Bing Copilot is the AI answer layer of Microsoft's search. For a growing share of queries, people read the generated answer instead of clicking through to the links below it. If you work on answer engine optimization, you need to know what that answer says, which sources it cites, and whether your brand shows up in it.

This Bing Copilot AI Answers API resolves any query to its Bing Copilot answer and returns it as clean JSON: the headline answer, the full answer as markdown, the structured blocks (paragraphs, headings, lists, tables, code), every cited reference with its title and link, and an optional brandMentioned check when you pass a brand to track. It is the Bing Copilot engine in a four-part AEO suite next to Google AI Overview, Naver AI Overview, and Brave AI Mode, so one pipeline can watch every answer surface.

Pay per query resolved, from $12.86 per 1,000. No setup fee and no subscription: one query, one answer, one charge. A single query takes about ten seconds while the answer engine generates its response.

What you get for every query

• answerHeader: the one-paragraph headline answer.

• markdown: the full answer as a single markdown document, ready to diff and feed to an LLM.

• textBlocks: the raw structured blocks (paragraphs, headings, nested lists, tables, code).

• references: every cited source with title, link, snippet, and source name.

• brandMentioned: a boolean when you set brandToTrack.

• summary: a one-line human-readable summary.

Example tasks and use cases

• AEO Tracking: Your Brand in Bing Copilot Answers - run your buying-intent keyword set weekly and see whether Copilot names your brand.

• AI Citation Tracking for Bing Copilot Answers - capture which domains Microsoft's answer engine cites for your category, then target them for content and PR.

• Bing Copilot API: AI Answers and Citations as JSON - the core call: any query in, the answer plus its sources out.

• Monitor Your Brand in Microsoft Copilot Answers - pass brandToTrack and read a brandMentioned boolean on every row.

• Track Your Brand Across AI Answer Engines - pair Bing Copilot with the Google, Naver, and Brave siblings for a cross-engine share-of-voice view.

Part of the AEO suite

Watch every answer engine with one pipeline: Google AI Overview API, Naver AI Overview API, and Brave AI Mode API. All four share the same input and output shape.

Works with MCP

The Actor runs over the hosted Apify MCP server, so you can add it as a tool in Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client and ask for what you want in plain language. Ask something like "Check whether Acme is cited when Copilot answers 'best project management software', and list the sources." No scraping code.

Keywords and topics

Bing Copilot API, Microsoft Copilot API, AEO tracking, AI citation tracking, answer engine optimization, AI visibility, brand mention monitoring, AI answer tracking.