Google AI Mode Tracker — AI Mode API & Brand Visibility

Google AI Mode answers the searcher instead of listing links. This Actor tells you what it says about your market, whether it names your brand, and which sites it cites.

AI Mode is Google's conversational search surface — a separate product from the AI Overview that sits above organic results. It generates a full answer for essentially every query, not just the ones Google decides warrant an overview, and it happily handles long comparison prompts like "compare hubspot and salesforce for a 20 person team".

That makes it the closest thing to asking Google directly: "what would you tell my customer about my category?"

What you get per query

Field	What it tells you
answer_markdown / answer_text	The complete AI Mode answer
brand_mentioned + brand_mention_count	Whether Google named your brand, and how often
brand_position_score	How early you appear, bucketed 1–10 (1 = opening sentence)
share_of_voice_pct	Your mentions as a share of you + all named competitors
competitor_mentions	Per-competitor mention counts in the same answer
brand_cited / competitors_cited	Who was cited as a source, which is separate from being named
references	Every cited source: domain, URL, title, snippet
comparison_tables	How many comparison tables the answer built

The run summary adds your overall mention rate, citation rate and a ranked table of the domains AI Mode cites most across your keyword set.

Named vs cited — why both matter

These are different kinds of visibility and most tools conflate them:

• Named — the answer text says "HubSpot". This is what the searcher actually reads.
• Cited — hubspot.com appears in the source list. This is what drives the click.

You can be named without being cited (Google knows you but sends the traffic elsewhere) or cited without being named (your page informed the answer but your brand never surfaced). This Actor reports both separately.

Use cases

• GEO / AEO baselines — establish where you stand on Google's newest surface before competitors do.
• Share of voice tracking — measure your mentions against a named competitor set, query by query.
• Category monitoring — watch how Google's recommended shortlist for your category shifts over time.
• Competitive intel — see which rival Google leads with, and which sources taught it that.
• Content strategy — the cited source list is a ready-made brief for what to publish.
• Client reporting — dated, exportable evidence of AI visibility for retainers.

Pricing

Pay per event. No monthly fee, no setup fee, no minimum.

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.001 per run
AI Mode query	$0.014 per query

A 25-keyword weekly check costs $0.351. AI Mode generates a longer answer than an AI Overview and costs correspondingly more to retrieve, which is why this is priced above our Google AI Overview Tracker at $0.008/query. If you want AI Overview coverage instead, use that one.

Input example

{
  "queries": [
    "best crm for small business",
    "compare hubspot and salesforce for a 20 person team"
  ],
  "brandName": "HubSpot",
  "brandDomains": ["hubspot.com"],
  "competitorNames": ["Salesforce", "Zoho", "Pipedrive"],
  "competitorDomains": ["salesforce.com", "zoho.com"],
  "countryCode": "us"
}

Output example

{
  "query": "best crm for small business",
  "answered": true,
  "brand_mentioned": true,
  "brand_mention_count": 3,
  "brand_position_score": 2,
  "share_of_voice_pct": 42.9,
  "competitor_mentions": [
    { "name": "Zoho", "count": 2 },
    { "name": "Pipedrive", "count": 2 }
  ],
  "brand_cited": true,
  "reference_count": 8,
  "cited_domains": ["reddit.com", "hubspot.com", "g2.com"],
  "comparison_tables": 1,
  "answer_markdown": "The best CRM for a small business depends on ...",
  "checked_at": "2026-08-23T09:14:00.000Z"
}

FAQ

How is this different from an AI Overview? AI Overview is the box above organic results and only appears for some queries. AI Mode is Google's dedicated conversational tab and answers nearly everything, at greater length. Different surface, different answer, tracked separately.

Do I need an API key? No. Add queries and run.

Why is a query slower than a normal SERP scrape? AI Mode generates a long answer on demand; a single query typically takes 30–75 seconds. Queries are fetched in parallel, so a 25-keyword run does not take 25× one query.

Do I have to supply a brand? No. Leave the brand fields empty and you still get the full answer and its citations for every query.

Can I export it? Yes — JSON, CSV, Excel, or via the Apify API into n8n, Make or Zapier.

Track every AI surface

Each Actor in this family covers one AI surface deliberately, so you only pay for the check you need:

• Google AI Overview Tracker — does Google's AI Overview cite you for your keywords?
• ChatGPT Brand Tracker — does ChatGPT recommend you? Optional web-grounded mode with sources.
• Perplexity Brand Tracker — full live answers plus the numbered citation list Perplexity is known for.
• AI Citation Gap Finder — which domains Google's AI cites across your whole keyword set, and where competitors are cited but you are not.
• AI Rank Tracker Pro — every platform in one run, with share-of-voice reports across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI.

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