Summary
LLMrefs is an AI search analytics platform that tracks how often a brand is mentioned, ranked and cited in generative answer engines. It works from SEO keyword lists, expanding each keyword into fan-out prompts run across engines.
- Not for
- compliance-sensitive enterprises needing SOC 2, and teams that need frequent (better than monthly) prompt-level refreshes or fine-grained prompt-level diagnostics
- From
- €79/monthbilled monthly
- Free trial
- PartlyThe only plan carries a 7-day free trial ('Start 7-day Free Trial', 'Cancel anytime. No questions asked!') and the vendor separately advertises 'Create account- it's free!' with 'No credit card required'. No $0 plan with stated allowances is published, so what survives the 7 days is not documented.
What it does
- Monitors AI answers
- YesCore function: it runs generated prompt sets against answer engines and measures where the brand appears in the responses, not just whether a page ranks.
Measure your brand visibility, share of voice, citations, and rankings across AI search engines. Track ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, AI Overviews, and…
llmrefs.com/ai-search-visibility - Optimises your content
- PartlyA free standalone tool A/B tests your copy against a competitor's to see which the engines prefer; the paid tracker surfaces content gaps rather than page-level rewrite advice.
A/B test your content for AI SEO. Run split tests to discover which copy ChatGPT and other LLMs prefer
llmrefs.com/tools/ai-content-optimizer - Generates content
- PartlyIt generates an llms.txt file and rewrites AI copy through free side tools, but no article or page writing is offered in the tracking product itself.
Generate an AI-optimized llms.txt file in seconds. Improve your visibility in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and other AI search engines.
llmrefs.com/tools/llms-txt-generator - Publishes to your site
- NoNo CMS destination appears in the capability list or in the plan's "What's included"; the stated output path is a dashboard, CSV and API.
We aggregate responses, citations and brand data into a simple, powerful dashboard.
llmrefs.com - Technical AEO
- YesTwo free technical tools ship alongside the tracker: an llms.txt generator and a crawlability checker that fetches pages with the GPTBot user agent.
Our tool uses the actual GPTBot user agent to simulate how ChatGPT sees your pages, giving you the most accurate analysis possible.
llmrefs.com/tools/ai-crawl-checker - Done-for-you service
- NoThe vendor positions itself as a self-serve analytics platform; agencies are described as customers who resell reporting, not as work LLMrefs performs for a client.
LLMrefs is an AI search analytics platform and LLM brand visibility tracker.
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Answer engines
- ChatGPT
- YesChatGPT heads the vendor's tracked-engine list and the product is described as ChatGPT-first, with a separate ChatGPT Search surface also listed.
We track all major AI models including ChatGPT GPT-5, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok, Copilot, Meta, DeepSeek.
llmrefs.com - Perplexity
- YesPerplexity is named in the tracked-engine FAQ list and in the engine row on the homepage, with no tier restriction attached to any engine.
We track all major AI models including ChatGPT GPT-5, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok, Copilot, Meta, DeepSeek.
llmrefs.com - Gemini
- YesGoogle Gemini appears in the FAQ engine list and as a distinct engine from AI Overviews and AI Mode in the product's engine selector.
We track all major AI models including ChatGPT GPT-5, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok, Copilot, Meta, DeepSeek.
llmrefs.com - Google AI Overviews
- YesGoogle AI Overviews is tracked as its own engine and is named in the homepage hero as one of the three headline surfaces.
We track all major AI models including ChatGPT GPT-5, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok, Copilot, Meta, DeepSeek.
llmrefs.com - Google AI Mode
- YesGoogle AI Mode is listed separately from AI Overviews in both the FAQ engine inventory and the plan's engine icon row.
We track all major AI models including ChatGPT GPT-5, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok, Copilot, Meta, DeepSeek.
llmrefs.com - Claude
- YesAnthropic Claude is named in the tracked-engine FAQ and the plan states every engine is reachable without extra fees.
We track all major AI models including ChatGPT GPT-5, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok, Copilot, Meta, DeepSeek.
llmrefs.com - Microsoft Copilot
- YesMicrosoft Copilot is included in the vendor's tracked-engine inventory and in the engine list beside the single plan.
We track all major AI models including ChatGPT GPT-5, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok, Copilot, Meta, DeepSeek.
llmrefs.com - Grok
- YesxAI Grok is named in the FAQ engine inventory and repeated in the vendor's own description of the platform's coverage.
We track all major AI models including ChatGPT GPT-5, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok, Copilot, Meta, DeepSeek.
llmrefs.com - DeepSeek
- YesDeepSeek closes the vendor's tracked-engine list and also appears in the engine selector on the product walkthrough page.
We track all major AI models including ChatGPT GPT-5, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok, Copilot, Meta, DeepSeek.
llmrefs.com - Meta AI
- YesMeta AI is named in the tracked-engine FAQ list and shown among the engine logos attached to the single paid plan.
We track all major AI models including ChatGPT GPT-5, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok, Copilot, Meta, DeepSeek.
llmrefs.com - Coverage in the vendor’s words
- YesTen engines are named and the single plan explicitly includes all of them without add-on charges, so coverage does not vary by tier.
Access all AI search engines with no additional fees
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What it reports
- Names the cited sources
- YesIt extracts the source URLs and domains engines cite, filterable, and reports top cited domains plus newly appearing citations each week.
We extract citations and domains wherever available. See "Top cited domains" and "New citations this week" to understand what sources AI engines…
llmrefs.com/ai-search-visibility - Competitor tracking
- YesYou define a competitor set and brands are ranked against each other by share of voice and position, aggregated across every prompt for a keyword.
LLMrefs ranks brands against each other using share of voice & position metrics. Results are aggregated & weighted across every prompt to ensure…
llmrefs.com - Brand sentiment
- NoThe reported metrics are enumerated as visibility, share of voice, brand mentions and rank; no sentiment or attribute analysis appears in that list or in the plan's inclusions.
Forget vague visibility scores. LLMrefs ranks brands against each other using share of voice & position metrics. Results are aggregated & weighted…
llmrefs.com - Recommendations
- PartlyReporting is the centre of gravity: it surfaces content gaps and cited-source opportunities to act on, but no page-level prescriptive recommendation engine is documented.
View & filter the full set of source URLs generative search engines cite when answering questions about your products and services. LLMrefs reveals…
llmrefs.com - AI crawler analytics
- PartlyA free checker fetches a page as GPTBot to test whether AI bots can read it, which is accessibility testing rather than a log of which bots actually visited your site.
Check if AI crawlers can read your page without JavaScript. Test your website's accessibility to AI bots instantly.
llmrefs.com/tools/ai-crawl-checker - Wrong answers about you
- NoNo false-claim or accuracy alerting is offered; the plan's itemised inclusions cover mentions, sources, fan-out queries, citations and volumes only.
Track 500 prompts for brand mentions, sources and fan-out queries
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Plans and signing up
- Prompt or credit allowance
- YesThe one plan includes 500 tracked prompts covering brand mentions, sources and fan-out queries, with keywords as the unit a buyer actually manages.
Track 500 prompts for brand mentions, sources and fan-out queries
llmrefs.com - Projects or brands
- YesSeveral brands or domains fit under one subscription, with projects organised by client and keywords distributed across them, which is how agencies are meant to use it.
Yes. All accounts can set up unlimited projects to monitor multiple brands, ensuring each gets its own visibility tracking.
llmrefs.com - Countries
- YesMarkets other than your own are supported through geo-targeting and results can be filtered by country, though the vendor states two different country counts in two places.
Geo-targeting in 50+ countries & 20+ languages
llmrefs.com - How often it checks
- YesPrompts run continuously for statistical significance but the dashboard guarantee is weekly per keyword, so weekly is the cadence a buyer can rely on.
We check AI search results in real-time. Prompts are continuously checked to ensure statistical significance. Every keyword is updated in the…
llmrefs.com - Card required to start
- NoThe vendor states no card is needed to create an account, and the free side tools repeat the same promise on their own pages.
No credit card required
llmrefs.com - Self-serve signup
- YesSign-up is by email, Google or Microsoft with no sales step, and the vendor claims a working dashboard within five minutes of adding keywords.
Sign up for a free account and setup a project with your brand name and domain. Create your core SEO keywords to start tracking. Within 5 minutes,…
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Access and integrations
- API
- YesA documented bearer-token REST API covers organizations, projects and keywords, is included in the single plan, and is rate-limited to ten requests per minute.
API documentation reference for the AI SEO Search Analytics platform LLMrefs. By default, all users are limited to 10 requests per minute to…
llmrefs.com/ai-seo-api - MCP server
- NoThe published programmatic surface is a bearer-token REST API plus a JavaScript SDK; no MCP server is documented on the API reference or anywhere else on the site.
LLMrefs Javascript SDK: https://github.com/LLMrefs/llmrefs-js
llmrefs.com/ai-seo-api - BI export
- PartlyData leaves the product as CSV or via the REST API, but no warehouse, Looker or Power BI connector is named anywhere on the site.
Export data as CSV and API access
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