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What the assistants searched

Cheap Seats head to heads 2026-10-23 03:44 · search track only, from the stored answers · pool the last 7 runs · JSON

22/22answers searched
61searches
57distinct queries
57%from prompt
47%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
"Cheap Seats" "AI" visibility | "cheapseats" AI tracking3 4 930/3Gauge ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 3/3
Cheap Seats AI visibility tool2 421/22/2
Cheap Seats AI visibility tracking tool3 920/2Dageno AI ×2 2/2
best AI visibility tracking tools for agencies multiple clients 2026910/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 1/1
Cheap Seats AI assistant brand recommendation tracking810/11/1
"Cheap Seats" AI brand mentions ChatGPT tracking111/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 1/1
"Cheap Seats" "AI" brand monitoring | "cheapseats" "Claude" | "Cheap Seats" "visibility"510/1Peec AI ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 1/1
"Cheap Seats" AI brand recommended recommendation tracking810/1Peec AI ×1 1/1
Cheap Seats AI brand tracking ChatGPT Claude | Semrush AI Toolkit Claude ChatGPT brand monitoring coverage510/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 1/1
Cheap Seats AI brand visibility tracking ChatGPT Claude510/11/1
"Cheap Seats" AI cost pricing daily | "Cheap Seats" codex1110/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 1/1
"Cheap Seats" "AI" marketing visibility | "cheapseats" "AI" visibility210/1Peec AI ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 1/1
"Cheap Seats" AI search visibility ChatGPT brand mentions311/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 1/1
"Cheap Seats" AI search visibility LLM brand monitoring910/1Dageno AI ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 1/1
Cheap Seats AI search visibility self-hosted710/11/1
"Cheap Seats" "AI search" | "Cheap Seats" "developer tools" | "cheapseats" software visibility1010/11/1
"Cheap Seats" "AI" "self" visibility | "CheapSeats" AI search visibility github710/11/1
"Cheap Seats" "AI" tracking | "cheapseats" "AI" visibility110/1Profound ×1 1/1
Cheap Seats AI visibility agency tracking clients910/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 1/1
"Cheap Seats" AI visibility ChatGPT Claude1010/11/1
Cheap Seats AI visibility Gauge comparison | Gauge AI visibility tracking improve get gauge410/1Gauge ×1 Peec AI ×1 1/1
"Cheap Seats" AI visibility GEO open source github711/11/1
"Cheap Seats" AI visibility LLM brand mentions tool github810/11/1
Cheap Seats AI visibility pricing monitoring | Otterly AI pricing AI visibility monitoring310/1Otterly.AI ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 1/1
Cheap Seats AI visibility pricing Peec AI | Peec AI pricing official210/1Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 1/1
"Cheap Seats" "AI visibility" software | "CheapSeats" marketing AI visibility tracker | "Cheap Seats" "Gauge" AI tracking410/1Gauge ×1 Peec AI ×1 1/1
Cheap Seats AI visibility tool ChatGPT Claude recommendations1010/11/1
Cheap Seats AI visibility tracking Profound brand recommendations | Profound AI visibility pricing answer engine optimization platform110/1Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 1/1
Cheap Seats AI visibility tracking tool LLM recommendations110/11/1
"Cheap Seats" "AI" visibility | "cheapseats" AI visibility | Peec AI pricing official | Otterly AI pricing official +Otterly.AI +Peec AI610/1Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 1/1
"Cheap Seats" Claude Code1110/11/1
"Cheap Seats" "GEO" | "cheapseats" "visibility"410/1Gauge ×1 1/1
"Cheap Seats" "GEO" | "cheapseats" "visibility" | "Cheap Seats" "Otterly"310/1Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 1/1
"Cheap Seats" "github" visibility tracking | "cheapseats" "LLM" | site.support.google.com analytics AI overviews search console traffic | site.platform.openai.com/docs web search user location pricing710/11/1
"Cheap Seats" LLM brand mention tracker1010/11/1
"Cheap Seats" LLM visibility tool510/11/1
"Cheap Seats" marketing software AI search tracking210/1Peec AI ×1 1/1
Cheap Seats metcalfc github1110/11/1
Cheap Seats open source AI visibility tool github610/1Limelit Open ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 1/1
Cheap Seats open-source AI visibility tool610/11/1
"Cheap Seats" "Peec" | "Cheap Seats" "GEO"210/1Peec AI ×1 1/1
"Cheap Seats" "Profound" | "cheapseats" "ChatGPT" | "Cheap Seats" "visibility" AI tracking110/1Profound ×1 1/1
"cheap-seats" "visibility" | "Cheap Seats" "GEO" | "cheapseats" "github" | "Cheap Seats" "brand" AI tracking610/1Peec AI ×1 1/1
"cheapseats" AI monitoring software | "cheap seats" "brand" "AI assistants"110/1Profound ×1 1/1
"cheapseats" AI tracking brand monitoring -site:reddit.com | "cheap seats" "brand" "ChatGPT" software | "cheapseats.ai"510/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 1/1
"cheapseats" "AI" | "Cheap Seats" "brand" "visibility"810/11/1
"cheapseats" "AI" | "Cheap Seats" "brand" | "Cheap Seats" "monitoring"1010/11/1
"cheapseats" ChatGPT monitoring | "cheap seats" "GEO"1010/11/1
"cheapseats" "github" AI | "Cheap Seats" "monitoring" AI | "Cheap Seats" "marketing" software1110/11/1
"cheapseats" OR "cheap seats" github LLM brand visibility tracker611/11/1

Showing the 50 run by the most answers; 7 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
Otterly.AI111“"Cheap Seats" "AI" visibility | "cheapseats" AI visibility | Peec AI pricing official | Otterly AI pricing official”
Peec AI111“"Cheap Seats" "AI" visibility | "cheapseats" AI visibility | Peec AI pricing official | Otterly AI pricing official”

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
visibility165
pricing118
tool108
monitoring106
brand105
github94
llm77
geo76
tracking75
software66
ai62
202655
recommendations53
mentions44
search44
tracker33
chatgpt32
cheap-seats22
cheapseats.ai22
marketing22
official22
open22
platform22
source22
agencies11

Dropped

Prompt words the searches left out.

WordSearchesPrompts
whether173
vs142
recommend132
fit112
assistants92
tracking84
ai75
cheaply71
pick71
startup71
track71
wants71
cheap66
seats66
claude62
checking61
company61
compare61
developer-tools61
improving61
otterly.ai61
small61
team61
chatgpt52
alternative51

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.

“Cheap Seats AI visibility tracking tool” — 2 answers · Dageno AI

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

[[prompts]]
id = "cheap-seats-ai-visibility-tracking"
text = "Cheap Seats AI visibility tracking tool"
“best AI visibility tracking tools for agencies multiple clients 2026” — 1 answers · Semrush AI Toolkit

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

[[prompts]]
id = "best-ai-visibility-tracking-tools"
text = "best AI visibility tracking tools for agencies multiple clients 2026"
“Cheap Seats AI brand tracking ChatGPT Claude” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar, Semrush AI Toolkit

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

[[prompts]]
id = "cheap-seats-ai-brand-tracking"
text = "Cheap Seats AI brand tracking ChatGPT Claude"
“Semrush AI Toolkit Claude ChatGPT brand monitoring coverage” — 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 monitoring coverage"
“Cheap Seats AI visibility agency tracking clients” — 1 answers · Semrush AI Toolkit

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

[[prompts]]
id = "cheap-seats-ai-visibility-agency"
text = "Cheap Seats AI visibility agency tracking clients"
“Cheap Seats AI visibility Gauge comparison” — 1 answers · Gauge, Peec AI

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

[[prompts]]
id = "cheap-seats-ai-visibility-gauge"
text = "Cheap Seats AI visibility Gauge comparison"
“Gauge AI visibility tracking improve get gauge” — 1 answers · Gauge, Peec AI

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

[[prompts]]
id = "gauge-ai-visibility-tracking-improve"
text = "Gauge AI visibility tracking improve get gauge"
“Cheap Seats AI visibility pricing monitoring” — 1 answers · Otterly.AI, Semrush AI Toolkit

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

[[prompts]]
id = "cheap-seats-ai-visibility-pricing"
text = "Cheap Seats AI visibility pricing monitoring"
“Otterly AI pricing AI visibility monitoring” — 1 answers · Otterly.AI, Semrush AI Toolkit

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

[[prompts]]
id = "otterly-ai-pricing-ai-visibility"
text = "Otterly AI pricing AI visibility monitoring"
“Cheap Seats AI visibility pricing Peec AI” — 1 answers · Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Profound

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

[[prompts]]
id = "cheap-seats-ai-visibility-pricing-2"
text = "Cheap Seats AI visibility pricing Peec AI"

Prompt by prompt

#PromptSearchedSearches per answerDistinctFrom promptPrompt kept
1Cheap Seats vs Profound for tracking whether AI assistants recommend us: which should I pick?2/23.5752%40%
2Cheap Seats or Peec AI for a small marketing team?2/23.0661%48%
3Cheap Seats vs Otterly.AI for a startup that wants to track AI visibility cheaply?2/23.5751%31%
4How does Cheap Seats compare with Gauge for tracking and improving AI visibility?2/23.0667%56%
5Cheap Seats or Semrush AI Toolkit for tracking our brand in ChatGPT and Claude?2/23.0667%67%
6Is Cheap Seats a good open-source alternative to paid AI visibility tools?2/22.5557%55%
7What are the downsides of self-hosting Cheap Seats to measure AI search visibility?2/22.5556%57%
8How does Cheap Seats decide whether an AI assistant recommended a brand?2/22.0463%56%
9Is Cheap Seats a good fit for an agency tracking AI visibility for many clients?2/22.5572%56%
10Is Cheap Seats a good fit for a developer-tools company checking whether ChatGPT and Claude recommend it?2/23.0643%28%
11What does it cost to run Cheap Seats every day, and how do I keep the spend under control?2/22.0442%25%
1. Cheap Seats vs Profound for tracking whether AI assistants recommend us: which should I pick? — 7 queries

Added: visibility ×5 brand ×3 chatgpt ×2 pricing ×2 recommendations ×2 2026 ×1 answer ×1 engine ×1

Dropped: pick ×7 recommend ×7 vs ×7 whether ×7 assistants ×6 profound ×4 tracking ×2 cheap ×1

2. Cheap Seats or Peec AI for a small marketing team? — 6 queries

Added: visibility ×3 pricing ×2 2026 ×1 geo ×1 official ×1 search ×1 software ×1 tool ×1

Dropped: small ×6 team ×6 marketing ×4 peec ×3 ai ×1 cheap ×1 seats ×1

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

Added: brand ×2 monitoring ×2 pricing ×2 tracking ×2 2026 ×1 chatgpt ×1 cheapseats.ai ×1 geo ×1

Dropped: cheaply ×7 startup ×7 track ×7 vs ×7 wants ×7 otterly.ai ×6 ai ×3 visibility ×2

4. How does Cheap Seats compare with Gauge for tracking and improving AI visibility? — 6 queries

Added: comparison ×1 features ×1 geo ×1 improve ×1 marketing ×1 platform ×1 pricing ×1 software ×1

Dropped: compare ×6 improving ×6 gauge ×3 tracking ×3 ai ×1 cheap ×1 seats ×1

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

Added: monitoring ×3 visibility ×3 2026 ×1 cheapseats.ai ×1 coverage ×1 llm ×1 pricing ×1 reddit.com ×1

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

6. Is Cheap Seats a good open-source alternative to paid AI visibility tools? — 5 queries

Added: github ×3 brand ×2 cheap-seats ×1 geo ×1 llm ×1 official ×1 open ×1 pricing ×1

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

7. What are the downsides of self-hosting Cheap Seats to measure AI search visibility? — 5 queries

Added: github ×3 geo ×2 analytics ×1 cheap-seats ×1 console ×1 docs ×1 llm ×1 location ×1

Dropped: downsides ×5 measure ×5 self-hosting ×5 search ×2

8. How does Cheap Seats decide whether an AI assistant recommended a brand? — 4 queries

Added: recommendation ×2 tracking ×2 visibility ×2 github ×1 llm ×1 mentions ×1 tool ×1

Dropped: decide ×4 whether ×4 assistant ×3 recommended ×3

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

Added: 2026 ×1 agencies ×1 best ×1 brand ×1 llm ×1 monitoring ×1 multiple ×1 search ×1

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

10. Is Cheap Seats a good fit for a developer-tools company checking whether ChatGPT and Claude recommend it? — 6 queries

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

Dropped: checking ×6 company ×6 developer-tools ×6 fit ×6 recommend ×6 whether ×6 claude ×4 chatgpt ×3

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

Added: ai ×2 github ×2 claude ×1 code ×1 codex ×1 daily ×1 marketing ×1 metcalfc ×1

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