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title: "Average Sources per AI Answer | Kitbase Data"
description: "How many sources each AI engine attaches to an answer that cites anything — ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Perplexity and Claude compared, month by month."
canonical: https://kitbase.dev/data/average-sources-per-answer
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[Kitbase Data](/data) / Average sources per answer

Engine behaviour · all engines

# How many sources an answer carries

**No engine has a published month yet.**

Aggregated across Kitbase customers' tracked prompts · as of 28 Aug 2026, 04:20 UTC · [JSON](https://api.kitbase.dev/public/insights/ai-citations)

## No months have cleared the publication thresholds yet

Figures appear here after the nightly aggregate runs. A month is published only when it clears minimum-volume and diversity thresholds — a month that misses is absent, not shown as zero.

Last checked 28 Aug 2026, 04:20 UTC.

Methodology Percentages only, pooled across every customer's tracked prompts — nothing here identifies a customer, project, prompt, brand or person. A month is published only when it clears minimum-volume and diversity thresholds.

An answer is one completed AI Visibility tracking run that returned a direct answer; ad-hoc explorations are excluded, and months are counted in UTC. Figures are aggregated across every Kitbase customer's tracked prompts, and each customer's own domain is excluded from their own answers. The prompts are our customers' prompts, not a neutral sample of the web — read these as what AI engines cite when asked the kinds of questions brands track.

Average sources per answer is the number of citations divided by the number of answers that carry at least one citation.

Answers with citations is the share of answers that carry at least one source. It is the reason the answer-share denominator is citing answers rather than all answers.

Engines are never merged: an engine read from its consumer interface and the same vendor's API are separate series. A month is published only once it clears minimum-volume and diversity thresholds — enough answers for a share to mean anything, from enough separate customers that no one panel becomes the chart. A month that misses is absent from this site, not shown as zero. Each engine-month lists its most-cited domains.

Percentages are the only figures published. Counts, projects, prompts, brands and customers stay in the backend. Recomputed nightly; last aggregated 28 Aug 2026, 04:20 UTC.

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This page is the aggregate — Kitbase runs the same tracking on your own prompts.

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