October 2026 edition · updated October 30, 2026

Review Sites Index · October 2026

The review sites AI assistants cite most when customers ask about a business, ranked from 23,227 answers by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity. Pick an industry to see who leads there.

109 review sites measured for AI citations Grades.com collects reviews from 54 review sites (53 of the measured ones, marked below)

Published October 30, 2026How we measureDownload the data (JSON)
AI answers analyzed
23,227 4 assistants, last 90 days
Most cited site
43.4% Yelp, of all answers
Gap to #2
1.6x Yelp vs BBB (26.3%)
Highest reply rate
76% Expedia, vs 10% on Yelp
Combined site reach
9.6B est. monthly organic visits, 109 measured sites, DataForSEO Labs
Businesses checked
5,480 31 industries, 109 sites measured

Key findings

October 2026
  1. 43%

    Yelp is the most-cited review site in AI answers

    Cited in 43.4% of 23,227 AI answers, 1.6 times the next site (BBB, 26.3%). Claude cited it in 77% of its answers, Gemini in none.

  2. 13%

    Having a profile is not the same as being cited

    100% of the 5,480 businesses we checked have a Google Business Profile, but 12.6% of AI answers cite it. ChatGPT cites it most (48% of its answers).

  3. 76%

    AI cites G2 in 76% of SaaS answers

    G2 is cited in 76.0% of 363 SaaS answers (1.7% of all answers), Cars.com in 74.7% of 3,838 Car Dealers answers, Tripadvisor in 58.0% of 400 Travel & Recreation answers.

  4. 76% vs 10%

    Businesses reply on Expedia far more than on Yelp

    Businesses replied to 76% of their Expedia reviews in the last 12 months (n = 894 reviews), and to 10% of their Yelp reviews (n = 373).

Cite this report Grades.com. “Review Sites Index, October 2026 edition.” www.grades.com/review-sites/. Data as of October 30, 2026.

The index

78 of 109 measured sites cited in 20+ answers

Collected by Grades.com= Grades.com collects reviews from this site. Others are measured only (marked “not collected”).

RankReview siteBy assistantGPTClaudeGeminiPplxCoverageReply rateGuide
Showing 15 of the 78 sites cited in 20 or more answers (109 measured in all). AI citation share: the share of n = 23,227 AI answers (last 90 days) that cite the site. Sites cited in fewer than 20 answers are not ranked.Collected by Grades.com Collected by Grades.com: it can pull this site's reviews into your inbox. The index measures every site AI answers cite, collected or not.By assistant: the share of each assistant’s answers that cite the site.Site reach: estimated monthly organic search visits to the site's domain (DataForSEO Labs, Ahrefs Domain Rating (DR), October 2026). Estimates, not the sites' own figures. Click a column heading to sort.Coverage: businesses with a profile on the site. Reply rate: reviews the business answered, the last 12 months.

Leaders by industry

The share of each industry's AI answers that cite the site. n = answers about businesses in that industry.

All 31 industries

Sites cited in fewer than 20 answers of an industry are not ranked in it. Industries with fewer than 20 answers are left out.

Methodology

Every month we ask 4 AI assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity) about the businesses in the Grades.com directory and record every review site each answer cites. A site's AI citation share is the number of answers citing it divided by all answers in the window. Search-result and help pages on a review site are not counted. We also check each business for a profile on every site (coverage), and count how many of its reviews the business answered (reply rate).

Shares by industry use only the answers about businesses in that industry. A site is ranked in a view when at least 20 of its answers cite it; each guide lists its sample size next to every number.

Full methodology · Download the data (JSON)

Window
Aug 1 to Oct 30, 2026 (90 days)
AI answers
23,227: ChatGPT 6,044, Claude 5,342, Gemini 5,798, Perplexity 6,043
Businesses checked
5,480 in 31 industries
Review sites measured
109 cited by AI answers, 92 with a guide
Collected by Grades.com
54 review sites, 53 of them measured here
Site reach
Estimated monthly organic visits (DataForSEO Labs, Ahrefs Domain Rating), October 2026; estimates, not the sites' own figures
Reply rates
Reviews from the last 12 months; shown with at least 100 reviews checked
Next edition
November 2026

All 92 site guides, A to Z

How to claim a profile, reply and report reviews on each site, by kind of business. AI = AI citation share, Coverage = businesses with a profile, Replies = reviews the business answered.

Collected by Grades.com= Grades.com collects reviews from this site. Others are measured only.

General and consumer 20

Automotive 7

Health, medical and senior care 9

Home services 8

Business, software and employers 15

Beauty and wellness 4

Hospitality, travel and events 7

E-commerce and apps 12

Real estate and housing 3

Education 2

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