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What the assistants searched

Open-source and self-hosted AI visibility 2026-10-21 20:17 pooled with the set's finished runs before it that were asked and graded the same way: 1 run · search track only, from the stored answers · this run alone · JSON

34/34answers searched
73searches
73distinct queries
30%from prompt
37%prompt kept

Top queries

Queries counted together whatever their case, quotes or spacing. Cheap Seats's sites: searches whose results included a page on one of them. Competitors: named in a result's title, or its site. Named Cheap Seats: of the graded answers that ran the query, those that named Cheap Seats.

QueryPromptsAnswersCheap Seats's sitesCompetitors in resultsNamed Cheap Seats
AI search visibility API Profound Peec Otterly API access 2026 +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound1110/1Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
AI search visibility platform raw response data export BigQuery API 20261310/10/1
AI search visibility tools compare brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini Claude prompts 20261710/10/1
AI search visibility tracker self hosted Kubernetes open source Otterly Peec alternative | GitHub AI search visibility tracker self hosted docker GEO +Otterly.AI +Peec AI610/1Elmo ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
AI search visibility tracking tools ChatGPT Claude brand mentions 20261610/10/1
"AI visibility" "git" "questions" | "AI visibility" "pull requests" | "AI visibility" "Git-native"1010/10/1
"AI visibility" "git" tool -site:reddit.com -code -review -coding | "GEO" "tracking" "prompts" "git" tool | "AI visibility" "versioned" "CLI"1010/10/1
AI visibility LLM brand mentions CLI tool CI pipeline GEO open source1110/10/1
AI visibility MCP server Claude Code Peec Profound Otterly Scrunch | AI visibility MCP server Claude Code tools +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound1210/1Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
AI visibility monitoring CLI CI pipeline GEO command line Otterly Profound API | AI visibility CLI github actions promptfoo search brand visibility +Otterly.AI +Profound1110/1Otterly.AI ×1 0/1
"AI visibility" "prompts as code" | "AI visibility" "GitHub" "YAML" | "AI visibility" "questions" "code review"1010/10/1
AI visibility raw responses citations export API Peec Otterly Profound Scrunch | AI visibility platform every answer citation raw data export AthenaHQ +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound1310/1Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
AI visibility tool bring your own API key OpenAI Anthropic LLM brand monitoring810/10/1
AI visibility tool export raw LLM responses citations API (Profound, Peec AI, Scrunch, Otterly) +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound1310/1Dageno AI ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
AI visibility tracking "own API keys" "Anthropic" | AI visibility "BYOK" "OpenAI" "Anthropic"810/1Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
AI visibility tracking prompts git repository pull request monitoring | AI visibility prompts as code git tracking questions1010/10/1
AI visibility tracking "prompts" "git" "review" tool | AI visibility "queries" "version control" | AI visibility "questions.yml" OR "prompts.yaml"1010/10/1
AI visibility tracking prompts stored in git repository YAML config code review LLM brand monitoring1010/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 0/1
AI visibility tracking tool docker self-hosted ChatGPT Perplexity brand monitoring github610/10/1
AI visibility tracking tool MCP server (Profound, Peec AI, Scrunch, Otterly) brand mentions ChatGPT +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound1210/1Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
AI visibility tracking tool Profound Peec AI pricing ChatGPT Claude monitoring | site.platform.openai.com docs web search responses API | site.platform.claude.com docs web search tool API +Peec AI +Profound410/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
AI visibility tracking tool use your own ChatGPT Claude subscription instead of API brand mentions710/10/1
AI visibility tracking tools pricing 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly Scrunch +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound410/1AI Peekaboo ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
Anthropic Claude API pricing web search $10 per 1000 searches spend limits workspace910/10/1
API vs ChatGPT interface responses differ AI visibility tracking accuracy scraping front-end410/1Otterly.AI ×1 0/1
"bring your own key" AI search visibility tracker pricing810/10/1
ChatGPT API responses differ from ChatGPT app web search answers brand visibility710/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
CiteTrack AI bring your own API key OpenAI Anthropic810/10/1
Claude Console workspace spend limit; OpenAI project budget hard limit 2026910/10/1
Elmo open source AI visibility self-hosted docker compose github +Elmo510/1Elmo ×1 0/1
Gemini API pricing grounding with Google Search per 1000 queries 2026910/10/1
GEO AEO tracking tool BYOK "own API keys" ChatGPT Claude brand mentions810/10/1
GEO AI search visibility MCP server Claude Code 20261210/10/1
github open source generative engine optimization monitor ChatGPT Perplexity brand visibility310/10/1
Lettertrace github docker self-host510/10/1
LLM brand monitoring developer tools recommendations Profound Peec AI Otterly comparison +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound1610/1Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
open source AI search visibility tool GEO prompts as code GitHub1010/10/1
open source AI search visibility tracker GEO LLM brand mentions GitHub110/10/1
open source AI search visibility tracking GEO GitHub tools | open source llm brand visibility tracker GitHub110/1Elmo ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
open source AI visibility monitoring MIT license GEO tracker github | open source AI search visibility tool Apache MIT license1410/1Elmo ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
open source AI visibility tracker GEO brand mentions ChatGPT MIT license github1410/1Elmo ×1 0/1
open source AI visibility tracking GEO monitor competitors Otterly alternative GitHub | GitHub open source track brand recommendations LLM AI search visibility developer tools +Otterly.AI1510/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Dageno AI ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
open source AI visibility tracking GEO tool alternative to Profound Peec AI github210/1Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
open source AI visibility tracking tool LLM brand mentions GEO github1510/10/1
open source alternative Profound Peec AI GEO AI visibility tracking GitHub | Profound Peec AI features AI search visibility tracking210/1Elmo ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
open source generative engine optimization LLM brand visibility monitoring tool self-hosted1410/10/1
open source GEO generative engine optimization tracking tool self-hosted ChatGPT Perplexity brand visibility510/10/1
open source LLM brand visibility tracker github OpenAI Anthropic API key self-hosted GEO810/10/1
open source self hosted AI answer visibility tracking GEO monitoring Peec alternative | GitHub open source LLM brand visibility monitoring self hosted +Peec AI310/1Elmo ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
open source self-hosted AI search visibility tracker LLM brand mentions GEO610/1Elmo ×1 Limelit Open ×1 0/1

Showing the 50 run by the most answers; 23 more in the JSON.

Names the assistants added

Searches that named a product the prompt hadn't: the assistant added it to the search.

NameSearchesAnswersPromptsFor example
Peec AI16117“open source self hosted AI answer visibility tracking GEO monitoring Peec alternative | GitHub open source LLM brand visibility monitoring self hosted”; “AI visibility tracking tools pricing 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly Scrunch”; “AI visibility tracking tool Profound Peec AI pricing ChatGPT Claude monitoring | site.platform.openai.com docs web search responses API | site.platform.claude.com docs web search tool API”
Otterly.AI13127“AI visibility tracking tools pricing 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly Scrunch”; “site.peec.ai browser API tracking real user pricing | site.tryprofound.com pricing starter growth enterprise | site.otterly.ai pricing AI monitoring”; “AI search visibility tracker self hosted Kubernetes open source Otterly Peec alternative | GitHub AI search visibility tracker self hosted docker GEO”
Profound13105“AI visibility tracking tools pricing 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly Scrunch”; “AI visibility tracking tool Profound Peec AI pricing ChatGPT Claude monitoring | site.platform.openai.com docs web search responses API | site.platform.claude.com docs web search tool API”; “site.peec.ai browser API tracking real user pricing | site.tryprofound.com pricing starter growth enterprise | site.otterly.ai pricing AI monitoring”
Elmo111“Elmo open source AI visibility self-hosted docker compose github”

How the prompts were rewritten

Words compared without stopwords, plurals folded. From prompt is the share of a search's words that were in its prompt; prompt kept, the share of the prompt's words still in the search.

Added

The vocabulary the assistants search with.

WordSearchesPrompts
brand2613
tracking2412
geo2111
source2110
search2014
open209
github1910
llm1712
monitoring139
tool139
mentions1212
api123
2026118
pricing114
chatgpt109
responses103
prompts102
visibility95
web73
scrunch63
tracker63
perplexity55
claude54
self-hosted54
export51

Dropped

Prompt words the searches left out.

WordSearchesPrompts
tools238
ai208
run194
check184
visibility176
recommend113
answer83
open-source83
tracker83
ask82
developer-tools82
whether82
cap81
changes81
cost81
day81
go81
keeps81
much81
through81
tracked81
questions72
behind71
dashboard71
give71

Add as prompt

Queries whose results named competitors and never reached Cheap Seats's sites. To measure one as a prompt of its own, paste its entry into the set's file in the config repo and reword it as the question a buyer would ask; prompt ids are permanent, so pick one you'll keep.

“AI search visibility API Profound Peec Otterly API access 2026” — 1 answers · Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Profound

Append to prompt-sets/self-hosted-ai-visibility.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-search-visibility-api-profound"
text = "AI search visibility API Profound Peec Otterly API access 2026"
“AI search visibility tracker self hosted Kubernetes open source Otterly Peec alternative” — 1 answers · Elmo, Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Profound

Append to prompt-sets/self-hosted-ai-visibility.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-search-visibility-tracker-self"
text = "AI search visibility tracker self hosted Kubernetes open source Otterly Peec alternative"
“GitHub AI search visibility tracker self hosted docker GEO” — 1 answers · Elmo, Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Profound

Append to prompt-sets/self-hosted-ai-visibility.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "github-ai-search-visibility-tracker"
text = "GitHub AI search visibility tracker self hosted docker GEO"
“AI visibility MCP server Claude Code Peec Profound Otterly Scrunch” — 1 answers · Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Profound

Append to prompt-sets/self-hosted-ai-visibility.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-visibility-mcp-server-claude"
text = "AI visibility MCP server Claude Code Peec Profound Otterly Scrunch"
“AI visibility MCP server Claude Code tools” — 1 answers · Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Profound

Append to prompt-sets/self-hosted-ai-visibility.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-visibility-mcp-server-claude-2"
text = "AI visibility MCP server Claude Code tools"
“AI visibility monitoring CLI CI pipeline GEO command line Otterly Profound API” — 1 answers · Otterly.AI

Append to prompt-sets/self-hosted-ai-visibility.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-visibility-monitoring-cli-ci"
text = "AI visibility monitoring CLI CI pipeline GEO command line Otterly Profound API"
“AI visibility CLI github actions promptfoo search brand visibility” — 1 answers · Otterly.AI

Append to prompt-sets/self-hosted-ai-visibility.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-visibility-cli-github-actions"
text = "AI visibility CLI github actions promptfoo search brand visibility"
“AI visibility raw responses citations export API Peec Otterly Profound Scrunch” — 1 answers · Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Profound

Append to prompt-sets/self-hosted-ai-visibility.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-visibility-raw-responses-citations"
text = "AI visibility raw responses citations export API Peec Otterly Profound Scrunch"
“AI visibility platform every answer citation raw data export AthenaHQ” — 1 answers · Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Profound

Append to prompt-sets/self-hosted-ai-visibility.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-visibility-platform-answer-citation"
text = "AI visibility platform every answer citation raw data export AthenaHQ"
“AI visibility tool export raw LLM responses citations API (Profound, Peec AI, Scrunch, Otterly)” — 1 answers · Dageno AI, Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Profound

Append to prompt-sets/self-hosted-ai-visibility.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-visibility-tool-export-raw"
text = "AI visibility tool export raw LLM responses citations API (Profound, Peec AI, Scrunch, Otterly)"

Prompt by prompt

#PromptSearchedSearches per answerDistinctFrom promptPrompt kept
1Are there open-source tools for measuring AI search visibility?2/21.0230%58%
2Is there an open-source alternative to Profound or Peec AI?2/21.0235%80%
3We want to track AI answer visibility without sending our data to another SaaS vendor. What are our options?2/21.5315%18%
4Should we build our own AI visibility tracker on the OpenAI and Anthropic APIs, or buy a tool?2/22.0418%25%
5Is there a self-hosted AI visibility tracker I can run in Docker?2/22.5533%53%
6Can we run an AI search visibility tracker on our own Kubernetes cluster?2/21.5329%52%
7Can I check what ChatGPT and Claude recommend in my category using my existing subscriptions instead of paying for API calls?2/22.0423%25%
8Which AI visibility tools let us use our own OpenAI and Anthropic API keys?2/23.0653%60%
9How much does it cost in API fees to run our own AI visibility checks every day, and how do we cap it?2/24.087%9%
10Is there an AI visibility tool that keeps the tracked questions in a git repository, so changes go through code review?2/24.0848%38%
11Can I run AI visibility checks from the command line or in a CI pipeline?2/21.5330%50%
12Is there an AI visibility tool with an MCP server, so I can ask about our results from Claude Code?2/22.0458%64%
13We want every raw AI answer and citation behind an AI visibility score, not just a dashboard. Which tools give us that?2/23.5729%33%
14Which AI visibility tools are open source under a permissive license like MIT, so we can modify them?2/21.5347%57%
15What's a good open-source way for a developer-tools startup to check whether AI assistants recommend it over alternatives?2/22.0411%11%
16How can a developer-tools company find out whether ChatGPT and Claude recommend it when developers ask which tool to use?2/22.0419%18%
17Can I test the same buyer questions against several AI models and compare the answers?2/21.5324%26%
1. Are there open-source tools for measuring AI search visibility? — 2 queries

Added: brand ×2 geo ×2 github ×2 llm ×2 open ×2 source ×2 tracker ×2 mentions ×1

Dropped: measuring ×2 open-source ×2 tools ×1

2. Is there an open-source alternative to Profound or Peec AI? — 2 queries

Added: geo ×2 github ×2 open ×2 source ×2 tracking ×2 visibility ×2 features ×1 search ×1

Dropped: open-source ×2

3. We want to track AI answer visibility without sending our data to another SaaS vendor. What are our options? — 3 queries

Added: brand ×3 open ×3 source ×3 geo ×2 github ×2 llm ×2 tracking ×2 alternative ×1

Dropped: another ×3 data ×3 options ×3 saas ×3 sending ×3 track ×3 vendor ×3 without ×3

4. Should we build our own AI visibility tracker on the OpenAI and Anthropic APIs, or buy a tool? — 4 queries

Added: tracking ×4 api ×3 pricing ×3 chatgpt ×2 monitoring ×2 responses ×2 2026 ×1 accuracy ×1

Dropped: anthropic ×4 apis ×4 build ×4 buy ×4 openai ×4 tracker ×4 tool ×2 visibility ×1

5. Is there a self-hosted AI visibility tracker I can run in Docker? — 5 queries

Added: open ×4 source ×4 brand ×3 github ×3 geo ×2 llm ×2 chatgpt ×1 compose ×1

Dropped: run ×5 tracker ×3 ai ×2 self-hosted ×2 docker ×1 visibility ×1

6. Can we run an AI search visibility tracker on our own Kubernetes cluster? — 3 queries

Added: brand ×2 docker ×2 geo ×2 github ×2 open ×2 self-hosted ×2 source ×2 alternative ×1

Dropped: cluster ×3 run ×3 kubernetes ×2 search ×1 tracker ×1

7. Can I check what ChatGPT and Claude recommend in my category using my existing subscriptions instead of paying for API calls? — 4 queries

Added: automated ×2 brand ×2 site.anthropic.com ×2 site.openai.com ×2 visibility ×2 access ×1 ai ×1 answers ×1

Dropped: calls ×4 category ×4 check ×4 existing ×4 paying ×4 recommend ×4 instead ×3 claude ×2

8. Which AI visibility tools let us use our own OpenAI and Anthropic API keys? — 6 queries

Added: brand ×3 bring ×3 byok ×2 geo ×2 llm ×2 tracker ×2 tracking ×2 aeo ×1

Dropped: let ×6 tools ×4 ai ×2 anthropic ×2 openai ×2 visibility ×2 api ×1

9. How much does it cost in API fees to run our own AI visibility checks every day, and how do we cap it? — 8 queries

Added: pricing ×6 search ×6 web ×5 1000 ×4 2026 ×4 per ×4 spend ×3 10 ×2

Dropped: ai ×8 cap ×8 checks ×8 cost ×8 day ×8 much ×8 run ×8 visibility ×8

10. Is there an AI visibility tool that keeps the tracked questions in a git repository, so changes go through code review? — 8 queries

Added: prompts ×7 tracking ×4 geo ×2 git-native ×2 github ×2 monitoring ×2 pull ×2 reddit.com ×2

Dropped: changes ×8 go ×8 keeps ×8 through ×8 tracked ×8 repository ×5 tool ×5 questions ×4

11. Can I run AI visibility checks from the command line or in a CI pipeline? — 3 queries

Added: api ×2 brand ×2 cli ×2 geo ×2 search ×2 2026 ×1 access ×1 actions ×1

Dropped: checks ×3 run ×3 command ×2 line ×2 ci ×1 pipeline ×1

12. Is there an AI visibility tool with an MCP server, so I can ask about our results from Claude Code? — 4 queries

Added: scrunch ×2 2026 ×1 brand ×1 chatgpt ×1 docs ×1 geo ×1 mentions ×1 search ×1

Dropped: ask ×4 results ×4 tool ×2 claude ×1 code ×1 visibility ×1

13. We want every raw AI answer and citation behind an AI visibility score, not just a dashboard. Which tools give us that? — 7 queries

Added: api ×7 export ×5 responses ×4 endpoint ×3 response ×3 scrunch ×3 data ×2 platform ×2

Dropped: behind ×7 dashboard ×7 give ×7 score ×7 tools ×6 answer ×4 visibility ×4 ai ×2

14. Which AI visibility tools are open source under a permissive license like MIT, so we can modify them? — 3 queries

Added: brand ×2 geo ×2 github ×2 monitoring ×2 tracker ×2 apache ×1 chatgpt ×1 engine ×1

Dropped: modify ×3 permissive ×3 under ×3 ai ×1 license ×1 mit ×1 tools ×1

15. What's a good open-source way for a developer-tools startup to check whether AI assistants recommend it over alternatives? — 4 queries

Added: open ×4 source ×4 brand ×2 developer ×2 geo ×2 github ×2 llm ×2 tool ×2

Dropped: assistants ×4 developer-tools ×4 open-source ×4 over ×4 startup ×4 what's ×4 whether ×4 alternatives ×3

16. How can a developer-tools company find out whether ChatGPT and Claude recommend it when developers ask which tool to use? — 4 queries

Added: tracking ×3 brand ×2 monitoring ×2 site.peec.ai ×2 visibility ×2 2026 ×1 add ×1 ai ×1

Dropped: ask ×4 company ×4 developer-tools ×4 find ×4 out ×4 recommend ×4 whether ×4 developers ×3

17. Can I test the same buyer questions against several AI models and compare the answers? — 3 queries

Added: prompts ×2 2026 ×1 brand ×1 chat ×1 chatgpt ×1 claude ×1 eval ×1 evaluation ×1

Dropped: against ×3 buyer ×3 questions ×3 several ×3 test ×3 ai ×2 answers ×2 models ×1