Google AI Overview Tracker — AI Overview API & AEO Tool

Find out whether Google's AI Overview answers your keywords, what it says, and which sites it cites — including whether that site is you or your competitor.

Google's AI Overview now sits above the organic results for a large share of commercial and question-style searches. When it appears, it answers the searcher directly and cites a handful of sources. If you are not one of those sources, you are invisible on that query no matter where you rank organically.

This Actor checks any list of keywords and returns, for each one: whether an AI Overview appeared, the complete AI-generated answer, every source it cited, and a verdict telling you whether your domain, a competitor, or neither got the citation.

What you get per query

Field	What it tells you
ai_overview_present	Did Google generate an AI Overview for this search at all
citation_verdict	brand_cited / competitor_cited / others_cited / no_references / no_ai_overview
brand_cited + brand_citation_position	Were you cited, and how early in the source list
competitors_cited	Which of your named competitors were cited instead
references	Every cited source: domain, URL, page title and the snippet Google pulled
cited_domains	Flat list of every domain in the answer — the AI Overview "SERP"
answer_markdown / answer_text	The full AI answer, ready to diff over time

A run summary is written to the key-value store with AI Overview coverage, your citation rate and a ranked table of the most-cited domains across all your queries.

Use cases

• GEO / AEO monitoring — track week over week whether your brand keeps its AI Overview citations.
• Citation gap analysis — find the queries where a competitor is cited and you are not.
• Content briefs — read exactly which pages Google's AI trusts on a topic before you write.
• Rollout tracking — measure what share of your keyword set now triggers an AI Overview at all.
• Client reporting — a defensible, dated record of AI visibility for SEO retainers.
• Agent workflows — clean JSON for an LLM agent that needs live AI Overview context.

Pricing

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

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.001 per run
AI Overview check	$0.008 per query

A 25-keyword weekly check costs $0.201. You are charged per query checked, because the search runs whether or not Google decides to show an AI Overview for it.

Compared with the alternatives: johnvc/Google-AI-Overview-API charges $0.015 per retrieval plus a $0.01 setup fee on every run — a 25-keyword run costs $0.385 there versus $0.201 here, and it does not classify your domain against a competitor set.

Input example

{
  "queries": [
    "best crm for small business",
    "klaviyo vs mailchimp",
    "how much does hubspot cost"
  ],
  "brandDomains": ["hubspot.com"],
  "competitorDomains": ["salesforce.com", "zoho.com"],
  "countryCode": "us",
  "languageCode": "en"
}

Output example

{
  "query": "best crm for small business",
  "ai_overview_present": true,
  "citation_verdict": "brand_cited",
  "brand_cited": true,
  "brand_citation_position": 2,
  "reference_count": 9,
  "cited_domains": ["reddit.com", "hubspot.com", "forbes.com", "zoho.com"],
  "competitors_cited": ["zoho.com"],
  "references": [
    {
      "source": "Reddit",
      "domain": "reddit.com",
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/smallbusiness/comments/...",
      "title": "What CRM do you actually use? - Reddit",
      "snippet": "Comments Section ..."
    }
  ],
  "answer_markdown": "The best CRM for a small business depends on ...",
  "country": "us",
  "checked_at": "2026-08-23T09:14:00.000Z"
}

FAQ

Do I need an API key? No. Everything is handled for you — just add keywords and run.

Why does a query show no_ai_overview? Google does not generate an overview for every search. Navigational and very niche queries usually get none. Commercial "best X" and question-style queries almost always do.

Does it handle deferred generation? Yes. Google sometimes returns a token instead of the answer; the Actor requests the resolved overview automatically rather than reporting it as missing.

Which countries work? 18 countries are selectable. AI Overviews are most reliable in the United States and are predominantly English.

How often should I run it? Weekly is enough for most keyword sets. AI Overviews are re-generated constantly, so daily runs mostly measure noise.

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

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 Mode Tracker — Google's conversational AI tab, tracked the same way.
• 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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