AI Search Visibility Tracker: ChatGPT, Perplexity & Gemini Answers

AI Search Visibility Tracker asks ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini the questions your customers ask, with live web search turned on, and tells you whether your brand is mentioned, whether your website is cited, which sources each assistant relies on and where you rank against competitors. It is a simple, pay-per-answer way to measure and track AI search visibility: an AI visibility tracker for GEO (generative engine optimization) and AEO (answer engine optimization).

No AI subscriptions, API keys or monthly plan needed. Paste prompts, add your brand and domain, click Start, and export to JSON, CSV or Excel, or call it from the API, a schedule, Make, Zapier, n8n or an AI agent.

Why use this AI visibility tracker?

	AI Search Visibility Tracker	Checking assistants by hand	GEO / AEO subscription tools
ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini	Yes, one run	Three apps, copy and paste	Usually
Live web search answers	Yes, every engine searches the web	Depends on settings	Usually
Brand mention, rank, citation	Per answer, plus a run summary	Manual	Yes
Full answer and cited URLs	Yes, raw data you own	Manual	Often dashboard only
API, schedules, no-code, AI agents	Yes	No	Plan dependent
Price	$0.04-$0.18 per answer, pay as you go	Your time	Monthly plans

What data do you get?

• 💬 Full answer from each assistant for each prompt.
• 🔗 Citations: every source cited in the answer with its position, URL, title and domain, plus (optionally) every source the engine retrieved.
• 🔎 Search queries the assistant ran to answer your prompt.
• 🏷️ Brand mentioned: yes/no, how many times, and where the first mention is. Aliases count too.
• 🥇 Brand rank: the order your brand appears in compared with your competitors (1 = mentioned first).
• 🌐 Domain cited: whether your website is a cited source and at which position, including subdomains.
• 🥊 Competitors: mentioned yes/no, count and rank for each competitor you list.
• 📊 Run summary: per engine brand mention rate, domain citation rate and average brand rank.

Who uses AI visibility tracking?

• SEO and content teams checking whether their pages are cited by AI assistants and which competitor pages are.
• Brand and marketing managers tracking share of voice in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini answers week by week.
• Agencies reporting AI search visibility to clients next to classic rankings.
• Founders and product marketers finding out what AI tells buyers about their category and their product.

How to check if ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini mention your brand

1. Click Try for free (paid Apify plan needed to run) and open the input.
2. Add the prompts your customers ask, one per line, for example "best CRM for real estate agents".
3. Enter your brand, your domain and up to a few competitors.
4. Keep all three AI engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini) or pick the ones you need, and click Start.
5. Open the Brand visibility view, or download the full answers as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Input example

{
    "prompts": [
        "What is the best project management software for small teams?",
        "Asana vs Trello: which is better for a startup?"
    ],
    "engines": ["chatgpt", "perplexity", "gemini"],
    "brand": "Trello",
    "domain": "trello.com",
    "competitors": ["Asana", "Monday.com", "ClickUp"],
    "country": "US"
}

Output example

One record per prompt and engine. The example below is shortened and illustrative; real answers change from day to day.

{
    "prompt": "What is the best project management software for small teams?",
    "engine": "perplexity",
    "model": "openai/gpt-6-luna",
    "answer": "For small teams, Trello, Asana and ClickUp are the most common picks[1][2]. Trello is the simplest for kanban boards[3] ...",
    "citations": [
        {
            "position": 1,
            "url": "https://www.example-reviews.com/best-pm-software",
            "title": "Best project management software",
            "domain": "example-reviews.com"
        },
        {
            "position": 2,
            "url": "https://www.example-blog.com/pm-tools-small-teams",
            "title": "PM tools for small teams",
            "domain": "example-blog.com"
        },
        { "position": 3, "url": "https://trello.com/guide", "title": "Trello guide", "domain": "trello.com" }
    ],
    "citationCount": 3,
    "searchQueries": ["best project management software small teams"],
    "brand": "Trello",
    "brandMentioned": true,
    "brandMentionCount": 2,
    "brandFirstMentionIndex": 17,
    "brandRank": 1,
    "domain": "trello.com",
    "domainCited": true,
    "domainCitationPosition": 3,
    "domainCitationCount": 1,
    "competitors": [
        { "name": "Asana", "mentioned": true, "mentionCount": 1, "rank": 2 },
        { "name": "Monday.com", "mentioned": false, "mentionCount": 0, "rank": null },
        { "name": "ClickUp", "mentioned": true, "mentionCount": 1, "rank": 3 }
    ],
    "country": "US",
    "answeredAt": "2026-10-08T17:00:00.000Z",
    "error": null
}

The RUN_SUMMARY record in the key-value store adds per-engine totals, for example {"perplexity": {"answers": 20, "brandMentionRate": 65, "domainCitationRate": 30, "averageBrandRank": 1.8}}.

How much does AI visibility tracking cost?

You pay per answer (one prompt asked on one engine):

Engine	Price per answer
Perplexity	$0.04
Gemini	$0.08
ChatGPT	$0.18

Failed answers, skipped engines and duplicate prompts are free. There is no subscription and no extra fee for the AI providers or web search; it is all included. One prompt on all three engines costs $0.30; Perplexity and Gemini together cost $0.12. If you call the API without choosing engines, Perplexity and Gemini are used.

Use case	Answers	Cost
Quick check: 2 prompts on 3 engines	6	$0.60
Category audit: 50 prompts on 3 engines	150	$15
Weekly tracking: 20 prompts, 3 engines, 4 weeks	240	$24
Daily tracking: 10 prompts, Perplexity only	~300/mo	~$12/mo

Set a maximum cost per run in the run options and the Actor stops before going over it. The tool needs a paid Apify plan because every answer has a real AI and web search cost.

Use it with AI agents (MCP) and the API

Add this Actor as a tool in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code or any other MCP client through the Apify MCP server:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=magenta_waterwheel/ai-search-visibility

Then ask, for example: "Check whether ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini recommend our product for these 10 buyer questions and list the sources they cite instead of us." The Actor runs with limited permissions, so it can only access its own run storage.

For results in a single HTTP request, call the synchronous endpoint with your Apify API token:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/magenta_waterwheel~ai-search-visibility/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"prompts":["best CRM for real estate agents"],"brand":"Acme CRM","domain":"acmecrm.com"}'

Integrations and scheduling

• ⏰ Schedule weekly or daily runs to track AI visibility over time.
• 🔗 Send results to Google Sheets, Looker Studio, Slack, webhooks, Make, Zapier or n8n.
• 📤 Export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML.

FAQ

Which models answer?

ChatGPT answers come from OpenAI's Responses API with the web search tool and chat-latest, the model OpenAI lists for ChatGPT. Perplexity answers come from Perplexity's Agent API with Perplexity web search, and Gemini answers from Google's Gemini API with Grounding with Google Search. Each record shows the exact model. API answers are close to, but not always identical with, what a signed-in user sees in the consumer apps, which can also personalize answers.

Does it support ChatGPT?

Yes. ChatGPT answers use OpenAI's API with web search turned on, so each answer comes with the sources it cites and the searches it ran. They are close to, but not always the same as, what you see in the ChatGPT app.

Why do answers change between runs?

AI answers are not deterministic and the web results behind them change. For trends, track the same prompts on a schedule and compare the mention and citation rates in the run summary rather than single answers.

How is a brand mention detected?

Your brand name and aliases are matched case-insensitively as whole words, so "Acme" does not match "Acmeville". Add aliases for product names, abbreviations or former names.

Why is my domain mentioned but not cited?

domainCited only counts sources the assistant cites in its answer. domainInSources tells you whether your site was retrieved at all, which shows how close you are to being cited.

Can I localize the answers?

Set country to a two-letter code (US, GB, DE...) to localize ChatGPT's and Perplexity's web search. Write the prompt in the language you want the answer in.

Can I use it on the Free plan?

No. Each answer has a real AI and web search cost that Apify doesn't cover on the Free plan, so the Actor needs a paid Apify plan. Free-plan runs end immediately with a notice and no charge.

I found a bug or need a feature

Open an issue in the Issues tab with a link to your run. We aim to reply within one business day.

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