Free Google AI Mode Tracker
See how your brand shows up in Google’s AI Mode, which of your pages it cites, and which sources it pulls in instead. No signup required. Results in seconds.
What is Google AI Mode?
Google’s AI Mode turns your traditional Google search into a conversational experience. In classic search, Google shows a list of links and you click through one or more to find your answer. In AI Mode, Google uses its Gemini generative AI model to write a single answer to your question, along with a list of the links it cited from.
You can then ask follow-up questions. AI Mode is also multimodal — you can type, talk, snap a photo, or upload an image to get your answer. If you’ve used ChatGPT or Perplexity, it works the same way.
AI Overviews vs. AI Mode: what’s the difference?
Both are Google, but they’re not the same surface, and a brand that wins one can be invisible in the other. The simplest way to hold them apart:
AI Overviews
A generated summary at the top of the normal results page — the classic blue links still sit below it. Quick, glanceable, and it appears for only a slice of queries.
AI Mode
A separate, fully conversational experience where the answer is the page, with follow-ups and a much smaller set of cited sources. No blue links to fall back on.
Related AI visibility tools
All free tools →AI Visibility Checker
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AI Overviews Tracker
Monitor your visibility, citations, and answer volatility in Google AI Overviews, the summary block in the standard results page.
How Ahrefs sources AI Mode results
We don’t fabricate prompts. AI Mode results come from real search behavior run through Google’s AI Mode and stored in Brand Radar.
Real queries, not synthetic ones
We start from Ahrefs’ 110-billion keyword database and Google’s “People Also Ask” corpus, then expand each query two ways — PAA (what people actually ask next) and semantic Fanout (what a topic structurally requires) — for full coverage.
Run at scale through AI Mode
Roughly 24 million questions are executed against Google AI Mode each cycle. We store the raw responses so you can search them for brand mentions (string matches) and citations (linked URLs).
Kept current
Google AI Overviews and AI Mode refresh continuously, in step with Ahrefs’ keyword-database update cycles (the chatbot platforms use a monthly, 90-day window).
Honest about limits
Coverage is strongest in English. Metrics like AI Share of Voice are modeled visibility signals — potential exposure, not measured audience reach.
Source: Brand Radar methodology
How to be cited in AI Mode
Ahrefs AI Mode Tracker shows where you stand today. Getting cited is what comes next. Ahrefs’ research points to six factors that help you show up more often in Google’s AI Mode.
Get your brand facts right
AI Mode can hallucinate. Check what it says about you in Brand Radar, then fix gaps and inconsistent brand assets (logos, taglines, third-party profiles) so it has accurate sources to pull from.
Max out your brand mentions
In Ahrefs’ study of 75,000 brands, branded web mentions had the strongest link to AI visibility. The more the web mentions you, the more AI Mode surfaces you. Chase “best of” lists, reviews, roundups and digital PR.
Show up on UGC sites
AI Mode leans on Reddit, Quora and YouTube (Google owns YouTube and partners with Reddit). Be genuinely active on the platforms it trusts.
Lead with the answer
Put the direct answer at the top of each section, not buried below setup. That makes it easy for AI Mode to lift a clean, complete snippet.
Keep content fresh
Gemini, which powers AI Mode, prefers fresher content. Find declining pages in Site Explorer and update them on a cadence.
Build long-tail clusters
Before answering, AI Mode breaks each prompt into many long-tail follow-up questions. Cover those topics so you’re an answer to more of them.
What’s in your free AI Mode report
This free tool gives you a limited preview of your brand’s AI Mode visibility. Here’s what your report includes:
AI Mode results. How many AI Mode answers mention your brand across all the prompts we tested. This is your baseline — run the check periodically to see if your efforts are moving the needle.
Mentions over time. Your AI Mode mention count month over month, so you can see whether your AEO work is shifting the trend.
Top 5 topics. The questions and subject areas where AI Mode associates your brand — and by implication, where it doesn’t.
Top 5 cited domains. The websites AI Mode references most when it answers in your category. If your own domain isn’t on this list, you know where to focus content and digital PR.
Top 5 cited pages. The specific URLs most frequently cited alongside your brand. These are the pages shaping how AI Mode talks about you.
Want the full picture? Here’s what Brand Radar tracks
Daily AI Mode tracking
Monitor mentions and citations in AI Mode every day, not just a one-off snapshot.
Competitor benchmarking
Compare your AI Mode share of voice against any competitor you choose.
Prompt-level gaps
See the exact prompts rivals win and you don’t, with the “Others only” report.
Custom prompts
Add your own questions to track brand mentions in the queries that matter most.
Win brand visibility everywhere
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Choose individual AI platforms to track your AI presence.
All platforms
Full access to 402M+ organic prompts for all platforms, plus custom prompts.
- AI Overviews & AI Mode
- ChatGPT
- Perplexity
- Microsoft Copilot
- Gemini
- 2,500 checks/mo for custom prompts
Bonus
- Youtube, TikTok & Reddit (free while in beta)
- Search demand
- Web visibility
Bonus
- Youtube, TikTok & Reddit (free while in beta)
- Search demand
- Web visibility
Questions? We have answers
What is Google AI Mode?
AI Mode turns your traditional Google search into a conversational experience. Instead of a list of blue links, Google uses its Gemini model to generate an answer to your question along with the links it cited from, then lets you ask follow-ups. It’s multimodal too: you can type, talk, snap a photo, or upload an image. If you’ve used ChatGPT or Perplexity, it works the same way.What’s the difference between AI Mode and AI Overviews?
AI Overviews is the AI-generated summary that sits at the top of the normal results page, with the classic links still below it. AI Mode is a separate, fully conversational tab where the answer is the whole page. They trigger on different queries and cite different sources, so a brand can win one and be absent from the other.Why does AI Mode matter for SEO?
Because it deepens the zero-click reality. Our research found AI Overviews reduce clicks by 34.5%, and early data shows only about 4.5% of AI Mode sessions end in a click. When users get their answer in the conversation, the brands named inside that answer get the visibility, and everyone else gets far less traffic than before.Can’t I just track AI Mode in Google Search Console?
No. Google doesn’t break AI Mode out as its own data; it’s lumped in with regular search in Search Console, and there’s no sign that’s changing. To see how your brand actually appears in AI Mode, you need a tool that runs and stores the responses, which is what Brand Radar does.How do you know if AI Mode mentions my brand?
We run millions of real, search-backed prompts through Google AI Mode and store the responses in Brand Radar. When you enter your brand, we search that index for mentions of your name and citations of your pages.Where do the prompts come from?
From real search demand, not questions invented from scratch. We start with Ahrefs’ keyword database and Google’s “People Also Ask” data, then expand each query the way AI Mode does, fanning it out into long-tail sub-questions, so coverage reflects how people actually search.Does this track my competitors in AI Mode?
The free tool shows the domains and pages cited alongside your brand. To compare share of voice against specific rivals, and to see the exact prompts they win that you don’t (the “Others only” report), use Brand Radar.Is this tool really free?
Yes — free and no signup. It gives you a limited preview of your AI Mode visibility. The full, daily-updated dataset across every AI platform lives in Brand Radar.