Choosing an AI visibility tool?
AI search visibility — also called GEO or AEO tracking — is a young category, and the tools differ in ways that matter. Here’s an honest way to compare them, ours included.
Same idea, different instruments.
Every tool here asks AI assistants the questions your buyers ask and records whether your brand comes up. The differences are in how they ask, how honestly they measure, and what they help you do next.
Engines & search mode
Which assistants are asked, which models, and whether live web search is on — as it is for real users.
Volume & frequency
How many prompts and brands you can track, and how often they’re re-asked.
Measurement honesty
Whether scores show their margin of error, and whether alerts can tell a trend from noise.
Transparency
Whether you can read the full answer behind every number, and the sources it cited.
Actionability
Whether the tool tells you what to change — and measures whether it worked.
Reporting & price
Client-ready and white-label reports, seats, API access — and the total price at your volume.
Mentioned compared.
Each page states what we can verify about our own product, lists the questions to ask both vendors, and says plainly when the other tool may suit you better. We link to competitors rather than quote their pricing or features, which change often.
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MentionedvsProfound
What Mentioned does, the questions to ask both, and when Profound may suit you better.
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MentionedvsPeec AI
What Mentioned does, the questions to ask both, and when Peec AI may suit you better.
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MentionedvsOtterly.AI
What Mentioned does, the questions to ask both, and when Otterly.AI may suit you better.
Eight questions to ask any vendor.
Use them in every demo and trial. Here’s how Mentioned answers each one.
- 01
Which engines are queried, and is live web search on — the way real users have it?
Mentioned
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini via official APIs, with web search enabled on every call. Starter covers ChatGPT and Perplexity.
- 02
How many prompts and brands does each plan include, and how often are they re-run?
Mentioned
25 prompts on Starter and 100 on Growth (one site each); 25 per site on Agency, which covers 5 sites. Starter: every prompt checked weekly + 2 on-demand checks per brand/month. Growth: 25 priority prompts weekly · every prompt at least every 14 days + 2 on-demand checks per brand/month.
- 03
Does the score come with a margin of error — or will normal answer variance look like a trend?
Mentioned
Every score ships with a 95% margin of error, and alerts only fire when a change is bigger than the noise.
- 04
Can you see the full raw answer behind every data point?
Mentioned
Yes — every cell in the prompt × engine matrix opens the full answer with your brand and competitors highlighted.
- 05
Does it show which sources drive competitors’ visibility?
Mentioned
Yes — cited domains per engine, and the sites that mention your competitors but never you.
- 06
Does it turn data into specific actions, or only report metrics?
Mentioned
A weekly plan of concrete actions, each with the reason behind it and its measured impact after you check it off.
- 07
Can you share client-ready reports, and are they white-label?
Mentioned
PDFs and share links on every paid plan, scheduled reports on Growth and Agency, white-label and client logins on Agency.
- 08
What is the total monthly price at the volume you actually need?
Mentioned
Published on the pricing page: from $49/month, with prompt packs for extra coverage and no overage charges.
Measured, then made useful.
- 01
Four engines, live web search
ChatGPT (OpenAI web search), Perplexity (Sonar), Claude (web search) and Gemini (Google Search grounding), queried through their official APIs.
- 02
A score with error bars
A 0–100 visibility score — mention rate weighted by list position — per engine and overall, with a 95% margin of error.
- 03
Share of voice
Your mentions against the competitors you choose, plus competitors discovered automatically from the answers.
- 04
Citation analysis
A leaderboard of the domains each engine cites, with “competitors only” gap domains flagged.
- 05
A weekly action plan
Specific recommendations written from your answers and sources, with impact measured after you complete them.
- 06
Reports for anyone
PDF reports and share links; scheduled reports on Growth and Agency; white-label reports and a client portal on Agency.
- 07
More than a tracker
Articles written, fact-checked and published to your CMS, a weekly technical SEO audit and a fix plan for every AI answer you lose.
- 08
Published, self-serve pricing
Starter $49, Growth $99, Agency $249 per month, 2 months free yearly, 3-day trial.
When we’re a good fit
- You want transparent, self-serve pricing and to be tracking within minutes.
- You want recommendations alongside the metrics, not just dashboards.
- You care about measurement honesty: full answers, error bars, alerts that ignore noise.
- You’re an agency that needs white-label reports and client logins across several brands.
When another tool may be better
- You need a capability we don’t list on our product pages — check the other vendor’s current feature list.
- You need enterprise procurement, custom contracts or integrations beyond a self-serve product.
- Your team already runs on another tool and the switching cost outweighs the difference.
Compare with your own data
Start with your numbers.
Run the free audit, then put the same prompts into any tool you’re evaluating. Five buyer questions, two AI engines, about a minute.
Your website
- 01Where you appear across AI answers
- 02Who AI recommends instead of you
- 03Every answer, with the sources cited
Free · results in about a minute · or start a 3-day trial