Pineprompt benchmarkt Zitierpraxis von AI-Suchmaschinen
Pineprompt hat 18.792 Antworten auf 200 Käufer-Prompts auf sieben AI-Suchmaschinen ausgewertet. Ergebnis: Perplexity zitiert in 100 Prozent der Antworten eine Quelle, Gemini nur in 90,7 Prozent. Auch die Marken-Nennung variiert je nach Engine stark.
Posted on Oct 15 • Originally published at pineprompt.com
Pineprompt analyzed 18,792 responses to 200 non-branded buyer prompts across 10 categories, run daily on seven AI search engines from September 30 to October 13, 2026. This is how the engines cite sources and name brands.
The data is licensed under CC BY 4.0, so you may share and adapt it with attribution. Source: Pineprompt AI Search Visibility Benchmark 2026, pineprompt.com/research/ai-search-visibility-benchmark. The CSV is available.
We wrote 200 non-branded buyer prompts across 10 categories and ran each against 7 engines: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overview, Google AI Mode, and Copilot. The 18,792 responses were collected from 2026-09-30 to 2026-10-13. Prompts were scheduled daily on each engine for 14 days (US, English); some runs returned no answer. Pineprompt analysed the responses to extract citations and named brands. Metric definitions are on the methodology page.
The prompts are a fixed sample of buyer questions in US English, so results may not hold for other markets, languages, or query styles. AI answers are non-deterministic, and engines change without notice, so the numbers describe a 14-day window rather than a lasting property of each engine. Brand stats cover brands seen with 2 or more mentions that were assigned to category segments by 2026-10-13. Claude is split by model: the previous Haiku until 2026-10-09 around 18:40 UTC, claude-haiku-5-5 after. Domain type uses the app's source classification; missing source types land in Other.