At a glance

Tool	Category	Entry price	Free trial	AI engines (#)	Core metrics (#)	API	MCP server	Monitoring cadence	Data method
Ahrefs	SEO + AI-visibility platform	$29/mo	No	7	3	Yes	Yes	Mixed	UI scraping
Bing Webmaster Tools	Free first-party analytics	$0	N/A	N/D	3/7	Yes	No	Not disclosed	First-party logs
ChatGPT Astra (GPT-6 Astra)	AI answer engine (DIY API layer)	$20	No	1	0	Yes	Yes	N/A (API)	First-party API
Claude Fable (Fable 5 / 5.1)	AI answer engine (DIY API layer)	$20 ($17 annual)	No	1	0	Yes	Yes	N/A (API)	First-party API
Cognizo	AI visibility / Answer Engine…	$499/mo		10	6	Yes	Yes	Daily	UI scraping
Conductor	SEO + AI-visibility platform	Not published	Yes	9	4	Yes	Yes	Configurable	API sampling
Goodie AI	AI search visibility / answer…	$399/mo	Yes	12	5	Yes	Yes	Daily	Not disclosed
Google Gemini	AI answer engine (DIY API layer)	~$7.99…	Yes	1	0	Yes	Yes	N/A (API)	First-party API
Google Search Console	Free first-party analytics	$0	N/A	1	1/7	Yes	No	Daily	First-party logs
LLMrefs	AI search analytics / LLM…	$79/mo	Yes	11	2	Yes	No	Continuous	Not disclosed
Nightwatch	SEO + AI-visibility platform	EUR 79	Yes	5	5	Yes	Yes	Daily	Simulated sampling
Peec AI	AI search analytics platform…	$95/mo	Yes	13	4	Yes	Yes	Daily	UI scraping
Perplexity Sonar	AI answer engine (DIY API layer)	$1 per 1M input…	No	1	0	Yes	Yes	N/A (API)	First-party API
Rankability	AI search visibility tracking…	$99	Yes	8	2/7	Yes	Yes	Configurable	Not disclosed
SE Ranking	SEO + AI-visibility platform	$129/mo	Yes	5	4	Yes	Yes	Daily	UI scraping
Search Atlas	SEO + AI-visibility platform	$99/mo	Yes	5	5	Yes	Yes	Not disclosed	Not disclosed
seoClarity	SEO + AI-visibility platform	$2,500/mo	Yes	9	3	Yes	Yes	Configurable	Not disclosed
Surfer SEO	Content optimization and…	$49/mo	Yes	5	4	Yes	Yes	Daily	UI scraping
Yotpo (Discover)	Ecommerce platform + AI module	Not disclosed	No	4	3	No	Yes	Not disclosed	Not disclosed
ZipTie	AI search visibility…	From $42.75	Yes	7	5/7	Yes	Yes	Configurable	Live capture

Ahrefs

Ahrefs: SEO software suite (backlinks, keywords, rank tracking, site audit, web analytics) with a Brand Radar AI-visibility module. Website: https://ahrefs.com.

Pricing

Entry Tier Name: Starter
Entry Tier Price: $29/mo
Entry Tier Includes: No AI prompt tracking, no Brand Radar, no API, no MCP; 1 seat; 1 month historical data
Mid Tier Name: Lite
Mid Tier Price: $129/mo
Mid Tier Includes: Brand Radar; 150 Custom Prompt checks/mo; Web Analytics; API access (100,000 units/mo); MCP server; 1 seat; 6 months historical data. Standard ($249) raises this to 300 checks/mo, 400,000 API units and 2 years of history; Advanced ($449) to 600 checks/mo, 1,000,000 units and 5 years.
Top Tier Name: Enterprise
Top Tier Price: $1,499/mo
Top Tier Includes: Custom Prompt check volume not disclosed; SSO; access management and audit log; dedicated account manager; Google Search Console integration with 16+ months of history; Looker Studio connectors; 2,000,000 API units/mo; unlimited historical data
Free Trial: No (no trial of paid plans; a free "Ahrefs Free" tier is available after site-ownership verification)

Coverage

Primary Category: SEO software suite (backlinks, keywords, rank tracking, site audit, web analytics) with a Brand Radar AI-visibility module
Max AI Engines Supported: 7
AI Engines Covered: Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Grok (Grok collection noted as temporarily paused). Claude is covered only via Custom Prompts.
Engine Selection Model: Search Demand from Starter up; Web Visibility from Standard up; AI indexes require the Brand Radar AI add-on on any paid plan. Custom Prompt checks/mo: Lite 150, Standard 300, Advanced 600, with add-on packs $50 (2,500 checks) to $250 (25,000).
Monitoring Cadence: Mixed: AI chatbot indexes monthly on a 90-day window; AI Overviews/AI Mode every few days; Web Visibility every few minutes; Custom Prompts user-selectable daily/weekly/monthly
Data Collection Method: UI scraping of the rendered answer via the free public web interfaces, not API sampling; raw responses stored and parsed for citations and mentions
Bots/Crawlers Tracked: 12 categories incl. AI crawlers, AI Assistant, AI Search; named examples Googlebot, GPTBot, ClaudeBot, AhrefsBot. Full literal list not published. Requires Cloudflare Logpush (Enterprise) or a Cloudflare Worker.

Metrics tracked

Tracks Visibility Score: No (no single composite visibility score; reports Mentions, Citations, AI Share of Voice, Estimated Impressions)
Tracks Share of Voice: Yes ("AI Share of Voice")
Tracks Citation Share: Yes ("Citations" / cited domains / cited pages)
Citation Share Splits Owned/Earned: No (no labeled owned-vs-earned split; achievable only by filtering citations by domain)
Tracks Source Mention Rate: Yes ("Mentions")
Tracks Sentiment: No (not documented on official pages)
Tracks Positioning Accuracy: No (not documented on official pages)
Total Core Metrics Tracked: 3
Competitor Tracking: Yes (add competitors alongside your brand; "Only brand", "With others", "Others only" views)
Competitor Ad Intelligence: No
Citation Gap Reporting: Yes, via filters rather than a named report (citation does not contain your domain AND contains a competitor)
Paid Ads Tracking: No
Ads Platform Integrations: None
AI Traffic Analytics: Yes, split across two products: Web Analytics has an LLM channel filter and per-engine referral traffic with engagement metrics; Bot Analytics covers server-side crawler hits. The two run independently, so crawls are not tied to conversions.

Content & optimization

Generates Content Briefs: No
Generates Full Drafts/Articles: No (AI Content Helper is an editor-side assistant: grading, topical gaps, rephrase/expand, title/meta and heading suggestions)
Generates FAQs: No
Technical Crawler Audits: Unknown (Site Audit covers 170+ SEO issues incl. robots.txt and crawlability; no llms.txt or GPTBot/ClaudeBot-specific accessibility check documented)
PR/Affiliate/Social/Owned-Media Toolbox: Partial: Social Media Manager (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, Threads, Facebook) only; no PR, affiliate or owned-media publishing tooling
Prompt Volume / Real Buyer Query Data: Yes, but modeled: monthly prompt volumes per platform are derived from Ahrefs’ keyword database and People Also Ask corpus with semantic fanout, not observed AI prompt logs
AI-Generated Prompt Suggestions: Yes (Custom Prompts "Generate" feature; location, language, focus areas, custom instructions)
CRM/Support Data Enrichment: No
Agentic/Autonomous Workflow: No (Brand Radar, Site Audit and Web Analytics report only; the separately marketed Letaido product is not a Brand Radar capability)
Agentic Workflow Description: N/A

Data, integrations & API

MCP Server Available: Yes (official hosted server at https://api.ahrefs.com/mcp/mcp, OAuth; Lite and above; consumes Integration API units)
Number of MCP Tools: Unknown (docs enumerate 20 tool groups, not individual tools)
API Access: Yes
API Access Starting Tier: Lite ($129/mo); API v3 metered in units, base cost 50 units per request
Claude Connectors Directory Listed: Yes
Connectors Directory Tier: First-party (Ahrefs’ own MCP server, listed at claude.com/connectors/ahrefs)
Data Export Available: Yes (metered in export rows/mo: Lite 500k, Standard 1.5M, Advanced 4M, Enterprise from 10M)
Export Formats: CSV; Google Sheets (rolling out beyond Keywords Explorer)
Primary Interface: Multiple (web dashboard primary, plus REST API, hosted MCP server, Looker Studio connectors, Ask Ahrefs chat)
Integration Destinations: Looker Studio (Site Audit, Site Explorer, Rank Tracker, Brand Radar connectors; Advanced+); Google Search Console; API and MCP into ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Cursor, Copilot Studio, n8n, Lovable; Cloudflare as an inbound source for Bot Analytics. No GA4 or Slack integration found.

Team, security & support

Seats Limit: 1 user included on every tier; extra seats $40/mo (Lite, max 2), $60 (Standard, max 5), $80 (Advanced, max 10), $100 (Enterprise, unlimited). Starter cannot add seats.
Regions/Languages Limit: Rank Tracker supports 190+ locations; per-tier location caps not published
Historical Data Retention: Starter 1 month; Lite 6 months; Standard 2 years; Advanced 5 years; Enterprise unlimited
SSO/SAML Available: Yes (listed as "SSO & enterprise-grade security"; SAML not named explicitly)
SSO/SAML Tier: Enterprise only
Dedicated Strategist/Account Manager: Yes
Dedicated Strategist Tier: Enterprise only (dedicated Ahrefs account manager)

Notes

Website: ahrefs.com
YouTube Video: Watch on YouTube
Notes: Prices are monthly billing. Prompt-volume figures are search-demand estimates mapped onto AI platforms, not measured prompt logs. Bot Analytics was free during beta. All values verified on ahrefs.com, help.ahrefs.com and docs.ahrefs.com as of 2026-09-12.

Bing Webmaster Tools

Bing Webmaster Tools: Free first-party analytics for a site's own Bing performance. Its AI Performance report (public preview since February 2026) reports citations in Copilot and Bing AI answers, and, unusually, publishes a Citation Share metric, the closest thing to a competitive AI-visibility figure any major engine exposes. Website: https://www.bing.com/webmasters.

Pricing

Entry Tier Name: Free
Entry Tier Price: $0
Entry Tier Includes: No paid tier. Search Performance, AI Performance, URL Inspection, IndexNow and URL submission, site scan, backlinks and the Bing Webmaster API are all included.
Mid Tier Name: N/A
Mid Tier Price: N/A
Mid Tier Includes: N/A, there is only one tier.
Top Tier Name: N/A
Top Tier Price: N/A
Top Tier Includes: N/A
Free Trial: N/A, free product

Coverage

Primary Category: Free first-party analytics for a site's own Bing performance. Its AI Performance report (public preview since February 2026) reports citations in Copilot and Bing AI answers, and, unusually, publishes a Citation Share metric, the closest thing to a competitive AI-visibility figure any major engine exposes.
Max AI Engines Supported: Pooled, count not disclosed, Microsoft Copilot, AI-generated summaries in Bing, and unnamed "select partner integrations"
AI Engines Covered: Microsoft Copilot, Bing AI summaries and select partner integrations, aggregated into single totals. The partners are never named and the surfaces cannot be separated from each other.
Engine Selection Model: N/A
Monitoring Cadence: Not disclosed for the AI Performance report
Data Collection Method: First-party server-side logging of Microsoft's own serving, but explicitly sampled, Microsoft states "the data shown represents a sample of overall citation activity" and that it will keep refining the metric.
Bots/Crawlers Tracked: Microsoft documents essentially one crawler, bingbot, with no separate Copilot or AI-specific user agent, so one robots.txt directive governs both classic search and AI answers, all or nothing. Content controls instead work at the meta level: nocache (content may still appear in Copilot answers but only URL, snippet and title; not used for training), noarchive (content will not appear in or be linked from Copilot answers, while the page stays in normal search results), and data-nosnippet (supported since October 2025, section-level exclusion from Bing snippets and AI answers while the page stays indexed and rankable; the finest-grained AI control Bing offers). Blocking bingbot removes you from Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo and Copilot at once, and does not block ChatGPT, which runs its own crawlers.

Metrics tracked

Tracks Visibility Score: No, citation counts, not a score
Tracks Share of Voice: Partial, Citation Share (added June 2026) is your share of all citations shown across all sites for the same grounding query. It gives the share number without revealing which competitors hold the rest.
Tracks Citation Share: Yes, Total Citations, Average Cited Pages (mean unique pages cited per day) and page-level citation activity per URL
Citation Share Splits Owned/Earned: No
Tracks Source Mention Rate: Yes, Grounding Queries shows the phrases the AI used when retrieving your content. This is the one thing Google Search Console does not give at all, and it is sample-based.
Tracks Sentiment: No
Tracks Positioning Accuracy: No, Microsoft states the metrics reflect how often pages are cited, "not page importance, ranking, or placement"
Total Core Metrics Tracked: 3 of 7 (citation share/count, source mention via grounding queries, and partial share of voice through Citation Share)
Competitor Tracking: No, Citation Share gives your share of citations for a grounding query but never names the other sites holding the rest
Competitor Ad Intelligence: No
Citation Gap Reporting: Partial, Citation Share implies the gap without identifying who fills it
Paid Ads Tracking: No
Ads Platform Integrations: None
AI Traffic Analytics: No, no click data at all in the AI Performance report, and Microsoft has not stated whether AI-driven clicks are counted inside normal Search Performance totals or excluded. Do not assume either way.

Content & optimization

Generates Content Briefs: No
Generates Full Drafts/Articles: No
Generates FAQs: No
Technical Crawler Audits: Partial, URL Inspection performs a live crawl, index and markup check per URL. Site scan exists. Not a site-wide AI-readiness crawler.
PR/Affiliate/Social/Owned-Media Toolbox: No
Prompt Volume / Real Buyer Query Data: Yes, uniquely, Grounding Queries are the actual phrases Microsoft's AI used to retrieve your content, classified since June 2026 into Intents (Informational, Commercial, Navigational, Learn and Solve, Research, Creation, Local) and clustered into Topics. Sample-based, not a complete list.
AI-Generated Prompt Suggestions: No
CRM/Support Data Enrichment: No
Agentic/Autonomous Workflow: Partial, Copilot in Bing Webmaster Tools (GA March 2025) is a chat assistant inside the BWT interface that answers questions about your own site's data. It is not AI-visibility reporting and is frequently confused with the AI Performance report, which shipped a year later.
Agentic Workflow Description: Chat assistant over your own BWT data, English only at launch. No autonomous execution.

Data, integrations & API

MCP Server Available: No, no official Microsoft MCP server. Community wrappers of the Webmaster API exist (isiahw1/mcp-server-bing-webmaster and others); since AI Performance data is not in the API, none of them expose AI citation data.
Number of MCP Tools: N/A
API Access: Yes for the classic data, Bing Webmaster API, documented on Microsoft Learn. One key per user, user-level across all verified sites, revocable; OAuth 2.0 recommended. Microsoft does not publish rate limits. Critically: AI Performance data is NOT available via the API, and Microsoft has said API access for it is "on our backlog".
API Access Starting Tier: Free
Claude Connectors Directory Listed: No
Connectors Directory Tier: N/A
Data Export Available: Partial, CSV export is documented for keyword and performance data. Export of AI Performance data is not disclosed and is not mentioned in Microsoft's announcement.
Export Formats: CSV
Primary Interface: Web app
Integration Destinations: Bing Webmaster API, IndexNow, import from Google Search Console (which carries verification across)

Team, security & support

Seats Limit: Unlimited delegated users by email address, with three roles: Read Only, Read/Write, Administrator. Sites per account: not disclosed.
Regions/Languages Limit: Device and country filters were added around August 2025 (third-party reporting only)
Historical Data Retention: 16 months per Microsoft's only published statement (October 2024, up from 6). Third-party reporting claims this became 24 months in August 2025, but Microsoft never published it and the only citation chain is a LinkedIn post, treat 24 months as unconfirmed. Retention for AI Performance specifically is not disclosed.
SSO/SAML Available: N/A, Microsoft account authentication
SSO/SAML Tier: N/A
Dedicated Strategist/Account Manager: No
Dedicated Strategist Tier: N/A

Notes

Website: bing.com/webmasters · Docs: learn.microsoft.com/…
YouTube Video: Watch on YouTube
Notes: The one first-party source in this sheet that gives grounding queries, the actual phrases an AI used to retrieve your content, which Google Search Console does not provide at all. Timeline: AI Performance shipped in public preview 10 February 2026, with Intents, Topics, Citation Share and Compare added 16 June 2026. Note that the June 2026 post sits under blogs.bing.com/search/ rather than /webmaster/ and does not appear in the webmaster blog index. Two different things share the word "AI" and are routinely conflated: Copilot IN Bing Webmaster Tools (a chat assistant, GA March 2025) is not the AI Performance report (AEO reporting, February 2026). IndexNow is the adjacent lever: an open ping protocol whose participants are Bing, Naver, Seznam.cz, Yandex and Yep, Google does not participate, and no AI-specific engine is listed. It speeds indexing, and since Copilot grounds on the Bing index that is the part a site owner controls; there is no published evidence it affects citation selection. Microsoft's Bing Webmaster Guidelines were rewritten in 2026 to formally define GEO, with published advice that single-topic pages are more likely to be selected for grounding, facts should be stated directly rather than implied, entity names kept consistent, and essential information placed near the top of the page, while cautioning that GEO does not guarantee citations any more than SEO guarantees rankings. Microsoft has confirmed schema markup helps its AI understand content but publishes no schema requirement for Copilot citation, and no publisher programme is documented.

ChatGPT Astra (GPT-6 Astra)

ChatGPT Astra (GPT-6 Astra): Not an AEO product, it is an AI answer engine and frontier model (OpenAI's flagship, launched 3 Sept 2026). Included here as a DIY AEO layer: the Responses API plus the web_search tool returns structured URL citation annotations, so a prompt set can be run programmatically and cited domains parsed. OpenAI's help centre states Astra is "a model selection, not a mode or agent". Website: https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/.

Pricing

Entry Tier Name: ChatGPT Plus
Entry Tier Price: $20
Entry Tier Includes: Astra in Work and Codex only, not GPT-6 Pro in Chat. Usage metered on rolling 5-hour and weekly windows (roughly 5–45 Astra messages per 5 hours on Plus). Extra usage purchasable as credits. Free and Go tiers are not listed as including Astra.
Mid Tier Name: ChatGPT Pro
Mid Tier Price: $100 (Pro 5x) / $200 (Pro 20x)
Mid Tier Includes: Includes GPT-6 Pro in Chat, powered by Astra. Up to 100–900 Astra messages per 5 hours on Pro 20x. New signups and upgrades to Pro $200 were temporarily paused as of September 2026.
Top Tier Name: Business / Enterprise
Top Tier Price: Business $25/seat/mo ($20 annual) Standard, $125/seat/mo ($100 annual) Premium; Enterprise not disclosed
Top Tier Includes: Business: minimum 2 paid seats, maximum 200 seats for workspaces created after 24 Aug 2026; Premium seats carry 5x Standard usage. Enterprise is sales-negotiated and Astra is off by default at launch, admins enable it under their rate card. API pricing is separate: $10.00 per 1M input, $1.00 per 1M cached input, $50.00 per 1M output; requests over 272K input tokens bill at 2x input and 1.5x output. Context window 1,050,000 tokens, max output 128,000, knowledge cutoff 30 Apr 2026.
Free Trial: No, no standing self-serve trial. Time-limited trials exist only through promotional referral campaigns that auto-convert to paid. A free ChatGPT tier exists but does not list Astra.

Coverage

Primary Category: Not an AEO product, it is an AI answer engine and frontier model (OpenAI's flagship, launched 3 Sept 2026). Included here as a DIY AEO layer: the Responses API plus the web_search tool returns structured URL citation annotations, so a prompt set can be run programmatically and cited domains parsed. OpenAI's help centre states Astra is "a model selection, not a mode or agent".
Max AI Engines Supported: 1 (it is itself one engine)
AI Engines Covered: N/A, Astra is one of the engines the other tools in this sheet measure, not a tool that measures engines. Measuring it DIY covers only OpenAI surfaces.
Engine Selection Model: N/A
Monitoring Cadence: N/A, cadence is whatever schedule the user builds around the API
Data Collection Method: Official first-party API (Responses API + web_search tool). Important caveat: OpenAI nowhere guarantees that API web_search returns the same sources as consumer ChatGPT search, and OAI-SearchBot governs the consumer surface, so API-derived citation data is a proxy, not ground truth for what ChatGPT users see.
Bots/Crawlers Tracked: OpenAI's own crawlers, documented at developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots: OAI-SearchBot (surfaces sites in ChatGPT search, this is the one that gates citation eligibility), GPTBot (training data), ChatGPT-User (user-initiated fetches; robots.txt rules may not apply), OAI-AdsBot (ad landing-page validation). Published IP ranges for each.

Metrics tracked

Tracks Visibility Score: No, N/A, DIY layer. Not a packaged feature; the user must build and run this themselves on top of the API. Citation annotations are returned; any score must be computed by the user.
Tracks Share of Voice: No, N/A, DIY layer. Not a packaged feature; the user must build and run this themselves on top of the API.
Tracks Citation Share: No, the raw citation annotations (url, title, character offsets) are returned; share must be computed by the user
Citation Share Splits Owned/Earned: No, N/A, DIY layer. Not a packaged feature; the user must build and run this themselves on top of the API.
Tracks Source Mention Rate: No, N/A, DIY layer. Not a packaged feature; the user must build and run this themselves on top of the API.
Tracks Sentiment: No, N/A, DIY layer. Not a packaged feature; the user must build and run this themselves on top of the API.
Tracks Positioning Accuracy: No, N/A, DIY layer. Not a packaged feature; the user must build and run this themselves on top of the API.
Total Core Metrics Tracked: 0 as shipped metrics. The API returns raw citation annotations; every metric in this sheet would have to be computed by the user.
Competitor Tracking: No, but allowed_domains / blocked_domains (up to 100 domains, Responses API only) lets a user A/B a competitor set to approximate share of voice
Competitor Ad Intelligence: No
Citation Gap Reporting: No, N/A, DIY layer. Not a packaged feature; the user must build and run this themselves on top of the API.
Paid Ads Tracking: No
Ads Platform Integrations: None
AI Traffic Analytics: No, but referral traffic from ChatGPT is tagged utm_source=chatgpt.com, so AI traffic can be measured in the user's own analytics

Content & optimization

Generates Content Briefs: N/A, it is a general-purpose model, so it can draft anything on request, but ships no AEO brief workflow
Generates Full Drafts/Articles: N/A, same
Generates FAQs: N/A, same
Technical Crawler Audits: No
PR/Affiliate/Social/Owned-Media Toolbox: No
Prompt Volume / Real Buyer Query Data: No, no prompt volume data. The user supplies the prompt set.
AI-Generated Prompt Suggestions: N/A, the model can suggest prompts if asked, but there is no prompt-suggestion feature
CRM/Support Data Enrichment: No
Agentic/Autonomous Workflow: Yes, as a general agent (computer use, browsing, MCP tool calling), not as an AEO workflow
Agentic Workflow Description: Native computer-use, browsing, web search, file search and MCP tool support. Reasoning effort levels low / medium / high / xhigh / max. Enterprise admins can restrict it to approved websites and desktop apps, require confirmation before consequential actions, and phase rollout.

Data, integrations & API

MCP Server Available: Yes, MCP connections are listed among gpt-6-astra capabilities; used via the Responses API with tools: [{type: "mcp", server_url | connector_id, allowed_tools, require_approval}]. OpenAI-maintained connectors include Dropbox, Gmail, Google Calendar/Drive, Microsoft Teams, Outlook, SharePoint. No extra per-tool-call fee.
Number of MCP Tools: N/A, it is an MCP client, not a server
API Access: Yes, Chat Completions, Responses, Realtime, Batch and fine-tuning endpoints. Rate limits 500 RPM at Tier 1 up to 15,000 RPM at Tier 5. temperature and top_p are not supported, so sampling cannot be pinned, repeat each prompt N times and report distributions. Also available on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Bedrock.
API Access Starting Tier: Any API account (usage-tier based)
Claude Connectors Directory Listed: N/A
Connectors Directory Tier: N/A
Data Export Available: Partial, data export is not available in a ChatGPT Business workspace. Enterprise and Edu use the OpenAI Compliance Platform / Compliance API.
Export Formats: Compliance API (Enterprise/Edu). Not disclosed for Business.
Primary Interface: ChatGPT web, desktop and mobile apps; OpenAI API
Integration Destinations: OpenAI API (Chat Completions, Responses, Realtime, Batch), Microsoft Azure, Amazon Bedrock, MCP servers and connectors

Team, security & support

Seats Limit: Business minimum 2, maximum 200 seats (workspaces created after 24 Aug 2026)
Regions/Languages Limit: Not disclosed. Fast mode is unavailable for EU data residency.
Historical Data Retention: Admin-set workspace retention; deleted or unsaved conversations purged within 30 days. API inputs and outputs retained up to 30 days for abuse detection, with Zero Data Retention available for eligible customers on supported endpoints, subject to approval. No training on business or API data by default.
SSO/SAML Available: Yes at Enterprise/Edu managed-workspace level (SSO/SCIM collections). chatgpt.com/pricing shows SAML SSO as No on Free, Go, Plus and Pro. The exact Business-vs-Enterprise split is not clearly stated.
SSO/SAML Tier: Enterprise / Edu
Dedicated Strategist/Account Manager: Not disclosed
Dedicated Strategist Tier: N/A

Notes

Website: openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra · API docs: developers.openai.com/…
YouTube Video: Watch on YouTube
Notes: Included as a DIY measurement layer, not as a competitor to the packaged tools in this sheet. What OpenAI publishes for publishers (help.openai.com Publishers and Developers FAQ): any public website can appear in ChatGPT search; allow OAI-SearchBot in robots.txt and allow OpenAI's published searchbot IP ranges through the host or CDN; noindex prevents surfacing though links may still appear from third-party sources; referrals are tagged utm_source=chatgpt.com; and "placement is not guaranteed". Ranking methodology is not disclosed and no structured-data or feed requirements are published. Contradiction to note: OpenAI's launch post implies Astra reaches all Plus users, while two help-centre articles restrict Plus to Astra in Work and Codex only; third-party press amplified the looser reading. Also not disclosed: any quantified answer-variability figure, and whether consumer ChatGPT search and API web_search return the same sources.

Claude Fable (Fable 5 / 5.1)

Claude Fable (Fable 5 / 5.1): Not an AEO product, it is an AI answer engine and frontier model family (Anthropic; Fable 5 released 9 June 2026, Fable 5.1 on 1 Sept 2026). Included here as a DIY AEO layer: the Messages API web search tool returns citation objects, so a prompt set can be run programmatically and cited sources parsed. Fable is the safeguarded public counterpart to the restricted Claude Mythos models. Website: https://www.anthropic.com/claude/fable.

Pricing

Entry Tier Name: Claude Pro
Entry Tier Price: $20 ($17 annual)
Entry Tier Includes: Fable runs on pay-as-you-go usage credits outside normal plan limits on Pro and Team Standard seats. Not available on the Free tier.
Mid Tier Name: Claude Max
Mid Tier Price: $100 (Max 5x); Max 20x not cleanly disclosed on the pricing page
Mid Tier Includes: Max plans and Team Premium seats include Fable at no extra cost for up to 50% of weekly usage limits.
Top Tier Name: Team / Enterprise
Top Tier Price: Team Standard $25/seat/mo ($20 annual), Team Premium $125/seat/mo ($100 annual); Enterprise $20/seat plus API usage
Top Tier Includes: Team 2–150 seats. Enterprise has no seat limit, is billed annually, and includes SSO, SCIM, audit logs, role-based access, HIPAA-ready deployment, custom data retention and a 500K default context window. API pricing: $10 per 1M input, $50 per 1M output; 5-minute cache write $12.50, 1-hour cache write $20, cache read $0.25 on 5.1 (vs $1.00 on Fable 5). Context window 1M tokens via API, max output 128K per request, training cutoff June 2026 for 5.1. US-only inference carries a 1.1x multiplier.
Free Trial: No for Fable, a free Claude tier exists but does not include Fable.

Coverage

Primary Category: Not an AEO product, it is an AI answer engine and frontier model family (Anthropic; Fable 5 released 9 June 2026, Fable 5.1 on 1 Sept 2026). Included here as a DIY AEO layer: the Messages API web search tool returns citation objects, so a prompt set can be run programmatically and cited sources parsed. Fable is the safeguarded public counterpart to the restricted Claude Mythos models.
Max AI Engines Supported: 1 (it is itself one engine)
AI Engines Covered: N/A, Fable is one of the engines the other tools in this sheet measure, not a tool that measures engines.
Engine Selection Model: N/A
Monitoring Cadence: N/A, cadence is whatever schedule the user builds around the API
Data Collection Method: Official first-party API (Messages API + web search server tool, $10 per 1,000 searches plus tokens). Caveat: API web search and consumer-app search are different systems, consumer image search is served by Bing, and API platform support varies, so API citations are a proxy for, not a measurement of, what the Claude app shows users.
Bots/Crawlers Tracked: Anthropic's own crawlers, documented in its crawler support article: ClaudeBot (collects web content that may contribute to model training), Claude-User (fetches pages on behalf of a user's question), Claude-SearchBot (navigates the web to improve search result quality, blocking it reduces indexing and visibility). robots.txt is honoured per subdomain; Crawl-delay: 1 is supported; a crawler IP list is published. The legacy agents anthropic-ai and Claude-Web are not mentioned in the current article.

Metrics tracked

Tracks Visibility Score: No, N/A, DIY layer. Not a packaged feature; the user must build and run this themselves on top of the API.
Tracks Share of Voice: No, N/A, DIY layer. Not a packaged feature; the user must build and run this themselves on top of the API.
Tracks Citation Share: No, citation objects are returned per search (url, title, cited_text up to 150 characters, encrypted_index) and are not billed as tokens; share must be computed by the user
Citation Share Splits Owned/Earned: No, N/A, DIY layer. Not a packaged feature; the user must build and run this themselves on top of the API.
Tracks Source Mention Rate: No, N/A, DIY layer. Not a packaged feature; the user must build and run this themselves on top of the API.
Tracks Sentiment: No, N/A, DIY layer. Not a packaged feature; the user must build and run this themselves on top of the API.
Tracks Positioning Accuracy: No, N/A, DIY layer. Not a packaged feature; the user must build and run this themselves on top of the API.
Total Core Metrics Tracked: 0 as shipped metrics. The API returns raw citation objects; every metric in this sheet would have to be computed by the user.
Competitor Tracking: No, but mutually exclusive allowed_domains / blocked_domains (bare domains, optional paths, no scheme; using both returns 400) lets a user test whether a given site can be cited
Competitor Ad Intelligence: No
Citation Gap Reporting: No, N/A, DIY layer. Not a packaged feature; the user must build and run this themselves on top of the API.
Paid Ads Tracking: No
Ads Platform Integrations: None
AI Traffic Analytics: No

Content & optimization

Generates Content Briefs: N/A, a general-purpose model can draft anything on request, but ships no AEO brief workflow
Generates Full Drafts/Articles: N/A, same
Generates FAQs: N/A, same
Technical Crawler Audits: No
PR/Affiliate/Social/Owned-Media Toolbox: No
Prompt Volume / Real Buyer Query Data: No, no prompt volume data. The user supplies the prompt set.
AI-Generated Prompt Suggestions: N/A
CRM/Support Data Enrichment: No
Agentic/Autonomous Workflow: Yes, as a general agent (tool use, code execution, computer use, MCP), not as an AEO workflow
Agentic Workflow Description: Adaptive thinking always on, with an effort parameter and task budgets; vision, code execution, tool use, context editing and compaction supported. Distinctive API behaviour: refusals return HTTP 200 with stop_reason "refusal" and the declining classifier named, unbilled if before output; a fallbacks parameter supports server-side retry to a weaker model. Fable 5.1 adds anti-distillation measures that block manual context editing on new API accounts.

Data, integrations & API

MCP Server Available: Yes, Claude is an MCP client, and Anthropic operates the Connectors Directory, a vetted catalogue of MCP servers surfaced inside Claude. Submitting a remote MCP server requires a Team or Enterprise org; requirements include Anthropic security standards, a title plus readOnlyHint/destructiveHint on every tool, OAuth 2.0 for authenticated services, and a privacy policy (missing or incomplete means immediate rejection).
Number of MCP Tools: N/A, it is an MCP client, not a server
API Access: Yes, Messages API. Model IDs claude-fable-5-1 and claude-fable-5. Usage tiers Start ($500/mo cap), Build ($1,000), Scale ($200,000) and Custom (no cap); rate limits are shared as a combined limit across Fable 5 and 5.1. Also on Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, Claude Platform on AWS and Microsoft Foundry/Azure.
API Access Starting Tier: Any API account
Claude Connectors Directory Listed: N/A, Anthropic operates the directory rather than being listed in it
Connectors Directory Tier: N/A
Data Export Available: Not disclosed for Fable-era accounts, Anthropic offers conversation export from account settings, but no primary page confirming the current mechanism was verified.
Export Formats: Not disclosed
Primary Interface: Claude web, desktop and mobile apps; Claude Code; Claude API
Integration Destinations: Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, Claude Platform on AWS, Microsoft Foundry/Azure, MCP servers and the Connectors Directory

Team, security & support

Seats Limit: Team 2–150 seats; Enterprise unlimited
Regions/Languages Limit: Not disclosed. Platform caveat for AEO work: the web search tool is not available on Amazon Bedrock at all, and Google Cloud and Azure/Foundry deployments get basic search only, with no dynamic domain filtering, use the first-party Claude API for measurement runs.
Historical Data Retention: Fable 5.1 adds Enterprise Frontier Safeguards enabling zero-data-retention deployments; Fable 5 and Mythos 5 were documented at launch as 30-day retention, not ZDR. Consumer: deleted chats removed from the backend within 30 days; de-identified data up to 5 years if model improvement is enabled; incognito chats never used for training.
SSO/SAML Available: Yes, Enterprise (SSO, SCIM, audit logs, role-based access)
SSO/SAML Tier: Enterprise
Dedicated Strategist/Account Manager: Not disclosed
Dedicated Strategist Tier: N/A

Notes

Website: anthropic.com/claude/fable · API docs: platform.claude.com/docs
YouTube Video: Watch on YouTube
Notes: Included as a DIY measurement layer, not as a competitor to the packaged tools in this sheet. Anthropic publishes no "how to get cited" or publisher programme document, the only official publisher-facing guidance is the crawler article; everything else on that topic is third-party SEO commentary. Published variability caveat that matters for measurement: the docs state explicitly that whether Claude searches at all is not deterministic, it decides based on request content, and can only be steered by system prompt or hard-capped with max_uses, so repeated runs are required. Version history worth knowing: Fable 5 shipped 9 June 2026, was suspended on 12 June under US export controls after a prompting technique was found that bypassed its safeguards, and was redeployed globally on 1 July with a new classifier Anthropic says blocks that technique in over 99% of cases. Contradiction to note: the pricing page lists Fable only under Team and Enterprise while the help centre says all paid plans including Pro and Max, the credits mechanism reconciles this, but the two pages read differently. Also unresolved: the web search tool doc lists Opus 5 and Claude 4.6 as supported models and does not name Fable 5.1, so Fable plus web-search compatibility is not stated on that page.

Cognizo

Cognizo: AI visibility / Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) platform. Website: https://www.cognizo.ai.

Pricing

Entry Tier Name: Growth
Entry Tier Price: $499/mo
Entry Tier Includes: 8 AI-optimized articles/mo; content agent with auto-publishing; 150 prompts tracked; 22,500 responses analyzed/mo; choose 5 platforms; MCP & API access; customer success partner; unlimited seats, regions, languages, competitors; 1 domain in AI Traffic Analytics; quarterly strategy review
Mid Tier Name: Pro
Mid Tier Price: $999/mo
Mid Tier Includes: 20 AI-optimized articles/mo; content agent with auto-publishing; 350 prompts tracked; 52,500 responses analyzed/mo; choose 5 platforms; MCP & API access; customer success partner; live chat support; monthly strategy review
Top Tier Name: Enterprise
Top Tier Price: Custom
Top Tier Includes: Tailored content volume; custom agents & managed services; custom prompt volume; all 10 platforms; MCP, API & custom integrations; multiple brands & workspaces; dedicated AI search strategist; SSO/SAML, SLA & enterprise controls

Coverage

Primary Category: AI visibility / Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) platform
Max AI Engines Supported: 10
AI Engines Covered: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Meta AI, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek
Engine Selection Model: Growth and Pro include 5 platforms selected from ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Grok; Enterprise is custom coverage across all 10 platforms.
Monitoring Cadence: Daily tracking (all tiers)
Data Collection Method: UI scraping of the rendered answer a real user sees, not API sampling alone
Bots/Crawlers Tracked: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, OAI-SearchBot, and others

Metrics tracked

Tracks Visibility Score: Yes
Tracks Share of Voice: Yes
Tracks Citation Share: Yes
Citation Share Splits Owned/Earned: Yes (earned typically dominates owned)
Tracks Source Mention Rate: Yes
Tracks Sentiment: Yes
Tracks Positioning Accuracy: Yes
Total Core Metrics Tracked: 6
Competitor Tracking: Yes
Competitor Ad Intelligence: Yes (who is advertising on tracked prompts, plus their ad creatives and a breakdown by provider/region/advertiser)
Citation Gap Reporting: Yes (domains that cite competitors but not the brand)
Paid Ads Tracking: Yes
Ads Platform Integrations: ChatGPT Ads: ad library, competitor ad tracking and targeting opportunities
AI Traffic Analytics: Yes

Content & optimization

Generates Content Briefs: Yes
Generates Full Drafts/Articles: Yes (Content Studio: create_brand_content_studio_brief_generate_article)
Generates FAQs: Yes
Technical Crawler Audits: Yes
PR/Affiliate/Social/Owned-Media Toolbox: Yes
Prompt Volume / Real Buyer Query Data: Yes
AI-Generated Prompt Suggestions: Yes
CRM/Support Data Enrichment: Yes
Agentic/Autonomous Workflow: Yes (all tiers)
Agentic Workflow Description: Content agent runs research, content production and auto-publishing on every tier; Enterprise adds custom agents and managed services.

Data, integrations & API

MCP Server Available: Yes
Number of MCP Tools: 64
API Access: Yes
API Access Starting Tier: Growth (every tier)
Claude Connectors Directory Listed: Yes
Connectors Directory Tier: Community (not first-party/officially co-developed)
Data Export Available: Yes (every tier)
Primary Interface: Multiple (dashboard and Chat/MCP)
Integration Destinations: Standalone dashboard; Chat/MCP (listed in Claude's Connectors Directory); data export/API

Team, security & support

Seats Limit: Unlimited (every tier)
Regions/Languages Limit: Unlimited (every tier)
Historical Data Retention: All-time history (every tier)
SSO/SAML Available: Yes
SSO/SAML Tier: Enterprise only
Dedicated Strategist/Account Manager: Yes
Dedicated Strategist Tier: Dedicated AI search strategist: Enterprise only. Customer success partner: all tiers.

Notes

Website: cognizo.ai
YouTube Video: Watch on YouTube
Notes: 64-tool MCP server spans six groups: visibility and metrics, citations, ads and competitors, Content Studio, ad opportunities/strategy, and account/brand management. Additional tracked dimensions: source classification, page type classification, YouTube & Reddit breakdown, ChatGPT Shopping, prompt volumes on tracked prompts, prompt exploration, keyword research, competitive gap analysis.

Conductor

Conductor: Enterprise AEO/SEO platform combining AI search visibility tracking, content creation, technical monitoring and an API/agent layer. Website: https://www.conductor.com.

Pricing

Entry Tier Name: Essentials
Entry Tier Price: Not published
Entry Tier Includes: No AI Search Credits included; 60 content drafts/yr; 1,000 pages analyzed; 5 tracked competitors; 100,000 pages monitored; 3 tracked websites
Mid Tier Name: Growth
Mid Tier Price: Not published
Mid Tier Includes: 2,500 AI Search Credits/yr; 180 content drafts/yr; 25,000 pages analyzed; 25 tracked competitors; 500,000 pages monitored; 5 tracked websites
Top Tier Name: Enterprise
Top Tier Price: Custom
Top Tier Includes: 2,500+ AI Search Credits/yr; custom draft volume; 125,000+ pages analyzed; 75+ tracked competitors; unlimited pages monitored; 10+ tracked websites
Free Trial: Yes (no credit card required; Conductor’s own trial page says 3 weeks in the title and 30 days in the page metadata). A free AI Visibility Report is also available without purchase.

Coverage

Primary Category: Enterprise AEO/SEO platform combining AI search visibility tracking, content creation, technical monitoring and an API/agent layer
Max AI Engines Supported: 9
AI Engines Covered: ChatGPT (Auto), ChatGPT (Search), Claude Sonnet, Google Gemini, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Grok (Auto), Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity. Note: the AI Search Performance report does not support Claude or Grok as trackable engines.
Engine Selection Model: Unknown, no engine gating by tier is published; AI usage is metered by AI Search Credits per year (Essentials none, Growth 2,500, Enterprise 2,500+)
Monitoring Cadence: Configurable daily, weekly or monthly per topic; collection takes from five hours to a few days. Technical monitoring is 24/7.
Data Collection Method: API sampling, stated explicitly: "We use official APIs provided by the AI search engines we support to get the content from responses." Described as an API-first approach.
Bots/Crawlers Tracked: 16+ named bots in log file analysis: OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, GPTBot, OAI-AdsBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Meta-ExternalAgent, Meta-ExternalFetcher, GrokBot, Google Desktop, Google Mobile, GoogleOther, Google-Agent, Bing Desktop, Bing Mobile

Metrics tracked

Tracks Visibility Score: No (no single composite visibility score confirmed)
Tracks Share of Voice: Yes ("Share of Voice")
Tracks Citation Share: Yes ("Citations" / mention and citation tracking)
Citation Share Splits Owned/Earned: Unknown (not documented on the feature page, AI Search Performance docs or FAQs)
Tracks Source Mention Rate: Yes ("Brand Mentions", counted once per response; citations counted per link)
Tracks Sentiment: Yes ("Brand Sentiment Analysis", score 1-10)
Tracks Positioning Accuracy: Unknown (no equivalent metric documented)
Total Core Metrics Tracked: 4
Competitor Tracking: Yes (benchmarking by topic, market share per engine, configurable competing brands, domains and regions)
Competitor Ad Intelligence: No
Citation Gap Reporting: Partial: competitive gap identification and citation analysis are named, but a dedicated citation gap report is not documented
Paid Ads Tracking: No
Ads Platform Integrations: None
AI Traffic Analytics: Yes (sessions, engagement, conversions and revenue in one place via direct GA4 integration). AI bot crawling is a separate report and is not stated to be joined to conversions.

Content & optimization

Generates Content Briefs: Yes (Download Brief exports the draft plus insights)
Generates Full Drafts/Articles: Yes (Generate Draft, labeled beta, full articles from search insights, with AI revision)
Generates FAQs: Unknown (not named as a dedicated feature; the Writing Assistant does generate outlines, meta descriptions and title tags)
Technical Crawler Audits: Yes (Conductor Monitoring: 20+ AEO-specific signals alongside 100+ SEO health signals, incl. crawl directives, schema, semantic HTML and robots.txt mistakes such as accidentally blocking GPTBot). llms.txt auditing not confirmed.
PR/Affiliate/Social/Owned-Media Toolbox: No (positions itself on earned organic visibility rather than paid activation or multi-channel media management)
Prompt Volume / Real Buyer Query Data: Yes, partial: prompts are grounded in Conductor’s 10+ years of keyword data rather than generic AI approximations. Whether per-prompt volume figures are displayed is unknown.
AI-Generated Prompt Suggestions: Yes (the intelligence engine suggests topics and automatically generates hundreds of targeted prompts)
CRM/Support Data Enrichment: No (Salesforce appears only as an Agentforce MCP consumer, not a CRM data source)
Agentic/Autonomous Workflow: No
Agentic Workflow Description: AgentStack is an integration layer (MCP server plus Data, Content, User Management and Configuration APIs) that lets external AI assistants query and generate through Conductor. No autonomous action is documented.

Data, integrations & API

MCP Server Available: Yes (https://mcp-universal.conductor.com/mcp/v3, OAuth)
Number of MCP Tools: 5
API Access: Yes
API Access Starting Tier: Entitlement is by product, not tier: Data API requires an Intelligence subscription, Content API requires a Creator subscription. No minimum tier published.
Claude Connectors Directory Listed: Yes
Connectors Directory Tier: First-party (vendor-published and vendor-operated; directory tier label not stated by Conductor)
Data Export Available: Yes
Export Formats: XLSX and CSV (up to 1M rows per export, filters and sort order preserved; large exports delivered asynchronously by email). APIs are the documented route for bulk extraction.
Primary Interface: Multiple (web dashboards primary, plus MCP server and Data, Content, User Management and Configuration APIs)
Integration Destinations: Looker Studio; Google Analytics 4; Google Search Console; Adobe; Semrush; Yext; Trello; Jira; Asana; Dragon Metrics; Talkwalker; plus Data API and MCP into ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini, Codex, Writer, Replit, Lovable, n8n, Zapier, Salesforce Agentforce and Opal. No named CMS or Slack integration found.

Team, security & support

Seats Limit: No per-tier seat limits published; pricing is positioned as value-based rather than per-seat, and Monitoring states there is no per-seat charge. The Admin role is Enterprise-only.
Regions/Languages Limit: 190+ territories with multiple language options per region; AI search coverage cited at 160+ countries. Platform UI is English only. No per-tier location cap published.
Historical Data Retention: Up to the most recent 24 months of keyword data (32 days in legacy keyword reports). AI search data retention not published.
SSO/SAML Available: Yes (SAML named explicitly)
SSO/SAML Tier: Unknown (no page ties SSO to a tier)
Dedicated Strategist/Account Manager: Yes
Dedicated Strategist Tier: Unknown (dedicated customer success managers are described on the Enterprise positioning page but not listed as a tier-gated pricing row)

Notes

Website: conductor.com
YouTube Video: Watch on YouTube
Notes: Conductor publishes no list price on any official page; all three tiers show usage quotas only and every CTA routes to a trial or demo. Pricing is described as usage-based rather than per-seat. The 9-engine count aggregates ChatGPT Auto/Search and Google AI Mode/AIO as mode pairs. Generate Draft is beta. Verified 2026-09-12.

Goodie AI

Goodie AI: AI search visibility / answer engine optimization platform that tracks brand presence in AI assistants and generates optimization actions. Website: https://higoodie.com.

Pricing

Entry Tier Name: Core
Entry Tier Price: $399/mo
Entry Tier Includes: 100 prompts; 5 models (ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity, AI Mode, Copilot); 10 optimization action credits/mo; revenue attribution via Google Analytics; MCP server access; 3 seats; 2 countries; 2 languages; 10 pages in the Page Visibility Scorecard; all-time lookback
Mid Tier Name: Pro
Mid Tier Price: $999/mo
Mid Tier Includes: 250 prompts; Core models plus Gemini, Alexa and Sparky; 30 optimization action credits/mo; prompt and demand research; SKU-level agentic commerce visibility; MCP server access; 5 seats; 5 countries; 5 languages; 30 pages tracked
Top Tier Name: Enterprise
Top Tier Price: Custom
Top Tier Includes: 500+ prompts; up to 12 models incl. Claude, Meta AI, DeepSeek and Grok; single and multi-brand; 60+ optimization action credits/mo; custom revenue modeling; dedicated AEO strategist; MCP server plus full API and export; 10+ seats; 8+ countries and languages
Free Trial: Yes (7-day free trial on the Core plan; no free plan, trial limits not published)

Coverage

Primary Category: AI search visibility / answer engine optimization platform that tracks brand presence in AI assistants and generates optimization actions
Max AI Engines Supported: 12
AI Engines Covered: ChatGPT, Claude, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Perplexity, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Meta AI, DeepSeek, Grok, Amazon Alexa for Shopping, Sparky (Walmart)
Engine Selection Model: Core includes 5 models; Pro adds Gemini, Alexa and Sparky; Claude, Meta AI, DeepSeek and Grok require Enterprise. Agency Growth includes 3 core models.
Monitoring Cadence: Daily for visibility data; prompt research data updated monthly; Brand Command monitors continuously
Data Collection Method: Unstated, no official page says scraping or API sampling. Closest wording: Goodie "monitors real customer queries across all major AI platforms" and "actively monitors AI-generated answers for brand mentions and sentiment in real time".
Bots/Crawlers Tracked: GPTBot, Perplexity crawlers, Google-Extended, ClaudeBot, Meta AI crawlers, plus emerging AI bots as they launch

Metrics tracked

Tracks Visibility Score: Yes ("brand visibility scores")
Tracks Share of Voice: Yes ("share of voice against competitors")
Tracks Citation Share: Partial, reported as "citation frequency" and top domains citing your brand; no explicit citation share metric
Citation Share Splits Owned/Earned: No as a metric (owned vs earned exists only as an action taxonomy in Optimization Actions)
Tracks Source Mention Rate: Partial ("relative mention frequency"; no named source mention rate metric)
Tracks Sentiment: Yes (sentiment analysis: positive, neutral, negative)
Tracks Positioning Accuracy: Yes (Brand Command catches false AI claims about the brand)
Total Core Metrics Tracked: 5
Competitor Tracking: Yes (share of voice, relative mention frequency, sentiment comparison and which prompts cite competitors but not you)
Competitor Ad Intelligence: No
Citation Gap Reporting: Yes (compares owned assets against the sources AI references when citing competitors, identifying missing topic coverage, weak authority signals, unclear entity definitions and technical gaps)
Paid Ads Tracking: No
Ads Platform Integrations: None for ads. Commerce feeds integrate with Shopify, BigCommerce, Google Merchant Center, Meta Catalog, Amazon Seller Central and custom APIs.
AI Traffic Analytics: Yes (Google Analytics integration identifies AI visits from ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini referrals, segments by content type, and tracks sessions, conversions and revenue by platform and prompt category, plus influenced revenue from zero-click). Crawler behavior is tracked separately via access logs. GSC not confirmed.

Content & optimization

Generates Content Briefs: Unknown (not named on the Content Studio page)
Generates Full Drafts/Articles: Yes (Content Studio / AEO Writer produces answer-first articles and topic cluster coverage with question-based structure, entity definitions, citations and schema recommendations)
Generates FAQs: Unknown as an output type (FAQPage schema appears only as recommended markup)
Technical Crawler Audits: Yes (analyzes robots.txt, server configuration and access logs to identify whether AI bots are blocked intentionally or accidentally; audits schema, page speed, mobile rendering and content structure). llms.txt is a separate free generator tool, not an in-platform audit.
PR/Affiliate/Social/Owned-Media Toolbox: Partial: recommendations and outreach tracking rather than execution. Owned content, earned media (specific journalists and publications to target) and social (entity verification, credential signals, profile completeness). No affiliate, review-site or community module.
Prompt Volume / Real Buyer Query Data: Yes (conversation volume, seasonality shifts, intent patterns and query fanout). Source stated only as monitoring real customer queries across AI platforms; no panel or provider named.
AI-Generated Prompt Suggestions: Unknown (the prompt research page describes discovery and prioritization, not generation)
CRM/Support Data Enrichment: Partial (CRM appears only as a revenue-attribution source; support or sales-call ingestion not documented)
Agentic/Autonomous Workflow: Partial
Agentic Workflow Description: Optimization Actions are recommendations with implementation and outreach tracking, not autonomous execution. The only direct-publish path is commerce feed, schema and content changes pushed via the Shopify and BigCommerce APIs; content can be published directly or exported for a CMS workflow, with no CMS named.

Data, integrations & API

MCP Server Available: Yes (remote server with OAuth; exposes brand visibility scores, competitive tracking, prompt research, crawl data, optimization actions and attribution)
Number of MCP Tools: Unknown (no tool list or count published)
API Access: Yes
API Access Starting Tier: Enterprise only. MCP server access is the only programmatic access on Core and Pro.
Claude Connectors Directory Listed: No
Connectors Directory Tier: N/A
Data Export Available: Yes
Export Formats: Unknown (no format named; export access is Enterprise only)
Primary Interface: Multiple (seat-based web dashboard primary, plus MCP for Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, and custom APIs for commerce feeds)
Integration Destinations: Google Analytics / GA4; CRM systems for revenue tracking (unnamed); Shopify; BigCommerce; Google Merchant Center; Meta Catalog; Amazon Seller Central; custom APIs; MCP clients. No GSC, Looker Studio, Slack, Zapier, WordPress or Webflow confirmed.

Team, security & support

Seats Limit: Core 3 seats; Pro 5; Enterprise 10+; agency plans unlimited
Regions/Languages Limit: Countries: Core 2, Pro 5, Enterprise 8+. Languages: Core 2, Pro 5, Enterprise 8+.
Historical Data Retention: All-time lookback on Core, Pro and Enterprise; daily data collection frequency
SSO/SAML Available: Yes (security page states SAML-based enterprise SSO and SCIM provisioning; SOC 2 Type I and Type II attestations)
SSO/SAML Tier: Unknown (no SSO row appears in the pricing comparison table)
Dedicated Strategist/Account Manager: Yes
Dedicated Strategist Tier: AEO Success Strategist on Enterprise only; Core gets a one-off AEO strategy call, Pro adds bi-weekly support meetings

Notes

Website: higoodie.com
YouTube Video: Watch on YouTube
Notes: Official domain is higoodie.com (goodie.ai is an unrelated domain listed for sale). A separate agency ladder runs Growth $350/mo (10 pitch workspaces, 30 pitch prompts, 3 core models, unlimited seats; client workspace add-on from $399/mo) and Agency Enterprise custom. Content and optimization output is metered as Action Credits (10 / 30 / 60+ per month) covering the AEO Content Writer, Content Optimization, Blog Generation, Outreach Agent, Technical Agent (llms.txt + sitemap repair) and Social Agent. No docs or help center exists on the domain. Verified 2026-09-12.

Google Gemini

Google Gemini: Not an AEO product, an AI answer engine and model family. Included as a DIY AEO layer: Grounding with Google Search returns citation metadata with sentence-level source mapping. IMPORTANT: the Gemini API Terms restrict what may be done with those results, see Notes before building anything on this. Website: https://gemini.google.com.

Pricing

Entry Tier Name: Google AI Plus
Entry Tier Price: ~$7.99 (third-party reporting only; one.google.com renders prices client-side and the figure could not be confirmed from Google directly)
Entry Tier Includes: Google moved from daily prompt limits to a compute-used model refreshing every 5 hours against a weekly limit, with pay-as-you-go top-up credits. Relative access is stated only as multiples: Plus roughly 2x a non-subscriber. All tiers now include Gemini Omni and Gemini 3.5 Flash.
Mid Tier Name: Google AI Pro
Mid Tier Price: ~$20 (third-party reporting)
Mid Tier Includes: Roughly 4x non-subscriber access.
Top Tier Name: Google AI Ultra
Top Tier Price: $100, with a $200 tier
Top Tier Includes: Confirmed on blog.google at I/O 2026, Ultra now starts at $100/mo, down from a prior $249.99, with a $200 tier adding Project Genie and 4x the $100 tier's limits. Ultra includes Deep Think and up to 20x non-subscriber access. API pricing is separate and per million tokens: gemini-3.8/3.7/3.6-flash $0.75 in / $3.75 out (promotional through 31 Dec 2026, doubling to $1.50/$7.50 on 1 Jan 2027); gemini-3.5-flash $1.50/$9.00; gemini-3.5-flash-lite $0.30/$2.50; gemini-3.1-pro-preview $2.00/$12.00 up to 200k context, $4.00/$18.00 above; gemini-2.5-pro $1.25/$10.00 up to 200k.
Free Trial: Yes, a free Gemini tier exists, and the API has a free tier on most stable models (gemini-3.1-pro-preview and the image models excluded)

Coverage

Primary Category: Not an AEO product, an AI answer engine and model family. Included as a DIY AEO layer: Grounding with Google Search returns citation metadata with sentence-level source mapping. IMPORTANT: the Gemini API Terms restrict what may be done with those results, see Notes before building anything on this.
Max AI Engines Supported: 1 (it is itself one engine)
AI Engines Covered: N/A, Gemini is one of the engines the other tools in this sheet measure. Note the surfaces are distinct: the Gemini app, AI Overviews, AI Mode and the API have different retrieval and return different answers, and Google publishes no parity commitment.
Engine Selection Model: N/A
Monitoring Cadence: N/A, cadence is whatever schedule the user builds around the API
Data Collection Method: Official first-party API. Grounding with Google Search (tool google_search) for the model-initiated case, or url_context when the user supplies up to 20 URLs per request and the model fetches them. Billing on Gemini 3.x is 5,000 free search requests per month shared across 3.x models, then $14 per 1,000, charged per search QUERY the model decides to run, not per prompt, so one prompt can fan out into several billable queries and cost cannot be predicted from prompt count. Gemini 2.5 and older use the old model of $35 per 1,000 grounded prompts with 1,500 free per day.
Bots/Crawlers Tracked: Googlebot, Google-Extended, GoogleOther and Google-CloudVertexBot, see the Google Search Console row for what each controls. The relevant one here is Google-Extended, which governs whether crawled content trains future Gemini models powering Gemini Apps and the Vertex AI API, and which Google states does not affect Google Search inclusion or ranking.

Metrics tracked

Tracks Visibility Score: No, N/A, DIY layer. Not a packaged feature; the user must build and run this themselves.
Tracks Share of Voice: No, N/A, DIY layer. Not a packaged feature; the user must build and run this themselves.
Tracks Citation Share: No, but the raw material is the richest of the DIY layers. Legacy groundingMetadata returns webSearchQueries, searchEntryPoint.renderedContent, groundingChunks[].web.uri/title and groundingSupports[] mapping each answer segment (startIndex, endIndex, text) to the chunks backing it, sentence-level source attribution. The newer Interactions API instead returns google_search_call (with queries), google_search_result (with search_suggestions) and inline url_citation annotations carrying url, title, start_index and end_index, where title is the publisher domain rather than the page title.
Citation Share Splits Owned/Earned: No, N/A, DIY layer. Not a packaged feature; the user must build and run this themselves.
Tracks Source Mention Rate: No, N/A, DIY layer. Not a packaged feature; the user must build and run this themselves.
Tracks Sentiment: No, N/A, DIY layer. Not a packaged feature; the user must build and run this themselves.
Tracks Positioning Accuracy: No, N/A, DIY layer. Not a packaged feature; the user must build and run this themselves.
Total Core Metrics Tracked: 0 as shipped metrics. The grounding payload is excellent raw material; every metric here would have to be computed by the user, and see the licence caveat in Notes before doing so commercially.
Competitor Tracking: No, N/A, DIY layer. Not a packaged feature; the user must build and run this themselves.
Competitor Ad Intelligence: No
Citation Gap Reporting: No, N/A, DIY layer. Not a packaged feature; the user must build and run this themselves.
Paid Ads Tracking: No
Ads Platform Integrations: None
AI Traffic Analytics: No

Content & optimization

Generates Content Briefs: N/A, a general-purpose model can draft anything on request, but ships no AEO brief workflow
Generates Full Drafts/Articles: N/A
Generates FAQs: N/A
Technical Crawler Audits: No
PR/Affiliate/Social/Owned-Media Toolbox: No
Prompt Volume / Real Buyer Query Data: Partial for the user's own prompt set, webSearchQueries returns the search queries the model actually issued to ground its answer, which is not buyer prompt volume but is real retrieval data
AI-Generated Prompt Suggestions: N/A
CRM/Support Data Enrichment: No
Agentic/Autonomous Workflow: Yes, as a general agent (function calling, computer use, Deep Research and Antigravity previews, Gemini CLI), not as an AEO workflow
Agentic Workflow Description: Function calling and tool use, remote MCP servers, url_context fetching, plus preview agents: deep-research-preview-04-2026, deep-research-max-preview-04-2026, antigravity-preview-05-2026 and gemini-2.5-computer-use-preview-10-2025.

Data, integrations & API

MCP Server Available: Yes, native remote MCP in the Interactions API via a tool object of type mcp_server with name and url. Constraints: Streamable HTTP only (SSE servers not supported) and server names must not contain a hyphen. Gemini CLI is also an MCP client. Google runs a public Gemini Docs MCP server at gemini-api-docs-mcp.dev.
Number of MCP Tools: N/A, it is an MCP client, not a server
API Access: Yes, Gemini API (generateContent and the newer Interactions API), plus Vertex AI. Google no longer publishes a per-model RPM/TPM table; limits are shown in AI Studio and are per project rather than per key. Tiers: Free; Tier 1 (billing linked, $250 spend cap, $10 rolling 10-minute limit); Tier 2 ($100+ cumulative spend over 3+ days, $2,000 cap, $50); Tier 3 ($1,000+ over 30+ days, $20,000–$100,000+ cap, $200).
API Access Starting Tier: Free tier
Claude Connectors Directory Listed: N/A
Connectors Directory Tier: N/A
Data Export Available: N/A, the API response is the data
Export Formats: JSON
Primary Interface: Gemini web and mobile apps, Google AI Studio, Gemini CLI, Gemini API, Vertex AI
Integration Destinations: Gemini API, Vertex AI (with additional grounding sources: Grounding with Agent Search over your own data, Grounding with Parallel Web Search, and a standalone Grounding API), Google AI Studio, Gemini CLI, remote MCP servers

Team, security & support

Seats Limit: N/A, API keys and projects rather than seats
Regions/Languages Limit: Not disclosed
Historical Data Retention: Zero Data Retention is available on the Gemini Developer API for paid services by per-project approval, but Grounding with Google Search is EXPLICITLY EXCLUDED: Google stores prompts, contextual information and output for 30 days and there is no way to disable it. That rules out a zero-retention AEO product built on Search grounding. Other ZDR gaps: the Interactions API stores conversation state by default (set store: false), the Live API retains state up to 24h with SessionResumptionConfig, and File API and context caching persist until deleted.
SSO/SAML Available: Not disclosed for the Developer API; Vertex AI terms could not be verified
SSO/SAML Tier: N/A
Dedicated Strategist/Account Manager: No
Dedicated Strategist Tier: N/A

Notes

Website: gemini.google.com · API docs: ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs
YouTube Video: Watch on YouTube
Notes: READ THE LICENCE BEFORE BUILDING. The Gemini API Terms state that Grounded Results must be displayed to the end user together with the Search Suggestions (up to 5), that the text may be stored for up to two years but only to evaluate or optimise display in your app, to preserve end-user chat history, or to temporarily resubmit for refined results, and they explicitly prohibit caching, framing, syndicating, reselling, ANALYSING, training on or otherwise learning from Grounded Results or Search Suggestions outside those exceptions. A citation-share dashboard is arguably squarely inside that prohibited set, and the two-year storage carve-out is scoped to display optimisation and chat history, not competitive analytics. Anyone shipping a commercial AEO product on this endpoint should have counsel read that clause first. Second practical blocker: the URIs in groundingChunks[].web.uri are Google redirect URIs of the form vertexaisearch.cloud.google.com/..., not publisher URLs, so the real domain must be resolved by following the redirect, which is itself in tension with the no-caching clause, and Google publishes no expiry window for them. Third: no ZDR on grounded requests, 30-day Google-side retention is mandatory. Fourth: the Gemini app, AI Overviews, AI Mode and the API are different surfaces with different retrieval, Google has published no parity statement, so API-measured citations are a proxy and any product claim of measuring "Gemini visibility" from API output should say so. Fifth: version churn is fast, six Flash point-releases in one series, the top Pro model still in preview (gemini-3.1-pro-preview, no stable Gemini 3.x Pro text model listed), and gemini-2.0-flash already shut down, so pin model IDs and expect to re-baseline, because a citation-share time series is not comparable across a model switch.

Google Search Console

Google Search Console: Free first-party analytics for a site's own Google Search performance. Since June 2026 it includes a Generative AI performance report covering AI Overviews and AI Mode, the only first-party Google source of AI-surface data, but impressions only. Website: https://search.google.com/search-console.

Pricing

Entry Tier Name: Free
Entry Tier Price: $0
Entry Tier Includes: No paid tier. Full Performance reporting, URL Inspection, index coverage, sitemaps, the Generative AI performance report (Search and Discover), the Search generative AI opt-out control, the Search Console API and BigQuery bulk export are all included at no cost.
Mid Tier Name: N/A
Mid Tier Price: N/A
Mid Tier Includes: N/A, there is only one tier.
Top Tier Name: N/A
Top Tier Price: N/A
Top Tier Includes: N/A
Free Trial: N/A, free product, no trial concept

Coverage

Primary Category: Free first-party analytics for a site's own Google Search performance. Since June 2026 it includes a Generative AI performance report covering AI Overviews and AI Mode, the only first-party Google source of AI-surface data, but impressions only.
Max AI Engines Supported: 1, Google only (AI Overviews and AI Mode, pooled)
AI Engines Covered: Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode, reported together with no dimension separating them. Nothing outside Google: no ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Copilot or the Gemini app. Search Labs experiments are explicitly excluded.
Engine Selection Model: N/A
Monitoring Cadence: Daily data, typically available after 2–3 days; newest data is preliminary and can change within hours
Data Collection Method: First-party server-side logging of Google's own serving, the only non-sampled, non-proxy AI-surface data in this sheet. That is its single decisive advantage over every paid tool here.
Bots/Crawlers Tracked: Google's own crawlers: Googlebot (builds the search indexes powering Search, Discover, Images, Video, News); Google-Extended (controls whether crawled content trains future Gemini models powering Gemini Apps and the Vertex AI API, Google states it does not impact inclusion or ranking in Google Search); GoogleOther (generic crawler, preferences addressed to it do not affect any specific product); Google-CloudVertexBot (crawls at the site owner's own request to build Vertex AI Agents, no effect on Search).

Metrics tracked

Tracks Visibility Score: No, raw impressions only, no score
Tracks Share of Voice: No, single-property by design; no competitor data at all
Tracks Citation Share: No, no citation-share metric. The Generative AI report gives impressions with only four dimensions: Pages, Countries, Dates, Devices.
Citation Share Splits Owned/Earned: No
Tracks Source Mention Rate: No
Tracks Sentiment: No
Tracks Positioning Accuracy: No, position is not a metric in the Generative AI report. In the main Performance report an AI Overview occupies a single position and all its links share it; AI Mode position follows normal SERP methodology.
Total Core Metrics Tracked: 1 of 7, AI impressions, and nothing else.
Competitor Tracking: No, single-property by design
Competitor Ad Intelligence: No
Citation Gap Reporting: No
Paid Ads Tracking: No
Ads Platform Integrations: None
AI Traffic Analytics: Partial, AI clicks ARE counted but only inside undifferentiated Web totals in the main Performance report. Clicks are not a metric in the Generative AI report, so no click, CTR or traffic figure can be attributed to an AI surface.

Content & optimization

Generates Content Briefs: No
Generates Full Drafts/Articles: No
Generates FAQs: No
Technical Crawler Audits: Partial, URL Inspection reports Google's indexed version of a page, its indexing status and detected structured data, and live-tests indexability. It is a per-URL inspector, not a site-wide AI-readiness crawler.
PR/Affiliate/Social/Owned-Media Toolbox: No
Prompt Volume / Real Buyer Query Data: No, and this is the critical gap: Queries is NOT an available dimension in the Generative AI report. You cannot see which prompts triggered your citation.
AI-Generated Prompt Suggestions: No
CRM/Support Data Enrichment: No
Agentic/Autonomous Workflow: No, though a December 2025 AI-powered configuration feature was added to assist with setup
Agentic Workflow Description: N/A

Data, integrations & API

MCP Server Available: No, no first-party Google MCP server. Community third-party wrappers of the official API exist (ahonn/mcp-server-gsc, metehan777/google-search-console-mcp), unofficial and unsupported.
Number of MCP Tools: N/A
API Access: Yes, Search Console API (Search Analytics query). Dimensions: country, device, page, query, searchAppearance, date, hour. The type enum is web, image, video, news, discover, googleNews, there is NO AI value, so the AI breakout cannot be pulled via API. rowLimit 1–25,000, ceiling 50,000 rows per day per search type. Quotas: Search Analytics 1,200 QPM per site and per user, 30,000,000 QPD per project; URL Inspection 2,000 QPD and 600 QPM per site.
API Access Starting Tier: Free
Claude Connectors Directory Listed: No
Connectors Directory Tier: N/A
Data Export Available: Yes
Export Formats: CSV, Excel and Google Sheets from the UI, capped at the 1,000-row table limit. BigQuery bulk data export gives daily unsampled row-level data (tables searchdata_site_impression, searchdata_url_impression, ExportLog), free to export but subject to Google Cloud storage and query costs. Critically for AEO: the bulk export has NO generative AI, AI Overviews or AI Mode fields and search_type has no AI value, so the AI breakout cannot be reconstructed from raw data, it exists only in the UI report.
Primary Interface: Web app, plus the Search Console API and BigQuery bulk export
Integration Destinations: Search Console API, BigQuery bulk data export, Looker Studio, and as a data source inside many of the paid tools in this sheet

Team, security & support

Seats Limit: Verified owners unlimited but verified plus delegated owners capped at 500 total; maximum 100 non-owners per property. Properties per account: not disclosed.
Regions/Languages Limit: Country is a dimension in the Generative AI report. Language: not a dimension.
Historical Data Retention: 16 months of Performance data, no backfill. BigQuery bulk export tables are retained forever by default, which breaks that ceiling going forward, but only from the day it is switched on, so set it up before you need it.
SSO/SAML Available: N/A, Google account authentication
SSO/SAML Tier: N/A
Dedicated Strategist/Account Manager: No
Dedicated Strategist Tier: N/A

Notes

Website: search.google.com/search-console · Docs: developers.google.com/search
YouTube Video: Watch on YouTube
Notes: The Generative AI performance report shipped 3 June 2026 and completed global rollout on 31 August 2026. Two things matter about how it reports: in the MAIN Performance report AI traffic is folded into Web totals with no AI search appearance type, and the Generative AI report is a filtered lens on that same Web data, not an additional bucket, do not add the two together. What it does not tell you is precisely what sells the paid tools in this sheet: no query or prompt data, no AI-attributable clicks or CTR, no citation position, no AI Overviews vs AI Mode split, no competitor or share-of-voice data, no citation text or context, nothing outside Google, and no AI fields in the BigQuery export. Google also shipped a Search generative AI control under Settings (Include / Exclude / Inherit), opting out means receiving no traffic or impressions from generative AI features, and Google states it is not used as a ranking or inclusion signal elsewhere in Search. Google's published optimisation guidance (AI features doc plus the July 2026 AI optimization guide) is deflationary: there are no additional requirements to appear in AI Overviews or AI Mode, no special schema.org structured data is needed, llms.txt is not used by Google Search, and there is no requirement to chunk content or write specially for AI. The most common AEO misconception it settles: blocking Google-Extended does NOT remove you from AI Overviews, those are Search features fed by Googlebot and governed by snippet controls (nosnippet, data-nosnippet, max-snippet, noindex); Google-Extended governs Gemini model training and Gemini Apps / Vertex grounding.

LLMrefs

LLMrefs: AI search analytics / LLM visibility tracker for brand mentions, rankings and citations across generative AI engines. Website: https://llmrefs.com.

Pricing

Entry Tier Name: All in One
Entry Tier Price: $79/mo
Entry Tier Includes: 500 prompts tracked; all 11 engines with no per-engine fee; weekly refresh; citation tracking; 50+ countries and 20+ languages; unlimited seats, projects and domains; monthly AI prompt volume estimates; CSV export and API access
Mid Tier Name: None (single paid tier)
Top Tier Name: None (single paid tier)
Free Trial: Yes (free account, no credit card, plus a 7-day free trial; free-tier limits not published, FAQ references a 50-keyword baseline)

Coverage

Primary Category: AI search analytics / LLM visibility tracker for brand mentions, rankings and citations across generative AI engines
Max AI Engines Supported: 11
AI Engines Covered: OpenAI ChatGPT, OpenAI ChatGPT Search, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Google Gemini, Perplexity AI, Anthropic Claude, xAI Grok, Microsoft Copilot, Meta AI, DeepSeek AI
Engine Selection Model: No gating, single plan includes all engines with no additional per-engine fees
Monitoring Cadence: Continuous checking with each keyword updated in the dashboard at least once per week; weekly automated reports
Data Collection Method: Unstated, no official page says scraping or API. The vendor describes automating prompt tracking at scale, aggregating responses across multiple prompts and engines and normalizing to avoid outliers.
Bots/Crawlers Tracked: Only GPTBot and ChatGPT-User are named on official pages

Metrics tracked

Tracks Visibility Score: Yes ("AI Visibility Score": frequency of appearance in AI answers for tracked keywords)
Tracks Share of Voice: Yes ("Share of Voice")
Tracks Citation Share: No as a named share metric (Citations & Sources reports the count and identity of cited URLs plus domain rankings)
Citation Share Splits Owned/Earned: No
Tracks Source Mention Rate: No as a named metric (nearest is citation count and identity of source URLs)
Tracks Sentiment: No (nearest is "brand mention accuracy", whether information is correct and favorable)
Tracks Positioning Accuracy: No as a named metric (a Position rank-placement metric and "brand mention accuracy" exist)
Total Core Metrics Tracked: 2
Competitor Tracking: Yes (competitor benchmarking via Share of Voice and position metrics; competitors added per project)
Competitor Ad Intelligence: No
Citation Gap Reporting: No
Paid Ads Tracking: No
Ads Platform Integrations: None
AI Traffic Analytics: No (no GA4 or GSC integration claimed; AI referral tracking appears only as editorial advice to check server logs or GA4 yourself)

Content & optimization

Generates Content Briefs: No
Generates Full Drafts/Articles: No
Generates FAQs: No
Technical Crawler Audits: Partial: an AI Crawlability Checker tests rendered text, response times, HTTP 402/403/429 AI-bot blocking, framework detection, JSON-LD and SSR/SPA classification. No robots.txt/GPTBot directive check; llms.txt is a generator, not an audit.
PR/Affiliate/Social/Owned-Media Toolbox: No (only a Reddit Threads Finder utility)
Prompt Volume / Real Buyer Query Data: Yes, monthly AI prompt volume estimates in-plan, plus a ChatGPT Prompts Database of 4.5M+ real user messages. Stated source: a combination of public datasets and clickstream data.
AI-Generated Prompt Suggestions: Yes (auto-generated prompt fan-out from real conversations; Query Fan-Out Generator expands a topic into 8+ variations)
CRM/Support Data Enrichment: No
Agentic/Autonomous Workflow: No
Agentic Workflow Description: N/A

Data, integrations & API

MCP Server Available: No (no MCP page in the 341-URL sitemap and no MCP mention on any official page)
API Access: Yes
API Access Starting Tier: All in One ($79/mo, the only tier). API docs page renders empty, so endpoints, auth and rate limits are not published.
Claude Connectors Directory Listed: No
Connectors Directory Tier: N/A
Data Export Available: Yes
Export Formats: CSV
Primary Interface: Dashboard, plus CSV export and an AI SEO API. No chat/MCP interface.
Integration Destinations: None confirmed beyond CSV export and the API, no Looker Studio, GA4, GSC, Slack or Zapier integration named on any official page

Team, security & support

Seats Limit: Unlimited team members in the organization
Regions/Languages Limit: 50+ countries and 20+ languages; results filterable by engine and country
Historical Data Retention: Unknown (no retention period published)
SSO/SAML Available: Unknown (no mention of SSO or SAML on any official page)
SSO/SAML Tier: Unknown
Dedicated Strategist/Account Manager: Unknown (published support level is "priority support and custom feature requests"; no named account manager)
Dedicated Strategist Tier: Unknown

Notes

Website: llmrefs.com
YouTube Video: Watch on YouTube
Notes: Single published paid tier at $79/mo; no enterprise or custom tier on the pricing page, though an LLMrefs blog post tells high-volume agencies to contact sales. Extra-keyword add-on pricing is not published. Documentation is minimal: /docs is a placeholder and the API page renders empty. Verified 2026-09-12.

Nightwatch

Nightwatch: SEO rank tracking and monitoring platform with AI/LLM visibility tracking built in. Website: https://nightwatch.io.

Pricing

Entry Tier Name: Starter
Entry Tier Price: EUR 79
Entry Tier Includes: 50 AI prompts; 1,500 AI answers/mo; all 5 LLMs; unlimited seats; 5 sites; 1,000 site audit pages
Mid Tier Name: Professional
Mid Tier Price: EUR 159
Mid Tier Includes: 150 AI prompts; 4,500 AI answers/mo; all 5 LLMs; unlimited seats; 25 sites; 10,000 site audit pages; API access. Agency (EUR 399) raises this to 500 prompts, 15,000 AI answers, 100 sites and adds a dedicated account manager.
Top Tier Name: Enterprise
Top Tier Price: Custom
Top Tier Includes: Unlimited AI prompts and AI answers; unlimited sites and seats; custom data retention; SSO
Free Trial: Yes (14-day full-feature trial on all plans, no credit card required; no permanent free plan)

Coverage

Primary Category: SEO rank tracking and monitoring platform with AI/LLM visibility tracking built in
Max AI Engines Supported: 5
AI Engines Covered: ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, plus Google AI Overviews and AI Mode as SERP AI surfaces
Engine Selection Model: No engine gating, every tier covers all engines. Gating is by volume only: prompts and AI answers per month (Starter 50/1,500, Professional 150/4,500, Agency 500/15,000, Enterprise unlimited).
Monitoring Cadence: Daily, AI visibility data updates daily alongside rank tracking; daily brand mention scans across all AI platforms
Data Collection Method: Simulated query sampling, in the vendor’s words: "Nightwatch simulates real user interactions with each major LLM platform, submits relevant prompts and queries, then analyzes the generated responses."
Bots/Crawlers Tracked: None published

Metrics tracked

Tracks Visibility Score: Yes ("AI Visibility": percentage of prompts where the brand is mentioned)
Tracks Share of Voice: Yes ("Share of Voice": market share in AI answers)
Tracks Citation Share: Yes ("Citation Intelligence" with citation strength scoring and domain-level mention frequency; not framed as a percentage share)
Citation Share Splits Owned/Earned: Unknown (not present on the AI tracking, citation intelligence, brand monitoring or LLM tracking pages)
Tracks Source Mention Rate: Yes in substance (domain-level mention frequency and average position)
Tracks Sentiment: Yes (sentiment and framing: positive, neutral, negative)
Tracks Positioning Accuracy: Unknown (closest published metric is Average Position, how early the brand appears)
Total Core Metrics Tracked: 5
Competitor Tracking: Yes (competitor mentions surfaced alongside your own in every AI query scan; an Entities dashboard compares visibility and sentiment and uncovers indirect competitors)
Competitor Ad Intelligence: No
Citation Gap Reporting: Unknown (competitor citations for the same prompts are visible, but no named gap report)
Paid Ads Tracking: No
Ads Platform Integrations: None
AI Traffic Analytics: Partial, GA4 and Google Search Console integrations exist and the citation page claims AI mentions can be traced to the search traffic they generate, but no AI referral session or crawler-hit analytics product is published

Content & optimization

Generates Content Briefs: Yes (AI Content Writer produces structured content suggestions and briefs)
Generates Full Drafts/Articles: Yes (AI Content Writer researches, drafts and scores SEO content)
Generates FAQs: Unknown (no dedicated FAQ generation named)
Technical Crawler Audits: No for AI specifically, Site Audit covers 100+ technical issues (crawl errors, broken links, redirect chains, meta tags, H1s, canonicalization, duplicate content, speed, mobile usability, orphan pages) but GPTBot robots.txt checks and llms.txt validation are not documented
PR/Affiliate/Social/Owned-Media Toolbox: No (no PR, affiliate, social or owned-media module; citation analysis is framed as identifying partnership and content opportunities)
Prompt Volume / Real Buyer Query Data: Partial, Prompt Research generates prompts based on real user questions, but no prompt volume metric is published
AI-Generated Prompt Suggestions: Yes (Prompt Research, powered by the SEO Agent, generates prompts from real user questions; manual authoring also supported)
CRM/Support Data Enrichment: No
Agentic/Autonomous Workflow: Yes
Agentic Workflow Description: "NightOwl", a 24/7 SEO AI agent that autonomously runs keyword research, site audits, rank monitoring, competitor analysis and quick-win detection. It does not publish content or act on AI visibility findings.

Data, integrations & API

MCP Server Available: Yes (Nightwatch SEO MCP; requires Professional and above, where API access is enabled; clients incl. Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, ChatGPT, Continue, Cline, Zed)
Number of MCP Tools: Unknown (6 tool categories published: Live Rankings, AI Visibility, Keyword Research, Site Audit, Competitor Tracking, Custom Reports)
API Access: Yes
API Access Starting Tier: Professional (EUR 159/mo); Agency adds custom API rate limits. A separate SERP API product exists.
Claude Connectors Directory Listed: Unknown (the MCP page makes no directory claim and positions setup as manual config)
Connectors Directory Tier: Unknown
Data Export Available: Yes
Export Formats: PDF reports, white-label branded reports, Looker Studio dashboards and REST API. CSV export not confirmed on any official page.
Primary Interface: Multiple (web application dashboard primary, plus REST API, MCP server and a Looker Studio connector)
Integration Destinations: Google Search Console; Google Analytics 4; Looker Studio connector; REST API; SERP API; SEO MCP server; white-label PDF reporting. Slack and Zapier not confirmed (the integrations page returns 404).

Team, security & support

Seats Limit: Unlimited seats on every tier, with no per-seat fees
Regions/Languages Limit: 107,000+ locations across 190+ countries with zip-code level precision; 170+ languages. Traditional engines: Google, Bing, YouTube, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo.
Historical Data Retention: Full SERP archives retained for 3 years; Enterprise gets custom retention
SSO/SAML Available: Yes
SSO/SAML Tier: Enterprise only
Dedicated Strategist/Account Manager: Yes
Dedicated Strategist Tier: Agency and above (dedicated account manager plus priority SLA)

Notes

Website: nightwatch.io
YouTube Video: Watch on YouTube
Notes: Prices are in EUR. AI visibility is included in the base price at every tier rather than sold as an add-on, but capacity is capped twice, by prompts and by AI answers per month, so 50 prompts across 5 engines scanned daily would far exceed Starter’s 1,500 answers/mo; the effective ceiling is tighter than the prompt count suggests. Verified 2026-09-12.

Peec AI

Peec AI: AI search analytics platform tracking brand visibility, position, sentiment and cited sources in AI assistants. Website: https://peec.ai.

Pricing

Entry Tier Name: Starter
Entry Tier Price: $95/mo
Entry Tier Includes: 50 prompts; 4,500 AI answers analyzed/mo; 3 selectable models; daily tracking; 1 project; 1 country; unlimited languages, competitors and users; MCP access; CSV export
Mid Tier Name: Pro
Mid Tier Price: $245/mo
Mid Tier Includes: 150 prompts; 13,500 AI answers/mo; 3 selectable models; daily tracking; 2 projects; 3 countries; unlimited users. Advanced ($495) raises this to 350 prompts, 31,500 answers, 5 projects and adds the Looker Studio connector.
Top Tier Name: Enterprise
Top Tier Price: Custom
Top Tier Includes: Prompt volume custom; all 13 models; daily or weekly tracking; unlimited projects, countries, languages and competitors; REST API access; SSO; dedicated support
Free Trial: Yes (no-credit-card free trial; length not published)

Coverage

Primary Category: AI search analytics platform tracking brand visibility, position, sentiment and cited sources in AI assistants
Max AI Engines Supported: 13
AI Engines Covered: ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, Google Gemini (base set), plus Claude Sonnet 4, GPT-5 Search, Grok, DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral, Meta Spark on higher tiers
Engine Selection Model: Starter, Pro and Advanced each include 3 selectable models from the base set; all 13 models require Enterprise (or the Scale tier on agency plans).
Monitoring Cadence: Daily (Enterprise can be set to daily or weekly); refresh once every 24 hours
Data Collection Method: UI scraping via browser automation, "Peec AI uses UI scraping technology to interact with AI platforms exactly as real users do." Crawler and referral data come from server logs and GA4.
Bots/Crawlers Tracked: 40+ bots from 20+ vendors, incl. GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, anthropic-ai, Google-Extended, Google-Agent, Gemini-Deep-Research, FacebookBot, Manus-User, plus Perplexity, DeepSeek, xAI/Grok, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Cohere bots. Collected from first-party server logs.

Metrics tracked

Tracks Visibility Score: Yes ("Visibility": percentage of AI responses where the brand appears)
Tracks Share of Voice: Yes ("Share of Voice")
Tracks Citation Share: No as a named metric (closest are Citation Rate, Retrieved and Retrieval Rate at domain and URL level)
Citation Share Splits Owned/Earned: No for citations; domains are classified CORPORATE / EDITORIAL / INSTITUTIONAL / UGC / REFERENCE / COMPETITOR / OTHER with a "You" ownership flag. Owned/earned language exists only in the Actions module.
Tracks Source Mention Rate: Yes (Visibility for brands; Retrieved / Citation Rate for sources)
Tracks Sentiment: Yes (0-100 sentiment score)
Tracks Positioning Accuracy: Partial: Fact-checking flags statements where AI output contradicts the brand’s own facts (Supported / Contradicted), but there is no positioning-accuracy score
Total Core Metrics Tracked: 4
Competitor Tracking: Yes (competitor brands with SoV, sentiment, position, Perception and Market views)
Competitor Ad Intelligence: Yes (advertisers on branded and comparison prompts, spend tiers, historical activity)
Citation Gap Reporting: Yes ("Gap analysis": sources that mention competitors but not the brand, with Gap Scores)
Paid Ads Tracking: Yes (ChatGPT only; US, UK, CA, AU, NZ, JP, KR)
Ads Platform Integrations: None, advertiser lists, spend tier estimates and creative counts are observed in ChatGPT responses; no Google Ads or Meta Ads connection
AI Traffic Analytics: Yes (AI Referrals connects to a GA4 property via Google OAuth and reports sessions, conversions and revenue; combines GA4 AI-assistant classification with Peec regex detection). No GSC integration.

Content & optimization

Generates Content Briefs: Yes (structural only: Actions provide a suggested content structure)
Generates Full Drafts/Articles: No
Generates FAQs: No
Technical Crawler Audits: Yes for robots.txt (checks the domain against 40+ AI bots from 20+ vendors: fully allowed / partially allowed / blocked). No llms.txt audit documented.
PR/Affiliate/Social/Owned-Media Toolbox: No (no PR, affiliate, social publishing or owned-media tooling; Actions only split recommendations into Earned/Off-page and Owned/On-page)
Prompt Volume / Real Buyer Query Data: Yes ("Prompt Volume", a 1-5 relative demand score sourced from real-time web search trends; no named third-party provider). A Fanouts view shows the sub-queries models issue.
AI-Generated Prompt Suggestions: Yes (suggestion engine generates prompts from the website, industry context and existing prompts)
CRM/Support Data Enrichment: No
Agentic/Autonomous Workflow: No (human-in-the-loop)
Agentic Workflow Description: The Agent is a natural-language data-exploration layer; any change it proposes is shown for approval first. Actions are recommendations the user executes; it does not produce or publish content.

Data, integrations & API

MCP Server Available: Yes (remote Streamable HTTP at https://api.peec.ai/mcp, OAuth 2.0 or personal access tokens; no documented plan gating)
Number of MCP Tools: 92
API Access: Yes
API Access Starting Tier: Enterprise only (REST API); MCP is available on every tier
Claude Connectors Directory Listed: Yes
Connectors Directory Tier: First-party (vendor-operated at api.peec.ai)
Data Export Available: Yes
Export Formats: CSV (custom exports, all tiers); Looker/Data Studio connector on Advanced and Enterprise; shareable dashboards and automated reporting on all tiers
Primary Interface: Multiple (web dashboard primary, plus MCP server, REST API on Enterprise, Looker/Data Studio connector, CSV export)
Integration Destinations: Looker/Data Studio connector; GA4 via OAuth; log and CDN ingestion from Vercel, Cloudflare, AWS, CloudFront, Google Cloud CDN, WordPress, Akamai, generic webhook and CSV/CLF upload; MCP into Claude, Cursor, VS Code Copilot, Windsurf, n8n. No Slack, Zapier, GSC, HubSpot, Salesforce or Google Ads.

Team, security & support

Seats Limit: Unlimited users on every tier, including agency plans
Regions/Languages Limit: Countries: Starter 1, Pro 3, Advanced 3, Enterprise unlimited. Languages unlimited on all tiers; no extra cost per region or language.
Historical Data Retention: Unknown (no retention period published; archived prompts preserve history, deleted prompts erase it)
SSO/SAML Available: Yes (stated as "Single sign-on (SSO)"; SAML not named explicitly)
SSO/SAML Tier: Enterprise only
Dedicated Strategist/Account Manager: Yes
Dedicated Strategist Tier: Enterprise only ("Dedicated" support and custom onboarding; lower tiers get chat or chat + email)

Notes

Website: peec.ai
YouTube Video: Watch on YouTube
Notes: Prices are monthly billing in USD on peec.ai/pricing; 15% discount on annual billing. A separate agency plan set runs Essential $245 / Growth $495 / Scale $795 / Comprehensive custom, metered in credits (1 prompt x 1 model x 1 day = 1 credit). Older EUR figures on Peec comparison pages are outdated. Berlin-based. Verified 2026-09-12.

Perplexity Sonar

Perplexity Sonar: Not an AEO product, it is Perplexity's developer API returning web-grounded completions with structured citations, over an OpenAI-compatible interface. Included here as a DIY AEO layer, and the strongest fit of the three: search_results returns url, title, snippet, date and last_updated per query, so citation share by domain can be computed without HTML scraping. Website: https://www.perplexity.ai/api-platform.

Pricing

Entry Tier Name: sonar
Entry Tier Price: $1 per 1M input, $1 per 1M output, plus $5 / $8 / $12 per 1,000 requests (low / medium / high search context)
Entry Tier Includes: Perplexity prices on two independent dimensions: per-million tokens AND a per-1,000-requests fee that varies by search_context_size. For a daily 500-prompt panel the request fee dominates the token cost. Access is pay-as-you-go via purchased credits and is independent of any consumer subscription.
Mid Tier Name: sonar-pro / sonar-reasoning-pro
Mid Tier Price: sonar-pro $3 in / $15 out per 1M; sonar-reasoning-pro $2 in / $8 out per 1M; both $6 / $10 / $14 per 1,000 requests
Mid Tier Includes: Non-Pro sonar-reasoning is no longer listed, its model page returns 404, though third-party material still references it. Removal date not disclosed.
Top Tier Name: sonar-deep-research
Top Tier Price: $2 in / $8 out per 1M, plus citation tokens $2/1M, reasoning tokens $3/1M and $5 per 1,000 search queries
Top Tier Includes: Different billing structure with no per-request context fee. Adjacent products on the same price list: Search API $5.00 per 1,000 requests; Agent API tools (web search $0.0025/invocation, fetch URL $0.0005, people search $0.005, finance search $0.005, sandbox session $0.03 up to 20 min); embeddings from $0.004/1M. The API is now a multi-provider gateway reselling Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, DeepSeek, Z.AI, Moonshot and NVIDIA models, not only Sonar. Consumer plans for context: Free $0, Pro $20/mo (4,000 bonus credits), Max $200/mo (35,000 bonus plus 10,000 monthly credits), Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max not disclosed.
Free Trial: No for the API, pay-as-you-go credits only. The Perplexity Pro $5/month API credit widely cited elsewhere could not be verified on any current primary source; third-party reporting says it was removed. A free consumer tier exists.

Coverage

Primary Category: Not an AEO product, it is Perplexity's developer API returning web-grounded completions with structured citations, over an OpenAI-compatible interface. Included here as a DIY AEO layer, and the strongest fit of the three: search_results returns url, title, snippet, date and last_updated per query, so citation share by domain can be computed without HTML scraping.
Max AI Engines Supported: 1 (it is itself one engine)
AI Engines Covered: N/A, Perplexity is one of the engines the other tools in this sheet measure. Search modes: web, academic, sec.
Engine Selection Model: N/A, but search is highly controllable, see integration destinations
Monitoring Cadence: N/A, cadence is whatever schedule the user builds around the API
Data Collection Method: Official first-party API. Critical caveat: the Sonar API and the consumer Perplexity app are not the same system and demonstrably return different answers and different sources for the same prompt (community-reported, third-party). Sonar results are a proxy for the consumer surface, not a direct measurement of it.
Bots/Crawlers Tracked: Perplexity's own crawlers, documented at docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots: PerplexityBot (the search index crawler that surfaces and links sites in Perplexity results, explicitly not used for training) and Perplexity-User (user-triggered fetches, which Perplexity documents as generally ignoring robots.txt on the reasoning that the request is user-initiated). IP ranges published for both. Third-party: Cloudflare published research on 4 Aug 2025 alleging an undeclared stealth crawler impersonating Chrome on macOS with rotating user agents and ASNs, and de-listed Perplexity as a verified bot; Perplexity's own docs concede the robots.txt part but not the undeclared-crawler part.

Metrics tracked

Tracks Visibility Score: No, N/A, DIY layer. Not a packaged feature; the user must build and run this themselves on top of the API.
Tracks Share of Voice: No, N/A, DIY layer. Not a packaged feature; the user must build and run this themselves on top of the API.
Tracks Citation Share: No, but the raw material is the best of the three: search_results is an array of objects each carrying title, url, date, last_updated, snippet and source (web or attachment), with inline [1][2] markers indexing into it. usage exposes citation_tokens, num_search_queries and search_context_size.
Citation Share Splits Owned/Earned: No, N/A, DIY layer. Not a packaged feature; the user must build and run this themselves on top of the API.
Tracks Source Mention Rate: No, N/A, DIY layer. Not a packaged feature; the user must build and run this themselves on top of the API.
Tracks Sentiment: No, N/A, DIY layer. Not a packaged feature; the user must build and run this themselves on top of the API.
Tracks Positioning Accuracy: No, N/A, DIY layer. Not a packaged feature; the user must build and run this themselves on top of the API.
Total Core Metrics Tracked: 0 as shipped metrics. The API returns the richest structured citation payload of the three DIY layers; every metric in this sheet would still have to be computed by the user.
Competitor Tracking: No, but search_domain_filter lets a user constrain or exclude domains to build a competitor panel
Competitor Ad Intelligence: No
Citation Gap Reporting: No, N/A, DIY layer. Not a packaged feature; the user must build and run this themselves on top of the API.
Paid Ads Tracking: No
Ads Platform Integrations: None
AI Traffic Analytics: No

Content & optimization

Generates Content Briefs: N/A
Generates Full Drafts/Articles: N/A
Generates FAQs: N/A
Technical Crawler Audits: No
PR/Affiliate/Social/Owned-Media Toolbox: No
Prompt Volume / Real Buyer Query Data: No, no prompt volume data. The user supplies the prompt set.
AI-Generated Prompt Suggestions: No, return_related_questions returns related questions, which is adjacent but not prompt suggestion for tracking
CRM/Support Data Enrichment: No
Agentic/Autonomous Workflow: No as an AEO workflow. Perplexity ships an Agent API with tool invocations (web search, fetch URL, people search, finance search, sandbox), but the agent loop is the user's to build.
Agentic Workflow Description: Agent API replaces Sonar chat completions: preset instead of model, input instead of messages, and sources returned inside a typed output array rather than at the response root.

Data, integrations & API

MCP Server Available: Yes, first-party MCP server. npm @perplexity-ai/mcp-server; remote hosted endpoint https://api.perplexity.ai/mcp (Streamable HTTP); repo github.com/perplexityai/modelcontextprotocol. OAuth supported as of the September 2026 changelog, including sign-in from claude.ai and Cursor with a choice of which API organisation to bill.
Number of MCP Tools: 4, perplexity_search, perplexity_ask, perplexity_research, perplexity_reason
API Access: Yes, that is the whole product. Usage tiers are unlocked by cumulative credit purchase: Tier 0 $0, Tier 1 $50+, Tier 2 $250+, Tier 3 $500+, Tier 4 $1,000+, Tier 5 $5,000+. Rate limits: 50 RPM at Tier 0 rising to 4,000 RPM at Tier 4 and 5 for sonar, sonar-pro and sonar-reasoning-pro; 5 to 100 RPM for sonar-deep-research. Token-per-minute and daily caps not disclosed.
API Access Starting Tier: Tier 0 (free to start, pay per use)
Claude Connectors Directory Listed: No, Perplexity's docs instruct claude.ai users to add it as a custom connector by URL, which indicates it is not a pre-listed directory entry. Neither party states this explicitly.
Connectors Directory Tier: N/A
Data Export Available: N/A, the API response is the data; export is whatever the user builds
Export Formats: JSON
Primary Interface: REST API (OpenAI-compatible), plus the consumer Perplexity app and Comet browser
Integration Destinations: Search controls the API exposes, which is what makes it usable for measurement: search_mode (web / academic / sec), search_domain_filter, search_recency_filter (hour/day/week/month/year), search_after_date_filter and search_before_date_filter, last_updated_after_filter and last_updated_before_filter, search_language_filter, disable_search, enable_search_classifier, return_images, return_related_questions; and inside web_search_options: search_context_size (low/medium/high), search_type (fast/pro/auto), user_location, image_results_enhanced_relevance.

Team, security & support

Seats Limit: N/A, API keys and organisations rather than seats
Regions/Languages Limit: search_language_filter accepts ISO 639-1 codes; user_location inside web_search_options takes latitude, longitude, country, city and region
Historical Data Retention: Not disclosed
SSO/SAML Available: Not disclosed for the API platform
SSO/SAML Tier: N/A
Dedicated Strategist/Account Manager: Not disclosed
Dedicated Strategist Tier: N/A

Notes

Website: perplexity.ai/api-platform · Docs: docs.perplexity.ai
YouTube Video: Watch on YouTube
Notes: MOST IMPORTANT: Sonar Chat Completions is being sunset on 27 September 2026, the docs state "Sonar will be supported until September 27, 2026" and the replacement is the Agent API. Anything built against /chat/completions with model "sonar" has weeks of supported life, and citation-parsing code written against root-level citations / search_results will break at migration, because the Agent API moves sources into typed objects inside an output array. Build new work against the Agent API. Methodological notes for AEO use: search_context_size is both a quality and a cost lever and changes how many sources are pulled, so it must be held constant across a panel or citation counts are not comparable run to run; Perplexity publishes no determinism or reproducibility guarantee, so run each prompt N times and report distributions. Pricing contradiction to flag: the same pricing page lists sonar twice, $1/$1 in the Sonar API table and $0.25/$2.50 in the multi-provider table, with no footnote reconciling them; confirm which endpoint you are calling before budgeting.

Rankability

Rankability: AI search visibility tracking as the core product, bundled with keyword research, content generation/optimization, site and page audits, link prospecting and reporting. Website: https://www.rankability.com/.

Pricing

Entry Tier Name: Starter
Entry Tier Price: $99
Entry Tier Includes: 60 active prompts, 5,475 AI answers/month, 1 workspace, unlimited seats. AI engines: ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Claude (3). Includes traditional rank tracking (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave), local and video tracking, Serena assistant, audits, content, reporting, MCP + API, and GSC/GA4/GBP/YouTube integrations. Annual $1,188/yr (17% saving).
Mid Tier Name: Core
Mid Tier Price: $199
Mid Tier Includes: 125 active prompts, 19,010 AI answers/month, 3 workspaces, unlimited seats. Adds Google AI Overviews and Perplexity (5 engines). Annual $2,388/yr.
Top Tier Name: Team
Top Tier Price: $399
Top Tier Includes: 250 active prompts, 60,833 AI answers/month, 10 workspaces, unlimited seats. Adds Gemini, Grok and Copilot (8 engines). Annual $4,788/yr. Above 10 workspaces the vendor directs to a custom plan with no published price.
Free Trial: Yes, 7-day free trial on monthly billing. Card requirement not disclosed. No free plan.

Coverage

Primary Category: AI search visibility tracking as the core product, bundled with keyword research, content generation/optimization, site and page audits, link prospecting and reporting
Max AI Engines Supported: 8 in the top published tier; 11 documented as supported
AI Engines Covered: Tier-gated. Starter: ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Claude. Core adds Google AI Overviews, Perplexity. Team adds Gemini, Grok, Copilot. Help centre documents 11 supported platforms in total, adding Brave AI, DeepSeek and Meta AI, these appear in no published tier and are presumably the à-la-carte add-ons, though the vendor does not say so or price them. Also tracks non-AI surfaces: Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Local Pack, YouTube Search, Google Video Pack, TikTok Search.
Engine Selection Model: User-selectable per project (each project must include at least one AI platform), within the tier's allowance
Monitoring Cadence: Daily, weekly or monthly per tracked prompt, plus scheduled and manual on-demand scans. No cadence gating by tier is published.
Data Collection Method: Not disclosed as a technical method. Vendor marketing states it "queries ChatGPT through the same live web search your customers trigger", using live web search rather than cached data, with location appended to every query; the docs define a scan as "one attempt to collect configured Track results" and caveat that a result is not a statement about every response the platform can produce.
Bots/Crawlers Tracked: Named only in a free standalone tool (AI Search Indexability Checker): Googlebot, Bingbot, GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot. Inside the product, Site Auditor checks "AI bot access" generically and names no user-agents. No server-log or bot-hit analytics.

Metrics tracked

Tracks Visibility Score: Yes, Search Performance Index (SPI), 0–100, weighted traditional 30% / video 10% / AI mentions 35% / AI citations 25%
Tracks Share of Voice: No, no share-of-voice metric; the SPI doc explicitly states SPI is not market share
Tracks Citation Share: No, the AI Citations tab reports URL, title, platforms, best citation position and a weighted score, but no share or percentage-of-citations metric
Citation Share Splits Owned/Earned: No, no citation-share metric to split, though sources are classified by state: Linked, Unlinked, Opportunity, Gap, Owned
Tracks Source Mention Rate: No, "mentioned" exists as a per-answer boolean feeding SPI, but no published mention-rate metric
Tracks Sentiment: Yes, per-answer sentiment: positive / neutral / mixed / negative, with supporting evidence
Tracks Positioning Accuracy: No for answer accuracy. Best citation position is tracked (citation ordering), but no factual-accuracy metric is disclosed.
Total Core Metrics Tracked: 2 of 7 clearly tracked (visibility score, sentiment). Citation position is tracked but is not answer accuracy.
Competitor Tracking: Yes, Tracker surfaces the competitors appearing for the user's keywords and compares their SPI; Researcher does gap analysis against competitor domains; Promoter analyses competitor backlink profiles
Competitor Ad Intelligence: No
Citation Gap Reporting: Yes, partial, the AI Citations tab classifies sources as Linked, Unlinked, Opportunity, Gap or Owned, with filters. Quantitative competitor citation benchmarking is not described.
Paid Ads Tracking: No
Ads Platform Integrations: None published
AI Traffic Analytics: Yes, GA4 referrer-based organic-vs-AI referral traffic, requiring a connected GA4 property. Named referrers: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Copilot, Meta AI, Mistral, You.com, Poe. Docs caveat that these are referrals, not a complete citation count.

Content & optimization

Generates Content Briefs: Yes, Copywriter generates a brief / coverage map of topics, subtopics and entities from Google SERPs and AI-cited sources
Generates Full Drafts/Articles: Yes, full drafts grounded in a client knowledge base; the Autopilot API runs research → brief → draft → optimize → fact-check in one job to a review-ready draft
Generates FAQs: Not disclosed, the editor reference lists brief, outline, draft, title tag and meta description, with no FAQ block or FAQ schema generation
Technical Crawler Audits: Yes, partial, Site Auditor checks indexability, robots directives and AI bot access derived from robots.txt, plus canonicals, schema detection, status codes, redirects, crawl depth and duplicate content. llms.txt auditing is not offered and schema is a presence column rather than a per-@type audit.
PR/Affiliate/Social/Owned-Media Toolbox: Partial, Promoter covers backlink profiles only; Prospector finds off-site opportunities (podcasts, guest posts, directories, sponsorships, speaking). No affiliate, social or owned-media publishing tools, and no outreach sending.
Prompt Volume / Real Buyer Query Data: No, Researcher returns traditional keyword volume, difficulty, CPC and intent from Google, PAA, YouTube, Reddit and trends. No AI-prompt volume metric exists in Tracker, Researcher or the Search Intelligence API.
AI-Generated Prompt Suggestions: Partial, keyword discovery includes AI expansion, a Conversational Keyword Agent and AI keyword selection, and the changelog shows AI Query Fan-Out; no docs page describes prompt suggestion for tracking specifically.
CRM/Support Data Enrichment: No, no CRM. Prospector does not verify imported contact data and offers no general enrichment action.
Agentic/Autonomous Workflow: Yes, human-in-the-loop. Autonomy is generate-and-stage; it never publishes or merges.
Agentic Workflow Description: Three surfaces. Serena is an advisory agent reading workspace data, GSC and audits, producing proposals with guardrails, chat and recommendations, no autonomous execution. Automate runs scheduled recurring jobs that generate Copywriter drafts from a topic queue on a daily/weekly/monthly cadence and deliver to Projects, WordPress, Webflow or a GitHub pull request (it opens the PR, it does not merge). The Autopilot API runs research → brief → draft → optimize → fact-check unattended but stops at a review-ready draft. Docs instruct the user to review every generated draft before publishing.

Data, integrations & API

MCP Server Available: Yes, hosted MCP server at app.rankability.com/mcp, no local install; OAuth preferred with scoped API keys as fallback. Documented clients: Claude (Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise) and Codex.
Number of MCP Tools: 97 general-account tools
API Access: Yes, Agent API v1 at app.rankability.com/api/agent/v1. Requires an active paid subscription. Plan-dependent rate limits of 30, 60 or 120 requests/minute per key. Scoped API keys, admin-created.
API Access Starting Tier: All paid tiers (Starter and above)
Claude Connectors Directory Listed: Not verified, no vendor claim of a directory listing; only third-party MCP catalogues surfaced
Connectors Directory Tier: N/A
Data Export Available: Yes
Export Formats: CSV for tracking data; content exports as Google Docs, HTML, Markdown, .docx and Brief (Markdown); GA4 charts as PNG; shareable audit reports with agency branding, passwords and expiry
Primary Interface: Web app, plus Serena for Slack (organisation-level connected app) and a hosted MCP server. No Chrome extension published.
Integration Destinations: Data sources: Google Search Console, GA4, Google Business Profile (multi-location), YouTube, Bing Webmaster Tools, Google Drive. Destinations: WordPress, Webflow CMS, GitHub pull request, Asana, Google Docs, Looker Studio (via a self-built Apps Script connector on the Tracker API, Rankability publishes the recipe, not a turnkey connector).

Team, security & support

Seats Limit: Unlimited on all paid tiers, no per-seat charge. Roles are Admin and Member only. Workspaces are the gating unit instead: 1 / 3 / 10.
Regions/Languages Limit: 32 language codes documented for the API. Location targeting to city and state level with location multipliers on location-eligible platforms; a complete country list is not disclosed.
Historical Data Retention: Not disclosed. The only published figure touching history is the Looker Studio connector's 90-day time series, which is a connector limit rather than a stated retention policy.
SSO/SAML Available: Not disclosed, no mention on the pricing page or in the help centre; access management documents only Admin and Member roles
SSO/SAML Tier: N/A
Dedicated Strategist/Account Manager: Not disclosed, not offered or mentioned on any published tier
Dedicated Strategist Tier: N/A

Notes

Website: rankability.com
YouTube Video: Watch on YouTube
Notes: Co-founders Nathan Gotch (CEO) and Simon L. Smith (CTO); founding year, team size, funding and HQ are not disclosed by the vendor. Modules: Tracker, Auditor, Optimize, Copywriter/Create, Researcher, Promoter, Prospector, Serena, Automate, MCP, Agent API. Internal contradictions to note: the pricing page defines active prompts as a monthly total while the help centre describes them as concurrent capacity freed when a report is paused; engine counts differ between the pricing page (8) and the platform docs (11); and the help centre says credit-based pricing is discontinued while the platform docs and the April 2026 changelog still quote per-scan credit costs. Third-party listings quoting four tiers (Starter/Growth/Scale/Agency at $99–$799) do not match the vendor's own pricing page. Self-audit: rankability.com serves JSON-LD (Organization, LocalBusiness, SoftwareApplication with self-asserted AggregateRating on the homepage; Product, Brand, Offer and a 16-question FAQPage on the Tracker page) and publishes llms.txt at both the main domain and the help centre, with every help page also available as .md.

SE Ranking

SE Ranking: SEO platform (rank tracking, site audit, keyword/competitor research, backlinks, reporting) with an AI search visibility module and a separate SE Visible product. Website: https://seranking.com.

Pricing

Entry Tier Name: Core
Entry Tier Price: $129/mo
Entry Tier Includes: 100 AI prompts tracked daily; 5 domains in AI competitive research; 1 seat; 10 projects; 25,000 API credits/mo; MCP access; 6 months historical data; 50,000-row export
Mid Tier Name: Growth
Mid Tier Price: $279/mo
Mid Tier Includes: 250 AI prompts tracked daily; 15 domains in AI competitive research; 3 seats; 30 projects; 100,000 API credits/mo; MCP access; all-time historical data; 100,000-row export
Top Tier Name: Enterprise
Top Tier Price: Custom
Top Tier Includes: Prompt volume custom; up to 5 seats; custom limits across all modules; full API and advanced integrations
Free Trial: Yes (14 days, fully functional: up to 10 projects, 750 tracked keywords/day, 20 AI prompts/day, AI competitive research on 3 domains)

Coverage

Primary Category: SEO platform (rank tracking, site audit, keyword/competitor research, backlinks, reporting) with an AI search visibility module and a separate SE Visible product
Max AI Engines Supported: 5
AI Engines Covered: Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity (SE Visible states Claude will be added)
Engine Selection Model: No engine gating, all five engines are available on every plan; capacity is gated by daily prompt limits (Core 100, Growth 250, Enterprise custom) and by the paid AI Search Add-on.
Monitoring Cadence: Daily by default in SE Visible, switchable to weekly to conserve prompt allowance. The in-suite AI Results Tracker only states results appear in the next update cycle; no on-demand refresh documented.
Data Collection Method: UI scraping of rendered answers, stated explicitly: "retrieves results through direct UI-based monitoring… captures the responses as a real user would see them" and "through a browser interface, not simulations and not API shortcuts"
Bots/Crawlers Tracked: None named on any official page

Metrics tracked

Tracks Visibility Score: Yes ("Visibility Score" in SE Visible: brand mentions weighted by position within responses, averaged across tracked prompts)
Tracks Share of Voice: Yes ("Share of Voice", SE Visible)
Tracks Citation Share: Partial, not named as citation share; the Sources report gives "Mention rate" (% of a domain’s AI answers mentioning the brand) and "Coverage" (% of tracked prompts where a domain appeared)
Citation Share Splits Owned/Earned: No (no owned-vs-earned framing documented)
Tracks Source Mention Rate: Yes ("Mention rate"; also Source Presence and Mention & Link Presence)
Tracks Sentiment: Yes ("Net Sentiment", SE Visible; tracked separately and does not affect the Visibility Score)
Tracks Positioning Accuracy: No (closest are average position and "Top 3 Presence")
Total Core Metrics Tracked: 4
Competitor Tracking: Yes (add up to five competitors; SE Visible auto-detects brands AI answers mention alongside yours)
Competitor Ad Intelligence: Yes, traditional PPC only (competitor ad copies, paid keywords, monthly ad history), not ads inside AI answers
Citation Gap Reporting: Yes, functionally: the Sources report names "Mention opportunities" (sources referencing other brands but not yours), competitor-only mentions and "New opportunities". The phrase "citation gap" is not used.
Paid Ads Tracking: No (Competitive Research covers traditional Google Ads PPC only; its AI coverage is explicitly organic)
Ads Platform Integrations: Google Ads (traditional PPC only)
AI Traffic Analytics: No (GA4 and Search Console integrations exist as general analytics connections; no AI referral traffic report and no AI crawler log analysis)

Content & optimization

Generates Content Briefs: Yes (Content Editor builds briefs from competitor headings and outlines)
Generates Full Drafts/Articles: Yes (AI Writer produces SEO-friendly initial drafts via one-click or wizard mode)
Generates FAQs: Yes (AI Writer generates headlines, outlines and FAQs plus meta titles and descriptions)
Technical Crawler Audits: No (Website Audit covers 13 categories incl. crawling and indexing, but no GPTBot/ClaudeBot robots.txt rules and no llms.txt check)
PR/Affiliate/Social/Owned-Media Toolbox: Partial: no PR or affiliate tooling; a Local Marketing Tool (GBP posts, listings, reviews) and a Social Media Management module exist but are not tied to AI visibility
Prompt Volume / Real Buyer Query Data: No (no per-prompt volume metric or stated real-user query source; the corporate data page cites 25.5M+ AI prompts tracked as a database scale figure only)
AI-Generated Prompt Suggestions: Yes (SE Visible discovers prompts from up to five chosen topics with pre-selected industry suggestions; AI Results Tracker offers a suggested prompts list)
CRM/Support Data Enrichment: No
Agentic/Autonomous Workflow: No
Agentic Workflow Description: The MCP server exposes data tools plus some project/keyword management actions to an external AI client; the agent is the user’s client, not an SE Ranking-run workflow.

Data, integrations & API

MCP Server Available: Yes (first-party server; MCP access included on every plan)
Number of MCP Tools: 160-180 (official pages disagree: seranking.com/mcp.html says 180+, seranking.com/api/integrations/mcp/ says 160+)
API Access: Yes
API Access Starting Tier: Core (25,000 API credits/mo included). Standalone API: $50/mo wallet (250K credits) or $179/mo (1M credits); add-on for existing subscribers +$45/mo for 250K credits.
Claude Connectors Directory Listed: No
Connectors Directory Tier: N/A (SE Ranking is in ChatGPT’s connector directory only; Claude setup is manual)
Data Export Available: Yes
Export Formats: PDF, HTML, XLS (row limits: Core 50,000, Growth 100,000)
Primary Interface: Multiple (web dashboard in the main platform plus the separate SE Visible dashboard, REST API, and an MCP server)
Integration Destinations: GA4; Google Search Console; Google Ads; Matomo; Looker Studio; Whatagraph; AgencyAnalytics; Reportz.io; Zapier; Make.com; n8n; Appy Pie Automate; Google Business Profile; Facebook; Apple Business Connect; Bing Places; WordPress; Wix; plus REST API and MCP. No Slack.

Team, security & support

Seats Limit: Core 1 seat, Growth up to 3, Enterprise up to 5; extra seats from $16/seat/mo
Regions/Languages Limit: 100+ countries with city-level tracking; extra locations from $18.40. Platform UI in 10 languages. Per-tier location caps not published.
Historical Data Retention: Core 6 months; Growth all-time; Enterprise custom
SSO/SAML Available: Unknown (no mention of SSO or SAML on the subscription, enterprise, account settings or user seats pages)
SSO/SAML Tier: Unknown
Dedicated Strategist/Account Manager: Partial, Growth and above include Customer Success support with onboarding and ongoing guidance; Core gets help center, chat and email only. A named dedicated manager is not documented.
Dedicated Strategist Tier: Growth and above

Notes

Website: seranking.com
YouTube Video: Watch on YouTube
Notes: Baseline AI prompt tracking is included in every plan, but expansion is a paid AI Search Add-on priced in checks, where 1 check = 1 prompt x 1 AI platform (so one prompt across all five engines costs 5 checks): 200 checks $89/mo, 450 checks $179/mo, 1,000 checks $345/mo. The add-on also unlocks SE Visible. AI visibility is split across three surfaces, AI Results Tracker (in-suite), AI Overviews Tracker (Rank Tracker), and SE Visible (standalone), and the Visibility Score, Share of Voice and Net Sentiment metrics are documented for SE Visible only. Verified 2026-09-12.

Search Atlas

Search Atlas: SEO platform combining rank tracking, site auditing, content generation, Google Business Profile management, the OTTO AI agent and LLM visibility tracking. Website: https://searchatlas.com.

Pricing

Entry Tier Name: Starter
Entry Tier Price: $99/mo
Entry Tier Includes: 1 seat; 1 OTTO project; 500 AI credits; 40 content pages; 30 AI article credits/mo; up to 2 LLM Visibility projects; 3,500 LLM Visibility credits/mo; 3 engines (ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI); white-label dashboard and client portal
Mid Tier Name: Growth
Mid Tier Price: $199/mo
Mid Tier Includes: 3 seats; 2 OTTO projects; 1,000 AI credits; 100 content pages; 60 AI article credits/mo; up to 4 LLM Visibility projects; 20,000 LLM Visibility credits/mo; 3 engines. Pro ($399) raises this to 5 seats, 4 OTTO projects, 2,000 AI credits, unlimited LLM Visibility projects, 50,000 credits/mo and 5 engines.
Top Tier Name: Agency
Top Tier Price: $999/mo
Top Tier Includes: 10 seats; 10 OTTO projects; 10,000 AI credits; 500 content pages; 300 AI article credits/mo; unlimited LLM Visibility projects; 5 engines; unlimited client accounts; dedicated support team. A quote-only Enterprise plan adds API access and custom quotas.
Free Trial: Yes (7-day free trial with a 30-minute onboarding session; a separate no-signup AI visibility report requires no account)

Coverage

Primary Category: SEO platform combining rank tracking, site auditing, content generation, Google Business Profile management, the OTTO AI agent and LLM visibility tracking
Max AI Engines Supported: 5
AI Engines Covered: Pricing page: ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Google AI, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot. Other official pages list Claude, Grok and SearchGPT, but Claude does not appear in any pricing-tier platform list.
Engine Selection Model: Starter and Growth cover ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI; Perplexity and Copilot require Pro or above. The pricing page states brand analysis always runs on all 5 platforms regardless of selection. Capacity is metered in LLM Visibility credits (3,500 / 20,000 / 50,000 per month).
Monitoring Cadence: Not disclosed (no refresh interval stated on any official page; the product page uses "real-time" and "live dashboard" without defining a frequency)
Data Collection Method: Not disclosed (no official page states scraping or API sampling)
Bots/Crawlers Tracked: None named

Metrics tracked

Tracks Visibility Score: Yes ("Visibility Score")
Tracks Share of Voice: Yes ("share of voice" / "Share of Voice Rank"; "Share of Model" in blog material)
Tracks Citation Share: Yes (Citation Sources table showing total counts and share)
Citation Share Splits Owned/Earned: No (not differentiated on any official page)
Tracks Source Mention Rate: Partial ("Brand mentions" / monthly AI brand mentions monitored)
Tracks Sentiment: Yes (positive, neutral or negative, with a dedicated sentiment dashboard)
Tracks Positioning Accuracy: Yes as placement (reports whether the brand appears first, last, or is skipped entirely)
Total Core Metrics Tracked: 5
Competitor Tracking: Yes (competitor benchmarking, visibility vs competitors, Share of Voice rank)
Competitor Ad Intelligence: No
Citation Gap Reporting: Yes ("Competitor Gap", topic and prompt gaps, plus citation source domain tables)
Paid Ads Tracking: No (Smart Ads / OTTO PPC manages Google Ads and Meta Ads; no tracking of ads inside AI answers)
Ads Platform Integrations: Google Ads; Meta Ads
AI Traffic Analytics: No (LLM Visibility reports visibility, citation and sentiment metrics, not sessions or conversions; official material describes manual GA4 segmentation as the method for AI referral traffic). Google Search Console is integrated.

Content & optimization

Generates Content Briefs: Yes (Content Briefs generator)
Generates Full Drafts/Articles: Yes (Content Genius V3; OTTO generates topical maps, SEO articles and landing pages, with universal CMS publishing)
Generates FAQs: Unknown (not separately named)
Technical Crawler Audits: No, Site Auditor covers robots tags, hreflang, canonicals, XML sitemaps, broken links, alt tags and OpenGraph/Twitter cards, but no robots.txt file audit, no llms.txt and no GPTBot check. OTTO deploys meta tags, redirects, broken-link fixes, alt text and schema, with no AI-crawler directives.
PR/Affiliate/Social/Owned-Media Toolbox: Yes (Digital PR and press releases, WILDFIRE automated backlink exchange, backlink research; PR outreach campaigns metered at 2/10/30/999 per month. Social Scheduler is marked Coming Soon on every tier.)
Prompt Volume / Real Buyer Query Data: Partial (a Topics & Queries dashboard shows search volume per query, but the data source is not stated)
AI-Generated Prompt Suggestions: No (no auto-suggested prompts documented; official guidance is to author prompts manually)
CRM/Support Data Enrichment: No
Agentic/Autonomous Workflow: Yes
Agentic Workflow Description: OTTO SEO deploys changes to the live site via a CMS connector or JS snippet: meta tags and titles, schema, canonicals, redirects, broken-link fixes, alt text, internal links, Open Graph and Twitter cards, plus generated articles and landing pages and instant indexing. An approval mode exists; which actions default to auto-deploy is not specified.

Data, integrations & API

MCP Server Available: Yes (official server published to npm and the MCP Registry)
Number of MCP Tools: 30 (LLM Visibility / AEO tools). The wider Search Atlas MCP server also exposes non-AEO SEO tools, which are not counted here.
API Access: Yes
API Access Starting Tier: Enterprise only (quote-only); no self-serve tier lists API access. Pricing model not disclosed.
Claude Connectors Directory Listed: No
Connectors Directory Tier: Community / self-hosted MCP server, not a first-party connector
Data Export Available: Yes
Export Formats: PDF, CSV and shareable live dashboard links
Primary Interface: Multiple (four LLM Visibility dashboards, an Atlas Agent chat interface via Slack, Teams and ClickUp, a CMS-embedded OTTO connector or JS snippet, and MCP/API)
Integration Destinations: OTTO connectors: WordPress, HubSpot, Webflow, Shopify, Contentful, Duda, Cloudflare, GitHub, Vercel, Netlify. Alerts and agent: Slack, Microsoft Teams, ClickUp. Ads: Google Ads, Meta Ads. Google Search Console via MCP. GA4, Looker Studio and Zapier not confirmed (the integrations page returns 404).

Team, security & support

Seats Limit: Starter 1, Growth 3, Pro 5, Agency 10. Extra seat cost not published.
Regions/Languages Limit: Not disclosed (no country, location or language row on the pricing or features pages)
Historical Data Retention: Not disclosed except Google Search Console historical data, listed as unlimited on all plans
SSO/SAML Available: Not disclosed
SSO/SAML Tier: Not disclosed
Dedicated Strategist/Account Manager: Partial (Agency adds a dedicated support team and priority support eligibility at 25+ accounts; the enterprise page lists a dedicated support manager. All plans include one 30-minute onboarding session.)
Dedicated Strategist Tier: Agency and Enterprise

Notes

Website: searchatlas.com
YouTube Video: Watch on YouTube
Notes: OTTO beyond the included project quota is sold per site at $99/mo (500 AI points and 7.5 Hyperdrive credits per site); AI credit top-ups are $19 per 500 points and $99 per 100 Hyperdrive credits. Engine lists are contradictory across Search Atlas’s own pages (4, 5, 6 and 7 engines on different URLs) and Claude is marketed as tracked but absent from every pricing-tier platform list. Verified 2026-09-12.

seoClarity

seoClarity: Enterprise SEO platform, self-described as a "Unified SEO and AEO Platform", with AI search visibility delivered as a separate add-on product called Clarity ArcAI. Website: https://www.seoclarity.net.

Pricing

Entry Tier Name: Research & Content
Entry Tier Price: $2,500/mo
Entry Tier Includes: Dedicated support team, client success, technical support and SEO advisory services. A lower Rankings tier sits below it at custom pricing (minimum 2,000 keyword queries) covering daily or weekly rank tracking, ranking data extracts and unlimited users. Prices are also published in GBP (from £1,800).
Mid Tier Name: Technical SEO
Mid Tier Price: $3,200/mo
Mid Tier Includes: Site Audit; unlimited crawl pages and projects; log file analysis; Clarity 360. All packages are priced on the number of domains and keywords tracked.
Top Tier Name: Enterprise
Top Tier Price: $4,500/mo
Top Tier Includes: All benefits of Rankings, Research & Content, plus advanced technical SEO capabilities, the highest tier of support and SLAs, and prioritized contributions to the product roadmap
Free Trial: Yes (free custom trials following a demo; duration not published). Free tools include an AI Search Readiness Checker, a structured data validator, a schema generator and a free keyword research tool limited to 5-10 queries a day.

Coverage

Primary Category: Enterprise SEO platform, self-described as a "Unified SEO and AEO Platform", with AI search visibility delivered as a separate add-on product called Clarity ArcAI
Max AI Engines Supported: 9
AI Engines Covered: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek
Engine Selection Model: No engine gating by tier, the ArcAI Core plan lists all nine engines. Tiers differ by prompt query volume (Core starts at 500 prompt queries) and by add-on: Discovery adds AI bot tracking, Accuracy adds brand protection and monitoring. Upper prompt limits are not published.
Monitoring Cadence: Weekly by default with daily available; the API page states "No limits. Track prompts daily, bi-weekly, weekly, monthly, or on-demand." The Accuracy module claims continuous monitoring.
Data Collection Method: Not disclosed on official pages. No official page states whether AI answers are collected by scraping rendered output or by API sampling. The closest statements are that ArcAI "performs automated, high-frequency checks across thousands of prompt variations" and that the API "delivers live data as it is processed by our infrastructure". Separately, prompt and keyword data is stated to come from proprietary clickstream.
Bots/Crawlers Tracked: Named only generically as bot sources, "AI search engine bots from Gemini, OpenAI, and Perplexity" plus Googlebot. Specific user-agent strings such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot or PerplexityBot are not named on the product pages.

Metrics tracked

Tracks Visibility Score: No (no named composite score; reports presence rate, brand mentions and citations)
Tracks Share of Voice: Yes ("share-of-voice benchmarking")
Tracks Citation Share: No as a named metric (reports "citation sources" and "source and citation tracking")
Citation Share Splits Owned/Earned: Unknown, not stated on any official page checked
Tracks Source Mention Rate: No (brand mentions only, with no rate metric)
Tracks Sentiment: Yes (sentiment breakdowns across positive, neutral, negative and mixed, segmented by AI engine and query)
Tracks Positioning Accuracy: Yes, but as factual accuracy rather than positioning, the Accuracy module tracks hallucinations, fact errors and misinformation about the brand
Total Core Metrics Tracked: 3
Competitor Tracking: Yes (AI search visibility compared against competitors over time)
Competitor Ad Intelligence: Unknown for AI answers specifically
Citation Gap Reporting: Yes ("Comprehensive Topical Gap Analysis" identifying where AI search engines are not surfacing the brand; Pulse adds competitor visibility gaps)
Paid Ads Tracking: Likely, but thinly documented
Ads Platform Integrations: The ArcAI Core plan lists "Shopping, Local, and Ads" as AI search features, but no dedicated page documents ads-in-AI-answers tracking. Core-platform ad integrations are Google Ads, Bing Ads, Marin, Kenshoo and Google DoubleClick.
AI Traffic Analytics: Yes, reports how AI-search-generated visits convert, engage and contribute to business outcomes against traditional organic traffic, and ties bot activity to performance. Integrates with Google Analytics, Google Search Console and Adobe Analytics.

Content & optimization

Generates Content Briefs: Yes (creates and downloads unique content briefs; the ArcAI agentic content workflow produces enterprise-ready briefs)
Generates Full Drafts/Articles: Partial, Content Fusion generates meta descriptions, paragraphs and outlines, i.e. assisted writing rather than full articles
Generates FAQs: Yes (ArcAI Custom Content Agents automate schema generation, entity alignment and FAQ creation)
Technical Crawler Audits: Unknown, Clarity Audits advertises 100+ technical health checks with no AI-crawler or llms.txt check named. Adjacent but different: ClarityAutomate has a "Bot Optimizer" that pre-renders content to expose it to AI search bots, which is remediation rather than auditing.
PR/Affiliate/Social/Owned-Media Toolbox: Partial, monitoring only, ArcAI Pulse is a web-wide listening tool that scans news sites, forums, blogs and communities for brand and topic mentions. No PR outreach, affiliate or social publishing tooling.
Prompt Volume / Real Buyer Query Data: Yes, and the largest dataset claim in this set: 18 years of search intelligence and proprietary clickstream data with a 1+ billion question database, plus a "Demand-Distilled Volume" metric for relative prompt demand. The keyword database is stated at 28 billion keywords, growing by a billion a month.
AI-Generated Prompt Suggestions: Yes (Prompt Research Automation offers one-click automated research for a domain alongside an advanced mode)
CRM/Support Data Enrichment: No (no CRM integration on the integrations page, no Salesforce, HubSpot or Zendesk)
Agentic/Autonomous Workflow: No (human-in-the-loop)
Agentic Workflow Description: Sia is an assistant, not an autonomous agent, bulk task execution with a preview, approve and execute flow, and explicit accept-or-reject control over suggested changes. ArcAI 3.0 agentic workflows "automate the heavy lifting of auditing and discovery, keeping your experts in the loop and in control". Actual site-side deployment lives in the separate ClarityAutomate product, which pushes changes via edge or JavaScript injection.

Data, integrations & API

MCP Server Available: Yes (works with any MCP-compatible system; ChatGPT, Claude Desktop and Cursor named)
Number of MCP Tools: Unknown (no tool count or tool names published)
API Access: Yes
API Access Starting Tier: Included at no extra charge for data already tracked in the account, "Data for the elements you already track in your seoClarity account is completely accessible through our API completely at no additional charge." Broader dataset access is scoped as a custom project. Full API documentation is gated behind an account executive and no credit or rate pricing is published.
Claude Connectors Directory Listed: No
Connectors Directory Tier: N/A, no listing found and none claimed on their MCP page
Data Export Available: Yes
Export Formats: Not disclosed as file formats. Export is up to 1 million rows at once with "no limits on the data exports or downloads from the platform" and no upcharge. A Looker Studio / Data Studio connector exists.
Primary Interface: Multiple (web dashboard primary, plus REST APIs for ArcAI, rank tracking, keyword research, research grid and content analysis, an MCP server, LiveWire, and Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Google Docs and Sheets connectors)
Integration Destinations: The deepest enterprise integration set in this comparison. Data warehouse and BI: BigQuery, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, Tableau, Looker, Looker Studio connector and custom internal warehouses. Analytics: Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Adobe Analytics, Acoustic, WebTrends, IBM Digital Analytics. Backlinks: Majestic, Moz, Ahrefs, BuzzStream. PPC: Google Ads, Bing Ads, Marin, Kenshoo, DoubleClick. Workflow: Jira, Asana, custom CMS. SSO: Google, Microsoft, Okta, Ping, SAML 2.0. Slack and Power BI are not listed.

Team, security & support

Seats Limit: Unlimited users on every tier, "everyone has all the access they need"
Regions/Languages Limit: Ranking data in more than 180 countries plus major regional search engines beyond Google; multilingual content analysis with built-in translations. Exact language count not disclosed. The Competitor Research API separately cites 90+ countries.
Historical Data Retention: Not disclosed, no retention period published on the pricing page, enterprise platform page or FAQ. The FAQ addresses only importing history from a prior vendor.
SSO/SAML Available: Yes (username and password, SSO, and SAML 2.0; also Google, Microsoft, Okta and Ping)
SSO/SAML Tier: No tier restriction stated, presented as platform-wide
Dedicated Strategist/Account Manager: Yes
Dedicated Strategist Tier: Every subscription includes a dedicated Client Success Manager described as a strategic partner. SEO advisory services from the Research & Content tier up; highest tier of support and SLAs at Enterprise. Managed services are an Accuracy add-on within ArcAI.

Notes

Website: seoclarity.net
YouTube Video: Watch on YouTube
Notes: AI search visibility is a paid add-on called Clarity ArcAI, listed under optional add-ons on the main pricing page and also sold standalone. Its three plans, Core, Discovery and Accuracy, all show "Ask for a Quote" with no currency, billing period or minimum published, so the $2,500-4,500/month figures are the core SEO platform and not ArcAI. Prompt queries start at 500 on all three plans. Core includes 20 AI content optimizer analyses, brand mentions and citations, question research, performance reporting, sentiment analysis, a prompt research explorer, an AI engine page indexer and Shopping/Local/Ads features; AI bot tracking is Discovery-only and brand protection is Accuracy-only. ArcAI launched June 2025, version 2.0 in November 2025 and 3.0 on 1 April 2026. Other undisclosed items: historical data retention, export file formats, free-trial duration and per-tier keyword and crawl caps. Verified 2026-09-13.

Surfer SEO

Surfer SEO: Content optimization and generation platform, self-described as an AI Visibility Platform, with an AI Tracker module for brand mentions in AI answer engines. Website: https://surferseo.com.

Pricing

Entry Tier Name: Discovery
Entry Tier Price: $49/mo
Entry Tier Includes: No AI prompt tracking; 120 documents; 10 pages tracked; 1 seat
Mid Tier Name: Pro
Mid Tier Price: $182/mo
Mid Tier Includes: 50 AI prompts tracked daily across all 5 engines; 5 Brand Spaces; 360 documents; MCP access; 5 seats. Standard ($99) below it tracks 25 prompts weekly on ChatGPT only with 3 seats.
Top Tier Name: Enterprise
Top Tier Price: $999/mo
Top Tier Includes: Prompt volume custom; SSO; white-label; custom limits; priority support. Peace of Mind ($299) tracks 100 prompts daily with unlimited Brand Spaces, API access and 10 seats.
Free Trial: Yes (7-day free trial of the Pro plan with full feature access; AI Search Analytics also has a 7-day trial. No free plan; refund policy not published.)

Coverage

Primary Category: Content optimization and generation platform, self-described as an AI Visibility Platform, with an AI Tracker module for brand mentions in AI answer engines
Max AI Engines Supported: 5
AI Engines Covered: ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Perplexity. Surfer states explicitly that it does not track Claude, Claude is supported only as an MCP agent client.
Engine Selection Model: Standard tracks 25 prompts weekly on ChatGPT only; Pro, Peace of Mind and Enterprise cover all 5 engines. Discovery has no AI tracking.
Monitoring Cadence: Daily on Pro, Peace of Mind, Enterprise and the standalone AI Search Analytics plan; weekly on Standard. Multiple queries per day per model, averaged.
Data Collection Method: UI scraping, stated by the vendor: "Reads real front-end responses from each engine's interface, not APIs", with a self-consistency method checking that answers and sources align
Bots/Crawlers Tracked: None documented

Metrics tracked

Tracks Visibility Score: Yes ("Visibility Score": how often and how prominently the brand appears in AI answers)
Tracks Share of Voice: Yes (Share of Voice, competitive benchmarking across models)
Tracks Citation Share: No as a named metric (a Sources Dashboard lists most-referenced pages with confidence scoring, but there is no citation share metric)
Citation Share Splits Owned/Earned: Unknown (not documented in the AI Tracker docs)
Tracks Source Mention Rate: Yes ("Mention Rate")
Tracks Sentiment: Yes ("Brand Sentiment": positive, neutral, negative framing)
Tracks Positioning Accuracy: No (closest named metric is Average Position, i.e. placement within AI responses)
Total Core Metrics Tracked: 4
Competitor Tracking: Yes (Competitors Dashboard with Share of Voice comparison across models)
Competitor Ad Intelligence: No
Citation Gap Reporting: Yes, under Surfer’s own term "Mention Gap" (where the brand is missing in AI answers), plus Coverage Gap for content
Paid Ads Tracking: No
Ads Platform Integrations: None
AI Traffic Analytics: No (Google Search Console integration exists; no GA4 integration and no AI referral session or conversion attribution)

Content & optimization

Generates Content Briefs: Yes (Content Editor with AI SEO content score, outlines and guidelines)
Generates Full Drafts/Articles: Yes (Surfer AI generates SEO-ready articles; Auto-Optimize applies 1-click optimization)
Generates FAQs: Unknown (not named as an output type on official pages)
Technical Crawler Audits: No, Surfer states it is "not a backlink index or technical SEO crawler" and not a Core Web Vitals auditing tool. Content Audit inspects owned pages for content optimization only.
PR/Affiliate/Social/Owned-Media Toolbox: Partial: an AI Tracker Marketplace lets users find and secure paid placements directly in AI Tracker when trusted sources support it. No PR, affiliate, social or owned-media modules.
Prompt Volume / Real Buyer Query Data: No (no prompt volume or query demand data; fan-out sub-queries are surfaced but not volume-weighted)
AI-Generated Prompt Suggestions: Yes, but only at project creation, Surfer auto-generates prompt suggestions from brand analysis; existing projects support manual addition only
CRM/Support Data Enrichment: No
Agentic/Autonomous Workflow: Partial
Agentic Workflow Description: Recommendations surfaces ranked citation opportunities, sentiment flags and content gaps from AI Tracker, and Auto-Optimize applies content optimizations. Nothing publishes autonomously; "Agentic Surfy" is named as in development with no release date.

Data, integrations & API

MCP Server Available: Yes (beta, launched 11 Aug 2026; available on Pro, Peace of Mind and Enterprise)
Number of MCP Tools: Unknown (3 tool groups published, Content Editor, AI Tracker and Recommendations, but no tool count)
API Access: Yes
API Access Starting Tier: Peace of Mind ($299/mo). API key requested via support; currently closed testing, with AI Tracker reporting via API listed as coming soon.
Claude Connectors Directory Listed: Unknown
Connectors Directory Tier: Unknown (Surfer says its MCP works with Claude and ChatGPT but makes no directory-listing claim)
Data Export Available: Yes
Export Formats: CSV plus shareable view-only dashboard links; a Looker Studio connector is mentioned
Primary Interface: Multiple (web app dashboards primary, plus Keyword Surfer Chrome extension, WordPress and Google Docs plugins, API v2 and MCP)
Integration Destinations: Keyword Surfer; Contentful; ChatGPT; Jasper; Zapier; Google Docs; WordPress; API; Google Search Console; Looker Studio; Surfer MCP. No Webflow, Semrush, GA4 or Slack.

Team, security & support

Seats Limit: Discovery 1, Standard 3, AI Search Analytics 5, Pro 5, Peace of Mind 10, Enterprise custom. Extra seat cost not published.
Regions/Languages Limit: Unknown for AI Tracker (no country or language selector documented in the AI Tracker docs)
Historical Data Retention: Unknown (only a date range dropdown and period-over-period trends are documented)
SSO/SAML Available: Yes
SSO/SAML Tier: Enterprise only
Dedicated Strategist/Account Manager: Yes
Dedicated Strategist Tier: Dedicated success manager and personalized onboarding from Peace of Mind; comprehensive advisory on Enterprise

Notes

Website: surferseo.com
YouTube Video: Watch on YouTube
Notes: AI tracking is included in base plans but tier-gated, and is also sold standalone as "AI Search Analytics": 50 prompts $95/mo, 100 prompts $185/mo, 200 prompts $365/mo, unlimited custom (the only tier with published monthly rates; $82/mo billed yearly for 50 prompts). Surfer’s homepage lists Claude among tracked engines while its own /ai-instructions/ page states Claude is not tracked, the more specific page is treated as authoritative. Verified 2026-09-12.

Yotpo (Discover)

Yotpo (Discover): Ecommerce retention platform (reviews/UGC, loyalty, SMS, subscriptions). Its AI search visibility product is a separate module, Yotpo Discover. Website: https://www.yotpo.com/discover/.

Pricing

Entry Tier Name: For Brands (custom quote)
Entry Tier Price: Not disclosed
Entry Tier Includes: No published price. Discover is quote-only (https://www.yotpo.com/pricing/discover/). Access gated to merchants at $10M+ annual GMV; below that, sign-up routes to a waitlist. Covers AI search visibility monitoring across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Google AI Mode, plus an assigned AEO consultant.
Mid Tier Name: For Agencies (custom quote)
Mid Tier Price: Not disclosed
Mid Tier Includes: No published price. Separate quote track for agencies managing client brands. Feature differences between the Brands and Agencies tracks are not published.
Top Tier Name: Not disclosed
Top Tier Price: Not disclosed
Top Tier Includes: No third published tier for Discover. Yotpo publishes pricing for its Core/Reviews, Loyalty, SMS and Subscriptions products, but not for Discover.
Free Trial: No

Coverage

Primary Category: Ecommerce retention platform (reviews/UGC, loyalty, SMS, subscriptions). Its AI search visibility product is a separate module, Yotpo Discover.
Max AI Engines Supported: 4
AI Engines Covered: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Google AI Mode. Perplexity appears in some page headers but is not enumerated in the product description.
Engine Selection Model: Fixed set; no published engine selection or per-engine configuration
Monitoring Cadence: Not disclosed
Data Collection Method: Not disclosed. Yotpo does not publish whether prompt responses are collected via API, headless browser, or panel.
Bots/Crawlers Tracked: Not disclosed. No named crawler or bot list published.

Metrics tracked

Tracks Visibility Score: Yes
Tracks Share of Voice: Not disclosed
Tracks Citation Share: Yes
Citation Share Splits Owned/Earned: Not disclosed
Tracks Source Mention Rate: Yes
Tracks Sentiment: Not disclosed
Tracks Positioning Accuracy: Not disclosed
Total Core Metrics Tracked: 3 confirmed (visibility, citation share, source mention); remaining metrics not disclosed
Competitor Tracking: Yes
Competitor Ad Intelligence: No
Citation Gap Reporting: Yes
Paid Ads Tracking: No
Ads Platform Integrations: None published
AI Traffic Analytics: Not disclosed

Content & optimization

Generates Content Briefs: Yes
Generates Full Drafts/Articles: Yes
Generates FAQs: Yes
Technical Crawler Audits: Yes
PR/Affiliate/Social/Owned-Media Toolbox: No
Prompt Volume / Real Buyer Query Data: Not disclosed. No published tracked-prompt volume or prompt quota.
AI-Generated Prompt Suggestions: Not disclosed
CRM/Support Data Enrichment: Yes, Discover runs on the merchant’s existing Yotpo review and UGC data; not an external CRM integration.
Agentic/Autonomous Workflow: Yes
Agentic Workflow Description: Three named agents: Onsite Agent, Content Agent, Activation Agent. Autonomy level and approval model are not documented.

Data, integrations & API

MCP Server Available: Yes
Number of MCP Tools: Not disclosed
API Access: No, no Discover API. Yotpo developer documentation covers only the Core, UGC/Reviews and Loyalty APIs; no Discover endpoints are published.
API Access Starting Tier: N/A
Claude Connectors Directory Listed: Not verified in the Claude Connectors directory
Connectors Directory Tier: N/A
Data Export Available: Not disclosed
Export Formats: Not disclosed
Primary Interface: Web app (Yotpo platform)
Integration Destinations: Shopify (the LLM review schema deploys automatically on non-headless Shopify storefronts), Google Shopping via Reviews Syndication and rich snippets, retail and social syndication partners, Discover MCP for Claude.

Team, security & support

Seats Limit: Not disclosed
Regions/Languages Limit: Not disclosed
Historical Data Retention: Not disclosed
SSO/SAML Available: Not disclosed
SSO/SAML Tier: Not disclosed
Dedicated Strategist/Account Manager: Yes
Dedicated Strategist Tier: Included on every Discover account; Yotpo states an AEO consultant is assigned per account.

Notes

Website: yotpo.com/discover
YouTube Video: Watch on YouTube
Notes: Commerce-native entrant rather than a self-serve AEO tool. Three mechanisms feed merchant review data to AI systems: (1) a "Yotpo LLM schema" serving review content in the initial server-side HTML (marker: yotpo-reviews-section-data), enabled automatically on non-headless Shopify; (2) Reviews Syndication and rich snippets to Google Shopping and retail/social partners; (3) Discover MCP for Claude (https://www.yotpo.com/discover-mcp/). Yotpo uses the term AEO in its own copy. Gaps found in research: no press release announcing Discover; no help-center or operational documentation for Discover; a large programmatic /explore/*-ai-visibility-* landing-page footprint; no shipped ChatGPT Instant Checkout integration.

ZipTie

ZipTie: AI search visibility monitoring, runs user-defined prompts against consumer AI answer engines on a schedule and reports mentions, citations, sentiment and competitor presence, with Google Search Console data alongside. Website: https://ziptie.ai/.

Pricing

Entry Tier Name: Starter (usage-based preset)
Entry Tier Price: From $42.75
Entry Tier Includes: Pricing is a usage configurator, not a fixed plan ladder, the vendor calls the presets "starting points, not plans". Price is built from three inputs: number of monitored-prompt slots, the cadence pool each slot sits in (monthly / weekly / daily), and which engines are selected. Prompt slots are workspace-pooled and reusable ("prompts, not checks"), pausing or deleting a prompt returns the slot. Tracked prompts per preset: not disclosed (no slot count is published as text; it only materialises inside the configurator). Configurator maxima: 100,000 monthly / 25,000 weekly / 5,000 daily slots. Unlimited seats and projects on every configuration. Add-ons: UGC Impact Analysis +80% of base; Content Generation +$20/mo per context (max 50); API & MCP Access +$10/mo. Billing-term discounts: quarterly -5%, semi-annual -10%, annual -20%.
Mid Tier Name: Professional (usage-based preset)
Mid Tier Price: From $659.59
Mid Tier Includes: Same configurator, larger starting configuration. Tracked prompts: not disclosed. Selecting Google AI Overviews or Bing AI Overview also returns their top-10 organic results at no extra cost.
Top Tier Name: Enterprise (usage-based preset) / custom
Top Tier Price: From $3,137.09
Top Tier Includes: Same configurator at a larger starting configuration. Tracked prompts: not disclosed. Single sign-on is available only on custom/negotiated plans.
Free Trial: Yes, 7-day trial, 25 daily prompts across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity, no card required. Trial accounts run daily checks only. No free plan.

Coverage

Primary Category: AI search visibility monitoring, runs user-defined prompts against consumer AI answer engines on a schedule and reports mentions, citations, sentiment and competitor presence, with Google Search Console data alongside
Max AI Engines Supported: 7
AI Engines Covered: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Google Gemini, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Bing AI Overview. Claude and Grok are not covered.
Engine Selection Model: User-selectable, engine mix is a pricing input; the project wizard flags engines unavailable in a chosen country
Monitoring Cadence: Three cadence pools set per prompt/project: daily (24h), weekly (7 days), monthly (30 days). Cadence is a pricing dimension, not tier-bound. No on-demand "run now" button (vendor FAQ).
Data Collection Method: Live capture of consumer products rather than vendor APIs, "every check captures the answer each engine actually returned for your prompt". No panel or clickstream data claimed.
Bots/Crawlers Tracked: Not disclosed, no named user-agent or log-file feature anywhere on the vendor site

Metrics tracked

Tracks Visibility Score: Yes, "AI Success Score", 0–100 per prompt, blending citation rate, mention rate and sentiment
Tracks Share of Voice: Yes, competitors leaderboard ranked by mention share
Tracks Citation Share: Yes, citation share at answer, prompt, project and source-domain level
Citation Share Splits Owned/Earned: Yes, citations are normalised to canonical form and matched against the user's domains, competitor domains and a general third-party classification (three-way split)
Tracks Source Mention Rate: No, sources are ranked by citation share and volume; no per-source mention rate published
Tracks Sentiment: Yes, positive / mixed / negative, scored on every captured response
Tracks Positioning Accuracy: Not disclosed
Total Core Metrics Tracked: 5 of 7 (visibility score, share of voice, citation share, owned/earned split, sentiment)
Competitor Tracking: Yes, competitors leaderboard by mention share, with drill-down into which prompts each competitor wins and which sources back them
Competitor Ad Intelligence: No
Citation Gap Reporting: Yes, Prompts & URLs module shows which pages already earn citations and which tracked prompts cite no one; Action Center queues uncited prompts
Paid Ads Tracking: No
Ads Platform Integrations: None published
AI Traffic Analytics: No, no referral, GA4 or AI-traffic module; only GSC traditional-search metrics

Content & optimization

Generates Content Briefs: Yes, Content Generation add-on, 8 briefs per context per month
Generates Full Drafts/Articles: Yes, same add-on, 4 finished pieces per context per month, with a fact-check and revision loop and footnote citations
Generates FAQs: Not disclosed
Technical Crawler Audits: No, no crawler, site audit, schema, robots.txt or llms.txt checking feature. Vendor FAQ states ZipTie does not ingest site analytics.
PR/Affiliate/Social/Owned-Media Toolbox: No, UGC Impact Analysis identifies Reddit, review and article sources but ships no outreach, PR, affiliate or social tooling
Prompt Volume / Real Buyer Query Data: Not disclosed, only user-entered and wizard-suggested prompts. The only demand data is optional Google Search Console (traditional search, explicitly not AI).
AI-Generated Prompt Suggestions: Yes, AI Project Wizard reads the site and suggests prompts; UGC add-on auto-suggests prompts from recurring conversations
CRM/Support Data Enrichment: No, vendor FAQ states it does not ingest site analytics or customer lists
Agentic/Autonomous Workflow: No, no autonomous execution. The Action Center is a ranked recommendation queue, deep-linked to the screen where the user would act; the vendor FAQ states there is no "run now" button, no configurable alerts and no scheduled exports. The MCP add-on makes ZipTie data agent-readable but ZipTie itself takes no action.
Agentic Workflow Description: Action Center: a short per-project queue of what to look at next, ordered by signal severity, each item deep-linked. Recommendation only, zero execution autonomy.

Data, integrations & API

MCP Server Available: Yes, MCP server at api.ziptie.ai/mcp, bundled in the $10/mo API & MCP add-on; connects to Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code with one token
Number of MCP Tools: Not disclosed
API Access: Yes, REST API at api.ziptie.ai. Not tier-gated: it is the +$10/mo API & MCP add-on, available on any configuration including Starter. Rate limits: 60 req/min per token, 600 req/min per workspace, 50,000 req/day per workspace, max 10 active tokens per project.
API Access Starting Tier: Any configuration, via the $10/mo add-on
Claude Connectors Directory Listed: Not verified, no vendor claim and no directory entry found
Connectors Directory Tier: N/A
Data Export Available: Yes
Export Formats: CSV, Excel, PDF on all plans, plus public share links for stakeholders without logins
Primary Interface: Web app dashboard (project → category → prompt drill-down)
Integration Destinations: Google Search Console (native), REST API, MCP server, CSV/Excel/PDF export, public share links. No Slack, Looker Studio, GA4 or Chrome extension published.

Team, security & support

Seats Limit: Unlimited on all configurations, "pricing never counts seats or projects"
Regions/Languages Limit: Country selected per project, vendor claims near-global coverage; the exact country count is stated inconsistently across vendor pages. Languages: not disclosed as a separate dimension.
Historical Data Retention: 365 days maximum dashboard range. No backfill before tracking starts.
SSO/SAML Available: SSO available only on custom/negotiated plans; SAML specifically not disclosed
SSO/SAML Tier: Custom/negotiated plans only
Dedicated Strategist/Account Manager: Not disclosed, no support-tier, onboarding or CSM language published
Dedicated Strategist Tier: N/A

Notes

Website: ziptie.ai (legacy ziptie.dev 302-redirects here)
YouTube Video: Watch on YouTube
Notes: Legal entity ZIPTIE, INC. (Texas, registered Austin TX), operated from Poland; team lineage traces to the Onely SEO agency. Vendor-stated founders Bartosz Góralewicz and Sebastian Skowron; third-party sources add Tomek Rudzki and others, vendor and third-party founder lists disagree. Team size and funding not disclosed by the vendor (Crunchbase third-party: 11–50 employees, no rounds documented). Pricing caution: almost every third-party review still quotes retired fixed tiers ($69/$99/$159 or $179/$299/$799) and a 14-day trial; none match the live configurator, and ZipTie's own blog still repeats a retired "$69/month" figure and still states it has no API. Self-audit: ziptie.ai serves one Yoast JSON-LD block (CollectionPage, WebSite, Organization, BreadcrumbList) with no SoftwareApplication, Product, Offer or FAQPage type, and /llms.txt returns 404.

AI Visibility & AEO Tools: Comparison Dataset

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Claude Fable (Fable 5 / 5.1)

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Cognizo

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Conductor

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Goodie AI

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