The AI Overviews rank tracker that shows which rankings still earn a click.
An AI Overview sits above the results and answers the question. Track AI Overviews per keyword and the pattern is plain: if the Overview cites you, the ranking still works. If it appears and leaves you out, your position is intact and your traffic is not, and a position number on its own will never show you that.
Overview presenceWhether a Google AI Overview appeared for this keyword, checked every dayCitationWhether the Overview used your site as one of its sourcesAlongside your positionBoth stored against the same keyword on the same day, next to your rank, so the pattern is visibleAcross your whole setHow many of your tracked keywords now have an Overview above them, and how many of those cite you
How it works
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Add your keywords
Type or paste them in, pick the Google country and device for each, and the first fetch runs straight away rather than at tomorrow’s scheduled run. Your first AI Overview results are on screen within minutes.
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Every keyword is fetched daily
The tracker stores the full top 30 for each keyword every day and records two extra facts: did an AI Overview appear, and was your domain among the sources it cited. Local pack and other result features are recorded at the same time.
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Read the pattern, not the position
Each keyword shows its position, its change, and whether it has an Overview and a citation. The summary above the table counts how many of your keywords trigger an Overview and how many of those cite you, so a stable ranking with falling clicks explains itself.
Why a rank tracker needs an AI Overview column
The single most confusing pattern in search right now is a stable ranking with falling clicks. Nothing in a traditional rank tracker explains it, so people assume the tracker is wrong, or that seasonality is to blame, and go looking in the wrong place.
The usual explanation is an AI Overview. It occupies the top of the page, answers the question well enough that a large share of people stop reading, and pushes the actual results below the fold. Your position is unchanged. The value of that position is not. An AI Overview rank tracker records both facts side by side, which is the only way to see the gap.
Being cited is the new version of ranking
When an Overview appears, the useful question stops being where you rank and becomes whether you are one of the sources it drew on. A cited source still gets a click, and it gets it with a form of endorsement attached.
So we record both facts against every keyword every day: did an Overview appear, and were you in it. Over a few weeks that turns into a genuinely actionable picture, because you can see which of your keywords are now answered above the results and which of those still send you traffic.
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What AI Overview tracking changes about what you write
Pages that get cited tend to answer a specific question directly and early, in a form that can be lifted out cleanly. Pages that bury the answer under six paragraphs of preamble tend not to, even when they rank well, because there is nothing convenient to quote.
This is not a trick and it is not new advice dressed up. It is the same instruction good editors have always given, with a new and very direct incentive attached. Tracking tells you which pages to start with.
Track AI Overviews across the whole portfolio, not one keyword
The share of your tracked keywords with an Overview above them is a number worth watching on its own. When it climbs, the ground is shifting under a set of pages, and it usually climbs for a topic at a time rather than evenly.
That is the early warning. It tells you which part of your site needs rewriting for citation before the traffic drop shows up in your analytics, rather than after.
How the price compares
Most AI Overview tracking tools sell it as an add-on to a suite, or as a standalone AI visibility product. Here it comes with the rank tracker, on every plan, at the entry price.
| Tool | From | What that buys |
|---|---|---|
| SEO Tracker for AI | £29 a month | Daily rank tracking with AI Overview presence and citation on every keyword, plus ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity visibility, the daily AI readiness scan, security and domain health, Search Console, backlinks, audits and MCP access. |
| SE Ranking | £76 a month | A full SEO suite. The AI Overviews tracker is part of the platform plans, with a free five-keyword check on the tool page. |
| AIclicks | $59 a month | AI Overview and AI assistant visibility tracking as a standalone product, with a three-day trial. |
| Otterly AI | $29 a month | AI search visibility monitoring across AI platforms. Rank tracking is not included. |
| Peec AI | $95 a month | AI visibility across several engines with daily updates. Rank tracking is not included. |
Competitor prices are the lowest monthly price shown on their own websites, or in Rankability’s August 2026 roundup for Otterly and Peec, checked on 26 September 2026. Currencies are as published. Check their pages for the current figure.
Common questions
What is a Google AI Overview?
An AI-generated answer that appears above the normal results for many searches, assembled from sources it cites. It answers the question on the results page, which means a share of searchers never click through to any website.
What does an AI Overview tracker actually track?
Two facts per keyword per day: whether Google showed an AI Overview for that search, and whether your site was one of the sources it cited. Recorded next to your ordinary position, so you can see which rankings still send traffic and which now sit under an answer that leaves you out.
Is there a free AI Overview tracker?
The free plan covers the daily AI readiness scan and security checks on one website. AI Overview tracking comes with rank tracking on the paid plans, from £29 a month, and the first fetch runs the moment you add a keyword, so you see your first AI Overview results within minutes rather than after a trial sign-up.
Does it track AI Overviews in the UK, or only the US?
Each keyword is fetched from the Google country you choose, in that country’s language, so a UK keyword records the UK Overview. You can track the same keyword in more than one country and compare them.
How do I get cited in an AI Overview?
Rank well for the query first, since Overviews are largely assembled from pages that already rank, then make sure the specific question is answered directly and early on the page rather than buried. Being crawlable by the relevant bots is a precondition, and the AI readiness scan checks that daily.
Do AI Overviews reduce traffic?
They reduce clicks for the queries where they appear, particularly informational ones. Being cited recovers part of that. The reason to track presence and citation per keyword is that the effect is very uneven across a keyword set.
Every plan gets all of it
We do not split this across tiers. Rank tracking, AI Overview presence, AI visibility across all three assistants, the daily AI readiness scan, security and domain health, Search Console, backlinks and audits are on every plan from £29 a month. Plans differ only in how much you track.
The other measurements
AI rank tracking
Google results you can see.
ChatGPT visibility
ChatGPT does not return a ranked list, so there is no position to track.
Perplexity
Perplexity is smaller than ChatGPT and considerably more transparent.
Gemini
Of the assistants worth watching, Gemini is the one wired most directly into the search ecosystem you already care about.