10 Best Google AI Mode Tracking Tools 2026

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The "best AI Mode tracking tool" question splits the LLM-SEO market in a way that didn't exist a year ago. AI Mode isn't AI Overviews. It's a separate Google surface with its own retrieval logic, source-display rules, and shopping integration. Tools that bolted on "AI Overviews coverage" in 2024 don't all cover AI Mode in 2026, and the ones that do vary wildly in how they sample it (logged-in vs. logged-out queries, sticky-session vs. fresh-session sampling, US vs. global query mix).

What follows is ten tools that publicly claim AI Mode coverage as of May 2026, evaluated against vendor documentation, free trials where available, and our own audit work at Crawloria. No tool here paid for placement. The matrix at the end resolves the choice in one row if you don't want to read all ten entries. Note that AI Mode is not the same as the Gemini app, even though both are Google AI surfaces; if you specifically need to track the standalone Gemini assistant rather than the AI Mode tab inside Search, see our Gemini visibility tracker guide. For the broader picture of how AI search visibility fits into a content strategy, see our pillar guide on improving brand visibility in AI search engines.

1. SE Ranking AI Visibility Tracker — Best for AI Overviews + AI Mode Combined

SE Ranking is the only mid-market tracker that publicly documents separate counters for AI Overviews and AI Mode in the same dashboard, which matters because the two surfaces don't co-trigger reliably. A query can get an AIO and not an AI Mode card, or vice versa, and conflating the two hides which surface you're losing on.

Why it's strong: Real DR moat (SE Ranking sits around DA 75+), which means their methodology pages get cited back by smaller competitors. Their 2025 AIO study (100,013 keywords analyzed, AIO trigger rates broken down by query length) gives the platform credibility that newer entrants can't match. AI Mode tracking inherits the same query-sampling infrastructure.

Best for: Mid-market SaaS and DTC teams already running keyword rank tracking who want AIO + AI Mode coverage without adding a second vendor.

Where it falls short: The product is broader than just AI tracking. If you only want AI visibility (no traditional rank tracking, no backlink data), you're paying for surface area you don't need.

Pricing: Bundled with SE Ranking's Pro and Business plans (publicly listed pricing on their site).

2. AIclicks — Best for Citation Source Depth Across Surfaces

AIclicks tracks not just whether your domain is cited in AI Mode but which specific page is being pulled and how the answer paraphrases your content. That source-of-citation breakdown is the single most actionable piece of data in the category, and AIclicks does it better than most of the field.

Why it's strong: Daily citation tracking across AI Mode, AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude. Competitor benchmarking on the Pro tier with historical trending. Source-level granularity means you can attribute AI traffic recovery to specific content edits.

Best for: SaaS and DTC teams between $1M and $50M revenue with active content programs who want to know if a specific blog edit moved AI Mode citation rate.

Where it falls short: Crawl frequency on the standard tier is daily, which is fine for trend tracking but slow if you're shipping content updates more than once a week and want same-day signal.

Pricing: Published tiers on aiclicks.io: $59/mo Starter, $189/mo Pro, $499/mo Business, custom Enterprise.

3. Semrush AI Mode Tracker — Best for Existing Semrush Customers

Semrush added explicit AI Mode tracking to its AI Toolkit module in early 2026, bringing the surface inside the same workflow as keyword and backlink tracking. It's not the deepest AI Mode tool standalone, but if you're already paying for Semrush Pro or above, the cross-referencing with traditional SEO data is real value.

Why it's strong: AI Mode data sits alongside SERP, keyword, and backlink data in one report. Historical trending leverages Semrush's existing data infrastructure. Good for teams that need to defend AI visibility budget by showing it inside a familiar tool the leadership already approves.

Best for: Semrush Pro and Guru customers who want AI Mode tracking without an extra contract or login.

Where it falls short: Standalone, it's mid-pack. The AI Mode coverage is good but not best-in-category, and you can't subscribe to just the AI Toolkit module. It's bundled with Semrush plans.

Pricing: Included in Semrush Pro at $139.95/month and above.

4. Profound — Best for Enterprise Brand Perception Across All AI Surfaces

Profound runs at the enterprise tier and covers AI Mode as part of a broader perception-analysis suite. Where the mid-market tools tell you about citation frequency, Profound tells you how the answer characterizes your brand across thousands of prompts and surfaces drift in that characterization week-over-week.

Why it's strong: Multi-surface coverage at scale (AI Mode, AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Meta AI). Sentiment scoring with statistical confidence. Slack and Looker integrations. Public customer roster on tryprofound.com includes named brands like Ramp; the broader case-study list skews enterprise.

Best for: Enterprises with multiple brand lines and dedicated brand-monitoring teams who need to defend AI visibility as a board-level metric.

Where it falls short: Pricing is "contact sales" and procurement friction is real. For a single-brand operator under $10M ARR, Profound is overkill and you'll spend three months on the contract.

Pricing: Custom enterprise contracts; contact sales for current brackets (no public pricing on tryprofound.com).

5. Otterly AI — Best Budget Entry Point for AI Mode

Otterly is the cheapest tracker we'd recommend that includes real AI Mode coverage rather than just AIO tracking labeled as "AI Mode" in marketing copy. For solo operators or small teams validating whether AI visibility tracking is worth budgeting for, Otterly's pricing makes the experiment affordable.

Why it's strong: Auto-generates prompt sets from existing SEO keywords, which is the right starting move when you don't yet know which prompts your buyers actually use in AI Mode. Honest published pricing. Decent ChatGPT and Perplexity coverage as a bonus.

Best for: Solo founders and teams under five people who want to know if AI Mode visibility tracking is worth a deeper investment.

Where it falls short: Auto-generated prompts are a starting point, not an ending point. Teams that stick with Otterly graduate to manually curated prompt sets within a couple of months. AI Mode coverage is solid but not as deep as AIclicks or SE Ranking.

Pricing: Published tiers on otterly.ai: $29/mo Lite, $189/mo Standard, $489/mo Premium.

6. Peec AI — Best for Perplexity-Heavy Teams Adding AI Mode

Peec built its reputation on Perplexity depth and added AI Mode coverage as a secondary surface in late 2025. If your audience skews technical or research-heavy and Perplexity is your primary AI source, Peec gives you AI Mode visibility without losing the Perplexity-specific features that make it different from the breadth players.

Why it's strong: Deep Perplexity integration including Perplexity Shopping. Good API for custom workflows. Their AI Mode coverage is solid for a tool that added it as a secondary surface, with clean per-query reporting.

Best for: Technical SaaS, developer tools, and research-focused B2B brands whose buyers split between Perplexity and Google AI Mode.

Where it falls short: Gemini coverage is thin compared to dedicated multi-surface tools. If AI Mode is your primary concern and Perplexity secondary, AIclicks or SE Ranking are a better fit.

Pricing: Around $89/mo starter, $249/mo team per peec.ai at time of writing (verify current tiers).

7. Evertune — Best for Agencies Tracking Multiple Surfaces Per Client

Evertune covers more AI surfaces than any other tool in the category: AI Mode, AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Meta AI, You.com, Phind, and a handful of vertical AI search products. For an agency managing six clients with different buyer-persona behaviors, breadth-per-seat beats depth-per-tool.

Why it's strong: Broadest surface coverage in the category. GEO recommendations baked into the dashboard, not as a separate consulting deliverable. Good API. Their AI Mode tracking inherits the same query-sampling logic as their other surfaces, which makes cross-surface comparison clean.

Best for: Agencies and enterprise teams who need one tool that covers every AI surface a client might care about, including the vertical ones.

Where it falls short: Breadth comes at the cost of depth on any single surface. AI Mode-specific features lag behind AIclicks and SE Ranking; Perplexity features lag behind Peec.

Pricing: Mid-tier (around $199/mo starter per evertune.com at time of writing), custom for agencies.

8. Bluefish — Best for Fast Setup with AI Mode Default On

Bluefish hit the market in late 2025 and built the cleanest single-dashboard UX in the category, with AI Mode included in the default tracking surface rather than as a paid add-on. For a marketing team that wants AI Mode visibility running by end of week, Bluefish is the fastest setup we've timed.

Why it's strong: Sensible default prompt sets per industry mean you're tracking something useful within 15 minutes. Visual trending is the cleanest in the category. AI Mode results are surfaced alongside ChatGPT and Perplexity citations in one view.

Best for: Marketing teams who want AI Mode tracking shipping this week, not next quarter, and don't mind that the dataset is younger than the established players.

Where it falls short: Newer product, smaller historical dataset for benchmark comparisons. Some advanced features (custom prompt grouping, multi-brand views) are still rough as of May 2026.

Pricing: Around $79/mo starter, $249/mo team per bluefish.ai at time of writing (verify current tiers).

9. Athena — Best for AI Mode Sentiment Tracking Specifically

Athena focuses narrowly on AI brand monitoring rather than rank tracking, and the focus shows in sentiment depth. Their AI Mode coverage emphasizes how your brand is described rather than just whether it's cited, which matters for PR and brand teams more than for SEO leads.

Why it's strong: Per-mention sentiment scoring. Competitive set tracking. Alerting when narrative shifts in AI Mode, such as a competitor starting to be recommended for queries you used to own. Good Slack integration.

Best for: Brand and PR teams who care more about how AI Mode describes them than where they rank in the results card.

Where it falls short: Doesn't cover Google AI Mode shopping carousels well as of May 2026, which matters if you sell physical products. Stick with AIclicks or SE Ranking for shopping intent.

Pricing: Around $149/mo starter, $399/mo team per athenahq.com at time of writing (verify current tiers).

10. Crawloria — Best for AI Mode Audit + Diagnostics (Free)

We built Crawloria as the diagnostic layer that sits underneath the trackers above, not as a competitor to them. Where AIclicks tells you whether you appear in AI Mode results, Crawloria tells you why you don't and what to fix: Cloudflare blocks, schema gaps, robots.txt issues, llms.txt absence, FAQ-buried specs, and the technical conditions that make a page eligible for AI Mode citation at all.

Why it's strong: Free, no credit card. Surfaces the blocker patterns we keep finding in audit work: Cloudflare Bot Fight Mode blocking AI crawlers, schema-mismatch on product pages, missing or stale llms.txt, FAQ schemas hiding the actual answer. Includes a content presence test against ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity that gives you a baseline read in two minutes. For continuous AI Mode tracking, pair with one of the tools above.

Best for: Operators who want to know what's wrong before deciding which paid tracker to subscribe to. Most useful as the first tool in the stack, not a replacement for ongoing tracking.

Where it falls short: Not a continuous tracker, so no daily citation trending and no historical AI Mode position data. Use it for diagnostics and quarterly re-checks; pair with a continuous tracker for daily signal.

Pricing: Free.

Comparison Table

Tool	Best For	Pricing	AI Mode Depth	Surfaces Beyond AI Mode	Audit Layer
SE Ranking	AIO + AI Mode combined	Bundled in Pro/Business	Best	Traditional SERP, keywords	Partial
AIclicks	Source-of-citation depth	$59 to $499/mo	Best	ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude	No
Semrush AI	Existing Semrush users	Bundled in Pro $139.95+	Good	Full Semrush suite	No
Profound	Enterprise perception	Custom (contact sales)	Strong	All major AI surfaces	No
Otterly	Budget entry	$29 to $489/mo	Good	ChatGPT, Perplexity	No
Peec	Perplexity + AI Mode	$89 to $249/mo	Good	Perplexity (best), ChatGPT	No
Evertune	Agency breadth	$199+/mo	Good	Every major AI surface	Partial
Bluefish	Fast setup	$79 to $249/mo	Good	ChatGPT, Perplexity	No
Athena	AI Mode sentiment	$149 to $399/mo	Good	ChatGPT, Perplexity	No
Crawloria	Audit + diagnostics (free)	$0	Spot-check	ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity	Best

How We Selected These

We evaluated tools that publicly claim AI Mode coverage as of May 2026, using vendor documentation, free trials where available, public case studies, and our own audit work at Crawloria. Five criteria drove the inclusion list:

• AI Mode coverage that's actually separate from AIO, not labeled as AI Mode in marketing while sampling AI Overviews
• Public pricing or transparent enterprise pricing brackets, not just "contact sales" with no signal
• Source-of-citation depth, meaning the tool shows which page on your domain is being cited, not just "you appeared"
• Setup friction below a working day for the entry-tier plan
• Distinct from category neighbors, so each entry earns its spot rather than padding the count

Tools that didn't make the list either had AI Mode coverage that was AIO with a label swap, opaque pricing with no way to evaluate without a sales call, or capability already covered by a tool we did include. We've evaluated every tool listed against vendor documentation, free trials where available, and our own audit work. Crawloria is our own product; we've placed it in the audit-first category to avoid forcing a comparison against trackers it doesn't try to be. For broader LLM-tracker context across all surfaces, see our companion piece on the best LLM SEO tools for 2026.

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the best Google AI Mode tracking tool overall in 2026?

For mid-market teams, SE Ranking and AIclicks are tied at the top depending on what you already use. SE Ranking wins if you also need traditional keyword tracking in the same dashboard. AIclicks wins if AI surfaces are your priority and you want the deepest source-of-citation breakdown. Enterprises should look at Profound. Solo operators should start with the free Crawloria audit plus Otterly.

How is AI Mode different from AI Overviews for tracking purposes?

AI Mode is a separate Google surface with its own retrieval and source-display rules. A query can trigger AI Overviews but not an AI Mode card, or vice versa. Tools that only track AI Overviews miss the AI Mode side entirely. As of May 2026, AI Mode results often show different citation sources than AI Overviews for the same query in our audit observations. Verify with the tool you're evaluating that they sample AI Mode independently.

Is the free Crawloria audit good enough on its own?

Good as a starting point and for quarterly diagnostics. Not enough as your only tool if you're shipping content updates weekly and need same-day or week-over-week trending. Pair Crawloria with one paid tracker once you've used the audit to fix the obvious blockers, since the audit catches the technical gaps that prevent citation eligibility but doesn't track citation frequency over time.

What's the difference between AIclicks and SE Ranking for AI Mode?

Both cover AI Mode well. AIclicks goes deeper on source-of-citation (which specific page on your domain is being pulled) and adds ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini. SE Ranking ties AI Mode tracking to your traditional keyword and backlink data in one platform, which is the right call if you also need standard SEO tracking. Pick the one that matches the rest of your stack.

How often does this list get updated?

Quarterly. The AI Mode tracking category is moving fast, with new vendor launches and feature additions every six to eight weeks. This article is dated May 2026 and we'll re-evaluate in August 2026.

Top Pick Recommendation

For most readers, run the free Crawloria audit first to fix technical eligibility blockers, then add one paid tracker chosen by team size and existing stack. Under five people: Otterly. Five to fifty with existing Semrush: bundle the Semrush AI Toolkit. Five to fifty with no existing rank tracker: SE Ranking. AI-surface-first teams: AIclicks. Enterprise: Profound.

If you want a conversation about which combination fits your specific stack, run the audit and leave your email and phone on the results page. We'll get back to you within a business day.