AI Brand Visibility Tracker — ChatGPT, Perplexity & Gemini

Find out whether AI assistants mention and cite your brand when buyers ask for recommendations. This Actor runs realistic buyer questions through ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini with live web search and returns structured JSON: mentions, citation status, position, share of voice vs. competitors, and a per-engine summary.

AI answers are the new search results page. If ChatGPT recommends your competitor and not you, you're invisible where buying decisions increasingly happen. That's what GEO/AEO (generative engine optimization) tracking measures.

What you get per check

{
    "engine": "perplexity/sonar",
    "query": "What is the best note taking app in 2026?",
    "brandMentioned": true,
    "mentionCount": 3,
    "positionScore": 9,
    "brandCited": true,
    "shareOfVoice": 0.6,
    "competitorMentions": { "Evernote": 1, "Obsidian": 1 },
    "citedDomains": ["notion.com", "techradar.com"],
    "answerExcerpt": "For most people the best note taking app in 2026 is..."
}

Plus a summary item: visibility rate, citation rate, and average share of voice per engine.

Use cases

• GEO / AEO tracking: measure your brand's visibility in AI answers over time (schedule weekly runs).
• Agency reporting: deliver AI-visibility reports to clients; export CSV or feed dashboards via API.
• Competitor benchmarking: share of voice against any number of competitors.
• Content strategy: see which domains AI engines cite for your category, and win those citations.

Quick start

1. Enter your brand name (and domain, for citation detection).
2. Add topics your buyers ask about (e.g. "note taking app") and realistic buyer questions are generated for you. Or write exact custom queries.
3. Add your OpenRouter API key (one key = all engines; get it at openrouter.ai in 2 minutes).
4. Run. Schedule it weekly to track movement.

Works with any OpenRouter model ID, so you can swap in Claude, Llama, or new engines by editing the engines list. Append :online to give any model live web search.

Works inside AI agents (MCP)

This Actor is available as an MCP tool through the Apify MCP server. Connect it to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client and run visibility checks from inside your agent.

More tools by this developer

• Bluesky Mentions Scraper: track brand & keyword mentions on Bluesky with sentiment analysis.
• Bluesky Profile Scraper: bulk profiles, followers & following lists.

FAQ

Why OpenRouter? One key covers every AI engine through official APIs. No scraping, no fragile browser automation, stable results.

Which engines are checked by default? Perplexity Sonar (native web search), ChatGPT (gpt-4o-search-preview), and Gemini 2.5 Flash with web search.

How is "position score" computed? 10 = your brand appears at the very start of the answer; 1 = at the very end; 0 = not mentioned.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes. Use Apify Schedules for weekly/daily tracking, and integrations (Slack, email, webhooks, Make, n8n) for alerts.