Open data · CC-BY-4.0 · Updated 2026-10-14
Which AI visibility tools do AI engines actually name?
Everyone in this category sells measurement of AI answers. Almost nobody publishes their own. We ask 5 engines the same buyer questions every day and record who gets named — 23,660 answers over the last 90 days, across 26 tools, including us.
Tool by tool, engine by engine
Cited answers out of answers recorded. A blank engine column means that engine has never named the tool in this window.
| Tool | Answers | Named | Rate | chatgpt | claude | copilot | gemini | perplexity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semrush AI Toolkit | 916 | 452 | 49.3% | 61/184 | 67/184 | 64/182 | 131/183 | 129/183 |
| Ahrefs Brand Radar | 914 | 195 | 21.3% | 26/183 | 33/184 | 32/182 | 56/182 | 48/183 |
| Frase.io | 796 | 133 | 16.7% | 7/160 | 10/160 | 5/158 | 57/159 | 54/159 |
| Similarweb | 798 | 57 | 7.1% | 1/160 | — | 2/160 | 28/159 | 26/159 |
| BrightEdge | 795 | 49 | 6.2% | 3/159 | 2/159 | 8/159 | 21/159 | 15/159 |
| Yext | 1006 | 48 | 4.8% | 8/201 | 15/202 | 21/201 | 2/201 | 2/201 |
| MarketMuse | 796 | 41 | 5.2% | 8/160 | 10/160 | 5/159 | 8/159 | 10/158 |
| SE Ranking AI Visibility | 917 | 32 | 3.5% | — | — | — | 18/184 | 14/183 |
| Clearscope | 797 | 24 | 3% | 6/160 | 8/160 | 5/159 | 3/159 | 2/159 |
| Conductor | 798 | 23 | 2.9% | 1/161 | 1/160 | 4/159 | 12/159 | 5/159 |
| Searchmetrics | 797 | 1 | 0.1% | — | — | 1/159 | — | — |
| Writesonic GEO | 915 | 1 | 0.1% | — | — | — | — | 1/183 |
| Adthena | 798 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — | — | — |
| Athena HQ | 1035 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — | — | — |
| Demandbase | 797 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — | — | — |
| Evertune | 1035 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — | — | — |
| Gauge | 915 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — | — | — |
| Goodie AI | 1035 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — | — | — |
| Nightwatch AI Search | 916 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — | — | — |
| Otterly.AI | 1035 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — | — | — |
| Pathmatics (Sensor Tower) | 799 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — | — | — |
| Peec AI | 1034 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — | — | — |
| pressGEOus | 1034 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — | — | — |
| Profound | 1033 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — | — | — |
| Rankscale | 914 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — | — | — |
| Scrunch AI | 1035 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — | — | — |
What the numbers say this month
- Only 12 of 26 tools get named at all: Semrush AI Toolkit (452), Ahrefs Brand Radar (195), Frase.io (133), Similarweb (57), BrightEdge (49).
- 14 tools have been asked about and never named — including several of the best-known pure-play AI visibility products.
- The tools engines do name are mostly established SEO suites with large third-party coverage. Naming tracks how often other people's articles mention a tool, not how good the tool is.
- pressGEO publishes this report and is measured in it on the same questions as everyone else. Where we have not been named, the table says so.
The questions we ask
| Question put to the engines | Answers | Tools named |
|---|---|---|
| generative engine optimization (GEO) platforms compared | 4005 | Ahrefs Brand Radar, BrightEdge, Clearscope, Frase.io, MarketMuse, SE Ranking AI Visibility, Semrush AI Toolkit, Yext |
| best AI brand visibility tool alternatives | 3843 | Ahrefs Brand Radar, BrightEdge, Conductor, Frase.io, MarketMuse, SE Ranking AI Visibility, Semrush AI Toolkit, Similarweb |
| AI search monitoring tools for brands | 4005 | Ahrefs Brand Radar, BrightEdge, Conductor, Frase.io, SE Ranking AI Visibility, Searchmetrics, Semrush AI Toolkit, Similarweb, Yext |
| how to get your brand cited by ChatGPT | 3953 | Ahrefs Brand Radar, Semrush AI Toolkit, Yext |
| best AI visibility tracking tools 2026 | 3875 | Ahrefs Brand Radar, BrightEdge, Clearscope, Conductor, Frase.io, MarketMuse, SE Ranking AI Visibility, Semrush AI Toolkit, Similarweb, Writesonic GEO, Yext |
| how to track brand mentions in AI answers | 3979 | Ahrefs Brand Radar, Semrush AI Toolkit |
Methodology
Every tracked tool in the category is asked the same set of buyer questions, on the same schedule, across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot. A check counts as cited when the engine names the tool in its answer to a question that did not name it first. Counts are raw answers over the trailing window; no weighting, no sampling, no estimates. PressGEO publishes this report and is measured in it by the same rules as every other tool.
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