Choosing an AI visibility tool
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Buyers who have decided to track AI visibility and are comparing AEO/GEO tools: which one, for what kind of team, at what cost, covering which assistants. Competing for it: Profound, Peec AI, Otterly.AI, Gauge, Dageno AI and AI Peekaboo, and the AI features in Semrush and Ahrefs. Cheap Seats' claim: an open-source, self-hosted alternative that grades recommendation rather than mere mention, shows every answer and citation behind a number, and turns results into a ranked fix list, at the cost of the model API calls.
Prompts
Each prompt day by day (recall track, search): how many answers named Cheap Seats. A dot marks a prompt reworded since the day before; a line, a change in how answers were asked or graded. Named and recommended pool each prompt's answers over the last 7 days asked the same way, with a 95% interval (Wilson).
| # | Prompt | Named 7d | Recommended 7d | 10-22 | 10-21 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How do generative engine optimization tools work, and which ones are worth paying for? generative-engine-optimization-tools-work | 0% (0–49) | 0% (0–49) | 0/2 | 0/2 |
| 2 | What should I look for when evaluating AI visibility or GEO tools? evaluate-ai-visibility-tools-checklist | 0% (0–49) | 0% (0–49) | 0/2 | 0/2 |
| 3 | What's the best AEO tool for a B2B SaaS company that wants to know if ChatGPT and Claude recommend it? best-aeo-tool-b2b-saas | 0% (0–49) | 0% (0–49) | 0/2 | 0/2 |
| 4 | What are good alternatives to Profound for tracking AI search visibility? alternatives-to-profound | 0% (0–49) | 0% (0–49) | 0/2 | 0/2 |
| 5 | Peec AI vs Profound: which is better for a mid-size marketing team? peec-ai-vs-profound | 0% (0–49) | 0% (0–49) | 0/2 | 0/2 |
| 6 | Otterly.AI or Peec AI for tracking AI search visibility on a tight budget? otterly-vs-peec-ai-budget | 0% (0–49) | 0% (0–49) | 0/2 | 0/2 |
| 7 | Is Gauge a good tool for tracking AI visibility, and what are the alternatives? gauge-ai-visibility-worth-it | 0% (0–49) | 0% (0–49) | 0/2 | 0/2 |
| 8 | Are Semrush's AI Toolkit or Ahrefs Brand Radar enough, or do we need a dedicated AI visibility tool? semrush-ahrefs-enough-ai-visibility | 0% (0–49) | 0% (0–49) | 0/2 | 0/2 |
| 9 | What's the best AI visibility tool for an SEO agency that reports to many clients under its own brand? ai-visibility-tool-agency-white-label | 0% (0–49) | 0% (0–49) | 0/2 | 0/2 |
| 10 | Which AI visibility tools cover Claude, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, not just ChatGPT? ai-visibility-tools-cover-claude-overviews | 0% (0–49) | 0% (0–49) | 0/2 | 0/2 |
| 11 | What's a cheap way to start measuring AI visibility for a small startup? cheap-start-measuring-ai-visibility | 0% (0–49) | 0% (0–49) | 0/2 | 0/2 |
| 12 | Is there a free AI visibility tracker that's actually useful? free-ai-visibility-tracker-useful | 0% (0–49) | 0% (0–49) | 0/2 | 0/2 |
| 13 | How do AI visibility tools price their plans, and what drives the cost: prompts, models, brands or seats? ai-visibility-tool-pricing-drivers | 0% (0–66) | – | 0/2• | 0/2 |
| 14 | AI answers change every time you ask. How do AI visibility tools make their numbers reliable, and how can I check them? ai-visibility-numbers-accurate | 0% (0–66) | – | 0/2• | 0/2 |
| 15 | Which AI visibility platforms meet enterprise security requirements like SOC 2? ai-visibility-platform-soc2-enterprise | 0% (0–49) | 0% (0–49) | 0/2 | 0/2 |
| 16 | Which AI visibility tools have an API so we can pull the data into our own dashboards? ai-visibility-tool-api-export | 0% (0–49) | 0% (0–49) | 0/2 | 0/2 |
| 17 | Which AI visibility tools can run on a schedule and alert us when we drop out of answers? ai-visibility-tools-run-schedule | 0% (0–49) | 0% (0–49) | 0/2 | 0/2 |
Competitors the grader folds onto
Answers that name one of these by an alias are counted under its name.
- Profound also tryprofound, Profound AI
- Peec AI also Peec, peec.ai
- Otterly.AI also Otterly, OtterlyAI
- Gauge also withgauge, withgauge.com
- Dageno AI also Dageno, dageno.ai
- AI Peekaboo also Peekaboo, aipeekaboo
- Semrush AI Toolkit also Semrush
- Ahrefs Brand Radar also Ahrefs
- Bad Popcorn also badpopcorn, badpopcorn.ai
- Elmo also elmohq, elmohq.com, elmohq/elmo
- Limelit Open also Limelit, limelit.co, limelit-co/open, limelitgeo/open
What the assistants searched, over the latest runs
Re-grade stored answers with today's grader, brand and competitors: see what it would cost first
Review the prompts: which ones are flat, noisy, off target or duplicates, and what no prompt asks (free; monthly is enough)
Runs
| Run | Status | Named search | Recommended | Rank | Trigger | Created |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Choosing an AI visibility tool 2026-10-22 04:31 | done | 0% | 0% | – | mcp | 2026-10-22 04:31:01 |
| Choosing an AI visibility tool 2026-10-21 20:05 | done | 0% | 0% | – | schedule | 2026-10-21 20:05:46 |