# AI Search Watcher — LLM rank tracker from Mangools that monitors brand mentions and citations across eight AI search engines. > Source: CitedIndex — https://citedindex.com/mangools-ai-search-watcher (structured, researched, re-verified) > Facts last verified: 2026-09-17 AI Search Watcher is Mangools' LLM rank tracker for brands: it sends repeated prompt sets to AI search engines and reports where the brand is mentioned, ranked and cited. It is sold standalone or bundled with the Mangools SEO toolkit. | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Website | https://mangools.com/ai-search-watcher/ | | Price | from €24/month billed monthly, €15.60/month billed annually | | Free tier | Yes | AI Search Watcher Free: 5 prompts monitored, 1 monitor, 2 checks per prompt, weekly monitor updates, weekly and monthly e-mail reports, same eight LLMs as paid tiers, no credit card. Standing plan with no stated expiry. ## What it does **Monitors AI answers** · Yes — Core purpose of the tool: scheduled prompt runs against AI engines record when and where the brand is named in generated answers. > AI Search Watcher by Mangools shows you when and where your brand is mentioned in ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and other AI search engines, so you can track visibility, protect your reputation > — https://mangools.com/ai-search-watcher/ · Hero section, sub-heading paragraph under 'See How AI Search Engines Mention Your Brand' **Optimises your content** · No — It measures visibility only; the vendor puts the content changes on the buyer rather than analysing existing pages and returning page-level recommendations. > By showing you where and how your brand appears in AI answers, you can adjust your content and GEO strategy to get cited more often ahead of your competitors. > — https://mangools.com/ai-search-watcher/ · FAQ, answer to 'How can AI Search Watcher boost my brand’s visibility in AI search engines?' **Generates content** · No — Nothing on the product, pricing or API pages writes copy; the only generation described is suggesting prompt ideas to monitor. > AI Search Watcher is an LLM tracker developed by Mangools that monitors your brand’s visibility across AI search engines such as ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, etc. > — https://mangools.com/ai-search-watcher/ · FAQ, answer to 'What is AI Search Watcher and how does it work?' **Publishes to your site** · No — No CMS connection exists: the documented API covers models, monitors, prompts and settings only, and the vendor describes a tracker, not a publisher. > AI Search Watcher is an LLM tracker developed by Mangools that monitors your brand’s visibility across AI search engines such as ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, etc. > — https://mangools.com/ai-search-watcher/ · FAQ, answer to 'What is AI Search Watcher and how does it work?' **Technical AEO** · No — No schema markup, llms.txt or crawler-directive tooling appears on the product page, the plans table or the AI Search Watcher API reference; it only measures answers. > It runs each prompt multiple times and delivers accurate average positions, visibility scores, and citation insights for the most important prompts across multiple AI platforms. > — https://mangools.com/ai-search-watcher/ · FAQ, answer to 'What is AI Search Watcher and how does it work?', second sentence **Done-for-you service** · No — Self-serve software with no managed or done-for-you offering; the Custom tier is a larger plan negotiated by demo, not people doing the optimisation work. > AI Search Watcher is an LLM tracker developed by Mangools that monitors your brand’s visibility across AI search engines such as ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, etc. > — https://mangools.com/ai-search-watcher/ · FAQ, answer to 'What is AI Search Watcher and how does it work?' ## Answer engines **ChatGPT** · Yes — ChatGPT heads the vendor's list of the eight engines tracked, and the plans table shows the same LLM row on Free, Pro and Custom. > We currently track the eight most popular AI search engines: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Mistral, and Llama. > — https://mangools.com/ai-search-watcher/ · FAQ, answer to 'Which AI search engines and LLMs does AI Search Watcher support?' **Perplexity** · No — Perplexity is absent from the vendor's explicit, closed inventory of the eight engines tracked, and no tier adds it; the LLM row is identical on every plan. > We currently track the eight most popular AI search engines: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Mistral, and Llama. > — https://mangools.com/ai-search-watcher/ · FAQ, answer to 'Which AI search engines and LLMs does AI Search Watcher support?' **Gemini** · Yes — Gemini is named in the eight-engine inventory and in the tracking feature block, with no tier restriction shown in the plans table. > Track how your brand shows up in ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Mistral, and Llama. > — https://mangools.com/ai-search-watcher/ · 'Monitor your brand’s visibility in AI search' feature block, first sentence **Google AI Overviews** · Yes — Google AI Overviews is one of the eight named surfaces and is called out repeatedly in the hero and FAQ copy as a tracked engine. > Track how your brand shows up in ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Mistral, and Llama. > — https://mangools.com/ai-search-watcher/ · 'Monitor your brand’s visibility in AI search' feature block, first sentence **Google AI Mode** · Yes — Google AI Mode is listed separately from AI Overviews in the vendor's eight-engine inventory, so both Google surfaces are tracked. > We currently track the eight most popular AI search engines: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Mistral, and Llama. > — https://mangools.com/ai-search-watcher/ · FAQ, answer to 'Which AI search engines and LLMs does AI Search Watcher support?' **Claude** · Yes — Claude appears in both the eight-engine inventory and the feature block describing what each checkup queries, on every plan. > Track how your brand shows up in ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Mistral, and Llama. > — https://mangools.com/ai-search-watcher/ · 'Monitor your brand’s visibility in AI search' feature block, first sentence **Microsoft Copilot** · No — Microsoft Copilot is missing from the vendor's complete eight-engine list, and no plan column or add-on on the pricing page restores it. > We currently track the eight most popular AI search engines: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Mistral, and Llama. > — https://mangools.com/ai-search-watcher/ · FAQ, answer to 'Which AI search engines and LLMs does AI Search Watcher support?' **Grok** · Yes — Grok is named in the closed eight-engine inventory, and the plans table shows the same LLM coverage row on the Free tier. > We currently track the eight most popular AI search engines: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Mistral, and Llama. > — https://mangools.com/ai-search-watcher/ · FAQ, answer to 'Which AI search engines and LLMs does AI Search Watcher support?' **DeepSeek** · No — DeepSeek is not in the eight engines this tracker covers; Mangools only queries it in the separate free AI Search Grader tool, not in AI Search Watcher. > We currently track the eight most popular AI search engines: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Mistral, and Llama. > — https://mangools.com/ai-search-watcher/ · FAQ, answer to 'Which AI search engines and LLMs does AI Search Watcher support?' **Meta AI** · Partly — The inventory names Llama, Meta's model, rather than the Meta AI assistant surface, so Meta's model answers are queried but the consumer assistant is never claimed. > We currently track the eight most popular AI search engines: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Mistral, and Llama. > — https://mangools.com/ai-search-watcher/ · FAQ, answer to 'Which AI search engines and LLMs does AI Search Watcher support?' **Coverage in the vendor’s words** · Yes — Vendor states a closed set of eight engines and applies no tier limit: the LLMs row is identical on the Free, Pro and Custom cards. > We currently track the eight most popular AI search engines: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Mistral, and Llama. > — https://mangools.com/ai-search-watcher/ · FAQ, answer to 'Which AI search engines and LLMs does AI Search Watcher support?' ## What it reports **Names the cited sources** · Yes — Reports carry citation data alongside positions, and the API docs describe retrieving that citation data for domains or topics you monitor. > The API lets you create monitors for domains or topics, manage the prompts used to query AI models, and retrieve citation data > — https://apidocs.mangools.com/ai-search-watcher/ · Overview paragraph under the 'AI Search Watcher' heading **Competitor tracking** · Yes — Rival brands sit in the same view as your own, compared on visibility, position and citations; no tier gating is shown for it. > AI Search Watcher lets you track competitor brands side by side with your own, so you can compare visibility, positions, and citations. > — https://mangools.com/ai-search-watcher/ · FAQ, answer to 'Can I monitor my competitors on AI platforms?' **Brand sentiment** · Partly — Vendor promises a view of how models describe the brand, but publishes no sentiment score or named attribute set, so the depth of that reporting is unstated. > See how LLMs describe and interpret your brand. Uncover gaps, misperceptions, and opportunities to influence how AI explains your business to users. > — https://mangools.com/ai-search-watcher/ · 'Understand how AI perceives your brand' feature block **Recommendations** · No — It reports positions, visibility scores and citations; deciding what to change is explicitly left to the buyer's own content and GEO strategy. > By showing you where and how your brand appears in AI answers, you can adjust your content and GEO strategy to get cited more often ahead of your competitors. > — https://mangools.com/ai-search-watcher/ · FAQ, answer to 'How can AI Search Watcher boost my brand’s visibility in AI search engines?' **Wrong answers about you** · Partly — The perception view is said to surface misperceptions, but the vendor documents no dedicated flag, alert or workflow for false statements about the brand. > See how LLMs describe and interpret your brand. Uncover gaps, misperceptions, and opportunities to influence how AI explains your business to users. > — https://mangools.com/ai-search-watcher/ · 'Understand how AI perceives your brand' feature block _Not established: AI crawler analytics_ ## Plans and signing up **Prompt or credit allowance** · Yes — Pro monitors 500 prompts, each run twice per update; the Free tier allows five prompts, and anything above 500 needs the Custom plan. > Prompts monitored 500 > — https://mangools.com/ai-search-watcher/plans-and-pricing · Plans table, AI Search Watcher Pro column, 'Prompts monitored' row **Projects or brands** · Yes — Pro carries unlimited monitors, so several brands or domains can run at once; the Free tier is capped at a single monitor. > Monitors Unlimited > — https://mangools.com/ai-search-watcher/plans-and-pricing · Plans table, AI Search Watcher Pro column, 'Monitors' row **Countries** · Yes — Each monitor takes a location that governs where AI responses are collected, drawn from a shared Mangools locations endpoint covering countries and cities. > location_id — location used when collecting AI responses (see /mangools/locations) > — https://apidocs.mangools.com/ai-search-watcher/post-aiwatcher-monitor/ · 'Create AI monitoring for a brand', request body field list **How often it checks** · Yes — Weekly refresh on every tier including Custom, with each prompt run twice per update; no daily or on-demand option is published. > Monitor updates Weekly > — https://mangools.com/ai-search-watcher/plans-and-pricing · Plans table, 'Monitor updates' row, identical across the Free, Pro and Custom columns **Card required to start** · No — Sign-up needs no payment details, and the Free plan card repeats 'No credit card' in place of a price figure. > Start in 30 seconds. No credit card required. > — https://mangools.com/ai-search-watcher/ · Closing call-to-action, footnote under the 'Track My AI Visibility' button **Self-serve signup** · Yes — Free and Pro are bought and configured without sales contact; only the Custom tier routes through a scheduled demo. > Set up tracking in 30 seconds and uncover the questions your audience is really asking. > — https://mangools.com/ai-search-watcher/ · 'Get tailored prompt ideas instantly' feature block, closing sentence ## Access and integrations **API** · Yes — A documented REST API covers models, monitors and prompts, is included on every tier including Free, and draws on the plan's API quota. > One REST API for the same data behind KWFinder, SERPChecker, SERPWatcher, LinkMiner, SiteProfiler, and AI Search Watcher. > — https://mangools.com/api · Hero section, paragraph under 'Mangools SEO API: All Your SEO Data in One Place' **MCP server** · Yes — A hosted MCP server exposes AI Search Watcher tools to agents, marked as included on all three plan cards, but the server itself is labelled beta. > List supported AI models and monitors > — https://mangools.com/mcp · 'Available tools' section, 'AI Search Watcher — LLM visibility' panel, first bullet **BI export** · Partly — Data reaches a warehouse or dashboard only by building against the REST API or MCP; no Looker, Power BI or warehouse connector is published. > Build SEO dashboards, automate reporting, enrich internal workflows, or plug Mangools data into your own tools > — https://mangools.com/api · Hero section, second paragraph ## Answer-engine source observations 0 of 4 collected answers have source URL/title annotations naming CitedIndex. These are the latest stored observations per engine, not current consumer-UI results. They do not measure product mentions or establish that a source supports a claim. | Engine | Model | Collected on | Query | CitedIndex in source annotations | Source annotations | Other source hosts (up to 6) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ChatGPT | gpt-4o-mini | 2026-09-04 | AI Search Watcher alternatives | Not assessable — no source annotations | 0 | — | | Claude | claude-haiku-4-5 | 2026-09-04 | AI Search Watcher alternatives | Directory domain not found in observed annotations | 7 | aikaptan.com, gracker.ai, nightwatch.io, mentionable.ai, dageno.ai | | Gemini | gemini-2.5-flash | 2026-09-04 | AI Search Watcher alternatives | Directory domain not found in observed annotations | 36 | mangools.com, nightwatch.io, usegrowthos.com, dageno.ai, otterly.ai, youtube.com | | Perplexity | sonar | 2026-09-04 | AI Search Watcher alternatives | Directory domain not found in observed annotations | 20 | dageno.ai, nextgrowth.ai, topify.ai, orchly.ai, data-mania.com, ibeamconsulting.com | ## Provenance Every fact above comes from the vendor. Nothing here is independently corroborated yet. ## Coverage elsewhere Pages about this product that the vendor does not control. The label states how independent each one is. | Source | Kind | Read | | --- | --- | --- | | itrinity.com | Independent source | 2026-08-23 | | thatmarketingbuddy.com | Independent source | 2026-08-23 | ## What changed - 2026-09-17 — Capabilities · Free tier - 2026-09-02 — Capabilities - 2026-09-01 — Capabilities · Free tier · Price - 2026-08-31 — Capabilities · Free tier · Price - 2026-08-22 — One-liner · Summary ## Correcting this record Anything marked "Not established" is a question we have not answered — it is not a No. If you represent AI Search Watcher, or anything here is wrong or out of date, you can supply it with a source: the operations this site accepts from an agent are listed at https://citedindex.com/.well-known/agents.json — that catalogue needs no key to read, and each entry states its own auth. Supplying evidence is free. 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