AI a relevant question, does it actually use/cite my article?”

Frase, EdenRank or Rank.ai are more useful for this. They test actual AI answers rather than simply checking crawler access.

For a freelance copywriter, #2 is the more interesting metric. You want to know something like:

“Someone asks ChatGPT ‘How should a SaaS company write a customer onboarding email?’ — does it pull information from/cite my article?”

If you give me one of your article URLs, I can also show you exactly how I'd test it and what metrics to look for.

Yes — but there’s an important distinction: “Can AI assistants access my article?” is different from “Are AI assistants actually quoting/citing my article?”

For a freelance copywriter, I’d start with these free options:

• ahrefs.com — probably the best first stop. It’s free with no signup and checks how your brand/site appears in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews. It also shows which domains/pages are being cited. Ahrefs
• zionlabs.io — particularly interesting for your use case because you can enter a domain and it checks whether AI systems mention or cite it. It's free, no login/email, and currently checks ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude. Zion Labs
• aisearchvisibility.ai — more page-oriented: you can audit an individual URL and get an AI-readiness/citation-oriented score. The free tier currently provides 5 URL audits/month. AI Search Visibility

But for your exact question, I'd do this

If you're wondering:

“I wrote this article. Is ChatGPT/Perplexity/Gemini actually using or citing passages from it?”

Don't rely solely on a generic “AI visibility score.” Test the article's subject matter with the actual assistants.

Take 5–10 questions that your article answers and search them in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. Look for:

1. Whether your site/article is cited.
2. Whether a distinctive fact, statistic, phrase, or recommendation from your article appears.
3. Whether the assistant paraphrases information that is particularly distinctive to your article.
4. Whether competitors are being cited instead.
5. Whether your page is accessible to AI crawlers in the first place.

For ongoing client work, OtterlyAI is closer to the professional solution: it monitors prompts across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Copilot and identifies mentions/citations. It currently offers a free trial, but its ongoing plans are paid. Otterly AI Otterly

My pick: use Ahrefs for a quick free snapshot, then manually test your article's specific claims/questions in the assistants. That's much more useful to a copywriter than a generic “AI readiness” score.

If you give me one of your article URLs, I can also show you exactly how I'd test whether that particular article is appearing in AI answers.

Yes. For a freelance copywriter, I’d distinguish between two things:

1. “Can AI assistants find/cite my article?” — checks a specific URL.
2. “Does AI actually quote/use my article when answering questions?” — much more useful for measuring AI visibility.

Best free options right now

• frase.io — probably my first choice. You can enter your domain or a specific article URL. It checks whether ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini cite you. The ChatGPT result is free without signup; the other results can be unlocked for free with email. Frase
• ahrefs.com — free, no signup. It checks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, and reports cited pages/domains. This is particularly useful if you're trying to demonstrate AI visibility to clients. Ahrefs
• edenrank.com — interesting for your particular use case because you can supply a brand/site plus an actual prompt, then see the live answers and citations across eight AI surfaces. Free/no signup for one prompt. EdenRank

One important caveat

A normal “AI visibility grader” isn't necessarily telling you whether AI assistants are using your exact article excerpt. Many are measuring whether your domain/brand is mentioned or cited.

For a copywriter, I'd test it like this:

Article: your article URL
Prompt: the question your article is intended to answer

Then look for whether the AI response:

• cites your URL,
• mentions your site,
• reproduces distinctive ideas/phrasing from the article,
• or gives an answer clearly informed by the article without citing it.

I'd use Frase + Ahrefs, then manually run 5–10 highly specific questions in ChatGPT/Perplexity. AI answers change frequently, so a single “score” shouldn't be treated as definitive. Frase Ahrefs

If by “article excerpts” you mean you have, say, 10–20 specific paragraphs and want to know whether ChatGPT/Claude/Perplexity are actually surfacing those passages, I can point you to the best free tool/workflow specifically for passage-level checking.

If you mean “Can I paste my article URL or excerpt somewhere and see whether ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini are likely to surface or cite it?”, there are a few free tools, but none can perfectly prove that a specific excerpt is already appearing inside AI answers. AI assistants don’t expose their full training data, and visibility depends on the query, model, date, and whether the assistant is using web search.

For a freelance copywriter, I’d try these:

• ahrefs.com — good for checking whether a brand/site is being mentioned or cited across AI search experiences. Better for your portfolio site or client domains than individual paragraphs. Ahrefs
• rank.ai — lets you test prompts and see whether AI assistants mention a domain and cite it. Useful for asking things like “What are the best sources for [topic]?” and seeing whether your site appears. Rank.ai
• isvisible.ai — more of a technical AI-readiness check (crawler access, AI visibility signals, etc.) than a “did my paragraph show up?” checker. isvisible.ai
• aisearchvisibility.ai — checks a specific URL for factors related to whether AI systems may cite it. AI Search Visibility

For article excerpts specifically, the most practical free test is still manual:

1. Take a distinctive 8–15 word sentence from your article (something unlikely to appear elsewhere).
2. Search it in quotation marks on Google/Bing.
3. Ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini: - “What sources discuss [your topic]?”
4. “Can you find articles that mention this phrase: ‘[unique excerpt]’?”
5. Check whether your URL is cited.

A useful distinction:

• “AI can access my article” → crawler/visibility graders test this.
• “AI cites my article when answering questions” → AI visibility trackers test this.
• “My exact words are in a model’s training data” → there is generally no public checker that can verify this.

For a copywriter building AI-era credentials, I’d track citations and mentions of your published URLs, not whether a model memorized a sentence. That’s the signal clients can actually act on. Ahrefs semrush.com

Yes. But there’s an important distinction: most free “AI visibility” graders check whether your site/brand is mentioned or cited—not whether a specific excerpt from your article is actually being reproduced or used by an AI assistant.

For a freelance copywriter, I’d use these:

1. Ahrefs Free AI Visibility Checker — probably the best first stop. It checks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, and Google AI results, and reports mentions plus the pages/domains being cited. No signup is required for the free check. ahrefs.comanswervisibilitylab.comisvisible.ai

2. EdenRank Free AI Visibility Checker — particularly useful if you want to test one specific question/prompt across eight AI surfaces, including ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and Google AI. It shows the answers and citations. edenrank.com

3. Answer Visibility Lab — more of a page-level audit. It checks whether AI systems can discover, understand and cite your website, including things such as extractability and citation-worthiness. answervisibilitylab.com

For your particular use case

If you're asking:

“I wrote this article. Is ChatGPT/Claude/Perplexity actually pulling information from it or citing it?”

I'd not rely on an AI grader's score alone.

Instead, take 5–10 distinctive facts, phrases, or questions from the article and test them directly in several assistants. Then look for:

• Does the assistant mention the site?
• Does it link/cite the article?
• Does it reproduce a distinctive fact or statistic from it?
• Does it attribute the information correctly?
• Does it give a competing source instead?
• Does the article appear among the sources when you ask the question in different ways?

That distinction matters because “AI can access my article” ≠ “AI actually uses my article.” Some free graders primarily measure crawlability/readiness, while others measure actual AI mentions/citations. ahrefs.comanswervisibilitylab.comisvisible.ai

If you give me the URL of one of your articles, I can also check which free tool is most appropriate for that specific article and give you a simple test you can repeat for your freelance portfolio.

Yes. For a freelance copywriter, I’d distinguish between two different questions:

1. “Can AI assistants access/read my article?”
2. “Are AI assistants actually mentioning or citing my article?”

If you mean #2, these are the most useful free options I found:

• frase.io — probably my first pick for your use case. You can enter a domain or individual URL, and it checks whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini link to your content in AI answers. The ChatGPT result is free without signup. Frase
• rank.ai — particularly handy because it runs the same prompt through ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini and shows whether your site was mentioned and cited. No registration required. Rank.ai
• ahrefs.com — free, no signup, and checks visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Overviews. It's more brand/domain-oriented than article-excerpt-oriented. Ahrefs

The important catch for a writer

These tools generally don't prove that an AI assistant has memorized or reproduced your exact paragraph. They test whether your site/page is being discovered and cited in current AI/search answers.

If what you're really asking is:

“I wrote this particular article for a client. Can I find out whether ChatGPT/Claude/Perplexity are using passages from it?”

that's a harder problem. A visibility checker isn't quite the right test.

For that, I'd use a combination of:

• the exact article URL in Frase's checker;
• distinctive phrases from the article as prompts to ChatGPT/Perplexity;
• searches for whether those phrases or concepts appear in AI answers with your URL cited.

And one caution: AI visibility is quite volatile. Recent reporting, for example, found substantial changes in which sites ChatGPT cites over just a few weeks. axios.com

If you tell me whether you're trying to check (a) your own portfolio/blog articles or (b) articles you've written for clients, I can point you to the best free test for that specific situation.

Yes. For a freelance copywriter, I’d distinguish between “can AI access my article?” and “is AI actually quoting/citing my article?” Those are different tests.

Best free options

• citedspy.com — Probably the closest match to what you're asking. You enter a question, and it runs that query across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Grok, showing the answers and the sources they cite. You can then see whether your article URL appears as a source. Free and no signup. CitedSpy
• ahrefs.com — Good if you want to check whether your site/brand is being mentioned or cited across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, and Google's AI results. It also identifies the specific pages being cited. Free, no signup. Ahrefs
• frase.io — Especially interesting for writers because you can enter a domain or specific URL. Its free check tests whether ChatGPT cites you; email unlocks additional Perplexity/Gemini results. Frase

For your particular use case

If you mean:

“I wrote this article. Is an AI assistant actually using sentences or ideas from my article when answering questions?”

I'd start with CitedSpy, rather than a generic “AI visibility score.”

Take an excerpt's main claim and turn it into 3–5 natural questions someone might ask an AI assistant. Run those questions through the checker and look for your URL in the citations.

One important caveat: a citation doesn't necessarily mean the AI copied your exact wording. And an AI assistant can use information from your article without visibly citing it. So no free grader can reliably tell you all instances where your prose has been incorporated into an AI response.

If you give me the URL of one of your articles, I can also show you exactly how I'd test whether its excerpts are surfacing in AI answers.

Yes. If by “showing up” you mean whether AI assistants are actually citing your articles/excerpts as sources, rather than merely whether AI can recognize your name, there are a few free options worth trying.

My picks for a freelance copywriter

1. Ahrefs Free AI Visibility Checker — best first stop
   • Free, no signup.
   • Checks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews.
   • Shows which domains/pages are being cited alongside your brand.
   • You can enter a personal brand, publication, or website, not just a company. ahrefs.com

Caveat: it's more of a brand/domain visibility check than a tool for testing one particular article excerpt.

2. EdenRank's free AI visibility checker — probably closest to what you're asking
   • Free and no signup.
   • Lets you enter a brand name + URL + prompt.
   • Tests the prompt across eight AI engines and returns the actual answers and citations.
   • This makes it useful for testing whether a particular piece of your work is being surfaced when someone asks a relevant question. edenrank.com

3. AI Search Visibility's free audit — good for individual URLs
   • Paste in a specific article URL.
   • Gives an AI-readiness/citation score and identifies things that may prevent AI systems from citing the page.
   • Free tier currently allows 5 audits/month. www.aisearchvisibility.ai

One important distinction

There are really two different questions you might want answered:

A. “Is my article being cited by AI?”
→ Use EdenRank or manually test the article's topic in ChatGPT/Perplexity and inspect the citations.

B. “Is my article structured in a way that makes AI likely to cite it?”
→ Use the AI Search Visibility audit or a similar GEO/content audit.

For a freelance copywriter, I'd actually do both. And I'd test the questions your clients' readers would ask, rather than asking an AI, “Does this article appear in your results?” For example, if you wrote an article about choosing CRM software, test 5–10 natural questions such as “What should a small business look for in a CRM?” and see whether your article appears among the cited sources.

If you give me one article URL (or the publication + title), I can show you a free, repeatable way to test whether that specific piece is appearing in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI results.

Yes — but there’s an important distinction: most “AI visibility graders” check whether your website/brand is cited, not whether a particular article excerpt is being reproduced or surfaced.

For a freelance copywriter, I’d use these:

1. Ahrefs Free AI Visibility Checker — probably my first choice. It checks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Overviews, and shows which domains/pages are cited. No signup is required for the free checker. ahrefs.com

Best for: “Is my client's article/site actually being cited by AI?”

2. CitedSpy AI Visibility Checker — particularly interesting for your use case because it distinguishes being mentioned from being cited and gives the sources AI systems cite. Its free checker queries multiple AI engines. www.citedspy.com

Best for: “Is this content actually serving as a source?”

3. EdenRank Free AI Visibility Checker — lets you enter a brand, URL and a specific prompt, then checks eight AI surfaces and shows citations. edenrank.com

Best for: testing a question closely related to the article you wrote.

The catch for excerpts

If what you really mean is:

“I wrote this paragraph. Is ChatGPT/Perplexity/Claude using or quoting this paragraph when answering users?”

There isn't a single reliable free “plagiarism checker for AI assistants” that can tell you that comprehensively.

I'd do a two-part test:

• Put the article URL through an AI-visibility checker to see whether the page is cited.
• Then take 3–5 distinctive sentences/claims from your article and run natural-language questions around those topics through ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude. Look for your wording, distinctive facts, and—especially—your URL in the citations.

That second test matters because being cited ≠ having your wording reproduced. An AI might use information from your article without quoting it, or quote/closely paraphrase it without prominently identifying the author.

If you're trying to prove the value of your copywriting to clients, I'd actually recommend a simple before/after “AI citation report” workflow rather than relying on one grader. I can give you a free, 10-minute workflow for checking one article across ChatGPT + Perplexity + Gemini + Claude, including exactly what prompts to use.

Yes. If your goal is specifically “Is AI actually surfacing/citing my article or excerpts?”, I’d use a tool that checks URLs/pages, not just brand mentions.

Best free options

1. Frase AI Visibility Checker — probably the best fit for a freelance copywriter. You can enter a domain or specific URL, and it checks whether AI answers cite your content. Its free checker includes a ChatGPT result without signup. www.frase.io

2. Ahrefs Free AI Visibility Checker — excellent for seeing whether your brand/site is mentioned or cited across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Overviews. No signup required, although the free report is limited. ahrefs.com

3. EdenRank AI Visibility Checker — useful if you want to run an actual prompt and see the full AI answers plus citations across eight engines. It's free/no signup for one prompt. edenrank.com

One important distinction

There are really two different things you may want to measure:

• Citation: “Did ChatGPT/Perplexity actually link to my article?”
• Excerpt/passage use: “Did the AI reproduce or closely use information from my article, even without linking to it?”

The free tools are considerably better at measuring citations and mentions than proving that a particular paragraph was used. AI responses also vary by query, model, location, date, personalization, and whether web search is enabled.

For your use case, I'd start with Frase: paste the URL of one of your articles, then test several questions that the article is designed to answer. After that, use Ahrefs as a broader cross-engine check.

If you give me the URL of one article, I can also show you exactly how I'd test whether its excerpts are appearing in ChatGPT/Perplexity/Google AI answers.

Yes — but there’s an important distinction: “Is my site accessible to AI crawlers?” is not the same as “Is this particular article/excerpt actually being cited or surfaced in AI answers?”

For a freelance copywriter, I’d start with these:

1. Ahrefs Free AI Visibility Checker — probably the best free starting point. It checks visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews, and reports which domains/pages are cited. No signup required. ahrefs.com

2. Semrush AI Search Visibility Checker — also free and no signup required. It looks at mentions, citations, prompts, and AI platforms including ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. www.semrush.com

3. IsVisible.ai — useful for a different question: whether AI crawlers can access your site at all. It checks robots.txt/llms.txt and access by crawlers such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot and Perplexity. Free, no signup. isvisible.ai

For your specific use case

If you're trying to answer:

“I wrote this article. Are AI assistants actually using/citing my article or passages from it?”

I'd use Ahrefs first, then manually test the article's distinctive claims/phrases in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini.

The free graders aren't really plagiarism detectors for AI. They generally measure AI visibility/citations at the domain, brand, topic, or URL level. They can't reliably tell you that a particular paragraph was copied into an AI answer.

If you give me one of your article URLs, I can also show you exactly how I'd test whether its excerpts are surfacing in ChatGPT/Perplexity/Google AI — including a simple free workflow you could use for every client article.

If you’re a freelance copywriter trying to find out whether your article excerpts are appearing in AI assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, etc.), there isn’t one perfect free “plagiarism checker for AI memory,” but these tools can help:

Best free options

1. Ahrefs Free AI Visibility Checker
   • Best for: seeing whether your brand/site/content is being mentioned or cited in AI answers.
   • Good if your articles live on your own website or a publication you can track.
   • It checks AI visibility across assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and others. ahrefs.com

2. isvisible.ai AI Visibility Check
   • Best for: checking whether AI crawlers can access your site.
   • It won’t tell you “this exact paragraph appeared in ChatGPT,” but it shows whether your pages are available to AI systems and crawlers. isvisible.ai

3. Manual excerpt testing (still one of the most useful free methods)
   • Copy a distinctive sentence or 2–3 sentence excerpt from your article.
   • Search it in quotation marks on Google:
     • "exact sentence from my article"
   • Then ask several AI assistants:
     • “Where does this quote come from?”
     • “Have you seen this passage before?”
     • “Summarize sources discussing this topic and cite them.”
   • Repeat with multiple excerpts.

For freelance writers specifically, I’d use this workflow:

• Pick 5–10 unique passages from your published work (especially strong hooks, unusual phrases, original frameworks).
• Run exact-quote searches.
• Ask ChatGPT/Perplexity/Gemini to identify sources for those passages.
• Track whether your byline, portfolio site, or client publication is being cited.

A note: AI assistants usually do not provide a searchable database of everything they were trained on, so no free grader can reliably prove “ChatGPT memorized this excerpt.” What you can measure is AI visibility: whether your work is being retrieved, cited, or associated with you. ahrefs.com

If you mean “I want to know whether AI is quoting my writing without attribution” rather than “whether AI can find my work,” the best tools and method are a bit different.

Yes. If by “showing up” you mean “Does ChatGPT/Perplexity/Gemini actually mention or cite my article?”, there are a few free tools worth trying.

My picks for a freelance copywriter

1. Ahrefs Free AI Visibility Checker — probably the easiest starting point.
   • Free, no signup
   • Checks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI results
   • Shows mentions, cited domains and cited pages
   • You can check a personal brand, product, or company—not just a generic brand. ahrefs.com

2. Frase AI Visibility Checker — particularly interesting for you because you can enter a specific URL/article, rather than only your brand. It checks whether AI answers link back to your content. The free version gives a ChatGPT result without signup. www.frase.io

3. RankSurf AI Visibility Scan — free scan that runs 10 industry-relevant prompts against ChatGPT and gives a per-prompt breakdown of mentions and citations. ranksurf.com

One important distinction

There's a difference between:

• AI can access your article — crawler/indexing test
• AI mentions your article/site — visibility
• AI cites/links to your article — citation
• AI reproduces information from your article — much harder to establish definitively

For a copywriter trying to demonstrate that their work has AI visibility, I'd focus on citation + mention, rather than claiming that an assistant has definitely “used” or “copied” an excerpt.

For example, take one of your articles and test prompts such as:

“What are the best sources for understanding [topic]?”
“What does [specific concept from my article] mean?”
“Summarize the current thinking on [topic].”

Then see whether your article URL appears among the sources.

If your real goal is specifically to find out whether individual excerpts/passages from your articles are appearing in AI answers, rather than whether your website is generally visible, I can narrow this down to the best free tool/workflow for that use case.

Yes — but there’s an important distinction: “AI visibility” graders usually tell you whether your page is likely to be crawlable/citable, while fewer free tools actually test whether AI assistants are currently citing your specific article.

For a freelance copywriter, I’d use these:

1. Frase AI Visibility Checker — probably the closest match to what you’re asking. You can enter a domain or individual URL, and its free check tests whether ChatGPT is citing you; email verification unlocks additional Perplexity/Gemini results. www.frase.io

2. Ahrefs Free AI Visibility Checker — good for seeing whether a personal brand, publication, or site is mentioned/cited across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Overviews. It also shows cited pages/domains. ahrefs.com

3. EdenRank free checker — useful if you want a quick, multi-engine spot check. It runs one prompt across eight AI engines and returns the answers and citations. edenrank.com

For your use case, I'd do this

If you have, say, 10 published article excerpts you're trying to demonstrate as AI-visible:

• Put each article URL into Frase.
• Ask 3–5 questions that the article is designed to answer.
• Check whether the AI response mentions your source, links to it, or paraphrases a distinctive passage from it.
• Separately use Ahrefs to see which of your pages are being cited more broadly.

One caveat: a grader can't reliably tell you that an AI assistant has “learned” your exact excerpt. AI answers change with prompts, location, search results, model version, and whether the assistant is using live web search. Even Frase describes its free check as a snapshot rather than permanent visibility. www.frase.io

If what you're really trying to prove as a freelance copywriter is “AI assistants are quoting/citing my published writing”, I can also give you the best completely free workflow for checking individual excerpts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews.

Yes. But there’s an important distinction: most free “AI visibility graders” tell you whether your site is accessible/citation-ready; fewer actually tell you whether a specific article or excerpt is being cited by AI assistants.

For a freelance copywriter, I’d start with these:

1. Ahrefs Free AI Visibility Checker — probably the best first stop. It checks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, and shows the domains/pages being cited. It’s free and says no signup is required. ahrefs.com

Best for: “Is my site/content actually showing up as a source?”

2. EdenRank AI Visibility Checker — particularly interesting for your use case because you can supply a specific prompt and see the AI's answer and citations across eight AI surfaces. Free, no signup. edenrank.com

Best for: Testing questions that your article is supposed to answer.

3. Frase AI Visibility Checker — has a free domain-level check for whether ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini cite your domain, plus a separate page-level GEO score. www.frase.io

Best for: Checking individual articles for “AI-citation readiness.”

The catch

If by “are my article excerpts showing up?” you mean:

“I wrote this particular paragraph for Client X. Is ChatGPT/Perplexity actually quoting or paraphrasing this passage when answering relevant questions?”

There isn't really a definitive free plagiarism-style grader for that. AI assistants generally paraphrase rather than reproduce passages verbatim, and their answers can change from one query to the next.

For that reason, I'd use a prompt-based test alongside the graders:

• Take the 5–10 questions your article is designed to answer.
• Run those exact questions through ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI results.
• Look for your URL as a citation, not merely your client's brand name.
• Compare the AI's answer against your article to see whether your distinctive facts, frameworks, examples or terminology made it into the answer.

That's actually more meaningful for a copywriter than a generic “AI visibility score.” Ahrefs itself distinguishes between an AI mention and a citation/link to your site. ahrefs.com

If you're trying to demonstrate this to clients, I'd use Ahrefs + a small before/after “AI citation report” showing which questions produce citations to their articles. That gives you a much more compelling freelance deliverable than simply saying “your article scored 78/100.”

Yes — but there’s an important distinction: most free “AI visibility graders” tell you whether a page is technically accessible/citable, while you want to know whether AI assistants are actually using your excerpts.

For a freelance copywriter, I’d use these:

1. Ahrefs Free AI Visibility Checker — best overall starting point.

It checks whether your brand/site appears in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Overviews, and shows mentions and cited domains/pages. It’s free and requires no signup. ahrefs.com

2. LaCleo AI Visibility Checker — best for individual articles.

This is closer to what you're asking: you paste a specific page URL, and it checks things such as extractable answers, citations, topical depth and whether Perplexity actually mentions/cites the page. www.lacleo.ai

3. SoulEngineLabs free GEO tool — interesting if you have drafts, not just published URLs.

It says you can submit a URL, draft article, keyword, or brand name and get a score based on citability, authority, structure and other factors. www.soulenginelabs.com

But here's the test I'd actually recommend

If you're trying to prove the value of your copywriting to clients, don't rely on a single “AI score.” AI visibility is variable: the same query can produce different answers over time, so repeated testing is more meaningful than one score. arxiv.org

For each article, take 5–10 questions that the article is designed to answer and run them through ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini. Record:

• Was the article/site cited?
• Was the author/client mentioned?
• Was a specific passage or fact from the article incorporated?
• Which competing sources were cited instead?

That's much more useful to a copywriter than something like “your page scored 82/100.”

If you give me the type of articles you write (e.g. SaaS, healthcare, finance, B2B, lifestyle), I can also point you to the best free checker specifically for that kind of freelance copywriting.

If you mean “Can I tell whether my article excerpts are being quoted, cited, or surfaced by ChatGPT/Claude/Perplexity?”, there isn’t a single perfect free grader yet. The best options depend on whether you want to check a specific excerpt or your overall AI visibility.

Best free options for a freelance copywriter

1. Manual AI citation test (most accurate for your own excerpts) — free
   • Paste your excerpt into a spreadsheet.
   • Ask several assistants:
     • “Find the source of this passage.”
     • “Have you seen this text before?”
     • “What websites or articles discuss this wording?”
   • Check whether the assistant cites your article or reproduces distinctive phrases.
   • This is the closest test for “is my writing appearing in AI answers?”

2. Ahrefs Free AI Visibility Checker
   • Good for checking whether a brand/site appears in AI answers across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews. ahrefs.comisvisible.ai
   • Less useful if you only have one freelance article excerpt and no recognizable brand.

3. isvisible.ai AI Visibility Checker
   • Checks whether a website is accessible to AI crawlers and whether systems can retrieve it. isvisible.ai
   • Useful if your articles live on your own site or a publication site you manage.

4. TopicPen AI Visibility Checker
   • Another free AI visibility checker focused on whether AI engines can find and cite content. go.topicpen.com

For a copywriter, I’d use this workflow:

• Pick a unique 8–12 word sentence from your article.
• Search that phrase in Google with quotation marks.
• Ask ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity the topic question your article answers.
• Look for:
  • your URL cited,
  • your publication named,
  • your phrasing reused,
  • your ideas appearing without attribution.

One caveat: AI assistants usually don’t have a “database of everything they’ve seen,” so a tool cannot reliably prove “ChatGPT trained on my article.” It can only test current visibility, retrieval, and citations. ahrefs.comisvisible.ai

If you’re a freelance copywriter trying to prove AI visibility to clients, the most useful metric is usually “AI citations/mentions,” not whether a model has memorized your exact excerpt.

Yes. If by “showing up” you mean whether an AI assistant actually cites or pulls from your published article, rather than simply whether your site is technically crawlable, there’s an important distinction.

Best free options for a freelance copywriter

1. urlAhrefs Free AI Visibility Checkerturn0search3 — best for actual AI mentions/citations
   • Enter your brand, personal brand, or website.
   • It tests prompts across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews.
   • The report shows mentions and which domains/pages are cited.
   • Free, no signup required, though the free report is limited. ahrefs.com
   • My pick if you're trying to prove that your work is being surfaced in AI answers.

2. urlIsVisible.aiturn0search0 — best for checking whether AI can access your articles
   • Free, no signup.
   • Checks robots.txt, llms.txt and access by AI crawlers such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot and Perplexity.
   • Gives an AI-visibility score. isvisible.ai
   • Caveat: this tells you whether AI systems can access your site—not whether a particular article is actually being cited.

3. urlAuditZap's free AI Visibility Checkerturn0search1 — best page-level technical check
   • You can enter a specific article URL, rather than just your domain.
   • Checks AI crawler access, semantic structure, citation readiness, freshness, author attribution, etc.
   • Free and doesn't require signup. auditzap.io

For your specific use case

As a freelance copywriter, I'd use Ahrefs first, then manually verify the results.

Take 5–10 distinctive excerpts from your articles and search for the ideas/questions they're designed to answer. For example:

“What are the best ways to reduce X without Y?”

Then run equivalent prompts in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews and look at the actual citations. AI visibility isn't a simple yes/no metric: answers can vary by wording, location, model and date. troovue.com

One important caveat: there isn't currently a free equivalent of Google Search Console that can tell you every time an AI assistant used your exact paragraph. AI systems can retrieve a page without quoting it, or paraphrase it without making the source obvious. Recent research also finds that retrieval and what ultimately appears in an answer can diverge. arxiv.org

If you want, I can also give you a free 10-minute workflow specifically for a freelance copywriter to check whether individual articles are being cited by ChatGPT/Perplexity/Gemini—and turn the results into something you can show clients.

Yes. If your goal is “Are my actual articles/pages being mentioned or cited by AI assistants?”, I’d use an AI visibility checker, not a traditional SEO or plagiarism grader.

Best free options right now

1. Ahrefs Free AI Visibility Checker — my first pick
   • Checks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode.
   • Shows whether your brand/domain is mentioned and which pages/domains get cited.
   • Free report, with no signup required. ahrefs.com

Ahrefs Free AI Visibility Checker

2. Frase AI Visibility Checker — best if you want to test a specific article URL
   • You can enter your domain or individual URL.
   • Looks at whether ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini link back to your content. www.frase.io

Frase AI Visibility Checker

3. FogTrail — useful for a broader multi-AI check
   • Checks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini and Grok.
   • Reports whether you're cited, merely mentioned, or invisible for each query. fogtrail.ai

FogTrail Free AI Visibility Scan

One important distinction

If by “article excerpts are showing up” you mean “Is the AI literally reproducing sentences/passages from my article?”, these visibility tools aren't really designed to measure that. They're primarily measuring mentions and citations.

For a freelance copywriter, I'd do this:

Article URL → Frase to see whether the specific piece is being cited, then Ahrefs to see whether your expertise/domain is appearing across broader AI queries.

And don't treat a single AI answer as definitive—AI results can change substantially depending on the wording, date, and model, so visibility is inherently somewhat variable. arxiv.org

If you tell me where your articles are published (your own site, client sites, Medium, LinkedIn, etc.), I can recommend the best free workflow for checking whether your actual paragraphs are being picked up.

Yes. If by “showing up” you mean whether AI assistants are actually mentioning/citing your published articles, rather than merely whether your site is technically crawlable, I’d start with:

Best free options

1. urlAhrefs Free AI Visibility Checkerturn0search0 — best overall
   • Free, no signup.
   • Checks visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews.
   • Shows mentions, topics that trigger them, and cited domains/pages.
   • Particularly useful if you write under your own name or for a recognizable publication/brand.

2. urlSemrush AI Search Visibility Checkerturn0search2 — good for a website/domain
   • Free and no signup.
   • Enter your domain and it checks visibility in ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Gemini.
   • Better for getting a site-level picture than checking one particular paragraph.

3. urlAuditZap's Free AI Visibility Checkerturn0search3 — best for individual articles
   • Enter a specific URL.
   • Checks whether AI crawlers can access the page and whether the page has characteristics that make it easier for AI systems to understand and cite.
   • Important distinction: this is more of an “AI citation readiness” grader than proof that an assistant is currently citing your article.

One important caveat

There isn't really a free “paste my excerpt → tell me exactly which AI assistants are quoting this passage” grader that I would trust as definitive. AI responses are dynamic, and visibility varies by query, model, location, and time. Even AI-visibility research notes that measurement can be unstable across platforms. arxiv.org

For a freelance copywriter, I'd use a two-step test:

① Run your article URL through Ahrefs to see whether the site/page is appearing in AI answers.

② Then manually ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, etc. the questions your article is designed to answer, and look at the citations. If your page repeatedly appears as a cited source, that's much stronger evidence that the actual content is being retrieved.

If you tell me where your articles are published (your own site, Medium, client sites, Substack, etc.), I can recommend the best free checker specifically for your situation.

Yes. If you mean “Can I paste my article/URL somewhere and see whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, etc. actually mention or cite it?”, there are a few free options worth trying:

• Frase AI Visibility Checker — probably the closest match to what you're asking. You can enter a domain or specific URL, and its free check looks for whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini cite you. The free version gives a ChatGPT result without signup. www.frase.io

urlFrase AI Visibility Checkerturn0search6

• Ahrefs Free AI Visibility Checker — checks whether AI systems mention your brand and shows the domains/pages cited alongside it. It tests ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Overviews, though the free report is limited. ahrefs.com

urlAhrefs AI Visibility Checkerturn0search0

• rank.ai AI Ranking Checker — lets you enter a prompt plus your domain and checks ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini side-by-side, including whether your site is cited. It currently advertises a free check with no signup. www.rank.ai

urlrank.ai AI Visibility Checkerturn0search2

For a freelance copywriter, I'd start with Frase. The important distinction is that you don't really want an “AI detector” that says your writing looks AI-generated. You want an AI visibility/citation checker that tells you whether your published work is actually being retrieved and cited in AI answers.

One caveat: these tools give you a snapshot, not proof that an article will always appear. AI answers can vary substantially between runs and over time. arxiv.org

If you give me one article URL, I can also show you exactly how I'd test whether its excerpts are surfacing in AI assistants.

If your goal is to find out whether AI assistants (like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, etc.) are surfacing or citing your article excerpts, that's different from a traditional "AI detector." There isn't a perfect free grader, but there are a few useful tools.

Here are the best free or freemium options:

1. entity["company","Peec AI",""]
   • Tracks whether your brand or content appears in AI search engines.
   • Better for SEO professionals, but it has a free tier.
   • Good if you're monitoring multiple articles over time.

2. entity["company","Profound",""]
   • Measures AI visibility across assistants.
   • Primarily paid, but useful to know if you later need enterprise-level tracking.

3. entity["company","Otterly.AI",""]
   • Designed specifically for monitoring AI search results.
   • Offers limited free usage.
   • Lets you see whether your site is mentioned in AI-generated answers.

4. Manual testing (still one of the best free methods)
   • Ask the same question your readers would ask in:
     • ChatGPT
     • Claude
     • Gemini
     • Perplexity
   • Look for:
     • Direct citations
     • Verbatim or near-verbatim excerpts
     • Mentions of your publication
     • Links to your article

5. entity["company","Google Search Console",""]
   • Doesn't tell you if AI assistants quote you.
   • But it does show whether AI-generated search features are increasing impressions and clicks to your pages.

If you want to detect copied passages

If you're wondering whether AI assistants are reproducing your exact wording, use plagiarism tools instead:

• entity["company","Copyscape",""] (limited free search)
• entity["company","Duplichecker",""] (free)
• entity["company","Plagiarism Detector",""] (free)

These compare text against indexed web content, though they won't reliably detect content generated privately inside AI chats.

For freelance copywriters

A practical workflow is:

1. Publish your article.
2. Ask 10–20 realistic prompts in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity.
3. Record whether your article is cited, linked, paraphrased, or omitted.
4. Repeat monthly to see if visibility improves.

This is often more informative than an "AI detector" because it measures what potential clients and readers actually see.

If your goal is GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)—optimizing content so AI assistants are more likely to reference it—I can also recommend several free tools specifically for tracking AI visibility and citations.

If your goal is to see whether AI assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, etc.) are using or citing your content, there isn't a perfect free grader yet. However, there are several useful tools that approximate it from different angles.

Here are the best free or freemium options:

For a freelance copywriter, I'd use a combination:

1. Mangools AI Search Grader for a quick overall visibility score.
2. Goodie AI Search Grader to test article topics and prompts.
3. Peec AI if you want ongoing monitoring as you publish more content.

If you want to check a specific article excerpt

The most reliable manual workflow is:

• Copy a distinctive 1–2 sentence excerpt.
• Ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity questions that should surface that information naturally.
• Note whether:
  • your wording appears,
  • your site is cited,
  • another source is credited instead,
  • or the assistant paraphrases the idea without attribution.

This is often more informative than a single "AI detector" score because today's assistants frequently paraphrase rather than quote directly.

If you're trying to build authority as a writer, I can also recommend free GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) tools that specifically score how likely your articles are to be cited by AI assistants, rather than just ranking well in traditional search.

If your goal is "Can AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Perplexity find and quote my articles?", there isn't a perfect free grader—but there are several useful free or freemium tools.

Here are the ones copywriters and SEO professionals are using:

1. Peec AI – Tracks whether brands and pages are cited by major AI search engines. It has a free tier that's useful for limited checks.

2. Profound – Enterprise-focused AI visibility platform. Not really free, but worth knowing if you work with larger clients.

3. Goodie AI Search Grader – Lets you test prompts and see whether your site appears in AI-generated answers. Has a free version with limits.

4. Hall Analysis / AI Search audits – Some SEO agencies offer free AI visibility graders where you enter a domain and receive a report showing how often AI assistants reference it.

5. Manual testing (still surprisingly effective and free)
   • Ask ChatGPT Search, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Copilot the questions your clients target.
   • Use prompts like:
     • "What are the best payroll software options for small businesses?"
     • "How do I choose an estate planning attorney?"
     • "What causes high bounce rates on ecommerce sites?"
   • Note whether your article, company, or wording is cited.

If you're checking specific article excerpts

There isn't a tool that reliably says, "This paragraph appears in AI assistants."

Instead, you can:

• Search for a distinctive 8–15 word phrase from your article in AI search tools.
• Ask:
  • "Where does this quote come from?"
  • "Can you identify the source of this passage?"
  • "Which website originally published this wording?"

This helps determine whether the assistant recognizes or attributes your work.

Best free workflow

For a freelance copywriter, I'd recommend:

• Use Goodie AI Search Grader or Peec AI to check AI visibility for a client's domain.
• Test 10–20 realistic prompts manually across ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, and Gemini.
• Keep a spreadsheet of:
  • Prompt
  • Whether your client's site appears
  • Citation position
  • Competitors cited
  • Whether the AI quotes or paraphrases your content

This gives clients a much more meaningful measure than traditional "AI detection" scores.

If your goal is specifically to determine whether AI models have memorized or are reproducing your writing verbatim, that's a different problem, and I can recommend tools and testing methods designed for that use case.

If your goal is "Can I tell whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, or AI search engines are using my writing?", there isn't a perfect free grader. Most AI detectors answer a different question ("Was this text written by AI?"), not "Is this text appearing in AI answers?"

The best free or freemium options are:

1. Profound (free trial) – Tracks whether your brand, website, or content is cited in AI assistants. It's designed for AI visibility rather than AI detection.

2. Peec AI (free tier) – Monitors how often AI search engines mention your content or brand and compares visibility against competitors.

3. Goodie AI Search Grader (free) – Lets you test prompts and see whether your site or content appears in AI-generated answers. Useful for freelancers optimizing clients' content.

4. Otterly.AI (free trial) – Checks visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and other AI search platforms over time.

5. Manual prompt testing (free) – Often the most revealing approach:
   • Copy a distinctive 1–2 sentence excerpt from your article.
   • Ask multiple assistants:
     • "What article is this from?"
     • "Who wrote this passage?"
     • "Summarize this article."
     • "What sources support this claim?"
   • Also search the exact phrase in Google using quotes to see where it appears.

If you're a freelance copywriter

What usually matters isn't whether the model memorized your text. It's whether AI assistants:

• cite your client's site,
• quote your wording,
• recommend your article, or
• synthesize information from it.

Those are the metrics that influence traffic and authority.

If you're trying to optimize content for AI discovery (sometimes called Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)), tools like Goodie AI Search Grader plus manual testing give a surprisingly useful free workflow.

If you want, I can also recommend the best completely free workflow for checking 20–50 article excerpts across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity without paying for enterprise AI visibility tools.

If your goal is "Can AI assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or Perplexity find and cite my articles?", traditional AI detectors aren't the right tool. Instead, you want AI visibility or LLM brand monitoring tools.

Here are the best free or freemium options:

If you're a freelance copywriter

A practical free workflow is:

1. Paste a distinctive sentence from your article into:
   • ChatGPT Search
   • Gemini
   • Perplexity
   • Claude
2. Ask:
   • "Summarize this topic and cite your sources."
   • "Who originally published this information?"
   • "What are the best sources on this topic?"
3. See whether your website is cited or referenced.

This often tells you more than an AI detector because it measures retrievability, not whether text "looks AI-written."

If you want to check individual article excerpts

Try searching Google with a quoted sentence first:

"your exact sentence here"

If Google indexes it but AI assistants never cite it, the issue is usually AI discoverability rather than indexing.

If you're trying to optimize for AI search (sometimes called GEO—Generative Engine Optimization), I can also recommend several free tools that score how likely your content is to be cited by AI assistants.