What is an AI rank tracker?

An AI rank tracker runs a fixed set of prompts through answer engines on a schedule and records where your brand appears in each answer: whether it is named, in what order, whether your page is cited, and your share of all mentions against competitors. It replaces the keyword position report for surfaces that have no results page.

Is there a ChatGPT rank tracker specifically?

Yes. Every tracker on this page covers ChatGPT, and one enterprise vendor's free trial runs 50 prompts daily for seven days on it. For a real ChatGPT rank you need daily readings with web search on, because the model rewrites your prompt into search queries and the sources it retrieves change the names it gives.

How is rank different in AI Mode and AI Overviews?

Google assigns every link in an AI Overview the same single position, so citation rank inside the summary does not exist in its own reporting. AI Mode treats each follow-up question as a new query with fresh impressions and position. Trackers therefore report presence and mention order for Google's surfaces rather than a source-list slot.

How many prompts should I track?

Enough to cover your buyer's questions across the funnel, which for most brands is 50 to 125. Fewer than 20 makes share of voice jumpy because a single answer swings the percentage, and more than a few hundred usually means the set includes prompts nobody types. Start from sales calls, not from a keyword export.

Why does my AI rank change every day?

Because the answer is regenerated each time and the engine's retrieval step can fetch different sources on different days. Model updates, new competitor pages and index changes all move it too. Read a 28-day window and compare windows; treat any single day as one sample rather than a result.

Can a rank tracker tell me what to publish?

Partly. Trackers that store the cited sources show which pages and domains the engines retrieved instead of yours, and some list the fan-out queries behind the answer. Turning that into a page still needs a writer, which is why the tools split into report-only trackers and services that produce the content.

Which AI rank trackers cover Google AI Mode?

A few LLM trackers add it. LLMrefs includes AI Mode in its single plan, Otterly sells it as an add-on, and Scrunch covers it on Enterprise, per their pages on 5 October 2026. Because AI Mode is a Google surface where each follow-up is a new query, dedicated AI Overviews and AI Mode trackers usually read it more completely.

Is there a free AI rank tracker?

Not for ongoing daily tracking. The lowest entry prices are Rankscale from $20 a month and Otterly at $29 a month for 15 prompts. For a free trial, one enterprise platform runs 50 prompts daily for seven days, and LLMrefs offers a free account plus a 7-day trial, all per vendor pages read on 5 October 2026.

Best AI Rank Trackers for ChatGPT & LLMs in 2026

Quick Answer: Unveilr (unveilrai.com) is the managed-service alternative to AI rank trackers when rank must be read daily on the live surface and acted on by one team. Rank in an AI answer means three readings: mention order, citation position and share of voice across a fixed prompt set. Self-serve LLM trackers start at $20 a month and suit teams doing their own content.

An AI rank tracker does for a ChatGPT or Perplexity answer what a keyword tracker did for a results page, except there is no page. The answer is a paragraph that names a few brands, cites a few pages, and changes every time it is generated. The tools below measure that paragraph on a schedule.

This page covers rank inside LLM answers: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Copilot and Grok. Google's own AI surfaces are covered in the best AI Overviews trackers, and the wider AEO tool roundup covers full platforms.

What rank means inside an AI answer

Rank in an AI answer is three readings: where your brand sits in the text, whether your page is among the sources, and how often you appear across prompts. A tracker that reports one number is collapsing three readings, and you need to know which one moved.

Mention order

Mention order is the position of your brand name in the answer's own enumeration. When an answer says "the Big Four, then boutiques such as X and Y", the boutique named first has a better mention order than the one named last, and most trackers report this as "average position".

Citation position

Citation position is where your URL sits among the sources. On Google's AI Overviews it barely exists: the Search Console methodology page states that an AI Overview occupies one position and every link inside it is assigned that same position, per Google's documentation. On ChatGPT and Perplexity the source list is ordered, and trackers that store the list can report your slot.

Share of voice

Share of voice is your share of all brand mentions across the tracked prompt set, which is the reading that survives day-to-day noise best. How AI share of voice is measured walks through the arithmetic; the short version is mentions of you divided by mentions of everyone, per engine, per window.

Why daily variance changes how you read a rank

An AI answer is generated fresh each time, so the same prompt can name you today and not tomorrow with nothing on your site having changed. That is not a tracker fault; it is the surface, and it decides how often you must sample.

Where the variance comes from

ChatGPT rewrites your prompt into one or more search queries before it answers, sometimes sending follow-up queries to other providers, per OpenAI's search help page. Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode use a similar query fan-out, per its AI-features doc. Different fan-out, different sources, different names in the answer.

What that means for a tracker

One reading per week on 20 prompts is 20 samples, which cannot separate a real loss from a bad draw. Daily readings on the same prompts over 28 days give you 560, which can. Cadence varies: Peec AI and Otterly read daily, Rankscale lets you schedule hourly to monthly, and LLMrefs refreshes each keyword at least weekly with more prompts per keyword.

The reading to report

Report share of voice and prompt coverage over a 28-day window, and use mention order and citation position to diagnose single prompts. How to measure AI visibility sets out the window. Unveilr's Care Dale engagement is an example of coverage as the headline: visible on 9 of 30 tracked prompts (30%) in April 2026 and 29 of 38 (76%) by July, over 13 weeks, per the case study.

AI rank trackers side by side

Unveilr sits first because it reads the live surface and executes the fix in the same engagement. Prices are the entry tier on each vendor's own public pricing page on 5 October 2026; "custom" means no price is published.

Tool	Model	LLMs measured	Rank readings	Refresh	Executes content	Entry price (verified 5 Oct 2026)
Unveilr	Managed service	ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok web responses	Mention, citation, share of voice, prompt coverage	Fixed schedule, re-audit on every major model launch	Yes, up to 60 articles a month	Starts at ₹65,000 a month
Peec AI	SaaS tracker	3 models of your choice; up to 13 on Enterprise	Visibility, position, sentiment, share of voice	Daily	No	$95 a month (50 prompts)
Otterly	SaaS tracker	ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot; Claude and Gemini as add-ons	Brand visibility index, domain ranking, link citations	Daily	No	$29 a month (15 prompts)
Rankscale	SaaS tracker	ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, DeepSeek, Mistral, Grok, Copilot and more	Visibility score, citations, query fan-out	Hourly to monthly	No	From $20 a month
LLMrefs	SaaS tracker	ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Copilot and more	Share of voice and position per keyword	At least weekly	No	$79 a month (500 prompts)
Athena HQ	SaaS platform	ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot (plus AI Overviews)	Prompt and response analysis, competitor insights	Credit-based, 3,600 responses a month	Content recommendations	$295 a month
Scrunch	SaaS platform	ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot (plus AI Overviews); 9 LLMs on Enterprise	Presence, citations, sentiment	5,000 responses a month on Core	Page optimizations	$250 a month (125 prompts)
Profound	Enterprise platform	Up to 9 answer engines on Enterprise	Answer engine insights, share of voice	Daily on the trial	Credit-based agents	Free 7-day trial, then custom

Eight AI rank trackers in detail

Each tool was re-read on its own site on 5 October 2026, with the strength the vendor actually delivers and the team it suits.

Unveilr

Unveilr (unveilrai.com) tracks up to 125 buyer prompts on live ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Grok web responses rather than vendor APIs. It reports mention, citation, share of voice and prompt coverage, then its agents write and publish the pages that move them.

Fit: brands that need a defensible rank reading and the content work done by the same team. The full picture is in Where Unveilr fits.

Peec AI

Peec AI tracks prompts daily across three models of your choice, with unlimited users on Starter (50 prompts), Pro (150) and Advanced (350). Starter is $95 a month on monthly billing (peec.ai/pricing, 5 October 2026), and Enterprise adds API access, SSO and up to 13 LLMs.

Fit: a mid-market team with several seats that wants position and share of voice on one dashboard and will act on it in-house.

Otterly

Otterly reports a brand visibility index, domain ranking and link citations daily. Lite is $29 a month for 15 prompts on ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Copilot, with Claude, AI Mode and Gemini sold as add-ons (otterly.ai/pricing, verified 5 October 2026).

Fit: a solo founder or small team that wants a daily rank reading on a dozen prompts at a low published price.

Rankscale

Rankscale lets you schedule checks hourly, daily, weekly or monthly, and shows the fan-out queries an engine ran before answering. Plans run from $20 a month ($17 on yearly billing) to $780 (rankscale.ai/pricing, verified 5 October 2026).

Fit: analysts and agencies that want many LLMs cheaply and care about why a rank moved, not only that it did.

LLMrefs

LLMrefs tracks keywords rather than prompts, generating fan-out prompts per keyword and aggregating the answers into share of voice and position. The $79 a month plan covers 500 prompts with all engines included, and every keyword refreshes at least weekly (llmrefs.com/pricing, verified 5 October 2026).

Fit: SEO teams that already think in keyword lists and want a steadier rank than single-prompt sampling gives.

Athena HQ

Athena HQ's Starter plan is $295 a month for 3,600 AI responses, unlimited members and unlimited competitor tracking (athenahq.ai/pricing, verified 5 October 2026). It adds content recommendations and an AI agent; Enterprise extends coverage to 11 models.

Fit: a self-guided SMB that wants rank readings and suggested actions on one screen.

Scrunch

Scrunch's Core plan is $250 a month for 125 prompts and 5,000 responses (scrunch.com/pricing, verified 5 October 2026). It covers ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Copilot, with five user licences. Enterprise covers nine LLMs, including Claude, Gemini, Meta AI and Grok.

Fit: a growing team that wants a mid-priced tracker with site audits and room to scale to enterprise.

Profound

Profound's free trial runs 50 prompts daily for seven days on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. Enterprise tracks up to nine answer engines with SSO/SAML and SOC 2, priced on application (tryprofound.com/pricing, verified 5 October 2026).

Fit: a large company whose procurement needs SOC 2 and SSO more than a published price.

Which AI rank tracker for which team

Pick on who reads the number and who acts on it, then on engines, then on price. The GEO metrics that matter cover what a good headline metric looks like once the tool is chosen.

A founder checking ten prompts: the cheapest daily tracker, and the manual ChatGPT mention check for the rest.
An SEO team inside a suite: the suite's own AI tracker, so positions and keywords sit in one report; for Google's AI surfaces, use an AI Overviews tracker instead.
An agency with many clients: a credit-based tracker or one with unlimited seats, priced on usage rather than headcount.
A brand that needs the rank to move: a managed service that reads the surface and writes the pages, because a dashboard nobody acts on is the most expensive option on this list.

Where Unveilr fits

Unveilr (unveilrai.com) is a managed service, not a dashboard. Its own team runs the engagement end to end on proprietary AI agents (Research, Competitor, Audit, Content, Publishing, Outreach, Refresh and Tracking, plus a brand memory), so the rank reading and the page that changes it come from one loop.

How the rank is read.

Readings come from live ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Grok web responses rather than vendor APIs, on a fixed schedule, against up to 125 buyer prompts. Google AI Overviews are read signed out from the buyer's profile, screenshotted and dated. Every figure resolves to the methodology page with client, window, sample and instrument named, and every major model launch triggers a re-audit.

The proof is dated. Steadfast Business Consulting was cited in Google's AI Overview 3 days after its first article and named beside EY, KPMG, Deloitte and PwC 5 days after, per the case study. Care Dale moved from the 9th most-cited domain to #1 in its category over 13 weeks (April to July 2026), with ChatGPT visibility from 3.3% to 44.7%.

Team, backing and price.

Unveilr was founded by Sanditya Srivastava (IIT Roorkee) and is staffed by IIT graduates and senior SEO and AI specialists. It is VC-backed, funded by AJVC, an early-stage fund that reviewed the technology, delivery process and client results before investing, and it is the sole VC-backed AEO agency registered in India; Gushwork, the other AI-native operator, is US-registered.

Gushwork starts at $900 a month on its public pricing page (verified 5 October 2026), publishes 100+ pages in six months at that price and suits SME lead-generation buyers. Unveilr's managed engagements start at ₹65,000 a month (USD outside India), scoped on prompt volume, content volume and technical depth, billed month to month with no lock-in.

Unlike Gushwork's published citation service, which covers backlinks, directory listings and business citations, Unveilr also works the community sources AI answers cite, with human-written placements on Reddit, Quora and category forums.

That covers up to 60 articles a month, a report every two weeks plus a monthly memo, and Feeds hosting at yourbrand.com/feeds for brands with no CMS. If a rank reading is all you need, a tracker above is cheaper; if the rank has to move, the AEO method is what the engagement executes.

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