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What the assistants searched

Open-source and self-hosted AI visibility 2026-10-22 04:31 · search track only, from the stored answers · pool the last 7 runs · JSON

34/34answers searched
68searches
68distinct queries
23%from prompt
30%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 brand monitoring ChatGPT Claude scheduled prompts weekly tracking answers Peec Profound Otterly | Promptfoo scheduled evaluations OpenAI Anthropic GitHub actions +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound1410/1Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
AI search visibility API generative engine optimization open source command line 2026910/11/1
AI search visibility platform API access raw LLM answers prompt-level data export1010/10/1
AI search visibility platform SaaS "bring your own key" ChatGPT Claude brand tracking pricing 2026710/1Profound ×1 0/1
AI search visibility tracker self hosted Kubernetes open source Peec Otterly alternatives | 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 20261210/10/1
AI visibility brand tracking CLI tool LLM answers GitHub Actions910/11/1
AI visibility monitoring CLI CI pipeline API Profound Peec Otterly | AI visibility CLI command line GEO monitoring GitHub actions +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound910/1Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
AI visibility raw responses citations export API Profound Peec Otterly Scrunch | AI visibility platform raw answers citations export API AthenaHQ +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound1010/1Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 0/1
AI visibility tool raw responses export API citations Profound Peec AI Scrunch 2026 +Peec AI +Profound1010/1Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
AI visibility tracking ChatGPT Claude brand recommendations Profound Peec Otterly Claude supported engines | site.anthropic.com Claude web search citations | site.openai.com ChatGPT search recommendations sources +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound1210/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
AI visibility tracking "own" "OpenAI" "Anthropic" "API keys" | AI visibility tools BYOK OpenAI Anthropic710/1Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
AI visibility tracking tool bring your own API key OpenAI Anthropic710/10/1
AI visibility tracking tools ChatGPT Claude brand mentions prompts 20261410/10/1
AI visibility tracking tools compare brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini Claude 20261310/10/1
AI visibility tracking tools pricing 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly Semrush AI toolkit +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit410/1Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
AI visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Otterly brand mentions LLM 2026 +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound1510/10/1
API responses vs ChatGPT UI answers differ brand visibility tracking web search scraping410/10/1
coding assistant brand visibility monitoring library API recommendations Profound Scrunch Otterly | Promptfoo coding agent evaluation sandbox claude code codex library recommendations | Scrunch AI monitoring ChatGPT Gemini Perplexity supported engines +Otterly.AI +Profound1510/1Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
DataForSEO AI Optimization API LLM responses pricing ChatGPT scraper AI Overview1710/10/1
DIY track brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity API script 20261710/10/1
'docker'510/1Elmo ×1 0/1
Elmo AI visibility github elmohq open source license | Canonry github AI visibility license +Elmo210/1Elmo ×1 0/1
Elmo AI visibility github self host kubernetes | AI visibility tracker kubernetes helm self hosted +Elmo610/1Elmo ×1 Peec AI ×1 0/1
Gemini API pricing grounding Google search free tier | OpenAI API pricing web search tool pricing | AI brand visibility tracking API responses different ChatGPT consumer answers limitation | Microsoft Bing Webmaster Tools AI performance public preview brand citations free1710/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 0/1
Gemini API pricing grounding with Google Search 2026 Claude API web search pricing810/10/1
GEO LLM brand monitoring BYOK "own API keys" open source710/1Limelit Open ×1 0/1
github open source generative engine optimization monitor ChatGPT Perplexity brand visibility 2026310/10/1
github open source generative engine optimization tracker ChatGPT Perplexity brand monitoring docker610/10/1
'gpt-5-mini'810/10/1
LLM brand monitoring developer tools recommendations Profound Peec AI Otterly comparison +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound1210/1Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
measure LLM brand mentions DIY script API prompts share of voice open source1610/10/1
open source AI brand visibility tracker LLM mentions GitHub self-hosted1710/10/1
open source AI search visibility tracker GEO alternative to Profound Peec AI github210/1Elmo ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
open source AI search visibility tracker GitHub GEO tracking | open source LLM brand visibility monitoring tools GitHub110/1Limelit Open ×1 Peec AI ×1 0/1
open source AI search visibility tracking GEO competitor recommendations GitHub | GitHub open source llm brand monitoring AI recommendations competitors1110/1Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
open source AI visibility tracker GitHub LLM recommends product 20261610/10/1
open source alternative Profound Peec AI AI visibility tracking GitHub | GitHub open source GEO monitoring AI search visibility Otterly Profound +Otterly.AI210/1Elmo ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
open source generative engine optimization GEO monitoring tool ChatGPT Claude mentions 20261110/10/1
open source generative engine optimization tracker ChatGPT Perplexity brand visibility 2026110/11/1
open source GEO generative engine optimization tracker self-hosted ChatGPT Perplexity brand visibility510/10/1
open source self-hosted AI search visibility tracker LLM brand mentions GEO610/10/1
open source self-hosted AI search visibility tracking LLM brand mentions GEO tool310/10/1
open source self-hosted AI visibility tracker LLM brand mentions Docker GitHub510/10/1
open-source AI search visibility tracking tool GitHub LLM brand mentions GEO110/11/1
open-source LLM brand mention monitoring ChatGPT Perplexity self-hosted210/10/1
open-source LLM brand visibility tracking tool GitHub AI search recommendations1110/10/1
OpenAI API pricing per million tokens web search tool cost 2026810/10/1
Peec AI API docs chats responses sources endpoint +Peec AI1010/1Peec AI ×1 0/1
Perplexity Sonar API pricing 2026 per request810/10/1

Showing the 50 run by the most answers; 18 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 AI17117“AI visibility tracking tools pricing 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly Semrush AI toolkit”; “site.scrunchai.com AI visibility monitoring pricing | site:peec.ai pricing AI visibility | site:developers.openai.com web search API user location | site:platform.claude.com web search tool API”; “site:peec.ai pricing prompts models daily tracking | site:tryprofound.com answer engine insights visibility citations | site:platform.claude.com/docs web search tool citations pricing”
Otterly.AI14129“open source alternative Profound Peec AI AI visibility tracking GitHub | GitHub open source GEO monitoring AI search visibility Otterly Profound”; “self hosted open source AI answer visibility monitoring GEO LLM brand monitoring | GitHub self hosted AI search visibility tracker Otterly alternative”; “AI visibility tracking tools pricing 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly Semrush AI toolkit”
Profound14116“AI visibility tracking tools pricing 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly Semrush AI toolkit”; “site:peec.ai pricing prompts models daily tracking | site:tryprofound.com answer engine insights visibility citations | site:platform.claude.com/docs web search tool citations pricing”; “AI visibility monitoring CLI CI pipeline API Profound Peec Otterly | AI visibility CLI command line GEO monitoring GitHub actions”
Elmo222“Elmo AI visibility github elmohq open source license | Canonry github AI visibility license”; “Elmo AI visibility github self host kubernetes | AI visibility tracker kubernetes helm self hosted”
Semrush AI Toolkit111“AI visibility tracking tools pricing 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly Semrush AI toolkit”

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
brand2714
source2312
tracking2312
open2110
llm1914
search1911
20261814
github1810
api175
visibility158
mentions1312
chatgpt1311
monitoring1311
geo138
tool128
pricing125
responses125
engine109
perplexity99
web95
optimization77
ai74
export72
generative66
gemini65

Dropped

Prompt words the searches left out.

WordSearchesPrompts
ai2312
tools176
answer175
run164
visibility146
whether124
recommend114
ask113
checks113
track113
saas82
what's82
behind81
dashboard81
give81
score81
open-source73
anthropic72
developer-tools72
find72
openai72
out72
questions72
tracker62
without62

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 brand monitoring ChatGPT Claude scheduled prompts weekly tracking answers Peec Profound Otterly” — 1 answers · Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Profound

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

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-brand-monitoring-chatgpt-claude"
text = "AI brand monitoring ChatGPT Claude scheduled prompts weekly tracking answers Peec Profound Otterly"
“Promptfoo scheduled evaluations OpenAI Anthropic GitHub actions” — 1 answers · Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Profound

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

[[prompts]]
id = "promptfoo-scheduled-evaluations-openai-anthropic"
text = "Promptfoo scheduled evaluations OpenAI Anthropic GitHub actions"
“AI search visibility tracker self hosted Kubernetes open source Peec Otterly alternatives” — 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 Peec Otterly alternatives"
“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 monitoring CLI CI pipeline API Profound Peec Otterly” — 1 answers · Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Profound, Semrush AI Toolkit

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

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-visibility-monitoring-cli-ci"
text = "AI visibility monitoring CLI CI pipeline API Profound Peec Otterly"
“AI visibility CLI command line GEO monitoring GitHub actions” — 1 answers · Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Profound, Semrush AI Toolkit

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

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-visibility-cli-command-line"
text = "AI visibility CLI command line GEO monitoring GitHub actions"
“AI visibility raw responses citations export API Profound Peec Otterly Scrunch” — 1 answers · Otterly.AI, Peec AI

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

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

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

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-visibility-platform-raw-answers"
text = "AI visibility platform raw answers citations export API AthenaHQ"
“AI visibility tool raw responses export API citations Profound Peec AI Scrunch 2026” — 1 answers · Peec AI, Profound

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

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-visibility-tool-raw-responses"
text = "AI visibility tool raw responses export API citations Profound Peec AI Scrunch 2026"
“AI visibility tracking ChatGPT Claude brand recommendations Profound Peec Otterly Claude supported engines” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar, Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Profound

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

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-visibility-tracking-chatgpt-claude"
text = "AI visibility tracking ChatGPT Claude brand recommendations Profound Peec Otterly Claude supported engines"

Prompt by prompt

#PromptSearchedSearches per answerDistinctFrom promptPrompt kept
1Are there open-source tools for measuring AI search visibility?2/21.5328%56%
2Is there an open-source alternative to Profound or Peec AI?2/22.0423%50%
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?2/22.5513%20%
5Is there a self-hosted AI visibility tracker I can run in Docker?2/22.0453%54%
6Can we run an AI search visibility tracker on our own Kubernetes cluster?2/22.0430%50%
7Which AI visibility tools let us use our own OpenAI and Anthropic API keys?2/22.0450%59%
8How much does it cost in API fees to run our own AI visibility checks every day, and how do we cap it?2/22.5510%10%
9Can I run AI visibility checks from the command line or in a CI pipeline?2/21.5331%50%
10We want every raw AI answer and citation behind an AI visibility score, not just a dashboard. Which tools give us that?2/24.0830%29%
11What's a good open-source way for a developer-tools startup to check whether AI assistants recommend it over alternatives?2/21.539%9%
12How can a developer-tools company find out whether ChatGPT and Claude recommend it when developers ask which tool to use?2/22.0420%20%
13Can I test the same buyer questions against several AI models and compare the answers?2/21.5317%19%
14How can I automatically ask ChatGPT and Claude the same set of questions every week and track how their answers about my category change?2/22.0411%14%
15How do we find out whether coding assistants recommend our library or API when developers ask how to do something?2/21.5325%33%
16How do engineering-led companies measure whether LLMs recommend their product, without a marketing tool?2/21.5316%17%
17What's the cheapest way to track our brand in AI answers ourselves instead of paying for a SaaS subscription?2/22.5513%15%
1. Are there open-source tools for measuring AI search visibility? — 3 queries

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

Dropped: measuring ×3 open-source ×2 ai ×1 search ×1 tools ×1

2. Is there an open-source alternative to Profound or Peec AI? — 4 queries

Added: github ×3 open ×3 source ×3 visibility ×3 geo ×2 monitoring ×2 search ×2 brand ×1

Dropped: open-source ×3 alternative ×2 peec ×2 profound ×2 ai ×1

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 search ×2 2026 ×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? — 5 queries

Added: tracking ×4 api ×3 pricing ×3 search ×3 site ×3 web ×3 platform.claude.com ×2 scraping ×2

Dropped: anthropic ×5 apis ×5 build ×5 buy ×5 openai ×5 tracker ×5 ai ×3 tool ×2

5. Is there a self-hosted AI visibility tracker I can run in Docker? — 4 queries

Added: brand ×3 open ×3 source ×3 llm ×2 chatgpt ×1 engine ×1 generative ×1 geo ×1

Dropped: run ×4 ai ×2 self-hosted ×2 docker ×1 tracker ×1 visibility ×1

6. Can we run an AI search visibility tracker on our own Kubernetes cluster? — 4 queries

Added: github ×3 open ×3 source ×3 brand ×2 docker ×2 geo ×2 hosted ×2 self ×2

Dropped: cluster ×4 run ×4 kubernetes ×2 search ×2 ai ×1 visibility ×1

7. Which AI visibility tools let us use our own OpenAI and Anthropic API keys? — 4 queries

Added: tracking ×3 brand ×2 bring ×2 byok ×2 2026 ×1 chatgpt ×1 claude ×1 geo ×1

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

8. How much does it cost in API fees to run our own AI visibility checks every day, and how do we cap it? — 5 queries

Added: pricing ×4 2026 ×3 search ×3 web ×3 gemini ×2 google ×2 grounding ×2 per ×2

Dropped: ai ×5 cap ×5 checks ×5 day ×5 fees ×5 much ×5 run ×5 visibility ×5

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

Added: actions ×2 api ×2 cli ×2 github ×2 2026 ×1 answers ×1 brand ×1 engine ×1

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

10. We want every raw AI answer and citation behind an AI visibility score, not just a dashboard. Which tools give us that? — 8 queries

Added: api ×7 export ×6 responses ×6 docs ×3 scrunch ×3 endpoint ×2 platform ×2 site.peec.ai ×2

Dropped: behind ×8 dashboard ×8 give ×8 score ×8 tools ×7 answer ×5 visibility ×5 ai ×3

11. What's a good open-source way for a developer-tools startup to check whether AI assistants recommend it over alternatives? — 3 queries

Added: brand ×2 geo ×2 github ×2 llm ×2 monitoring ×2 open ×2 recommendations ×2 search ×2

Dropped: alternatives ×3 assistants ×3 check ×3 developer-tools ×3 over ×3 recommend ×3 startup ×3 what's ×3

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

Added: brand ×3 tracking ×3 ai ×2 recommendations ×2 search ×2 supported ×2 visibility ×2 2026 ×1

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

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

Added: 2026 ×2 brand ×1 chat ×1 chatgpt ×1 claude ×1 docs ×1 evaluation ×1 gemini ×1

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

14. How can I automatically ask ChatGPT and Claude the same set of questions every week and track how their answers about my category change? — 4 queries

Added: tracking ×3 ai ×2 anthropic ×2 brand ×2 openai ×2 pricing ×2 prompts ×2 weekly ×2

Dropped: ask ×4 automatically ×4 category ×4 change ×4 questions ×4 set ×4 track ×4 week ×4

15. How do we find out whether coding assistants recommend our library or API when developers ask how to do something? — 3 queries

Added: visibility ×3 2026 ×2 ai ×2 brand ×2 tools ×2 agent ×1 chatgpt ×1 claude ×1

Dropped: ask ×3 find ×3 out ×3 something ×3 developers ×2 recommend ×2 whether ×2 api ×1

16. How do engineering-led companies measure whether LLMs recommend their product, without a marketing tool? — 3 queries

Added: api ×2 open ×2 source ×2 2026 ×1 ai ×1 brand ×1 citations ×1 diy ×1

Dropped: companies ×3 engineering-led ×3 marketing ×3 tool ×3 whether ×3 without ×3 measure ×2 product ×2

17. What's the cheapest way to track our brand in AI answers ourselves instead of paying for a SaaS subscription? — 5 queries

Added: api ×3 chatgpt ×3 free ×2 llm ×2 mentions ×2 pricing ×2 responses ×2 script ×2

Dropped: cheapest ×5 instead ×5 ourselves ×5 paying ×5 saas ×5 subscription ×5 what's ×5 answers ×4