AI Search Visibility Tracker: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini & Google AI

Does AI recommend your brand? This Actor asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Mode and Google AI Overviews the questions your customers ask, then analyses every answer: is your brand mentioned, in which position compared with competitors, is your website cited as a source, what share of the conversation you get and in which tone. You also get a visibility score per engine, a competitor leaderboard, the gap questions where competitors appear and you don't, and the sites AI engines cite most, which is your list of places to get featured.

Answers come from each engine's public web interface, the same answers your customers see, not from an API model that behaves differently. They are collected by Apify's official ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, AI Mode and AI Overviews scrapers, run on your account. No API keys needed.

What you get

One record per question and engine:

Field	Details
brandMentioned, brandMentions	Whether and how often your brand (or its aliases or domain) appears in the answer
brandRank	Your position among the brands named in the answer (1 = named first)
shareOfVoice	Your mentions ÷ all brand mentions in the answer
brandCited, brandCitedUrls	Whether the engine cites a page on your domain as a source
sentiment	Tone of the sentences around your brand: positive, negative, mixed or neutral
mentionContext	The passage where your brand is mentioned
competitors	For each competitor: mentioned, mentions, rank, cited
answer, sources	The full AI answer and every source URL it cites

A visibility report (REPORT as JSON and REPORT_MD as Markdown in the key-value store):

• Visibility score 0-100 overall and per engine (mention rate 40 %, rank 30 %, share of voice 20 %, citation rate 10 %)
• Leaderboard: you vs competitors by mention rate and citation rate
• Gap questions: questions where AI names competitors but not you
• Top cited domains and pages: the reviews, listicles and comparisons AI relies on for your category

Use cases

• Generative engine optimization (GEO / AEO): measure where you stand in AI search and track progress week by week.
• Competitor intelligence: see which competitors AI recommends, for which questions, and which sources push them.
• PR and content outreach: the most cited pages are where a mention moves AI answers the most.
• Agencies: run one task per client on a schedule and send the Markdown report.
• AI agents: brand visibility checks on demand through the Apify MCP server.

Input example

{
  "brand": "Zoho Projects",
  "brandDomain": "zoho.com",
  "brandAliases": ["Zoho"],
  "competitors": ["Asana | asana.com", "ClickUp | clickup.com", "Trello | trello.com", "monday.com | monday.com"],
  "queries": ["best project management software for small teams"],
  "category": "project management software",
  "engines": ["chatgpt", "perplexity", "gemini", "google_ai_overview"],
  "country": "us"
}

With a category, the Actor adds questions such as "best project management software", "Zoho Projects alternatives", "is Zoho Projects worth it" and "Zoho Projects vs Asana". Leave the questions empty to use only generated ones.

Output example

{
  "engine": "perplexity",
  "query": "best project management software for small teams",
  "status": "ok",
  "brandMentioned": true,
  "brandMentions": 5,
  "brandRank": 1,
  "brandsMentioned": 6,
  "shareOfVoice": 0.333,
  "brandCited": false,
  "sentiment": "positive",
  "mentionContext": "For most small teams, **Zoho Projects** is the best overall choice: it offers strong value, easy setup, time tracking…",
  "competitorsMentioned": ["Asana", "ClickUp", "Trello", "monday.com"],
  "sourcesCount": 10,
  "sourceDomains": ["pcmag.com", "asana.com", "zapier.com"]
}

How much does it cost?

You pay for two things:

1. This Actor: $0.005 per brand check (one question on one engine) and $0.02 per visibility report.
2. The engine scrapers it runs on your account, at their own prices: on any paid Apify plan from $0.002-0.005 per answer (Perplexity $0.013), Google AI Overview $0.003 on every plan.

So 20 questions on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overview cost about $0.62 on a paid plan, around $0.01 per check, several times less than AI visibility tools that charge $0.05-0.08 per check or $99+ per month.

⚠️ Apify Free plan: Apify charges $0.20 per answer for its ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and AI Mode scrapers on the Free plan. To protect you, the Actor runs only Google AI Overview on the Free plan unless you turn on Allow Free-plan engine prices. Set Max cost per run in the run options to cap this Actor's own charges.

Tips

• Write questions the way customers do: "best CRM for a 5-person agency", not "CRM".
• Add aliases (short names, product names) so mentions are not missed.
• AI answers change from day to day. Schedule the Actor weekly and compare scores over time.
• Microsoft Copilot and Google AI Mode are less stable than the other engines and are off by default. When an engine returns no answer, the check is marked no_answer and not charged.
• Each engine is a separate Actor run on your account. If you hit your plan's concurrent-run limit, lower Engines in parallel.

FAQ

Why real web answers instead of APIs? API models (for example OpenAI's API with web search) answer differently from chatgpt.com. Brands care about what customers actually see.

Is my brand detection exact? Names, aliases and your domain are matched as whole words, case-insensitive. Sentiment is a simple word-based estimate of the surrounding sentences, a signal rather than a verdict.

Which countries? ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and AI Mode answer from the selected country. Google AI Overview uses US results.