AI Citation MonitorCitation Monitor

AI visibility tool

The AI Visibility Tool that shows whether AI cites your brand

See whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Microsoft Copilot mention, cite, or recommend you, with a confidence interval on every score and the exact fixes to climb. Free instant check, no signup.

No signup. All 5 engines, real answers, ~30 seconds.

~15%

of the pages an AI retrieves actually get cited in its final answer

AirOps, via Search Engine Land

73%

of brands get zero AI mentions despite ranking on Google page one

Onely

~2B

people see Google AI Overviews every month

Google

357–527%

year-over-year jump in AI-referred traffic

Semrush

The basics

What an AI visibility tool actually measures

AI visibility is how often, where, and how favorably AI answer engines name or cite your brand when someone asks them a question in your category. It is the AI-era cousin of search ranking. A rank tracker tells you that you sit third in a list of blue links. An AI visibility tool tells you whether you appear inside the answer the AI hands back, the place a growing share of your buyers now look first.

That distinction matters because the two no longer move together. Buyers increasingly shortlist vendors straight from an AI answer before they ever load a results page, so the brands the model names are the brands that get the demo, and the ones it skips never even know they were in the running. Ranking used to mean you had won. Now it means you are eligible, and a large majority of eligible brands still get left out of the answer. Onely reports that roughly 73% of brands get zero AI mentions despite ranking on Google page one.

It also matters because getting crawled is not the same as getting quoted. An AirOps study covered by Search Engine Land found that only about 15% of the pages an AI retrieves end up cited in its final answer. So even when an engine reads your page, the odds it quotes you are not great by default. You have to earn the citation, and to earn it you first have to measure it. That is the job this tool does.

What you get

Everything the tool tells you

One score across five engines

Track ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Microsoft Copilot together, then read a single AI Visibility Score from 0 to 100 with the confidence interval baked in. No more checking one assistant and guessing about the rest.

Cited, mentioned, or invisible

For every buyer question, the tool tells you straight whether the engine cited your URL as a source, merely mentioned your name, recommended you outright, or skipped you entirely. Citation and a name-drop are different things, and you see which one you got.

Competitor share of voice

See exactly which rivals win the prompts you lose, how much of the AI conversation each one owns, and the third-party sources propping them up. The gap becomes a list you can act on instead of a vague worry.

The sources AI pulls from

Every answer is parsed for the exact pages and domains the engine cited, so you learn whether it leaned on a review site, a Reddit thread, a competitor's blog, or a page you have never touched. That is where you go to earn the citation.

Sentiment and framing

Being named as 'the budget option nobody loves' is not the same as being the recommended pick. The tool tracks how each engine frames your brand and flags a negative drift before it quietly costs you deals.

Prescriptive fixes, not just problems

Every gap ships with the real fix: the page to write, the schema to add, the source to earn, the robots rule to change, prioritized so you work the highest-impact items first.

Five engines, one score

The AI engines this tool tracks

ChatGPTPerplexityAI OverviewsGeminiCopilot

Citation behavior is not the same from one engine to the next, which is exactly why a one-engine check misleads you. Reported citation rates vary widely between assistants, with Perplexity citing sources far more often than ChatGPT, per Superlines data via Onely. A brand that dominates Perplexity can be a ghost on ChatGPT, and a brand that Google's AI Overviews love might never surface in Copilot.

Perplexity retrieves the live web and rewards fresh, well-structured pages. ChatGPT leans on established, encyclopedic authority and its own web search. Gemini and Google AI Overviews draw on Google's index and reward entity consistency across the open web. Microsoft Copilot grounds its answers in Bing, so Bing visibility is the lever there. The tool measures all five separately, then blends them into one score so you can act on the whole picture at once.

How it works

From domain to fix list in about thirty seconds

1

Enter your domain

No code, no pixel, no signup. The tool fetches your homepage, works out what your business actually does, and frames the buyer questions your customers really ask AI.

2

We ask the engines

It runs those questions live against ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Copilot, sampling each prompt so the result reflects how the models actually behave, not a single lucky roll.

3

See where you stand

A 0 to 100 visibility score with its confidence interval, a per-engine breakdown of cited, mentioned or invisible, the competitor winning each prompt, and the sources every engine trusted.

4

Fix the gaps

A prioritized, prescriptive action list turns the report into work you can ship this week, then continuous monitoring alerts you the moment your standing moves.

Measured honestly

Why the score carries a confidence interval

Most tools hand you one clean number and hope you do not ask how shaky it is. AI answers are non-deterministic: the same question can return a different answer minute to minute, model update to model update. Report a single figure from a single run and you are selling noise as signal.

AI Citation Monitor samples each prompt multiple times and reports an honest range instead of a fake-precise point. A score of 62 with a tight interval means something very different from a 62 with a wide one, and the tool shows you which you have. When the sample is too small to be statistically meaningful, it refuses to show a score at all rather than guess, because a confident wrong number is worse than an honest "not enough data yet." That rigor is the difference between a vanity metric and a number you can put in front of a board.

You can read the full approach on our methodology page, or go deeper on the ideas in our guides to generative engine optimization and AI share of voice.

Turn the score into action

How to improve your AI visibility

Measuring is half the job; the tool exists to tell you what to change. The moves that reliably lift AI visibility are concrete. Let the AI crawlers in, because if an engine cannot reach your page it cannot cite it, and a single stray rule in robots.txt can quietly erase you from an entire surface. Lead each section with a direct, liftable answer of roughly forty to eighty words, so the model can quote you cleanly. Back your claims with named statistics and sources, the single most cited-friendly thing you can do, and add schema and an llms.txt so machines parse you correctly.

The hard part has always been knowing which of those to do first for your specific gaps. That is what the report ranks for you. It shows the exact prompts where a competitor is cited and you are not, the exact sources each engine trusted, and the highest-impact fix for each gap, so you spend your effort where it actually moves the score. For the deeper playbook, see how to get cited by ChatGPT and how AI engines choose sources.

Why a tool beats doing it by hand

AI Citation Monitor vs checking manually

What you needAI Citation MonitorBy hand
Checks all five AI enginesYes, in one runOne at a time, by hand
Confidence interval on the scoreYes, repeated samplingNo, a single guess
Competitor share of voiceYes, per promptNo
Shows the exact sources citedYesYou read each answer yourself
Prescriptive fix listYes, prioritizedNo
Continuous monitoring + alertsYes, weeklyYou remember to recheck
Free instant check, no signupYesHours of manual prompting

Comparing specific competitors instead? See our alternatives breakdowns.

Pricing

Start free, upgrade when you are ready

The instant check is free and needs no card. All five engines are on every paid plan; you pay for rigor, history and how many brands you track.

Starter

$49/mo

One brand, found by AI.

  • 1 brand
  • All 5 engines
  • 25 tracked prompts
  • Weekly monitoring
  • Competitor share of voice
Start free

Growth

$129/mo

Tighter scores, more brands.

  • 3 brands
  • 50 tracked prompts
  • Repeated-sampling precision
  • History, alerts and fixes
  • Logo white-label
Start free

Agency

$349/mo

Full white-label for clients.

  • 10 client workspaces
  • 200 tracked prompts
  • Branded PDF reports and API
  • Per-client seats
Start free

FAQ

AI visibility tool, answered

What is an AI visibility tool?+

An AI visibility tool measures whether AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Microsoft Copilot mention, cite, or recommend your brand when people ask them questions in your category. Traditional rank trackers tell you where you sit in a list of blue links. An AI visibility tool tells you whether you appear inside the AI-generated answer itself, which is a separate channel your normal SEO tools cannot see.

How does AI Citation Monitor measure AI visibility?+

It runs the real buyer questions your customers ask AI, repeats each prompt across all five engines to handle the fact that AI answers are non-deterministic, then parses the structured responses for citations, mentions, and recommendations. You get one AI Visibility Score from 0 to 100 with a confidence interval, plus the prompts you win or lose, the sources each engine cited, the competitor share of voice, and a prioritized fix list.

Which AI engines does it track?+

Five: ChatGPT (through OpenAI web search), Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Microsoft Copilot (through Bing Copilot Search). For each engine the tool measures whether your brand is cited, mentioned, or recommended, and which competitors win the answer instead. Citation rates differ wildly between engines, so checking only one gives a misleading picture of your real visibility.

Is the AI visibility check really free?+

Yes. The instant check needs no signup and no card: enter a domain and get a real score across all five engines, your per-engine breakdown, and your top competitor. The paid plans add continuous weekly monitoring, repeated-sampling precision, tracked prompts, history, alerts, and the full prescriptive fix list.

Why does every score come with a confidence interval?+

Because AI answers are non-deterministic: ask the same question twice and you can get two different answers. A single score is a snapshot, not a fact. The confidence interval tells you the honest range your real number lives in, so you do not celebrate noise or panic over a normal day-to-day wobble. When the sample is too small to be statistically meaningful, the tool refuses to show a score rather than guess.

How is this different from a rank tracker like Ahrefs or Semrush?+

Rank trackers measure where you sit in Google's blue links. An AI visibility tool measures whether AI answer engines actually cite or recommend you inside the generated answer, which is a different channel entirely. Research from Onely found that roughly 73% of brands get zero AI mentions despite ranking on Google page one, so a strong rank no longer guarantees you show up in the AI answer.

How do I improve my AI visibility?+

Make your content easy for AI to crawl and quote: allow the AI crawlers in robots.txt, lead each section with a direct 40 to 80 word answer, back claims with named statistics and sources, use question-style headings, add schema, and publish an llms.txt. AI Citation Monitor shows the exact pages and sources to earn for each engine, so you fix the specific gaps instead of guessing.

Can agencies track multiple clients?+

Yes. The Agency plan gives you ten client workspaces, all five engines, two hundred tracked prompts, branded PDF reports, API access, and per-client seats, so you can run AI visibility monitoring for a whole roster of clients under your own brand.

Does ranking number one on Google guarantee an AI citation?+

Not anymore. The overlap between ranking in the organic top ten and being cited in AI answers has fallen sharply, and Onely reports that about 73% of page-one brands still get zero AI mentions. Getting crawled is not the same as getting quoted: an AirOps study covered by Search Engine Land found only around 15% of the pages an AI retrieves end up cited in its final answer.

How often should I check my AI visibility?+

Once is a snapshot. Because answers drift as models update and competitors publish, the signal you can trust comes from repeated sampling over time. The free check is perfect for a one-off read; the paid monitor samples continuously, keeps history, and alerts you the moment your score or a competitor's share of voice moves.

See if AI cites your brand

Run the free check across all five engines and get your score, your competitors, and your fixes in about thirty seconds. No signup.