Google AI Overview tracker: see if AI Overviews name you and cite you
Depra AI checks your buyers' questions on real Google results pages from inside your country every day, in English, Hinglish, French and most other major languages, plus code-mixed questions, and scores you against your competitors.
Google AI Overviews are checked daily on every plan. Starter, Growth and Scale start with 7 days free, no card needed.
Sample screen from the Depra AI app, Brand Visibility filtered to Google AI Overviews, for a made-up brand called Kinara: visibility, share of voice, average position and sentiment over 30 days, the brands AI Overviews name most, and five tracked questions showing whether Google showed an AI Overview, where it named Kinara, and that checks with no Overview are left out of the score.
What is a Google AI Overview tracker?
Updated · 9 min read
Depra AI is a Google AI Overview tracker: every day it loads the real Google results page for each of your buyers' questions, from inside the country you pick, and records whether an AI Overview appeared. When one does, Depra AI records whether it named your brand and your competitors, where you came in its list, and which websites it linked to.
An AI Overview is the AI-written summary Google shows above some search results, with links to the pages it drew from. Google does not show one for every search, and whether it shows one can change from one check to the next. You can track AI Overviews by hand for a few searches. A Google AI Overview tracking tool, also called an AI Overviews tracker, runs them for you on a schedule. A useful one checks often and keeps "no Overview shown" apart from "Overview shown without you".
AI Overviews are on every Depra AI plan, with ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, and Enterprise adds every other major AI engine. ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity each have their own page: ChatGPT visibility tracker, Gemini visibility tracker and Perplexity visibility tracker.
What Depra AI records
The AI Overview on a real Google results page, its source links, and whether one appeared
How often
Daily on every plan, scheduled for 02:30 IST
Asked from
A fresh Google search from inside the country you pick, with no signed-in account or search history
Markets
Any of 40 markets, up to 10 per project, at country level
What does an AI Overview tracker measure?
An AI Overview tracker measures whether Google showed an AI Overview for each of your searches, how often those Overviews name your brand, where you come in their list, and which websites they cite. Depra AI records all of these on every daily check, for your brand and for each competitor you track.
Sample screen from the Depra AI app, Cited websites for Google AI Overviews: the sites the Overviews linked to, each labelled forum, editorial, marketplace, reference, directory or government, with how often it was cited and the share of those Overviews that named Kinara. Sites cited only when rivals were named are marked as gaps.
Searches with no Overview
For every check, Depra AI records whether Google showed an AI Overview for that search in that country, and keeps checks with no Overview out of your scores.
Visibility
The share of AI Overviews for your questions that name your brand. Checks where no Overview appeared are left out of this number.
Position
Where you come when the Overview lists brands. A position of 1 means you were named first.
Sentiment
Whether the Overview describes you warmly, neutrally or critically, with the exact sentence that names you so you can check it.
Share of voice
Your share of all brand mentions in the Overviews, next to each competitor. AI share of voice explained shows the calculation.
Cited websites
Every website the Overviews link to, how often, and whether those Overviews named you. Each site is labelled editorial, company site, forum, reference, marketplace, directory, government or your own site.
Competitors
The same numbers for every competitor you track, scored on the same Overviews, so the ranking compares like with like.
Read every Overview behind the numbers
Depra AI stores the full text of every AI Overview it captures, with its source links. Open any one to read what Google wrote, which brands it named and in what order, and which pages it linked. You can filter the stored answers and export them to CSV.
For a single question, the drill-down shows its visibility trend, which engines name you, the websites and pages cited, and the answers themselves.
Sample card: the drill-down for one question, with its visibility trend over 14 days, the engines that name the brand and the pages cited most.
How does Depra AI handle searches with no AI Overview?
A search with no Overview and an Overview that leaves you out need different fixes. With no Overview, the regular results decide who gets the click. With an Overview that names three competitors and skips you, the sites it cites are where you have work to do.
Depra AI stores "no Overview shown" as its own result and keeps those checks out of your visibility score. A week in which Google shows fewer Overviews does not read as a drop in how often you are named.
For example, you track 20 questions and Google shows an Overview for 12 of them on a given day. Your AI Overview visibility for that day is based on those 12. If 6 of them name you, your visibility is 50%, and the 8 searches without an Overview do not pull it down.
20 tracked questions, one dayWorked exampleWorked example: you track 20 questions and Google shows an AI Overview for 12 of them on a given day. 6 of those 12 Overviews name you, so your AI Overview visibility for that day is 50%. The 8 searches without an Overview are left out and do not pull it down.
Search with no Overview
Ranking in the regular Google results decides the click. Depra AI keeps checking the question daily, because Google can start showing an Overview later.
Overview shown, you not named
Citation gap analysis lists the websites cited when your competitors are named and you are not.
Overview shown, you named low in the list
Compare the pages cited for the brands above you, then work through your AI action plan.
How does Depra AI check Google AI Overviews?
Depra AI runs each of your questions as a Google search from inside your chosen country once a day, and reads the AI Overview block on the results page with all of its source links. Each check is a fresh search from that country, with no signed-in account or search history behind it. For every engine, see how Depra AI captures AI answers.
Sample screen from the Depra AI app, Answers: one stored check of a Google results page from India with its AI Overview and source links. Depra AI recorded the brands in the order named (Kinara second), a warm sentiment with its quote and the three sites cited. The list of stored checks beside it marks the searches where Google showed no AI Overview.
Daily checks
ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews are all checked daily, on every plan. Daily checks are scheduled for 02:30 IST.
Country level
Pick from 40 markets: India, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland and 29 other European countries, 6 Gulf countries and Australia. Up to 10 markets per project. City-level location is not available.
Buying questions without your name
Depra AI suggests 5 topics with 8 buying questions each, none of them naming your brand. Questions that already contain your name are left out of your scores by default, because a search for your brand almost always returns it.
Mentions you can verify
Spelling variants and web address forms of a brand name count as the same brand, and every mention keeps the sentence it came from.
| Engine | What Depra AI records | How often | Plan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google AI Overviews | The AI Overview on a real Google results page for that search in that country, its source links, and whether an Overview appeared | Daily | Every plan |
| ChatGPT | The answer shown in the chatgpt.com web app, with web search switched on so it cites sources | Daily | Every plan |
| Gemini | The answer shown in the gemini.google.com web app | Daily | Every plan |
| Perplexity | The answer from the Sonar model with live web search, set to your country | Daily | Every plan |
Plans and limits: Depra AI pricing. Full detail on scoring: how Depra AI measures AI visibility. Claude, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Google AI Mode, Grok and more are Enterprise add-ons. Every AI engine you track, together: AI visibility tracker.
Can you track AI Overviews in India, in English and Hinglish?
Yes. India is one of Depra AI's 40 markets, and every plan tracks English, Hinglish, French and most other major languages, plus code-mixed questions. Hinglish is Depra AI's speciality: Hindi and English typed in English letters, such as the Hinglish version of 'which is the best protein powder', which is how many Indian buyers search.
When India is one of your markets, Depra AI suggests a Hinglish version of each buying question. Both versions run on Google from inside India every day. On Growth, Scale and Enterprise, your report shows English and Hinglish visibility side by side.
Google can answer a Hinglish search with an Overview written in Hindi script. Depra AI detects the language of every answer it stores. In a sample of 60 Google results pages from India on 15 September 2026, 21 of the 25 Hinglish Overviews with loaded text were written mainly in Hindi script (how to rank in Google AI Overviews).
Hinglish AI visibility tracking explains how the language split works, and Depra AI's Hinglish vs English AI search study shows how the language of a question changed the brands AI named.
Hinglish AI Overviews with loaded text that were written mainly in Hindi script, in a sample of 60 Google results pages from India on 15 September 2026.
Depra AI detects the language of every answer it stores, and on Growth, Scale and Enterprise your report shows English and Hinglish visibility side by side.
Does Depra AI track Google AI Mode?
Yes, on Enterprise, as an add-on set up by the Depra AI team (contact us). Starter, Growth and Scale track the AI Overview shown at the top of the Google results page. Google AI Mode is the separate conversational search mode in Google. Google AI Mode for brands explains how it differs from AI Overviews and Gemini.
Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek and Meta AI are Enterprise add-ons too. The full list is on what Depra AI does not track. For the answers people get inside ChatGPT, see the ChatGPT visibility tracker.
ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews are on every plan. Google AI Mode, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI and more are Enterprise add-ons, set up by the Depra AI team.
How do you track AI Overviews?
To track AI Overviews, list the buying questions your customers type into Google and run each one as a search from your buyers' country on a fixed schedule. Each time, record whether an Overview appeared, which brands it named in what order, and which websites it linked. Depra AI does this every day for each question you track.
How do you check AI Overviews by hand?
Open a private browser window, search your question on Google the way a buyer would type it, and write down whether an AI Overview appears, which brands it names and which sites it links. That works for a handful of searches. The same method for every engine is in the AI visibility checker.
- Step 01
Use a private window
So your own search history does not shape the results.
- Step 02
Search from the right country
Results depend on where the search comes from. A search made in Mumbai may not show what a buyer in Dubai sees.
- Step 03
Type it both ways
In English and in Hinglish, if your buyers use both.
- Step 04
Expand the Overview
Note each brand in the order it appears and every linked site.
- Step 05
Repeat
On another day and on your phone. An Overview can appear on one check and be missing on the next.
Where manual checks stop working
Past 10 or 20 questions, hand checks get slow and hard to compare from week to week, and competitors multiply the work. Google Search Console helps with traffic, as the next section shows, but it does not show which Overviews named you.
Once you know where you stand, what GEO is and its 8-step checklist covers what Google says about how AI Overviews find pages, and the steps to take.
How do you track traffic from AI Overviews?
Use Google Search Console. It counts traffic from AI features inside the overall Performance report, under the Web search type. Its Generative AI performance report adds impressions from AI Overviews and AI Mode by page, country and device (Google Search Console Help (opens in a new tab), checked 14 Oct 2026). Neither report shows the question asked or which Overviews named you.
Depra AI does not measure referral traffic or sales. It shows whether each Overview named your brand and which sites it cited.
What should you do with AI Overview tracking data?
Use it to find the websites Overviews cite in your category and get your brand onto them. Depra AI turns the stored Overviews into a short list of next steps. For the on-page side, read how to rank in Google AI Overviews. The query fan-out guide covers the related searches AI can run behind one question, and how to write pages that answer them.
A content AEO audit checks your pages for answers an engine can quote. Which search index each AI engine uses maps where engines find pages. The Depra AI case study applies this to Depra AI's own brand.
Two sample cards: the site types AI cites for rivals but not for a made-up brand, and a ranked action plan whose top item is marked done, so its visibility can be compared before and after.
Find the gap
Citation gap analysis shows websites and pages AI cites when it names your competitors and never when it names you, at domain, subdomain and page level, with competitors' own sites filtered out.
Follow a ranked plan
Your AI action plan ranks up to 12 places to get mentioned, such as lists, reviews and forums, and up to 12 page formats to publish on your own site.
See what changed
Mark an action done and Depra AI shows your visibility when you ticked it and now, with the number of answers behind each figure. It is a before-and-after view and does not prove cause.
What should you look for in a Google AI Overview checker or tracking tool?
Look for a tool that loads real Google results pages from your buyers' country, keeps searches with no Overview apart from Overviews that skip your brand, and lists every site each Overview cites. Depra AI does all three daily, in English, Hinglish, French and most other major languages, plus code-mixed questions, on every plan. For tools side by side, see the best AI visibility tools roundup. The engine table above has the details.
The free AI audit runs 5 questions once, with no signup. To compare tools, see what AI visibility tools cost.
How much does an AI Overview tracker cost?
Depra AI's plans start at ₹1,999 a month plus GST, and Google AI Overviews are included on every plan with daily checks. Starter, Growth and Scale start with 7 days free on the plan you pick, no card needed. Enterprise trials are opened by the Depra AI team. You can also book a demo, where the Depra AI team sets up your account.
| Plan | Price a month | Prompts | Projects | Competitors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | ₹1,999 | 16 | 1 | 3 per project |
| Growth | ₹7,499 | 70 | 2 | 5 per project |
| Scale | ₹12,499 | 120, pooled | 5 | 8 per project |
| Enterprise | ₹25,000, invoiced | 300, pooled | 10 | 12 per project |
INR, excluding 18% GST. A prompt is one buyer question you track. Every plan includes ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, all checked daily, and any of 40 markets. Every plan tracks English, Hinglish, French and most other major languages, plus code-mixed questions. Choose a higher plan for more capacity. Full details on Depra AI pricing.
What counts as a check
One question searched on Google once is one check, whether or not an Overview appeared. Each plan has a monthly ceiling on checks across all engines: 2,000 on Starter, 8,700 on Growth, 15,000 on Scale and 37,500 on Enterprise. New checks pause when the allowance is used and resume next month. Saved reports stay available.
Compare every engine you track
Depra AI runs the same questions on every engine you track, so each engine gets its own score.
ChatGPT Visibility Tracker
The chatgpt.com web app with web search on, checked daily on every plan.
Gemini Visibility Tracker
The gemini.google.com web app, checked daily on every plan.
Perplexity Visibility Tracker
Sonar with live web search, checked daily on every plan.
Every other AI engine you track
Claude, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Google AI Mode, Grok and more, on Enterprise.
See if AI Overviews name your brand
Free AI audit: 5 questions on ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. No signup, no card.
Frequently Asked Questions
Answers about tracking Google AI Overviews with Depra AI. Ask the team anything else.
An AI Overview tracker, sometimes sold as an AI Overviews rank tracker, runs the same Google searches again and again. It records whether an AI Overview appeared, whether it named your brand and competitors, and which websites it linked to. Depra AI does this daily from inside your chosen country, on every plan, next to ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and every other AI engine you track.
Every day on every plan, scheduled for 02:30 IST, together with ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity. New checks pause when the monthly allowance is used and resume next month. Saved reports stay available. See how often Depra AI checks.
Yes. Depra AI stores every source link in each Overview and lists the cited websites, how often each one is cited, and whether those Overviews named you. Citation gap analysis picks out the sites cited for your competitors and never for you.
Track the same buying questions for your brand and each competitor, and score every brand on the same Overviews. Depra AI records which brands each Overview named and in what order, for you and 3 to 12 competitors per project, depending on plan. A competitor is scored only on answers collected after you started tracking it.
On Enterprise, as an add-on set up by the Depra AI team. Starter, Growth and Scale track Google AI Overviews, the summary at the top of the results page. Google AI Mode, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek and Meta AI are Enterprise add-ons; every plan includes ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity.
No. Depra AI records "no Overview shown" as its own result and leaves those checks out of your visibility score, so fewer Overviews in a week never reads as a drop in how often you are named.
Depra AI has no free plan. The free AI audit checks 5 questions once, Google AI Overviews included, with no signup. You can also check a few searches by hand in a private browser window, as described above. To track them daily, the Starter, Growth and Scale plans start with 7 days free.
To track AI Overviews, run the buying questions your customers search on Google from your buyers' country on a fixed schedule. Record whether an Overview appeared, which brands it named and which sites it linked. A Google AI Overview tracking tool such as Depra AI does this for you every day.
Google Search Console counts traffic from AI features in its Performance report, and its Generative AI performance report shows impressions from AI Overviews and AI Mode (Google Search Console Help (opens in a new tab), checked 14 Oct 2026). It does not show which Overviews named you. Depra AI does not measure traffic; it records whether each Overview named your brand.
An AI Overview checker searches your questions on Google and reports whether an AI Overview appeared, which brands it named and which websites it linked. The Depra AI free AI audit checks 5 questions once with no signup; paid plans check them every day.
Yes. Starter, Growth and Scale start with 7 days free on the plan you pick at signup, no card needed, and you add a card or UPI AutoPay only to continue after the trial, and the first monthly charge runs then; do nothing and tracking stops when the trial ends and you pay nothing. Enterprise trials are opened by the Depra AI team. After the trial, Starter costs ₹1,999 a month plus GST. See how the 7-day trial works.
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