Google AI Mode tracker
Track whether Google AI Mode names your brand, which pages it cites, and which competitors it recommends instead. An opt-in engine on every AuditAE audit, side by side with ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and AI Overviews. 10¢ per check, $5 free credit, no subscription.
$5 free credit · No card on file · ~3 mins setup
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- Mentioned
- Yes · #3
- URL cited
- No
- Cited instead
- ledgerly.io
- Competitors
- 2 named
See what Google AI Mode says about any brand right now.
The free check below runs the four core engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews). Sign up to add Google AI Mode as a fifth column on the same prompts.
Google's answer engine, without the blue links
- 10¢
per AI Mode check — one prompt, one live answer, no subscription
- Every URL
cited in the answer is captured, so you see which pages AI Mode trusts
- 5 engines
on the same prompts: AI Mode next to AI Overviews, Gemini, ChatGPT and Perplexity
- 0
AI Mode reporting in Search Console — Google doesn't break it out
AI Mode isn't AI Overviews — it retrieves differently
AI Overviews is the summary box above ordinary results. AI Mode is the full-screen conversation a searcher opts into — longer answers, more sources, follow-up questions — and it runs its own query fan-out and ranking on top of the Gemini family. The same brand can win the AI Overviews box and be absent from the AI Mode answer for the same question, or the other way round.
That's why tracking AI Overviews alone doesn't cover it. AuditAE runs your prompts through both and shows them as separate columns, so you can see where the two disagree and which competitor pages each one leans on.
Search Console doesn't separate AI Mode traffic either. The only way to know whether AI Mode recommends you is to ask it the questions your buyers ask and read the answers — which is what every AI Mode check does.
What AuditAE captures in every Google AI Mode answer.
Brand mentions
Whether your brand is named anywhere in the answer body — not just whether the answer cites your URL. Most teams undercount visibility by 2–4× because they only parse citation lists.
Citation sources
The full set of URLs the engine cited alongside your brand (or instead of it). Every cited domain is a content gap or an outreach target.
Competitors named
Every other brand the engine surfaced for the same prompt. The brands cited instead of you are your real competitive set on AI search — often different from the deck.
Position in answer
Where in the response the first mention of your brand appears. Earlier mentions are read more often; later ones are decoration. Character index, normalized.
Sentiment
Whether the mention is positive, neutral, or negative. Most AI mentions are neutral; flagged ones are usually paraphrasing a third-party negative review worth tracking down.
Prompt-level trend
Diffs against your last audit so you see which prompts moved, which competitors entered the answer, and which citations were lost — not a single-snapshot score.
From prompt to AI Mode report in three steps
Drop in your brand and prompts
Add 5–20 prompts your buyers actually ask — questions, not keywords. AuditAE runs them on demand or on a schedule, never against a fixed plan.
We capture the live AI Mode answer
Each prompt runs as a live Google AI Mode search. AuditAE stores the full answer, every cited source URL, whether your brand was named, whether your domain was linked, and which competitors appeared — the same fields as every other engine column.
Read the share-of-voice panel
See which prompts mention you, which competitors got named instead, which URLs got cited. Re-run in 30 days to track movement.
Curious how we score it? See the full methodology — and what counts as a citation vs a mention.
One audit on AuditAE costs less than a single seat-month on the others.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Cost · one 5×4 audit | Per-domain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AuditAE | 5–12¢ / check | Pay-as-you-go | $1.65 | No — audit any domain |
| Otterly Lite | $29 / month | Monthly subscription | $29 | Tier-dependent |
| Semrush AI Visibility | $99 / month per domain | Subscription + per-domain | $99 (one domain) | Yes — multiplies fast |
| Profound | Custom after a free 7-day trial | Enterprise contract; agencies $99/month + $399 per client | Custom | Agencies: per client |
| Peec AI | From $95 / month | Monthly subscription | $95 | Yes |
A 5-prompt audit across all four engines on AuditAE costs $1.65. The single-audit gap to the cheapest subscription competitor is roughly 18×, and Profound sells brands custom Enterprise plans after a free 7-day trial. That’s a different pricing model, not a discount — subscription tools earn their keep at daily enterprise cadences. For monthly or quarterly tracking, pay-per-check wins.
Go deeper: AuditAE vs SEMrush AI visibility, vs Brand24, or the full pay-per-check vs subscription math.
Competitor pricing as listed in September and October 2026, from each vendor’s published pricing page.
Four teams already running it.
In-house SEO
Your CMO is asking whether you show up in AI. Run a 5-prompt audit before the meeting, walk in with the share-of-voice panel, walk out with budget.
Agencies
Audit across all your clients without per-domain pricing. Per-engine breakdowns are screenshot-ready for monthly reports; no SaaS markup squeezing the retainer margin.
Brand managers
Monitor brand perception in the answers buyers actually see. Catch competitive shifts and negative framing weeks before they show up in pipeline reviews.
PR teams
Measure citation lift from campaigns and announcements. The AI surface is where journalists, analysts, and buyers triangulate now — track it like you track press hits.
Questions about AI Mode tracking.
Looking for the cross-engine view? The complete guide to AI brand monitoring covers methodology, metrics, and a 30-day setup plan across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and AI Overviews.
An AI Mode tracker runs the questions your buyers ask through Google AI Mode and records whether your brand is named, whether your site is cited as a source, and which competitors appear instead. AuditAE does this as an opt-in engine on any audit, at 10¢ per prompt, alongside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews.
AI Overviews is the summary box above normal search results, which most searchers see without asking for it. AI Mode is a separate full-screen AI conversation in Google Search that searchers opt into. Both use Google's Gemini models, but they retrieve and rank sources differently, so a brand can appear in one and not the other. Track both if Google is a meaningful channel for you.
Not separately. AI Mode clicks and impressions are folded into overall web search data, so you can't see from Search Console whether AI Mode recommends you or a competitor. You have to query AI Mode directly and read its answers.
Tick Google AI Mode in the engine list when you run an audit or set a site's default engines. It's opt-in, so existing audits and the four-engine defaults don't change. Through the REST API or MCP server, add "ai-mode" to the engines list.
10¢ per AI Mode check, billed from prepaid credit with no subscription. A 5-prompt audit on all five engines is $2.15. Sign-up includes $5 of free credit.
As of September 2026, Semrush's AI Visibility Toolkit includes AI Mode, Otterly sells it as an add-on, Peec AI and SE Ranking track it, and Profound covers it on Enterprise. AuditAE tracks it per check with no subscription, which suits audits run in bursts or across many client sites.
Google AI Mode is the opt-in fifth engine. These four run on every audit.
ChatGPT
The biggest AI answer surface — and the one with zero native analytics.
Perplexity
Citation-first answers where every response names its sources.
Gemini
Google's assistant, grounded in Search — a different index than ChatGPT.
Google AI Overviews
The AI answer sitting above your blue links on Google itself.
Curious how the same prompt gets a different answer on each engine? Our methodology explains how AuditAE queries each one, and how it works walks through a full audit end to end.
See what AI Mode says
about your brand.
Sign up, add your site and a few buyer prompts, and tick Google AI Mode. AuditAE returns the answer, the cited sources and the competitors named, next to the other four engines. $5 free credit; no card on file.
$5 in free credit · No card on file · Results in ~3 minutes