Buyers ask AI for recommendations now. Mentioned asks Claude 5 real buyer questions about your category and checks whether you come up — free, with the real quotes to prove it. Bring your own API key to compare ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek or Llama too.
No scraping, no guessing — Mentioned reads the same answers a buyer would get.
Mentioned generates 5 realistic questions a buyer would ask about your category — not generic prompts, and never the same as your brand name.
All 5 questions go to Claude independently and simultaneously, exactly as a buyer would experience it — one question, one honest answer.
Each answer is checked for your brand name. Mentioned quotes the sentence where you appear, or names who got recommended instead — no fabricated results, ever.
A checker only matters if you can trust the result. Mentioned is built around that constraint, not around it.
Every mention, snippet, and competitor name is a real substring of the model's actual answer — nothing is hand-tuned, estimated, or invented.
Paying for higher limits buys quota, never a better score. The check runs the same for every brand, funded or not.
The free check runs on Claude, on us. ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek and Llama are real, bring-your-own-key options — never claimed as live coverage we don't actually have.
An AI citation checker tests whether AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT mention a specific brand when people ask for recommendations in that brand's category. Mentioned asks 5 realistic buyer questions and reports how often your brand appears in the answers.
More buyers now ask AI assistants for recommendations instead of searching Google directly. If an AI doesn't mention your brand for your category, it's recommending competitors instead — even if you rank well in traditional search.
Yes. Mentioned is free, with a limit of 5 checks per day per visitor to keep the service available for everyone. A paid plan for higher volume is on the pricing page.
The free check runs on Claude, paid for by us — no account, no key needed. To compare other assistants, open “Compare other AI assistants” on the checker and paste your own API key for ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek or Llama 3.3 (Groq). Your key is used for that one check and is never stored on our servers. Gemini and Groq both have free API tiers, so a second opinion doesn't have to cost anything.
Mentioned writes 5 realistic buyer questions for your category, asks the AI model each one independently, and checks whether your brand name appears as a substring in each answer. The score is simply how many of the 5 answers mentioned you. See how it works for the full methodology.
There's no official "good" threshold — Mentioned doesn't grade you against a benchmark. 5/5 means your brand showed up in every one of the 5 answers; 0/5 means it showed up in none. What matters more than the raw number is who got named instead when you didn't — those are the competitors currently winning that answer — and how the score moves over time or across categories you check.
A rank tracker measures where a URL sits in a search engine's results list for a query — a stable, repeatable position. Mentioned measures something different: whether an AI assistant actually names your brand in a generated answer to a real buyer question. AI answers aren't a ranked list and can vary between runs, so ranking well in Google doesn't guarantee a mention from Claude, and vice versa. See the full breakdown.
We store the check itself (brand, category, questions, answers and score) so a shareable results link works, plus a hashed version of your IP address for rate limiting. We never store raw IP addresses. See the privacy policy for details.
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