Brand Visibility Tracker - ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini & Perplexity

Find out whether ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's answer boxes recommend your brand when people ask about your category. For every question you enter, you see whether your brand is mentioned, where it comes in the answer compared with competitors, and whether your website is cited as a source. Schedule it daily or weekly to track your answer-engine visibility over time, with no subscription.

What you get

One row per prompt per answer engine with:

• mentioned, mentionCount and mentionPosition: whether your brand appears in the answer, how often, and its rank among the brands you track (1 = mentioned first)
• cited and citedUrls: whether the answer links to or cites your website
• mentionContext: the sentence where your brand is mentioned
• brandsMentionedInOrder: you and your competitors in the order the answer names them
• competitors: mentioned, position and cited for each competitor
• sources and sourceDomains: every page the answer cites, so you can see which sites shape the answer
• fanOutQueries: the web searches the engine ran to build its answer (ChatGPT, Perplexity)
• change, previousMentioned and previousCited: comparison with your previous run (gained, lost, unchanged)
• answerText: the full answer in markdown (optional)
• answerMethod: app (captured from the ChatGPT or Gemini app), model (asked directly; also used for ChatGPT if the app capture is unavailable) or search (Google)

A SUMMARY record in the key-value store adds the mention and citation rate per engine, share of voice for every brand and the most-cited domains.

Engines covered:

• ChatGPT: answers captured from the ChatGPT app, with its web sources
• Claude: answers from Claude Sonnet using its own knowledge (no web search, so no sources)
• Gemini: answers captured from the Gemini app
• Perplexity: Sonar answers with citations
• Google AI Overview: the summary at the top of Google results
• Google AI Mode: Google's conversational search answer

Use cases

• Answer-engine visibility tracking: measure how often ChatGPT and Google recommend you for your key buying questions
• Competitor share of voice: see which competitors are named first and most often
• Content and PR strategy: find the sources the engines cite and get your brand onto those pages
• Client reporting: export visibility per prompt and engine to Google Sheets every week
• Launch monitoring: check when a new product starts appearing in answers

How to use

1. Enter your Prompts: the questions your customers ask, e.g. "best CRM for small business".
2. Enter your Brand name and, optionally, your Brand website to detect citations.
3. Optional: add Other brand spellings and up to 20 Competitors (Name, domain.com or Name|domain.com).
4. Pick the Answer engines and a Country & language.
5. Run the actor, or schedule it. Each run compares results with your previous run of the same prompt and engine.

Output example

{
  "prompt": "best web scraping tools for developers",
  "engine": "chatgpt",
  "engineName": "ChatGPT",
  "brand": "Apify",
  "mentioned": true,
  "mentionCount": 4,
  "mentionPosition": 2,
  "cited": true,
  "citedUrls": ["https://apify.com/"],
  "brandsMentionedInOrder": ["Firecrawl", "Apify", "Bright Data"],
  "competitors": [
    { "name": "Firecrawl", "domain": "firecrawl.dev", "mentioned": true, "mentionCount": 5, "position": 1, "cited": true },
    { "name": "Bright Data", "domain": "brightdata.com", "mentioned": true, "mentionCount": 3, "position": 3, "cited": true }
  ],
  "sourceDomains": ["playwright.dev", "scrapy.org", "firecrawl.dev", "apify.com"],
  "change": "first-check",
  "location": "United States",
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T22:44:12.000Z"
}

Pricing

Pay per event, no subscription:

• Answer check: charged per prompt per engine for ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overview and Google AI Mode.
• Claude check: charged per prompt on Claude.

See the Pricing tab for current prices. Failed checks are not charged.

Free plan limits

Free Apify plans can check 2 prompts per run, 3 runs per day, with 30 minutes between runs. Upgrade to any paid Apify plan to remove these limits.

FAQ

Are the answers live? Yes. Every prompt is asked at run time. Answers change from one run to the next, so tracking over several days gives a more reliable picture than a single check.

How is a mention detected? Your brand name, any extra spellings and your domain are matched as whole words, ignoring case. Link targets are ignored, so a cited URL alone doesn't count as a mention; it counts as a citation.

Why does Google AI Overview show answerShown: false? Google doesn't show an AI Overview for every search. The check still ran, so it is still charged.

How long does a run take? Each answer takes about 5 to 15 seconds, so 10 prompts across all 5 engines take around 10 to 15 minutes.