Engines
Track how ChatGPT talks about your brand
How we collect ChatGPT
ChatGPT (app)
DataForSEO, a licensed data provider, puts the prompt to chatgpt.com in a session that is not signed in and returns the answer the page shows.
Included in: Free, Starter, Growth, Pro
What we record for each answer
- Brand mentions and sentiment, read from the text the page shows.
- Citations: the answer’s inline sources, ranked in the order they first appear.
- The searches it ran and the pages they found, when it chose to search, captured from 2026-09-29.
- Answer features: web search, shopping, local businesses, ads, images and tables.
What to know
- Persona variants and city targets do not run on it.
- A Chinese language variant does not run, and neither does a prompt over 2,000 characters once encoded; a prompt is never cut short.
- ChatGPT decides for itself whether to search, so some answers cite no sources.
- When an answer cannot be read, the run fails; the day’s failed runs are retried automatically at 03:00, 05:00, 09:00 and 17:00 UTC, and a run still failed after the 17:00 retry stays failed for that day.
- It shows what chatgpt.com answers a visitor who is not signed in; a signed-in person on their own device can see a different answer.
What you can do with it
AI visibility
See whether AI answers name your brand for the prompts your buyers ask, checked every day on the engines your plan includes.
Learn moreBrand perception
Learn how AI answers describe your brand: the tone, the reasons they give, what you are known for, and the facts they get wrong.
Learn moreSources and citations
See which pages AI answers cite for your prompts, and where a competitor is cited instead of you.
Learn moreOptimize
Turn what the answers show into ranked page fixes, article drafts and technical checks for your own site.
Learn moreAnalytics
Answer your own questions about the collected answers, and connect AI visibility to your search and site traffic.
Learn moreAlerts and reports
Hear about a real shift without watching a dashboard, and get a weekly report you can share with clients.
Learn moreRead more in the docs
- Engines and measurement
The eight AI engines we measure, how we query them (the two Google engines, ChatGPT (app) and Gemini (app) through a licensed data provider), which engines run for your project, how a country or city reaches each one, and how each answer is labelled.
- Fan-out
What each engine actually searched for behind your prompt, and the eight categories those searches fall into.
- Answer features
Which engines put shopping, local businesses, ads, video, images or tables inside their answers, and which answers used web search.