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What the assistants searched

Cheap Seats head to heads 2026-10-23 16:40 pooled with the set's finished runs before it that were asked and graded the same way: 4 runs · search track only, from the stored answers · this run alone · JSON

88/88answers searched
247searches
203distinct 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 981/8Dageno AI ×6 3/8
Cheap Seats AI visibility tool2 451/52/5
"Cheap Seats" "AI" visibility | "cheapseats" "AI" tracking3 4 940/4Otterly.AI ×2 Gauge ×1 1/4
Cheap Seats AI assistant brand recommendation tracking840/40/4
Cheap Seats AI brand visibility tracking ChatGPT Claude543/43/4
Cheap Seats open-source AI visibility tool640/44/4
Cheap Seats AI visibility tracking tool LLM recommendations131/3Dageno AI ×1 2/3
Otterly.AI pricing plans 2026330/3Otterly.AI ×3 3/3
"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 tool pricing220/21/2
"Cheap Seats" Claude agent metcalfc1120/20/2
Cheap Seats open source AI visibility tool github620/2Limelit Open ×2 Otterly.AI ×2 Peec AI ×2 Profound ×2 0/2
Gauge AI visibility platform pricing features420/2Gauge ×2 Semrush AI Toolkit ×2 1/2
Peec AI pricing 2026220/2Peec AI ×2 0/2
Peec AI pricing plans 2026220/2Peec AI ×2 1/2
Profound AI visibility platform pricing 2026120/2Profound ×2 1/2
Profound AI visibility pricing 2026120/2Profound ×2 1/2
Semrush AI Toolkit pricing 2026 ChatGPT Claude brand tracking520/2Semrush AI Toolkit ×2 2/2
Semrush AI Toolkit pricing ChatGPT Claude brand tracking 2026520/2Semrush AI Toolkit ×2 1/2
Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit supported platforms Claude520/2Semrush AI Toolkit ×2 2/2
AI visibility tracking tools 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly pricing comparison +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound610/1Frase ×1 Profound ×1 1/1
Anthropic Claude API pricing per million tokens 2026 batch prompt caching1110/10/1
best AI visibility tracking tools for agencies multiple clients 2026910/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
"Cheap Seats" AI agent cost pricing daily1110/10/1
"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 recommendation how determines recommended brand810/11/1
"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 tracking supported platforms510/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 1/1
Cheap Seats AI brand tracking Profound AI visibility pricing | Profound AI visibility platform pricing answer engine optimization tracking recommendations110/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
"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" brand | "cheapseats" recommendations brand810/11/1
"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" pricing210/1Peec AI ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1

Showing the 50 run by the most answers; 153 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 AI662“"Cheap Seats" "AI" visibility | "cheapseats" visibility | Peec AI pricing official”; “"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”
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
visibility715
pricing548
brand458
tool419
llm3310
monitoring308
github305
geo267
tracking266
ai262
recommendations233
2026197
search196
software188
platform163
chatgpt136
mentions127
cheapseats.ai126
marketing104
agent101
features93
source92
claude91
tracker85
cheap-seats83

Dropped

Prompt words the searches left out.

WordSearchesPrompts
whether673
vs522
recommend492
fit422
tracking404
cheap3810
seats3810
assistants372
pick271
compare261
improving261
cheaply251
startup251
track251
wants251
ai248
checking221
company221
developer-tools221
small221
team221
alternative211
control211
day211
keep211

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.

“Otterly.AI pricing plans 2026” — 3 answers · Otterly.AI

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

[[prompts]]
id = "otterly-ai-pricing-plans-2026"
text = "Otterly.AI pricing plans 2026"
“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"
“Cheap Seats open source AI visibility tool github” — 2 answers · Limelit Open, Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Profound

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

[[prompts]]
id = "cheap-seats-open-source-ai"
text = "Cheap Seats open source AI visibility tool github"
“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"
“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"
“Peec AI pricing plans 2026” — 2 answers · Peec AI

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

[[prompts]]
id = "peec-ai-pricing-plans-2026"
text = "Peec AI pricing plans 2026"
“Profound AI visibility platform pricing 2026” — 2 answers · Profound

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

[[prompts]]
id = "profound-ai-visibility-platform-pricing"
text = "Profound AI visibility platform 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 2026 ChatGPT Claude brand tracking” — 2 answers · Semrush AI Toolkit

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

[[prompts]]
id = "semrush-ai-toolkit-pricing-2026"
text = "Semrush AI Toolkit pricing 2026 ChatGPT Claude brand tracking"

Prompt by prompt

#PromptSearchedSearches per answerDistinctFrom promptPrompt kept
1Cheap Seats vs Profound for tracking whether AI assistants recommend us: which should I pick?8/83.42249%38%
2Cheap Seats or Peec AI for a small marketing team?8/83.02157%51%
3Cheap Seats vs Otterly.AI for a startup that wants to track AI visibility cheaply?8/83.11950%32%
4How does Cheap Seats compare with Gauge for tracking and improving AI visibility?8/83.22263%54%
5Cheap Seats or Semrush AI Toolkit for tracking our brand in ChatGPT and Claude?8/83.01772%69%
6Is Cheap Seats a good open-source alternative to paid AI visibility tools?8/82.61654%51%
7What are the downsides of self-hosting Cheap Seats to measure AI search visibility?8/82.41753%53%
8How does Cheap Seats decide whether an AI assistant recommended a brand?8/82.21566%58%
9Is Cheap Seats a good fit for an agency tracking AI visibility for many clients?8/82.51771%55%
10Is Cheap Seats a good fit for a developer-tools company checking whether ChatGPT and Claude recommend it?8/82.82140%29%
11What does it cost to run Cheap Seats every day, and how do I keep the spend under control?8/82.62030%21%
1. Cheap Seats vs Profound for tracking whether AI assistants recommend us: which should I pick? — 22 queries

Added: visibility ×19 brand ×12 pricing ×10 recommendations ×9 answer ×5 chatgpt ×5 platform ×5 2026 ×4

Dropped: pick ×27 recommend ×27 vs ×27 whether ×27 assistants ×25 profound ×16 tracking ×9 cheap ×4

2. Cheap Seats or Peec AI for a small marketing team? — 21 queries

Added: visibility ×13 pricing ×11 tool ×7 search ×6 2026 ×4 software ×4 features ×3 geo ×3

Dropped: small ×22 team ×22 marketing ×13 peec ×12 cheap ×5 seats ×5 ai ×4

3. Cheap Seats vs Otterly.AI for a startup that wants to track AI visibility cheaply? — 19 queries

Added: pricing ×10 tracking ×9 brand ×6 geo ×5 2026 ×4 cheapseats.ai ×4 monitoring ×4 tool ×4

Dropped: cheaply ×25 startup ×25 track ×25 vs ×25 wants ×25 otterly.ai ×20 ai ×10 visibility ×8

4. How does Cheap Seats compare with Gauge for tracking and improving AI visibility? — 22 queries

Added: platform ×7 geo ×6 brand ×5 features ×5 tool ×5 marketing ×4 pricing ×4 search ×4

Dropped: compare ×26 improving ×26 tracking ×17 gauge ×15 cheap ×4 seats ×4 ai ×2 visibility ×2

5. Cheap Seats or Semrush AI Toolkit for tracking our brand in ChatGPT and Claude? — 17 queries

Added: visibility ×15 2026 ×4 monitoring ×4 platforms ×4 pricing ×4 supported ×4 cheapseats.ai ×2 llm ×2

Dropped: toolkit ×13 semrush ×12 chatgpt ×10 cheap ×7 seats ×7 tracking ×7 brand ×6 claude ×5

6. Is Cheap Seats a good open-source alternative to paid AI visibility tools? — 16 queries

Added: github ×11 llm ×6 tracking ×6 brand ×5 pricing ×5 cheap-seats ×4 geo ×4 official ×4

Dropped: alternative ×21 paid ×21 open-source ×16 tools ×12 cheap ×4 seats ×4 ai ×3 visibility ×1

7. What are the downsides of self-hosting Cheap Seats to measure AI search visibility? — 17 queries

Added: github ×9 geo ×5 llm ×5 open ×4 self-hosted ×4 source ×4 brand ×3 cheap-seats ×3

Dropped: downsides ×19 measure ×19 self-hosting ×19 search ×8 ai ×2 cheap ×2 seats ×2 visibility ×1

8. How does Cheap Seats decide whether an AI assistant recommended a brand? — 15 queries

Added: recommendation ×8 visibility ×8 tracking ×5 mentions ×4 methodology ×4 llm ×3 tool ×3 chatgpt ×1

Dropped: whether ×18 decide ×17 recommended ×14 assistant ×12

9. Is Cheap Seats a good fit for an agency tracking AI visibility for many clients? — 17 queries

Added: brand ×6 llm ×4 monitoring ×4 search ×4 tool ×4 agencies ×3 geo ×2 multiple ×2

Dropped: fit ×20 many ×19 clients ×15 agency ×13 tracking ×7 cheap ×2 seats ×2 visibility ×2

10. Is Cheap Seats a good fit for a developer-tools company checking whether ChatGPT and Claude recommend it? — 21 queries

Added: ai ×17 visibility ×16 monitoring ×9 brand ×7 developer ×7 tools ×7 llm ×6 recommendations ×4

Dropped: checking ×22 company ×22 developer-tools ×22 fit ×22 recommend ×22 whether ×22 claude ×13 chatgpt ×9

11. What does it cost to run Cheap Seats every day, and how do I keep the spend under control? — 20 queries

Added: agent ×10 ai ×9 claude ×9 github ×8 pricing ×8 code ×5 daily ×4 marketing ×4

Dropped: control ×21 day ×21 keep ×21 run ×21 under ×21 spend ×20 cost ×15 cheap ×5