AI Search Visibility Tracker: ChatGPT, Gemini and More

Find out whether AI assistants recommend your brand. Enter your brand and the questions your customers ask. The Actor asks ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity (Claude is optional) and tells you, for every answer, whether your brand was mentioned, where it ranked against your competitors, how it was described and which websites the AI cited. You also get a free share of voice summary per engine. You don't need any API keys or accounts.

One example row from a real run, shortened:

{
  "id": "62a8ca3184f069b6",
  "rowType": "answer",
  "answerStatus": "ok",
  "brand": "HubSpot",
  "prompt": "What is the best CRM software for a small business?",
  "promptType": "unbranded",
  "promptGenerated": false,
  "engine": "chatgpt",
  "engineName": "ChatGPT",
  "model": "gpt-4.1-mini",
  "modelVersion": "gpt-4.1-mini-2025-04-14",
  "mentioned": true,
  "mentionCount": 3,
  "mentionPosition": 1,
  "listRank": 1,
  "excerpt": "1. **HubSpot CRM** – Free to start, very easy to use and great for marketing teams. I recommend it for most small teams.",
  "sentiment": "positive",
  "sentimentScore": 1,
  "recommended": true,
  "visibilityScore": 10,
  "shareOfVoice": 0.6,
  "brandDomainCited": true,
  "brandCitationPosition": 1,
  "competitorsMentioned": [
    "Salesforce",
    "Pipedrive"
  ],
  "brandsInOrder": [
    "HubSpot",
    "Salesforce",
    "Pipedrive"
  ],
  "competitorMentions": [
    {
      "name": "Salesforce",
      "mentioned": true,
      "mentionCount": 1,
  …
}

One row per prompt × AI engine (rowType: "answer"):

domainCited (per competitor) and brandDomainCited are true when one of the answer's cited sources is that brand's website. If you give a domain ("Pipedrive | pipedrive.com"), it is matched exactly, subdomains included. If you give only a name, the cited site's main name must equal the name without spaces (Salesforce → salesforce.com).

Plus one free summary row (rowType: "summary", also saved as SUMMARY in the key value store) with mention rate, share of voice, average position, average sentiment, average visibility score, answers recommending or citing you, each competitor's mention rate and share of voice, and the 10 most cited domains. You get these numbers for the whole run and per engine (byEngine).

You pay per event, through your Apify account. Main price: $8.00 per 1,000 AI answers on the Apify Free plan and $4.50 on Gold. Every event and plan:

Every run is one HTTP request to the Apify API with your Apify token; the input below is the actor's own example. The synchronous endpoint returns the rows in the response for runs up to 300 seconds; for longer runs start a run and fetch its dataset.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/cheapapi~ai-search-visibility-tracker/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"brandName":"HubSpot","brandDomain":"hubspot.com","competitors":["Salesforce","Pipedrive","Zoho CRM"],"prompts":["What is the best CRM software for a small business?","Which CRM is easiest to use for a startup sales team?"]}'

With the JavaScript client:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('cheapapi/ai-search-visibility-tracker').call({
  "brandName": "HubSpot",
  "brandDomain": "hubspot.com",
  "competitors": [
    "Salesforce",
    "Pipedrive",
    "Zoho CRM"
  ],
  "prompts": [
    "What is the best CRM software for a small business?",
    "Which CRM is easiest to use for a startup sales team?"
  ]
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

Typical run: 10 prompts × ChatGPT + Gemini + Perplexity = 30 AI answers. Prices are shown for the Free plan and, in brackets, the Gold plan.

Platform usage: the flat per run brand analysis and this Actor both bill Apify platform usage to the user on top of their event prices (here, at the default 256 MB a small run typically uses about $0.001 to $0.005); the other four listings do not. Prices from public Apify Store listings, checked September 2026. Where the others are ahead: the flat per run brand analysis costs $0.15 per run on Gold, less than our $0.18 for 30 answers, though it covers only ChatGPT and Gemini (the same 10 prompts on ChatGPT + Gemini cost $0.16 on Free and $0.09 on Gold here); two of the others include live Google AI Overview answers, the per question bundle rewrites each question into several variants for you, and one runs live web search in every check. Here you choose each engine and model yourself, web search is optional (Perplexity always searches), and the share of voice summary row is free.

• Generative engine optimization (GEO): measure how often AI assistants name your brand for buyer questions, and whether your content changes move the numbers.
• Competitor benchmarking: compare share of voice, position and sentiment against up to 20 competitors, per engine.
• Source and PR strategy: see which domains the AI cites (review sites, media, your own pages) and where you should be present.
• Weekly monitoring: schedule the same prompts and chart mention rate and visibility score over time.
• Agency reporting: run one task per client and send the summary row to a spreadsheet or dashboard.
• Market research: use the mentions database and AI keyword volume to find which questions people actually ask AI about your category.

• Live Google AI Overview and Google AI Mode answers. This Actor asks the AI assistants directly; Google's AI answers appear on the search results page. Use our Google SERP Scraper: it returns the AI Overview with every cited source and your domain's citation position, and has a separate Google AI Mode search type. This Actor's mentions database still covers stored Google AI Overview answers.
• Microsoft Copilot, Meta AI, Grok and DeepSeek. Only ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity are asked live.
• Automatic prompt variants. Each prompt is asked exactly as you write it. Add rephrased versions yourself, or use a topic to generate 5 to 10 questions for free.
• Dashboards, alerts and run to run comparison inside the Actor. Results go to a dataset and a SUMMARY record; use schedules, webhooks and the stable id to compare runs in your own tools.
• Classic keyword research and rankings. For search volume, difficulty and ideas use our Keyword Research Tool; for your domain's Google rankings, the Google SERP Scraper or Domain SEO Analyzer.

• Brand detection matches your brand name, the extra names you give, your domain and its main part (for example "hubspot" from hubspot.com). Very generic brand names (for example "Apple" used as a fruit) can produce false matches.
• A competitor given only by name is matched to cited sites by its main name (Salesforce → salesforce.com). If its website has a different name, add the domain (Zoho CRM | zoho.com).
• Sentiment and "recommended" are word list heuristics with no measured accuracy figure. They can misread sarcasm, mixed verdicts or complex comparisons, so read the excerpt before acting on a single answer.
• Answers can differ from the consumer chat apps, which add personalization, memory and their own instructions.
• Some advanced settings are not supported by every engine: Gemini has no search location or forced search, Perplexity has no city, and reasoning models ignore temperature and top p. The Actor then uses the engine default and logs a note.
• At most 200 prompts and 20 competitors per run. Model lists change often, and new models are added after testing.
• In the mentions database, stored ChatGPT answers cover the United States in English only. Google AI Overview answers cover many more countries. AI search volume figures are estimates.