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# ChatGPT rank tracker: see when ChatGPT recommends your brand.

Ranksmile tracks what ChatGPT answers when your buyers ask about your market: whether it names your brand, whether it cites your site, and which competitors and pages it picks instead. Every answer is stored whole, so each number traces back to the sentence ChatGPT wrote.

## Get started

- [Start your free trial](https://app.tryranksmile.com/auth/sign-up)
- [See plans](https://tryranksmile.com/pricing)

## What the ChatGPT tracker records

Ranksmile collects the answer ChatGPT gives on chatgpt.com, with the pages it cites and the searches it ran first. Questions that need no web search are answered by the model directly.

| Measure | What Ranksmile keeps |
| --- | --- |
| Mentions | Whether ChatGPT names your brand in its answer, per prompt |
| Citations | Whether ChatGPT links your domain as a source, recorded apart from mentions |
| Sources | Every cited URL, labeled editorial, UGC, reference, institutional, corporate or competitor, with the brands it names |
| Competitors | The brands named beside you or instead of you, prompt by prompt |
| Sentiment | How each mention speaks of the brand |
| Fan-out queries | The searches ChatGPT ran before answering |
| History | Every scan is kept, so each metric shows its change since the last one |
| Market | Your site's country and language by default; a CSV upload can set a country per prompt |
| Refresh | Weekly on Growth, daily on Scale and Agency; new prompts right away |
| Plans | Every paid plan, and the 7-day Growth trial |
| How it is collected | The chatgpt.com answer, with its citations |

## One tracker per engine

- [AI Overviews tracker](https://tryranksmile.com/ai-visibility/ai-overviews.md): The AI summary above Google results
- [ChatGPT tracker](https://tryranksmile.com/ai-visibility/chatgpt.md): OpenAI's assistant
- [Perplexity tracker](https://tryranksmile.com/ai-visibility/perplexity.md): The answer engine that shows its sources
- [Gemini tracker](https://tryranksmile.com/ai-visibility/gemini.md): Google's assistant
- [Claude tracker](https://tryranksmile.com/ai-visibility/claude.md): Anthropic's assistant, a paid add-on
- [Grok tracker](https://tryranksmile.com/ai-visibility/grok.md): xAI's assistant, a paid add-on
- [DeepSeek tracker](https://tryranksmile.com/ai-visibility/deepseek.md): DeepSeek's assistant, a paid add-on

[All engines in AI Visibility](https://tryranksmile.com/ai-visibility.md)

## Your questions, answered

### Is there a "rank" in ChatGPT?

Not a position like Google's. What you can measure is whether ChatGPT names you, where in the answer, and whether it links your site. Ranksmile reports that per prompt and as a Visibility Score: the share of tracked prompts where ChatGPT names your brand.

### Why does ChatGPT give a different answer every time?

Generated answers vary between runs. One answer is a sample, so Ranksmile scans on a schedule and keeps every result, and the trend across scans is what to read.

### What are the searches ChatGPT runs?

Before answering, ChatGPT often searches the web with narrower queries of its own. Ranksmile stores them, which shows the questions you are being judged on even though you never tracked them.