Google will tell you where you rank. ChatGPT won't tell you anything. If you want to know whether it names your site when someone asks a question you cover, you have to ask it yourself, again and again.
Mangools AI Search Watcher does the asking for you. Once a week it puts your questions to ChatGPT, Google's AI Overviews and up to six other AI engines, and tells you if they mentioned your brand.
I started on the free plan and I'm on a paid one now. Four of my first five prompts sat at 0% the whole time. One moved.
The short answer: AI Search Watcher gives you 500 prompts for $34.90 a month on annual billing, and it's included in every paid Mangools plan. That's about 7 cents a prompt a month, against $1.81 at Otterly Lite, $1.90 at Peec Starter and $3.96 at Semrush. Once a week it asks up to eight AI engines your questions, twice each, and shows whether they name you. The catch is the week: all three of those rivals check daily. And only three of the eight engines cite their sources.
At a glance
- What it is: Mangools' AI search visibility tool, which asks AI engines your questions every week and records whether they name your brand and which sites they cite
- Engines: 8: ChatGPT Search, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Llama and Mistral
- Checks: Weekly (mine updates on Tuesdays), with every prompt run twice per engine
- Citations: From ChatGPT Search, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode only
- Free plan: 5 prompts, 1 monitor, no credit card
- Pro: $49 a month, or $418.80 a year ($34.90 a month): 500 prompts, unlimited monitors
- Bundled: Pro comes with every Mangools plan: Basic $61, Premium $81, Agency $141 a month ($37.70, $52.70 or $97.70 billed annually)
- Extras: Looker Studio connector; REST API and an MCP server on every plan
- My account: Free plan from October 17 to November 10, 2026; Mangools Basic, monthly, since November 10, 2026
Affiliate disclosure: The "Start free, no card" and "Try AI Search Watcher free" links on this page are my Mangools affiliate links. If you subscribe through one, Mangools pays me a commission on full-price payments, 25% at my current tier on its affiliate page, at no extra cost to you. Mangools has paid me one affiliate payout, $1,266.14 in March 2024, for referrals between 2017 and 2023. I pay for Mangools myself, and my AI Search Watcher Pro comes with my Basic plan. Read my full affiliate disclosure.
What it tracks: ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode and 5 more
It's a rank tracker for questions instead of keywords.
You create a monitor: one brand, one website, one location and one language. Inside it go your prompts, the questions a customer would type into ChatGPT. Once a week (Tuesdays on my monitor), AI Search Watcher asks each engine you picked every prompt, twice, and records whether your brand appears, where it's placed in the answer, and which websites the answer cites.
A new monitor starts with ChatGPT Search and Google AI Overviews ticked. Mine runs six: those two plus Google AI Mode, Gemini, Claude and Llama, with Grok and Mistral off. Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot aren't on the list at all.
Only ChatGPT Search, AI Overviews and AI Mode give citations. The other five engines never show a source, and Mangools' help center says that's not an error.
The AI Search Score runs from 0 to 100 and combines how often you're named with where. Mangools publishes the labels but not the formula. My monitor sits in the band it calls Needs Improvement, which covers everything from 0 to 59.
It isn't a Google rank tracker; that's SERPWatcher, and this tool got one paragraph in my SERPWatcher review. It also isn't Mangools' free AI Search Grader, which runs a one-off check on prompts it writes for you.
What it caught: ChatGPT citing my page
My take: two AI engines started citing a page of mine after it went live.
Between November 3 and November 10, 2026, ChatGPT Search and Google AI Overviews both cited my OGAds review, 2 citations in all. A mention is nice. A citation is a link a reader can click.
The prompt behind it is "Is OGAds legit and does it actually pay?", the question that review answers. The review went live on October 20. Here's the visibility AI Search Watcher recorded for the prompt:
- October 17, the baseline: 0%.
- November 3: 48.5%.
- November 10: 30.3%, and when the answers named the site, it sat around sixth in their lists (average position 6.5).
The other four of my first five prompts stayed at 0% the whole time:
- What are the best CPA networks for beginners?
- How can I make money online with CPA marketing?
- How do beginners make money online with content lockers?
- best CPA networks for beginners
One caveat: this is one prompt, run twice per engine a week, and it moved 18.2 points between two Tuesdays, so a number needs months before it means much. Otterly, which sells a competing tracker, recommends 50 to 100 prompts per topic. I track 11.
What I'd do with this: write the page that answers the exact question, then track that exact question.
On November 11 I added six more prompts. They get their first data on November 17.
Setting up a monitor
Setup takes a few minutes, and the suggested prompts are the part to replace.
Step one: website, brand, location, language and engines. Location and language are the two choices you can't take back. The form says so: "This setting is permanent and cannot be changed later." To track another country, you create a second monitor. You can also add up to 10 brand name variations, so an answer that writes your brand differently still counts. Mine is the United States, with the brand set to wealthy hustler and one variation, Wealthy Hustler.
Step two: prompts. AI Search Watcher suggests some for you, and these are the three it suggested for this site:
- Best online courses and programs for building an independent income and financial autonomy
- Top books and mentors for developing an entrepreneurial mindset and wealth-growth ideas
- Best tools and services for managing multiple income streams and high-income lifestyle
None of them matched what Wealthy Hustler covers, so I replaced all three with my own. With the suggestions in place, the free plan's counter read 3 entered, 2 available.
The first check runs when you create the monitor and usually takes about 10 minutes. A prompt added the day after a check waits six days for data.
You can't edit a prompt. A reworded prompt is a new prompt with no history, so type the question the way your reader would.
The dashboard, tab by tab
Four of the eight tabs show you results. The other four are advice, sharing and setup. I open it once a week, after the Tuesday check, and the weekly email report is on.
Brand dashboard: the AI Search Score, then three cards. On November 10, Best performing in was Google AI Overviews at 12 out of 100, and Best visibility in and Most cited in were both ChatGPT Search. Below them sit the top 10 brands the answers named and the top 10 cited domains. The Brand perception card, which shows what a model says about your brand when asked directly, is switched off in my monitor's display options.
The top brands table is also where your competitors come from. I never entered one, and there's no field to type one in: the table lists every brand the AI answers name for your prompts. For mine, the top five were MaxBounty, CPAGrip, CPAlead, AdWorkMedia and OGAds. Wealthy Hustler came 29th, which is about right for a site that reviews these networks instead of being one. If you want one competitor's full numbers, Mangools' answer is a separate monitor for that brand, paid for from the same prompt allowance.
Prompts: each prompt's visibility, position, score and citations, with tags, search and export to the clipboard or CSV.
Citations: every page the answers cited, by URL or by domain, with the engines that cited it, a count and an average citation rank. For my prompts, youtube.com and mthink.com lead, and this site is 17th.
Citation gap (beta): live in my account. It lists cited URLs with their engines, citations and citation rank, and an Analyze top 100 cited pages action checks which of them mention your brand. Brand sentiment is on the page, marked SOON.
Recommendations: the advice tab, with its own section below.
Share & Looker Studio: a read-only link anyone can open without a login, and the Looker Studio connector. Regenerating the link kills the old one. The connector takes a token from the app and the Tracking ID from the monitor's URL. For comparison, Peec AI puts its Looker Studio integration on its $495 Advanced plan, and Otterly leaves its connector off Lite. I haven't used the connector.
API & MCP: both come with every plan, free included. The MCP server is live at mcp.mangools.com/mcp and connects Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Claude Code to your account through an OAuth sign-in. Mangools' API docs list every AI Search Watcher endpoint, creating a monitor included, as free of lookup quota, while its MCP page warns that creating a monitor consumes paid quota. Either way, a new monitor takes a monitor slot and prompts from your allowance. I haven't connected the MCP server to an AI client.
Settings: engines, brand variations and email reports. Unticking an engine deletes that engine's earlier results for the monitor, and the app asks first.
What the Recommendations tab told me to do
My take: step one of the High cards is the best advice on the page. The outreach steps are generic.
Each card has a High or Medium impact badge and numbered steps. After the November 10 check, mine had 11 cards: 4 High and 7 Medium.
The High cards are one Get mentioned on card for each of my four prompts still at zero. Step one on every card is to create or update a page that covers the topic. Step two is to email the authors of the pages the answers cite.
I'd already done step one for the OGAds question: that review went live October 20, weeks before the November 10 check produced these cards.
The Medium cards are five Get cited by cards, for mthink.com, affpaying.com, affdude.com, blackhatworld.com and clickflare.com, and two Analyze new competitor cards, for PeerFly and Zeydoo. Their outreach steps all read the same: email an author, pitch an inclusion, move to the next site.
I didn't act on any of the cards, and I posted nothing on BlackHatWorld.
Mangools' own help center calls the cards suggestions to check against your own plans, not instructions. That's the right way to read them.
AI Search Watcher pricing
My take: if you already pay for Mangools, you already have it.
The free plan has 5 prompts and 1 monitor, with the same engines, checks and email reports as the paid plan, and no credit card.
AI Search Watcher Pro raises that to 500 prompts and unlimited monitors. On its own, Pro is $49 a month, or $418.80 a year, which is $34.90 a month. The annual toggle says "Save ~35%"; against twelve monthly payments of $49, it's 29%.
Every Mangools plan includes the same Pro: Basic at $61 a month ($452.40 a year, $37.70 a month), Premium at $81 ($52.70 annual) and Agency at $141 ($97.70 annual). On annual billing Basic costs $2.80 a month more than Pro alone, and it adds KWFinder, SERPChecker, SERPWatcher, LinkMiner and SiteProfiler with full limits. Pro alone gets the SEO tools at 5 keyword lookups per 24 hours and 5 tracked keywords.
The 500 prompts are one allowance shared by every monitor on the account. Past 500 there's AI Search Watcher Custom, with no public price; its card says Schedule a demo.
All 5 of my free prompts were in use when I moved to Mangools Basic and the allowance became 500. I use 11.
These are the US dollar prices Mangools showed on November 11, 2026. Its help center says prices depend on your country. Mangools' public page at mangools.com/blackfriday still said "Black Friday deal is coming" on November 12, 2026.
- Refund: 48 hours from payment; not on a second consecutive subscription
- Renewal: Automatic; cancel any time and keep the plan to the end of the paid period
- Payment: Visa, Mastercard, Maestro, American Express, Discover, bank transfer, crypto, PayPal through Paddle
Which plan I'd pick: start free. Upgrade to Mangools Basic if you also want KWFinder. Only buy AI Search Watcher on its own if you're an agency or a brand tracking a lot of prompts.
For a solo site like mine, the free plan's 5 prompts surfaced most of the value. Basic adds the whole Mangools suite for $12 a month more than Pro alone on monthly billing. Pro alone makes sense when the prompt count is the point, which is why I'd send agencies to it.
Pros and cons
- 500 prompts for $34.90 a month on annual billing, the most prompts per dollar of the five tools compared
- Included in every paid Mangools plan
- Eight engines, with every prompt run twice
- Free plan with 5 prompts and no card
- Competitors detected from the answers, with no setup
- Citation gap (beta) shows which cited pages mention you
- Looker Studio connector, plus API and MCP on every plan
- Read-only share link and weekly or monthly email reports
- Checks once a week on every plan, and weekly numbers swing, so a trend takes months
- Only 3 of 8 engines give citations
- No Perplexity or Microsoft Copilot
- No field to add a competitor
- Suggested prompts can miss your niche entirely, so check them before you save
- A reworded prompt starts from zero, and location and language can't be changed
- The score formula isn't published
- Recommendations lean on outreach emails to other sites
AI Search Watcher alternatives: Semrush, Ahrefs, Peec AI, Otterly
My take: AI Search Watcher gives you the most prompts for the money and the slowest check.
Prices read from each vendor's own site on November 11, 2026, monthly billing unless stated.
AI Search Watcher
- Entry paid plan
- Pro, $49 a month ($34.90 annual)
- Prompts on that plan
- 500
- Checks
- Weekly, twice per prompt
- Engines
- 8, no Perplexity or Copilot
- Free option
- Free plan, 5 prompts
- Best fit
- Hundreds of prompts on a small budget
Semrush
- Entry paid plan
- AI Visibility Toolkit, $99 a month per domain
- Prompts on that plan
- 25
- Checks
- Daily
- Engines
- ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini, Perplexity
- Free option
- No trial for the toolkit
- Best fit
- Semrush users who want AI rankings beside their SEO data
Ahrefs Brand Radar
- Entry paid plan
- Custom prompts from $50 a month
- Prompts on that plan
- 2,500 checks a month, about 80 prompts daily on one engine
- Checks
- Daily to monthly, your choice
- Engines
- AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Claude
- Free option
- None; Lite ($129) includes 5 daily prompts
- Best fit
- Ahrefs users, plus a 558 million prompt index from $199 a month
Peec AI
- Entry paid plan
- Starter, $95 a month
- Prompts on that plan
- 50
- Checks
- Daily
- Engines
- Pick 3
- Free option
- Free trial
- Best fit
- Teams that want daily data on a few dozen prompts
Otterly.AI
- Entry paid plan
- Lite, $29 a month
- Prompts on that plan
- 16 on 4 engines, or 21 on 3
- Checks
- Daily
- Engines
- Pick 3 to 7 of 7
- Free option
- Free trial, no card
- Best fit
- The cheapest daily tracker here
Ahrefs bills by the check, so its per-prompt math depends on how many engines you pick, and Claude costs 8 checks per update there. If you need to see a drop the morning after it happens, AI Search Watcher can't do that on any plan. If you'd rather watch 500 questions once a week than 25 every day, it's the only one here priced for that.
Profound, the other name that comes up in this category, publishes no paid price. Its free trial runs 50 prompts daily for 7 days on ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews, and everything past that starts with a demo call.
Keyword Revealer, which I retested in 2026, also audits prompts in its AEO Command Center: 3 a day on the free plan and 25 on Basic, across Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini. It's an audit you run, not a weekly monitor, so it answers a different question. My Keyword Revealer review has the details.
Who AI Search Watcher is for
Buy it if you run an agency: Pro gives you unlimited monitors on one 500-prompt allowance, a read-only share link a client can open without a login, and a Looker Studio connector for your reports.
Start free if you run an affiliate or niche site: the free plan's 5 prompts cost nothing, and the Basic bundle puts Pro in the same account as KWFinder.
Skip it if you need daily data or Perplexity: it checks weekly on every plan and doesn't ask Perplexity. Peec AI checks daily and offers Perplexity, and Otterly checks daily from $29 a month.
AI Search Watcher FAQ
Is AI Search Watcher free?
Yes. The free plan has 5 prompts and 1 monitor, with no credit card.
How much does AI Search Watcher cost?
Pro alone is $49 a month or $418.80 a year. It's also included in every Mangools plan, from Basic at $61 a month.
Is AI Search Watcher worth it?
For one site, the free plan is worth it and may be all you need. Pay for Mangools Basic if you also want KWFinder, and buy Pro alone only if you track a lot of prompts.
Can I track brand mentions in ChatGPT with it?
Yes. ChatGPT Search is one of the eight engines, and a new monitor starts with it selected.
Can AI Search Watcher track Google AI Overviews?
Yes, so it doubles as an AI Overview tracker. Google AI Overviews is ticked on every new monitor, Google AI Mode is one more box, and both give citations.
Does AI Search Watcher track Perplexity?
No. Perplexity isn't one of its eight engines, and neither is Microsoft Copilot.
Can AI Search Watcher track competitors?
Not by name. It lists every brand the answers name for your prompts. For one competitor's full numbers, you set up a separate monitor for that brand from the same prompt allowance.
What is the cheapest ChatGPT rank tracker?
Per prompt, AI Search Watcher is the cheapest of the five tools I compared, at about 7 cents a month. It checks weekly, though. The cheapest one that checks daily is Otterly's Lite plan.
AI Search Watcher vs AI Search Grader: what's the difference?
AI Search Grader is Mangools' free one-off check on prompts it writes for you. AI Search Watcher tracks your own prompts every week.
How often does AI Search Watcher update?
Once a week, on every plan. My monitor updates on Tuesdays.
Final thoughts
AI Search Watcher did the one thing I set it up to do. It showed me two AI engines citing my OGAds review, and it showed the same question slipping a week later. The slip is why you don't screenshot the first number and call it a win.
I'll update this review once the six new prompts have data.
