Cheap Seats head to heads
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The only set that names the brand: buyers who already know Cheap Seats and are comparing it with the alternatives, or asking whether it fits their team.
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 7 days asked the same way, with a 95% interval (Wilson).
| # | Prompt | Named 7d | Recommended 7d | 10-22 | 10-21 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cheap Seats vs Profound for tracking whether AI assistants recommend us: which should I pick? popcorn-vs-profound-tracking-whether | 0% (0–49) | 0% (0–49) | 0/2 | 0/2 |
| 2 | Cheap Seats or Peec AI for a small marketing team? popcorn-peec-ai-small-marketing | 0% (0–49) | 0% (0–49) | 0/2 | 0/2 |
| 3 | Cheap Seats vs Otterly.AI for a startup that wants to track AI visibility cheaply? popcorn-vs-otterly-startup | 0% (0–49) | 0% (0–49) | 0/2 | 0/2 |
| 4 | How does Cheap Seats compare with Gauge for tracking and improving AI visibility? popcorn-vs-gauge | 0% (0–49) | 0% (0–49) | 0/2 | 0/2 |
| 5 | Cheap Seats or Semrush AI Toolkit for tracking our brand in ChatGPT and Claude? popcorn-vs-semrush-ai-toolkit | 50% (15–85) | 0% (0–49) | 1/2 | 1/2 |
| 6 | Is Cheap Seats a good open-source alternative to paid AI visibility tools? popcorn-open-source-alternative-paid | 50% (15–85) | 0% (0–49) | 1/2 | 1/2 |
| 7 | What are the downsides of self-hosting Cheap Seats to measure AI search visibility? downsides-self-hosting-popcorn-measure | 25% (5–70) | 0% (0–49) | 1/2 | 0/2 |
| 8 | How does Cheap Seats decide whether an AI assistant recommended a brand? popcorn-decide-whether-ai-assistant | 25% (5–70) | 0% (0–49) | 1/2 | 0/2 |
| 9 | Is Cheap Seats a good fit for an agency tracking AI visibility for many clients? popcorn-fit-agency-many-clients | 0% (0–49) | 0% (0–49) | 0/2 | 0/2 |
| 10 | Is Cheap Seats a good fit for a developer-tools company checking whether ChatGPT and Claude recommend it? popcorn-fit-developer-tools-company | 25% (5–70) | 0% (0–49) | 0/2 | 1/2 |
| 11 | What does it cost to run Cheap Seats every day, and how do I keep the spend under control? popcorn-daily-running-cost | 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 55, overlap 34%.
New: llmrefs.com, amplitude.com, aipeekaboo.com, airops.com, apify.com, backlinko.com, brandcitation.com, claudefa.st, cognizo.ai, community.startuptalky.com and 25 more
Gone: getpulsesignal.com, webfx.com, apps.shopify.com, authoritytech.io, backgroundclaude.com, barchart.com, brainsuite.ai, business.adobe.com, clearscope.io, cloudzero.com and 25 more
Each transition, newest first: 10-22 55
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheap Seats head to heads 2026-10-22 05:12 | done | 18% | 0% | #10 | mcp | 2026-10-22 05:12:38 |
| Cheap Seats head to heads 2026-10-22 04:31 | done | 18% | 0% | #11 | mcp | 2026-10-22 04:31:02 |
| Cheap Seats head to heads 2026-10-21 20:12 | done | 14% | 0% | #13 | schedule | 2026-10-21 20:12:20 |