AI Visibility Monitor: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Grok (no API keys)

Find out whether AI assistants recommend your brand when buyers ask them for a product or service, and which competitors and sources they use instead. This Actor asks ChatGPT (OpenAI), Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Llama (Meta AI) and Mistral your buyers' questions with live web search, with no API keys needed (AI usage runs through Apify's own OpenRouter actor and is billed at cost), then measures every answer:

• Brand mentioned? And in which position among all brands in the answer.
• Rank in the list: answers to "best X for Y" are usually lists; you get your list position (1 = top pick).
• Your site cited? Every cited URL and domain, and whether your domain is among them.
• Competitors: mentioned or not, rank, citations, for each competitor you list.
• Sentiment toward your brand (positive / neutral / negative / mixed) with a one-line reason.
• Share of voice per engine, top cited domains, and the questions where you are missing (free summary + HTML report).
• AI crawler access (free): which AI crawlers and answer fetchers your robots.txt blocks (OAI-SearchBot, GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended...) and whether you have an /llms.txt — blocked crawlers can't cite your pages.

No browser scraping of chatgpt.com or perplexity.ai: model APIs only (directly or through Apify's OpenRouter actor), so no CAPTCHAs, no timeouts, no terms risk.

Input

{
  "prompts": ["best project management software for small teams", "Asana alternatives that are cheaper"],
  "brand": "ClickUp | clickup.com",
  "competitors": ["Asana | asana.com", "Monday.com | monday.com", "Trello | trello.com"],
  "engines": ["openai", "perplexity", "anthropic", "gemini"],
  "repeats": 2,
  "country": "US"
}

• No questions yet? Leave prompts empty and set category (e.g. "project management software for small agencies"): typical buyer questions are written for you for free, never naming your brand, and saved as generated-prompts.
• brand / competitors: Name | domain | alias1, alias2. The domain is used for the "cited" check; aliases catch other spellings. Matching is case-insensitive and whole-word ("Acme" does not match "Acmeville").
• engines: openai (ChatGPT models), perplexity (Sonar), anthropic (Claude), gemini, grok (xAI), llama (Meta AI's models), mistral (Le Chat's models) — all with live web search — and deepseek (model knowledge only).
• repeats: AI answers vary between runs; asking 2-3 times shows how stable your visibility is.
• No API keys needed: all web-search engines run through Apify's own OpenRouter actor, which bills the AI usage to your Apify account at OpenRouter's price (about $0.01 per answer with web search on paid Apify plans; Apify charges 10x on its free plan). Prefer your own keys? Add them and you pay the provider directly.

Output

One dataset item per answer:

{
  "engine": "perplexity",
  "prompt": "best project management software for small teams",
  "brandMentioned": true,
  "brandMentionOrder": 3,
  "brandListRank": 3,
  "brandCited": false,
  "competitors": [{"name": "Asana", "mentioned": true, "mentionOrder": 1, "listRank": 1, "citedCount": 1}],
  "brandsInOrder": ["Asana", "Monday.com", "ClickUp"],
  "citedDomains": ["asana.com", "g2.com", "zapier.com"],
  "sentiment": "positive",
  "sentimentReason": "Recommended as the most flexible option for small teams.",
  "answer": "...",
  "citations": [{"url": "https://www.g2.com/...", "title": "..."}]
}

The key-value store holds summary (JSON) and report.html: per engine, brand visibility %, average list rank, how often your site is cited, share of voice against competitors, the top cited domains (the sites to get mentioned on), and the questions where your brand is missing.

Pricing

On Apify's free plan, AI usage through Apify's OpenRouter actor is billed at 10x (roughly $0.10-0.20 per web-search answer); on paid plans it is about $0.01. Start with a few questions to see your cost.

$0.01 per answer analysed (brand mention, rank, citations, competitors, sentiment, summary and report included), plus the AI usage itself, billed by Apify's OpenRouter actor at cost (or by your provider if you use your own key). Failed calls are free, and the run stops at your spending limit. Compare: browser-based ChatGPT/Perplexity scrapers on the Store charge around $0.20 per answer.

Good to know

• API answers can differ from what a logged-in user sees in the consumer apps (no personal history or exact location). They are consistent and repeatable, which makes them good for tracking change over time.
• Schedule the Actor weekly with the same questions: each run compares itself with the previous one for the same brand (changesSincePreviousRun in the summary: visibility and citation points, rank change, questions newly won or lost).
• The top cited domains show where to earn mentions (review sites, listicles, communities) to appear in AI answers.

FAQ

How do I check if ChatGPT recommends my brand? Add the questions your buyers ask ("best X for Y", "X alternatives"), your brand and competitors, and run the Actor. Each answer shows whether you were mentioned, your position in the list and which sites were cited.

How is this different from scraping ChatGPT or Perplexity? It uses the providers' official APIs with web search, so there are no CAPTCHAs, browser timeouts or terms-of-service risks, and results are repeatable for tracking over time. API answers can differ slightly from the consumer apps, which add personal history and exact location.

What is share of voice in AI answers? Of all mentions of your brand and the competitors you list, the percentage that are yours, per engine. The summary also shows how often your own site is cited and which domains the engines cite most.

How do I improve my visibility in AI answers (GEO)? Look at the top cited domains and the questions where you are missing: those review sites, lists and communities are where AI engines get their recommendations, so earning mentions there helps.

How often should I run it? Weekly with the same questions works well (use Apify Schedules); use repeats 2-3 because AI answers vary.

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ChatGPT and OpenAI, Perplexity, Claude and Anthropic, Gemini and Google, DeepSeek are trademarks of their owners. This Actor is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them.