AI Platforms

SurfacedBy supports five AI platforms. Each one is tested by sending your prompts to that platform as a real user would, recording the response, and extracting whether your domain was cited.

Supported platforms

• ChatGPT - OpenAI's consumer assistant. Covered on every paid plan.
• Perplexity - Answer engine with explicit source citations. Covered on every paid plan.
• Gemini - Google's consumer assistant. Covered from Starter and up.
• Claude - Anthropic's assistant. Covered from Professional and up.
• AI Mode - Google Search's AI-generated answer surface. Covered from Professional and up.

Platform names are intentionally stable. SurfacedBy always refers to these products by their public product names, never by the underlying model variant. This keeps reporting comparable over time even as the vendors update their models.

What a scan tests per platform

For every prompt in your set, SurfacedBy sends the prompt to every platform on your plan and captures:

• The full response text.
• The list of sources cited (where the platform exposes them).
• Whether your domain was cited, and on which specific page.
• Whether any competitors in your tracked list were cited.

Those raw responses feed AI Mentions (per-platform counts), Brand Coverage (aggregate rate), and the cited-pages view.

Why platform coverage differs by tier

The more platforms a plan covers, the more expensive each scan is to run. Starter runs against the subset most commonly used; Professional and Business run against all five. If Claude or AI Mode coverage matters for your category, Professional is the minimum tier.

Listing platforms via API

The GET /platforms endpoint returns the platforms currently enabled for your account, so an integration can render the exact list without hardcoding it. See the API reference for details.