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What the assistants searched

Cheap Seats head to heads 2026-10-22 04:31 · search track only, from the stored answers · pool the last 7 runs · JSON

22/22answers searched
68searches
68distinct queries
44%from prompt
45%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 tools for agencies multi-client 2026910/10/1
Gauge AI visibility platform withgauge410/1Gauge ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
github popcorn LLM brand mention tracker self-host docker710/10/1
Otterly.AI pricing plans 2026310/1Otterly.AI ×1 0/1
Peec AI pricing plans 2026210/1Peec AI ×1 0/1
"Popcorn" AEO GEO brand visibility ChatGPT startup410/10/1
"Popcorn" AI agent app pricing per month 20261110/10/1
Popcorn AI answer engine optimization startup110/10/1
Popcorn AI brand recommendation how determines recommended brand AI visibility810/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 0/1
Popcorn AI brand tracking ChatGPT Claude monitoring | Semrush AI Toolkit Claude ChatGPT brand tracking supported platforms510/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
"Popcorn" "AI" "brand" visibility -site:reddit.com -popcorn-ai-visibility-2026 | "Popcorn" "recommendation" "brand" tracking810/10/1
Popcorn AI brand visibility tracking ChatGPT Claude510/11/1
Popcorn AI marketing tool startup210/10/1
"Popcorn" "AI monitoring" brand -site:reddit.com | "Popcorn" "brand tracking" ChatGPT | "Popcorn" "AI visibility" -popcorners -site:reddit.com -site:geoly.ai -site:sonatainsights.com510/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
Popcorn AI pricing daily cost spend controls1110/10/1
"Popcorn" AI search visibility GEO tool brand tracking ChatGPT210/1Otterly.AI ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
"Popcorn" AI search visibility GEO tool ChatGPT brand tracking110/1Otterly.AI ×1 0/1
Popcorn AI search visibility marketing Peec AI pricing | Peec AI pricing features small teams210/1Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 0/1
Popcorn AI search visibility self host github710/1Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
"Popcorn" AI search visibility tool methodology mention recommendation ChatGPT brand tracking810/1Otterly.AI ×1 0/1
Popcorn AI search visibility tool review pricing 2026410/10/1
Popcorn AI search visibility tracking brand prompts platform software410/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Gauge ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
"Popcorn" "AI visibility" -site:reddit.com | "Popcorn" "GEO" tracking agency | "Popcorn" "visibility" "prompts"910/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
Popcorn AI visibility brand recommended by AI assistants810/10/1
Popcorn AI visibility ChatGPT Claude developer tools brand monitoring1010/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 0/1
"Popcorn" "AI visibility" developer | "Popcorn" "ChatGPT" "recommend" monitoring -site:reddit.com -site:popcorneditor.com -site:popcorn.co1010/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
"Popcorn" AI visibility GEO AEO brand tracking ChatGPT710/10/1
"Popcorn" AI visibility GEO brand tracking ChatGPT platform910/1Otterly.AI ×1 0/1
Popcorn AI visibility platform Gauge comparison | Gauge AI visibility tracking platform features410/1AI Peekaboo ×1 Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Gauge ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
"Popcorn" "AI visibility" pricing | "Popcorn" "Otterly"310/1Otterly.AI ×1 0/1
"popcorn" "AI visibility" software | "popcorn" "brand" "recommendations" AI monitoring810/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
Popcorn AI visibility tool ChatGPT Claude brand recommendations1010/11/1
Popcorn AI visibility tool vs Peec AI pricing210/1Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
"Popcorn" "AI visibility" tracker pricing startup | "popcorn" "try" "AI search" tool310/1Otterly.AI ×1 0/1
Popcorn AI visibility tracking agency clients910/10/1
Popcorn AI visibility tracking platform410/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
Popcorn AI visibility tracking pricing Otterly AI | Otterly.AI pricing plans AI search monitoring310/1Otterly.AI ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
Popcorn AI visibility tracking Profound brand recommendations | Profound AI visibility pricing features answer engine optimization110/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
popcorn "AI" "visibility" tracking tool -site:tenor.com -site:flickr.com -site:reddit.com -site:shannonmarieartistry.com | popcorn "AI search" pricing | popcorn "GEO" "$" tracking310/1Peec AI ×1 0/1
Popcorn AI visibility tracking tool agencies910/10/1
Popcorn AI visibility tracking tool LLM brand mentions110/10/1
Popcorn AI visibility tracking tool pricing310/10/1
"Popcorn" "AI visibility" | "Popcorn" "GEO" AI marketing410/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
"Popcorn" "AI visibility" | "Popcorn" "GEO" "open source" | Otterly AI pricing official | Peec AI pricing official +Otterly.AI +Peec AI610/1Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 1/1
"Popcorn" "AI visibility" | "Popcorn" "Peec" marketing210/1Peec AI ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
"Popcorn" "AI visibility" | "Popcorn" "Profound" tracking110/1Profound ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
"Popcorn" "AI visibility" | "Popcorn" "self-host" visibility | "Popcorn" "AI search" tracking710/10/1
"popcorn" "brand" "ChatGPT" "tracking" pricing | "popcorn" "AI visibility" -site:reddit.com -site:bilarna.com -site:badpopcorn.ai310/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
"Popcorn" "brand" "visibility" AI tracking | "Popcorn" "Claude" "monitoring" brand510/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
Popcorn Claude Code product marketing1110/10/1

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 AI221“Popcorn GEO AEO tool track brand in ChatGPT Perplexity open source alternative Profound Peec”; “"Popcorn" "AI visibility" | "Popcorn" "GEO" "open source" | Otterly AI pricing official | Peec AI pricing official”
Semrush AI Toolkit222“"popcorn" "GEO" software marketing -site:reddit.com -popcorn-labs -pendium -geoly | "popcorn" "AI search" tool marketing -geoly -sonatainsights -semrush”; “"popcorn" "visibility" "prompts" -site:reddit.com -food -popcorners -site:semrush.com | "popcorn" "Gauge" AI marketing visibility”
Otterly.AI111“"Popcorn" "AI visibility" | "Popcorn" "GEO" "open source" | Otterly AI pricing official | Peec AI pricing official”
Profound111“Popcorn GEO AEO tool track brand in ChatGPT Perplexity open source alternative Profound Peec”

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
visibility235
brand188
pricing187
geo1710
tool179
search159
tracking125
chatgpt118
site109
platform106
reddit.com98
monitoring84
202677
ai72
mentions66
recommendations63
github62
open62
source62
llm55
software44
startup44
engine43
marketing43
aeo33

Dropped

Prompt words the searches left out.

WordSearchesPrompts
whether173
vs152
assistants122
tracking104
recommend102
fit92
cheaply81
compare81
improving81
track81
wants81
pick71
popcorn66
ai64
decide61
downsides61
measure61
otterly.ai61
paid61
self-hosting61
small61
startup61
team61
alternative51
day51

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.

“Gauge AI visibility platform withgauge” — 1 answers · Gauge, Semrush AI Toolkit

Append to prompt-sets/head-to-heads.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "gauge-ai-visibility-platform-withgauge"
text = "Gauge AI visibility platform withgauge"
“Otterly.AI pricing plans 2026” — 1 answers · Otterly.AI

Append to prompt-sets/head-to-heads.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "otterly-ai-pricing-plans-2026"
text = "Otterly.AI pricing plans 2026"
“Peec AI pricing plans 2026” — 1 answers · Peec AI

Append to prompt-sets/head-to-heads.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "peec-ai-pricing-plans-2026"
text = "Peec AI pricing plans 2026"
“Popcorn AI brand recommendation how determines recommended brand AI visibility” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar

Append to prompt-sets/head-to-heads.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "popcorn-ai-brand-recommendation-determines"
text = "Popcorn AI brand recommendation how determines recommended brand AI visibility"
“Popcorn AI brand tracking ChatGPT Claude monitoring” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar, Semrush AI Toolkit

Append to prompt-sets/head-to-heads.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "popcorn-ai-brand-tracking-chatgpt"
text = "Popcorn AI brand tracking ChatGPT Claude monitoring"
“Semrush AI Toolkit Claude ChatGPT brand tracking supported platforms” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar, Semrush AI Toolkit

Append to prompt-sets/head-to-heads.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "semrush-ai-toolkit-claude-chatgpt"
text = "Semrush AI Toolkit Claude ChatGPT brand tracking supported platforms"
“Popcorn AI search visibility marketing Peec AI pricing” — 1 answers · Otterly.AI, Peec AI

Append to prompt-sets/head-to-heads.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "popcorn-ai-search-visibility-marketing"
text = "Popcorn AI search visibility marketing Peec AI pricing"
“Peec AI pricing features small teams” — 1 answers · Otterly.AI, Peec AI

Append to prompt-sets/head-to-heads.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "peec-ai-pricing-features-small"
text = "Peec AI pricing features small teams"
“Popcorn AI search visibility self host github” — 1 answers · Peec AI, Profound

Append to prompt-sets/head-to-heads.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "popcorn-ai-search-visibility-self"
text = "Popcorn AI search visibility self host github"
“Popcorn AI search visibility tracking brand prompts platform software” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar, Gauge, Semrush AI Toolkit

Append to prompt-sets/head-to-heads.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "popcorn-ai-search-visibility-tracking"
text = "Popcorn AI search visibility tracking brand prompts platform software"

Prompt by prompt

#PromptSearchedSearches per answerDistinctFrom promptPrompt kept
1Popcorn vs Profound for tracking whether AI assistants recommend us: which should I pick?2/23.5739%33%
2Popcorn or Peec AI for a small marketing team?2/23.5747%55%
3Popcorn vs Otterly.AI for a startup that wants to track AI visibility cheaply?2/24.0837%32%
4How does Popcorn compare with Gauge for tracking and improving AI visibility?2/24.0851%50%
5Popcorn or Semrush AI Toolkit for tracking our brand in ChatGPT and Claude?2/23.0660%67%
6Is Popcorn a good open-source alternative to paid AI visibility tools?2/23.0641%52%
7What are the downsides of self-hosting Popcorn to measure AI search visibility?2/23.0641%43%
8How does Popcorn decide whether an AI assistant recommended a brand?2/23.0646%50%
9Is Popcorn a good fit for an agency tracking AI visibility for many clients?2/22.5560%52%
10Is Popcorn a good fit for a developer-tools company checking whether ChatGPT and Claude recommend it?2/22.0427%28%
11What does it cost to run Popcorn every day, and how do I keep the spend under control?2/22.5532%22%
1. Popcorn vs Profound for tracking whether AI assistants recommend us: which should I pick? — 7 queries

Added: visibility ×5 brand ×4 answer ×2 chatgpt ×2 engine ×2 optimization ×2 pricing ×2 search ×2

Dropped: assistants ×7 pick ×7 recommend ×7 vs ×7 whether ×7 profound ×4 tracking ×2 popcorn ×1

2. Popcorn or Peec AI for a small marketing team? — 7 queries

Added: tool ×4 visibility ×4 pricing ×3 search ×3 geo ×2 2026 ×1 brand ×1 chatgpt ×1

Dropped: small ×6 team ×6 marketing ×3 peec ×3 popcorn ×1

3. Popcorn vs Otterly.AI for a startup that wants to track AI visibility cheaply? — 8 queries

Added: pricing ×7 tracking ×5 search ×3 tool ×3 brand ×2 chatgpt ×2 geo ×2 plans ×2

Dropped: cheaply ×8 track ×8 vs ×8 wants ×8 otterly.ai ×6 startup ×6 ai ×2 visibility ×2

4. How does Popcorn compare with Gauge for tracking and improving AI visibility? — 8 queries

Added: platform ×4 brand ×2 geo ×2 marketing ×2 prompts ×2 search ×2 2026 ×1 aeo ×1

Dropped: compare ×8 improving ×8 gauge ×5 tracking ×5 ai ×1 popcorn ×1

5. Popcorn or Semrush AI Toolkit for tracking our brand in ChatGPT and Claude? — 6 queries

Added: visibility ×4 monitoring ×3 platforms ×2 2026 ×1 geo ×1 geoly.ai ×1 llm ×1 mentions ×1

Dropped: semrush ×4 toolkit ×4 chatgpt ×2 claude ×2 tracking ×2 brand ×1 popcorn ×1

6. Is Popcorn a good open-source alternative to paid AI visibility tools? — 6 queries

Added: open ×4 source ×4 brand ×3 geo ×3 github ×3 chatgpt ×2 aeo ×1 engine ×1

Dropped: paid ×6 alternative ×5 open-source ×4 tools ×3 ai ×1 visibility ×1

7. What are the downsides of self-hosting Popcorn to measure AI search visibility? — 6 queries

Added: github ×3 tracking ×3 brand ×2 geo ×2 open ×2 self-host ×2 self-hosted ×2 source ×2

Dropped: downsides ×6 measure ×6 self-hosting ×6 search ×3 ai ×2 visibility ×1

8. How does Popcorn decide whether an AI assistant recommended a brand? — 6 queries

Added: visibility ×6 recommendation ×3 tracking ×2 answer ×1 chatgpt ×1 determines ×1 engine ×1 geo ×1

Dropped: decide ×6 whether ×6 assistant ×5 recommended ×4

9. Is Popcorn a good fit for an agency tracking AI visibility for many clients? — 5 queries

Added: agencies ×2 geo ×2 2026 ×1 brand ×1 chatgpt ×1 multi-client ×1 platform ×1 prompts ×1

Dropped: fit ×5 many ×5 clients ×4 agency ×3 popcorn ×1 tracking ×1

10. Is Popcorn a good fit for a developer-tools company checking whether ChatGPT and Claude recommend it? — 4 queries

Added: ai ×4 visibility ×4 brand ×3 monitoring ×3 developer ×2 geo ×1 llm ×1 platform ×1

Dropped: checking ×4 company ×4 developer-tools ×4 fit ×4 whether ×4 recommend ×3 claude ×2 chatgpt ×1

11. What does it cost to run Popcorn every day, and how do I keep the spend under control? — 5 queries

Added: ai ×3 pricing ×3 agent ×2 daily ×2 2026 ×1 app ×1 budget ×1 claude ×1

Dropped: day ×5 keep ×5 run ×5 under ×5 control ×4 spend ×4 cost ×3