AI visibility · Grounded citation check
Find out whether AI answers recommend your brand.
Test buyer-intent questions against live AI answers, measure how often your site appears, and see which competitors earn the citations you miss.
Run the check
See the answers your buyers see.
Enter a domain. The free check writes three buyer questions, asks Gemini each one with live web results, and keeps every cited or missed answer visible.
Inside the report
Coverage, prompts, and the brands winning instead.
Live answer checks
Query real AI answer surfaces with prompts matched to your domain and buyer category.
Citation rate per engine
See how often each engine mentions and cites you, then open each question to read the answer behind the number.
Competitor intelligence
Identify which brands appear in the answers you miss and where your content needs more authority.
The workflow
From domain to citation plan.
Describe the market
Enter the site and the business category your buyers are searching.
Query live answers
XeoRank creates buyer-intent questions and checks whether the brand is mentioned.
Close the gaps
Review cited and missed prompts, competitor mentions, and the next best content action.
How the free check works
You enter a domain. XeoRank reads the homepage to understand what the business sells, writes three questions a buyer in that category would ask an AI assistant, and asks Google's Gemini each question with live web results switched on. For every answer it records whether your brand is mentioned, whether your site is cited as a source, and which other brands and sites appear. The check takes about 30 seconds and does not need an account.
Three questions on one engine is a first look, not a measurement. Answers change between runs, and each AI engine draws on different sources: a site cited by Gemini may not be cited by ChatGPT. The paid plans exist to turn the first look into a trend you can act on.
What each plan tracks
| Option | Engines | Questions | How often |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free check (this page) | Gemini | 3, written for you | Once |
| Starter, $19/month | Google AI: Gemini and AI Overviews | 20 | Weekly |
| Pro, $49 per site/month | ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity; Claude in the monthly audit | 20 weekly, 5 in the audit | Weekly, plus monthly audit |
| Growth, $109 per site/month | Same as Pro | 50 weekly, 20 in the audit | Weekly, plus monthly audit |
The monthly audit runs your most important questions on the models your buyers use at full strength, including GPT-5.5, Claude Sonnet 5 and sonar-pro, which read many more search results per answer than the weekly tracking models. Details are on the pricing page.
How we measure, and why
- Buyer questions, not your brand name. Asking an engine “what is XeoRank?” will name XeoRank and proves nothing. The questions are the ones a buyer types before they know which brands exist.
- A fixed question set. The same questions are asked every week, so a change in the result is a change in the answers, not in the test.
- Each engine reported on its own. We never blend engines into one score, because a single number hides the engine where you are missing.
- Mention and citation kept apart. Being named without a link and being cited as a source are different results and both are worth knowing.
- The sources that beat you. Every answer keeps the list of domains it cited, so you can see which comparison pages, roundups and review sites the engines trust for your category.
What to do with the results
Start with the sources. For commercial questions, AI answers usually cite comparison pages, “best tools” roundups and review sites rather than vendor homepages. If those pages list your competitors and not you, getting onto them is often the fastest way into the answers. On your own site, answer the question in the first two sentences of the relevant page, replace general claims with specific ones and cite them, and make sure AI crawlers can read the page; the AI crawler checker covers the last part. Our guide to AEO vs GEO vs SEO explains the rest, and best AI visibility tools compares XeoRank with the alternatives.
With a paid plan, the same workspace holds your technical SEO audit, rank tracking and Search Console data, and your AI assistant can make the fixes through the XeoRank MCP server, including on WordPress and Elementor pages, after you approve each change.
Questions
The short version.
What is AI visibility?
AI visibility is whether AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews mention your brand, and cite your site, when people ask the questions your buyers ask.
What does the free AI visibility check run?
The free check writes three buyer questions for your domain, asks Google's Gemini each one with live web results, and shows whether your brand was mentioned, whether your site was cited, and which competitors appeared instead. No login is needed.
Which AI engines does XeoRank track?
On Pro and Growth, XeoRank tracks your buyer questions every week on ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini and Perplexity, and runs a monthly audit that adds Claude. Starter tracks Google AI weekly. Each engine is reported separately.
Why are results different each time I check?
AI answers vary between runs and between engines, and Google shows AI Overviews for some searches and not others. Track a fixed set of questions on a schedule and read the trend, not a single result.
What should I do if AI answers cite competitors instead of me?
Look at which pages the answers cite. For buying questions they are often comparison pages, roundups and review sites. Make sure your own pages answer the question directly with specific facts, and work on getting your brand named on the pages that are already cited.