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What the assistants searched

Cheap Seats head to heads 2026-10-23 05:44 · search track only, from the stored answers · pool the last 7 runs · JSON

22/22answers searched
63searches
62distinct queries
55%from prompt
46%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 920/2Dageno AI ×1 2/2
Cheap Seats AI assistant brand recommendation tracking810/11/1
"Cheap Seats" AI brand mentions ChatGPT tracking110/1Otterly.AI ×1 1/1
Cheap Seats AI brand recommendation how decides recommended brand810/11/1
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" "visibility" | site.tryprofound.com pricing110/1Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 1/1
Cheap Seats AI brand visibility tracking ChatGPT Claude511/11/1
"Cheap Seats" "AI" brand | "cheapseats" "recommendation" AI810/11/1
"Cheap Seats" "AI" marketing visibility | "cheapseats" "AI" visibility | "Cheap Seats" "Peec"210/1Peec AI ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 1/1
"Cheap Seats" AI monitoring software | "cheapseats.ai" | "Cheap Seats" answer engines110/1Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 1/1
"Cheap Seats" "AI" "monitoring" | "cheapseats.ai"510/1Peec AI ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 1/1
"Cheap Seats" AI pricing daily cost1110/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
"Cheap Seats" AI search visibility agency LLM brand monitoring910/11/1
"Cheap Seats" AI search visibility GEO brand tracking410/11/1
"Cheap Seats" AI search visibility LLM brand tracking210/11/1
"Cheap Seats" AI search visibility open source self-hosted710/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 1/1
Cheap Seats AI search visibility pricing marketing | Peec AI pricing features small marketing team210/1Peec AI ×1 1/1
"Cheap Seats" "AI search" | "cheapseats" "brand" AI tracking410/1Gauge ×1 1/1
"Cheap Seats" "AI" "self-host" visibility | "Cheap Seats" AI search visibility github710/11/1
Cheap Seats AI visibility agency multiple clients910/11/1
"Cheap Seats" AI visibility brand mentions ChatGPT tool methodology810/11/1
Cheap Seats AI visibility ChatGPT Claude developer tools1010/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 1/1
Cheap Seats AI visibility ChatGPT Claude recommendations tool1010/11/1
"Cheap Seats" "AI" visibility marketing | "cheapseats" "visibility"410/1Gauge ×1 Peec AI ×1 1/1
"Cheap Seats" "AI visibility" open source610/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Peec AI ×1 1/1
Cheap Seats AI visibility tool410/11/1
Cheap Seats AI visibility tool pricing210/11/1
Cheap Seats AI visibility tracking Gauge comparison | Gauge AI visibility platform features410/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Gauge ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 1/1
Cheap Seats AI visibility tracking pricing | Otterly AI pricing AI visibility tracking310/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 1/1
Cheap Seats AI visibility tracking Profound brand recommendations | Profound AI visibility pricing monitoring recommendations features110/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 1/1
Cheap Seats AI visibility tracking tool LLM recommendations110/11/1
"Cheap Seats" "AI" visibility | "cheapseats" "AI visibility"910/11/1
"Cheap Seats" "AI" visibility | "cheapseats" "ChatGPT"1010/11/1
"Cheap Seats" "AI" visibility | "cheapseats" "tracking" AI310/1Otterly.AI ×1 1/1
"Cheap Seats" "brand" AI tracking | "cheapseats" "Claude" | "Cheap Seats" AI visibility510/1Peec AI ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 1/1
"Cheap Seats" "ChatGPT" tracking | "Cheap Seats" "Profound" | "cheapseats" AI marketing110/1Profound ×1 1/1
"Cheap Seats" Claude agent marketing1110/11/1
"Cheap Seats" GEO OR "AI search" OR LLM brand visibility310/1Otterly.AI ×1 1/1
"Cheap Seats" "GEO" | "Cheap Seats" "AI visibility" tool | "cheapseats.ai"410/1Gauge ×1 Peec AI ×1 1/1
"Cheap Seats" "GEO" | "cheapseats.ai" | "Cheap Seats" "Otterly"310/1Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 1/1
"Cheap Seats" github metcalfc1110/11/1
"Cheap Seats" LLM brand visibility monitoring1011/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 1/1
"Cheap Seats" LLM brand visibility tracker github711/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 1/1
Cheap Seats open-source AI visibility tool610/11/1
"Cheap Seats" "visibility" | "cheapseats" "brand" | "Cheap Seats" "AI assistants"810/11/1
"cheapseats" AI agent | "cheap seats" "github" AI1110/10/1
"cheapseats" AI github | "cheap seats" "open-source" | "Cheap Seats" GEO tool610/11/1
cheapseats AI marketing tool210/11/1
"cheapseats" AI visibility monitoring | "cheap seats" "developer tools"1010/11/1
cheapseats AI visibility monitoring | "cheap-seats" "visibility" | "cheapseats" "self" AI710/11/1

Showing the 50 run by the most answers; 12 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“"cheapseats" visibility | "cheap-seats" "AI" | Peec AI official pricing tracking sources | Otterly AI official pricing monitoring”
Peec AI111“"cheapseats" visibility | "cheap-seats" "AI" | Peec AI official pricing tracking sources | Otterly AI official pricing monitoring”

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
visibility195
pricing137
brand128
tool117
monitoring86
llm77
tracking75
github74
geo64
search64
recommendations63
ai62
chatgpt54
202644
cheapseats.ai44
features43
agent41
marketing33
mentions33
software33
platform32
source32
cheap-seats22
open22
perplexity22

Dropped

Prompt words the searches left out.

WordSearchesPrompts
whether173
vs132
tracking124
recommend122
cheap119
seats119
fit112
assistants102
compare71
improving71
pick71
cheaply61
control61
day61
keep61
many61
run61
spend61
startup61
track61
under61
wants61
visibility54
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"
“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 search visibility pricing marketing” — 1 answers · Peec AI

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

[[prompts]]
id = "cheap-seats-ai-search-visibility"
text = "Cheap Seats AI search visibility pricing marketing"
“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 ChatGPT Claude developer tools” — 1 answers · Semrush AI Toolkit

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

[[prompts]]
id = "cheap-seats-ai-visibility-chatgpt"
text = "Cheap Seats AI visibility ChatGPT Claude developer tools"
“Cheap Seats AI visibility tracking Gauge comparison” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar, Gauge, Otterly.AI, Peec AI

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

[[prompts]]
id = "cheap-seats-ai-visibility-tracking-2"
text = "Cheap Seats AI visibility tracking Gauge comparison"
“Gauge AI visibility platform features” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar, Gauge, Otterly.AI, Peec AI

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 tracking pricing” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar, Otterly.AI

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

[[prompts]]
id = "cheap-seats-ai-visibility-tracking-3"
text = "Cheap Seats AI visibility tracking pricing"
“Otterly AI pricing AI visibility tracking” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar, Otterly.AI

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

[[prompts]]
id = "otterly-ai-pricing-ai-visibility"
text = "Otterly AI pricing AI visibility tracking"

Prompt by prompt

#PromptSearchedSearches per answerDistinctFrom promptPrompt kept
1Cheap Seats vs Profound for tracking whether AI assistants recommend us: which should I pick?2/23.5748%39%
2Cheap Seats or Peec AI for a small marketing team?2/23.0652%52%
3Cheap Seats vs Otterly.AI for a startup that wants to track AI visibility cheaply?2/23.0652%32%
4How does Cheap Seats compare with Gauge for tracking and improving AI visibility?2/23.5763%54%
5Cheap Seats or Semrush AI Toolkit for tracking our brand in ChatGPT and Claude?2/23.0675%67%
6Is Cheap Seats a good open-source alternative to paid AI visibility tools?2/22.5555%50%
7What are the downsides of self-hosting Cheap Seats to measure AI search visibility?2/22.0453%47%
8How does Cheap Seats decide whether an AI assistant recommended a brand?2/22.5568%60%
9Is Cheap Seats a good fit for an agency tracking AI visibility for many clients?2/23.0665%50%
10Is Cheap Seats a good fit for a developer-tools company checking whether ChatGPT and Claude recommend it?2/22.5542%30%
11What does it cost to run Cheap Seats every day, and how do I keep the spend under control?2/23.0632%22%
1. Cheap Seats vs Profound for tracking whether AI assistants recommend us: which should I pick? — 7 queries

Added: visibility ×4 brand ×3 pricing ×3 chatgpt ×2 monitoring ×2 recommendations ×2 2026 ×1 answer ×1

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

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

Added: visibility ×4 pricing ×3 search ×2 tool ×2 2026 ×1 brand ×1 features ×1 llm ×1

Dropped: small ×5 team ×5 marketing ×3 peec ×3 cheap ×2 seats ×2

3. Cheap Seats vs Otterly.AI for a startup that wants to track AI visibility cheaply? — 6 queries

Added: tracking ×3 geo ×2 pricing ×2 2026 ×1 brand ×1 cheapseats.ai ×1 llm ×1 search ×1

Dropped: cheaply ×6 startup ×6 track ×6 vs ×6 wants ×6 otterly.ai ×5 ai ×2 visibility ×2

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

Added: brand ×2 features ×2 geo ×2 platform ×2 search ×2 tool ×2 cheapseats.ai ×1 comparison ×1

Dropped: compare ×7 improving ×7 gauge ×5 tracking ×4 cheap ×1 seats ×1 visibility ×1

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

Added: visibility ×4 2026 ×1 cheapseats.ai ×1 monitoring ×1 platforms ×1 pricing ×1 supported ×1

Dropped: chatgpt ×3 semrush ×3 toolkit ×3 brand ×2 cheap ×2 seats ×2 tracking ×2 claude ×1

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

Added: github ×2 brand ×1 chatgpt ×1 cheap-seats ×1 geo ×1 llm ×1 monitoring ×1 official ×1

Dropped: alternative ×5 paid ×5 open-source ×3 tools ×3 ai ×1 cheap ×1 seats ×1 visibility ×1

7. What are the downsides of self-hosting Cheap Seats to measure AI search visibility? — 4 queries

Added: github ×2 brand ×1 cheap-seats ×1 llm ×1 monitoring ×1 open ×1 self ×1 self-host ×1

Dropped: downsides ×4 measure ×4 self-hosting ×4 search ×2 ai ×1 cheap ×1 seats ×1

8. How does Cheap Seats decide whether an AI assistant recommended a brand? — 5 queries

Added: recommendation ×3 visibility ×2 chatgpt ×1 mentions ×1 methodology ×1 tool ×1 tracking ×1

Dropped: whether ×5 decide ×4 recommended ×4 assistant ×3

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

Added: brand ×2 chatgpt ×1 geo ×1 github ×1 llm ×1 mentions ×1 monitoring ×1 multiple ×1

Dropped: fit ×6 many ×6 clients ×5 tracking ×4 agency ×3 cheap ×1 seats ×1 visibility ×1

10. Is Cheap Seats a good fit for a developer-tools company checking whether ChatGPT and Claude recommend it? — 5 queries

Added: visibility ×5 ai ×4 developer ×2 monitoring ×2 tools ×2 brand ×1 llm ×1 recommendations ×1

Dropped: checking ×5 company ×5 developer-tools ×5 fit ×5 recommend ×5 whether ×5 claude ×3 chatgpt ×2

11. What does it cost to run Cheap Seats every day, and how do I keep the spend under control? — 6 queries

Added: agent ×4 ai ×2 claude ×2 daily ×2 github ×2 pricing ×2 budgets ×1 code ×1

Dropped: control ×6 day ×6 keep ×6 run ×6 spend ×6 under ×6 cost ×4 cheap ×1