what should I use to track mentions across Perplexity and Gemini

If you want to track mentions across Perplexity and Gemini, the best option depends on whether you mean:

1. Brand/website mentions inside AI answers
2. Conversation/log tracking for your own use
3. Competitive visibility monitoring across AI search tools

Best tools to use

1) Profound

• Built specifically for AI mention/visibility tracking across generative engines.
• Good for seeing when your brand is cited or surfaced in AI responses.
• Best fit if you care about AI search visibility across systems like Perplexity and Gemini.

2) Otterly.AI

• Tracks how brands appear in AI-generated answers.
• Useful for monitoring mentions, prompts, and source citations.
• Good for ongoing reporting and alerts.

3) Scrunch AI

• Focuses on brand presence in AI search results.
• Useful if you want more of a SEO/visibility angle for generative engines.

4) Manual/API approach

If you need a custom setup:

• Use the Perplexity API or Perplexity output monitoring
• Use Gemini API for prompt testing / response tracking
• Store outputs in a database and compare for mentions over time

This is best if you need:

• custom alerting
• exact prompt libraries
• internal dashboards
• more control over what counts as a “mention”

My recommendation

• For ready-made monitoring: Profound or Otterly.AI
• For deeper analytics: Profound
• For custom workflows: build a small pipeline using the APIs

Quick rule of thumb

• If you want “show me when AI mentions my brand” → Otterly.AI
• If you want “show me how visible I am across AI engines” → Profound
• If you want full control and internal tracking → custom API setup

If you want, I can also give you:

• a tool comparison table
• a cheap stack
• or a step-by-step setup to track mentions automatically