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Free AI Visibility Checker
Enter your website and this tool asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude 5 real buying questions from your industry, live. You get a visibility score out of 100, a breakdown by assistant and by question, and the exact domains getting cited instead of you, based on real buying questions rather than synthetic prompts.
How Does This AI Visibility Checker Work?
three steps, nothing more
Enter Your Brand or Domain
Type your website address into the field above. No crawl of your entire site: the tool only needs your domain to identify your brand and match it against the questions people in your industry actually ask an AI assistant before buying. The check starts the moment you click, and the whole run takes about 1 minute.
We Ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude 5 Real Buying Questions
The tool sends 5 buying questions matched to your specific industry, live, with web search enabled, to ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude at the same time. These are not a generic template reused for every website: the questions mirror what a real prospect types before choosing a provider in your category, so the answers reflect how your industry actually gets recommended today.
See Your Score, the Breakdown, and Who Gets Cited Instead
Once the three assistants answer, you get a visibility score out of 100, a platform-by-platform breakdown showing where you are mentioned and where you are absent, and the exact competitor domains cited in your place on each question. Nothing is estimated: every result comes straight from what the assistants said during that run.
What Is AI Visibility, and Why Does It Matter Now?
AI visibility is how often, and in what position, an AI assistant mentions your brand when it answers a real buying question in your industry, such as which provider to choose or which product fits a specific need. It is not the same as a Google ranking: a page can rank on page one and still never get named when someone asks ChatGPT or Perplexity the same question in conversational form, because the assistant writes its own answer instead of listing 10 blue links.
The shift behind this is measurable, not theoretical. A panel study of US consumers found that 35% now start a product search directly in an AI tool such as ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity, against only 13.6% who start with a traditional search engine (Similarweb, January 2026). OpenAI reported 900 million weekly active ChatGPT users on February 27, 2026, and Google said its AI Mode passed 1 billion monthly active users one year after launch, in its Google I/O 2026 announcement on May 19, 2026.
What Does Your AI Visibility Score Actually Tell You?
Your AI visibility score out of 100 tells you how consistently the three assistants mention your brand across 5 buying questions, not just one lucky answer on a single try. It combines three layers of detail rather than a single flat number, and reading past the score itself is where the useful information actually sits, because two sites with the same overall score can be in very different situations underneath it.
The first layer is the platform-by-platform breakdown: you might be cited on every question by Claude, mentioned once by Perplexity, and completely absent from ChatGPT, three very different outcomes hidden behind one average. The second is the question-by-question detail, showing exactly which of the 5 buying questions surfaced your brand and which did not, since an assistant that never cites you on comparison questions but does on pricing questions points to a different fix than the reverse. The third is the list of competitor domains cited instead of you on each question, often the fastest way to see who is already winning the recommendation for a query you assumed was neutral ground.
A low score on a first run is normal, especially for a newer site or a narrow niche, and it is not a penalty: it simply means the assistants have not yet found enough structured, citable content about your brand to quote from. What matters more than the first number is whether the score moves the next time you run the check, after you have published content built to answer the same buying questions directly.
AI Visibility Checker vs. Traditional Rank Tracking: What's the Difference?
An AI visibility checker and a traditional rank tracker measure two different things: one looks at whether an AI assistant names your brand inside a generated answer, the other looks at where your URL sits in a list of search results. Both matter, but they answer different questions and update on different clocks.
Neither measurement replaces the other. A page can hold a strong search ranking while still being invisible in AI-generated answers, since the assistant summarizes several sources into one response instead of sending the reader to a list of links, which is exactly the gap this checker is built to expose.
| Approach | What It Measures | Where It Looks | How Often It Updates | What Action It Drives |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Visibility Checker | Whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude name your brand in a generated answer to a real buying question | Live answers from 3 AI assistants, refreshed each time you run a check | On demand, cached for 7 days | Structuring content so assistants have something citable to quote |
| Traditional Rank Tracking | Where a specific URL ranks in a list of 10 or more results for a given keyword | The organic results page for one search engine at a time | Daily or weekly, depending on the tracking tool | Optimizing a page to climb a fixed set of search results |
Does Being Cited by ChatGPT Actually Bring You Customers?
Being cited by ChatGPT does not guarantee a sale on its own, but it puts you in the room for a growing share of purchase decisions that used to start with a Google search and increasingly start with a conversation instead. The honest answer is that citation is a precondition, not a conversion.
The scale involved is why this is worth tracking rather than ignoring. With 35% of US consumers now starting a product search in an AI tool instead of a search engine, and only 13.6% still starting with a traditional search (Similarweb, January 2026), a brand absent from AI answers is invisible for over a third of that discovery moment before a prospect even reaches a website. At the scale of 900 million weekly ChatGPT users (OpenAI, February 27, 2026) and over 1 billion monthly Google AI Mode users (Google I/O 2026, May 19, 2026), even a modest share of that traffic is meaningful.
Citation without follow-through will not move revenue by itself. What tends to work is treating the score as a diagnostic: a low score with no follow-up content stays low, while a score that moves after each new, well-sourced piece published on the topic your prospects are asking about is evidence the discovery channel is actually opening up for your brand.
Frequently Asked Questions
How Is This Different from Checking My Google Ranking?
A Google ranking check tells you where a URL sits in a list of search results for one keyword. This tool asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude to answer real buying questions from your industry and checks whether your brand gets named inside their generated response, a separate signal a traditional rank tracker cannot see at all.
Which AI Platforms Does This Tool Check?
The checker queries ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude live, with web search enabled on each, for every run. Results are shown broken down by assistant, so you can see exactly which platform mentions your brand and which one does not, rather than a single blended score that hides the difference between the three.
Are the Questions It Asks Generic, or Specific to My Industry?
The 5 buying questions are matched to your specific industry rather than pulled from one fixed list reused for every website. They mirror how a real prospect phrases a question before choosing a provider in your category, not a generic template designed to work the same way for a bakery and a software company.
Is This AI Visibility Checker Really Free?
Yes. Running a check is free and does not ask for a credit card at any step. You can run up to 3 checks per day, and a result already generated for a given website is served from cache for 7 days rather than re-run each time.
How Often Should I Re-Run This Check?
Re-run the check whenever you publish new content aimed at a buying question in your industry, or roughly once a month otherwise, since results for the same site are cached for 7 days and AI-generated answers can shift as assistants pick up new sources. Running it more often than that will not surface new information.
What Can I Actually Do If I'm Not Showing Up in AI Answers?
A low score usually means the assistants have not found enough structured, citable content on your site to quote from, not that your business is a bad fit for AI answers. The fix is publishing content built the way assistants read: a direct answer up front, clear headings, sourced numbers, and schema markup, then re-checking to see whether the score moves.
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