The SEO API that returns
the AI answer too.
Search data and AI-answer data behind one key. Run any prompts for any brand across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and four more engines, and get back who was recommended, in what order, with what sentiment, and which pages were cited. Pay per answer. No plan.
ChatGPT
Gemini
ClaudeWhy this API exists
Every rank tracker sells you a dashboard. This one sells you the answers. The same pipeline that measures Honeyb customers every day, open to your prompts, by the answer.
8
engines behind one request, six of them searching the live web
$0.08
per answer on any engine; held at submission, settled to what arrived
~1 min
from POST to enriched results and citations
One request
Prompts in, enriched answers out.
Submit a task: a brand, a list of prompts, the engines to ask. Honeyb runs every prompt on every engine, reads each answer, and hands back the structure you would otherwise build a team to extract.
- Who was named. Your brand and every competitor in the answer, with the offset of the first mention, so "listed first" is a number.
- In what tone. Sentiment toward your brand with a confidence score, per answer, per engine.
- From which pages. Every citation with its domain, page type and position, and whether the cited page mentions you.
Endpoints
Five endpoints. One question: what does AI say about this brand?
Submit, poll, read. Base URL app.honeyb.ai/api/platform/v1, bearer key, JSON both ways. The reference documents every field.
Your prompts, one brand, the engines you choose. Every prompt runs once on every engine and comes back enriched: mentions, order, sentiment, citations.
Live progress: answers expected, completed and failed, and the exact charge once every engine has answered.
One row per prompt per engine: the full answer text, who was named, how often, in what tone.
Every page the engines read to answer: domain, page type, position in the source list, and whether it mentions the brand.
Everything you have run, newest first, with counts and charges, for reconciliation and reporting.
Try the API
Real answers, in the exact shape the API returns.
Pick a brand and an engine to see the call, the JSON and what it means. These are answers we captured in our own batch runs (ChatGPT on 2 Oct 2026, Claude on 29 Jul 2026, Perplexity on 29 Jul 2026), replayed as recorded responses. This page makes no live call.
Brand
Engine
What came back
“What's the best CRM for a SaaS startup with a small sales team?”
ChatGPT, captured 2 Oct 2026
- Named
- Yes, 1st of 4 brands
- Sentiment
- positive (0.88 confidence)
- Sources
- 4 cited, 1 naming HubSpot
- Cost
- $0.08 for this answer (1 prompt on 1 engine)
Also named
- Attio
- Pipedrive
- Close
Cited domains
- hubspot.com
- attio.com
- dupple.com
- close.com
Run your own prompts at $0.08 an answer.
curl -X POST https://app.honeyb.ai/api/platform/v1/tasks \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $HONEYB_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data @- <<'JSON'
{
"brand": {
"name": "HubSpot",
"url": "https://hubspot.com"
},
"prompts": [
"What's the best CRM for a SaaS startup with a small sales team?"
],
"engines": [
"chatgpt"
],
"language": "en"
}
JSONRecorded responses, not live calls. Answer text, brands named and cited links are as captured; ChatGPT answers show the captured opening. In this sample, mention counts are counted in that text, sentiment is labelled by hand and page types are read from the URL. A live task returns all of them from the full answer. Task ids are illustrative, and the task is shown as the POST returns it, still running.
Pricing
Pay for answers, not seats.
$0.08 per answer, the same on every engine. A task's price is prompts times engines, held from your credits when you submit and settled to the answers that actually arrived. Credits are prepaid, never expire, and there is no subscription and no seat. Two prompts on three engines: 48 cents.
Build with it
Wherever you are building, the answers go in.
Inside your product
Building a marketing platform, a CMS, an agency portal? Add AI visibility as a native feature: one POST per brand, and the enriched answers are yours to render.
Inside your agents
Your automations can submit a task, wait for it, and act on the result: draft the comparison page the engines keep citing competitors from, then re-run the prompts next week.
Inside your reports
One task per client, the same prompts every week. Mention rate, first-mention position and sentiment become the columns of a report that took no analyst hours.
Inside your research
Run a category's buying questions across every engine and read the citations. The domains that keep coming back are the ones a category is won on.
Why it holds up
Built on the pipeline Honeyb runs for its own customers every day.
Real engines, live web
Six of the eight engines (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Mode and AI Overviews) search the web before they answer and cite what they read, so the results reflect today, not a training snapshot. Grok and DeepSeek answer from memory, a useful baseline.
Enriched, not raw
Every answer comes back with brand and competitor mentions, first-mention offsets, sentiment with confidence, and every citation classified by page type. The text is there too.
Pay for answers
$0.08 per answer on every engine, from prepaid credits. The price is held when you submit and settled to the answers that actually arrived. No seats, no plan, no minimum term.
What an SEO API is
An SEO API is search data your code can ask for.
Instead of opening a dashboard, you send an HTTP request and get structured JSON back: what ranks for a keyword, how often it is searched, who links to a domain, and now what an AI engine says when a buyer asks it a question. The data is the same data a rank tracker or an audit tool shows you; the API is what lets you put it in your own product, your own reports or your own agent without a human copying numbers between screens.
Most SEO APIs bill per unit returned, so the shape of the catalogue matters more than the headline rate. These are the lines this one covers, and what each returns.
AI answers
Run a prompt across eight AI engines and get the answer text back with your brand scored: named or not, in what position, with what sentiment, and every page the engine cited. Live today, $0.08 per answer.
AI mentions and citations
Every answer that named a brand, with the engine, prompt, position and the sources behind it, so you can see which pages an engine trusts on a topic before you write the next one.
Rank tracking
Google positions, ranking URLs, SERP features and the AI Overview citation for up to 1,000 keywords per request, on demand, at $0.002 per check. Live: create a key in the console.
Keyword data
Search volume, CPC, competition, difficulty, keyword ideas and Google Trends for any market, plus how often a question is asked to AI engines. Early access.
SERP
The Google results page as typed JSON: organic, paid, People also ask, local and video, with the AI Overview flag; the overview's text and sources from their own endpoint. Early access.
Backlinks
A link summary for any domain or URL, and the rows behind it: referring domains, anchors, and new or lost links. Early access.
Compared with a classic SEO data API
Search data and the AI answer, in one call.
Classic SEO data APIs stop at the ranked page. Buyers now start one step later, at the answer an engine gives them, and that is where this API begins.
What one call returns
ClassicA ranked results page, a keyword row or a backlink list.
HoneybThe AI answer itself, enriched: who was recommended, in what order, with what sentiment, and which pages the engine cited.
Coverage
ClassicGoogle and Bing result pages.
HoneybEight AI engines today, from ChatGPT and Google AI Mode to Grok and DeepSeek, and Google rank checks with the AI Overview citation on the same key.
Sources
ClassicThe URLs on the results page.
HoneybEvery citation behind the answer, classified by page type, so you know which pages shape the recommendation.
What to do next
ClassicLeft to you.
HoneybThe gap is in the response: which competitors were named ahead of you, in what tone, and the exact pages the engine read to decide.
Shape
ClassicTask queues, generic endpoints, decoding on your side.
HoneybOne endpoint per job, JSON an agent can read as-is, submit then poll then read.
Pricing
ClassicPer request or per row, across tier tables.
HoneybPer answer, one price on every engine, prepaid credits that never expire.
Where it fits
ClassicThe cheapest bulk pull of search-page data.
HoneybThe call an agent makes when it needs search data and the AI answer together.
API lines
One key, one balance, every line.
The AI answer lines are live today. The classic SEO data lines are in early access on the same key, each with its own page, endpoints and per-request pricing.
AI Visibility API
LiveLLM visibility API: run prompts across eight AI engines and see if a brand was named, where, with what sentiment and which pages were cited. $0.08 an answer.
Explore the ai visibility apiAI Mentions API
LiveLLM mentions API: every AI answer that named a brand, with the engine, prompt, position, sentiment and the sources cited. Eight engines, billed per answer.
Explore the ai mentions apiRank Tracking API
LiveRank tracking API: a domain's Google position, ranking URL, SERP features and AI Overview citation for up to 1,000 keywords per request. $0.002 per check.
Explore the rank tracking apiBacklinks API
Early accessBacklinks API: referring domains, backlinks, rank, anchors and new and lost links for any domain or URL. Usage-based pricing, no subscription. Early access.
Explore the backlinks apiKeyword Data API
Early accessKeyword research API: search volume, CPC, competition, difficulty, keyword ideas and Google Trends for any market, plus AI prompt volume. Early access.
Explore the keyword data apiSERP API
Early accessSERP API: typed Google results with organic, paid, People also ask, local and video, and the AI Overview flag. Full AI Overview text and sources from its own endpoint.
Explore the serp apiAI Overviews API
Early accessAI Overview API: the Google AI Overview and AI Mode answer with its full text and every cited source. $0.08 per prompt via the live task API; per-keyword endpoint in early access.
Explore the ai overviews apiFAQ
Frequently asked questions.
Start with the docs.
Every endpoint, request and response shape, with examples. Ten minutes from your key to first results.
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