AI Search Visibility Tracker — ChatGPT, Perplexity & Gemini Brand Monitor

Track how AI search engines talk about your brand. This Actor runs your target prompts through ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini (with live web search), then returns structured data on every answer: whether your brand was mentioned, how prominently, which competitors appeared, and which sources the AI cited.

AI search is where your customers are now. More than half of product research questions are asked to AI assistants instead of Google — and if ChatGPT recommends your competitor when someone asks "what is the best [your category] tool?", you lose the customer without ever knowing the conversation happened. Traditional rank trackers can't see any of this. This tracker can.

What does this AI visibility tracker do?

For every prompt × engine combination, you get one structured result row:

• Brand mentioned? — exact mention count and character position of the first mention
• Brand rank — was your brand named first, second, third among all tracked brands in the answer?
• Competitor mentions — per-competitor mention counts for share-of-voice analysis
• Citations — every source URL the AI engine cited, and whether your own website was one of them
• Full answer text — so you can audit exactly what the AI said
• Run summary — overall visibility %, per-engine visibility %, and share of voice across your competitor set

Why track brand mentions in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini?

• Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is the new SEO. Brands are optimizing content to be cited by AI engines — but you can't optimize what you don't measure.
• AI answers change constantly. A prompt that mentions you today may recommend a competitor next week. Weekly tracking catches regressions early.
• Citations are the new backlinks. Knowing which sources AI engines cite for your category tells you exactly where your content or PR needs to appear.
• Agencies: run this Actor per client, feed the dataset into your reporting stack, and sell AI-visibility monitoring as a service — without paying per-seat SaaS prices for every client.

How to use it

1. Enter your brand name (plus aliases and your domain for citation detection)
2. Add your competitors
3. Add the prompts your buyers actually ask ("best CRM for small business", "top project management tools 2026", …)
4. Pick the engines and run

Schedule it weekly with Apify Schedules to build a visibility time series, or call it from the API / MCP to feed your own dashboards, Clay tables, n8n flows, or agent pipelines.

Example output

{
  "prompt": "What is the best note-taking app for teams?",
  "engine": "chatgpt",
  "brandMentioned": true,
  "brandMentionCount": 3,
  "brandRank": 2,
  "competitorsMentioned": { "Obsidian": 1, "Evernote": 2, "Coda": 0 },
  "brandCited": true,
  "citations": [{ "url": "https://..." }],
  "answerText": "..."
}

Pricing

Pay per event: a small Actor start fee plus a fixed price per prompt check (one prompt on one engine). No subscription, no seats, no prompt quotas — 50 checks costs the same whether you run 1 brand or 20 clients. Compare that to AI-visibility SaaS plans starting at $29–299/month per brand.

FAQ

Which AI engines are supported? ChatGPT (with web search), Perplexity, and Gemini (with web search). More engines — including Google AI Overviews — are on the roadmap; open an issue to vote.

Can I use my own LLM account? Yes — paste your own OpenRouter API key in the input and checks run on your account.

How is "visibility" calculated? Visibility % = share of successful checks where your brand (or an alias) was mentioned at least once, overall and per engine.

Can I run this on a schedule? Yes. Use Apify Schedules (e.g. every Monday) and each run appends fresh rows — that gives you brand-visibility trend data over time.

Does it work for local/non-English brands? Yes — prompts are sent as-is, so ask in any language your customers use.

Is this GEO / LLM SEO / AI SEO monitoring? Yes — this is the same category of data sold by AI-visibility SaaS tools (prompt tracking, AI brand monitoring, generative engine optimization measurement), delivered as a pay-per-use Actor with full structured output.

Support

Found a bug or want another engine, sentiment scoring, or Slack alerts? Open an issue in the Issues tab — issues are answered quickly and feature requests shape the roadmap.