Reddit in AI answers: 2026 citation statistics

• 18.5%

  of citations among Google AI Overviews' top 50 domains went to Reddit, ranking it 2nd, across 830,641 distinct Reddit pages

  Ahrefs, updated 2 Sep 2026Copy citationEmbed

• 46.7%

  of citations among Perplexity's top 10 sources went to Reddit, against 21.0% for AI Overviews and 11.3% for ChatGPT, in 680 million citations from August 2024 to June 2025

  Profound, updated Aug 2025Copy citationEmbed

• 11.97%

  of US ChatGPT citations went to Reddit in January and February 2026, ranking it 2nd; in Google AI Mode it ranked 4th with 4.19%

  Similarweb, 14 Apr 2026Copy citationEmbed

• About 60%

  of ChatGPT responses cited Reddit in early August 2025, before the share fell to about 10% by mid-September, across 230,000 tracked prompts

  Semrush, 10 Nov 2025Copy citationEmbed

• 80%

  of 248,000 Reddit posts cited by AI tools had fewer than 20 upvotes, and the median cited post ran about 80 words

  Semrush, 10 Nov 2025Copy citationEmbed

These figures come from Reddit Statistics 2026: Users, Search, AI Citations and Ads, which puts them in context.