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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.

Today: $0.31 of $40.00

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 14 days asked the same way, with a 95% interval (Wilson).

Pool over7 days14 days28 days

#PromptNamed 14dRecommended 14d10-2310-2210-21
1Cheap Seats vs Profound for tracking whether AI assistants recommend us: which should I pick? popcorn-vs-profound-tracking-whether 100% (34–100)50% (9–91) 2/2•
2Cheap Seats or Peec AI for a small marketing team? popcorn-peec-ai-small-marketing 100% (34–100)0% (0–66) 2/2•
3Cheap Seats vs Otterly.AI for a startup that wants to track AI visibility cheaply? popcorn-vs-otterly-startup 100% (34–100)0% (0–66) 2/2•
4How does Cheap Seats compare with Gauge for tracking and improving AI visibility? popcorn-vs-gauge 100% (34–100)50% (9–91) 2/2•
5Cheap Seats or Semrush AI Toolkit for tracking our brand in ChatGPT and Claude? popcorn-vs-semrush-ai-toolkit 100% (34–100)0% (0–66) 2/2•1/21/2
6Is Cheap Seats a good open-source alternative to paid AI visibility tools? popcorn-open-source-alternative-paid 100% (34–100)50% (9–91) 2/2•1/21/2
7What are the downsides of self-hosting Cheap Seats to measure AI search visibility? downsides-self-hosting-popcorn-measure 100% (34–100)0% (0–66) 2/2•1/2
8How does Cheap Seats decide whether an AI assistant recommended a brand? popcorn-decide-whether-ai-assistant 100% (34–100)0% (0–66) 2/2•1/2
9Is Cheap Seats a good fit for an agency tracking AI visibility for many clients? popcorn-fit-agency-many-clients 100% (34–100)0% (0–66) 2/2•
10Is Cheap Seats a good fit for a developer-tools company checking whether ChatGPT and Claude recommend it? popcorn-fit-developer-tools-company 100% (34–100)0% (0–66) 2/2•1/2
11What does it cost to run Cheap Seats every day, and how do I keep the spend under control? popcorn-daily-running-cost 100% (34–100)0% (0–66) 2/2•

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 2

Newest, 2026-10-22 → 2026-10-23: similarity 34, overlap 25% (prompts changed).
New: github.com/cheapseatsdev/cheapseats, ainora.lt, beomniscient.com, dev.to, emailanalytics.com, geotoolbox.ai, ai-cdn.scrunchai.com, aiclicks.io, alternativeto.net, answersocrates.com and 21 more
Gone: badpopcorn.ai, trypopcorn.ai, llmrefs.com, evertune.ai, popcorn.ai, popcorn.co, texta.ai, agencyanalytics.com, aipeekaboo.com, awesome.ecosyste.ms and 35 more

Each transition, newest first: 10-23 34 · 10-22 55

Competitors the grader folds onto

Answers that name one of these by an alias are counted under its name.

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

RunStatusNamed searchRecommendedRankTriggerCreated
Cheap Seats head to heads 2026-10-23 03:44done100%14%#1mcp2026-10-23 03:44:52
Cheap Seats head to heads 2026-10-22 05:12done18%0%#10mcp2026-10-22 05:12:38
Cheap Seats head to heads 2026-10-22 04:31done18%0%#11mcp2026-10-22 04:31:02
Cheap Seats head to heads 2026-10-21 20:12done14%0%#13schedule2026-10-21 20:12:20