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 (search track, recall): 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 28 days asked the same way, with a 95% interval (Wilson).
| # | Prompt | Named 28d | Recommended 28d | 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 |
Citation stability
How much the hosts search-track answers cite move from one day's run to the next: the similarity of the two runs' shares of citations by host (Bray–Curtis, 100 when every host kept its share) and the overlap of the hosts cited (Jaccard). Low stability means one run's sources table is a sample, not a standing.
– stability — needs 3 run-to-run transitions of the same method to score; has 1
Newest, 2026-10-21 → 2026-10-22: similarity 66, overlap 49% (prompts changed).
New: backlinko.com, sitepoint.com, demandlocal.com, explodingtopics.com, rivo.io, texta.ai, useomnia.com, waikay.io, abmatic.ai, api.tryprofound.com and 38 more
Gone: help.tryprofound.com, arahi.ai, blog.hubspot.com, capterra.com, citeme.io, help.peec.ai, indexly.ai, muddyrivernews.com, resources.rework.com, seo-stuff.com and 36 more
Each transition, newest first: 10-22 66
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 |