AI Answer Visibility Monitor - GEO Brand Tracking API (no caps, pay per check)

Track whether your brand is mentioned when AI assistants answer questions in your category. Built for marketers, agencies, founders, and AI agents who need to know if they are visible in AI search (the answers people now get from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews).

The affordable, no-subscription, no-prompt-cap alternative to Profound, Otterly.AI, Peec, and Ranklytics. Pay only for the checks you run. Bring your own keys. Run thousands of prompts for the price others charge for fifty.

This is GEO (Generative Engine Optimization), also called AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) or AI SEO: the new way to get found, now that buyers ask an AI instead of scrolling Google.

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Supported engines

Engine	Key needed	Grounding	Cost
Google Gemini	Free Gemini key (aistudio.google.com, no credit card)	Live Google Search (configurable)	Free tier generous
OpenAI (GPT-4o)	OpenRouter key (openrouter.ai, paid)	Native web search via :online	~$5 top-up = thousands of checks
Perplexity (Sonar)	OpenRouter key (same key as OpenAI)	Web-grounded by default	Same OpenRouter balance

One OpenRouter key powers both OpenAI and Perplexity. Select multiple engines to compare how each AI talks about your brand, all in one run. One result row per (query, engine).

Gemini works standalone with a free key. To add OpenAI and Perplexity, top up ~$5 at openrouter.ai and paste the key. No lock-in, no subscription.

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Why this beats the expensive tools (we built it from your complaints)

What people hate about other GEO tools	What we do
$300 to $500 a month subscriptions	No subscription. Pay per check, cents each.
Low prompt caps ("a flashlight, I need a floodlight")	No caps. Run as many prompts as you want.
~$10 per prompt (Profound Lite)	About $0.05 per AI check.
Single yes/no looks erratic (answers change by the hour)	We run each prompt several times and report a mention RATE (%) plus a stability flag. We measure the volatility instead of hiding it.
"Great dashboard, but what now?"	Every result includes a plain-language recommended_action and the exact web sources the AI cited, so you know where to get mentioned.
Locked-in SaaS, hard to automate	API and MCP-native. Drops straight into your workflow or AI agent.
Only tracks one AI model	Multi-engine. Compare Gemini, OpenAI, and Perplexity side by side.

We deliberately do not promise revenue attribution or full conversational-journey tracking, because no tool does that honestly yet. We would rather under-promise and be trusted.

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What you get (per query, per engine)

• engine: which AI answered (gemini, openai, perplexity, or demo)
• mention_rate_pct: % of runs where the AI named your brand (the headline number)
• stability: stable or volatile, so you know how much to trust it
• times_mentioned / runs: e.g. mentioned in 2 of 3 runs
• avg_prominence: 1 to 100, how early/prominently your brand appears
• competitors_mentioned: the rival brand names the AI named (auto-detected)
• ai_sources: the web pages the AI cited to build its answer (your citation targets)
• recommended_action: a plain next step
• sample_answer: a preview of the AI's actual answer

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Example output

{
  "brand": "Notion",
  "query": "What is the best note-taking app in 2026?",
  "engine": "gemini",
  "model": "gemini-2.5-flash",
  "grounded": true,
  "runs": 3,
  "mention_rate_pct": 67,
  "times_mentioned": 2,
  "stability": "volatile",
  "avg_prominence": 54,
  "competitors_mentioned": ["Microsoft OneNote", "Obsidian", "Evernote"],
  "ai_sources": [
    {"title": "zapier.com", "url": "https://zapier.com/..."},
    {"title": "pcmag.com", "url": "https://pcmag.com/..."}
  ],
  "recommended_action": "Inconsistent: named in 2 of 3 runs, so the AI is unsure about you. Strengthen authoritative content and target zapier.com, pcmag.com for citations. Watch Microsoft OneNote, who shows up against you.",
  "sample_answer": "For note-taking in 2026, Notion remains a top all-in-one choice..."
}

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How to use it

1. Enter your brand name (e.g. "Notion", "Tesla", "Monday.com").
2. Enter the questions your customers would ask an AI: "What is the best X?", "Which Y should I use?", "How do I solve Z?".
3. Select which engines to check (Gemini, OpenAI, Perplexity, or all three).
4. Add your API key(s):
   • Gemini: free key (see below).
   • OpenAI and/or Perplexity: one OpenRouter key (see below).
5. Pick runs per query (default 3, for a reliable rate). You pay per AI check, so 3 runs of one query on 2 engines = 6 checks.
6. Run it. One rated result row per (question, engine). Schedule it daily or weekly on Apify to track movement over time.

No key yet? Leave them blank to see a labeled demo of the output format first.

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Get a free Gemini API key (2 minutes, no credit card)

1. Go to aistudio.google.com
2. Sign in with a Google account
3. Click "Get API key" and copy it
4. Paste it into the geminiApiKey field

The free tier is generous. Because you bring your own key, your AI usage stays free or near-free.

Get an OpenRouter key (for OpenAI and Perplexity)

1. Go to openrouter.ai and sign up
2. Top up your balance (~$5 is enough for thousands of checks)
3. Go to Keys, create an API key, and copy it
4. Paste it into the openrouterApiKey field

One key, one balance, two engines. No subscription. OpenRouter reaches GPT-4o with web search and Perplexity Sonar (and 200+ other models if you ever need them).

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Use as an MCP server (for AI agents)

This Actor works as an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, so AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT can call it directly to check brand visibility with no human involvement. Ideal for automated GEO monitoring inside an agent workflow.

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Who this is for

• Marketers and GEO/AEO agencies reporting AI visibility to clients
• Founders checking if AI recommends them or a competitor
• Developers and AI agents that need GEO data via API, not a dashboard

Keywords: AI visibility checker, LLM brand tracker, AI search monitoring, track brand mentions in ChatGPT and Gemini, generative engine optimization tool, answer engine optimization, Profound alternative, Otterly alternative, GEO API, GEO MCP server, multi-engine AI visibility, compare AI engines.

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Important

This is a data and monitoring tool. It measures what AI assistants answer at query time; it does not change what they say. AI answers vary between runs (that is real, your customers see it too), which is exactly why we report a rate across multiple runs. Competitor names are auto-detected and labeled as such, not manually verified.

Profound, Otterly.AI, Peec, and Ranklytics are trademarks of their respective owners. Veska is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by them. Any comparison is for informational purposes, based on publicly available pricing.

Built by Veska. Real grounded GEO data. No caps, no subscription. Multi-engine.