Why ChatGPT needs its own tracker
StatCounter's May 2026 AI chatbot data puts ChatGPT at 79.08% worldwide share. That makes it the place where category prompts, comparison prompts, and recommendation prompts can become first-touch discovery.
Track your brand inside ChatGPT and 17 other AI search engines.
ChatGPT is still the default AI answer surface for many buyers. RankBits shows whether those answers name you, cite you, and place you beside the brands your market already trusts.
Check your brand on ChatGPT — live
Enter your website and RankBits asks ChatGPT real buyer prompts, then scores your mentions, citations, and competitors. Free — no signup required.
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3 buyer prompts on ChatGPT
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Brand profile
Key metrics
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Visibility by engine
Score 0–100 per AI engine
Share of voice
Citation share among brands and competitors
Mentions vs citations
Per engine coverage
Competitive landscape
Every brand & site that surfaces across the AI answers, ranked by visibility
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Visibility score
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Prompt-by-prompt breakdown
How you and your top competitors surface on each prompt, ordered by estimated search volume (custom prompts first). Click any prompt to see every engine's answer.
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C citations
· counts = engines / total
Source attribution
Starts with your owned pages by default. Switch to all sources or a specific competitor to inspect the broader citation map.
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Recommendations & Action Plan
Prioritized, actionable insights based on your scan results. Each item tells you exactly what to do next.
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Why ChatGPT visibility matters
What RankBits measures
RankBits scores the generated answer, not just the source list: brand mentions, citations, citation rank, competitor share of voice, prompt-level wins, and movement across repeated scans.
How teams use it
Use RankBits to find prompts where ChatGPT lists competitors, inspect the sources behind citations, and track the same prompt set after content, documentation, PR, or review work ships.
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Unique insight
ChatGPT has the lowest citation rate among major AI engines, but mentions brands 3.2x more often than it links to them — and 80% of URLs ChatGPT cites don't rank in Google's top 100, making traditional SEO rankings a poor proxy for ChatGPT visibility.
How RankBits tracks ChatGPT
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Generate the prompts your buyers actually ask ChatGPT.
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Run those prompts against ChatGPT and every selected comparison engine.
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Inspect answer text, citations, and source URLs that shaped the recommendation.
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Track the same prompt set over time so content work shows up as movement.
See your brand through ChatGPT's lens.
Run a free ChatGPT scan above — mentions, citations, competitors, and source attribution in under a minute, no signup required.
Frequently asked
What does RankBits track inside ChatGPT?
RankBits runs realistic buyer and research prompts through ChatGPT, then measures whether your brand is mentioned, cited, and ranked in the cited sources.
What are AI search sources?
RankBits also queries source-oriented systems such as Tavily, Exa, Google Search, and Bing Search to understand the evidence layer behind AI answers.
Can I compare ChatGPT visibility against competitors?
Yes. RankBits builds a competitive landscape from discovered and cited domains so you can see who ChatGPT names, links, and consistently trusts.
Why include search sources with assistant engines?
AI assistants often depend on web evidence. Tracking source visibility helps explain why a brand is or is not trusted in generated answers.
Does RankBits track the same prompts over time?
Tracked scans keep the same prompts and selected engines, which makes trend lines meaningful instead of mixing different query sets.
Can RankBits discover competitors automatically?
Yes. RankBits adds competitors from actually cited domains, then filters out zero-visibility noise.
Why do citations matter in ChatGPT answers?
Mentions show awareness, but citations show evidence. A cited brand is easier for users to verify and easier for teams to improve with content and source work.
What should I do with source attribution?
Use it to find owned pages worth strengthening, competitor pages worth studying, and third-party sources that influence AI answers.