AI Brand Mention Checker: ChatGPT & Gemini, Otterly Alternative

Find out if ChatGPT and Gemini recommend your brand. Otterly.AI and Peec AI track this for a monthly fee; here you pay per answer: $0.05 per answer, no API keys.

AI visibility use cases

• See if ChatGPT and Gemini name you or a competitor when a buyer asks "what's the best ..." in your category.
• Find the pages the AI cites, so you know which review sites and lists to get onto.
• Ask the same questions every week and watch your share of voice move.
• Show a client where they stand in AI search before and after your GEO work.

How the AI brand mention check works

Check if ChatGPT and Gemini mention or cite your brand. You get the full live answer, your brand's position, the competitors named, the links cited and your share of voice, for $0.05 per engine answer. It's ready for AI agents through Apify's MCP server.

You give it your brand and the questions your buyers ask. It asks each question to each AI assistant with live web search turned on, the same way a buyer would, and then reads every answer for you:

• Did the answer name your brand?
• Where did your brand come in the list of brands you track (1st, 2nd, ...)?
• Which of your competitors were named?
• Which links did the answer cite, and was one of them on your website?

At the end you get one summary row per engine with your mention rate, average position and share of voice.

Through the API, leaving out engines asks both; the form starts with Gemini ticked, so tick ChatGPT too for both. Perplexity and Claude are coming. Every answer is kept in full as the engine returns it. One run returns everything in one dataset. The engines are asked side by side, up to 5 answers each at once. In our tests one answer took 5 to 6 seconds on Gemini and 10 to 19 seconds on ChatGPT.

Input

Field	What to put
Brand	Your brand name, like Notion. Required.
Your website	Optional, like notion.com. Each answer says whether a cited link is on it.
Other names for the brand	Optional. Other spellings or product names that count as your brand, like Notion AI.
Competitors	Optional. The brands you compare against. They set your position and share of voice. Other names only work for your own brand, so list a competitor's other product name as its own competitor.
Questions	The questions your buyers ask, one per line. Required unless you fill in Category.
Category	Optional. If you leave Questions empty, give a category like note-taking apps and the Actor uses 5 standard buyer questions for it, like "What are the best note-taking apps?"
Engines	chatgpt, gemini or both. Both when left out (the form starts with Gemini).

Example:

{
  "brand": "Notion",
  "domain": "notion.com",
  "competitors": ["Obsidian", "Evernote", "Coda", "ClickUp"],
  "questions": [
    "What is the best note-taking app for a small team?",
    "Which app should a startup use for its internal wiki?"
  ],
  "engines": ["chatgpt", "gemini"]
}

Output

One row per question and engine (this one is from a real test run, trimmed):

{
  "type": "answer",
  "engine": "chatgpt",
  "model": "gpt-6-luna",
  "question": "What is the best note-taking app for a small team?",
  "answer": "**My pick: Notion** for a small team that wants a shared home for meeting notes, decisions ...",
  "brandMentioned": true,
  "brandPosition": 1,
  "brandsNamedInOrder": ["Notion"],
  "competitorsMentioned": [],
  "domainCited": true,
  "citedUrls": ["https://www.notion.com/help/intro-to-teamspaces", "https://workspace.google.com/intl/en_us/products/docs/"],
  "sourceUrls": ["..."],
  "searches": 2,
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T17:12:41.615Z"
}

• citedUrls are the links the answer itself cites. sourceUrls are all the pages the engine read, which is often more.
• If an engine fails after several retries, its row has an error field instead of an answer, and you are not charged for it.

Then one summary row (also saved as SUMMARY in the run's key-value store). This one is from the same test, 3 questions on ChatGPT and Gemini:

{
  "type": "summary",
  "brand": "Notion",
  "overall": { "answersChecked": 6, "answersFailed": 0, "answersNamingBrand": 6, "mentionRate": 1, "averagePosition": 1, "answersCitingDomain": 3, "shareOfVoice": 0.75 },
  "byEngine": { "chatgpt": { "...": "same fields" }, "gemini": { "...": "same fields" } }
}

Each summary block also has mentionsByBrand and shareOfVoiceByBrand for you and every competitor.

How the brand check works

• A brand counts when its name or one of its other names appears as a whole word, in any capitals, and not right after a hyphen. "Notion" matches "notion" but not "Notional", and "Slip-On" is not the brand On.
• Names of 4 letters or fewer, like "On" or "Kit", are also everyday words. They match only as you typed them or in all capitals ("Hoka" or "HOKA").
• A brand that only appears inside a link's address doesn't count. The link text does.
• Position is your place among the brands you listed (yours and your competitors), in the order the answer first names them. Brands you didn't list aren't counted.
• Share of voice: each answer gives one point to every tracked brand it names. Your share is your points divided by all the points.

Price

$0.05 per answer checked, which is one question on one engine. Failed answers are free.

• 5 questions on all 4 engines = 20 answers = $1.00.
• 1 question on 1 engine = $0.05.

You don't need any API keys. The Actor uses its own.

Engines

Engine	Model	Search
ChatGPT	OpenAI gpt-6-luna	OpenAI web search
Gemini	Google gemini-3.5-flash-lite	Grounding with Google Search

Each answer row names the model that answered and the time.

Good to know

• These are live answers from each company's API with web search on, using the models in the table and up to 2 searches per answer on ChatGPT. The consumer apps can use other models, search more, remember the user or know where they are, so treat this as a consistent benchmark rather than an exact copy of what one person sees.
• You can set a maximum charge for a run. The Actor stops asking when it's reached and keeps the answers it already has.
• AI answers change from run to run. Use several questions and run on a schedule to see a trend, rather than reading much into one answer.
• Questions are asked as written, with no country or language setting. The engines see the request coming from Apify's servers.

Use it from an AI agent

The Actor works through Apify's MCP server like any Store Actor. An agent can search for it, read its input and call it. The MCP call waits up to 45 seconds. A small run is often done by then. If it isn't, the call returns the run's status and dataset ID, and the agent reads the rows with get-dataset-items.

FAQ

Does ChatGPT mention my brand? Put in your brand and the questions your buyers ask. You get each answer in full, whether your brand is named, its position and the competitors named.

How is this different from Otterly or Peec AI? No monthly plan. You pay $0.05 per answer, so a 20-question check on both engines costs $2.

Why do the answers change between runs? ChatGPT and Gemini search the web live, so answers vary. Ask the same questions every week and watch the trend, not one run.

Do I need an OpenAI or Google API key? No. The price per answer covers it.

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Questions or problems

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Also known as: AI brand monitor, AI search visibility, GEO / AEO tracking, ChatGPT brand mentions, LLM citation tracking.