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citeOS / State of Crypto AI Citations
Free data report · 2026

The State of Crypto AI Citations

We audited 3,646 citation events across the 5 AI engines crypto buyers actually use, to answer one question: what does it really take to get cited by AI? The findings break a lot of marketing intuition. Here is the data, free.

47%
A free Reddit thread gets cited more often than a Tier-1 press placement (31%) in crypto due-diligence prompts.
<1 in 100
Odds the same prompt returns the same brand list twice. You cannot hold a rank in AI.
9 vs 2
Prompts cited for one brand in a week, on two engines. Checking one engine is one narrow view.

n = 3,646 audited citation events · 5 engines · 100 observation points per scan

What's inside / 01

Five engines. 20 buyer prompts. 3,646 citation events.

No vibes, no vanity metrics. Every claim in the report is tied to a number you can act on.

3,646
audited AI citation events behind the report
1.4×
the real Tier-1 cite premium over Tier-2 — far smaller than the industry assumes
5
engines measured: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Google AI Mode

You will get the full cite-rate breakdown by outlet tier, the engine-disagreement data, the methodology behind every number, and a plain-English playbook for where to spend your next marketing dollar.

Why we built it / 02

Crypto buyers ask the AI before they ask Google.

And the horizontal AEO tools were built for SaaS — they don't rank crypto outlets, understand a token launch, or know a DeFi answer shouldn't cite a gaming blog. So we measured crypto on its own terms. This report is the first cut of that data, and the tool that measures your own version of it goes live this week.

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