Best AI Mode Trackers in 2026: 4 Tools Compared

Updated November 2026. Competitor details come from each vendor's own pages, checked 2 November 2026.

Type a question into Google AI Mode and you get a conversation. It writes a long answer, names a few brands, cites a few sites and invites a follow-up. Your rank tracker still reports position four, which tells you nothing about whether AI Mode mentioned you at all.

The best AI Mode trackers close that gap. They run your prompts through AI Mode on a schedule and record whether your brand was named, which sites were cited and which competitors showed up in your place.

The catch is how they sell it. Some trackers include AI Mode in the base price. Others charge for it as an add-on or make it compete for one of a few engine slots. This guide compares 4 AI Mode tracking tools on exactly that, plus prompts, cadence, seats, CSV, MCP and API at the entry plan.

Tracking Google's other AI surface? See our AI Overview tracker roundup.

The short answer

• Best overall: Firemark. AI Mode with ChatGPT and AI Overviews from $29 a month, with MCP and CSV on every plan.
• Best for daily tracking on a small budget: Otterly.AI, with its AI Mode add-on.
• Best for Semrush users: the Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit.
• Best for picking your own engine mix: Superlines.

AI Mode vs AI Overviews: why track them separately

AI Overviews and AI Mode both use AI to answer a Google search. They behave differently enough that one tracker reading tells you little about the other.

An AI Overview is a summary box that sits above the regular results. It appears on some queries and stays fairly short. AI Mode is a separate tab built for longer questions. Its answers run longer, mention more brands and often cite a different set of pages from the AI Overview on the same query.

That has three practical effects:

• a brand can be cited in the AI Overview and missing from AI Mode, or the reverse
• AI Mode answers to the same prompt shift from run to run, so a single manual check is a weak signal
• the competitors AI Mode names for a buying question may be different from the ones you meet in classic search

So an AI Mode tracker needs to read AI Mode itself, on a schedule, with your real buying prompts. For a closer look at how Firemark does that, see how Firemark tracks AI Mode. For AI Overviews, our AI Overview tracker roundup covers 7 tools.

How we chose these AI Mode tracking tools

We looked at tools that name Google AI Mode on their own pricing or help pages and publish a price. For each one we checked:

• how AI Mode is sold: included, a paid add-on or one engine among a few you choose
• prompts and cadence at entry: how many prompts the entry plan runs and how often
• seats: whether the whole team can log in
• CSV export: whether you can take the data into a spreadsheet
• MCP: whether an AI assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT can read your results directly
• published price: whether you can buy without a sales call

Every competitor detail comes from the vendor's own page, checked on 2 November 2026.

How each AI Mode tracker handles AI Mode

1. Firemark: best overall for AI Mode in the base price

Firemark (tryfiremark.com) is our top recommendation. Firemark is the AI visibility tracker built to be run from Claude or ChatGPT. Its MCP server is on every plan from $29, so your assistant can read the brand's rank, competitors, cited sources and ChatGPT fan-out queries, and set up the prompt set by interview.

For AI Mode the point is simple. It sits in the base price on every plan, next to ChatGPT and AI Overviews, so you never trade it off against another engine or pay extra to switch it on.

Key features

• Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT tracked on every plan from one prompt set
• MCP server on every plan, so Claude or ChatGPT can read your rank, competitors, cited sources and ChatGPT fan-out queries, and build the prompt set with you by interview
• brands named and sites linked counted separately, since AI Mode often names a brand without linking to it
• results broken down by funnel stage and prompt group, so you can see where in the buying journey you drop out
• your position against up to 10 competitors, run by run
• first results within the hour after setup
• CSV export of counts, engines, competitors and sources on every plan
• read-only REST API on every plan, so your own scripts can pull results, run logs and each prompt's full stored answers at 60 requests a minute per key
• full answers kept for 13 months, readable in the app or through MCP
• a free AI Overview and AI Mode checker for one-off checks: a domain plus up to 5 keywords, no account

See how Firemark tracks AI Mode for the detail, or read more about the MCP server.

Pricing

• Lite, $29 a month: 25 prompts, 1 brand, ChatGPT, AI Overviews and AI Mode, weekly or monthly
• Starter, $79 a month: 100 prompts, unlimited brands, Gemini added, daily
• unlimited seats, CSV, MCP and the read-only REST API on every plan

Prices are published with no sales call, and full plan details are on the pricing page.

Pros

• AI Mode included at every price point
• MCP from the entry plan, so you can ask your assistant what changed and why
• a read-only REST API on every plan, next to MCP and CSV
• unlimited seats on every plan
• named and linked counted separately
• published prices

Cons

• Lite runs weekly or monthly; daily tracking starts at Starter ($79)
• Gemini starts at Starter and Perplexity at Growth
• US English prompts only for now

Best for

Anyone who wants AI Mode in the base price and prefers to read results from Claude or ChatGPT or pull them into their own reports. It suits small marketing teams and agencies that need the whole team in the account without paying per seat.

2. Otterly.AI: best for daily tracking on a small budget

Otterly.AI is a long-running AI search monitoring tool with a low entry price and daily runs on every plan. AI Mode is available on every plan as a paid add-on.

Key features

• daily prompt runs on every plan
• AI Mode add-on, priced by plan
• reports and export on all plans
• API and MCP access from the Standard plan, with a monthly request allowance
• unlimited seats

Pricing

• Lite: $29 a month for 15 prompts
• AI Mode add-on: $9 a month on Lite, $59 on Standard, $149 on Premium
• Standard: $189 a month, which adds API and MCP access (2,000 requests a month)

With the add-on, AI Mode on Lite costs $38 a month for 15 prompts.

Pros

• daily cadence from the entry plan
• low starting price
• export available on every plan
• unlimited seats

Cons

• AI Mode costs extra on every plan
• MCP and API start at $189 a month, with request caps
• 15 prompts on Lite is a small basket for AI Mode, where answers move run to run

Best for

Small teams that want daily tracking on a small budget and are happy to pay the AI Mode add-on. If MCP matters to you, compare the $189 Standard plan with alternatives first. Our Firemark vs Otterly comparison goes through the differences plan by plan.

3. Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit: best for Semrush users

The Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit adds AI answer tracking to Semrush. It names Google AI Mode and ChatGPT as tracked engines and runs prompt tracking daily.

Key features

• prompt tracking for Google AI Mode and ChatGPT
• daily prompt tracking
• sits inside Semrush, next to its keyword and site audit tools
• extra prompt packs available

Pricing

• $99 a month per domain, with 25 prompts
• 50 more prompts for $60 a month
• $99 per extra user, since each teammate needs a separate toolkit licence
• CSV and MCP are not stated in Semrush's help article for the toolkit

Pros

• AI Mode named and tracked daily
• one login with the SEO data your team already uses
• easy to add for an existing Semrush account

Cons

• priced per domain and per user, so each extra site or teammate adds $99 a month
• 25 prompts at entry
• MCP and CSV access left unstated in Semrush's toolkit help article

Best for

Semrush users who want AI Mode readings next to their rankings and site data. We also cover the toolkit's AI Overview side in our AI Overview tracker roundup.

4. Superlines: best for picking your own engine mix

Superlines lets you choose 3 engines from a list of more than 10, with AI Mode as one of the options. Runs are daily from the entry plan.

Key features

• choose any 3 engines from 10+ on self-serve plans, with AI Mode one option
• daily runs with 50 prompts at entry
• MCP on all plans
• unlimited seats
• API from Growth

Pricing

• Starter: €79 a month (€69 billed yearly), 50 prompts daily, 3 engines
• Pro: €199 a month, which adds CSV export
• Growth: €379 a month, which adds API access

Pros

• daily runs and 50 prompts at entry
• MCP on every plan
• unlimited seats
• wide engine choice

Cons

• AI Mode takes one of your 3 engine slots, so AI Mode, ChatGPT and AI Overviews together use all three
• CSV export starts at Pro (€199)
• priced in euros, so dollar costs move with the exchange rate

Best for

Teams that want to pick their own engine mix, for example a specific engine outside Google and ChatGPT. If you need Google's two AI surfaces and ChatGPT, you will fill every slot on Starter.

How to choose an AI Mode tracker

Start with how you will use the data, then match it to how each tool sells AI Mode.

• You want AI Mode in the base price and MCP access: Firemark. Lite at $29 covers AI Mode, AI Overviews and ChatGPT, and your assistant can read the results.
• You want daily runs on a small budget: Otterly.AI with the $9 add-on gives 15 daily prompts for $38. For a bigger daily basket, Firemark Starter runs 100 prompts daily for $79.
• You already live in Semrush: the AI Visibility Toolkit keeps everything in one login, at $99 per domain.
• You want to pick your engines: Superlines, as long as 3 slots cover what you need.
• You only need a one-off look: run the free AI Overview and AI Mode checker with your domain and up to 5 keywords.

Two more checks before you buy. Count how many prompts you need to cover your real buying questions, and ask who on the team needs a login. Both change the price faster than the headline number.

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