B
Evidence Grade B
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Current
29%
29% -- citation recency share for ChatGPT (2026)
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Value
29%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Evidence Quality
B
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Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Leapd
Primary
Tier C
https://www.honeyb.ai/blog/google-ai-mode-vs-chatgpt ↗
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Google AI Mode vs ChatGPT: Two Approaches to Answer-First Search
The google ai mode vs chatgpt comparison looks like a head-to-head between two answer engines, and on the surface it is. Both take a question in plain language and hand back a written, cited response instead of a page of links. But the two were built from opposite ends of the search problem, and tha…
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ChatGPT: 29% citation recency share. Source: Leapd (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/chatgpt-citations-2022-or-earlier-29pct
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