Yes. Cituna is a Google AI Mode tracker: it runs your buyer queries against AI Mode every day, records whether your domain is among the sources the answer cites, and shows which competitors it named in your place. AI Mode is a different surface from the AI Overview block above Google’s blue links, and it answers the same question differently, so it needs its own column.
How Google AI Mode tracking works
You give Cituna the buyer queries that lead to your category, and we ask Google AI Mode each one every day. For each query we record three things: the answer AI Mode composed, whether your domain is among the sources it cited, and which competitors it named instead of you. Run after run that becomes a trend line rather than a one-off screenshot.
AI Mode composes a fresh answer rather than returning a ranked list, which is why the daily cadence carries more weight here than on a classic rank tracker. Two people asking the same question can get differently-worded answers, so the signal you want is not a single position but a citation rate across your query set over time. That is what the column measures.
AI Mode is not AI Overviews, and the difference is measurable
This is worth being precise about, because the two names invite being collapsed into one “Google AI” column, and several tools do exactly that. AI Overviews is the AI answer block that appears above Google’s normal search results. AI Mode is Google’s separate conversational search experience. They share Google’s infrastructure and they make separate brand picks.
We did not assume that, we measured it. On September 12, 2026 we put one identical buyer query to both surfaces and read both answers: they cited different sources and recommended different brands. A citation in one is not a citation in the other, so Cituna gives each its own column and its own score, and never reports one as though it covered both. Pair this page with our Google AI Overviews tracker if your buyers use both, and with our Gemini rank tracker for Google’s standalone assistant, which is a third distinct surface.
What you see
Every scan produces a citation matrix: one row per buyer query, one column per engine. In the AI Mode column each cell answers whether AI Mode cited you, and which rivals it named if it did not. Read down the column for your AI Mode presence across your whole query set; read across a row to compare AI Mode with ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode on the identical query. The full answer text is stored with every cell, so you can read what AI Mode actually said rather than inferring it from a score.
Every cell where you are missing links to the generated fix for it, so the tracker is a to-do list rather than a dashboard you stare at. And because AI Mode draws on pages that already rank, the Google Search Console integration is worth connecting here: it shows which of your ranking queries are the ones AI Mode is answering.
We track our own gaps too:
Which tools track Google AI Mode, and at what real price
AI Mode is new enough that coverage is uneven, and where it exists it is often priced as an extra. The number worth comparing is therefore not the headline plan price but the price with AI Mode switched on:
| What you get | CitunaThat’s us | Otterly.ai | Koalr |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry plan / month | $39 | $29 | £79 |
| AI Mode included at entry | |||
| Fee to add AI Mode | None | $9/mo | None |
| Tracks Grok | |||
| Tracked prompts at entry | 10 | 15 | — |
Read from each vendor's own published pricing or comparison page on September 12, 2026. Otterly.ai publishes a $29/mo Lite plan covering ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot, with Google AI Mode at $9/mo, Google Gemini at $9/mo and Claude at $29/mo as add-ons, and does not offer Grok on any plan (otterly.ai/pricing). Koalr publishes £79/mo covering seven surfaces with no engine unlock fees, and states on its own comparison page that it does not track Grok or DeepSeek (koalr.ai/alternatives). Every figure here belongs to the vendor named beside it. Prices change often, so verify on each vendor's site before deciding. Cituna does not track Microsoft Copilot: there is no data source that reads it.
Priced at comparable coverage the gap is the point. Adding Google AI Mode, Gemini and Claude to Otterly.ai’s Lite plan comes to $76/mo by their own published add-on pricing, for 15 tracked prompts, and still leaves Grok untracked because they do not sell it. Cituna is $39/mo for all seven engines with nothing to add on, plus a native Google Search Console integration and a built-in MCP server (read tools from $39, write tools from Pro at $119). When you need more volume, Max ($399) lifts the prompts, brands and allowances, with a custom Enterprise plan beyond it.
Both alternatives are real products with genuine strengths. Otterly.ai has the lowest sticker price in the category and a useful set of free GEO tools, and if the four engines on its Lite plan are the four your buyers use, the add-ons are irrelevant to you. Koalr includes every engine it supports on every plan with no unlock fees, which is the same principle we price on. Which one fits comes down to the engines your buyers actually use and whether you want the fixes attached to the measurement. For the full field, see our comparison of the best AI visibility tools.
Drafted with AI assistance from our own research and Search Console data, and reviewed by Rahul A before publishing. Rules and prices change; check the linked official source before you act.