AI Overview Checker
See whether Google's AI Overview and AI Mode cite your site for the keywords you care about, who they cite instead, and where everyone ranks underneath.
How the checker works
Live, not a database
We load Google's results for your keyword when you ask, so new and small sites show up too. Each reading shows when it was captured.
Two Google surfaces
AI Overviews and AI Mode can answer the same keyword with different text and different sources. We show both side by side.
One reading, honestly labelled
AI answers change from day to day. One check is a snapshot; the 2-week watch and daily tracking show the trend.
For each keyword it records three things from the same results page: the AI Overview's answer and its cited sources, AI Mode's answer and sources, and the organic top 100. Every cited source is matched to its site's best organic position, and your site is marked wherever it appears.
What to do with a result
The useful part is rarely the yes or no. It's the list of who Google picked instead, and where they rank.
Not cited, but ranking
Compare your page with the cited sources for that keyword: what question each one answers, and how directly.
Not cited, not ranking
Look at where the cited sources sit in the organic list. If some are outside the top 10, the answer is drawing on more than rankings.
Cited in one surface only
AI Overview and AI Mode choose sources separately. A citation in one is no guarantee of the other.
Same site, many keywords
A domain cited across several of your keywords is the page type Google trusts for the topic. Study it, or get listed on it.
A check is a snapshot
AI Overviews change their sources from day to day, sometimes with no change in rankings behind it. A single check tells you where you stand today. To see whether your work is moving it, you need the same keywords measured again on a schedule.
The free 2-week watch re-checks your keywords twice. For daily measurement across your whole keyword set, see the AI Overviews tracker: every RankScope plan scans daily and tracks Google AI Overviews, and Professional and Agency add AI Mode. To check ChatGPT and Perplexity too, try the free AI visibility checker.
Frequently asked questions
What is an AI Overview checker?
An AI Overview checker loads Google's results for a keyword and reports what the AI Overview says, which pages it cites as sources, and whether your site is one of them. This one also checks Google AI Mode and the organic top 100 for the same keyword, so you can see how the cited sources rank in the blue links.
Is it free?
Yes. You can check up to 10 keywords at a time and 10 new keywords a day without an account. Keywords someone else checked recently don't count against the daily limit.
How current are the results?
Each keyword is loaded from Google when you check it. If the same keyword was checked for the same country and device in the last 6 hours, you see that reading instead, and the result shows when it was captured.
Which countries and devices can I check?
Google in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, India, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates, on desktop or mobile. Results are what a signed-out searcher sees.
What's the difference between AI Overviews and AI Mode?
AI Overviews appear above the normal results for some searches. AI Mode is a separate conversational search tab. They can answer the same keyword with different text and cite different sources, so the checker shows both side by side.
Why does Google cite pages that don't rank in the top 10?
The sources an AI Overview cites are not simply the top organic results. Next to every source the checker shows its site's best organic position for that keyword, so you can see for your own keywords how much the two lists overlap.
How is this different from Search Console?
Search Console reports impressions and clicks for your own pages. It doesn't show which other sites an AI Overview cited, what the answer said, or how the same keyword looks in AI Mode. The two work well together.
What does the 2-week watch do?
After a check, you can enter your email to have the same keywords re-checked on day 7 and day 14. Each email lists what changed: sources added or dropped, your Google position, and whether either answer started or stopped citing you. It stops after the second email, and every email has a stop link.
Where does the data come from?
Google's results pages for the country and device you choose, loaded through DataForSEO, a search data provider. RankScope doesn't estimate or model the answers; it reports what Google returned at the capture time shown.