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What the assistants searched

Cheap Seats head to heads 2026-10-23 05:15 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
123searches
109distinct queries
56%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 tracking tool3 940/4Dageno AI ×4 2/4
"Cheap Seats" "AI" visibility | "cheapseats" AI tracking3 4 930/3Gauge ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 1/3
Cheap Seats AI visibility tool2 431/32/3
Cheap Seats AI assistant brand recommendation tracking820/20/2
Cheap Seats AI brand visibility tracking ChatGPT Claude521/21/2
Cheap Seats AI search visibility self-hosted720/22/2
Cheap Seats open-source AI visibility tool620/22/2
Otterly.AI pricing plans 2026320/2Otterly.AI ×2 2/2
Peec AI pricing 2026220/2Peec AI ×2 0/2
Semrush AI Toolkit pricing ChatGPT Claude brand tracking 2026520/2Semrush AI Toolkit ×2 1/2
AI visibility tracking tools 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly pricing comparison +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound610/1Frase ×1 Profound ×1 1/1
best AI visibility tracking tools for agencies multiple clients 2026910/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
"Cheap Seats" "AI assistants" | "cheapseats" "brand" "tracking"110/1Profound ×1 0/1
"Cheap Seats" AI brand mentions ChatGPT tracking111/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 1/1
"Cheap Seats" AI brand mentions LLM monitoring110/10/1
Cheap Seats AI brand monitoring ChatGPT Claude developer tools1010/11/1
"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 methodology810/10/1
"Cheap Seats" AI brand recommended recommendation tracking810/1Peec AI ×1 0/1
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 tracking ChatGPT Claude | Semrush AI Toolkit Claude ChatGPT brand visibility tracking510/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 1/1
"Cheap Seats" "AI" brand tracking | "cheapseats" AI visibility110/1Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
"Cheap Seats" "AI" brand visibility | "cheapseats" "Claude" tracking510/1Peec AI ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 1/1
"Cheap Seats" AI competitive intelligence tool product marketing1110/10/1
"Cheap Seats" AI cost pricing agent | "Cheap Seats" codex spend1110/10/1
"Cheap Seats" AI cost pricing daily | "Cheap Seats" codex1110/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
"Cheap Seats" "AI" marketing tool | "cheapseats" "visibility"210/1Peec AI ×1 0/1
"Cheap Seats" "AI" marketing visibility | "cheapseats" "AI" visibility210/1Peec AI ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
"Cheap Seats" "AI" monitoring | "cheapseats" "ChatGPT" | "Cheap Seats" developer tools visibility1010/11/1
"Cheap Seats" AI search visibility ChatGPT brand mentions311/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 1/1
"Cheap Seats" AI search visibility ChatGPT brand monitoring311/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 1/1
"Cheap Seats" AI search visibility ChatGPT brand tracking411/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 1/1
"Cheap Seats" AI search visibility LLM brand monitoring910/1Dageno AI ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 0/1
"Cheap Seats" AI search visibility LLM brand monitoring agencies910/1Dageno AI ×1 0/1
Cheap Seats AI search visibility tool210/10/1
"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" "self-host" visibility | "Cheap Seats" 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 ChatGPT Claude recommendations tool1010/10/1
Cheap Seats AI visibility Gauge comparison | Gauge AI visibility platform features410/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Gauge ×1 0/1
Cheap Seats AI visibility Gauge comparison | Gauge AI visibility tracking improve get gauge410/1Gauge ×1 Peec AI ×1 0/1
"Cheap Seats" AI visibility GEO open source github711/11/1
"Cheap Seats" AI visibility LLM brand mentions tool github810/10/1
Cheap Seats AI visibility marketing pricing | Peec AI pricing features small marketing team210/1Peec AI ×1 0/1
"Cheap Seats" "AI visibility" open source610/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Peec AI ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 1/1
Cheap Seats AI visibility pricing monitoring | Otterly AI pricing AI visibility monitoring310/1Otterly.AI ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
Cheap Seats AI visibility pricing Otterly AI | Otterly.AI pricing official310/1Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 0/1

Showing the 50 run by the most answers; 59 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“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.AI331“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”; “"Cheap Seats" "AI" visibility | "cheapseats" AI visibility | Peec AI pricing official | Otterly AI pricing official”
Profound111“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.

WordSearchesPrompts
visibility355
pricing258
tool239
brand227
monitoring166
github164
llm157
ai142
geo136
tracking125
software107
2026106
recommendations103
search95
chatgpt74
platform73
mentions64
tracker44
cheap-seats43
cheapseats.ai43
official43
features42
marketing42
open42
source42

Dropped

Prompt words the searches left out.

WordSearchesPrompts
whether343
vs272
recommend262
fit212
tracking184
assistants182
cheap1710
seats1710
ai147
pick141
cheaply131
compare131
improving131
startup131
track131
wants131
checking121
company121
developer-tools121
alternative111
paid111
small111
team111
claude102
downsides101

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” — 4 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"
“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"
“Peec AI pricing 2026” — 2 answers · Peec AI

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

[[prompts]]
id = "peec-ai-pricing-2026"
text = "Peec AI pricing 2026"
“Semrush AI Toolkit pricing ChatGPT Claude brand tracking 2026” — 2 answers · Semrush AI Toolkit

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

[[prompts]]
id = "semrush-ai-toolkit-pricing-chatgpt"
text = "Semrush AI Toolkit pricing ChatGPT Claude brand tracking 2026"
“AI visibility tracking tools 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly pricing comparison” — 1 answers · Frase, 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"
“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"
“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-2"
text = "Semrush AI Toolkit Claude ChatGPT brand visibility tracking"
“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"

Prompt by prompt

#PromptSearchedSearches per answerDistinctFrom promptPrompt kept
1Cheap Seats vs Profound for tracking whether AI assistants recommend us: which should I pick?4/43.51451%39%
2Cheap Seats or Peec AI for a small marketing team?4/43.01160%51%
3Cheap Seats vs Otterly.AI for a startup that wants to track AI visibility cheaply?4/43.21149%32%
4How does Cheap Seats compare with Gauge for tracking and improving AI visibility?4/43.21264%55%
5Cheap Seats or Semrush AI Toolkit for tracking our brand in ChatGPT and Claude?4/43.01070%69%
6Is Cheap Seats a good open-source alternative to paid AI visibility tools?4/42.81053%51%
7What are the downsides of self-hosting Cheap Seats to measure AI search visibility?4/42.5954%54%
8How does Cheap Seats decide whether an AI assistant recommended a brand?4/42.0765%56%
9Is Cheap Seats a good fit for an agency tracking AI visibility for many clients?4/42.2874%58%
10Is Cheap Seats a good fit for a developer-tools company checking whether ChatGPT and Claude recommend it?4/43.01239%28%
11What does it cost to run Cheap Seats every day, and how do I keep the spend under control?4/42.2935%23%
1. Cheap Seats vs Profound for tracking whether AI assistants recommend us: which should I pick? — 14 queries

Added: visibility ×10 brand ×7 pricing ×4 recommendations ×4 chatgpt ×3 platform ×3 2026 ×2 answer ×2

Dropped: pick ×14 recommend ×14 vs ×14 whether ×14 assistants ×12 profound ×8 tracking ×5 cheap ×2

2. Cheap Seats or Peec AI for a small marketing team? — 11 queries

Added: visibility ×6 pricing ×4 tool ×4 search ×3 2026 ×2 geo ×2 software ×2 features ×1

Dropped: small ×11 team ×11 marketing ×7 peec ×6 ai ×2 cheap ×2 seats ×2

3. Cheap Seats vs Otterly.AI for a startup that wants to track AI visibility cheaply? — 11 queries

Added: pricing ×5 brand ×4 monitoring ×3 tracking ×3 2026 ×2 chatgpt ×2 cheapseats.ai ×2 geo ×2

Dropped: cheaply ×13 startup ×13 track ×13 vs ×13 wants ×13 otterly.ai ×10 ai ×5 visibility ×4

4. How does Cheap Seats compare with Gauge for tracking and improving AI visibility? — 12 queries

Added: features ×3 platform ×3 pricing ×3 comparison ×2 geo ×2 marketing ×2 software ×2 tool ×2

Dropped: compare ×13 improving ×13 tracking ×8 gauge ×7 ai ×2 cheap ×2 seats ×2

5. Cheap Seats or Semrush AI Toolkit for tracking our brand in ChatGPT and Claude? — 10 queries

Added: visibility ×8 monitoring ×3 2026 ×2 pricing ×2 site ×2 software ×2 cheap-seats ×1 cheapseats.ai ×1

Dropped: semrush ×7 toolkit ×7 chatgpt ×4 cheap ×3 claude ×3 seats ×3 tracking ×3 brand ×2

6. Is Cheap Seats a good open-source alternative to paid AI visibility tools? — 10 queries

Added: github ×6 brand ×3 llm ×3 pricing ×3 tracking ×3 cheap-seats ×2 geo ×2 official ×2

Dropped: alternative ×11 paid ×11 open-source ×9 tools ×6 ai ×2 cheap ×2 seats ×2

7. What are the downsides of self-hosting Cheap Seats to measure AI search visibility? — 9 queries

Added: github ×5 geo ×4 llm ×2 open ×2 self ×2 self-hosted ×2 source ×2 tracking ×2

Dropped: downsides ×10 measure ×10 self-hosting ×10 search ×4 ai ×1 cheap ×1 seats ×1

8. How does Cheap Seats decide whether an AI assistant recommended a brand? — 7 queries

Added: visibility ×4 recommendation ×3 tracking ×3 llm ×2 mentions ×2 methodology ×2 tool ×2 github ×1

Dropped: decide ×8 whether ×8 assistant ×6 recommended ×6

9. Is Cheap Seats a good fit for an agency tracking AI visibility for many clients? — 8 queries

Added: agencies ×2 brand ×2 llm ×2 monitoring ×2 search ×2 tool ×2 2026 ×1 best ×1

Dropped: fit ×9 many ×9 agency ×6 clients ×6 tracking ×2 cheap ×1 seats ×1

10. Is Cheap Seats a good fit for a developer-tools company checking whether ChatGPT and Claude recommend it? — 12 queries

Added: ai ×9 visibility ×7 monitoring ×5 brand ×4 developer ×4 tools ×4 llm ×3 recommendations ×2

Dropped: checking ×12 company ×12 developer-tools ×12 fit ×12 recommend ×12 whether ×12 claude ×7 chatgpt ×5

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

Added: ai ×5 github ×4 agent ×3 claude ×3 pricing ×3 code ×2 codex ×2 marketing ×2

Dropped: control ×9 day ×9 keep ×9 run ×9 under ×9 spend ×8 cost ×7 cheap ×1