What the assistants searched
Cheap Seats head to heads 2026-10-23 05:15 · search track only, from the stored answers · pool the last 7 runs · JSON
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.
| Query | Prompts | Answers | Cheap Seats's sites | Competitors in results | Named Cheap Seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheap Seats AI visibility tracking tool | 3 9 | 2 | 0/2 | Dageno AI ×2 | 2/2 |
| AI visibility tracking tools 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly pricing comparison +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound | 6 | 1 | 0/1 | Profound ×1 | 1/1 |
| Cheap Seats AI assistant brand recommendation tracking | 8 | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | |
| "Cheap Seats" "AI assistants" | "cheapseats" "brand" "tracking" | 1 | 1 | 0/1 | Profound ×1 | 1/1 |
| "Cheap Seats" AI brand mentions LLM monitoring | 1 | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | |
| Cheap Seats AI brand monitoring ChatGPT Claude developer tools | 10 | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | |
| "Cheap Seats" AI brand recommended methodology | 8 | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | |
| Cheap Seats AI brand tracking ChatGPT Claude | Semrush AI Toolkit Claude ChatGPT brand visibility tracking | 5 | 1 | 0/1 | Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 | 1/1 |
| "Cheap Seats" "AI" brand tracking | "cheapseats" AI visibility | 1 | 1 | 0/1 | Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 | 1/1 |
| Cheap Seats AI brand visibility tracking ChatGPT Claude | 5 | 1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | |
| "Cheap Seats" "AI" brand visibility | "cheapseats" "Claude" tracking | 5 | 1 | 0/1 | Peec AI ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 | 1/1 |
| "Cheap Seats" AI competitive intelligence tool product marketing | 11 | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | |
| "Cheap Seats" AI cost pricing agent | "Cheap Seats" codex spend | 11 | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | |
| "Cheap Seats" "AI" marketing tool | "cheapseats" "visibility" | 2 | 1 | 0/1 | Peec AI ×1 | 1/1 |
| "Cheap Seats" "AI" monitoring | "cheapseats" "ChatGPT" | "Cheap Seats" developer tools visibility | 10 | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | |
| "Cheap Seats" AI search visibility ChatGPT brand monitoring | 3 | 1 | 1/1 | Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 | 1/1 |
| "Cheap Seats" AI search visibility ChatGPT brand tracking | 4 | 1 | 1/1 | Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 | 1/1 |
| "Cheap Seats" AI search visibility LLM brand monitoring agencies | 9 | 1 | 0/1 | Dageno AI ×1 | 1/1 |
| Cheap Seats AI search visibility self-hosted | 7 | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | |
| Cheap Seats AI search visibility tool | 2 | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | |
| "Cheap Seats" "AI" "self-host" visibility | "Cheap Seats" AI search visibility github | 7 | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | |
| Cheap Seats AI visibility ChatGPT Claude recommendations tool | 10 | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | |
| Cheap Seats AI visibility Gauge comparison | Gauge AI visibility platform features | 4 | 1 | 0/1 | Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Gauge ×1 | 1/1 |
| Cheap Seats AI visibility marketing pricing | Peec AI pricing features small marketing team | 2 | 1 | 0/1 | Peec AI ×1 | 1/1 |
| "Cheap Seats" "AI visibility" open source | 6 | 1 | 0/1 | Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Peec AI ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 | 1/1 |
| Cheap Seats AI visibility pricing Otterly AI | Otterly.AI pricing official | 3 | 1 | 0/1 | Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 | 1/1 |
| "Cheap Seats" "AI" visibility software | "cheapseats" "visibility" | "Cheap Seats" agency tracking | 9 | 1 | 0/1 | Peec AI ×1 | 1/1 |
| "Cheap Seats" "AI" visibility software | site:withgauge.com pricing | 4 | 1 | 0/1 | Peec AI ×1 | 1/1 |
| Cheap Seats AI visibility tool | 4 | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | |
| "Cheap Seats" AI visibility tool LLM brand mentions methodology | 8 | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | |
| "Cheap Seats" "AI" visibility tracker | "cheapseats" "AI" pricing | "Cheap Seats" "Otterly" | 3 | 1 | 0/1 | Peec AI ×1 | 1/1 |
| Cheap Seats AI visibility tracking agency clients | 9 | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | |
| Cheap Seats AI visibility tracking brand recommendations Profound | Profound AI visibility pricing answer engine optimization platform | 1 | 1 | 0/1 | Otterly.AI ×1 Profound ×1 | 1/1 |
| Cheap Seats AI visibility tracking ChatGPT recommendations tool | 1 | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | |
| "Cheap Seats" brand tracking software | "cheapseats" AI visibility | "cheap-seats" ChatGPT brand | 5 | 1 | 0/1 | Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 | 1/1 |
| "Cheap Seats" Claude agent metcalfc | 11 | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | |
| "Cheap Seats" GEO LLM brand visibility open source github | 7 | 1 | 1/1 | Elmo ×1 Limelit Open ×1 | 1/1 |
| "cheap seats" "GEO" | "cheapseats.ai" | "cheap seats" "brand" "prompts" | 3 | 1 | 0/1 | Otterly.AI ×1 | 1/1 |
| "Cheap Seats" LLM brand visibility developer tools | 10 | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | |
| "Cheap Seats" marketing software tool | 2 | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | |
| Cheap Seats open-source AI visibility tool | 6 | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | |
| "Cheap Seats" "Peec" | "Cheap Seats" "GEO" | "Cheap Seats" "AI search" | 2 | 1 | 0/1 | Peec AI ×1 | 1/1 |
| "Cheap Seats" "visibility" | "cheapseats.ai" | "Cheap Seats" "Profound" | 1 | 1 | 0/1 | Profound ×1 | 1/1 |
| "cheapseats" "AI" brand | "Cheap Seats" "visibility" AI | 8 | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | |
| "cheapseats" AI github | "cheap-seats" visibility | "Cheap Seats" GEO tool | 6 | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | |
| "cheapseats" "AI" marketing | "Cheap Seats" "answer engine" | "Cheap Seats" "AI visibility" tracking | 4 | 1 | 0/1 | Gauge ×1 Peec AI ×1 | 1/1 |
| cheapseats AI recommendation checker ChatGPT Claude | 10 | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | |
| "CheapSeats" AI visibility monitoring | "Cheap Seats" "LLM" | 10 | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | |
| "cheapseats" "AI" | "cheap seats" "agent" github | "cheapseats" pricing | 11 | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | |
| cheapseats github claude code | 11 | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 |
Showing the 50 run by the most answers; 11 more in the JSON.
Names the assistants added
Searches that named a product the prompt hadn't: the assistant added it to the search.
| Name | Searches | Answers | Prompts | For example |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peec AI | 3 | 3 | 2 | “AI visibility tracking tools 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly pricing comparison”; “"cheapseats" "LLM" | "cheap seats" "github" AI visibility tracking | Peec AI official pricing | Otterly AI official pricing”; “site.peec.ai AI visibility tracking real user interfaces API | site.bing.com webmaster AI performance citations not ranking traffic” |
| Otterly.AI | 2 | 2 | 1 | “AI visibility tracking tools 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly pricing comparison”; “"cheapseats" "LLM" | "cheap seats" "github" AI visibility tracking | Peec AI official pricing | Otterly AI official pricing” |
| Profound | 1 | 1 | 1 | “AI visibility tracking tools 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly pricing comparison” |
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.
| Word | Searches | Prompts |
|---|---|---|
| visibility | 19 | 5 |
| pricing | 14 | 7 |
| tool | 13 | 8 |
| brand | 12 | 7 |
| llm | 8 | 6 |
| ai | 8 | 2 |
| github | 7 | 3 |
| geo | 6 | 5 |
| monitoring | 6 | 4 |
| 2026 | 5 | 5 |
| search | 5 | 4 |
| tracking | 5 | 4 |
| platform | 5 | 3 |
| recommendations | 5 | 3 |
| chatgpt | 4 | 4 |
| software | 4 | 4 |
| features | 3 | 2 |
| agent | 3 | 1 |
| developer | 3 | 1 |
| answer | 2 | 2 |
| cheap-seats | 2 | 2 |
| cheapseats.ai | 2 | 2 |
| comparison | 2 | 2 |
| engine | 2 | 2 |
| marketing | 2 | 2 |
Dropped
Prompt words the searches left out.
| Word | Searches | Prompts |
|---|---|---|
| whether | 17 | 3 |
| recommend | 13 | 2 |
| vs | 13 | 2 |
| cheap | 11 | 9 |
| seats | 11 | 9 |
| tracking | 10 | 4 |
| fit | 10 | 2 |
| assistants | 9 | 2 |
| ai | 7 | 6 |
| compare | 7 | 1 |
| improving | 7 | 1 |
| pick | 7 | 1 |
| alternative | 6 | 1 |
| cheaply | 6 | 1 |
| checking | 6 | 1 |
| company | 6 | 1 |
| developer-tools | 6 | 1 |
| paid | 6 | 1 |
| startup | 6 | 1 |
| track | 6 | 1 |
| wants | 6 | 1 |
| control | 5 | 1 |
| day | 5 | 1 |
| downsides | 5 | 1 |
| keep | 5 | 1 |
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"
“AI visibility tracking tools 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly pricing comparison” — 1 answers · Profound
Append to prompt-sets/head-to-heads.toml:
[[prompts]] id = "ai-visibility-tracking-tools-2026" text = "AI visibility tracking tools 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly pricing comparison"
“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 visibility tracking” — 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 visibility tracking"
“Cheap Seats AI visibility Gauge comparison” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar, Gauge
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 platform features” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar, Gauge
Append to prompt-sets/head-to-heads.toml:
[[prompts]] id = "gauge-ai-visibility-platform-features" text = "Gauge AI visibility platform features"
“Cheap Seats AI visibility marketing pricing” — 1 answers · Peec AI
Append to prompt-sets/head-to-heads.toml:
[[prompts]] id = "cheap-seats-ai-visibility-marketing" text = "Cheap Seats AI visibility marketing pricing"
“Peec AI pricing features small marketing team” — 1 answers · Peec AI
Append to prompt-sets/head-to-heads.toml:
[[prompts]] id = "peec-ai-pricing-features-small" text = "Peec AI pricing features small marketing team"
“Cheap Seats AI visibility pricing Otterly AI” — 1 answers · Otterly.AI, Peec AI
Append to prompt-sets/head-to-heads.toml:
[[prompts]] id = "cheap-seats-ai-visibility-pricing" text = "Cheap Seats AI visibility pricing Otterly AI"
“Otterly.AI pricing official” — 1 answers · Otterly.AI, Peec AI
Append to prompt-sets/head-to-heads.toml:
[[prompts]] id = "otterly-ai-pricing-official" text = "Otterly.AI pricing official"
Prompt by prompt
1. Cheap Seats vs Profound for tracking whether AI assistants recommend us: which should I pick? — 7 queries
- "Cheap Seats" "AI assistants" | "cheapseats" "brand" "tracking" ×1
- "Cheap Seats" "AI" brand tracking | "cheapseats" AI visibility ×1
- "Cheap Seats" "visibility" | "cheapseats.ai" | "Cheap Seats" "Profound" ×1
- "Cheap Seats" AI brand mentions LLM monitoring ×1
- Cheap Seats AI visibility tracking ChatGPT recommendations tool ×1
- Cheap Seats AI visibility tracking brand recommendations Profound | Profound AI visibility pricing answer engine optimization platform ×1
- Profound AI visibility platform pricing 2026 ×1
Added: visibility ×5 brand ×4 platform ×2 pricing ×2 recommendations ×2 2026 ×1 answer ×1 chatgpt ×1
Dropped: pick ×7 recommend ×7 vs ×7 whether ×7 assistants ×6 profound ×4 tracking ×3 ai ×1
2. Cheap Seats or Peec AI for a small marketing team? — 6 queries
- "Cheap Seats" "AI" marketing tool | "cheapseats" "visibility" ×1
- "Cheap Seats" "Peec" | "Cheap Seats" "GEO" | "Cheap Seats" "AI search" ×1
- "Cheap Seats" marketing software tool ×1
- Cheap Seats AI search visibility tool ×1
- Cheap Seats AI visibility marketing pricing | Peec AI pricing features small marketing team ×1
- Peec AI pricing 2026 ×1
Added: tool ×3 visibility ×3 pricing ×2 search ×2 2026 ×1 features ×1 geo ×1 software ×1
Dropped: small ×5 team ×5 marketing ×3 peec ×3 ai ×1 cheap ×1 seats ×1
3. Cheap Seats vs Otterly.AI for a startup that wants to track AI visibility cheaply? — 6 queries
- "Cheap Seats" "AI" visibility tracker | "cheapseats" "AI" pricing | "Cheap Seats" "Otterly" ×1
- "Cheap Seats" AI search visibility ChatGPT brand monitoring ×1
- "cheap seats" "GEO" | "cheapseats.ai" | "cheap seats" "brand" "prompts" ×1
- Cheap Seats AI visibility pricing Otterly AI | Otterly.AI pricing official ×1
- Cheap Seats AI visibility tracking tool ×1
- Otterly.AI pricing plans 2026 ×1
Added: pricing ×3 brand ×2 2026 ×1 chatgpt ×1 cheapseats.ai ×1 geo ×1 monitoring ×1 official ×1
Dropped: cheaply ×6 startup ×6 track ×6 vs ×6 wants ×6 otterly.ai ×4 ai ×2 visibility ×2
4. How does Cheap Seats compare with Gauge for tracking and improving AI visibility? — 7 queries
- "Cheap Seats" "AI" visibility software | site:withgauge.com pricing ×1
- "Cheap Seats" AI search visibility ChatGPT brand tracking ×1
- "cheapseats" "AI" marketing | "Cheap Seats" "answer engine" | "Cheap Seats" "AI visibility" tracking ×1
- "cheapseats" "visibility" | "cheap seats" "GEO" | "Cheap Seats" "Gauge" ×1
- Cheap Seats AI visibility Gauge comparison | Gauge AI visibility platform features ×1
- Cheap Seats AI visibility tool ×1
- Gauge AI visibility platform pricing features ×1
Added: features ×2 platform ×2 pricing ×2 answer ×1 brand ×1 chatgpt ×1 comparison ×1 engine ×1
Dropped: compare ×7 improving ×7 tracking ×5 gauge ×4 ai ×1 cheap ×1 seats ×1
5. Cheap Seats or Semrush AI Toolkit for tracking our brand in ChatGPT and Claude? — 6 queries
- "Cheap Seats" "AI" brand visibility | "cheapseats" "Claude" tracking ×1
- "Cheap Seats" brand tracking software | "cheapseats" AI visibility | "cheap-seats" ChatGPT brand ×1
- Cheap Seats AI brand tracking ChatGPT Claude | Semrush AI Toolkit Claude ChatGPT brand visibility tracking ×1
- Cheap Seats AI brand visibility tracking ChatGPT Claude ×1
- Semrush AI Toolkit pricing ChatGPT Claude brand tracking 2026 ×1
- Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit supported platforms Claude site:semrush.com ×1
Added: visibility ×5 2026 ×1 cheap-seats ×1 platforms ×1 pricing ×1 semrush.com ×1 site ×1 software ×1
Dropped: semrush ×3 toolkit ×3 chatgpt ×2 cheap ×2 seats ×2 brand ×1 claude ×1 tracking ×1
6. Is Cheap Seats a good open-source alternative to paid AI visibility tools? — 6 queries
- "Cheap Seats" "AI visibility" open source ×1
- "cheapseats" "LLM" | "cheap seats" "github" AI visibility tracking | Peec AI official pricing | Otterly AI official pricing ×1
- "cheapseats" AI github | "cheap-seats" visibility | "Cheap Seats" GEO tool ×1
- "cheapseats" github LLM brand visibility ChatGPT Perplexity ×1
- AI visibility tracking tools 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly pricing comparison ×1
- Cheap Seats open-source AI visibility tool ×1
Added: github ×3 llm ×2 pricing ×2 tracking ×2 2026 ×1 brand ×1 chatgpt ×1 cheap-seats ×1
Dropped: alternative ×6 paid ×6 open-source ×5 tools ×3 cheap ×2 seats ×2 ai ×1
7. What are the downsides of self-hosting Cheap Seats to measure AI search visibility? — 5 queries
- "Cheap Seats" "AI" "self-host" visibility | "Cheap Seats" AI search visibility github ×1
- "Cheap Seats" GEO LLM brand visibility open source github ×1
- "cheapseats" "visibility" | "cheap seats" "GEO" AI | "cheapseats" "self" AI search ×1
- Cheap Seats AI search visibility self-hosted ×1
- site.peec.ai AI visibility tracking real user interfaces API | site.bing.com webmaster AI performance citations not ranking traffic ×1
Added: geo ×2 github ×2 api ×1 brand ×1 citations ×1 interfaces ×1 llm ×1 open ×1
Dropped: downsides ×5 measure ×5 self-hosting ×5 search ×2 ai ×1 cheap ×1 seats ×1
8. How does Cheap Seats decide whether an AI assistant recommended a brand? — 4 queries
- "Cheap Seats" AI brand recommended methodology ×1
- "Cheap Seats" AI visibility tool LLM brand mentions methodology ×1
- "cheapseats" "AI" brand | "Cheap Seats" "visibility" AI ×1
- Cheap Seats AI assistant brand recommendation tracking ×1
Added: methodology ×2 visibility ×2 llm ×1 mentions ×1 recommendation ×1 tool ×1 tracking ×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? — 4 queries
- "Cheap Seats" "AI" visibility software | "cheapseats" "visibility" | "Cheap Seats" agency tracking ×1
- "Cheap Seats" AI search visibility LLM brand monitoring agencies ×1
- Cheap Seats AI visibility tracking agency clients ×1
- Cheap Seats AI visibility tracking tool ×1
Added: agencies ×1 brand ×1 llm ×1 monitoring ×1 search ×1 software ×1 tool ×1
Dropped: fit ×4 many ×4 clients ×3 agency ×2 tracking ×1
10. Is Cheap Seats a good fit for a developer-tools company checking whether ChatGPT and Claude recommend it? — 6 queries
- "Cheap Seats" "AI" monitoring | "cheapseats" "ChatGPT" | "Cheap Seats" developer tools visibility ×1
- "Cheap Seats" LLM brand visibility developer tools ×1
- "CheapSeats" AI visibility monitoring | "Cheap Seats" "LLM" ×1
- Cheap Seats AI brand monitoring ChatGPT Claude developer tools ×1
- Cheap Seats AI visibility ChatGPT Claude recommendations tool ×1
- cheapseats AI recommendation checker ChatGPT Claude ×1
Added: ai ×5 visibility ×4 developer ×3 monitoring ×3 tools ×3 brand ×2 llm ×2 checker ×1
Dropped: checking ×6 company ×6 developer-tools ×6 fit ×6 recommend ×6 whether ×6 claude ×3 chatgpt ×2
11. What does it cost to run Cheap Seats every day, and how do I keep the spend under control? — 5 queries
- "Cheap Seats" AI competitive intelligence tool product marketing ×1
- "Cheap Seats" AI cost pricing agent | "Cheap Seats" codex spend ×1
- "Cheap Seats" Claude agent metcalfc ×1
- "cheapseats" "AI" | "cheap seats" "agent" github | "cheapseats" pricing ×1
- cheapseats github claude code ×1
Added: agent ×3 ai ×3 claude ×2 github ×2 pricing ×2 code ×1 codex ×1 competitive ×1
Dropped: control ×5 day ×5 keep ×5 run ×5 under ×5 cost ×4 spend ×4 cheap ×1