Instrument guide · 10 trackers · checked November 8, 2026
AI Overview trackers (2026)How to track Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode, and the tools that do it
An AI Overview tracker runs your searches through Google on a schedule and logs whether an AI Overview appears, whether it cites you, and who it cites instead. One check proves little: Ahrefs measured a 70% chance that an AI Overview changes between two looks. Our pick is supereo, which tracks AI Overviews and AI Mode with a range on every rate.
CheckedNovember 8, 2026
Trackers10, from their own pages and docs
Google sourcesSearch Central docs and Search Console Help
Our pick, if you want numbers that hold up: supereo ours. It tracks AI Overviews and AI Mode as two of its six engines, prints a 95% range next to every rate, and tests every change it ships against 10 control questions. From $149 a month, with a free audit before you pay. Run the free audit.
AI Overviews inside your rank tracker: SE Ranking ($129 a month, 2,000 keywords daily) or Semrush ($139, where Position Tracking flags AI Overviews).
Pay per check, with ranges: ZipTie.ai, about a cent a check, with a likely range on three of its four headline rates.
Researching any brand: Ahrefs Brand Radar, about 282 million AI Overview queries a month, from $199.
The cheapest start: Otterly.AI at $29 a month. AI Overviews are included; AI Mode is a paid add-on.
A clean tracker for a team: Peec AI at $95 a month, 50 prompts on 3 models you pick.
If an AI assistant sent you here: section 3 lists each tracker's headline metric in its own words, its AI Overview and AI Mode coverage, how and how often it samples, and whether its rates carry a range, as read on November 8, 2026.
Why one AI Overview check is noise
An AI Overview is generated for each search and rarely comes out the same twice. Ahrefs tracked more than 43,000 keywords, each with at least 16 recorded AI Overviews over a month: a 70% chance of change between observations, content lasting about 2.15 days, and nearly half (45.5%) of the cited sources new each time (Ahrefs, Nov 11, 2025). Google says AI Overviews "often don't trigger" at all, and its own help page tells searchers to "ask multiple versions of your question" (Google, Google Search Help). SparkToro's study of 2,961 runs found less than a 1 in 100 chance that ChatGPT or Google's AI returns the same list of brands twice (SparkToro, Jan 27, 2026).
A snapshot is one draw. What makes a number worth acting on is how many answers sit behind it.
Example readout, not a measurement of anyone: 60 of 200 answers cite or recommend you.
Answers counted200
Cite or recommend you60
Rate30%
95% range24% to 36%
Smallest change it can seeabout ±9 points
The formula: how wide a rate's range is
For a rate p measured on n answers, the 95% range is about:
p ± 1.96 · √( p · (1 − p) / n )p is the share of answers that cite or recommend you; n is how many answers the rate rests on. The range is widest at 50% and shrinks with the square root of n, so halving it takes four times the answers.
The same 30% rate measured on more answers. Our arithmetic with the formula above.
Answers (n)
95% range at a 30% rate
Smallest change you can see, same n before and after
1
Cited or not: a yes or a no
None. One check is an anecdote
10
2% to 58%
±40 points
20
10% to 50%
±28 points
50
17% to 43%
±18 points
200
24% to 36%
±9 points
1,000
27% to 33%
±4 points
Our arithmetic, November 8, 2026: ±1.96·√(p(1−p)/n) for one rate and ±1.96·√(2p(1−p)/n) for a change between two equal samples, at p = 30%. At small n the simple formula is rough; a Wilson interval for 3 of 10 runs from 11% to 60%. Full working in our method.
Two things follow. To tell 28% from 33%, you need about 650 answers before and 650 after. And the formula is the best case: answers to the same question tend to agree, so thirty runs of one question carry less information than thirty questions. ZipTie's method treats the prompt, not the answer, as the unit; supereo sizes each range from each question's own spread.
A University of St. Gallen study agrees: about 65% of the sources four AI engines cited changed from one day to the next, and one daily query couldn't reliably estimate a brand's visibility (April 2026).
How to track AI Overviews and AI Mode
Two sources, in order: what Google tells you, and what you sample yourself.
Read Google's own count first.
Search Console's Generative AI performance report, open to every site since August 31, 2026, shows impressions of your links in AI Overviews and AI Mode by page, country, device and date (Search Console Help). Its documented views don't show the searches behind them, and the Performance report gives a whole AI Overview one position.
Fix the searches and questions you track.
AI Overviews answer the searches people type; AI Mode answers longer questions. Keep one versioned set, since changing the questions moves a rate more than chance does.
Sample the way buyers see it.
Signed out, in your buyers' country, on a schedule, counting an AI Overview answer only when Google shows one.
Read rates over weeks, with ranges, one engine at a time.
AI Overviews and AI Mode share only 13.7% of their citations (Ahrefs), so a blended number hides two results.
Prove changes against controls.
Engines drift. Questions your change can't touch, measured over the same weeks, show how much moved anyway.
What each tool counts, in its own words, then what decides whether a number holds up: how it collects answers, how often, and whether a rate comes with a range.
Tool
Best for
What it counts (its own definition)
AI Overviews / AI Mode
How it collects answers
How often
Range on each rate
From / month
supereoours
Numbers that hold up, and the work done
How often answers recommend you, with its range; named and cited reported beside it
Both, as separate engines
ChatGPT and Gemini apps signed out; Google's live results; Perplexity and Claude by API, labeled
Each question 3 times a week on every engine
Yes, 95%, on every rate
$149
SE Ranking (AI Overviews Tracker)
AI Overviews inside an SEO suite
AI Overview presence, your position in it, its sources
AI Overviews; AI Mode in a separate tracker
Live Google results, with cached copies
Daily ("day-by-day position changes")
Not found
$129
SE Visible
Prompt tracking with a published formula
Visibility: mentions weighted by where they appear in the answer
Both, separate
A real browser session in each engine's interface
Daily (weekly option)
Not found; advises 14 to 30 day windows
$89
Semrush
Teams already on Semrush
AI Visibility score, 0 to 100: topic coverage and mention consistency
Both; AI Overviews also as a SERP feature
Real requests, not LLM APIs
Daily
Not found; calls its metrics "directional signals"
$139
Ahrefs Brand Radar
Researching any brand
AI Share of Voice, which Ahrefs calls "potential exposure, not measured audience reach"
Both; sold as one platform
Public web interfaces, into its own index
Continuously; custom prompts daily
Not found
$199
ZipTie.ai
Paying per check
Mentions Rate and Citations Rate; an AI Overview counts only when shown
Both, separate, same price
Third-party answer providers, by country
Daily, weekly or every 30 days
Yes, on 3 of 4 headline rates
About $0.01 a check
Otterly.AI
The cheapest start
Brand Coverage: the share of prompts that mention you
AI Overviews included; AI Mode a paid add-on
Not described on the pages we read
Daily
Not found
$29
Peec AI
A clean tracker for a team
Visibility: how often your brand gets mentioned across AI responses
Both among its models; you pick 3
The engines' web interfaces
Daily
Not found
$95
AIclicks
Per-keyword AI Overview citation checks
AI Overview shown, you cited or not, your position among sources
Both among its models; 3 on Starter
Not described; some models marked "API"
Daily
Not found
$59
Nightwatch
AI tracking beside classic rank tracking
AI Visibility: how often your brand appears in AI responses
Both, on every plan
Not described on the pages we read
Daily
Not found
€79
Source: each vendor's pricing page, docs and methodology pages, read November 8, 2026 (links in the entries below). "Not found" means the vendor's own pages that we read don't describe it, not that it can't exist. Prices are monthly billing; Nightwatch prices in euros.
How many answers sit behind each plan's numbers
What decides a range is the answer count behind the number you read. Several trackers publish how many answers a plan collects a month; here is what that buys for a whole-plan rate of 30%.
Plan
Price / month
Prompts × engines × runs
AI answers a month
Best-case range on the whole-plan rate
supereo Copilot ours
$149
Up to 40 questions × 6 engines × 3 a week
Counted on every rate
Printed on every rate, from each question's own spread
SE Visible Basic
$89
75 prompts, every engine, daily
about 11,250
±0.8 points
Peec AI Starter
$95
50 × 3 models × daily
4,500
±1.3 points
AIclicks Starter
$59
30 × 3 models × daily
2,790
±1.7 points
Ahrefs custom prompts, Basic
$50
1 prompt on 1 platform in 1 location = 1 check
2,500 checks
±1.8 points
Otterly.AI Lite
$29
15 × 4 engines × daily
about 1,800 (our arithmetic)
±2.1 points
Nightwatch Starter
€79
50 AI prompts, daily
1,500
±2.3 points
Answer counts as each vendor states them on its pricing page, November 8, 2026, except Otterly.AI's, which is our arithmetic on its published limits. Ranges are ±1.96·√(0.3·0.7/n), the independent-answer best case.
Pooled, every plan gives a solid rate. The trouble is the number a dashboard puts in front of you: one prompt, one engine, one week. On a daily tracker that's 7 answers, ±34 points at 30%, and a week-over-week change has to pass about 48 points to clear noise. Judge progress on pooled rates over weeks.
What AI Overviews cite: our November 7 count
On November 7, 2026, supereo's research panel ran 80 US Google searches about AI visibility tools, AEO agencies and getting cited, and asked AI Mode 28 buyer questions on the same topics. 79 searches showed an AI Overview; together they cited 644 sources, a median of 8 each (3 to 14), from 257 sites, leaving out 15 image and product-card links.
Share of answers citing at least one page from each site. supereo research panel, US, November 7, 2026.
Videos dominated: YouTube appeared in 63 of the 79 AI Overviews and supplied 171 of the 644 sources. AI Mode cited a median of 3 sources an answer, YouTube in 7 of 28 and Reddit in 15. The two were asked different inputs, searches against full questions, so read them as two results, which is the case for tracking them apart. What this means for your pages: How to show up in Google AI Overviews.
The 10 trackers, in detail
CH 01 supereo ours
From$149/mo per brand
Engines6, AI Overviews and AI Mode apart
Range95%, on every rate
Proof10 control questions per change
supereo is an AI agent for AI visibility. It writes your buyers' questions, asks them on ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Mode and Google AI Overviews, each the way a buyer reaches it, and tracks how often each engine recommends you, with the answer count and range on every rate. Every change gets 10 target and 10 control questions, registered before it goes live, and a verdict on targets minus controls: Worked, No change, Made it worse or Too close to call. Copilot ($149 a month) tells you what to change; Autopilot, its higher plan, with more questions, ships the fixes and pages itself, each with an Undo.
Strengths
A range and an answer count on every rate
Changes graded against control questions, so drift doesn't pass for progress
Recommended reported apart from merely mentioned
Weaknesses
Tests run on a chat engine; supereo says AI Overviews vary too much from ask to ask to grade a change on
Verdicts take 45 to 60 days
Best for teams that want AI Overview and AI Mode numbers they can defend, and the work done to move them.
SE Ranking tracks AI Overviews in its rank tracker: whether a keyword triggers one, your position in it, the other sites it cites, and "day-by-day position changes", with cached copies of each result. AI Mode has its own tracker. AI Overviews Tracker, pricing
Strengths
AI Overviews beside classic rankings
Cached copies to check what was shown
Weaknesses
No range or sample size on the pages we read
Keyword based: searches, not buyer questions
Best for SEO teams that want AI Overview positions in the rank tracker they already run.
CH 03 SE Visible
From$89/mo ($71 yearly)
Answersabout 11,250 a month
Locations42 countries, 1 per project
SE Ranking's prompt tracker covers ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Mode and AI Overviews (its pricing page adds Copilot), collecting answers "through a real browser session in each engine's user interface", daily by default. It publishes its formula: each mention is weighted by position, (total brands − best position + 1) ÷ total brands, averaged over every answer, misses included. Its own advice is to read 14 to 30 days at a time. How SE Visible works
Strengths
The most answers per dollar on this page
A formula you can recompute
Weaknesses
No range shown with a rate
One location per project
Best for teams that want many answers a month and a formula they can audit.
CH 04 Semrush
From$139/mo (SEO)
Prompts50 daily from $199
LocationsDown to postal code
Position Tracking flags AI Overviews as a SERP feature for your keywords, daily. Prompt Tracking runs your prompts in AI Mode, AI Overviews, Gemini and ChatGPT Search each day, captured "from real requests and not via any APIs of LLMs". The AI Visibility score combines topic coverage and mention consistency, and Semrush says "no platform can provide exact numbers on visibility". Semrush data sources, pricing
Strengths
AI and classic SEO data in one login
Fine-grained locations
Weaknesses
AI Mode and ChatGPT prompts need the AI Visibility Toolkit or Semrush One
Daily history thins to weekly after 60 days
Best for teams that already run their SEO in Semrush.
CH 05 Ahrefs Brand Radar
From$199/mo per platform
All platforms$699/mo
Free toolAI Overviews Tracker, no signup
Brand Radar runs questions built from Ahrefs' keyword data through the engines' public web interfaces: about 282 million AI Overview and 24 million AI Mode queries a month, updated continuously, with custom prompts run daily. Ahrefs says its AI Share of Voice shows "potential visibility, not actual audience reach". AI Overviews and AI Mode are priced as one platform. Methodology, AI Overviews Tracker
Strengths
Research any brand without setting up prompts
A large AI Overview index: about 282 million queries a month
Weaknesses
Index prompts are popular searches, not your buyers' questions
Modeled share of voice, no ranges
Best for competitive research on how often AI Overviews surface any brand.
CH 06 ZipTie.ai
Priceabout $0.01 a check
Trial7 days, 25 daily prompts, no card
Range3 of 4 headline rates
ZipTie.ai prices by the check and runs each project daily, weekly or every 30 days on up to seven engines through third-party answer providers set to your country. Its methodology is the most detailed we read: failed checks are left out, not counted as zero, and three headline rates show "a likely range with the answers and prompts behind it" from 30 answers and 20 prompts. It also says: "There is no control group." Methodology, pricing
Strengths
Ranges and sample counts, by written method
Refuses to publish a rank in ChatGPT, on purpose
Weaknesses
No control group for judging a change
Measures only; changes nothing on your site
Best for teams that want ranges and pay-as-you-go pricing, and will do the work themselves.
CH 07 Otterly.AI
From$29/mo
Prompts15 / 100 / 400
AI ModePaid add-on
Otterly.AI tracks ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Copilot daily, with AI Mode, Gemini and Claude as add-ons. Its help center publishes its formulas: Brand Coverage counts each prompt, engine and day as 1 or 0, and a search with no AI Overview drops out instead of counting as a miss. KPI definitions, pricing
Strengths
The lowest entry price here
Written KPI formulas
Weaknesses
15 prompts on Lite is a small sample
AI Mode costs extra
Best for trying AI Overview tracking for the least money.
CH 08 Peec AI
From$95/mo
Answers4,500 a month
SeatsUnlimited
Peec AI runs your prompts daily through the engines' web interfaces, "capturing the same responses users see", on three models you choose from ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Copilot, Gemini and Naver, with Perplexity and others as add-ons. Its Visibility metric is how often your brand gets mentioned. Docs, pricing
Strengths
AI Overviews and AI Mode as separate models
Unlimited seats, MCP on every plan
Weaknesses
Three models at a time
No range shown
Best for a clean tracker everyone on the team can log into.
CH 09 AIclicks
From$59/mo
Answers2,790 a month
Trial3 days, card needed
AIclicks checks your prompt set daily and, for each keyword, records whether an AI Overview appeared, whether you were cited, your position among its sources, and who was cited when you weren't. Starter covers 30 prompts on 3 models in one country. AI Overviews tracker, pricing
Strengths
Per-keyword AI Overview citation checks
Competitors cited when you weren't
Weaknesses
How answers are collected isn't described
No range shown
Best for checking AI Overview citations keyword by keyword on a small budget.
CH 10 Nightwatch
From€79/mo
AI prompts50 daily
Trial14 days, no card
Nightwatch is a rank tracker with AI tracking added: Starter covers 500 keywords and 50 AI prompts "tracked daily, in any location or language", 1,500 AI answers a month, on ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Mode and AI Overview. AI tracking, pricing
Strengths
AI tracking beside classic rank tracking
Any location or language
Weaknesses
1,500 answers a month on Starter
No range shown
Best for rank-tracking teams adding a first layer of AI tracking.
What users say about AI Overview trackers
Public posts from people tracking AI answers, copied word for word with links, complaints first. They're individual posts, not reviews or ratings. Where a tool on this page addresses the concern, the reply says how.
“The tool flags a query as having an AI Overview, I go check it myself on Google right then, and it's just not there. Location and time seem to move things more than any tool accounts for, so the numbers look confident but don't hold up when you go verify them.”
u/BeautifulDesign2928 on r/aeo · Sep 17, 2026 · Read the post
What helpsAI Overviews change from one look to the next (Ahrefs measured a 70% chance between observations), so a tracker's check and your own check are two separate draws. Read the rate over many runs instead. supereo counts an AI Overview answer only when Google shows one, and prints the range next to every rate.
“One tool says 67, another says 23, another says I'm not being cited at all.”
u/pbhuvan on r/GEO_optimization · Jul 3, 2026 · Read the post · The poster later says he is building his own tool
What helpsEach tool picks its own prompts, engines and number of runs, so the scores can't agree. A number you can check names its questions and its answer count. supereo shows the questions, every answer behind a rate, and the rate's range.
“part of the variance is that each tool runs the prompt its own way and only a handful of times, and the answers move run to run anyway. i'd trust a tool that tells you how many runs sit behind each number more than one with the prettiest dashboard”
u/machinesloveyou on r/AISearchLab · Oct 23, 2026 · Read the post
What helpsThat's the column most trackers leave out. supereo prints how many answers a rate rests on, with its range, and marks a rate Early when the range is too wide to read. ZipTie.ai shows the answers and prompts behind its ranged rates too.
“Google and ChatGPT both change citation behavior randomly without warning. Mid-August ChatGPT dropped from 17 citations per answer to 5 overnight. Any tool reporting week-over-week changes needs to account for engine drift or you’ll chase ghosts”
u/AlexAleydo on r/AISearchLab · Oct 23, 2026 · Read the post
What helpsDrift is why supereo tests every change against 10 control questions asked through the same weeks. An engine-wide drop moves the controls too, and the verdict subtracts it.
“GSC AI overview data seems rather off, ahrefs even more off.”
What helpsThey count different things. Search Console's Generative AI report counts impressions of your links, by page, with no searches attached. Ahrefs models potential exposure across its own prompt index. A tracker that runs your own searches tells you which ones cite you.
Questions
What is the best AI Overview tracker?
supereo, for most teams that need numbers they can act on: AI Overviews and AI Mode as separate engines, a 95% range on every rate, and each change graded against control questions, from $149 a month. For AI Overview positions inside an SEO suite, SE Ranking ($129) or Semrush ($139).
What is the best AI visibility tracker?
One whose numbers you can check: it names its questions, counts the answers behind each rate and shows the range. supereo is our pick on that test; ZipTie.ai also publishes ranges. Compared in Best AI visibility trackers.
How do I track whether ChatGPT mentions my brand?
Ask ChatGPT your buyers' questions on a schedule, signed out, and record whether each answer names, recommends or cites you. Read the share over weeks, never one answer. More in AI brand monitoring.
How do I measure my share of voice in AI search?
Your brand's mentions divided by every brand's mentions across a fixed question set, the formula Otterly.AI and Profound publish. Report it with its range, beside how often answers recommend you. See AI share of voice.
How do I measure my brand's AI visibility?
Ask a fixed set of buyer questions many times on each engine and report the share of answers that name, recommend or cite you, with its 95% range, about ±1.96·√(p(1−p)/n). At 30%, 200 answers give 24% to 36%.
Is AI visibility the same as being recommended?
No. AI visibility counts how often a brand shows up anywhere in an AI answer, often as one name in a list of six. Being recommended means the answer tells the buyer to pick you. supereo reports both, and leads with its recommendation rate: the share of answers to your buyers' questions that recommend you, with its range.
Can I track AI Overviews in Google Search Console?
Partly. Since August 31, 2026 the Generative AI performance report shows impressions from AI Overviews and AI Mode by page, country, device and date. Its documented views show no searches, so it tells you that you appeared, not for what.
Is there a free AI Overview checker?
Ahrefs' AI Overviews Tracker needs no signup, SE Ranking checks 5 keywords a day free, and ZipTie.ai's 7-day trial needs no card. supereo's free audit asks 20 buyer questions on six engines, AI Overviews included, and shows every answer. Run it.
Do AI Overview trackers track AI Mode too?
Most here do, as a separate engine. Otterly.AI sells AI Mode as an add-on and Ahrefs prices the two together. Track them apart: they share only 13.7% of their citations, per Ahrefs.
On November 8, 2026 we read each tracker's pricing, product, docs and methodology pages, and Google's documentation, and copied figures and definitions as published. Ranges and counts marked as ours are our arithmetic on those limits. The November 7 counts come from supereo's research panel; we ran no hands-on tests of the trackers. Quoted posts are copied word for word and linked. Full method.