What is AI Citation Monitor?

Check whether Google AI Overview cites your brand or domain for a batch of prompts. Paste the questions your buyers actually ask. Get back cited: true/false, the answer snippet, and the citation URLs — as structured JSON you can schedule, pipe into a CRM, or call from an API.

This is a GEO / AEO monitor for Google AI Overview. It is not a ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, or Gemini tracker (those engines are not live on this Actor).

What this Actor does

• Runs each prompt through Google search with AI Overview capture
• Matches citations against your brand name and your domain
• Returns one result row per prompt: cited flag, snippet, citation URLs, match type
• Rolls up citation_rate so you can trend share of AI voice over scheduled runs
• Runs on Apify: proxies, scheduling, webhooks, dataset export (JSON / CSV / Excel), API, and integrations (Make, n8n, Zapier)

Who it is for

• SEO / GEO consultants doing a one-off brand audit without a $99–$299/mo SaaS seat
• In-house marketing teams watching whether AI Overviews still cite the site after a content change
• Agencies that need a prompt-level CSV they can drop into a client deck

How to use it

1. Click Try for free on this page (or run it from Console).
2. Set Brand Name (e.g. NVIDIA) and Primary Domain (e.g. nvidia.com).
3. Add 5–50 natural-language prompts — the questions a buyer would type, not keywords.
4. Leave AI Search Engines on google-overview.
5. Run. Open the default dataset. Export or pull via API.

Input example

{
  "brand": "NVIDIA",
  "domain": "nvidia.com",
  "prompts": [
    "What are the best AI chips for training large language models?",
    "Which companies are leading in generative AI infrastructure?",
    "Compare NVIDIA H100 vs AMD MI300 for AI workloads"
  ],
  "ai_engines": ["google-overview"],
  "exclude_own_domain": true,
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en"
}

Output example

{
  "prompt": "What are the best AI chips for training large language models?",
  "ai_engine": "google-overview",
  "cited": true,
  "answer_snippet": "NVIDIA's H100 GPU is widely considered the industry standard...",
  "citation_urls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/h100/",
      "title": "NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU",
      "position": 1,
      "match_type": "exact_domain"
    }
  ],
  "source": "Google AI Overview",
  "num_citations": 1
}

cited: false with an empty citation_urls array means an Overview existed but did not link your domain. That row is a GEO target, not a failed run.

How much does it cost?

Pay per event. No monthly subscription.

Event	What you pay
Actor start	~$0.00005 per GB of memory (typically a fraction of a cent)
Prompt checked	$0.022 on the free Store tier; volume tiers go down to $0.015

A 100-prompt audit is about $2.20 plus a few cents of start/compute. A 1,000-prompt weekly monitor is about $15–$22 depending on your Apify user tier.

You are charged for prompts that are checked, including prompts where Google did not render an AI Overview (cited will be unknown/false, not a silent skip). Failed Actor crashes are not a successful check.

Compare: dedicated GEO SaaS is typically $99–$299/month. This Actor is for teams that want a fresh check on demand, not a dashboard seat.

Related Actors

Actor	Use it when
AI Citation Monitor (this one)	You need to know if your brand is cited
AI Citation Lead Extractor	You need the domains Google cites instead (competitor / link-prospect list)

FAQ

Does this scrape ChatGPT or Perplexity?

No. Live coverage is Google AI Overview only. Other engine names in older docs are not implemented. Do not select them.

What if Google does not show an AI Overview for a prompt?

You still get a row. cited will not be true. That is a Google coverage gap, not an Actor bug.

Can I schedule it?

Yes. Save a task, attach a schedule (daily/weekly), and optionally a webhook. Apify keeps a dataset per run so you can diff citation rate over time.

Is this legal / ToS-safe?

You are querying public Google results via Apify infrastructure. Use it for your own brand and public SERP research. Do not use it to break a site's terms or to collect personal data you have no right to process.

I need a custom GEO pipeline

Open an issue on the Actor page or contact the developer via the Store profile (nextgen.api). Companion product: Lead Extractor for who-is-cited lists.