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What the assistants searched

Cheap Seats head to heads 2026-10-22 04:31 pooled with the set's finished runs before it that were asked and graded the same way: 2 runs · search track only, from the stored answers · this run alone · JSON

44/44answers searched
134searches
124distinct queries
44%from prompt
44%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
Gauge AI visibility platform withgauge420/2Gauge ×2 Semrush AI Toolkit ×2 0/2
Otterly.AI pricing plans 2026320/2Otterly.AI ×2 0/2
Popcorn AI brand visibility tracking ChatGPT Claude520/22/2
Popcorn AI visibility ChatGPT Claude developer tools brand monitoring1020/2Ahrefs Brand Radar ×2 0/2
"Popcorn" "AI visibility" pricing | "Popcorn" "Otterly"320/2Otterly.AI ×2 0/2
Popcorn AI visibility tool ChatGPT Claude brand recommendations1020/22/2
Popcorn AI visibility tracking tool agencies920/20/2
"Popcorn" "AI visibility" | "Popcorn" "Profound" tracking120/2Profound ×2 Semrush AI Toolkit ×2 0/2
Popcorn open-source AI visibility tool LLM brand tracking620/22/2
Profound AI visibility platform pricing 2026120/2Profound ×2 0/2
AI search visibility tools comparison 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound1010/1Profound ×1 1/1
AI search visibility tools for agencies multi-client 2026910/10/1
github popcorn LLM brand mention tracker self-host docker710/10/1
Peec AI pricing 2026210/1Peec AI ×1 0/1
Peec AI pricing plans 2026210/1Peec AI ×1 0/1
Popcorn AEO AI search visibility software company410/10/1
"Popcorn" AEO GEO brand visibility ChatGPT startup410/10/1
"Popcorn" AI agent app pricing per month 20261110/10/1
Popcorn AI agent pricing daily cost spending limits1110/10/1
Popcorn AI answer engine optimization startup110/10/1
Popcorn AI brand monitoring how decides recommended brand recommendation mention810/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 0/1
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 monitoring510/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×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 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 ChatGPT brand mentions tool startup310/1Otterly.AI ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
"Popcorn" AI search visibility ChatGPT brand monitoring pricing910/1Otterly.AI ×1 0/1
"Popcorn" AI search visibility GEO brand tracking startup110/1Otterly.AI ×1 0/1
"Popcorn" AI search visibility GEO tool brand mentions LLM510/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 1/1
"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 marketing pricing Peec AI | Peec AI pricing official210/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
"Popcorn" AI search visibility platform ChatGPT brand mentions methodology810/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×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 tool vs Peec AI210/1Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
Popcorn AI search visibility tracking brand prompts platform software410/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Gauge ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
Popcorn AI tool pricing1110/10/1
"Popcorn" "AI visibility" -site:reddit.com -badpopcorn | "Popcorn" "developer tools" recommendations | "Popcorn" "brand" "Claude" monitoring1010/10/1
"Popcorn" "AI visibility" -site:reddit.com | "Popcorn" "GEO" tracking agency | "Popcorn" "visibility" "prompts"910/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
Popcorn AI visibility brand recommendation tracking how it works810/10/1
Popcorn AI visibility brand recommended by AI assistants810/10/1
"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 Gauge comparison | Gauge AI visibility platform features410/1Gauge ×1 0/1
"Popcorn" AI visibility GEO AEO brand tracking ChatGPT710/10/1

Showing the 50 run by the most answers; 74 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 AI442“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”; “"popcorn" "AI visibility" open source | "popcorn" "github" "visibility" | Peec AI pricing monitoring sources prompts | Otterly AI pricing monitoring”
Otterly.AI332“"Popcorn" "AI visibility" | "Popcorn" "GEO" "open source" | Otterly AI pricing official | Peec AI pricing official”; “"popcorn" "AI visibility" open source | "popcorn" "github" "visibility" | Peec AI pricing monitoring sources prompts | Otterly AI pricing monitoring”; “AI search visibility tools comparison 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly”
Profound222“Popcorn GEO AEO tool track brand in ChatGPT Perplexity open source alternative Profound Peec”; “AI search visibility tools comparison 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly”
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”

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
visibility455
brand378
pricing368
geo3310
tool3310
search299
tracking215
chatgpt208
monitoring196
site1810
reddit.com179
platform176
2026158
mentions147
recommendations143
ai142
open122
source122
software114
llm106
startup106
github102
engine75
popcorners64
plans63

Dropped

Prompt words the searches left out.

WordSearchesPrompts
whether363
vs272
assistants242
tracking224
recommend222
fit202
compare151
improving151
cheaply141
track141
wants141
pick131
small131
team131
popcorn127
decide121
downsides121
measure121
paid121
self-hosting121
ai116
alternative111
otterly.ai111
startup111
chatgpt102

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” — 2 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” — 2 answers · Otterly.AI

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

[[prompts]]
id = "otterly-ai-pricing-plans-2026"
text = "Otterly.AI pricing plans 2026"
“Popcorn AI visibility ChatGPT Claude developer tools brand monitoring” — 2 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar

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

[[prompts]]
id = "popcorn-ai-visibility-chatgpt-claude"
text = "Popcorn AI visibility ChatGPT Claude developer tools brand monitoring"
“Profound AI visibility platform pricing 2026” — 2 answers · Profound

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

[[prompts]]
id = "profound-ai-visibility-platform-pricing"
text = "Profound AI visibility platform pricing 2026"
“AI search visibility tools comparison 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly” — 1 answers · Profound

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

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-search-visibility-tools-comparison"
text = "AI search visibility tools comparison 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly"
“Peec AI pricing 2026” — 1 answers · Peec AI

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

[[prompts]]
id = "peec-ai-pricing-2026"
text = "Peec AI pricing 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 monitoring how decides recommended brand recommendation mention” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar

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

[[prompts]]
id = "popcorn-ai-brand-monitoring-decides"
text = "Popcorn AI brand monitoring how decides recommended brand recommendation mention"
“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 · 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"

Prompt by prompt

#PromptSearchedSearches per answerDistinctFrom promptPrompt kept
1Popcorn vs Profound for tracking whether AI assistants recommend us: which should I pick?4/43.21140%34%
2Popcorn or Peec AI for a small marketing team?4/43.51446%51%
3Popcorn vs Otterly.AI for a startup that wants to track AI visibility cheaply?4/43.51239%32%
4How does Popcorn compare with Gauge for tracking and improving AI visibility?4/43.81451%49%
5Popcorn or Semrush AI Toolkit for tracking our brand in ChatGPT and Claude?4/43.01162%66%
6Is Popcorn a good open-source alternative to paid AI visibility tools?4/43.01142%54%
7What are the downsides of self-hosting Popcorn to measure AI search visibility?4/43.01245%45%
8How does Popcorn decide whether an AI assistant recommended a brand?4/43.21345%52%
9Is Popcorn a good fit for an agency tracking AI visibility for many clients?4/42.5960%51%
10Is Popcorn a good fit for a developer-tools company checking whether ChatGPT and Claude recommend it?4/42.5822%22%
11What does it cost to run Popcorn every day, and how do I keep the spend under control?4/42.2930%21%
1. Popcorn vs Profound for tracking whether AI assistants recommend us: which should I pick? — 11 queries

Added: visibility ×10 brand ×8 platform ×4 pricing ×4 search ×4 answer ×3 chatgpt ×3 engine ×3

Dropped: assistants ×13 pick ×13 recommend ×13 vs ×13 whether ×13 profound ×7 tracking ×3 popcorn ×2

2. Popcorn or Peec AI for a small marketing team? — 14 queries

Added: visibility ×8 tool ×7 pricing ×6 search ×6 geo ×4 2026 ×3 software ×3 brand ×2

Dropped: small ×13 team ×13 marketing ×6 peec ×6 popcorn ×2 ai ×1

3. Popcorn vs Otterly.AI for a startup that wants to track AI visibility cheaply? — 12 queries

Added: pricing ×12 tracking ×8 plans ×4 search ×4 tool ×4 2026 ×3 brand ×3 chatgpt ×3

Dropped: cheaply ×14 track ×14 vs ×14 wants ×14 otterly.ai ×11 startup ×11 ai ×3 visibility ×3

4. How does Popcorn compare with Gauge for tracking and improving AI visibility? — 14 queries

Added: platform ×6 brand ×4 geo ×4 search ×4 software ×3 tool ×3 aeo ×2 chatgpt ×2

Dropped: compare ×15 improving ×15 tracking ×11 gauge ×9 ai ×2 popcorn ×2

5. Popcorn or Semrush AI Toolkit for tracking our brand in ChatGPT and Claude? — 11 queries

Added: visibility ×7 monitoring ×5 llm ×3 2026 ×2 geo ×2 mentions ×2 platforms ×2 popcorners ×2

Dropped: toolkit ×8 semrush ×7 chatgpt ×5 tracking ×5 claude ×4 brand ×2 popcorn ×2

6. Is Popcorn a good open-source alternative to paid AI visibility tools? — 11 queries

Added: open ×8 source ×8 brand ×6 geo ×5 github ×5 chatgpt ×3 tracking ×3 llm ×2

Dropped: paid ×12 alternative ×11 open-source ×8 tools ×6 ai ×1 visibility ×1

7. What are the downsides of self-hosting Popcorn to measure AI search visibility? — 12 queries

Added: github ×5 tracking ×5 brand ×4 geo ×4 open ×4 source ×4 chatgpt ×3 self ×3

Dropped: downsides ×12 measure ×12 self-hosting ×12 search ×6 ai ×3 visibility ×1

8. How does Popcorn decide whether an AI assistant recommended a brand? — 13 queries

Added: visibility ×10 recommendation ×7 monitoring ×4 methodology ×3 reddit.com ×3 site ×3 software ×3 tracking ×3

Dropped: whether ×13 decide ×12 assistant ×11 recommended ×8

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

Added: geo ×4 agencies ×3 brand ×2 chatgpt ×2 platform ×2 pricing ×2 search ×2 tool ×2

Dropped: fit ×10 many ×10 clients ×8 agency ×6 tracking ×3 ai ×1 popcorn ×1

10. Is Popcorn a good fit for a developer-tools company checking whether ChatGPT and Claude recommend it? — 8 queries

Added: visibility ×10 ai ×9 brand ×8 monitoring ×7 developer ×4 tools ×4 recommendations ×3 reddit.com ×3

Dropped: checking ×10 company ×10 developer-tools ×10 fit ×10 whether ×10 recommend ×9 chatgpt ×5 claude ×5

11. What does it cost to run Popcorn every day, and how do I keep the spend under control? — 9 queries

Added: pricing ×6 ai ×5 agent ×4 daily ×3 2026 ×2 app ×2 claude ×2 code ×2

Dropped: day ×9 keep ×9 run ×9 under ×9 control ×8 spend ×8 cost ×5