Is instagram.com cited by AI?

Yes. From March 2026 to September 2026, instagram.com was found 8,156 times across 5,123 AI responses analyzed by Mentionable. Google AI Mode cites it most often (3,240 times).

An engine lists more sources than it cites in its text. Here, 57% of citations appear in the answer itself: the rest sits in the list of sources, outside the text.

8,156

Citations

57%

Visible in answer

3,436

Pages cited

Engines

Which engines cite it

Engines do not lean on the same sources, and do not put them in their text the same way.

EngineCitationsVisible

Google AI Mode

3,24037%

AIO

Google AI Overview

2,476100%

Grok

1,3133%

Perplexity

803100%

ChatGPT

23411%

Copilot

84100%

Claude

5100%

Gemini

1100%

What AI engines look for on instagram.com

3,436 distinct URLs from this domain were recorded. Citations concentrate on these sections.

/reel

67%

21%

/popular

/wellness_aestheticsmedspa

/moon_digital_rennes

/dreammeup56

/maisonjunot

Month by month

Mar 26

180

Apr 26

2,580

May 26

887

Jun 26

2,517

Jul 26

1,775

Aug 26

205

Sep 26

Frequently asked questions

Which AI engines cite instagram.com?

7 engines cite instagram.com over the period: Google AI Mode (3,240), Google AI Overview (2,476), Perplexity (803), ChatGPT (234), Copilot (84), Claude (5), and Gemini (1). Every tracked engine has cited it.

Do AI engines put instagram.com in the text of their answers?

57% of instagram.com citations appear in the text of the answer, the rest sits in the list of sources. Google AI Overview puts it in its text most often (100%).

Which pages of instagram.com do AI engines cite?

Citations cover 3,436 distinct URLs and concentrate on /reel (67%), /p (21%), and /popular (0%).

Where does instagram.com rank among the sources cited in Beauty & cosmetics?

instagram.com ranks 3rd of 1,547 domains recorded in Beauty & cosmetics, with 4,677 citations in this sector.

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Other sources cited in Beauty & cosmetics

#	Domain	Citations
1	google.com	24,881	55%
2	youtube.com	6,988	66%
3	reddit.com	3,884	84%
4	nhs.uk	3,649	81%
5	apps.apple.com	3,399	75%
6	pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov	2,806	61%
7	play.google.com	2,395	70%
8	pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov	1,763	63%
9	facebook.com	1,404	39%
10	yelp.com	1,340	17%