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What the assistants searched

Cheap Seats head to heads 2026-10-22 05:12 · search track only, from the stored answers · pool the last 7 runs · JSON

22/22answers searched
71searches
71distinct queries
42%from prompt
43%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 comparison 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly Scrunch +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound1010/1Profound ×1 0/1
best AI visibility tracking tools for agencies multiple clients 2026910/10/1
Gauge AI visibility platform (withgauge) features pricing410/1Gauge ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
open source AI search visibility tracker GitHub alternative Profound Peec +Peec AI +Profound610/1Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 1/1
Otterly.AI pricing plans 2026310/1Otterly.AI ×1 0/1
Peec AI pricing plans 2026210/1Peec AI ×1 0/1
Popcorn AI answer engine optimization startup ChatGPT recommendations tracker110/10/1
Popcorn AI brand tracking ChatGPT Claude monitoring | Semrush AI Toolkit Claude ChatGPT brand performance monitoring510/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
Popcorn AI brand visibility how recommended brand recommendation detection810/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 0/1
Popcorn AI brand visibility tracking ChatGPT Claude510/11/1
Popcorn AI coding agent pricing daily cost spend controls1110/10/1
Popcorn AI marketing platform startup brand visibility ChatGPT210/10/1
"Popcorn" AI search visibility ChatGPT brand mentions GEO startup310/10/1
"Popcorn" AI search visibility GEO AEO brand tracking ChatGPT startup410/10/1
"Popcorn" AI search visibility GEO platform brand mentions ChatGPT910/10/1
"Popcorn" AI search visibility GEO platform LLM brand tracking1010/1Otterly.AI ×1 0/1
Popcorn AI search visibility marketing Peec AI pricing | Peec AI pricing official210/1Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
"Popcorn" AI search visibility platform brand mentions LLM methodology810/11/1
Popcorn AI search visibility self hosting github710/11/1
Popcorn AI search visibility tool marketing210/10/1
popcorn ai search visibility tracker pricing startup | "popcorn" "visibility" "prompts" AI tracking310/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 0/1
Popcorn AI tool pricing 20261110/10/1
"popcorn" "AI" "visibility" -site:reddit.com -site:arxiv.org -"bad popcorn" -site:badpopcorn.ai -site:techradar.com | "popcorn" "GEO" tracking pricing310/1Otterly.AI ×1 0/1
Popcorn AI visibility agency pricing multiple brands workspaces910/10/1
Popcorn AI visibility brand recommendation tracking ChatGPT810/11/1
Popcorn AI visibility ChatGPT Claude brand monitoring developer tools1010/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 0/1
"Popcorn" "AI visibility" developer | "Popcorn" "ChatGPT" "recommend" monitoring brand1010/10/1
Popcorn AI visibility Gauge comparison | Gauge AI visibility platform features410/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Gauge ×1 0/1
"Popcorn" AI visibility GEO brand mentions ChatGPT tool710/1Otterly.AI ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
"Popcorn" AI visibility GEO tool pricing vs Peec210/1Gauge ×1 Peec AI ×1 0/1
"popcorn" "AI visibility" open source tracker github -site:linkedin.com | "popcorn" "AI visibility tool"610/1Peec AI ×1 0/1
"Popcorn" "AI visibility" pricing | "Popcorn" "Otterly"310/1Otterly.AI ×1 0/1
Popcorn AI visibility tool ChatGPT Claude brand mentions1010/10/1
Popcorn AI visibility tracking agency clients pricing910/1AI Peekaboo ×1 Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 0/1
Popcorn AI visibility tracking brand site:popcorn | "Popcorn" "AI" "visibility" tracking pricing110/1Profound ×1 0/1
Popcorn AI visibility tracking ChatGPT brand mentions110/10/1
Popcorn AI visibility tracking pricing Otterly AI | Otterly.AI pricing plans AI visibility310/1Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 0/1
Popcorn AI visibility tracking Profound brand recommendations | Profound AI visibility pricing answer engine optimization platform110/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
Popcorn AI visibility tracking tool410/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
Popcorn AI visibility tracking tool agencies910/10/1
Popcorn AI visibility tracking tool pricing310/10/1
"Popcorn" "AI visibility" | "Popcorn" "brand" "recommendation" AI tracking810/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
"Popcorn" "AI visibility" | "Popcorn" "GEO" agency tracking910/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
"Popcorn" "AI visibility" | "Popcorn" "GEO" AI search410/1Gauge ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
"Popcorn" "AI visibility" | "Popcorn" "GEO" "open source" | Peec AI official pricing visibility prompts +Peec AI610/1Peec AI ×1 0/1
"Popcorn" "AI visibility" | "Popcorn" "Peec" -site:reddit.com210/1Peec AI ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
"popcorn" "AI visibility" | "popcorn" "self-host" visibility | "popcorn" "AI search" tracking710/11/1
"Popcorn" "brand" "AI assistants" tracking | "Popcorn" "AI visibility" -site:badpopcorn.ai -site:rightchoice.ai -site:usemate.ai -site:geoly.ai -site:sonatainsights.com -site:famewise.ai110/1Profound ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
"popcorn" "brand" "AI" "monitoring" recommendations -site:reddit.com -popcorners -snacks -pendium.ai | "popcorn" "recommendations" "visibility" software810/10/1
"Popcorn" "brand" "AI visibility" | "Popcorn" "Claude" "tracking" brand | site.semrush.com "Claude" "Enterprise" AI510/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1

Showing the 50 run by the most answers; 21 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 AI332“open source AI search visibility tracker GitHub alternative Profound Peec”; “"Popcorn" "AI visibility" | "Popcorn" "GEO" "open source" | Peec AI official pricing visibility prompts”; “AI search visibility tools comparison 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly Scrunch”
Profound222“open source AI search visibility tracker GitHub alternative Profound Peec”; “AI search visibility tools comparison 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly Scrunch”
Otterly.AI111“AI search visibility tools comparison 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly Scrunch”

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
visibility275
brand218
pricing208
geo1810
search179
tool1610
tracking115
site108
monitoring105
mentions99
chatgpt98
llm97
platform87
ai82
202677
reddit.com77
recommendations73
open72
source72
github62
startup55
tracker53
answer43
engine43
plans43

Dropped

Prompt words the searches left out.

WordSearchesPrompts
whether213
vs152
tracking144
recommend142
assistants132
fit132
popcorn109
pick81
claude72
cheaply71
checking71
company71
compare71
developer-tools71
improving71
paid71
small71
team71
track71
wants71
chatgpt62
alternative61
decide61
downsides61
many61

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 tools comparison 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly Scrunch” — 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 Scrunch"
“Gauge AI visibility platform (withgauge) features pricing” — 1 answers · Gauge, Profound

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

[[prompts]]
id = "gauge-ai-visibility-platform-withgauge"
text = "Gauge AI visibility platform (withgauge) features pricing"
“open source AI search visibility tracker GitHub alternative Profound Peec” — 1 answers · Peec AI, Profound

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

[[prompts]]
id = "open-source-ai-search-visibility"
text = "open source AI search visibility tracker GitHub alternative Profound Peec"
“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 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 performance monitoring” — 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 performance monitoring"
“Popcorn AI brand visibility how recommended brand recommendation detection” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar

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

[[prompts]]
id = "popcorn-ai-brand-visibility-recommended"
text = "Popcorn AI brand visibility how recommended brand recommendation detection"
“Popcorn AI search visibility marketing Peec AI pricing” — 1 answers · Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Profound

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 official” — 1 answers · Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Profound

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

[[prompts]]
id = "peec-ai-pricing-official"
text = "Peec AI pricing official"

Prompt by prompt

#PromptSearchedSearches per answerDistinctFrom promptPrompt kept
1Popcorn vs Profound for tracking whether AI assistants recommend us: which should I pick?2/24.0833%32%
2Popcorn or Peec AI for a small marketing team?2/23.5744%50%
3Popcorn vs Otterly.AI for a startup that wants to track AI visibility cheaply?2/23.5743%35%
4How does Popcorn compare with Gauge for tracking and improving AI visibility?2/23.5750%49%
5Popcorn or Semrush AI Toolkit for tracking our brand in ChatGPT and Claude?2/23.0659%65%
6Is Popcorn a good open-source alternative to paid AI visibility tools?2/23.5740%53%
7What are the downsides of self-hosting Popcorn to measure AI search visibility?2/23.0647%52%
8How does Popcorn decide whether an AI assistant recommended a brand?2/23.0640%45%
9Is Popcorn a good fit for an agency tracking AI visibility for many clients?2/23.0661%54%
10Is Popcorn a good fit for a developer-tools company checking whether ChatGPT and Claude recommend it?2/23.5720%19%
11What does it cost to run Popcorn every day, and how do I keep the spend under control?2/22.0426%22%
1. Popcorn vs Profound for tracking whether AI assistants recommend us: which should I pick? — 8 queries

Added: visibility ×6 brand ×5 pricing ×3 search ×3 site ×3 answer ×2 badpopcorn.ai ×2 chatgpt ×2

Dropped: pick ×8 recommend ×8 vs ×8 whether ×8 assistants ×7 profound ×5 tracking ×4 popcorn ×1

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

Added: visibility ×5 pricing ×3 search ×3 tool ×3 geo ×2 2026 ×1 brand ×1 chatgpt ×1

Dropped: small ×7 team ×7 marketing ×3 peec ×3 popcorn ×1

3. Popcorn vs Otterly.AI for a startup that wants to track AI visibility cheaply? — 7 queries

Added: pricing ×6 tracking ×4 geo ×2 plans ×2 search ×2 2026 ×1 arxiv.org ×1 bad ×1

Dropped: cheaply ×7 track ×7 vs ×7 wants ×7 otterly.ai ×5 startup ×5 ai ×1 popcorn ×1

4. How does Popcorn compare with Gauge for tracking and improving AI visibility? — 7 queries

Added: brand ×2 features ×2 geo ×2 platform ×2 search ×2 aeo ×1 chatgpt ×1 comparison ×1

Dropped: compare ×7 improving ×7 tracking ×5 gauge ×4 popcorn ×2

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

Added: visibility ×4 monitoring ×2 2026 ×1 badpopcorn ×1 enterprise ×1 gemini ×1 geo ×1 geoly ×1

Dropped: semrush ×4 toolkit ×4 tracking ×3 chatgpt ×2 claude ×2 brand ×1 popcorn ×1

6. Is Popcorn a good open-source alternative to paid AI visibility tools? — 7 queries

Added: open ×5 source ×5 geo ×4 github ×4 brand ×3 tracker ×3 llm ×2 tracking ×2

Dropped: paid ×7 alternative ×6 open-source ×5 tools ×4 popcorn ×1

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

Added: brand ×2 geo ×2 github ×2 monitoring ×2 open ×2 self ×2 source ×2 tracking ×2

Dropped: downsides ×6 measure ×6 self-hosting ×5 search ×3

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

Added: visibility ×5 recommendation ×3 tracking ×2 answer ×1 chatgpt ×1 detection ×1 engine ×1 geo ×1

Dropped: assistant ×6 decide ×6 whether ×6 recommended ×4 ai ×1

9. Is Popcorn a good fit for an agency tracking AI visibility for many clients? — 6 queries

Added: agencies ×2 geo ×2 multiple ×2 pricing ×2 2026 ×1 best ×1 brand ×1 brands ×1

Dropped: fit ×6 many ×6 clients ×4 agency ×3 tracking ×2 popcorn ×1

10. Is Popcorn a good fit for a developer-tools company checking whether ChatGPT and Claude recommend it? — 7 queries

Added: visibility ×7 ai ×6 brand ×4 developer ×3 monitoring ×3 search ×3 tools ×3 llm ×2

Dropped: checking ×7 company ×7 developer-tools ×7 fit ×7 whether ×7 recommend ×6 claude ×5 chatgpt ×4

11. What does it cost to run Popcorn every day, and how do I keep the spend under control? — 4 queries

Added: pricing ×3 ai ×2 daily ×2 2026 ×1 agent ×1 claude ×1 code ×1 coding ×1

Dropped: day ×4 keep ×4 run ×4 under ×4 control ×3 spend ×3 cost ×2 popcorn ×1