Google AI Overviews & AI Mode Tracker: Brand Mentions & Sources

Google AI Overviews & AI Mode Tracker checks your prompts on live Google search and returns the full AI Overview and Google AI Mode answer, every cited source, whether your brand is mentioned, whether your website is cited and where you rank against competitors. It is a pay-per-check AI Overview tracker for SEO, GEO (generative engine optimization) and AEO teams.

No Google account, API key or monthly plan needed. Paste searches, 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 Overviews tracker?

	This Actor	Checking Google by hand	SEO suite add-ons
Google AI Overviews + AI Mode	Yes, one run	Search, scroll, copy	Often a paid add-on
Brand mention, rank and citations	Per prompt, plus a run summary	Manual	Yes
Full AI answer and cited URLs	Yes, raw data you own	Screenshots	Often dashboard only
API, schedules, AI agents	Yes	No	Plan dependent
Price	$0.02 per AI Overview check, pay as you go	Your time	Monthly subscriptions

What data do you get?

• 💬 Full AI Overview or AI Mode answer (Markdown) for each prompt.
• ✅ aiAnswerPresent: whether Google showed an AI Overview for the search at all.
• 🔗 Citations: every source linked in the answer with position, URL, title and domain.
• 🏷️ Brand mentioned: yes/no, count and first-mention position. Aliases count too.
• 🥇 Brand rank against the competitors you list (1 = mentioned first).
• 🌐 Domain cited: whether your website is a cited source and at which position.
• 📊 Run summary: per engine AI Overview rate, brand mention rate, domain citation rate and average brand rank.

How to track your brand in Google AI Overviews and AI Mode

1. Click Try for free and open the input.
2. Add the searches your buyers type, one per line, for example "best crm for small business".
3. Enter your brand, your domain and a few competitors.
4. Keep both engines (Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode) or pick one, and click Start.
5. Open the Brand visibility view, or download everything as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Input example

{
    "prompts": ["best crm for small business", "best project management software for small teams"],
    "engines": ["google_aio", "google_ai_mode"],
    "brand": "HubSpot",
    "domain": "hubspot.com",
    "competitors": ["Salesforce", "Zoho", "Pipedrive"],
    "country": "US"
}

Output example

One record per prompt and engine (shortened; real answers change from day to day):

{
    "prompt": "best crm for small business",
    "engine": "google_aio",
    "model": "google-ai-overview",
    "aiAnswerPresent": true,
    "answer": "The best CRM for a small business depends on your specific goals, team size, and budget: ### Top CRMs by Use Case - **Best Free Tier & Ease of Use:** HubSpot CRM offers a free plan ...",
    "citations": [
        {
            "position": 1,
            "url": "https://www.uschamber.com/co/start/strategy/low-cost-crm-tools",
            "title": null,
            "domain": "uschamber.com"
        }
    ],
    "citationCount": 7,
    "brand": "HubSpot",
    "brandMentioned": true,
    "brandRank": 1,
    "domain": "hubspot.com",
    "domainCited": false,
    "competitors": [{ "name": "Zoho", "mentioned": true, "mentionCount": 2, "rank": 3 }],
    "country": null,
    "error": null
}

When Google shows no AI Overview (common for navigational searches like "hubspot login"), the record has aiAnswerPresent: false and answer: null.

How much does it cost?

Engine	Price
Google AI Overviews	$0.02 per check
Google AI Mode	$0.03 per answer

An AI Overviews check runs a live Google search for the prompt, so it is charged even when Google shows no AI Overview. Failed requests and duplicate prompts are free. No subscription, no extra data fees.

Use case	Checks	Cost
Quick check: 2 prompts on both engines	4	$0.10
Category audit: 100 prompts, AI Overviews only	100	$2
Weekly tracking: 50 prompts, both engines, 4 weeks	400	$10

Set a maximum cost per run in the run options and the Actor stops before going over it. Free Apify plan users can run up to 10 checks per run.

Use it with AI agents (MCP) and the API

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

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=magenta_waterwheel/google-ai-overviews-tracker

Or call the synchronous endpoint with your Apify API token:

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

FAQ

Where does the data come from?

Live Google results (desktop, English) collected through a SERP data provider at run time, for the country you choose (US by default). Results are not personalized and can differ slightly from what a signed-in user sees.

How often does Google show an AI Overview?

It depends on the search. In our tests, commercial searches like "best crm for small business" showed an AI Overview every time, while navigational searches like "hubspot login" did not. The run summary reports aiOverviewShown so you can track the rate.

What is the difference between AI Overviews and AI Mode?

AI Overviews are the AI summaries at the top of normal Google results. AI Mode is Google's separate conversational search tab, which usually gives longer answers for every prompt.

Want ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini too?

Use our AI Search Visibility Tracker with the same brand and competitor fields.

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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