AI Visibility: See Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity Recommend You
NitroShock tracks where your brand shows up in ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews, runs live audits across four AI engines and keeps the actual answers, and checks whether AI crawlers can reach your site at all. Pay per use. No subscription, no per-domain fee.
One-time check on any domain. No project, no subscription.
What is AI visibility?
AI visibility is how often, and how favourably, an AI assistant names your brand or cites your pages when someone asks it a question you would want to win. It is the AI-era counterpart to ranking, with one difference: there is no position one to hold. The assistant writes a single answer, names a handful of brands and links to a few sources. Either you are in that answer or you are not.
Two things get measured, and they need different fixes.
Traditional SEO tools report neither. NitroShock reports both, per engine, with the answers kept so you can read what was actually said.
Track your brand across ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews, every week
The Visibility Tracker is the always-on lane. Each week it re-checks a large corpus of real AI answers for your domain and your competitors, so you get a trend rather than a snapshot. Nothing to install, no prompts to write.
- Mentions and cited pages for your domain across ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews
- The questions that trigger AI citations in your space, and which of your pages get quoted
- Competitor visibility side by side, plus the brands and domains AI cites most in your category
- Gained and lost citations week over week, with a history backfill covering the months before you started
Ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity yourself, and keep every answer
Most AI visibility tools stop at a scoreboard. The Live AI Audit puts real questions to four AI engines with web browsing switched on, the way a customer would in the app, and stores each answer verbatim with the sources it cited. The score tells you that you are absent. The answers tell you why, and who was named instead.
- ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity on every run, grounded with live search so the answers match what users see
- A prompt pool of brand questions and category questions built from your tracked keywords, rotated so spend stays predictable
- Keyword coverage verdicts: cited in Google's AI Overview only, in the AI engines only, everywhere, or nowhere
- Brand sentiment per run, labelled as our automated read so you can check it against the text
- Alerts when a negative shift holds across consecutive runs, never on one noisy answer
Check whether AI crawlers can reach your site at all
Before any AI engine can recommend you, its crawler has to fetch your pages. NitroShock requests your homepage as each AI crawler, reads your robots.txt rules against every AI user agent, and checks whether the content is there without JavaScript, because no AI crawler currently executes it. A site that looks perfect in Google can be blank to ChatGPT.
- GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot and ChatGPT-User (OpenAI); ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot and Claude-User (Anthropic); PerplexityBot; CCBot; Google-Extended; Applebot-Extended
- Googlebot and Bingbot as the baseline, since Gemini rides Google's index and ChatGPT search leans on Bing's
- A JavaScript-dependency verdict per crawler, so a client-rendered site is flagged before it costs you citations
- robots.txt and llms.txt status on the same card, with a link to fix either
Find which of your keywords trigger a Google AI Overview
Google's AI Overviews now sit above the results for a growing share of queries. AI Overview Finder scans your keyword list, tells you which terms currently trigger one, and shows the sources Google chose to cite, so you know where to compete for the citation and where to plan around it.
- Scan a keyword list for AI Overview presence
- See which sources Google cites in each overview
- Track AI Overview expansion across your niche over time
Find where competitors get cited by AI and you don't
AI engines lean on a small set of sources for each topic. Citation Gap Analyzer compares your AI visibility against your competitors' and lists the topics and questions where they are cited and you are missing, so the content you write next is the content that closes the gap.
- Side-by-side AI citation comparison against named competitors
- Content opportunities grouped by topic
- Recommendations on what to publish or fix to earn the citation
Content tools built for AI answers
Tracking tells you where you are missing. These tools help you write, structure and expose the pages that AI engines are willing to quote.
AI Content Writer
Drafts built on the pages that already rank for the term. Competitive analysis mode, rephrase and modernize modes, clean HTML output for any CMS.
Open Content WriterAI FAQ Generator
FAQs built from live Google People Also Ask data, with FAQPage schema included, so you answer the questions people actually ask.
Open FAQ GeneratorAnswer Engine Optimizer
Check a page against the structure answer engines favour: direct answers, clear headings, entities and schema.
Open Answer Engine OptimizerAI Citability Scorer
Grade any page on how quotable it is for an AI assistant, with the specific passages holding it back.
Open Citability Scorerllms.txt Generator
Build the llms.txt file that tells AI crawlers what your site is and which pages matter most.
Open llms.txt GeneratorAll free tools
Schema generator, robots.txt generator, meta tag checker, header checker and more, free with no account.
Browse free toolsWhich AI engines NitroShock covers
Coverage differs by lane, and we would rather show you the gap than imply it is closed. This table is kept current with the product.
| AI engine | Visibility Tracker (weekly) | Live AI Audit | AI Crawler Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | Yes | Yes | YesGPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User |
| Google AI Overviews | Yes | YesKeyword coverage, free from your rank tracker | YesGooglebot |
| Gemini | Not yet | Yes | YesGoogle-Extended robots rule |
| Claude | Not yet | Yes | YesClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User |
| Perplexity | Not yet | Yes | YesPerplexityBot |
| Google AI Mode | Not yet | Not yet | YesGooglebot |
| Microsoft Copilot | Not yet | Not yet | YesBingbot |
The crawler check also covers CCBot (Common Crawl) and Applebot-Extended (Apple Intelligence), which feed training data rather than a single assistant.
No per-domain fee, no subscription
The established tools sell AI visibility as a monthly add-on priced per domain or per prompt. NitroShock puts it in the same credit pool as every other tool. You buy credits once, they never expire, and each action shows its cost before you run it. See how credits work.
| NitroShock | Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit | Ahrefs Brand Radar | Profound | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Pay per use, credits never expire | $99 per month, per domain | From $199 per month standalone, plus per-check overage | From $99 per month, billed yearly |
| Extra domains | No extra fee | $99 per month each | Plan dependent | Plan dependent |
| Engines on the entry tier | ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity | ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini, Perplexity | AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot | ChatGPT only |
| Full answer text stored | Every audit answer, with sources | Not stated on pricing page | Not stated on pricing page | Not stated on pricing page |
| AI crawler access check | Included, free | Part of site audit | Bot traffic reporting | Separate agent analytics |
| Free check without an account | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Competitor pricing and engine lists taken from each vendor's public pricing page in September 2026 and may have changed since. Check the vendor for current terms.
Questions
What is AI visibility?
AI visibility is how often an AI assistant such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity or Google's AI Overviews names your brand or cites your pages when someone asks a question in your market. NitroShock measures mentions (the assistant naming you) and citations (the assistant linking to one of your pages) separately, because the fix for each is different.
Which AI engines does NitroShock track?
The weekly Visibility Tracker covers ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews. The Live AI Audit puts your questions to ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity with web browsing enabled and stores every answer. The AI Crawler Access check covers the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Apple Intelligence and Common Crawl, with Googlebot and Bingbot as the baseline. Google AI Mode and Microsoft Copilot are not covered yet.
How is this different from rank tracking?
A rank tracker reports the position of a URL for a keyword. An AI assistant does not return a ranked list; it writes one answer, names a few brands and links to a few sources. AI visibility tracking records whether you are in that answer, which of your pages were cited, who was named instead of you, and how that changes over time.
Why does NitroShock store the full AI answers?
A score tells you that you are absent. The answer tells you why: which competitor was recommended, what sources the assistant leaned on, and what it said about you when it did mention you. Individual AI answers also vary from run to run, so NitroShock keeps the verbatim text and reports sentiment and presence as run-level aggregates with sample counts rather than as single-answer verdicts.
Can I check a site without creating a project?
Yes. The AI Visibility Checker runs a one-time scan on any domain with no project and no setup, for a few credits. It shows whether AI engines mention the brand, which questions trigger those answers, which pages are cited, which other sources are cited instead, and whether the site has an llms.txt file.
What does the AI Crawler Access check look for?
It fetches your homepage as each AI crawler, reads your robots.txt rules against every AI user agent, and checks whether the page's content is present without JavaScript, since no AI crawler currently executes it. It also reports whether you have a robots.txt and an llms.txt file. The check is free on every project and inside the public checker.
How much does AI visibility tracking cost?
NitroShock is pay per use. You buy credits once, they never expire, and every tool shows its credit cost before you run it. There is no monthly subscription, no per-domain fee and no seat fee. The AI Crawler Access check is free on every project.
See what AI says about you
Run a one-time check on any domain, no project needed. When you want the weekly tracker, the live audits and the competitor gaps, create a project and add credits only when you use them.