Vantage research · November 2026 · Developer tools
What AI cites for “best headless cms”
ChatGPT cited 10 sites, Gemini cited 7 sites, Perplexity cited 10 sites. 1 site was cited by all three.
Updated monthlyNext edition 1 December 2026
ChatGPTGeminiPerplexity dots beside a site: the other engines that cite it too
ChatGPT
10 sites · opens with a sentence · has a table · opening 33 words
- sanity.io
- payloadcms.com
- storyblok.com
- strapi.io
- contentful.com
- directus.io
- progressionagency.com
- diggama.com
- flozic.ai
- webflow.com
Brands namedSanity, Payload CMS, Storyblok, Strapi, Contentful, Directus, Payload
Gemini
7 sites · opens with a sentence · no table · opening 30 words
- sanity.io
- cosmicjs.com
- dotcms.com
- learn.g2.comcommunity
- brightspot.com
- pantheon.io
- agilitycms.com
Brands namedSanity, Storyblok, Contentful, Strapi, Hygraph, Payload, Directus
Perplexity
10 sites · opens with a sentence · has a table · opening 38 words
- jamstack.org
- wix.com
- cybernews.com
- webflow.com
- kontent.ai
- brightspot.com
- pantheon.io
- sanity.io
- cosmicjs.com
- dotcms.com
Brands namedSanity, Strapi, Contentful, Storyblok, Directus, Payload, Hygraph
Cited by more than one engine
- sanity.io
- webflow.com
- cosmicjs.com
- dotcms.com
- brightspot.com
- pantheon.io
Is your site one of them?
Ask your AI agent to run Vantage's analyze_citation_coverage for your domain and “best headless cms”, on all
three engines, and it will tell you whether you are cited, who is instead, and what changed since your last check.
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Each engine was asked once, in English, as from the United States, on 2026-11-01. Answers change from run to run, so read this as a snapshot. Download the data.