Vantage research · November 2026 · MCP and agents
What AI cites for “what is an mcp server”
ChatGPT cited 3 sites, Gemini cited 6 sites, Perplexity cited 6 sites. No 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
3 sites · opens with a sentence · has a table · opening 37 words
- github.com
- developers.openai.com
- docs.cloud.google.com
Brands namedResources, Prompts, Google Drive MCP, GitHub MCP, Database MCP, Slack MCP
Gemini
6 sites · opens with a sentence · no table · opening 31 words
- en.wikipedia.org
- cloud.google.com
- medium.comcommunity
- modelcontextprotocol.io
- anthropic.com
- github.com
Brands namedResources, Prompts, Popular Examples of MCP Servers, Filesystem Server, Database Servers, Git/GitHub Servers, Memory Server
Perplexity
6 sites · opens with a sentence · no table · opening 25 words
- learn.microsoft.com
- hubspot.com
- cloudflare.com
- developers.openai.com
- modelcontextprotocol.io
- lenovo.com
Brands namednone
Cited by more than one engine
- github.com
- developers.openai.com
- modelcontextprotocol.io
Is your site one of them?
Ask your AI agent to run Vantage's analyze_citation_coverage for your domain and “what is an mcp server”, 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.