By Hayden Bond, Plate Lunch Collective
Plate Lunch Collective is an AI SEO agency that gets brands named when buyers ask, in search, on social, and in AI. The discipline moves fast, and SEO is still at the center of the work, in Google and in AI answers alike. Knowing when those platforms change, and how, is part of running a well-rounded campaign. So is measuring it, which is where the tools on this page come in.
The directory at a glance
56 toolsEvery platform here is limited by the data the AI systems expose. Most of the prompting is synthetic, and none of them can see the context or personalization behind a real person’s answer. That’s fine, as long as the measurement is treated as directional and tied to the client’s goals. The numbers are an approximation, and they read best as a trend over time. So we start with the job and the KPIs of each client, then pick the tool that fits. It would be great to see these tools grow into a complete solution. For now we start with the client, then select the tool.
Showing 56 of 56 tools
Dedicated trackers that query AI assistants with a prompt set and report how often, and how, a brand appears. What separates them is prompt volume per dollar and whether they track category visibility, not just brand mentions.
Enterprise AI visibility tracking across nine engines, with a seven-day free trial and custom pricing.
ChatGPT
Perplexity
Google AI Mode
Gemini
Copilot
DeepSeek
ClaudeDemo / custom
4.5
Enterprise AI visibility platform sold by demo, with no published pricing or model list.
Demo / custom
AI visibility tracking across seven engines with published tiers, now owned by Sitecore and sold standalone.
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI ModeGoogle AI Overviews
Meta AIStarter $250/mo · +2 plans
4.6
Panel-sampled AI visibility tracking across nine named engines, with a published $800 Pro plan.
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI ModePerplexityCopilotPro $800/mo · +1 plan
AI visibility tracking across twelve named engines including Alexa for Shopping, with published brand tiers.
ChatGPTGoogle AI OverviewsPerplexityGoogle AI ModeCopilotGeminiAgency Growth $275/mo · +3 plans
4.9
Enterprise AI visibility tracking across six named engines, sold by demo with no published pricing.
ChatGPTGeminiPerplexityCopilot
GrokGoogle AI OverviewsDemo / custom
4.8Plate Lunch Collective works alongside in-house teams that use these tools, and does the work their reports point to. See answer engine optimization.
AI visibility as a feature inside a suite you may already pay for. A directional signal without another tool, short of custom prompt sets and high prompt volume.
AI visibility index inside Ahrefs plans from Lite up, seven platforms, Claude only via custom prompt packages.
Google AI OverviewsGoogle AI ModeChatGPTPerplexityGeminiCopilotClaudeBrand Radar AI, one platform $199/mo · +1 plan
4.5
Semrush's AI visibility toolkit, five platforms, inside the new plans or standalone from $99 a month.
ChatGPTGeminiGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI ModePerplexityAI Visibility Toolkit $99/mo
4.5
Enterprise SEO platform with ArcAI tracking nine AI platforms as a quote-priced add-on.
ChatGPTPerplexityGeminiGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI ModeDeepSeekClaude$2,500/mo · +2 plans
4.5
Enterprise AEO and SEO platform tracking eight AI platforms, with a three-week free trial and no list prices.
ChatGPTPerplexityGeminiGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI ModeCopilotClaudeDemo / custom
4.5
SEO automation suite with LLM Visibility on Growth and up, five AI platforms at the Pro tier.
ChatGPTGeminiGoogle AI ModeCopilotPerplexityStarter $99/mo · +3 plans
4.5
HubSpot's AEO beta tracks three AI platforms on 25 prompts, $50 a month standalone or inside Marketing Hub.
ChatGPTGeminiPerplexityStandalone $50/mo
If you already pay for one of these suites, its AI visibility feature gives you a starting read. Plate Lunch Collective turns that read into AI search optimization and citation work.
Platforms that sit between tracking and production, turning visibility data into what to publish and how to structure it for retrieval.
GEO AI agent sold through a demo rather than self-serve plans.
Demo / custom
Content suite with AI visibility tracking across ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews on self-serve plans.
ChatGPTGeminiGoogle AI OverviewsStarter $79/mo · +3 plans
4.7
Content platform with AI visibility insights; ChatGPT only on Solo, seven engines on Enterprise.
ChatGPTPerplexityGoogle AI OverviewsClaudeGeminiCopilotGrokSolo ~$200/mo · Free plan · +2 plans
4.7
Content optimization suite with query tracking for brand mentions in ChatGPT and Gemini, from $129 a month.
ChatGPTGeminiEssentials $129/mo · +2 plans
These tools show where citations are missing. Plate Lunch Collective writes the citation-ready content that fills those gaps.
These tools do not measure AI visibility. They determine whether the technical foundation for it exists: crawlable content, structured entities, consistent knowledge graph signals.
Entity SEO tooling for internal links and schema markup, with a free tier and paid plans from $49 a month.
Freelancer $49/mo · Free plan · +3 plans
4.9
Knowledge graph and schema platform for publishers and brands; Business+ from $879 a month billed yearly.
Business+ $879/mo · +1 plan
4.7
Pre-rendering service that serves static HTML to search and AI crawlers; plans from $59 a month.
Starter $59/mo · +3 plans
4.3Tracking tools report what AI systems return. Plate Lunch Collective builds the entity SEO foundation that helps AI systems identify a brand in the first place.
Built for one use case general trackers do not address: AI shopping assistants, coding agents choosing software, persona-based buyer simulations, hallucination detection, brand narrative analysis.
Agentic commerce platform covering Amazon Rufus, Walmart Sparky, ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Mode and Perplexity.
Amazon Rufus
Walmart SparkyChatGPTGeminiGoogle AI ModePerplexityDemo / custom
5.0
Persona-based AI search audits billed monthly per project, with a free sample audit and no card required.
ChatGPTGeminiClaudePerplexityDeepSeekGrokGoogle AI OverviewsStarter $99/project · Free plan · +2 plans
4.8
AI brand management suite tracking ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Grok, sold in five demo-only tiers.
ChatGPTGeminiClaudePerplexityGrokDemo / custom
AI brand perception research plus agent crawler analytics; demo-led pricing with a free Agent Analytics trial.
Demo / custom
Tests whether coding agents and answer engines find, pick and successfully use a software product.
ChatGPTGoogle AI OverviewsPerplexityGoogle AI ModeGeminiClaudeCopilotStartup $100/mo · +2 plans
Enterprise AEO measurement with an embedded execution team and custom attribution to AI-referred revenue.
Demo / custom
Specialized tools each cover one surface. Plate Lunch Collective works across AI shopping assistants and answer engines with citation-ready content.
Profound
Enterprise AI visibility tracking across nine engines, with a seven-day free trial and custom pricing.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTPerplexityGoogle AI ModeGoogle AI ModeGeminiCopilotDeepSeekClaudeGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI OverviewsFree trial: 7-day free trial
Profound pulled its $99 Starter and $399 Growth plans in September 2026. A brand now gets a seven-day trial on three engines and then a custom Enterprise quote that covers nine, including Exa Search. The agency plan is the only self-serve route left and is billed per client workspace. It carries 1,128 G2 reviews at 4.5, which matters more than usual now that the price is no longer public.
API-based. Runs structured prompts across AI platforms daily
Trial 50 prompts daily for 7 days; Enterprise custom; Agency Growth 400 credits/mo per client workspace
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$180M Series D (September 2026, co-led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins) at a $1.8B valuation. Earlier: $96M Series C (February 24, 2026, led by Lightspeed) at a $1B valuation; investors include Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, Evantic, Saga Ventures, South Park Commons.
Ramp, Statsig
Published by Profound on its own site (tryprofound.com/enterprise). We haven’t checked them.
Bluefish AI
Enterprise AI visibility platform sold by demo, with no published pricing or model list.
Verified Oct 2026
Enterprise custom (demo only)
Bluefish publishes no prices and no pricing page; everything runs through a demo request. The homepage names ChatGPT and Alexa for Shopping and otherwise says "10+ LLMs", so the coverage you would be buying is a sales-call question. The $43M Series B from Threshold and NEA in April 2026 and the named customers in news coverage are the main evidence of real use, because the product has no G2 reviews.
$43M Series B (April 14, 2026, Threshold Ventures and NEA co-leads); $68M total.
Adidas, American Express, Hearst, Ulta Beauty, LVMH
Scrunch AI
AI visibility tracking across seven engines with published tiers, now owned by Sitecore and sold standalone.
Acquired by Sitecore June 3, 2026 (~$225M, Bloomberg-reported). Now a Sitecore division.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI ModeGoogle AI ModeGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI OverviewsMeta AIFree trial: 7-day free trial of Starter, no credit card
Sitecore bought Scrunch in June 2026 for a Bloomberg-reported $225M and has said the product stays standalone for existing customers. Pricing has not moved since: Starter is $250 a month on annual billing and Growth is $417, both with a seven-day trial. Prompt allowances are now much larger than the 125 in our current data, at 350 and 700 custom prompts plus industry prompt pools. All seven engines come with every plan.
Starter 350 custom plus 1,000 industry prompts; Growth 700 custom plus 2,500 industry prompts; Enterprise custom
$26M total ($15M Series A, Decibel Partners, Mayfield Fund). Acquired by Sitecore June 3, 2026 (~$225M, Bloomberg-reported).
Lenovo, BairesDev, Clerk, Skims, BigTime, Penn State University, Crunchbase, Runpod
Published by Scrunch AI on its own site (scrunch.com homepage). We haven’t checked them.
Evertune
Panel-sampled AI visibility tracking across nine named engines, with a published $800 Pro plan.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI ModeGoogle AI ModePerplexityCopilotDeepSeekMeta AIEvertune now publishes a price: Pro is $800 a month for 100,000 tracked prompts across 11 models, with Enterprise still by demo. The method is distinctive and stated: prompts are drawn from a 150-million-prompt user panel and each one is sampled 100 times per model. There are no G2 reviews, so the Felicis-led Series A is the main outside signal.
Hybrid. EverPanel of 150M user prompts; each prompt sampled 100 times per model
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$20M total ($15M Series A led by Felicis; strategic investment from impact.com, December 2025).
WPP/Choreograph, Miro, Canada Goose
Goodie AI
AI visibility tracking across twelve named engines including Alexa for Shopping, with published brand tiers.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI OverviewsPerplexityGoogle AI ModeGoogle AI ModeCopilotGeminiWalmart SparkyClaudeMeta AIDeepSeekGrokFree trial: 7-day trial on Core
Goodie has moved to published pricing: Core is $399 a month for 120 prompts on five engines, Pro is $999 for 250 prompts on eight, and Enterprise is custom with up to 13. The engine ladder matters here, because Gemini, Alexa for Shopping and Sparky only arrive at Pro, and Claude, Meta AI, DeepSeek and Grok only at Enterprise. Nine G2 reviews is thin, and the case-study numbers are the vendor's own.
Core 120 prompts, Pro 250 prompts, Enterprise 500+
Both
Dermalogica, NoGood, Rathbones, SteelSeries
Published by Goodie AI on its own site (higoodie.com homepage). We haven’t checked them.
BrandLight
Enterprise AI visibility tracking across six named engines, sold by demo with no published pricing.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTGeminiPerplexityCopilotGrokGoogle AI OverviewsEnterprise custom (demo only)
Brandlight still sells only by demo and has no pricing page. It now names six engines on its homepage, so the coverage question in our current data is partly answered. The method is described in plain terms: ask thousands of questions from different viewpoints and study the answers for mentions, sentiment and sources. The February 2026 Series A and the Fortune 500 customers named in press coverage are the main outside evidence.
Unconfirmed. Prompt-based: asks major AI engines thousands of questions from different viewpoints and studies the answers for mentions, sentiment and sources; API vs scraping not stated
$30M Series A (February 2026) led by Pelion Venture Partners, with Cardumen Capital and G20 Ventures participating; roughly $35.75M total.
Brandi AI
AI visibility tracking across seven engines with sentiment analysis, sold to enterprise by demo.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTGeminiPerplexityGrokCopilotClaudeGoogle AI OverviewsEnterprise (demo only)
Brandi publishes no pricing and sells through a demo, with a free visibility audit as the first step. The homepage names seven engines, not the eight in our current note. Twenty-three G2 reviews at 4.9 and a Fall 2026 High Performer badge are the outside evidence; funding, founding date and collection method remain undisclosed.
Unconfirmed. Tracks brand mentions, competitive share of voice, sentiment, and citation patterns with recommendation engine
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AthenaHQ
AI visibility tracking with a free tier, a $295 Starter plan and eleven models on Starter.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTPerplexityGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI ModeGoogle AI ModeGeminiClaudeCopilotGrokDeepSeekMeta AIFree plan · Free tier: No trial listed; free Essential plan with 300 credits on five models
Athena keeps a plain entry path: a free Essential tier with 300 credits on five models, then Starter at $295 a month for 3,600 credits across eleven models, with 17% off on annual billing. The model list has grown since our last check, adding DeepSeek, Meta AI and Mistral. The first-month discount and free audit in our current data are gone from the pricing page. G2 stands at 4.9 across 46 reviews.
API-based. Dynamic AI crawling
Essential 300 credits; Starter 3,600 credits/mo; Enterprise custom (1 credit = 1 AI response)
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$2.2M seed (June 17, 2025), Y Combinator W25
Grüns, Popl.co, Statsig, Lago
Published by AthenaHQ on its own site (athenahq.ai homepage). We haven’t checked them.
Peec AI
AI visibility tracking with published tiers; standard plans track a subset of its engines, Enterprise adds more.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTGoogle AI ModeGoogle AI ModeGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI OverviewsCopilotGeminiPerplexityClaudeGrokDeepSeekFree trial: Start Free Trial available
Peec's three self-serve tiers still run $95, $245 and $495 a month, with roughly 15% off on annual billing, and each one lets you track three engines from a pool of six. Everything else, including Claude, GPT-5 Search, Grok, DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral and Meta Spark, sits behind Enterprise and is pulled through APIs. TechCrunch put the company past $10M in annualized revenue in May 2026.
Hybrid. Enterprise-only models are marked API by the vendor; consumer surfaces are not labelled. Coverage is tracked prompts times active models times tracking frequency, one chat result per model
Starter 50 prompts, Pro 150 prompts, Advanced 350 prompts, Enterprise Custom
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$29M total ($21M Series A, Singular lead, November 2025); $10M ARR confirmed (May 2026)
ElevenLabs, Chanel, TUI, Axel Springer, n8n, Attio, DEPT
Gauge
AI visibility tracking at $599 a month across eight engines, with Claude and Grok on Enterprise only.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI ModeGoogle AI ModeGeminiPerplexityCopilotClaudeGrokFree trial: 1-week free trial on Growth
Gauge dropped its $99 ChatGPT-only Starter plan, so the entry point is now Growth at $599 a month for 600 daily prompts across six engines, with a one-week trial. Claude and Grok still need Enterprise. Four G2 reviews is not much to go on; the YC Summer 2024 backing is the other outside signal.
Growth 600 prompts daily, Enterprise custom
Relixir
Autonomous GEO agent sold as a forward-deployed service with custom pricing, not a self-serve tracker.
Dropped self-serve plans; now custom, forward-deployed work.
Verified Oct 2026
Google AI OverviewsChatGPTPerplexityClaudeCustom pricing (demo)
Relixir has fully moved to a forward-deployed model: its team configures and runs the Rex agent for you, and the price is a quote. The homepage names four engines. There are no reviews on G2 or OMR and no independent reporting on customers, so this stays on the watchlist until outside evidence of use appears.
Hybrid. Autonomous AI agent approach; Rex handles GEO tasks
Nimt.ai
Credit-based European AI visibility tracking; Flex covers three chosen engines, Enterprise unlocks them all.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTCopilotGoogle AI ModeGoogle AI ModeGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI OverviewsPerplexityGeminiClaudeFree trial: $45 in free credits on signup, card required; unused credits roll over, valid two months
Nimt now sells one self-serve plan, Flex, at $89 a month for 10,000 credits, which buys up to 72 tracked prompts a day across three engines you choose from eight. Enterprise unlocks all eight. New accounts get $45 in credits but a card is required, which replaces the 5,000 free credits in our current data. The EUR price could not be read from a US connection, so the euro figure is unverified.
Flex up to 72 prompts/day; Enterprise unlimited
EUR 360K pre-seed (Loop Capital, Skane Ventures)
Rank Prompt
AI visibility tracking across six engines on every plan, with a free tier and annual pricing from $39 a month.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiGrokPerplexityGoogle AI ModeFree plan · Free trial: Free plan (10 credits, no card); 7-day trial on paid plans with 50 credits, card required
Rank Prompt now has a free plan with 10 credits a month and four paid tiers from $39 to $239 a month on annual billing, or $49 to $299 monthly. All six engines come with every plan, so the tiers differ only in credits and brand count. The G2 record is thin at two reviews.
Free 10, Starter 150, Pro 500, Agency 1,000, Agency Plus 2,000 credits/mo
Otterly.AI
Tracks ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity and Copilot on every plan; Claude, Gemini and AI Mode cost extra.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI OverviewsPerplexityCopilotGoogle AI ModeGoogle AI ModeGeminiClaudeFree trial: 14-day free trial
Prices are unchanged since April: $29, $189 and $489 a month with 15% off on annual billing. The base engines are ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Copilot; Claude is now a priced add-on alongside Gemini and AI Mode, and on Lite the three add-ons bring the bill from $29 to $76. G2 shows 4.7 across 54 reviews as of September 2026. The Semrush integration in the current copy could not be found on the live site.
Lite 15 prompts, Standard 100 prompts, Premium 400 prompts
Vaylis
EUR-priced tracking of ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews with daily prompt allowances.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTPerplexityGoogle AI OverviewsFree trial: 7-day free trial
Four plans from €49 to €699+ a month, VAT included, with allowances counted per day rather than per month. ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews are on every plan; the five other platforms the homepage names are Enterprise add-ons with no published price. The Reifenhenrich numbers come from Vaylis's own case study. The only third-party review found is a single five-star entry on SourceForge.
Starter 15 prompts daily, Growth 50 prompts daily, Scale 200 prompts daily, Enterprise Custom
Reifenhenrich
Published by Vaylis on its own site (vaylis.ai homepage). We haven’t checked them.
Indexly
AI visibility prompts bundled with indexing, llms.txt and site audits; six models named.
No independent user evidence found yet.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTPerplexityGeminiClaudeGoogle AI OverviewsGrokFree trial
Pricing is unchanged at $99, $299 and $499 a month with 17% off annual, and prompt allowances of 50, 100 and 200. The site now names six engines including Grok, but the plan cards no longer state how many models each tier gets, so the old one, three and five split cannot be confirmed. Indexing, content writing and site audits take up more of each plan than tracking does. No third-party reviews or customer evidence were found.
Starter 50 prompts, Growth 100 prompts, Scale 200 prompts
Addlly AI
GEO AI agent sold through a demo rather than self-serve plans.
Verified Oct 2026
Free trial: Free demo available
Asia's first GEO AI Agent. Singapore government validation stack (IMDA Spark, PSG pre-approved). SuperAI Genesis Top 50 Startup (June 2, 2026). Good for Singapore-based businesses eligible for PSG grants covering up to 50% of implementation costs.
Hybrid. Complete citation forensics, persona-based recommendations
SGD 1.2M (~USD $900K) seed
Ahrefs Brand Radar
AI visibility index inside Ahrefs plans from Lite up, seven platforms, Claude only via custom prompt packages.
Verified Oct 2026
Google AI OverviewsGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI ModeGoogle AI ModeChatGPTPerplexityGeminiCopilotClaudeAhrefs, whole platform. No separate listing for the AI feature.
If you already pay for Ahrefs, Brand Radar is there, with 5, 10 or 20 tracked prompts depending on plan. The index is built from search-derived prompts across AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot, so it reads best as a research database. Custom prompts and Claude cost extra, metered per check, and the standalone Brand Radar AI subscription starts at $199 a month without an Ahrefs plan.
Hybrid. Index modeled from Ahrefs' keyword database (476M+ search-backed prompts run through AI platforms, responses stored) plus user-defined Custom Prompts; API vs browser collection not stated
Lite 5 tracked prompts, Standard 10 tracked prompts, Advanced 20 tracked prompts; Custom Prompts packages 2,500 / 7,000 / 25,000 checks per month
Both
Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit
Semrush's AI visibility toolkit, five platforms, inside the new plans or standalone from $99 a month.
Acquired by Adobe; closed April 28, 2026 ($1.87B per Adobe 10-Q)
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTGeminiGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI ModeGoogle AI ModePerplexitySemrush, whole platform. No separate listing for the AI feature.
Semrush rebuilt its plans in 2026 so AI visibility sits inside Starter, Pro+ and Advanced, with 50, 100 or 200 tracked prompts a day, and the old Pro, Guru and Business names are gone. The toolkit still sells on its own from $99 a month. Coverage is ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini and Perplexity, refreshed weekly from Semrush's prompt database. Adobe closed the acquisition on April 28, 2026 for $1.87 billion, and the product keeps the Semrush name.
Hybrid. Prompts drawn from Semrush's Prompt Database, branded and non-branded, refreshed weekly; API vs browser collection not stated
Starter 50 prompts tracked daily, Pro+ 100, Advanced 200; Enterprise unlimited
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seoClarity ArcAI
Enterprise SEO platform with ArcAI tracking nine AI platforms as a quote-priced add-on.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTPerplexityGeminiGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI ModeGoogle AI ModeDeepSeekClaudeCopilotGrokFree trial: Free trial referenced on pricing page
seoClarity, whole platform. No separate listing for the AI feature.
seoClarity's base platform now starts at $2,500 a month for Research & Content and $4,500 for Enterprise, and ArcAI is a separate quote on top. ArcAI Core tracks nine platforms, including Claude, DeepSeek and Grok, with prompt queries starting at 500 and weekly checks by default. ArcAI 3.0 shipped April 1, 2026. It fits teams already on seoClarity or shopping at enterprise budgets.
ArcAI Core prompt queries start at 500; weekly checks by default, daily optional
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Conductor
Enterprise AEO and SEO platform tracking eight AI platforms, with a three-week free trial and no list prices.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTPerplexityGeminiGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI ModeGoogle AI ModeCopilotClaudeGrokFree trial: Free trial; length not stated (the trial page says both 3-week and 30-day)
Conductor, whole platform. No separate listing for the AI feature.
Conductor publishes tiers and quotas but no prices, so budget by demo. The release notes show steady platform additions: AI Mode in November 2025, Copilot in December, Claude in February 2026 and Grok in April, on an API-first collection approach. The three-week trial with no card is new, and the free AI visibility analysis is a cheap first look. G2 listed it as an AEO market mover in April 2026, and trade press names BlackRock's Aladdin, Four Seasons and TD Bank as clients.
API-based. Vendor states an official API-first approach for data collection wherever possible
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$150M growth equity, November 2021, led by Bregal Sagemount
Aladdin by BlackRock, Four Seasons, TD Bank
SearchAtlas (OTTO)
SEO automation suite with LLM Visibility on Growth and up, five AI platforms at the Pro tier.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTGeminiGoogle AI ModeCopilotPerplexityFree trial: 7-day trial on all plans
Search Atlas, whole platform. No separate listing for the AI feature.
LLM Visibility is no longer on the $99 Starter plan. Growth at $199 tracks ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode on 100 queries, and Pro at $399 adds Copilot and Perplexity. The plans are metered in Universal Credits shared with OTTO, content and rank checks, so the AI module competes with everything else for budget. Reviews flag a steep interface and billing complaints alongside praise for OTTO automation.
Hybrid. Conversational SEO agent (Atlas Brain); agentic approach; LLM Visibility queries front-end AI platform experiences
Growth 100 LLM Visibility queries (2 projects), Pro 100 (4 projects), Agency/Enterprise 250
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DB&R, Modern IO Digital, Beyond Agency Profits, Plumbing & HVAC SEO, CNC Marketing
Adobe Brand Visibility
Includes Adobe LLM Optimizer
Adobe's enterprise AI visibility product combining LLM Optimizer with Semrush AI Optimization, by quote.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityEnterprise (contact only)
LLM Optimizer reached general availability in October 2025 as a standalone application and and on June 17, 2026 Adobe launched Adobe Brand Visibility as a new product combining it with Semrush's AI Optimization. There is still no public price; one reviewer cites a Capterra figure of roughly $115,000 a year for 1,000 prompts and notes Adobe has not confirmed it. Adobe does not publish a platform list; its release notes reference Claude, Copilot, Meta AI, Gemini and Google AI Mode. It is a procurement-led buy for existing Adobe enterprise accounts.
Hybrid. Adobe describes identifying owned content used by AI systems, a recommendation engine that detects visibility gaps, and attribution of AI traffic
HubSpot AEO
HubSpot's AEO beta tracks three AI platforms on 25 prompts, $50 a month standalone or inside Marketing Hub.
Beta.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTGeminiPerplexityFree trial: Free trial, no card required
HubSpot AEO launched April 14, 2026 and is still marked beta. It tracks ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, pulls suggested prompts from your CRM data, and starts with 25 prompts for free with no card. The standalone price is $50 a month, $45 annual, with no HubSpot subscription needed; Marketing Hub Professional and Enterprise include it. Claude and Copilot are not covered.
25 prompts included on standalone; more purchasable
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Docebo, Fresha, Sandler, Youth on Course
Published by HubSpot AEO on its own site (HubSpot Spring 2026 Spotlight). We haven’t checked them.
SE Ranking AI Visibility Tracker
SE Ranking tracks five AI platforms, 100 prompts a day on the $129 Core plan, more via an $89 add-on.
Verified Oct 2026
Google AI OverviewsGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI ModeGoogle AI ModeChatGPTGeminiPerplexityFree trial: 14-day free trial, no credit card
The Core plan is $129 a month, $103.20 annual, and now carries 100 prompts a day of AI tracking out of the box; Growth lifts that to 250. The AI Search add-on at $89 a month, $71.20 annual, buys 200 to 1,000 prompts and the competitor research views. Collection is browser-based, capturing answers "as a real user would see them". The 14-day trial needs no card.
Scraping. UI-based monitoring: queries sent to AI platforms and responses captured as a real user would see them (vendor statement)
Core 100 prompts/day, Growth 250/day; AI Search add-on 200, 450 or 1,000 prompts
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ProductRank.ai
Free category rankings with citations from Gauge; no account, no history.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTClaudePerplexityFree
Free plan · Free tier
Type a category or product and the tool returns how each model ranks the brands in it, with the citations behind the answer. It is free, needs no account, and is made by Gauge as a front door to its paid tracker. There is no saved history and no prompt discovery, so it answers "where do we stand today" and nothing more. Independent write-ups agree on ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity; Gauge's own guide also lists Gemini.
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ZipTie
Usage-priced AI search checks at a cent per prompt per engine, from about $43 a month; now at ziptie.ai.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI OverviewsPerplexityGoogle AI ModeGoogle AI ModeCopilotGeminiFree trial: 7-day trial
ZipTie moved to ziptie.ai and replaced its three fixed tiers with per-check pricing: one cent per prompt, per engine, per check, with preset bundles starting at $42.75 a month and discounts for longer terms. Coverage grew from three engines to seven, adding Google AI Mode, Copilot, Bing AI Overview and Gemini. Independent reviews describe browser-based capture with screenshots of the actual answer. Third-party price lists from April and September 2026 differ from each other and from the live page, so quote the calculator, not a table.
Scraping. Browser-based capture with screenshots of the returned answer, per independent reviews; vendor does not name the method
Usage-based: $0.01 per prompt per engine per check; prompts run daily, weekly or monthly
Siteline
Agent traffic analytics plus visibility tracking across six AI platforms; formerly GPTrends.
Formerly GPTrends (launched 2025); Siteline name in use by February 2026; paid tiers added since the rebrand.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTGoogle AI ModePerplexityGeminiClaudeMeta AIFree plan · Free tier: Free tier available, no credit card required
Siteline is the renamed GPTrends; the old domain redirects and third-party profiles record the change. The product now leads with Agent Analytics, which logs the pages AI agents and crawlers fetch on your site, with prompt-based visibility tracking as the second module. The homepage confirms a free tier with no card; the $49, $99 and $299 tiers could not be read from the vendor page today and rest on a February 2026 third-party listing. The homepage case-study cards and body text disagree on the Cerbos figure (150% versus 80%).
Hybrid. Agent analytics; tracks actual AI agent/bot visits to your site; data-driven approach
Starter 500 monthly prompt runs, Scale 1,100, Pro 4,000, Enterprise custom
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Published by Siteline on its own site (siteline.ai homepage). We haven’t checked them.
Waikay
Runs prompts across six AI models with GEO action plans; plans from $24.95 a month.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTGeminiClaudeSonarGoogle AI ModeCopilotFree trial
Waikay added a $24.95 entry tier with 40 prompts a week on four models, and the top self-serve plan is now Larger Teams at $199.95 rather than Agency at $149.95. The tracker page names six models, with ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Sonar as the standard set and more available in API mode. The company withholds its collection method, citing a pending patent. G2 shows 4.9 across 19 reviews, and the product comes from InLinks in the UK.
Hybrid. Standard mode on four models (ChatGPT, Google, Claude, Sonar) and an API mode on eight; collection details withheld, patent pending
Site Owners 40 prompts/week on 4 models (8 in API mode); Small Teams up to 120 prompts; Larger Teams 360 prompts
LLM Pulse
EUR-priced weekly tracking of five AI platforms on every plan, from €49 a month.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTPerplexityGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI ModeGoogle AI ModeGeminiFree trial: 14-day free trial
The price list has been rebuilt: Starter is €49 and Growth €99 a month (€577 and €1,165 a year), a €299 Scale plan is now the highlighted tier, and five larger bundles run to €4,471 a month. ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode and Gemini are included on every plan; Claude, Copilot, Grok and others cost from €8 a month each. The Looker Studio connector now sits on Scale and white label on Enterprise. Review volume is one entry each on G2 and Capterra.
Starter 50, Growth 150, Scale 450, Scale+ 1,200, Scale++ 2,400, Partner 3,600, Partner+ 5,000, Partner++ 10,000 tracked prompts; extra prompts €1/mo each
Trendos
Free plan for up to ten brands, paid plans from $39 a month, seven AI engines tracked with its own crawlers.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTGeminiClaudePerplexityDeepSeekGrokGoogle AI OverviewsFree plan · Free tier: Free plan: up to 10 brands, unlimited countries, no credit card; no custom prompts
The free plan covers up to ten brands in any country but no custom prompts; those start at $39 a month for 100. Trendos states its method plainly: a fixed prompt set, repeated runs, same scoring for every brand, collected by its own crawlers daily. Tracking is brand-centred, so there is no category view. A September 2026 interview put the company at about 6,000 users and 35 staff.
Scraping. Own crawlers, a fixed prompt set, repeated daily runs and the same scoring rules for every brand (vendor-stated)
Free none; Basic 100 custom prompts, Starter 450, Pro 1,050; Enterprise high-volume
Brand Only
LLMrefs
Keyword-led tracking that fans each keyword out into prompts on nine engines, $79 a month, 7-day trial.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI ModeGoogle AI ModeGeminiPerplexityClaudeCopilotMeta AIDeepSeekFree plan · Free trial: 7-day free trial
You give it keywords, not prompts; it generates fan-out prompts from them and tracks 500 of those across nine engines. The single $79 plan is labelled limited-time and includes API access and CSV export. A free account exists, but the site does not say what it includes. Independent signal is a strong Product Hunt launch and a mention in one agency roundup, not reviews.
Hybrid. Keyword-based tracking (tracks keywords, not prompts); fan-out tracking
500 prompts tracked
Both
Revolution Beauty
Published by LLMrefs on its own site (llmrefs.com). We haven’t checked them.
Rankscale AI
Credit-based tracking across ten named engines, from a $17 yearly-only tier to Pro at $99 with a 7-day trial.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTPerplexityGoogle AI ModeGoogle AI ModeGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI OverviewsGeminiDeepSeekClaudeCopilotGrokFree trial: Try Pro free for 7 days
Credits are the unit: each query to an engine costs a fixed number, and Pro's 1,200 a month works out to about 4,800 answers. The $17 Essentials tier is still there but yearly only, and a Pro+ at $229 adds the REST API. Ten engines are named, including DeepSeek and Mistral, and you can schedule hourly, daily or weekly. One G2 review and 26 on OMR are the independent signal.
Pro 1,200 credits (up to 4,800 answers); Pro+ 3,000 credits (up to 12,000 answers); Growth 5,500 credits; Enterprise 12,000 credits
Both
Rankability
Agency SEO suite with content, audits and rank tracking; AI answer visibility is one of its modules.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTGoogle AI ModeGoogle AI ModeGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI OverviewsClaudePerplexityGeminiGrokCopilotDeepSeekMeta AIRankability, whole platform. No separate listing for the AI feature.
This is an SEO platform for agencies first: content projects, page and technical audits, Google keyword tracking, agency-branded reports, unlimited client workspaces and seats on every plan. AI answer tracking is the Track module, with 100 to 500 tracked queries across 11 platforms depending on tier. Plans now run $97, $297 and $497 a month. G2 reviews are strong but small in number and mostly about the content optimizer.
Starter 100 tracked AI queries, Agency 300, Agency Pro 500 (plus Google keywords 50/150/250)
Azoma
Agentic commerce platform covering Amazon Rufus, Walmart Sparky, ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Mode and Perplexity.
Verified Oct 2026
Amazon RufusWalmart SparkyChatGPTGeminiGoogle AI ModePerplexityEnterprise demo-only
Azoma is built for CPG and retail brands whose products get recommended inside shopping assistants, so its coverage starts with Amazon Rufus and Walmart Sparky and then takes in ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode and Perplexity. It syncs product data from Amazon, Walmart, Shopify, PIMs and Google Merchant Center, writes answer content, tracks citations and flags hallucinated product facts. Pricing is by demo only. Backers include eBay Ventures and, since September 2026, dunnhumby ventures, and the named pilots are Mars, L'Oreal, Unilever and Arla.
$4M pre-Series A, December 2025 (The Grocer reports the round as £3M); dunnhumby ventures investment September 18, 2026, amount undisclosed
Mars, L'Oreal, Unilever, HP, Reckitt, Arla, PerfectTed, David Protein, Beiersdorf
Published by Azoma on its own site (azoma.ai homepage). We haven’t checked them.
Gumshoe
Persona-based AI search audits billed monthly per project, with a free sample audit and no card required.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTGeminiClaudePerplexityDeepSeekGrokGoogle AI OverviewsFree plan · Free tier: Free sample audit
Gumshoe builds buyer personas for your market, writes the prompts each would ask, and runs them across six of its eleven models per audit, so you see how answers shift by who is asking. Pricing moved from per-audit fees to $99 or $299 a month per project, where a project is one brand and one focus area, with unlimited seats on both. The free sample (4 personas, 5 prompts each, 4 models) does not expire, which makes it a cheap way to test the persona idea before paying.
Hybrid. Persona-based conversation methodology
Both
$2M pre-seed led by Pioneer Square Labs with Hawke Ventures and Ari Paparo, 2025
Shipium, Hawke Media, Sourcegraph, Linkflow, The Navigators
Published by Gumshoe on its own site (gumshoe.ai homepage). We haven’t checked them.
Emberos
AI brand management suite tracking ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Grok, sold in five demo-only tiers.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTGeminiClaudePerplexityGrokEmberos splits the work into five agents: Scout monitors, Pilot forecasts, Flow orchestrates fixes, Merchant handles SKU visibility in shopping answers, Echo audits. All tiers cover ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Grok and are priced by demo; Lite carries a three-month minimum and the others are annual contracts billed monthly, with "fix packs" as the unit you buy more of. The company raised a $5.5M seed in September 2026 on top of a $1.2M pre-seed, and Adweek has covered both the funding and the Stagwell partnership.
Unconfirmed. Proprietary "TAVI" metric and "Share-of-Prompt" methodology
Both
$1.2M pre-seed (January 2026, single angel); $5.5M seed (September 3, 2026); $6.7M total
Stagwell
Unusual AI
AI brand perception research plus agent crawler analytics; demo-led pricing with a free Agent Analytics trial.
Verified Oct 2026
Consultation booking; free Agent Analytics trial
Free trial: Free Agent Analytics trial, length not stated
Unusual treats AI models as an audience to be researched, probing how they describe a brand and who they think it is for, then testing content changes against that read. The productized pieces are Agent Analytics, which logs visits from GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended, and AgentDesk, which hands agents grounded answers. Pricing is by consultation, with a free Agent Analytics trial; the $3.6M round in January 2026 and the named customers Reducto and Monarch come from SiliconANGLE rather than the vendor.
$3.6M Seed, January 2026 (BoxGroup lead, Long Journey Ventures, Y Combinator, Max Mullen, Phosphor Capital)
Reducto, Monarch Money
AIclicks
Prompt-based tracking from $59 a month, where the tier sets how many of its 11 LLMs you can watch.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTPerplexityGeminiClaudeGoogle AI ModeGoogle AI ModeGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI OverviewsDeepSeekMeta AICopilotGrokFree trial: 3-day free trial, no credit card
Starter watches 30 prompts on three engines; Pro adds Google AI Overviews and 150 prompts; Business at $499 opens six engines from a list of 11 that includes Claude, Copilot, AI Mode, Grok, Meta AI, DeepSeek and Mistral. Articles and the Clicky agent sit under the tracking numbers in the feature table. G2 reviews have grown from 30 to 55 since August and stay around 4.9, mostly from small European teams. The trial is three days without a card.
Starter 30, Pro 150, Business 300, Enterprise custom
Both
Kiwi.com
Writesonic GEO
Content suite with AI visibility tracking across ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews on self-serve plans.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTGeminiGoogle AI OverviewsFree trial: Free trial available (no credit card needed for basic SEO/content tools; GEO on Starter+)
Writesonic, whole platform. No separate listing for the AI feature.
Writesonic's public site now leads with AI visibility, and the self-serve plans track ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews with prompt caps of 50, 100 and 200. The content writer, site audits and agentic workflows ride along on the same plans. Perplexity, Claude, Grok, Copilot and Google AI Mode sit behind the Enterprise quote. Reviewers who have used it describe a marketing suite with a tracking module rather than a tracking-first tool, so the fit is teams who want both in one bill.
Starter 50 prompts (50 answers/day), Basic 100 (300/day), Growth 200 (600/day); Enterprise custom
Cognizo
Visibility tracking, prompt research and content on one plan from $499 a month; nine platforms on Enterprise.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTClaudeGoogle AI OverviewsGeminiPerplexityCopilotGrokDeepSeekMeta AIThe $149 Core plan is gone; Growth at $499 tracks 150 prompts on five platforms and ships eight articles a month, and Pro doubles most of that at $999. Enterprise opens all nine platforms, including Claude, DeepSeek and Meta AI. The $1.8M round in March 2026 and LG, Wellhub and Prezi as customers come from news coverage, not just the vendor. Plans are sold by demo.
Scraping. Runs prompts continuously to collect responses daily; not API-based
Growth 150 prompts (22,500 responses/mo, 8 articles/mo); Pro 350 prompts (52,500 responses/mo, 20 articles/mo); Enterprise custom
Both
$1.8M pre-seed (March 2026)
Wellhub, LG, Kraft Heinz, Prezi, OneSpan, Automox, Becker, Red Sift, Glossgenius, Hat Club
Published by Cognizo on its own site (cognizo.ai). We haven’t checked them.
Searchable
Tracks brand presence across eight AI engines and pairs it with page audits and article workflows.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AI OverviewsCopilotGeminiGrokDeepSeekFree trial: 14 days on Professional, no card required
Searchable is a London tracker that bundles prompt monitoring with page audits and article generation. Professional is $125 a month for 100 prompts and Scale is $400 for 500, with a 14-day trial on Professional. The $14M round led by Headline was reported in May 2026; the customer and revenue figures in that coverage came from the company. How it collects answers is not stated.
$14M round led by Headline at an $85M valuation, reported May 2026.
American Express, Siemens, Pfizer, Tencent, BCG, DigitalOcean, Havas
geoSurge
Free desktop tracker for ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini; an enterprise tier works on how models learn a brand.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiFree plan · Free tier: Permanent free plan; no separate trial
geoSurge is unusual in two ways. The free tier is a macOS menu-bar app that runs on the ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini subscriptions you already pay for, with no prompt cap. The paid thesis is Corpus Engineering, influencing how a model represents a brand rather than only measuring citations, and no independent evaluation of that method has been published. The $12M seed led by AlbionVC was covered by UKTN and PYMNTS in July 2026.
Hybrid. Free tier runs through the user's consumer subscriptions; the API-keys tier is API-based, per the pricing page
$12M (GBP 9.4M) seed led by AlbionVC, announced July 3, 2026.
Promptwatch
Tracks four AI models per plan, chosen from eight, with AEO article generation.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTPerplexityGoogle AI OverviewsClaudeGeminiMeta AIDeepSeekGrokFree trial: 7 days on Essential and Professional
Promptwatch is an Amsterdam tracker that scrapes the consumer interfaces of the models rather than polling APIs, which is closer to what a user sees and more fragile. Each plan tracks four models chosen from eight. Essential is $95 a month for 50 prompts, and the two higher plans add AEO article generation. Sifted and Tech Funding News covered the EUR 6M seed in July 2026.
Scraping. Vendor pricing page says it collects by scraping the UI interfaces of the LLMs
EUR 6M seed (about $6.6M) led by seed + speed Ventures with Blum Ventures and Arches Capital, announced July 14, 2026; EUR 1.2M pre-seed in September 2025.
Duolingo, Fireflies, Monks, Center Parcs, SIX Group
Lightsage
Tests whether coding agents and answer engines find, pick and successfully use a software product.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI OverviewsPerplexityGoogle AI ModeGoogle AI ModeGeminiClaudeCopilotFree trial: 7 days, no card, 1,000 credits
Lightsage is built for software companies whose next buyer may be a coding agent. It gives Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other coding agents real tasks, and asks answer engines the same buying questions, to see whether an agent finds the product, picks it over competitors and gets it working. You choose the competitors it tracks: 10 on Startup, 20 on Growth, unlimited on Enterprise. When a run fails, it shows where: discoverability, docs, authentication, an API, an SDK or an MCP server. Startup is $100 a month with Claude Code, Codex and three answer engines; Growth is $1,000 a month with every coding agent and answer engine it supports. It calls the practice agent-led growth.
Unconfirmed
$4M led by Nexus Venture Partners, announced September 8, 2026, with operator angels from Salesforce, Postman, Apollo and others (per Lightsage).
Firecrawl, Reducto, Daytona, Rime, TinyFish
Visby AI
Tracks three of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Google AI Overviews per plan and turns gaps into GEO tasks.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiGoogle AI OverviewsFree trial: Free trial offered; length not stated
Visby pairs prompt tracking with a task list and article generation, so reviews on G2 and Trustpilot tend to talk about what to do next rather than the dashboard. Plans cap you at three of the four engines, so the choice matters. Starter is $79 a month for 15 prompts and Growth is $199 for 90. Who runs it and where is not stated on the site.
Petra Labs
Enterprise AEO measurement with an embedded execution team and custom attribution to AI-referred revenue.
Verified Oct 2026
Petra Labs sells measurement plus people. The software tracks brand appearances in AI answers and an embedded team builds custom attribution models that connect those appearances to AI-referred traffic and revenue. There is no public pricing; Zapier, which discloses it is a customer, puts the engagement at custom pricing from $15,000 a month. The $5.2M seed led by Work-Bench was reported by Pulse 2.0 in July 2026.
$5.2M seed led by Work-Bench with Afore and Pathlight, announced July 22, 2026.
Zapier
Similarweb AI Brand Visibility
Prompt tracking for ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Gemini and Perplexity, sold with Similarweb's AI traffic data.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTGoogle AI ModeGeminiPerplexityFree trial: Free trial offered; length not stated
Similarweb's angle is pairing visibility with referral traffic from its panel. The AEO Intelligence package tracks 150 prompts across ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Gemini and Perplexity for one user at $99 a month billed annually, or $129 monthly, and shows which AI platforms send visits. The larger packages fold in the SEO, competitive and ad data Similarweb is known for. Zapier is the one independent review of the module.
BrightEdge AI Catalyst
Enterprise SEO module reporting brand presence and sentiment across five AI engines, sold by demo.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTPerplexityGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI ModeGoogle AI ModeGeminiBrightEdge is the enterprise SEO incumbent in this group, and AI Catalyst is its AI-answer module. It reports brand presence and sentiment across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode and Gemini on top of the platform's keyword and content data, so the natural buyer is a team already paying for BrightEdge. There is no public pricing; contracts are quoted by sales. G2 placed BrightEdge as a Contender in its Winter 2026 AEO Grid, and the parent platform carries about 800 G2 reviews as reported.
Quattr
Enterprise SEO platform that tracks citations in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and AI Overviews.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI OverviewsQuattr joins AI citation tracking to the content and technical SEO work its enterprise customers already run there, with an agent called GIGA that drafts and links content. Pricing is sales-led, with an interactive demo on the site; a third-party review puts entry around $2,000 a month. It holds a Niche spot on G2's Winter 2026 AEO Grid and names Marriott, Coursera and WP Engine among customers.
Marriott, Coursera, WP Engine, Men's Wearhouse, Bluehost, Eightfold AI
Advanced Web Ranking
Rank tracker that includes AI visibility and citation tracking on its Pro plan and above, from $139 a month.
Verified Oct 2026
Free trial: Free trial offered, length not stated; 30-day money-back guarantee
Advanced Web Ranking is a rank tracker that carried AI visibility into its existing plans rather than selling it as an add-on, the pattern SE Ranking and Nightwatch follow. Pro at $139 a month includes AI visibility tracking and AI citations and mentions, with Agency at $279 and Enterprise at $699. The vendor's pricing page does not name which engines it tracks; Position Digital's hands-on review names Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, ChatGPT and Perplexity, and that review is the only independent coverage found.
AirOps
Content platform with AI visibility insights; ChatGPT only on Solo, seven engines on Enterprise.
Quill agent launched 2026-05-13 inside the AirOps platform at no extra cost; product and company still named AirOps.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTPerplexityGoogle AI OverviewsClaudeGeminiCopilotGrokFree plan · Free trial: 14-day free trial
AirOps sells content production with visibility data attached, billed in tasks. Solo tracks ChatGPT only and the live pricing page no longer shows a free Insights tier or a dollar figure; third-party guides from mid-2026 put Solo near $200 a month and Pro near $2,000. Quill, the agent launched in May 2026, drafts and refreshes content from that visibility data and ships inside existing plans. G2 reviewers like the output and warn about task credits running out.
Blog posts, Content refresh, Offsite content, Social content, AI-optimized articles
Insights-to-action platform; identifies citation gaps and content opportunities; uses Brand Kits and Knowledge Bases to create content AI platforms reference
CMS integrations, SEO tool integrations, Brand Kit, Knowledge Bases, Grid (spreadsheet-like interface), Workflows
Insights 100 tracked prompts & pages, Solo 250, Pro/Enterprise Custom
$40M Series B ($60M total, $225M valuation, Greylock lead, November 2025). May 2026 rebrand centers on Quill.
Upwork, HubSpot, Brex, Chime, Webflow, Ramp, Sanity, Venn, Asana, Parallel
Clearscope
Content optimization suite with query tracking for brand mentions in ChatGPT and Gemini, from $129 a month.
Verified Oct 2026
ChatGPTGeminiFree trial: 14 days
Clearscope is a content optimization tool that added AI query tracking, which puts it beside Writesonic GEO and AirOps rather than the standalone trackers. Essentials is $129 a month for 50 tracked queries and Business is $399 for 300, with a 14-day trial. The pricing page names ChatGPT and Gemini; Zapier and a vendor launch post mention Perplexity and Claude, which are not confirmed on the plan pages.
InLinks
Entity SEO tooling for internal links and schema markup, with a free tier and paid plans from $49 a month.
Verified Oct 2026
Free plan · Free tier
InLinks automates internal links and schema markup from an entity map of your site, and bundles a topic planner and writing assistant. The free tier covers 25 linked pages; Freelancer at $49 a month covers 100 and Agency at $196 starts at 430 with API access. It does not track AI assistants, so pair it with a monitor if you need to see what changed.
Automates entity-based internal linking, schema markup, and content optimization so search engines better understand site expertise and entity relationships
Any CMS via JavaScript integration, Manual insertion, WordPress
Published by InLinks on its own site (inlinks.com homepage). We haven’t checked them.
WordLift
Knowledge graph and schema platform for publishers and brands; Business+ from $879 a month billed yearly.
Verified Oct 2026
WordLift turns a site's content into a knowledge graph and schema markup, with an agent that drafts and optimizes against that graph. Business+ runs $879 a month on an annual contract or $1,100 month to month and includes a dedicated project manager, which tells you the buyer: publishers and brands with a content team, not solo operators. It does not track what assistants say, so it is the plumbing side of the stack.
Builds knowledge graphs and semantic publishing infrastructure so AI assistants and search engines can discover, recommend, and reference brand content
WordPress (plugin available), Any CMS via API, Microsoft Azure Marketplace, E-commerce platforms
Morgan Stanley, Zurich Insurance Group, Ray-Ban, EssilorLuxottica, L'Oreal, lastminute.com, SalzburgerLand, Achieve, LendingTree, BancoPosta, Linde, Ippen Digital, Financial Times Live, Translated, Newfold Digital, Eye-oo, WindowsReport, Hurree
Published by WordLift on its own site (wordlift.io homepage). We haven’t checked them.
Prerender.io
Pre-rendering service that serves static HTML to search and AI crawlers; plans from $59 a month.
Standalone brand owned by saas.group (acquired 2018 per saas.group; Crunchbase lists March 2020)
Verified Oct 2026
Free trial: 30-day free trial on Starter
Prerender.io renders JavaScript pages once and hands crawlers finished HTML, which is what GPTBot, ClaudeBot and Googlebot read. Plans moved up in 2026: Starter is $59 for 30,000 renders, Growth $169 for 100,000, Pro $419 for 500,000, all with unlimited domains and a 30-day trial on Starter. It has been a saas.group company since 2018, and a G2 reviewer flags price changes landing without notice, so check the renewal terms.
Provides JavaScript rendering for AI crawler and search engine indexability; ensures JS-heavy SPAs are discoverable by AI bots and traditional crawlers
React, Angular, Vue.js, Next.js, Nuxt, Gatsby, Ember, Cloudflare, Vercel, Azure CDN, AWS CloudFront, WordPress, Netlify
Starter 25,000 renders, Growth 100,000 renders, Pro 500,000 renders
Eight questions to put to a vendor before a contract. Each one changes what the number on the dashboard means.
How the tool collects answers.
Some tools send prompts to a model’s API. Others record what the ChatGPT or Perplexity app shows a logged-out user. The two can return different brands for the same prompt. Two 2026 studies by the tool vendors Surfer and Brandlight found only 6% to 24% of the brands named overlapped between the API and the app. Profound and Ahrefs Brand Radar record the app. Scrunch and Evertune use both. Conductor uses APIs where they exist.
Whether it forces web search.
Some trackers turn search on for every prompt, including prompts a model would normally answer from memory. Graphite looked at this in August 2026 and found it moved visibility by about 20 points on those prompts. Ask the vendor what share of its answers searched on their own.
How many times each prompt runs.
The same prompt gets a different answer from one run to the next. SparkToro recommends 60 to 100 runs per prompt. Gumshoe, which sells tracking, puts it at about 100 runs for a 10-point margin of error on one prompt in one model, and about 400 for 5 points. Ask the vendor for its number.
Brand or category visibility.
Brand visibility covers what a model says when someone asks about you by name. Category visibility covers whether you come up when someone asks for a recommendation and hasn’t heard of you. Some tools track one, some both, and the dashboard doesn’t always say which.
Credit-based pricing.
Rankscale and Conductor charge in credits. Conductor’s own documentation says daily tracking uses them up faster than weekly. Price the plan at the cadence you’ll run.
Acquisitions.
Sitecore bought Scrunch in June. Tracksuit bought Hall in July, Searchable bought Meridian in September and is folding Meridian’s product into its own, and Zeta Global agreed to buy Senso in October. Ask what happens to your data and contract if the vendor is sold, before signing for a year.
Case studies.
Most of the better-known tools were founded in 2024 or 2025. Their published results come from the vendor, often cover a few weeks, and sit on a number that moves from run to run without anyone touching it.
Rendering and schema.
In a December 2024 study by Vercel and MERJ, OpenAI’s, Anthropic’s and Perplexity’s crawlers didn’t run JavaScript. Sites built on Next.js App Router, Nuxt or SvelteKit send finished HTML by default, so this mostly affects sites that build pages in the browser or load content after the page arrives. Google’s documentation says AI Overviews and AI Mode need no special schema. We didn’t find a controlled study showing schema raises citations in ChatGPT or Perplexity. An Ahrefs test in May 2026 found no significant lift.
An AI Search Game Plan shows where a brand stands in Google and in AI answers, and which buyer questions are worth tracking, so you know what to ask a vendor before you buy.
We checked what the tools in this guide could and couldn't show as of October 2026.
Some fan-out queries.
To answer one prompt, a model often runs several searches of its own. Profound, Semrush Enterprise, Ahrefs Brand Radar, Surfer, Botify and LLM Pulse now show some of them. Coverage is mostly ChatGPT, with some Perplexity, and only includes the searches the engine exposes on the runs the tool collects. Plate Lunch Collective’s piece on query fan-out covers how those sub-queries shape citation and why they don’t appear as search volume.
Some data from Google and Microsoft.
Bing Webmaster Tools added an AI Performance report in February 2026. It lists Copilot citations, the pages cited, and a sample of grounding queries, which are the searches Copilot ran. Google Search Console added generative AI reports in June 2026 with impressions in AI Overviews and AI Mode. Google’s reports had no query data at launch and went to a subset of sites first.
Estimates of what people ask.
Profound builds its Prompt Volumes from licensed panels of AI users who opted in. Semrush says clickstream data informs its prompt database. Both are modelled, and neither vendor publishes the full method.
ChatGPT queries.
OpenAI doesn’t share query data with brands or publishers. Its ad program reports aggregated ad results to advertisers and no conversations.
Follow-up questions.
Every tracker we looked at asks one question in a fresh session. Scrunch and Gumshoe add persona details to that question. We didn’t find a tracker that follows a brand through the second and third questions of a conversation.
Model updates.
OpenAI, Google and Anthropic update their models often, usually without notice to tracking vendors. Profound tracks ChatGPT as a product rather than by model version. We didn’t find a tracker that marks when a model update moved a brand’s numbers. LLM Pulse lets users add those notes to a chart by hand.
Memory or search.
A model can name a brand from its training data without reading the brand’s site. It can also read the site and leave the brand out. Evertune reports these two cases separately, and the other tools we reviewed combine them. Plate Lunch Collective covers why they need different work in How ChatGPT Gets Its Information: Memory, Search, and Your Business, and the citation-ready content service covers the retrieval side.
Each tool’s visibility score depends on how it collects answers, how often it runs each prompt, and whether search was on. Scores from two vendors for the same brand only line up when those match. Plate Lunch Collective’s AI search market share and referral traffic report looks at the retrieval layer these scores draw from.
In January 2026, SparkToro and Gumshoe had 600 volunteers run 12 prompts through ChatGPT, Claude and Google’s AI, for 2,961 answers. Two answers to the same prompt named the same set of brands less than 1 time in 100, and named them in the same order about 1 time in 1,000. The method came from a Carnegie Mellon consistency study. The SparkToro study wasn’t peer-reviewed, and Gumshoe sells tracking. A July 2026 preprint by Sielinski found AI rankings took between 33 and 94 cited answers to settle, and some hadn’t settled after 125. Scores also move because a model draws on its training and on live search, and the two don’t always agree. How ChatGPT gets its information covers why.
Brand visibility counts how often a brand appears when someone asks about it directly. Category visibility counts how often it appears when someone asks for a recommendation without naming anyone. A brand can score well on the first and barely register on the second, which means AI knows it exists but rarely suggests it to a new buyer. An AI Search Game Plan asks a set of category questions twice, a week apart, and notes where a brand comes up, so there’s a dated starting point to compare a tool’s later scores against.
Four companies sold or agreed to sell.
Scrunch to Sitecore, Hall to Tracksuit, Meridian to Searchable, and Senso to Zeta Global.
Entry plans moved.
Profound, Gauge and Cognizo dropped their lowest plans. HubSpot started selling AEO on its own for $50 a month, Semrush's AI Visibility Toolkit is $99 a month per domain, and Trendos added a free plan.
Google added AI reports to Search Console.
Bing has had its AI Performance report since February. Neither shows what people typed, and OpenAI still shares no query data.
New research on measurement.
Studies from June to August compared API answers with app answers, measured the effect of forced web search, and estimated how many answers a ranking needs before it holds still. All three are summarized above.
Hayden Bond of Plate Lunch Collective maintains this guide. We don’t take affiliate fees or sponsorship from any tool listed. For each tool we read its pricing and product pages, then looked for independent evidence that customers use it: news coverage, analyst notes, review-site listings with user reviews, or write-ups by practitioners. Vendor blogs, press releases, affiliate lists and comparisons published by competing tools didn’t count. Tools without that evidence came off the list. Pricing and status went through three separate checks, and anything we couldn’t confirm is flagged for the next review. Each entry carries its own verified date, and the current set was verified Oct 2026. We recheck the list every quarter. It’s the same reading of the measurement layer we use in answer engine optimization work for clients.
Acquisitions, funding, launches and research, newest first. An entry is added as it happens; the vendor entries above reference the figures.
Profound announces Dynamic Bot Rendering.
Announced on October 11, 2026.
per Profound
Zeta Global agrees to acquire Senso, the startup behind its GEO product.
Zeta Global announced a definitive agreement to acquire Senso, a Toronto-based, Y Combinator-backed company whose platform lets enterprises publish structured information for AI agents and track how large language models use it. Senso's technology already powered the generative engine optimization product Zeta launched in September 2025. Terms were not disclosed.
PPC Land
Searchable acquires Meridian Tech in a seven-figure deal.
Searchable, founded in London and New York in late 2025, acquired New York-based AI search visibility startup Meridian Tech for an undisclosed seven-figure sum. Meridian's customers move to Searchable and Meridian's product is being folded into Searchable. Searchable raised $14 million led by Headline in May 2026 and opened a Salt Lake City office in August staffed with hires from Scrunch AI.
Retail Technology Innovation Hub
Sitecore ships Scrunch-powered content optimization inside Page builder, in early access.
Three months after the acquisition, the SitecoreAI changelog records AI discoverability scores for citeability and retrievability inside Page builder, with suggested content changes applied in one click. It is limited to organizations with an active Scrunch subscription.
per Sitecore
Profound raises a $180 million Series D at a $1.8 billion valuation.
Seven months after its Series C, Profound closed a $180 million round co-led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins, taking total funding above $335 million (Dealroom). The company says it serves more than 1,000 enterprise customers and will fund applied AI labs and an agent product alongside monitoring.
TechCrunch; Dealroom
Ahrefs Brand Radar adds entity matching.
Brand Radar now extracts entities from AI responses so a brand is matched as an entity rather than as plain text, with improvements following on September 24. Ahrefs also moved AI visibility reports to an AI-adjusted volume and roughly doubled its prompt dataset over the summer.
per Ahrefs
Lightsage raises $4M for agent-led growth.
Lightsage, a San Francisco startup that tests whether coding agents and answer engines find, choose and successfully use a software product, announced $4 million led by Nexus Venture Partners.
per Lightsage
Graphite studies forced web search in AI tracking.
Graphite found some trackers turn search on for every prompt, which moved visibility by about 20 points on prompts that wouldn't otherwise search. It recommended that tools report a prompt grounding rate.
Graphite
Profound makes Citation Decay available to customers.
Citation Decay tracks week-over-week citation counts for each cited URL and plots first citation, peak and half-life. It reached customers on August 14 and was announced publicly on September 29.
per Profound
ChatGPT ads reach five more markets.
OpenAI extended its ChatGPT ads test to the UK, Mexico, Brazil, Japan and South Korea.
per OpenAI
ChatFeatured raises a $2 million pre-seed for an AEO platform.
Toronto-based ChatFeatured closed a $2 million USD pre-seed round led by Storytime Capital. The product identifies how companies are mentioned by ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity and generates content to close citation gaps.
BetaKit
Tracksuit acquires Hall.
Brand-tracking company Tracksuit bought AI visibility startup Hall to add AI answers to its brand health data. Terms weren't disclosed. Hall's site now points to a Tracksuit waitlist.
AdNews
Peec AI adds ChatGPT Ads monitoring.
Peec AI added monitoring of ChatGPT Ads placements alongside its visibility tracking.
per Peec AI
Profound launches FactCheck.
FactCheck evaluates factual claims made by AI answer engines against a customer-maintained knowledge base, measures overall brand accuracy and traces where incorrect claims originate. It is included in existing configurations.
per Profound
Promptwatch raises a 6 million euro seed round.
Amsterdam-based Promptwatch raised 6 million euros led by seed + speed Ventures, with Blum Ventures and Arches Capital participating. The company says it passed 2 million euros in annual recurring revenue in May 2026 and plans a New York office.
Tech Funding News
Gartner publishes the Hype Cycle for Digital Marketing, 2026.
Coverage frames the report around flat budgets, growth targets and disruptive answer engines, and reads it as judging martech buying on cost control and brand protection as much as capability.
MarketScale
geoSurge raises a $12M seed.
AlbionVC led the round. geoSurge tracks brand visibility in ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini and sells enterprise work on how models learn about a brand.
PYMNTS
Other movements.
Adobe launched Adobe Brand Visibility (June 17). Peec AI crossed $10M ARR sixteen months after launch (May 28). Semrush, now an Adobe company, reported roughly 108,000 paying customers as of December 31, 2025, its last count as a public company.
Sitecore buys Scrunch AI.
Sitecore acquired Scrunch AI on June 3, 2026 without disclosing terms. Bloomberg reported a deal worth about $225M, the largest in the category since HubSpot bought XFunnel in October 2025. Adobe's $1.9B Semrush acquisition had closed on April 28.
Sitecore; Bloomberg
Influencer marketing began converging with AEO.
Later launched Creator AEO and Linqia partnered with AirOps, the first signs creator platforms see answer-engine visibility as their problem too.
A paid-placement layer emerged.
Evertune's Visibility Boost, Taboola's ad platform for AI answer engines, OpenAI's ChatGPT ads test, which began in February, and DISQO's AI Search Lift attribution all launched into a “pay to appear in AI answers” category that did not exist at the start of the year.
Venture funding for AI-native platforms neared $500M.
Profound raised a $96M Series C in February at a $1B valuation. Bluefish raised a $43M Series B ($68M total). BrandLight raised a $30M Series A. Announced rounds across the leading AI-native vendors added up to roughly $415M to $470M by June.
Dealroom; ThriveStack
Including which of the 56 tools have a free plan: AthenaHQ, Rank Prompt, ProductRank.ai, Siteline, Trendos, LLMrefs, Gumshoe, geoSurge, AirOps, and InLinks.
They send a set of prompts to AI assistants and record whether your brand appears in the answers, and how. Most report the share of answers that mention you, and some add position, sentiment and the sources cited. The collection method, the number of runs and whether search was on all change the result.
It's the share of that tool's answers that mentioned you, under that tool's settings. In the SparkToro and Gumshoe study, two answers to the same prompt named the same set of brands less than 1 time in 100, so a single score sits inside a wide range. Ask how many times each prompt ran, whether answers came from the API or the app, and whether search was forced. A number that holds over several weeks of runs tells you more than one reading.
It depends on what you need from it. Semrush's AI Visibility Toolkit and Ahrefs Brand Radar give a directional read inside tools you already use. Dedicated trackers add your own prompt sets, more runs per prompt, persona context, or a split between brand and category visibility.
The app is closer to what a person sees. The API is easier to run at volume, and it can name different brands. Studies by Surfer and Brandlight, both tool vendors, found 6% to 24% overlap between the two. Ask which method a tool uses for each engine it covers.
AI answers vary from run to run, so scores move without any change on your side. Models also get updated without notice, and we didn't find a tracker that marks those updates. New content from competitors can change which sources get cited.
No. OpenAI doesn't share query data. Profound and Semrush sell estimates built from panels and clickstream data, and Bing's AI Performance report shows the searches Copilot ran, but none of them is a log of what ChatGPT users typed.
Some show part of it. Profound, Semrush Enterprise, Ahrefs Brand Radar, Surfer, Botify and LLM Pulse list the sub-queries an engine exposes, mostly in ChatGPT and sometimes in Perplexity. The searches a model runs without exposing them stay hidden.
It's a model naming your brand from its training data, without searching. Retrieval visibility is a model finding your content in a live search. Retrieval tends to respond to crawlable, well-structured pages, while training-data presence depends on the sources models learn from. Evertune reports the two separately, and the other tools in this guide combine them. The difference between the two layers, and what each requires, is covered in How ChatGPT Gets Its Information: Memory, Search, and Your Business.
SparkToro recommends 60 to 100 runs per prompt. Gumshoe's estimate is about 100 runs for a 10-point margin on one prompt in one model. Spreading runs across prompts, phrasings and models lowers what each one needs.
Start with a free plan or trial. Tools in this guide with a free plan include AthenaHQ, Rank Prompt, ProductRank.ai, Siteline, Trendos, LLMrefs, Gumshoe, geoSurge, AirOps, and InLinks. Run your brand and two or three category prompts in the engines your buyers use, and check whether you can write your own prompts. If pricing sits behind a demo, ask for the collection method and run counts in writing.
Check whether the metric is brand or category visibility, how long the period was, and how many runs sit behind it. Over a few weeks, a number this variable can move with no change at all. Results published by the vendor are the vendor's account.
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References and sourcesData for all 56 tools was checked against each vendor's own pages and independent sources, using direct page checks and AI research agents, with a person reviewing the results. Each entry carries its own verified date, and the current set was verified Oct 2026. Funding figures come from company announcements and filings where available.
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