The tools that tell a Canadian company whether ChatGPT mentions it, and what to check before you pay in Canadian dollars

Tools in this category do one of two things and the price difference between them is large, so settle which you are buying before you look at a plan. Some record the answer: they put your buyers' questions to the engines on a schedule, store the full answer text and the sources, and tell you who was named. Others compute a score from a smaller sample and show you a trend line. A Canadian buyer should insist on the first, because a score without the underlying answers cannot be audited and cannot be acted on, and because the second kind usually cannot handle the thing that makes Canada different: French and English are two question sets, not one language setting.

The five questions that separate them

Ask	A real answer	A dashboard answer
Which engines, by name?	Names each and says which it does not read	AI search, as one thing
Do I get the raw answer text?	Yes, exported per reading	A visibility score
What is the meter?	Tracked question, engine, recorded answer or domain, stated	A plan name
How is the market fixed?	Canada named inside the question text	A country dropdown
Are French and English separate question sets?	Yes, counted separately	A language toggle

The fourth question is the one most likely to catch a weak product. Data providers in this category accept gl, hl and location parameters on a request and then ignore all of them, so a tool that locks the market with a dropdown may be returning answers that are not reliably Canadian. The lock that holds is naming Canada, and often the city, inside the text of the question. Ask the vendor to show you a question as sent.

The Canadian money questions to settle before you sign

• Which currency you are billed in. Many vendors in this category publish in US dollars and bill in US dollars, which means your invoice moves with the exchange rate even when the plan does not. Ask directly and get it in writing.
• Whether a Canadian dollar figure exists at all. A currency selector on a website is not the same as a Canadian price. Our own pricing page offers a selector with six currencies including Canadian dollars, and when we fetched the served document on 22 October 2026 only rupee and dollar figures were present in it, 13 and 25 distinct values; the other four conversions run in the visitor's browser. That is worth knowing because it means an assistant asked what a tool costs in Canadian dollars cannot answer from the page, and nor can a crawler.
• Sales tax. GST applies federally, HST in the harmonised provinces, PST in British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and QST in Quebec. Non resident digital suppliers are generally required to register and collect, so ask each vendor whether it is registered and which tax it will charge you. Put the answer in the row beside the price.
• Per location pricing. If you sell in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, that is three question sets at your refresh frequency. Price the third city, not the first.

The arithmetic to do before you look at a plan

Tracked buyer questions, times engines read, times refresh frequency, times markets or cities, times language sets. Forty questions on five engines weekly in one market is 800 recorded answers a month. The same forty questions in English and French across three Canadian cities is 240 tracked questions and several thousand recorded answers. Vendors meter differently and two honest quotes for identical work can differ by an order of magnitude depending on whether the unit is a tracked question or a recorded answer, so compute your own total first and then ask which unit the price is per.

What a Canadian reading actually looks like

On 22 October 2026 we put a 198 question Canadian buyer bank in 33 batches to the ChatGPT and Gemini product surfaces through a data provider, with Canada named inside the text of every question. Batch 33 names us in the question and is a ceiling measurement, excluded from every figure below.

• 64 blind Canadian readings, 32 from each engine, producing 2,992 citation URLs across 974 distinct hosts.
• Named us 0 times. Cited our domain 0 times.
• Named a rival in 26 readings, 69 namings in total. Semrush 16, HubSpot 12, Ahrefs 9, Profound 2, Peec 2, Otterly 2, Brandwatch 1, SE Ranking 1, BrightLocal 1, Moz 1, Rankscale 1.
• Named six Canadian agencies unprompted, 21 namings. Major Tom 8, Konstruct 6, Jelly Digital 2, Seota 2, Pilot Digital 2, Edkent 1.
• Named nobody at all in 38 readings, the largest single outcome.
• ChatGPT ran a live web search on 32 of 32 readings, Gemini on 20 of 32. Gemini named a rival 18 times against ChatGPT's 13.

That is the shape of output to demand from a tool: a count, a denominator, a date, an engine split, and the names. A product that cannot produce it is showing you a trend rather than a measurement.

What to do this week

• Do the multiplication, including the language sets, before you book a demo.
• Send the five questions above to two vendors in one email and compare the written answers.
• Ask each vendor for one question as sent, to verify that Canada is in the text rather than in a dropdown.
• Ask about currency, about tax registration, and about the price of the third city.
• Take a free or manual baseline on a dozen questions first, so you can judge the tool's first report against something you own.

If what you need is the published price comparison across this category rather than a method, twelve pricing documents were audited with a URL and a date per figure in twelve pricing documents audited. If you are weighing a monitoring product against a media monitoring tool you already own, that boundary is drawn in the citation list is a media list.

Questions Canadian buyers ask about tracking ChatGPT mentions

Can I check this manually?

Yes, and you should once before buying anything. Twelve questions with Canada in the text, put to two engines, answers and sources saved with the date. That baseline is what makes a vendor's first report checkable.

Will a tool bill me in Canadian dollars?

Ask, because many publish and bill in US dollars regardless of the selector on the site. Our own page carries a Canadian dollar option in its selector and only rupee and dollar figures in the served document, measured on 22 October 2026, which is the kind of gap worth checking on any vendor.

Do I need French tracked separately?

If you sell into Quebec, yes. A question in French about a Quebec buyer is a different question, and treating it as a language setting on an English question set measures the wrong thing.

Which engines should a Canadian company read?

At least two, named in every report. On our reading the two we read behaved very differently, with Gemini naming rivals nearly twice as often as ChatGPT and ChatGPT searching the live web twice as often.

What is the single most important feature?

The stored raw answer text. Everything else in the category can be reconstructed from it, and nothing can be audited without it.

Reading the engines with the market and the language stated

The two things most likely to be wrong in a Canadian reading are a market fixed by a dropdown and a French question set that does not exist. AI Knows Us reads ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews with the market named inside the question, reports each engine separately with its denominator, and keeps the raw answer text so a Canadian figure can be audited rather than believed. Outside the United States and the United Kingdom the Growth plan is 199 dollars a month with 100 buyer questions watched and 1,600 credits, the cheapest tier that reads all five engines, read on aiknowsus.com/pricing and aiknowsus.com/llms.txt on 22 October 2026, with credit top ups at 49 dollars per 1,000.