The best Google AI Mode trackers in 2026, compared

What is a Google AI Mode tracker?

A Google AI Mode tracker runs the questions your customers ask, records whether Google's AI Mode names or cites your business in its generated answer, and reports how that visibility changes over time. Unlike a classic rank tracker, which watches blue-link positions, it reads inside the AI answer itself: which businesses get named, which sources the answer leaned on, and how you compare with competitors.

This matters because Google AI Mode is a different surface from the ten blue links and even from AI Overviews. AI Mode runs on a custom version of Gemini 2.5 and passed a billion monthly users in 2026 (reported from Google I/O 2026 coverage). Ranking well in classic search no longer guarantees you appear in the AI answer, so measuring the AI answer directly is the only way to know where you stand.

Why track Google AI Mode separately from AI Overviews?

Because they are two different engines that happen to sit in the same search box. An Ahrefs study of 540,000 query pairs found AI Mode and AI Overviews reach the same overall answer about 86% of the time, yet cite the same URLs only around 14% of the time. Appearing in one does not mean you appear in the other.

For an owner the practical takeaway is simple: a tool that only checks AI Overviews, or only classic rankings, can miss AI Mode entirely. If AI Mode is where your customers are asking, you want a tracker that reads that specific surface, or at least the assistant behind it.

What to look for in an AI Mode tracker

Most of these tools were built for marketing teams, so they optimise for what a team cares about. If you run one or a few locations, a shorter checklist matters more. For the full version see how to choose an AI visibility tool; the essentials are below.

One thing our own data underlines: across a study of 326 AI answers about local businesses, the recommendations came overwhelmingly from third-party directories, review sites and communities rather than businesses' own websites. So a tracker that surfaces those sources is worth far more than one that only reports a score, see which websites AI trusts.

• Does it check the surfaces and assistants your customers actually use, several times? Answers vary from run to run, so one check tells you almost nothing.
• Does it hand you a score, or a plan? A number tells you where you stand; it does not tell you what to do next. Without a marketing team, look for a ranked list of fixes.
• Is it priced for one location, not a department? Enterprise platforms bill per seat and per month because agencies pass it on to clients.
• Is it honest about what is possible? Nobody can guarantee AI names you first. Prefer a tool that shows the evidence and the gaps, and see how to read AI visibility metrics.
• Does it re-measure, so you can see whether your fixes moved anything a few weeks later?

The best Google AI Mode trackers at a glance

The table compares the main options on the things an owner actually decides on: who each is built for, whether it reads Google AI Mode, what else it checks, and how it is priced. It is ordered by fit, not as a ranking. Detailed notes follow below. Pricing changes often, so we point you to check current pricing rather than quote figures that go stale, and AI Mode coverage moves just as fast, so we mark what each vendor says it supports and suggest you confirm it is current before you buy.

Profound, best for enterprise brands

Profound is a powerful, enterprise-grade AI-visibility platform with deep analytics and broad prompt-volume data across AI Mode and the other major engines. It is built, and priced, for larger brands and teams that need scale, and for that audience it is a serious tool.

Watch-out: it comes with enterprise pricing, onboarding and a learning curve. If you are a single owner without a marketing team, it is likely more platform than you need.

Otterly, best for affordable monitoring

Otterly is a well-known, affordable AI-visibility tracker and a genuinely solid pick if what you want is ongoing monitoring across assistants, including AI Mode. It runs on a monthly subscription and reports your mention rate as a score you can watch over time.

Watch-out: it is a tracker by design, so it shows you the trend but stops at the number. You still translate the score into action yourself, and it is a recurring bill to remember.

Peec AI, best for marketing teams

Peec AI is aimed at marketing teams that want multi-engine metrics and share-of-voice tracking, AI Mode included. It leans into deep analytics: prompt-level data, competitor comparisons and trends you can work through over time.

Watch-out: that depth carries a learning curve. For an owner who wants to act in an afternoon rather than manage a dashboard, it can be more than the job requires.

Scrunch AI, best for brands and agencies

Scrunch AI focuses on continuous generative-engine tracking for brands and agencies, with dashboards spanning many engines and AI Mode. Its strength is breadth and ongoing measurement across a portfolio of brands or clients.

Watch-out: it is built for managing many things over time on a monthly subscription, not for answering one business's question once and handing over the fixes.

Rankscale, best for watching a trend

Rankscale gives marketers visibility scores tracked over time across multiple engines, AI Mode among them. If your goal is a clean trend line you can report on, it does that job on a monthly subscription.

Watch-out: it speaks in marketing and SEO terms and, like the others in this group, stops at the score, so you still do the translating into action.

LLMPulse, best for per-engine trackers

LLMPulse is a fast-growing AI-visibility platform with dedicated trackers for each surface, AI Mode included, aimed at marketers and agencies. It publishes detailed per-platform comparisons and offers continuous tracking on a monthly subscription.

Watch-out: as with the rest of this group, the output is a dashboard and a score. If you are an owner without a team to act on it, factor that in.

SurfacedBy, best for monitoring plus page audits

SurfacedBy pairs AI-visibility monitoring with page-level audits, so alongside tracking whether you are named it flags things on your own pages to fix. That combination suits brands and marketers who want measurement and on-page pointers in one place.

Watch-out: it is marketing-oriented and runs on an ongoing subscription; confirm its current AI Mode coverage with the vendor, and weigh whether you need continuous monitoring or a one-time answer.

Ayzeo, best for agencies managing many clients

Ayzeo is built for agencies and multi-client work, with tracking across engines and a white-label tier so you can put your own brand on the reports. If you manage AI visibility for many businesses, that is exactly the shape you want.

Watch-out: it is designed for managing a roster over time, not for fixing your own single business, and the white-label side is priced accordingly. Confirm current AI Mode coverage with the vendor.

Semrush, best for existing Semrush users

If your team already lives in Semrush, its AI-visibility features add AI Mode and multi-engine tracking to the toolset you use for classic SEO, keyword and competitor work, all in one login.

Watch-out: it is a large SEO suite and AI visibility is one module within it, priced for professionals. For a single location it is usually far more tool, and cost, than the question needs.

SE Ranking, best for an all-in-one SEO plus GEO stack

SE Ranking offers AI-visibility tracking as part of a broader, affordable all-in-one SEO platform, so you get AI Mode coverage alongside rankings, audits and reporting without stitching several tools together.

Watch-out: because AI visibility sits inside a full SEO platform, you are adopting the whole suite. If all you want is the AI answer, a focused check is simpler.

Ahrefs Brand Radar, best inside the Ahrefs suite

If you already live in Ahrefs, Brand Radar adds AI share-of-voice data and most-cited-domain reporting to the toolset you use for classic SEO, keeping everything in one place for an SEO team.

Watch-out: its AI Mode coverage is partial and evolving, and it is priced as part of a full SEO suite, sometimes per AI platform, which can get expensive.

Peekl, the owner's alternative to a tracker

We will be straight, because it is our tool: Peekl is not a continuous AI Mode rank-tracking dashboard like the ones above. It is a check plus a plan, built for a local owner who does not have a marketing team. You enter your business name and city, with no login and nothing to install.

It checks ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, the assistants behind most AI recommendations, several times each, and traces every recommendation back to its source. Gemini is what powers AI Mode, so your Gemini result is the closest read on that surface. Then it does the part a tracker leaves out: it hands you a ranked, plain-English plan of fixes, priced for one location with a free check and a one-time 99 dollar audit, no subscription.

Watch-out: if you want a live trend to watch every week, a dedicated tracker above suits you better. Peekl is for the owner who wants to know where they stand today and exactly what to change.

How to choose the right one for you

If you are a marketing team or agency that needs a continuous, multi-brand dashboard, one of the trackers above will serve you, and the right choice comes down to engine coverage, depth and price. If you are a local owner who wants to know whether AI recommends you and exactly what to change, a check-and-plan tool is a better fit than a subscription dashboard you have to remember to cancel.

Whatever you pick, be wary of any tool that implies it can guarantee the top spot: AI answers change from run to run and no tool controls them. The useful ones show you the evidence, the sources behind each answer, and the gap between you and the businesses AI names instead, so you can close it. For the method behind that, see how to improve your AI search visibility.