The short answer
Use both — they answer different questions. Search Console opened its generative-AI report in June 2026: impression-centric exposure inside Google surfaces for a site you own, rolling out progressively. That report is your first-party record, and where a client property has it, we link the export as evidence beside the paid read. CiteAngle measures the answer layer itself, across engines a single console does not cover — whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Bing Copilot name your brand and cite your pages — with competitors read in the same answers, repeated runs, and Wilson confidence intervals on every applicable rate.
Why this matters
Search Console reports the property you own and nothing else. A competitor pulling ahead inside the same answer never surfaces there, so the first signal is a quarter that came in short.
We read the answer layer across engines and link your own export beside it. The first-party record and the cross-engine read end up on one page.
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