AI Brand Visibility Tracker — Mentions & Citations

Measure whether a selected AI model mentions a brand and cites its official domain in real answers. Keep a persistent answer-level history and detect changes over time instead of relying on a single anecdotal AI response.

Use this tool when

• You want evidence that a particular model mentions your company, product or client.
• You need to know whether the answer includes the official domain rather than a competitor or an unrelated website.
• You want to repeat the same prompts and compare mentioned, cited and citationCount over time.
• You need the exact answer and model-provided URLs for human review.

Use AEO AI Visibility Checker for technical website readiness and Local AI Presence Monitor for Google reviews and local-business signals. Those tools do not measure actual AI answers; this Actor does, one model at a time.

What it measures

For every prompt, the Actor records:

• mentioned: exact brand name present in the answer text.
• cited: at least one returned URL belongs to the official domain or its subdomains.
• citationCount and all model-provided URLs.
• mentionPosition, current values and changes since the previous answer.
• The complete answer, model, timestamp and an explicit accuracy warning.

Results are specific to the selected model, prompts and run date. They do not represent every AI engine and do not guarantee a ranking or future citation. AI answers can be inaccurate; a returned URL is evidence supplied by the model, not verified truth.

Quick start

1. Set brand and the official domain without protocol.
2. Keep one to ten stable queries.
3. Choose an OpenRouter model and provide apiKey as a secret input.
4. Run once, then repeat with the same input to see changes.
5. Read the dataset and SUMMARY for mention and official-citation rates.

The default openrouter/free router selects an available free model and can itself be rate-limited. For strictly comparable history, choose a fixed model and keep it unchanged. Paid models such as perplexity/sonar require provider credits. Reasoning models can require at least 1,000 tokens to return a final answer. Provider failures become actionable dataset items instead of disappearing silently.

Dry run

dryRun: true returns a clearly marked technical sample without calling an AI provider or charging events. It is not a visibility result and contains no fabricated mention or citation.

Pricing

• run-started: $0.05 per run outside dry-run.
• query-measured: $0.05 per successfully measured answer.
• brand-citation-detected: $0.10 per answer citing the official domain.

OpenRouter/provider costs are separate and depend on the selected model and key. Failed provider calls are not charged as query-measured.

API and AI agents

Call through the Apify API or https://mcp.apify.com. Preserve the same brand, domain, model and queries between runs for meaningful comparisons. The public Markdown page is https://apify.com/travelmonitorlab/ai-brand-visibility-tracker.md.

Built by Adaga solutions. For support, open an issue with the run ID, model, query and expected result. Never include your OpenRouter key.