AI Visibility Tracker — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini & Claude

Know exactly where your brand stands across every major AI search engine. This actor queries ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude with your chosen prompts, detects brand mentions, measures share of voice across source citations, and outputs structured per-engine data ready for dashboards, spreadsheets, or CRM workflows.

Built for SEO agencies, brand managers, and CMOs who need to measure and improve AI search visibility — also called GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) or Answer Engine Optimization (AEO).

Quick start: select your engines, paste the matching API keys (free tiers available — links below), add your brands and prompts, and run. You stay in full control of your API usage and costs.

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Why Multi-Engine AI Brand Monitoring Matters

Your customers no longer ask just one engine. When they ask "best CRM for a startup?", ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude each give a different answer citing different sources — and your visibility can vary wildly between them. Single-engine tools miss that. This actor checks all four in one run and tells you exactly where you're strong and where you're invisible.

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What It Does

• Queries up to four AI engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude) with your prompts, using each engine's native web search / grounding
• Detects brand mentions in answers and measures share of voice as a percentage of source citations — per engine
• Records citation position, mention count, and answer snippets so you know exactly how each engine presents your brand
• Compare engines side-by-side: the engine column makes pivot tables trivial in Sheets, Airtable, Power BI, or Looker Studio

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Why Use This Instead of Dedicated Tools

Tool	Starting Price
Otterly.ai	$29–$489/mo
Profound	$499/mo
Peec AI	$90+/mo
This actor	Pay only per check produced

This actor talks directly to each engine's official API — no browser automation, no scraping, no anti-bot risk. Results are reliable and reproducible. You pay a small per-check fee plus your own API token costs (you control the keys, so you control the spend).

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Getting API Keys (only for engines you select)

Engine	Where to get a key	Free tier?
ChatGPT	platform.openai.com/api-keys	$5 trial credit (new accounts)
Perplexity	perplexity.ai/settings/api	Yes
Gemini	aistudio.google.com/apikey	Yes — generous free tier
Claude	console.anthropic.com	Trial credit (new accounts)

Keys are stored as encrypted secrets, never logged or exposed.

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How It Works

1. Validate input — checks that each selected engine has its API key, plus at least one brand and one prompt
2. Query each engine — uses native web search / grounding (OpenAI web_search, Perplexity Sonar, Gemini Google Search grounding, Claude web_search tool) so answers reflect what real users see
3. Analyze each answer — exact-match brand detection with word boundaries, domain matching against cited source URLs
4. Save structured results — one dataset row per engine × prompt × brand

Input Example

{
  "engines": ["chatgpt", "perplexity", "gemini"],
  "openaiApiKey": "sk-...",
  "perplexityApiKey": "pplx-...",
  "geminiApiKey": "AIza...",
  "brands": ["HubSpot (hubspot.com)", "Salesforce (salesforce.com)"],
  "prompts": ["best CRM for small businesses 2026"],
  "maxPrompts": 10
}

Output Example

{
  "engine": "chatgpt",
  "prompt": "best CRM for small businesses 2026",
  "brand": "HubSpot",
  "mentioned": true,
  "mentionCount": 3,
  "citedInSources": true,
  "sourcePosition": 2,
  "totalSources": 8,
  "shareOfVoice": 25.0,
  "answerSnippet": "...HubSpot is one of the most popular CRM tools for small businesses, offering a generous free tier...",
  "allSources": ["https://...", "https://hubspot.com/..."],
  "checkedAt": "2026-06-12T10:30:00.000Z"
}

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Scheduling

Use Apify Schedules to run weekly or daily and build a longitudinal visibility dataset. Recommended cadence: weekly for most brands, daily during launches or campaigns. Track trends rather than single data points — AI answers vary between runs.

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Limitations

• BYO API keys — each selected engine needs a valid key; engine-level failures are logged and skipped, and the run fails only if every call fails
• Non-deterministic answers — the same prompt returns different sources across runs; track trends
• String-based brand detection — exact name matching with word boundaries; add abbreviations or alternate spellings as separate brand entries
• Snapshot only — captures answers at run time; no historical backfill
• Domain matching for citations — citation tracking requires a domain in parentheses; third-party mentions (e.g. a G2 listicle) count toward the citing domain, not your brand

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Feedback & Support

Found this actor useful? A short review on the actor page helps other teams discover it and keeps it actively maintained. Hit a problem or have a feature request? Open an issue on the Issues tab — issues are typically answered within a day or two.

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Related Keywords

AI visibility tracker, ChatGPT brand monitoring, Perplexity brand monitoring, Gemini brand tracking, Claude brand tracking, AI search visibility, brand mentions in AI search, GEO generative engine optimization, answer engine optimization AEO, AI citation tracking, share of voice AI, LLM visibility, AI SEO tool, multi-engine brand monitoring, competitive intelligence AI search.