DataForSEO AI Optimization Data API · GEO · AEO
$1 in Free Credits · No Credit Card · No Subscription · Credits Never Expire
The problem
AI search optimization is the new line item on every roadmap and every client call. The data layer under it is what’s been missing.
Every review call now includes “how do we show up in ChatGPT?” Manually prompting five platforms and pasting screenshots into a deck isn’t a methodology — it’s a stopgap.
→ Query 280M+ real prompts and report AI visibility with actual numbers.
Models change weekly. Interfaces change monthly. Whatever you build against them breaks on schedule, and your engineers end up babysitting prompts instead of shipping product.
→ One stable, documented API — we maintain the collection layer.
ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, AI Overview — every platform answers differently and none of them hands you structured data. Stitching it together is five side projects.
→ One schema, one billing, one vendor for all of them.
See it work
Search the LLM Mentions database and get back real questions, full AI answers, cited sources, and AI search volume — as clean JSON.
POST https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/ai_optimization/llm_mentions/search/live
[{
"target": [{
"keyword": "best crm software",
"search_scope": ["question"]
}],
"platform": "chat_gpt",
"limit": 100
}]# response (trimmed)
{
"results": [{
"items": [{
"prompt": "What's the best CRM for small business?",
"answer": "HubSpot, Salesforce, and Zoho are top...",
"mention": {
"brand": "HubSpot",
"type": "citation",
"sentiment": "positive"
},
"ai_search_volume": 12400,
"citation_url": "https://hubspot.com/products/crm"
}]
}]
}What's inside
Everything you need to measure — and win — AI search visibility, without building a single scraper.
Search 280M+ real prompts across ChatGPT and Google AI Overview. See every answer that mentions your brand, domain, or keyword — with sources, citations, and AI search volume.
Send one prompt to ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or Perplexity and get structured answers back — model version, citations, and costs included. One format for every model.
What real users actually see in ChatGPT and Gemini — the rendered answer, the linked sources, the search results underneath. Not the sanitized model API.
AI search volume for your keywords: how often people actually ask AI platforms about your topics. Prioritize GEO work with numbers, not hunches.
Who it's for
SEO software
Add AI visibility tracking to your product in one sprint — raw white-label JSON, your UI, your scoring. Own the "we track ChatGPT too" pitch before your competitors do.
Agencies
Turn "how do we look in ChatGPT?" into a recurring report with real mention counts, citations, and trends — a deliverable your competitors can't copy from a dashboard.
Builders & no-code
Pipe AI mention data into Make, n8n, or Google Sheets — or query it from Claude via our MCP server. No backend required, pay only for what you pull.
Enterprise
Track how AI platforms describe your brand and products across markets, feed it into internal dashboards, and give leadership the AI-search answer before they ask.
Pricing
No subscription. No monthly minimum. Top up from $50 and spend it on any DataForSEO API — this one or the other twelve.
| Endpoint | Price | Turnaround |
|---|---|---|
| LLM Mentions (Live) | $0.1 per request + $0.001 per row | ~2 s average |
| AI Keyword Data (Live) | $0.0001 per keyword · $110 per 1M | ~2 s average |
| LLM Scraper (Standard) | from $0.0012 per results page | up to 45 min |
| LLM Responses (Live) | from $0.0006 per task + LLM charges | up to 120 s |
Social proof
"I always recommend DataForSEO. No worries about server capacity, no need for maintenance, and splendid possibilities for rapid development."
"We found DataForSEO online while planning our beta. We were impressed by the responsive team and comprehensive APIs."
"DataForSEO has always been in our toolkit. When exploring an API, you see what it's truly capable of. Documentation is awesome."
Implementation
Every endpoint, parameter, and response field documented with live examples.
Read the docs →
Prototype against the Sandbox for free and fire test calls from the browser before you write a line of code.
Open the Sandbox →
Ask it anything about the API — it answers from the docs and drafts integration scripts for you.
Ask the AI assistant →
Real engineers on the other end — during evaluation, integration, and every day after.
Talk to us →It’s a data suite for generative engine optimization (GEO) and AI search visibility monitoring. It gives you structured LLM responses, AI keyword metrics, and brand or domain mentions and citations across ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overview, Claude, and Perplexity — all as clean JSON from one provider.
Yes. Every new account gets $1 in free API credits — enough for hundreds of test calls — plus free access to the Sandbox for development. No credit card, no subscription.
LLM Responses covers ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity. The LLM Scraper collects real ChatGPT and Gemini results. LLM Mentions searches a 280M+ prompt database spanning ChatGPT and Google AI Overview, and AI Keyword Data returns AI search volume for your keywords.
LLM Responses queries the models directly and returns structured answers with model versions and citations. LLM Scraper captures what real users see in the ChatGPT and Gemini interfaces — including the web sources and search results shown alongside the answer.
Pay-as-you-go. LLM Mentions costs $0.1 per request plus $0.001 per row. AI search volume costs $0.0001 per keyword — about $110 for 1M keywords. LLM Scraper starts at $0.0012 per results page. You top up from $50, and credits never expire.
Yes. You get raw, white-label JSON you can reshape into your own UI, scoring, dashboards, and client deliverables. Many SEO platforms and agencies build customer-facing features on DataForSEO data.
It’s DataForSEO’s metric for how often a keyword appears in user prompts on AI platforms — the AI-era equivalent of search volume. Use it to decide which topics deserve GEO effort before your competitors get there.
Register, grab your free credits, and pull your first LLM visibility data today.
$1 in Free Credits · No Credit Card · Pay as You Go from $50
