Health Insurance · India · The CITE Index

AI search visibility for health insurance brands in India

Name: Health Insurance · The CITE Index · India
Creator: Cite Solutions
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The brands ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Mode recommend when an Indian buyer asks an unaided question. Updated nightly. Every claim links back to the verbatim engine answer that produced it.

Brands tracked

11

Editions to date

60

Engines

03

Open today's edition20 Jul 2026 →ICICI Lombard Health appeared 12.0% more often in health insurance answers today than yesterday.

The Daily Fixing

3 engines · live

ChatGPT#1 today

HDFC ERGO Health

0.0%

■0.0% vs prev

Gemini#1 today

HDFC ERGO Health

0.0%

■0.0% vs prev

AI Mode#1 today

HDFC ERGO Health

0.0%

■0.0% vs prev

Timeline · 60 editions

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Previously on The CITE Index

3 prior chapters

Editor's note

20 July 2026 · 21:00 IST

Cite Solutions Research

ICICI Lombard Health appeared 12.0% more often in health insurance answers today than yesterday.

The move

HDFC ERGO Health held the lead, named in 94.0% of health insurance answers (rank 1). The biggest day-over-day move was ICICI Lombard Health, which appeared 12.0% more often than yesterday.

Each engine still picks its own favourite — ChatGPT recommended HDFC ERGO Health most, Gemini led with HDFC ERGO Health, and Google AI Mode pointed to HDFC ERGO Health.

What it means

Awaiting editorial review. The reading above is auto-generated from today's data; a Cite Solutions Research analyst will replace this paragraph with a structural read of the day.

What moved this — the receipts

5 cited

HDFC ERGO Health
Growing citationAI Mode
25 → 33 cites (+8) on AIMODE
shealth insurance / health insurance for senior citizensstarhealth.in/health-insurance/health-insurance-for-senior-citizens
HDFC ERGO Health
Growing citationAI Mode
20 → 31 cites (+11) on AIMODE
hhealth insurance / senior citizen health insurancehdfcergo.com/health-insurance/senior-citizen-health-insurance
Niva Bupa
Growing citationAI Mode
17 → 22 cites (+5) on AIMODE
chealth insurance / top up medical insurance policycareinsurance.com/health-insurance/top-up-medical-insurance-policy
HDFC ERGO Health
Growing citationAI Mode
16 → 20 cites (+4) on AIMODE
ywatchyoutube.com/watch
Niva Bupa
Growing citationChatGPT
4 → 8 cites (+4) on CHATGPT
ttataaig.comtataaig.com

Trajectory · top 5

60 days

Share of voice (%)

Brand position map

Rank × mentions · per engine

11 brands

Top-left = high mentions, top rank. Bottom-right = high mentions but lower rank — coverage exists but the model isn't placing the brand first.

Engine divergence

All three agree on #1

All three engines name the same #1 brand today (HDFC ERGO Health). When this happens, the brand is structurally winning across retrieval surfaces.

Today's metrics

Today's leader

HDFC ERGO Health

94.0% share of voice across all engines

Biggest mover

ICICI Lombard Health

+12.0% on the day

ChatGPT leader

HDFC ERGO Health

0% on ChatGPT only

Engine gaps

11

brands invisible on 1+ engines

Per-engine verdict

ChatGPT

Today's winner

HDFC ERGO Health

92% share of voice on this engine

Top 3 here

Gemini

Today's winner

HDFC ERGO Health

92% share of voice on this engine

Top 3 here

AI Mode

Today's winner

HDFC ERGO Health

98% share of voice on this engine

Top 3 here

1

HDFC ERGO Health 2

Aditya Birla Health 3

Niva Bupa

Full lineup

11 brands · 3 engines

#BrandSoV1-day Δ3-day

Mentions

01

HDFC ERGO Health94.0%▲1.3%

0%#999

141

02

Niva Bupa90.7%▲2.0%

0%#999

136

03

Aditya Birla Health79.3%▲4.6%

0%#999

119

04

Care Health56.7%▲4.7%

0%#999

85

05

ICICI Lombard Health44.0%▲12.0%

0%#999

66

06

Star Health41.3%▲2.6%

0%#999

62

07

Acko Health22.7%▼0.6%

0%#999

34

08

Tata AIG Health15.3%▲0.6%

0%#999

23

09

ManipalCigna12.7%▼1.3%

0%#999

19

10

Bajaj Allianz Health12.0%▼2.7%

0%#999

18

11

Plum Insurance4.7%▼3.3%

0%#999

7

Head-to-head

Who AI recommends more

HDFC ERGO HealthvsNiva Bupa

HDFC ERGO HealthvsAditya Birla Health

HDFC ERGO HealthvsCare Health

HDFC ERGO HealthvsICICI Lombard Health

Niva BupavsAditya Birla Health

Niva BupavsCare Health

Niva BupavsICICI Lombard Health

Aditya Birla HealthvsCare Health

Aditya Birla HealthvsICICI Lombard Health

Care HealthvsICICI Lombard Health

Source pool

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DomainCitesEngine splitLead

Sentiment composition

PositiveNeutralCautiousNegative

HDFC ERGO Health53/40/4/3

Niva Bupa38/60/1/1

Aditya Birla Health39/61/0/1

Care Health32/65/2/1

ICICI Lombard Health35/62/3/0

Star Health27/66/5/2

Acko Health38/56/3/3

Engine fan-out queries

No fan-out queries surfaced today.

No fan-out queries surfaced today.

No fan-out queries surfaced today.

Prompts run today

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Who runs this index

The CITE Index is built and published daily by Cite Solutions, a managed GEO agency, using the same measurement pipeline we run for client brands. If you want to know how your own brand shows up when buyers ask ChatGPT, Gemini, or Google AI Mode about health insurance or any other category, run an AI visibility audit and get the same per-prompt receipts you see on this page.