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What the assistants searched

Cheap Seats head to heads 2026-10-23 05:44 pooled with the set's finished runs before it that were asked and graded the same way: 3 runs · search track only, from the stored answers · this run alone · JSON

66/66answers searched
186searches
158distinct 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 960/6Dageno AI ×5 2/6
Cheap Seats AI visibility tool2 441/42/4
"Cheap Seats" "AI" visibility | "cheapseats" AI tracking3 4 930/3Gauge ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 1/3
Cheap Seats AI assistant brand recommendation tracking830/30/3
Cheap Seats AI brand visibility tracking ChatGPT Claude532/32/3
Cheap Seats open-source AI visibility tool630/33/3
"Cheap Seats" AI brand mentions ChatGPT tracking121/2Otterly.AI ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 1/2
Cheap Seats AI brand tracking ChatGPT Claude | Semrush AI Toolkit Claude ChatGPT brand visibility tracking520/2Ahrefs Brand Radar ×2 Semrush AI Toolkit ×2 2/2
Cheap Seats AI search visibility self-hosted720/22/2
"Cheap Seats" "AI" "self-host" visibility | "Cheap Seats" AI search visibility github720/21/2
Cheap Seats AI visibility ChatGPT Claude recommendations tool1020/21/2
"Cheap Seats" "AI visibility" open source620/2Ahrefs Brand Radar ×2 Peec AI ×2 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 2/2
Cheap Seats AI visibility tracking tool LLM recommendations120/21/2
Gauge AI visibility platform pricing features420/2Gauge ×2 Semrush AI Toolkit ×2 1/2
Otterly.AI pricing plans 2026320/2Otterly.AI ×2 2/2
Peec AI pricing 2026220/2Peec AI ×2 0/2
Profound AI visibility pricing 2026120/2Profound ×2 1/2
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 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 recommendation how decides recommended brand810/10/1
"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 | "cheapseats" AI visibility110/1Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
"Cheap Seats" "AI" brand tracking | "cheapseats" "visibility" | site.tryprofound.com pricing110/1Peec 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" brand | "cheapseats" "recommendation" AI810/10/1
"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" marketing visibility | "cheapseats" "AI" visibility | "Cheap Seats" "Peec"210/1Peec AI ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
"Cheap Seats" AI monitoring software | "cheapseats.ai" | "Cheap Seats" answer engines110/1Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
"Cheap Seats" "AI" monitoring | "cheapseats" "ChatGPT" | "Cheap Seats" developer tools visibility1010/11/1
"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 monitoring910/10/1
"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 GEO brand tracking410/10/1
"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 LLM brand tracking210/10/1

Showing the 50 run by the most answers; 108 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 AI552“"cheapseats" visibility | "cheap-seats" "AI" | Peec AI official pricing tracking sources | Otterly AI official pricing monitoring”; “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”
Otterly.AI441“"cheapseats" visibility | "cheap-seats" "AI" | Peec AI official pricing tracking sources | Otterly AI official pricing monitoring”; “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”
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
visibility545
pricing388
tool349
brand348
monitoring248
github235
llm229
ai202
geo197
tracking196
recommendations163
search155
2026146
software137
chatgpt126
platform103
mentions95
cheapseats.ai84
features83
marketing73
source72
agent71
tracker65
cheap-seats63
open62

Dropped

Prompt words the searches left out.

WordSearchesPrompts
whether513
vs402
recommend382
fit322
tracking304
cheap2810
seats2810
assistants282
pick211
compare201
improving201
cheaply191
startup191
track191
wants191
ai187
checking171
company171
developer-tools171
alternative161
paid161
small161
team161
control151
day151

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” — 6 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” — 2 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” — 2 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"
“Gauge AI visibility platform pricing features” — 2 answers · Gauge, Semrush AI Toolkit

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

[[prompts]]
id = "gauge-ai-visibility-platform-pricing"
text = "Gauge AI visibility platform pricing features"
“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"
“Profound AI visibility pricing 2026” — 2 answers · Profound

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

[[prompts]]
id = "profound-ai-visibility-pricing-2026"
text = "Profound AI visibility 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"

Prompt by prompt

#PromptSearchedSearches per answerDistinctFrom promptPrompt kept
1Cheap Seats vs Profound for tracking whether AI assistants recommend us: which should I pick?6/63.51850%39%
2Cheap Seats or Peec AI for a small marketing team?6/63.01757%52%
3Cheap Seats vs Otterly.AI for a startup that wants to track AI visibility cheaply?6/63.21650%32%
4How does Cheap Seats compare with Gauge for tracking and improving AI visibility?6/63.31763%54%
5Cheap Seats or Semrush AI Toolkit for tracking our brand in ChatGPT and Claude?6/63.01471%69%
6Is Cheap Seats a good open-source alternative to paid AI visibility tools?6/62.71354%51%
7What are the downsides of self-hosting Cheap Seats to measure AI search visibility?6/62.31254%52%
8How does Cheap Seats decide whether an AI assistant recommended a brand?6/62.21166%58%
9Is Cheap Seats a good fit for an agency tracking AI visibility for many clients?6/62.51370%55%
10Is Cheap Seats a good fit for a developer-tools company checking whether ChatGPT and Claude recommend it?6/62.81640%29%
11What does it cost to run Cheap Seats every day, and how do I keep the spend under control?6/62.51534%23%
1. Cheap Seats vs Profound for tracking whether AI assistants recommend us: which should I pick? — 18 queries

Added: visibility ×14 brand ×10 pricing ×7 recommendations ×6 chatgpt ×5 monitoring ×4 2026 ×3 answer ×3

Dropped: pick ×21 recommend ×21 vs ×21 whether ×21 assistants ×19 profound ×12 tracking ×7 cheap ×3

2. Cheap Seats or Peec AI for a small marketing team? — 17 queries

Added: visibility ×10 pricing ×7 tool ×6 search ×5 2026 ×3 features ×2 geo ×2 software ×2

Dropped: small ×16 team ×16 marketing ×10 peec ×9 cheap ×4 seats ×4 ai ×2

3. Cheap Seats vs Otterly.AI for a startup that wants to track AI visibility cheaply? — 16 queries

Added: pricing ×7 tracking ×6 brand ×5 geo ×4 2026 ×3 cheapseats.ai ×3 monitoring ×3 search ×3

Dropped: cheaply ×19 startup ×19 track ×19 vs ×19 wants ×19 otterly.ai ×15 ai ×7 visibility ×6

4. How does Cheap Seats compare with Gauge for tracking and improving AI visibility? — 17 queries

Added: features ×5 platform ×5 geo ×4 pricing ×4 tool ×4 brand ×3 comparison ×3 marketing ×3

Dropped: compare ×20 improving ×20 gauge ×12 tracking ×12 cheap ×3 seats ×3 ai ×2 visibility ×1

5. Cheap Seats or Semrush AI Toolkit for tracking our brand in ChatGPT and Claude? — 14 queries

Added: visibility ×12 monitoring ×4 2026 ×3 pricing ×3 cheapseats.ai ×2 platforms ×2 site ×2 software ×2

Dropped: semrush ×10 toolkit ×10 chatgpt ×7 cheap ×5 seats ×5 tracking ×5 brand ×4 claude ×4

6. Is Cheap Seats a good open-source alternative to paid AI visibility tools? — 13 queries

Added: github ×8 brand ×4 llm ×4 pricing ×4 tracking ×4 cheap-seats ×3 geo ×3 official ×3

Dropped: alternative ×16 paid ×16 open-source ×12 tools ×9 ai ×3 cheap ×3 seats ×3 visibility ×1

7. What are the downsides of self-hosting Cheap Seats to measure AI search visibility? — 12 queries

Added: github ×7 geo ×4 llm ×3 open ×3 self ×3 self-hosted ×3 source ×3 brand ×2

Dropped: downsides ×14 measure ×14 self-hosting ×14 search ×6 ai ×2 cheap ×2 seats ×2

8. How does Cheap Seats decide whether an AI assistant recommended a brand? — 11 queries

Added: recommendation ×6 visibility ×6 tracking ×4 mentions ×3 methodology ×3 tool ×3 llm ×2 chatgpt ×1

Dropped: whether ×13 decide ×12 recommended ×10 assistant ×9

9. Is Cheap Seats a good fit for an agency tracking AI visibility for many clients? — 13 queries

Added: brand ×4 llm ×3 monitoring ×3 search ×3 tool ×3 agencies ×2 multiple ×2 software ×2

Dropped: fit ×15 many ×15 clients ×11 agency ×9 tracking ×6 cheap ×2 seats ×2 visibility ×1

10. Is Cheap Seats a good fit for a developer-tools company checking whether ChatGPT and Claude recommend it? — 16 queries

Added: ai ×13 visibility ×12 monitoring ×7 developer ×6 tools ×6 brand ×5 llm ×4 recommendations ×3

Dropped: checking ×17 company ×17 developer-tools ×17 fit ×17 recommend ×17 whether ×17 claude ×10 chatgpt ×7

11. What does it cost to run Cheap Seats every day, and how do I keep the spend under control? — 15 queries

Added: agent ×7 ai ×7 github ×6 claude ×5 pricing ×5 code ×3 daily ×3 marketing ×3

Dropped: control ×15 day ×15 keep ×15 run ×15 under ×15 spend ×14 cost ×11 cheap ×2