{
  "name": "Gadex B2B AI Citation Benchmark 2026",
  "version": "1.0",
  "fieldwork_date": "2026-08-11",
  "published_by": "Gadex Research",
  "market": "United States",
  "language": "English",
  "sample": {
    "prompts": 50,
    "categories": 10,
    "answers": 150,
    "citation_occurrences": 1576,
    "distinct_normalized_urls": 1211,
    "distinct_root_domains": 632
  },
  "engines": [
    {
      "engine": "ChatGPT",
      "engine_key": "chatgpt",
      "model_returned": [
        "gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17"
      ],
      "answers": 50
    },
    {
      "engine": "Gemini",
      "engine_key": "gemini",
      "model_returned": [
        "gemini-3.5-flash-lite"
      ],
      "answers": 50
    },
    {
      "engine": "Perplexity",
      "engine_key": "perplexity",
      "model_returned": [
        "sonar"
      ],
      "answers": 50
    }
  ],
  "generation_settings": {
    "temperature": 0,
    "web_search": true
  },
  "access_method": "DataForSEO LLM Responses API",
  "citation_unit": "One distinct normalized URL within one answer. The same URL in another answer is another occurrence.",
  "url_normalization": "Fragments, www host prefix, trailing slash and known tracking parameters were removed. Gemini grounding redirects were resolved where possible; four unresolved redirect URLs retain a destination domain inferred from the API-provided title.",
  "root_domain_note": "Subdomains generally roll up to a registrable root domain using the study's deterministic domain routine.",
  "source_type_classes": [
    "software_vendor_owned",
    "publisher_agency_or_unclassified",
    "community_or_video",
    "software_marketplace_or_review"
  ],
  "page_format_classes": [
    "comparison_list_or_review",
    "editorial_or_other",
    "community_or_video",
    "vendor_product_or_guide",
    "pricing",
    "documentation_or_support",
    "pdf_or_report"
  ],
  "classification_note": "Rule-based URL/domain/title classification; not a manual content review of all 1,211 pages.",
  "google_comparison": "The cited root domain was matched against the first 10 organic results returned for the shorter seed query in the same US English desktop market. The stored absolute rank can exceed 10 when SERP features precede an organic result.",
  "response_text_release": {
    "included": false,
    "status": "withheld_pending_written_permission",
    "reviewed_on": "2026-08-11",
    "rationale": "Public upstream API terms often allocate generated-output rights to the direct API customer, but DataForSEO was the contractual access layer and its public terms do not expressly grant downstream republication rights for full response text."
  },
  "files": {
    "citations": "gadex-b2b-ai-citations-2026.csv",
    "prompts": "gadex-b2b-ai-prompts-2026.csv",
    "answers": "gadex-b2b-ai-answers-2026.jsonl",
    "methodology": "gadex-b2b-ai-methodology-2026.json",
    "readme": "gadex-b2b-ai-dataset-readme-2026.md",
    "source_type_page_format_visual_svg": "gadex-b2b-ai-source-type-page-format-bars-2026.svg",
    "cross_engine_agreement_visual_svg": "gadex-b2b-ai-cross-engine-agreement-2026.svg"
  }
}