Google AI Mode cited Reddit in 2.1% of its responses across 1,905 AmICited tracked prompts (July 13, 2026–July 23, 2026, 2026). Here is the full breakdown — by engine, by rank, and over time — with the raw numbers behind every figure.
Between July 13, 2026 and July 23, 2026, AmICited ran 1,905 tracked prompts through Google AI Mode and recorded every source it cited. Of the 3,975 Google AI Mode responses in that window, 85 included at least one link to Reddit — a citation rate of 2.1%. In other words, roughly one in 47 of Google AI Mode’s answers to these prompts pointed readers to Reddit. A response is counted as citing Reddit whenever any of the source URLs Google AI Mode attached resolves to reddit.com (including subdomains ); the figures below break that number down by engine, by rank, and over time.
Reddit citation rate in Google AI Mode vs. other AI search engines
Reddit’s 2.1% citation rate in Google AI Mode looks very different next to the other AI engines AmICited tracks. It lands mid-pack: ChatGPT is highest at 7.3% and Perplexity lowest at 0.0%. Across the four other engines the average Reddit citation rate is 2.7%, so Google AI Mode runs below the cross-engine norm for this prompt set. That spread matters: it means whether Reddit shows up as a source depends heavily on which AI engine a user asks, not just on Reddit’s own content.
The raw Google AI Mode citation data for Reddit
The table below is the exact data behind the chart — the number of responses analyzed for each engine, how many cited Reddit, and the resulting rate. Every percentage on this page is computed from these counts.
| AI engine | Responses analyzed | Responses citing Reddit | Citation rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 5,119 | 372 | 7.3% |
| Gemini | 5,123 | 131 | 2.6% |
| Google AI Mode (this page) | 3,975 | 85 | 2.1% |
| Google AI Overviews | 2,010 | 19 | 0.9% |
| Perplexity | 3,052 | 0 | 0.0% |
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Where Reddit ranks among Google AI Mode’s most-cited sources
Ranking every domain Google AI Mode cited by how many responses linked to it, Reddit comes in at #15 of 4,632. The chart highlights where Reddit sits inside Google AI Mode’s ten most-cited domains , led by youtube.com. Sitting at #15 puts Reddit well outside Google AI Mode’s core set of go-to sources, even though it is cited from time to time. Placement within an answer matters too: when Google AI Mode cites Reddit, the link sits on average at position 7.3 in the response’s source list, and 24% of those 92 citations land in the top three slots — the ones a reader is most likely to actually click.
Reddit citations in Google AI Mode over time
Day by day, Reddit’s citation rate in Google AI Mode averages 2.1% but moves around that line as daily sample sizes shift (smaller markers are lower-volume days, where a single citation swings the percentage). Its strongest well-sampled day was July 23, 2026 at 4.8% (8 of 167 responses). The rate is rising over the window, moving from 1.8% in the first half to 2.5% in the second — worth watching, though a month is too short to call it a durable shift.
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The prompts that make Google AI Mode cite Reddit
Reddit citations in Google AI Mode are concentrated in specific queries: 62 of the 1,452 tracked prompts (4%) surfaced a Reddit link at least once. These are the kinds of questions that pulled Reddit into Google AI Mode’s answers:
- “Need software for keeping manifestation journals, library notes, and session history organized?”
- “How can a small tarot business track appointments, readings, and client records in one place?”
- “What tool helps a team manage dream interpretations and card readings with shared access?”
- “Are there official guidelines from Meta on optimizing for its AI discovery features?”
- “What no-code AI tools can automate SEO content and publishing for a marketing team?”
- “What tools unify email, chat, phone, WhatsApp, and social support in one inbox?”
- “How can I build an AI agent to triage support tickets from Zendesk and Notion?”
The pattern is worth noting: Reddit’s visibility in Google AI Mode is driven by these query themes rather than spread evenly across every prompt, so the source matters most when users ask questions like the ones above.
What Reddit’s Google AI Mode citation rate means for AI search visibility
For AI-search visibility, Reddit is a weak-to-moderate channel for Google AI Mode — at 2.1% it trails the 2.7% cross-engine average, so it should not be the first place you invest to win Google AI Mode citations. The broader lesson from the by-engine spread is that AI-search visibility is engine-specific: a source that ChatGPT leans on (7.3%) can be nearly invisible in Perplexity (0.0%). Because these numbers come from AmICited’s tracked prompts — weighted toward SaaS , e-commerce and customer-support questions — they describe Reddit’s pull for that kind of query, and your own prompt mix may differ. The reliable way to know your own numbers is to track the exact prompts your audience asks and watch which sources each engine cites back.
Methodology: how AmICited measured Reddit citations in Google AI Mode
This report is built from AmICited’s own tracking data, not third-party estimates. AmICited runs a fixed set of 1,905 tracked prompts through each AI engine on a recurring schedule and stores every answer together with the source URLs the engine cited. For this page we looked at the 3,975 Google AI Mode responses collected between July 13, 2026 and July 23, 2026, 2026.
A response counts as citing Reddit when at least one of its cited source URLs resolves to reddit.com or any subdomain of it (for example www.reddit.com or other reddit.com hosts); each response is counted once regardless of how many Reddit links it contains. Domains are compared at the registrable level, so all reddit.com addresses roll up together. The citation rate is simply that count divided by the total Google AI Mode responses. Citation position is the rank of a Reddit link within a response’s source list (1 = first source cited), and the triggering prompts are the distinct tracked prompts for which at least one Google AI Mode response cited Reddit.
Two caveats worth stating plainly. First, the tracked prompts skew toward SaaS, e-commerce, customer-support and related B2B topics, so these figures describe Reddit’s pull within that prompt set, not a random sample of the whole web. Second, the five engines compared are ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews , Google AI Mode and Gemini ; Microsoft Copilot is tracked by AmICited but returned no citation data in this window, so it is excluded here.
