Which AEO tools offer API access for programmatic tracking?

Otterly offers a public API starting with its $189/month Standard plan, covering ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot, AI Mode, and Gemini. Peec AI includes API access, MCP integration, and a Looker Studio connector starting at around $95/month for the Starter plan. Semrush provides API access through its enterprise platform, and Profound offers an integration ecosystem for its eight-platform coverage including Claude and Grok.

Is there a free API for tracking AI search visibility?

No fully free AEO API exists, but Bing Webmaster Tools offers a free AI Performance Report for Copilot citations without an API. GA4 automatically tracks AI referral traffic as of May 2026. For programmatic access, Otterly ($189/month) and Peec AI ($95+/month) are the most cost-effective entry points with full API capabilities.

Which AEO Tools Offer API Access?

AEO tools with API access let you programmatically track AI search citations, brand mentions, and share of voice across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and other AI engines without manual query runs. The leading options in mid-2026 are Otterly (API from $189/month), Peec AI (API + MCP + Looker Studio from $95/month), and Semrush (enterprise API). Profound covers the broadest set of platforms but offers an integration ecosystem rather than a standalone public API. For a broader comparison across all AEO monitoring platforms, see our AEO monitoring tools comparison.

API access matters because manual tracking breaks at scale. Running 20 queries across 4 AI engines takes time. Running 200 queries across 6 engines and comparing competitors is a data pipeline problem, not a manual research task. API access turns AEO from a periodic check to a continuous monitoring function.

What Does Otterly's API Offer?

Otterly provides a public API starting with its Standard plan at $189/month. The API covers ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot, AI Mode, and Gemini, with Claude tracking listed as coming soon. Key capabilities include:

Programmatic query submission across supported AI engines
Retrieval of brand mentions, citation links, and positioning data
Historical tracking to measure visibility changes over time
Competitor benchmarking through the same API endpoints
MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration for connecting AEO data directly into AI agent workflows

At $29/month, Otterly's Lite plan does not include API access but provides manual dashboard tracking. The jump to Standard at $189/month unlocks programmatic access, which is the right threshold for brands running 50+ tracked queries or agencies managing multiple clients. Otterly was recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor in 2025 and a G2 High Performer in AEO.

What Does Peec AI's API Offer?

Peec AI offers API access, MCP integration, and a Looker Studio connector, making it the most integration-flexible option. Pricing starts at approximately $95/month for the Starter plan with 3 model coverage, scaling through Pro, Advanced, and Enterprise tiers. The API covers ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Copilot, Perplexity, and Gemini, with Claude, Qwen, and DeepSeek available on the Enterprise plan.

Peec AI's differentiator is that its API returns not just citation data but also brand mentions, impression estimates, and sentiment analysis. For a brand wanting to programmatically monitor not just whether they are cited but how they are framed, Peec AI's API output is richer than basic citation tracking. The Looker Studio connector allows teams to build AEO dashboards alongside existing marketing data without custom development.

How Does Semrush Fit In?

Semrush offers API access through its enterprise platform and AI Visibility Toolkit. If your team is already in the Semrush ecosystem for traditional SEO, adding AEO tracking through the same API consolidates your search intelligence into a single pipeline. The advantage is the ability to correlate traditional search rankings with AI citations programmatically — the Ahrefs finding that 76% of AI citations come from Google top-10 pages becomes a metric you can track and optimize against.

The tradeoff is that Semrush's AEO features are bundled with the broader platform. You cannot buy just the AI visibility API. For teams already paying for Semrush, this is efficient. For teams just starting AEO tracking, a dedicated tool with lower entry pricing is more appropriate.

What About Profound and Enterprise Options?

Profound covers the broadest set of platforms — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Copilot, Meta AI, DeepSeek, and AI Overviews — and offers an integration ecosystem for programmatic access, though it does not market a standalone public API with transparent pricing. Profound positions as a complete marketing platform with agents for content generation and answer engine insights, not just a tracking API. For brands specifically wanting Claude or Grok coverage programmatically, Profound is one of the few options.

Conductor Enterprise AIO offers end-to-end AEO platform capabilities with the largest data engine (17 million AI responses analyzed, 13,770 domains benchmarked). It is enterprise-only and priced accordingly. For companies where AI citations are material to revenue, Conductor provides the deepest dataset.

Which API Should You Choose?

Start with Bing Webmaster Tools (free, no API) to establish a Copilot baseline. Add GA4 for AI referral traffic tracking at zero cost.

For programmatic tracking at scale, choose Otterly if you want the most affordable dedicated AEO API and are comfortable with ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot, AI Mode, and Gemini coverage. Choose Peec AI if sentiment analysis, Looker Studio integration, or MCP connectivity are requirements. Choose Semrush if you are already using Semrush for traditional SEO and want to unify search intelligence in one API. Choose Profound if you need Claude or Grok coverage specifically.

For teams building custom AEO dashboards, Otterly and Peec AI are the two platforms with the most developer-friendly documentation and transparent API pricing. For a cost comparison across all tools, see our guide on how much AEO monitoring tools cost.

How Conbersa Integrates AEO API Data

Conbersa integrates AEO API data into our content operations pipeline. We track which of our published pages get cited across AI engines, for which queries, against which competitors. This data feeds back into content planning: pages that should be citable but are not get refreshed, citation gaps get new content, and topic clusters where competitors are winning get prioritized. Our 20-piece-per-day publishing cadence is informed by programmatic tracking of where AI citation opportunities exist. For more on setting up your own tracking, see how to build a query set for AEO tracking.