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Free AI Visibility Checker: Monitor Your Brand Across 9 AI Platforms

Check your brand visibility across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and 5 more AI platforms for free. Monitor AI mentions with Citedy's free tool.

Oliver Renfield
February 16, 2026
7 min read

Free AI Visibility Checker: Monitor Your Brand Across 9 AI Platforms

Do you know what ChatGPT says about your brand? How about Claude, Perplexity, or Gemini? In 2026, AI assistants are a major discovery channel — and most brands have no idea whether they're being mentioned, ignored, or misrepresented.

An AI visibility checker scans AI platforms to show you exactly how they talk about your brand. This guide explains what AI visibility is, why it matters, and how to check yours for free.

What Is AI Visibility?

AI visibility refers to how often and how favorably AI assistants mention your brand in their responses. When someone asks ChatGPT "What's the best SEO tool?" or asks Claude "Recommend a content generation platform," does your brand appear?

Unlike traditional search visibility (Google rankings), AI visibility is:

  • Harder to track — there's no public ranking system for AI responses
  • More influential — AI recommendations carry implicit expert trust
  • Rapidly growing — billions of queries per month flow through AI assistants
  • Less competitive — most brands aren't optimizing for it yet

Why You Need to Check AI Visibility

1. AI mentions drive high-intent traffic When an AI assistant recommends your product, users are already in a decision-making mindset. The conversion potential is significantly higher than casual browsing.

2. You might be invisible Many established brands discover they have zero visibility on AI platforms. Without checking, you won't know if there's a problem.

3. Competitors might be ahead Some brands are already actively optimizing for AI mentions. The sooner you check, the sooner you can close the gap.

4. Misinformation risk AI platforms sometimes provide incorrect information about brands — wrong pricing, outdated features, or confused identity. Monitoring helps you catch and address these issues.

How to Check Your AI Visibility for Free

Citedy's AI Brand Scanner is a free tool that checks your brand visibility across 9 AI platforms:

Step 1: Enter Your Brand

Go to citedy.com/tools/ai-brand-scanner and enter your brand name and domain.

Step 2: Scan 9 AI Platforms

The scanner checks your brand across:

  1. ChatGPT — The most popular AI assistant
  2. Claude — Anthropic's AI, growing rapidly in professional use
  3. Perplexity — AI-powered search engine
  4. Gemini — Google's AI assistant
  5. Grok — X's AI assistant
  6. DeepSeek — Emerging AI platform
  7. Copilot — Microsoft's AI assistant
  8. Google AI — AI Overviews in Google search
  9. Bing — AI-enhanced Bing search

Step 3: Review Results

The scanner provides:

  • Mention frequency — How often each platform mentions your brand
  • Context analysis — In what context your brand is mentioned (recommendation, comparison, general mention)
  • Sentiment — Whether mentions are positive, neutral, or negative
  • Competitor comparison — How you stack up against competitors

Step 4: Take Action

Based on results, you can:

  • Identify platforms where you're invisible and prioritize them
  • Address incorrect information through content optimization
  • Build content strategies targeting platforms where competitors are strong
  • Set up ongoing monitoring to track progress

What the AI Brand Scanner Checks

The scanner goes beyond simple brand name detection:

Mention detection: Does the AI platform mention your brand by name when asked relevant questions?

Citation context: Are you mentioned as a recommendation, a comparison point, or just a passing reference?

Competitive positioning: Where do you appear relative to competitors in AI responses?

Accuracy check: Is the information AI provides about your brand correct (pricing, features, description)?

Multi-query testing: The scanner tests multiple relevant queries, not just one, to get a comprehensive picture.

Understanding Your Results

Strong visibility (appearing on 6+ platforms): You have good AI visibility. Focus on maintaining it by keeping content fresh and expanding into platforms where you're weaker.

Moderate visibility (appearing on 3-5 platforms): There's room for improvement. Analyze which platforms miss you and create content specifically targeting AI citation signals for those platforms.

Low visibility (appearing on 0-2 platforms): This is common for brands that haven't optimized for GEO. Start with the strategies in our guide to getting mentioned in ChatGPT.

vs Paid Alternatives

Several paid tools offer AI visibility monitoring:

Tool Platforms Price Free Tier
Citedy 9 From $0 Yes (100 credits)
Otterly.ai 3-4 From $79/mo Limited
Peec.ai 2-3 From €89/mo No
Semrush add-on 2-3 $139.95/mo+ No
Ahrefs add-on 2-3 $129/mo+ No

Citedy's free tier gives you 100 credits to check your visibility across all 9 platforms — more coverage than paid competitors.

Use Cases

SaaS founders: Check if AI assistants recommend your product when users ask about your category. "What's the best project management tool?" — are you in the answer?

E-commerce brands: See if AI shopping assistants mention your products. As AI-driven product discovery grows, visibility here becomes critical.

Content creators: Check if AI platforms cite your content as a source. High citation rates indicate strong topical authority.

Marketing agencies: Monitor AI visibility across multiple client brands. Show clients their GEO status and propose optimization strategies.

Local businesses: Even local businesses are mentioned by AI assistants. Check if platforms recommend you for local queries.

Beyond the Free Check: Ongoing Monitoring

A one-time check is valuable, but AI visibility changes over time as models are updated and competitors optimize. Citedy offers:

  • Automated monitoring — Schedule regular scans to track visibility trends
  • Alerts — Get notified when your visibility changes significantly
  • Historical tracking — See how your AI visibility evolves over weeks and months
  • Competitor tracking — Monitor how competitors' AI visibility changes alongside yours

FAQ

Is the AI visibility checker really free?

Yes. Citedy provides 100 free credits with no credit card required. The AI Brand Scanner uses credits for each scan, and the free tier gives you enough for comprehensive testing.

How often should I check my AI visibility?

At minimum, check monthly. If you're actively optimizing for GEO, check weekly to track the impact of your efforts. Citedy's paid plans include automated monitoring for continuous tracking.

Can AI visibility be improved?

Absolutely. By building topical authority, optimizing content structure, getting referenced by authoritative sources, and maintaining fresh content, you can significantly improve how AI assistants mention your brand. See our GEO optimization guide.

Why does Citedy check 9 platforms while others check only 3-4?

Different AI platforms use different training data and algorithms. A brand might be well-known on ChatGPT but invisible on Claude or Gemini. Checking all 9 gives you the complete picture.

What if AI mentions my brand incorrectly?

This is common and one of the key reasons to monitor. If AI provides incorrect information about your brand (wrong pricing, features, description), you can address it by updating your website content, structured data, and authoritative profiles to provide correct information that AI models will incorporate.

Check Your AI Visibility Now

Stop guessing how AI assistants talk about your brand. Use Citedy's free AI Brand Scanner to check your visibility across 9 platforms, or create a free account for 100 credits to explore all of Citedy's tools.