Open data · CC-BY-4.0 · Updated 2026-11-07
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 — 27,895 answers over the last 90 days, across 26 tools, including us.
Answers recorded
27,895
Tools named at least once
19 of 26
Overall naming rate
5.7%
share of answers that name a tracked tool
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 | 1065 | 564 | 53% | 85/212 | 93/213 | 94/215 | 144/212 | 148/213 |
| Ahrefs Brand Radar | 1065 | 251 | 23.6% | 44/212 | 47/213 | 50/215 | 59/212 | 51/213 |
| Frase.io | 946 | 141 | 14.9% | 7/189 | 10/189 | 5/191 | 62/188 | 57/189 |
| BrightEdge | 946 | 125 | 13.2% | 9/189 | 18/189 | 23/191 | 43/188 | 32/189 |
| Similarweb | 946 | 93 | 9.8% | 3/189 | 4/189 | 6/191 | 43/188 | 37/189 |
| Yext | 1155 | 62 | 5.4% | 9/230 | 15/231 | 23/233 | 9/230 | 6/231 |
| MarketMuse | 946 | 58 | 6.1% | 8/189 | 10/189 | 5/191 | 15/188 | 20/189 |
| Conductor | 946 | 56 | 5.9% | 4/189 | 8/189 | 15/191 | 20/188 | 9/189 |
| Otterly.AI | 1183 | 53 | 4.5% | 20/236 | 19/236 | 14/238 | — | — |
| SE Ranking AI Visibility | 1065 | 36 | 3.4% | — | — | — | 20/212 | 16/213 |
| Profound | 1183 | 35 | 3% | 12/236 | 11/236 | 12/238 | — | — |
| Peec AI | 1183 | 33 | 2.8% | 12/236 | 11/236 | 10/238 | — | — |
| Clearscope | 946 | 27 | 2.9% | 6/189 | 8/189 | 5/191 | 4/188 | 4/189 |
| Scrunch AI | 1183 | 15 | 1.3% | 4/236 | 4/236 | 7/238 | — | — |
| Athena HQ | 1183 | 13 | 1.1% | 4/236 | 4/236 | 5/238 | — | — |
| Writesonic GEO | 1065 | 6 | 0.6% | 2/212 | 1/213 | 2/215 | — | 1/213 |
| Searchmetrics | 946 | 5 | 0.5% | — | — | 1/191 | 4/188 | — |
| Rankscale | 1065 | 4 | 0.4% | 2/212 | 1/213 | 1/215 | — | — |
| Goodie AI | 1183 | 4 | 0.3% | 1/236 | 2/236 | 1/238 | — | — |
| Adthena | 946 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — | — | — |
| Demandbase | 946 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — | — | — |
| Evertune | 1183 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — | — | — |
| Gauge | 1065 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — | — | — |
| Nightwatch AI Search | 1065 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — | — | — |
| Pathmatics (Sensor Tower) | 946 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — | — | — |
| pressGEOus | 1544 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — | — | — |
What the numbers say this month
- Only 19 of 26 tools get named at all: Semrush AI Toolkit (564), Ahrefs Brand Radar (251), Frase.io (141), BrightEdge (125), Similarweb (93).
- 7 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 | 4655 | Ahrefs Brand Radar, Athena HQ, BrightEdge, Clearscope, Conductor, Frase.io, Goodie AI, MarketMuse, Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Profound, Rankscale, SE Ranking AI Visibility, Scrunch AI, Semrush AI Toolkit, Similarweb, Writesonic GEO, Yext |
| best AI brand visibility tool alternatives | 4545 | Ahrefs Brand Radar, Athena HQ, BrightEdge, Conductor, Frase.io, MarketMuse, Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Profound, Rankscale, SE Ranking AI Visibility, Scrunch AI, Searchmetrics, Semrush AI Toolkit, Similarweb |
| AI search monitoring tools for brands | 4655 | Ahrefs Brand Radar, Athena HQ, BrightEdge, Conductor, Frase.io, Goodie AI, MarketMuse, Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Profound, SE Ranking AI Visibility, Scrunch AI, Searchmetrics, Semrush AI Toolkit, Similarweb, Yext |
| best AI visibility tracking tools 2026 | 4525 | Ahrefs Brand Radar, Athena HQ, BrightEdge, Clearscope, Conductor, Frase.io, MarketMuse, Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Profound, Rankscale, SE Ranking AI Visibility, Scrunch AI, Semrush AI Toolkit, Similarweb, Writesonic GEO, Yext |
| how to get your brand cited by ChatGPT | 4577 | Ahrefs Brand Radar, BrightEdge, Clearscope, Conductor, MarketMuse, Semrush AI Toolkit, Similarweb, Yext |
| how to track brand mentions in AI answers | 4577 | Ahrefs Brand Radar, Athena HQ, BrightEdge, Conductor, Frase.io, Goodie AI, Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Profound, Rankscale, SE Ranking AI Visibility, Scrunch AI, Searchmetrics, Semrush AI Toolkit, Similarweb |
| tools for agencies to monitor local clients in AI answers | 56 | none |
| best GEO tools for local businesses | 54 | none |
| GEO platforms for home inspectors and local contractors | 53 | none |
| how can dentists track their visibility in AI search | 50 | none |
| how can roofers get recommended by ChatGPT in their city | 49 | none |
| AI visibility monitoring tools for local service businesses | 46 | none |
| How marketing agencies monitor AI search citations for local clients in HighLevel | 5 | none |
| How to audit local business visibility across ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity | 5 | none |
| What data sources does Perplexity cite when recommending local contractors? | 5 | none |
| How to track ChatGPT and Perplexity citation rates for local businesses without changing code or CMS | 5 | none |
| Do AI web crawlers index local newsroom answer pages? | 5 | none |
| Generative engine optimization strategies for multi-market commercial contractors | 5 | none |
| How can engineering and industrial automation firms track visibility in AI search? | 5 | none |
| How do local title companies show up in ChatGPT recommendations? | 5 | none |
| How can commercial HVAC contractors get cited in Perplexity and ChatGPT? | 5 | none |
| How does llms.txt help local service businesses get recommended by AI engines? | 4 | none |
| AI search optimization for critical power and UPS maintenance companies without website changes | 4 | none |
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.
PressGEO Research, "Which AI visibility tools do AI engines name?", 2026-11-07. https://pressgeo.com/research/ai-visibility-citations
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