AI Brand Visibility Tracker — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini

Ask the AI assistants the questions your customers ask, then see whether your brand is mentioned and how it ranks against tracked competitors. Bring your own API keys — no token markup.

Built reliability-first: every row reports what was found and what was missing — you never get a silent blank, and a run summary tells you exactly what happened.

What you get

Field	Description
provider	Provider
model	Model
answerMode	live_web_search or model_answer, so comparisons never imply the same retrieval behavior
citationMode	Whether citations came from the provider or URLs were merely present in the answer text
sampleIndex	Repeated sample number for the same provider and question
prompt	Prompt
mentioned	Mentioned
rankAmongTracked	Rank Among Tracked
competitorsMentioned	Competitors Mentioned
citedDomains	Cited Domains
brandCited	Whether a provider citation names the official brand domain you supplied
competitorsCited	Tracked competitors whose configured official domains were cited

How to use it

1. Fill in the input (see the example below).
2. Run it once for a snapshot, or schedule it to keep the data fresh.
3. Export to CSV/JSON/Excel, or push straight to Google Sheets, Notion, Airtable, Zapier, Make, or n8n.

Input

{
  "brandName": "Notion",
  "brandDomain": "notion.so",
  "brandAliases": [],
  "competitors": [
    "Evernote",
    "Obsidian"
  ],
  "competitorDomains": {"Evernote": "evernote.com", "Obsidian": "obsidian.md"},
  "topic": "note-taking apps",
  "prompts": [],
  "models": {},
  "openaiWebSearch": true,
  "runsPerPrompt": 3,
  "promptSetVersion": "2026-Q3",
  "historyStoreId": "my-brand-visibility-history",
  "historyKey": "notion-note-taking",
  "maxItems": 100
}

For a recurring report, create a named Apify key-value store and enter its ID or name as historyStoreId. The first compatible run establishes a baseline; each later compatible run adds comparison to SUMMARY with overall and per-provider visibility deltas. Keep the same prompt panel and promptSetVersion when comparing periods. Change the version deliberately when the measurement design changes—the actor will safely start a new baseline instead of comparing unlike questions.

Sample output

[
{
  "provider": "EX12345",
  "model": "example",
  "prompt": "example",
  "mentioned": "example",
  "rankAmongTracked": 12,
  "competitorsMentioned": "example",
  "citedDomains": "example"
}
]

Typical uses

• Schedule it and feed the output straight into your sheet, database, or app.
• Pair it with the related actors below to build a complete pipeline.

Measure variation before calling a change a trend

AI answers can vary even when nothing about your brand changed. Set Samples per provider and question above 1 to repeat the same question, then read the run SUMMARY record:

• visibilityConfidence95 is a Wilson 95% range around the measured mention rate. It is marked exploratory below five samples; it is not proof of causation.
• sourceGaps uses only provider citations. It lists domains cited where a tracked competitor's configured domain appeared but yours did not—use it as a research lead, not an instruction to manufacture links or reviews.

For the most defensible citation analysis, run Perplexity or explicitly enable OpenAI live web search, then provide brandDomain and competitorDomains. OpenAI web search uses the Responses API and is off by default because it can cost more than a normal model answer. Other model-answer providers retain useful mention/rank data, but their URLs are not treated as verified citation evidence.

Pricing

$0.05 per brand-model query, plus a near-zero start fee. You are never charged beyond your limit, and blocked or failed items are reported honestly — not billed as data.

FAQ & limitations

• Evidence is provider-specific. Perplexity's configured mode and OpenAI's optional live-web mode return provider citations. The default OpenAI mode, Anthropic and Gemini are model-answer calls; URLs in those answers are captured as urls_in_answer_only, not presented as verified citations.
• Answers vary between runs and models. Use the same prompt set on a schedule before interpreting a change as a trend. A historical comparison is available only when you configure a named historyStoreId and the tracked entities, prompt panel, provider/model and prompt-set version are unchanged.
• Provider API quotas and billing are controlled by your own account. This Actor retries transient failures, but never silently substitutes a different provider or model.
• Every row reports its own status, so partial results are always labeled, never faked.
• Integrations: output works with Zapier, Make, n8n, and any webhook via Apify's integrations.
• Formats: results export as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML from the dataset.

Related actors

• Google News Scraper
• Keyword Suggestions
• AI Brand Visibility Tracker