Google AI Mode tracker
Track your brand in Google AI Mode — market by market.
AI Mode answers search questions with a full AI response and source links. AutoSEO collects AI Mode answers for your prompts in the markets you choose and shows whether you're mentioned, how you're described, who appears next to you and which pages Google links.
Why AI Mode matters
AI Mode turns search into a conversation. The answer is the result page.
In AI Mode, Google answers a query with a generated response and a set of links instead of a classic list of results. The brands named in that response are the ones searchers see first.
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Built for comparisons
AI Mode is made for complex questions and follow-ups — the kind where people compare options and ask for recommendations.
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Rankings don't tell the whole story
A top position in classic search doesn't guarantee a mention in AI Mode. You have to check the answer itself.
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Different by market
AI Mode isn't available everywhere, and answers differ by country and language. Tracking per market shows where you stand in each.
How AutoSEO tracks AI Mode
AI Mode answers via DataForSEO, for every market you track.
AutoSEO collects AI Mode answers through DataForSEO, with the market and language of your project, and stores the full response with its links. DataForSEO is the only live backend for this engine; without it, an AI simulation can stand in.
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DataForSEO
AI Mode answers for your prompt, market and language, with the linked sources and any products or ads inside the answer. Self-hosters pay DataForSEO directly; on AutoSEO Cloud, usage counts toward the included allowance.
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AI simulation as a fallback
If no real backend is available, an AI model with web search can answer in place of AI Mode. These answers are labeled “Simulated” and meant as a directional estimate: a real backend always takes priority, and admins can switch the fallback off. It uses Gemini with Google Search grounding when a Gemini key is set and never includes products or ads.
What gets tracked
Everything AI Mode says about your brand
Brand mentions
Whether AI Mode names your brand for each prompt, and the mention rate over time.
Citations
The pages AI Mode links as sources — yours, competitors' and third-party sites.
Share of voice
Which competitors AI Mode names next to you, and in which position.
Sentiment and framing
How AI Mode describes you: the praise, the criticism and the attributes it repeats.
Products and ads
Product listings and paid placements that appear inside AI Mode answers.
Markets and languages
The same query in different countries and languages, wherever Google offers AI Mode.
Google's crawlers
Make sure Google can read your site
AI Mode draws on Google's search index, so Googlebot access is what counts. AutoSEO's crawlability check tests your robots.txt and pages against Google's tokens, and bot analytics shows how often Googlebot and GoogleOther visit.
Googlebot
Crawls and indexes pages for Google Search, including the pages AI Mode links
Google-Extended
No crawler of its own: a robots.txt token for Gemini model use that doesn't affect Google Search
GoogleOther
Google's general-purpose crawler for research and development, outside of Search
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How do I track my brand in Google AI Mode?
Add the prompts or queries you want to monitor, select Google AI Mode as an engine and set a schedule. AutoSEO collects the AI Mode answers via DataForSEO, stores them and reports mention rate, citation rate, position and sentiment for your brand and competitors.
What's the difference between AI Mode and AI Overviews?
AI Overviews are summaries shown above the regular Google results for some queries. AI Mode is a separate, conversational search mode where the AI answer is the main result. AutoSEO tracks them as two engines, so you can compare both for the same prompts.
Do I need DataForSEO to track AI Mode?
Not on AutoSEO Cloud — you don't manage provider credentials there; engines run through the providers the Codext team has connected (ask us which are enabled). When you self-host, live AI Mode answers come from DataForSEO: add your credentials once in Admin → Data Providers, and the same account also powers keyword research, rank tracking and backlinks. Without DataForSEO, an AI simulation can stand in, labeled “Simulated” and directional only.
In which countries can I track AI Mode?
AI Mode is only available where Google offers it. AutoSEO sends your project's market and language with every request, so you can track AI Mode in each country and language where it's live.
How do I get my pages cited in AI Mode?
Start with classic SEO: a page has to be indexed and eligible for a snippet in Google Search to appear as a link in AI Mode. Then answer the questions you track clearly and get mentioned on the pages AI Mode already links. AutoSEO shows those pages and turns the gaps into tasks.
How often is AI Mode data updated?
As often as your project schedule says: daily, weekly or monthly. Every run is stored, so you can compare any two periods and see what changed.
AI platforms
Track more AI platforms with the same prompts.
- ChatGPT trackingSee when ChatGPT recommends your brand, and which pages it cites.
- Perplexity trackingSee when Perplexity cites your pages and recommends your brand.
- Claude trackingSee when Claude recommends your brand, and which sources it relies on.
- Gemini trackingSee when Gemini mentions your brand, and which sources ground its answers.
- AI Overviews trackingSee when Google's AI Overviews mention your brand and link your pages.
- Copilot trackingSee when Copilot mentions your brand in Bing, and which pages it cites.
- Grok trackingSee when Grok mentions your brand, and which web pages and X posts it cites.
- Mistral trackingSee when Mistral's models mention your brand, and which sources they cite.
- DeepSeek trackingSee what DeepSeek's models know about your brand from their training data.
- Meta AI trackingSee when Meta AI recommends your brand, and which sources it cites.
- Qwen trackingSee when Alibaba's Qwen mentions your brand, and which sources it cites.
- Kimi trackingSee when Kimi recommends your brand, and which pages it cites.
- Sabiá trackingSee when Sabiá mentions your brand in Portuguese, and which links it cites.
- Solar trackingSee what Upstage's Solar knows about your brand from its training data.
Find out what Google AI Mode says about you
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