AI visibility tools and platforms, compared in 2026

Three things separate these platforms once the feature lists are stripped away. The first is receipts: whether the product shows the observed answer text and the sources behind each result, or only a score derived from them. The second is frequency: whether prompts run daily, weekly or on an unpublished schedule. The third is whether the data leaves the dashboard in a form the buyer's own systems and the buyer's own AI can read.

Only two platforms in this set publish a real sampling design rather than a cadence. Everything else publishes at best how often prompts run, and several publish nothing about method at all. No platform in this set publishes open data with a DOI.

Agency Deadline Audit is $490 per client report. We agree ten buyer questions, ask each three times on ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode, and report valid answers and exclusions separately. You get dated evidence, three prioritized fixes and one paste-ready change of 250 words or fewer. Findings are due within 48 hours of recorded scope confirmation and are refundable in full within 30 days. Your agency keeps the client relationship and implements the change.

A platform may suit ongoing monitoring. Our two entry scopes supply a completed repair or a white-label agency report with a first change. Compare the work you need before choosing.

The eight criteria are not a ranking of quality. They are the eight things a buyer can check in an afternoon without talking to anyone, and they are the eight things that decide whether a claim can be argued with later. A firm that publishes its question set can be told it asked the wrong questions. A firm that publishes nothing can only be believed or not believed.

The single most useful question to ask any firm on this page is how the questions were written. AI answers to questions that already contain a company name will usually contain that name, so a mention count built on name seeded questions measures the prompt rather than the engine. Broadcastwell published that finding against its own category research, and it is the reason no question in a Category Audit names any brand.

The second most useful question is what happens when the runs disagree. AI answers vary between runs and shift as models update, so a single screenshot is not a measurement. Ask how many runs sit behind a figure, and whether the disagreement between them is reported or averaged away.

The table lists the recorded price and purchase route for each company, with its source and date. Unverified claims have been removed; no current market-wide total is asserted.

We offer two entries: Answer Repair, $490 for one buyer question and one source-backed page or fix, and Agency Deadline Audit, $490 for one white-label client report and one paste-ready change. Fix Sprint is $3,900 ($3,410 after the $490 entry is credited, once), for six contracted pages or rewrites over 30 days. Care is $490 a month after setup. Program is $5,500 a month. The 150-page build is $6,000 plus $250 a page, in batches of 25, after a 5-page paid trial. Read /pricing for each scope and /terms for its deadline and refund conditions.

Fix Sprint is $3,900 ($3,410 after the $490 entry is credited, once). Its six contracted pages or rewrites over 30 days include the credited entry page. One primary test is agreed before payment and re-measured at day 30. Measured gain on that test, or the full $3,900 back. You keep the work.