The Best Google AI Mode Trackers, Compared

6 tools document Google AI Mode tracking on their own sites — RankPrompt, Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Profound, Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit, Ahrefs Brand Radar — plus YourAIRank. They differ most in whether AI Mode is on the plan you'd buy, whether it's reported apart from AI Overviews, how often it's checked and whether you can try it free. There's no single best tool: the right one depends on budget, how often you need data and whether you already use an SEO suite.

We make YourAIRank, so read this with that in mind. Every competitor fact links to the vendor's own page with the date we checked it; there are no scores, ratings or user counts.

Google AI Mode answers a search with a conversational AI answer and links the sources it used. Google AI Mode tracking — some tools call it Google AI Mode monitoring — means running the searches your customers make on a schedule and recording, each time, whether the answer names your brand, which competitors it suggests and which pages it links. Because the answer is written fresh, the useful measure is the pattern across repeated checks, not one answer.

Location matters: AI Mode answers differ by city and language, so a tracker should run each search for the place your customers are in.

AI Mode tracking tools differ in six ways that matter in practice:

• AI Mode on your plan — included, an add-on, or Enterprise only. Check the trial too: some trials leave AI Mode out.
• AI Mode apart from AI Overviews — they're different Google products and can name different businesses. A combined figure hides that.
• Exact cited URLs — the page behind each link, not just the domain, so you know what to improve.
• Location and language control — results for the market you sell in.
• Frequency — daily data matters in fast-moving categories; weekly is enough for many local businesses.
• Price per tracked search — compare what one question on AI Mode costs at your volume, including add-ons.

Each tool below is described from its own website. "Stronger at" is our honest read of where it beats a focused tracker like YourAIRank.

AI visibility tracking across several AI engines, with Google AI Mode included on every plan.

• Google AI Mode: Yes — on every plan, including the free report (source, last checked 4 November 2026)
• AI Overviews: Combined: listed as "Google AI Mode (AI Overviews)", not as two separate engines (source, last checked 4 November 2026)
• Cited sources: Yes — "each cited URL, grouped by domain" (source, last checked 4 November 2026)
• Free plan / trial: Free plan: 10 credits for one full report (ChatGPT, Claude and Google AI Mode), no card, no time limit (source, last checked 4 November 2026)
• Price: From $39/month billed annually (Starter); Agency $149 and Agency Plus $299 per month on monthly billing (source, last checked 4 November 2026)
• Tracking frequency: Weekly or monthly scheduled scans (source, last checked 4 November 2026)

Stronger at: AI Mode on every plan and in the free report, many engines, and multi-brand plans for agencies.

Best for: Teams that want AI Mode alongside many other engines without add-ons, and don't need daily data.

Daily AI search monitoring; Google AI Overviews is included, Google AI Mode is a paid add-on.

• Google AI Mode: Paid add-on on Lite, Standard and Premium: $9, $59 or $149 per month (source, last checked 4 November 2026)
• AI Overviews: Separate: Google AI Overviews is included in every plan; AI Mode is reported as its own engine (source, last checked 4 November 2026)
• Cited sources: Citation source tracking and link citation analysis (the page doesn't say whether individual URLs or only domains are shown) (source, last checked 4 November 2026)
• Free plan / trial: Free trial, no credit card needed (no free plan); the site gives 7 days in one place and 14 in another (source, last checked 4 November 2026)
• Price: Lite $29, Standard $189, Premium $489 per month; the page also lists $25 / $160 / $422 per month without saying which billing option they belong to (source, last checked 4 November 2026)
• Tracking frequency: Daily, on all plans (source, last checked 4 November 2026)

Stronger at: Daily tracking at a low entry price, with AI Overviews and AI Mode as separate engines.

Best for: Small teams that want daily AI Overviews tracking and can add AI Mode for a small extra fee.

AI search analytics for marketing teams; you choose which models to track.

• Google AI Mode: Yes — AI Mode is one of the available models on every plan; Starter, Pro and Advanced track 3 active models (source, last checked 4 November 2026)
• AI Overviews: Separate: "AI Mode" and "AI Overviews" are listed as two models (source, last checked 4 November 2026)
• Cited sources: Yes — a "Domain & URL detail view", citation share and source classification (source, last checked 4 November 2026)
• Free plan / trial: The site offers a free trial; which engines it covers isn't stated (no free plan) (source, last checked 4 November 2026)
• Price: Starter $95, Pro $245, Advanced $495 per month; Enterprise custom (source, last checked 4 November 2026)
• Tracking frequency: Daily (Enterprise: daily or weekly) (source, last checked 4 November 2026)

Stronger at: Daily data, URL-level source analytics and a choice of models per plan.

Best for: Marketing teams that want AI Mode plus two other models of their choice, tracked daily, with deep source analytics.

Enterprise AI visibility platform; Google AI Mode is part of the Enterprise engine list.

• Google AI Mode: Enterprise only — the free trial covers ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews (source, last checked 4 November 2026)
• AI Overviews: Separate: Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode are listed as different engines (source, last checked 4 November 2026)
• Cited sources: Tracks citations across AI platforms (URL-level detail not described on the pricing page) (source, last checked 4 November 2026)
• Free plan / trial: 7-day trial with 50 recommended prompts run daily — AI Mode not included, prompts can't be customised (source, last checked 4 November 2026)
• Price: No public prices; Enterprise is custom (source, last checked 4 November 2026)
• Tracking frequency: Daily (source, last checked 4 November 2026)

Stronger at: Enterprise scale: up to nine answer engines and daily tracking.

Best for: Large companies that need AI Mode among many engines and can work with custom pricing.

AI visibility reporting inside the Semrush SEO platform.

• Google AI Mode: Yes — Prompt Tracking covers "platforms like Google AI Mode and ChatGPT"; 25 prompts included (source, last checked 4 November 2026)
• AI Overviews: The Visibility Overview covers Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini and ChatGPT; separate AI Mode reporting isn't described (source, last checked 4 November 2026)
• Cited sources: Cited Sources (websites) and Cited Pages (your own pages cited); source URLs shown as links in responses (source, last checked 4 November 2026)
• Free plan / trial: No free trial for the toolkit (source, last checked 4 November 2026)
• Price: $99 per month; 50 more prompts for $60 per month (source, last checked 4 November 2026)
• Tracking frequency: Prompt tracking updated daily; Brand Performance weekly (source, last checked 4 November 2026)

Stronger at: AI Mode data next to Semrush's SEO data, a large prompt database and daily prompt tracking.

Best for: Teams already using Semrush who want AI Mode visibility next to their SEO reports.

Head-to-head: Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit alternative.

Brand visibility across AI platforms inside Ahrefs, with prompt-based and search-query-based AI Mode data.

• Google AI Mode: Yes — in prompt-based indexes and in search-query-based indexes (AI Overviews and AI Mode only); custom prompts too (source, last checked 4 November 2026)
• AI Overviews: Separate: AI Overviews and AI Mode are listed as different platforms, filterable (source, last checked 4 November 2026)
• Cited sources: Yes — "which pages and domains get cited" (source, last checked 4 November 2026)
• Free plan / trial: No free trial stated; paid Ahrefs plans include 150–600 checks on AI prompts (source, last checked 4 November 2026)
• Price: Brand Radar AI from $199/month; custom prompt packages $50, $100 or $250 per month (source, last checked 4 November 2026)
• Tracking frequency: Custom prompts daily, weekly or monthly per platform (source, last checked 4 November 2026)

Stronger at: A very large prompt database, AI Mode data tied to real search demand, and configurable daily checks.

Best for: Ahrefs customers who want AI Mode research at scale on top of their own prompts.

To track brand visibility in Google AI Mode, YourAIRank collects AI Mode answers from real Google results through DataForSEO's SERP API — it doesn't scrape Google itself. Each search runs for your business's city when Google lists it as a location (otherwise your country, otherwise the United States), in your business's language, on desktop.

• Mentions — recommended, mentioned without a recommendation, only linked as a source, or not mentioned; your position when several businesses are listed.
• Competitors — businesses named as alternatives, verified against the answer text.
• Linked sources — every link attached to the answer, with URL and title, flagged as yours, a competitor's or a third party's.
• No answer — searches where AI Mode shows no answer are labelled "No AI answer shown", never counted as "not mentioned".

The free AI visibility checker includes AI Mode for 3 questions generated from your site, with no account. Pro tracks up to 10 questions every 7 days. Pro is not yet available to buy. Details are on the Google AI Mode tracker page.

Where others are stronger: several tools above check daily, track far more prompts, or sit inside a full SEO suite. YourAIRank re-checks every 7 days and focuses on reading each answer and its sources.

AI Overviews are a summary box on the regular results page that Google shows for some searches; AI Mode is a separate conversational search where the whole answer is AI-written. They can name different businesses and link different pages for the same query, so a tracker that reports them as one engine can hide a gap. YourAIRank tracks them as two platforms — see the Google AI Overview tracker — and the differences are explained in AI Overviews vs AI Mode. Tools for the Overview side are compared in the best Google AI Overview trackers.

If a tool tracks AI Overviews but not AI Mode, you won't see what people get when they open AI Mode. Improving what AI Mode says about you is covered in how to rank in Google AI Mode.