AI Search Brand Visibility Tracker (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini)

Track LLM brand visibility: find out whether ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini recommend your brand when people ask them for advice, how often they mention your competitors instead, and which websites the AI cites as sources. One run, all three engines, a ready share-of-voice report.

What it does

1. You enter the questions your buyers ask AI assistants, for example "best CRM for small agencies".
2. The Actor asks ChatGPT (OpenAI with web search), Perplexity (Sonar) and Gemini (Google Search grounding) each question, live, with web search turned on.
3. Every answer is analysed:
   • is your brand mentioned, how many times, and in which position compared to competitors;
   • is your website cited as a source;
   • which competitors are mentioned and in what order;
   • which domains the AI relies on (Reddit, review sites, app stores, blogs).
4. You get a dataset with one row per answer, plus a summary and an HTML report with share of voice per engine and the list of prompts where your brand is missing.

Why it matters

People increasingly ask AI assistants instead of searching on Google. If ChatGPT recommends three tools and yours is not one of them, you lose that buyer without ever knowing. This Actor makes that visible and measurable, so you can track Generative Engine Optimization (GEO / AEO) progress over time.

Input

Field	Example
Prompts	best project management tool for small agencies
Brand	ClickUp
Brand aliases	Click Up
Brand domains	clickup.com
Competitors	Asana | asana.com, Monday.com | monday.com | monday
Engines	ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini
Repeats per prompt	3 (AI answers vary, repeats show how stable your visibility is)
Answer language	German (optional)

Output

Each dataset item:

{
  "prompt": "best motorcycle route planner app for adventure riding",
  "engine": "Perplexity",
  "brandMentioned": true,
  "brandPosition": 2,
  "brandCited": true,
  "brandsInOrder": ["Kurviger", "Calimoto", "Scenic"],
  "competitors": [{ "name": "Kurviger", "mentioned": true, "position": 1, "cited": false }],
  "citedDomains": ["calimoto.com", "reddit.com", "apps.apple.com"],
  "brandContext": "...calimoto is best for curvy and scenic road riding...",
  "answer": "full AI answer text",
  "citations": [{ "position": 1, "url": "https://...", "domain": "calimoto.com" }]
}

Key-value store:

• SUMMARY: share of voice, mention rate, average position, first-place rate and citation rate for every brand, per engine and overall, plus the most cited domains;
• REPORT: the same as a readable HTML page you can send to a client.

Pricing

Two parts, both pay-as-you-go:

1. Analysis: a flat fee per analysed AI answer. One prompt asked on three engines is three answers. Failed requests are not charged.
2. AI usage at cost: the AI providers' own price, billed to your Apify account through Apify's official OpenRouter proxy, with no markup and no extra accounts. Typical cost per answer: Perplexity about $0.005, ChatGPT about $0.03, Gemini about $0.03. Note that Apify charges Free plan users more for AI usage, so a paid plan is much cheaper for regular tracking.

You can also add your own OpenRouter API key to pay the AI providers directly.

FAQ

How do I check if ChatGPT recommends my brand? Add the questions your buyers ask, your brand and a few competitors. The Actor asks ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini each question with web search on and reports whether you are mentioned, in what position, and whether your site is cited.

Is this a ChatGPT scraper or a Perplexity scraper? It goes one step further: it collects the answers from all three engines in one run and turns them into GEO / AEO metrics (share of voice, mention rate, first-place rate, citation rate). The full answer text and citations are included, so you can use it as a multi-engine AI answer scraper too.

What is GEO / AEO? Generative Engine Optimization (also called Answer Engine Optimization or LLM SEO) is the work of getting your brand mentioned and cited in AI answers. You cannot improve what you do not measure; this Actor is the measuring part.

Why do results change between runs? AI assistants give different answers to the same question. Use Repeats per prompt of 3 or more and track trends weekly. A schedule in Apify makes this automatic.

Which websites should I target to get mentioned? Check topCitedDomains in the summary: these are the sources the AI relies on for your topic (often Reddit, review sites and niche blogs).

Use cases

• SEO and GEO agencies: monthly AI visibility reports for clients.
• SaaS and e-commerce brands: track whether AI assistants recommend you or your competitors.
• Content teams: find which sources AI cites in your niche and get featured there.
• AI agents: call the Actor through the Apify MCP server to check brand visibility on demand.

Notes

• Answers come from the providers' official APIs with web search, not from scraping the consumer apps, so runs are stable and do not break when a website changes. API answers can differ slightly from what a logged-in user sees in the app.
• Use Repeats per prompt of 3 or more for decisions: AI recommendations change between requests.