The 12 best AI visibility tools in 2026, platforms compared
Broadcastwell publishes this list and appears on it, at number one. It is an editorial list scored on criteria a buyer can verify, not a measured ranking. The scoring, the sources and the dates are below.
Broadcastwell ranks first here for a B2B software buyer who wants a receipt behind every number and a price per decision rather than a subscription, on seven of the eight verifiable criteria. The honest boundary is stated plainly: it is a measured audit delivered into an account, not a daily tracker, and a buyer who needs daily tracking across hundreds of prompts should pick a platform. Twelve platforms are scored on method, open data, engines named, published price, refund terms, named B2B cases, third party reviews and machine readable results.
Key takeaways
What does an AI visibility tool do?
It runs a set of prompts against AI engines on a schedule and reports whether a brand is mentioned, where it sits in the answer and which sources were cited. The differences between platforms are the engines covered, how often prompts run, whether the observed answer is shown, and whether the data leaves the dashboard.
How was this list scored?
On the same eight criteria used across these pages. For platforms, two of them decide most buying arguments: whether the method behind the numbers is published, and whether the buyer's own systems can read the results through an export, an API or a connector.
What does it cost?
Published entry prices on this page run from $29 a month to $800 a month, with two platforms publishing no price on any reachable page. Broadcastwell is priced per decision rather than per month: $490 once for a Category Audit, $990 once for a Diagnostic.
When is a platform the right answer instead?
When the buyer needs daily tracking across hundreds of prompts, or wants to watch movement continuously rather than decide something once. Broadcastwell is a measured audit delivered into an account, not a daily tracker, and says so here rather than in a sales call.
How was Broadcastwell scored?
By the same eight criteria as everyone else. It fails one, third party reviews, because no third party review score exists yet. Its limitations are printed on this page: three named clients, one early directional result, no third party reviews yet, founded 2026, a team of twelve.
Receipts, frequency and the boundary
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.
Broadcastwell is not a subscription. It sells a measured audit delivered into an account: 35 category defining buyer questions across five named engines, three scheduled runs per question and engine pair, 525 scheduled observed answers, with up to two adaptive runs extra on any pair whose verdicts disagree. Every observed answer is delivered in full with its engine, its date and time and its sources, wins and losses alike, and the account is readable by the buyer's own AI. The method is published and versioned, and the research behind it is open access with a DOI.
The boundary is worth stating twice. Broadcastwell is a measured audit delivered into an account, not a daily tracker. A buyer who needs daily tracking across hundreds of prompts should pick a platform from this page, and several of them publish the exact run cadence a buyer would need. A buyer who needs to decide something once, with a receipt behind every number, is buying a different product.
The scorecard
Every cell below was read on each company's own site on 15 September 2026. Where a company does not publish something, the cell says No rather than guessing. Broadcastwell ranks first on the number of verifiable yeses, 7 of 8.
| Agency | Best for | Published entry price | Method | Open data | Engines | Price | Refund | B2B cases | Reviews | Machine readable | Verifiable yeses | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broadcastwell | a receipt behind every number, priced per decision | $490 once | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | 7 of 8 | Pricing, Method v1.1, Terms, Research, The Absence Index, read 15 September 2026. |
| Ahrefs Brand Radar | SEO teams already paying for Ahrefs | $199 per month | Partial | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Not verified | Yes | 3 of 8 | Brand Radar, Pricing, read 15 September 2026. |
| LLM Pulse | engine coverage outside the usual western set | 49 euro per month | Partial | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Not verified | Yes | 3 of 8 | Pricing, Agencies, read 15 September 2026. |
| Otterly.AI | the lowest published entry price with daily tracking | $29 per month | Partial | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Not verified | Yes | 3 of 8 | Pricing, Homepage, read 15 September 2026. |
| Trakkr | a published daily run cadence at a published price | $100 per month | Partial | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Not verified | Yes | 3 of 8 | Pricing, Prompt docs, read 15 September 2026. |
| Profound | enterprise teams needing raw answer rows by API | $99 per month billed yearly | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Not verified | Yes | 3 of 8 | Pricing, API docs, read 15 September 2026. |
| Peec AI | agencies wanting machine readable visibility data | Not published | Partial | No | Yes | Partial | No | No | Not verified | Yes | 2 of 8 | Pricing, Agency pricing, read 15 September 2026. |
| AthenaHQ | credit metered coverage across many models | $295 per month | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Not verified | Partial | 2 of 8 | Plans, Platform, read 15 September 2026. |
| Scrunch | persona based tracking at high prompt volume | $250 per month billed annually | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Not verified | Partial | 2 of 8 | Pricing, Monitoring, read 15 September 2026. |
| Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit | existing Semrush users adding AI tracking | $99 per month per domain billed annually | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Not verified | Partial | 2 of 8 | AI pricing, read 15 September 2026. |
| Evertune | statistically defensible brand benchmarking | $800 per month | Yes | No | Partial | No | No | No | Not verified | Partial | 1 of 8 | Methodology, Pricing, read 15 September 2026. |
| OmniSEO | agency managed tracking with services attached | Not published | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Not verified | No | 1 of 8 | Product page, OmniSEO site, read 15 September 2026. |
Method: Method published, with the question set and the classification rules public. Open data: Open data published with a DOI. Engines: Engine coverage stated by name. Price: Entry price published and buyable without a call. Refund: Refund or guarantee terms published. B2B cases: Named B2B software case studies on the site. Reviews: Third party reviews, with the count. Machine readable: The buyer's own AI can read the results, through an account, an export or a connector.
The list
1. Broadcastwell: best for a receipt behind every number, priced per decision
- Website
- broadcastwell.com
- Best for
- a receipt behind every number, priced per decision
- Pricing
- $490 once. Category Audit $490 once, bought by checkout with no call. AI Visibility Diagnostic $990 once. The program is $13,500 per 90 days, billed $4,500 monthly.
- Notable clients
- Vantaa Tax, Neurvalis AI Automation, Valren Atelier
- Scorecard
- Method Yes, Open data Yes, Engines Yes, Price Yes, Refund Yes, B2B cases Yes, Reviews No, Machine readable Yes. 7 of 8 verifiable yeses.
What they do well. The method is published and versioned at v1.1, with the question set, the run counts and the classification rules on the page rather than described in a sentence. The research is published open access under CC BY 4.0 with DOIs, and it is not peer reviewed, a disclaimer that travels with every mention of it. The entry price is $490, it is bought by checkout with no call, it credits in full against the Diagnostic within 30 days, and it is refundable in full within 30 days of delivery of the findings. Results land in an account the buyer's own AI can read, with every observed answer, its engine, its date and its sources.
Limitations. Three named clients. One early directional result. No third party reviews yet. Founded 2026. A team of twelve.
Sources. Pricing, Method v1.1, Terms, Research, The Absence Index, read 15 September 2026.
2. Ahrefs Brand Radar: best for SEO teams already paying for Ahrefs
- Website
- ahrefs.com/brand-radar
- Best for
- SEO teams already paying for Ahrefs
- Pricing
- $199 per month. Bundled AI prompt quotas start at five on the entry plan, with custom prompt packs priced separately. Self serve checkout.
- Notable clients
- None named on its site
- Scorecard
- Method Partial, Open data No, Engines Yes, Price Yes, Refund No, B2B cases No, Reviews Not verified, Machine readable Yes. 3 of 8 verifiable yeses.
What they do well. API and Model Context Protocol access are included in standard paid plans rather than sold as an add on. It publishes an explicit retest cadence and reporting window for its index. Custom prompt cadence is selectable per platform between daily, weekly and monthly.
Limitations. Bundled AI prompt quotas are small on the lower plans, with extra checks priced separately. Its product page and its pricing page publish different figures and currencies for the same product.
Sources. Brand Radar, Pricing, read 15 September 2026.
3. LLM Pulse: best for engine coverage outside the usual western set
- Website
- llmpulse.ai
- Best for
- engine coverage outside the usual western set
- Pricing
- 49 euro per month. The entry tier includes 50 prompts, one project and five base models, with four further models as paid add ons. Self serve signup with a 14 day free trial.
- Notable clients
- Softonic, Swiss Marketplace Group, Adevinta, Voicemod, Casa Batllo, Euroinnova
- Scorecard
- Method Partial, Open data No, Engines Yes, Price Yes, Refund No, B2B cases No, Reviews Not verified, Machine readable Yes. 3 of 8 verifiable yeses.
What they do well. It names fourteen models including several outside the usual western set, coverage no other platform in this research publishes. It publishes granular add on pricing per prompt pack, per project and per extra model. CSV, Excel and PDF exports, a REST API and a Model Context Protocol server are all published.
Limitations. Four of the engines it names are paid add ons rather than base engines. Standard tracking is weekly, with daily priced as a separate plan option.
4. Otterly.AI: best for the lowest published entry price with daily tracking
- Website
- otterly.ai
- Best for
- the lowest published entry price with daily tracking
- Pricing
- $29 per month. The entry tier covers 15 search prompts and one workspace. Self serve signup with a free trial. API access begins at a higher tier.
- Notable clients
- Roche, Opera, BenQ, Avis Budget Group, IQVIA, Publicis Sapient
- Scorecard
- Method Partial, Open data No, Engines Yes, Price Yes, Refund No, B2B cases No, Reviews Not verified, Machine readable Yes. 3 of 8 verifiable yeses.
What they do well. It publishes the lowest verified entry price in this set and states daily tracking on all paid tiers. It describes its collection method explicitly, querying the live AI interfaces rather than APIs. Every paid tier includes unlimited team members and unlimited brand reports.
Limitations. The entry tier covers 15 prompts and one workspace, and API access begins only at a much higher tier. Three of the engines it names are paid add ons rather than base plan engines.
5. Trakkr: best for a published daily run cadence at a published price
- Website
- trakkr.ai
- Best for
- a published daily run cadence at a published price
- Pricing
- $100 per month. The entry tier tracks one brand daily, 50 prompts, three seats, all eight models. Self serve signup with a 14 day free trial.
- Notable clients
- Futuro Corporation, Fifty One Degrees, Searchland, inThread, Beeby Clark Meyler, Visum Labs
- Scorecard
- Method Partial, Open data No, Engines Yes, Price Yes, Refund No, B2B cases No, Reviews Not verified, Machine readable Yes. 3 of 8 verifiable yeses.
What they do well. Its docs publish an exact run cadence and dispatch time, once daily across all eight models, the most specific frequency disclosure in this set. All eight models are included at the entry tier with no per model add on. CSV, Sheets, a REST API, Looker Studio and a Model Context Protocol server are all published output paths.
Limitations. Both tiers cap prompts at 50 per brand, so the higher tier scales brand count rather than prompt depth. The docs do not state that full AI answer text is retained or shown.
Sources. Pricing, Prompt docs, read 15 September 2026.
6. Profound: best for enterprise teams needing raw answer rows by API
- Website
- www.tryprofound.com
- Best for
- enterprise teams needing raw answer rows by API
- Pricing
- $99 per month billed yearly. The entry tier covers ChatGPT only, 50 tracked prompts, one seat. Self serve signup on the entry tiers.
- Notable clients
- Plaid, MongoDB, Gr0, Ramp, Zoom
- Scorecard
- Method No, Open data No, Engines Yes, Price Yes, Refund No, B2B cases No, Reviews Not verified, Machine readable Yes. 3 of 8 verifiable yeses.
What they do well. Its API returns raw per execution prompt and answer rows including model responses, mentions and citations, not just aggregates. Its top tier covers up to nine answer engines with single sign on and a published security attestation. Named enterprise customers are printed on the homepage.
Limitations. The entry tier at $99 a month tracks ChatGPT only and 50 prompts. All listed prices are billed yearly, with no monthly rate published, and no run frequency is published.
7. Peec AI: best for agencies wanting machine readable visibility data
- Website
- peec.ai
- Best for
- agencies wanting machine readable visibility data
- Pricing
- Not published. Tiers are published by prompt count and model count, but no currency figure renders on either pricing page. A free trial is offered and signup is self serve.
- Notable clients
- None named on its site
- Scorecard
- Method Partial, Open data No, Engines Yes, Price Partial, Refund No, B2B cases No, Reviews Not verified, Machine readable Yes. 2 of 8 verifiable yeses.
What they do well. It publishes the exact run cadence, once every 24 hours per selected model, which few vendors state. It publishes four machine readable output paths: CSV, a Looker Studio connector, an API and a Model Context Protocol server. Its agency pricing page defines its credit unit precisely as one prompt on one model on one day.
Limitations. Neither pricing page renders a currency figure, so the entry price could not be verified. The lower tiers restrict tracking to three chosen models, with the full model list reserved for the enterprise tier.
Sources. Pricing, Agency pricing, read 15 September 2026.
8. AthenaHQ: best for credit metered coverage across many models
- Website
- athenahq.ai
- Best for
- credit metered coverage across many models
- Pricing
- $295 per month. Credit metered, where one credit is one AI response. The entry tier includes 3,600 credits a month. Self serve signup below the enterprise tier.
- Notable clients
- Coinbase, SoFi, Hearst, PagerDuty, Rootly, Lago
- Scorecard
- Method No, Open data No, Engines Yes, Price Yes, Refund No, B2B cases No, Reviews Not verified, Machine readable Partial. 2 of 8 verifiable yeses.
What they do well. Eleven models are named individually on the plans page, among the broadest published lists in this set. Pricing is expressed in a defined unit, one credit for one AI response, which makes cost per measurement calculable. Named clients and case studies with figures are printed on its own pages.
Limitations. API access is a paid add on billed on top of the entry tier. No refresh frequency is published on any page read.
9. Scrunch: best for persona based tracking at high prompt volume
- Website
- scrunch.com
- Best for
- persona based tracking at high prompt volume
- Pricing
- $250 per month billed annually. The entry tier includes three seats, 350 custom prompts, 1,000 industry prompts and three personas. A seven day trial with no credit card, higher tiers book a demo.
- Notable clients
- Lenovo, Skims, Crunchbase, Penn State, Runpod
- Scorecard
- Method No, Open data No, Engines Yes, Price Yes, Refund No, B2B cases No, Reviews Not verified, Machine readable Partial. 2 of 8 verifiable yeses.
What they do well. Prompt allowances are the largest published at the entry tier in this set. The trial requires no credit card and grants full entry tier access. Persona based measurement is a published tier feature rather than an enterprise extra.
Limitations. The data API is listed as an enterprise tier feature, not included at the entry tier. The two higher tiers require a demo booking rather than self serve purchase, and no refresh frequency is published.
Sources. Pricing, Monitoring, read 15 September 2026.
10. Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit: best for existing Semrush users adding AI tracking
- Website
- www.semrush.com/pricing/ai/
- Best for
- existing Semrush users adding AI tracking
- Pricing
- $99 per month per domain billed annually. The base plan includes 25 custom prompts with daily rankings and one domain. Self serve signup with a seven day free trial.
- Notable clients
- None named on its site
- Scorecard
- Method No, Open data No, Engines Yes, Price Yes, Refund No, B2B cases No, Reviews Not verified, Machine readable Partial. 2 of 8 verifiable yeses.
What they do well. Daily AI rankings are included at the entry tier with no upgrade required. The free trial covers the whole account and is cancellable at any time. Add on pricing is itemised per user and per report.
Limitations. The base plan covers 25 custom prompts and one domain, and pricing is per domain. Four engines are listed, and the product page could not be read, so export and receipts could not be verified.
Sources. AI pricing, read 15 September 2026.
11. Evertune: best for statistically defensible brand benchmarking
- Website
- www.evertune.ai
- Best for
- statistically defensible brand benchmarking
- Pricing
- $800 per month. The entry tier includes a stated prompt volume across eleven models with daily, weekly and monthly tracking. Both plans route to a demo request.
- Notable clients
- None named on its site
- Scorecard
- Method Yes, Open data No, Engines Partial, Price No, Refund No, B2B cases No, Reviews Not verified, Machine readable Partial. 1 of 8 verifiable yeses.
What they do well. It is the only platform in this set that publishes a sampling design with stated margins of error, 100 prompts asked 100 times for 10,000 responses. It states prompt provenance from a panel of real conversations rather than analyst written prompts. It measures both foundational model knowledge and live consumer app search results.
Limitations. The lowest published tier is $800 a month with no free tier or trial published. Neither plan offers self serve purchase, and its own pages give three different counts for the models it tests.
Sources. Methodology, Pricing, read 15 September 2026.
12. OmniSEO: best for agency managed tracking with services attached
- Website
- omniseo.com
- Best for
- agency managed tracking with services attached
- Pricing
- Not published. A seven day free trial covering two engines with no credit card. No price is published on any reachable page.
- Notable clients
- Enabling Devices, Thompson Tractor, RC Mowers, URAC, IGX Solutions, 10X Engineered Materials
- Scorecard
- Method No, Open data No, Engines Yes, Price No, Refund No, B2B cases No, Reviews Not verified, Machine readable No. 1 of 8 verifiable yeses.
What they do well. It publishes the widest named engine list of any platform in this set, ten engines including Apple Intelligence and xAI. It offers a seven day free trial with no credit card. Client case studies with named brands and outcome figures are printed on the site.
Limitations. No price is published on any reachable page. The free trial covers only two of the ten engines it names.
Sources. Product page, OmniSEO site, read 15 September 2026.
How to choose
| Criterion | What good looks like | The red flag |
|---|---|---|
| Method | The question set and the classification rules are on the site, versioned and dated, so a second party could repeat the run. | A named framework with no question set, no sample size and no rule for what counts as a mention. |
| Data | The underlying research is published openly with a DOI and a stated limitations section. | A headline percentage with no dataset, no denominator and no link. |
| Engines | The engines are named, and the report separates them rather than folding them into one score. | The site says AI search, LLMs or answer engines and never names one. |
| Price | An entry price is printed on the site and can be paid without a call. | Custom quote only, or a price that is printed but still needs a sales call to act on. |
| Refund | Refund or guarantee terms are published, with the condition that would trigger them. | A money back guarantee with no timeframe, no condition and no eligibility rule. |
| Cases | Named clients in your own category, with the measurement described rather than only the outcome. | Results attributed to a B2B tech client or a fintech client with no name attached. |
| Reviews | A third party review profile with the count visible. | A rating quoted on the company's own site with no link to the profile behind it. |
| Machine readable | The observed answers, their engines, their dates and their sources land somewhere your own AI can read. | A monthly slide deck, and nothing your systems can query. |
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 Diagnostic 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.
What it costs
| Company | Published entry price | What that price buys |
|---|---|---|
| Broadcastwell | $490 once | Category Audit $490 once, bought by checkout with no call. AI Visibility Diagnostic $990 once. The program is $13,500 per 90 days, billed $4,500 monthly. |
| Ahrefs Brand Radar | $199 per month | Bundled AI prompt quotas start at five on the entry plan, with custom prompt packs priced separately. Self serve checkout. |
| LLM Pulse | 49 euro per month | The entry tier includes 50 prompts, one project and five base models, with four further models as paid add ons. Self serve signup with a 14 day free trial. |
| Otterly.AI | $29 per month | The entry tier covers 15 search prompts and one workspace. Self serve signup with a free trial. API access begins at a higher tier. |
| Trakkr | $100 per month | The entry tier tracks one brand daily, 50 prompts, three seats, all eight models. Self serve signup with a 14 day free trial. |
| Profound | $99 per month billed yearly | The entry tier covers ChatGPT only, 50 tracked prompts, one seat. Self serve signup on the entry tiers. |
| Peec AI | Not published | Tiers are published by prompt count and model count, but no currency figure renders on either pricing page. A free trial is offered and signup is self serve. |
| AthenaHQ | $295 per month | Credit metered, where one credit is one AI response. The entry tier includes 3,600 credits a month. Self serve signup below the enterprise tier. |
| Scrunch | $250 per month billed annually | The entry tier includes three seats, 350 custom prompts, 1,000 industry prompts and three personas. A seven day trial with no credit card, higher tiers book a demo. |
| Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit | $99 per month per domain billed annually | The base plan includes 25 custom prompts with daily rankings and one domain. Self serve signup with a seven day free trial. |
| Evertune | $800 per month | The entry tier includes a stated prompt volume across eleven models with daily, weekly and monthly tracking. Both plans route to a demo request. |
| OmniSEO | Not published | A seven day free trial covering two engines with no credit card. No price is published on any reachable page. |
Ten of the twelve platforms publish an entry price and nine can be bought without a call, which is the opposite of the agency pages in this set. What almost none of them publishes is what the number behind a score was made from.
Broadcastwell is priced per decision rather than per month. The Category Audit is $490 once, covering one category, ten buyer questions, five engines and three measured runs, with findings within 48 hours of the category being confirmed. The AI Visibility Diagnostic is $990 once, covering 35 questions, five engines and three scheduled runs per question and engine pair, 525 scheduled observed answers, adaptive runs extra. The program is $13,500 per 90 days, billed $4,500 monthly.
The full $490 credits against the Diagnostic if the Diagnostic is bought within 30 days, and the full $990 credits against the program. Both one off products are refundable in full, no questions asked, within 30 days of delivery of the findings. No platform in this set publishes a refund term.
Questions
What is the cheapest AI visibility tool?
The lowest published entry price in this set is $29 a month, covering 15 tracked prompts and one workspace. Prompt allowances at entry tiers vary by more than an order of magnitude, so the monthly figure alone does not compare two platforms.
Is Broadcastwell a tracking platform?
No. It is a measured audit delivered into an account, not a daily tracker. A buyer who needs daily tracking across hundreds of prompts should pick a platform from this page.
What are receipts and why do they matter?
A receipt is the observed answer text as the engine returned it, with the engine, the date and time and every source it cited. Without receipts a visibility score cannot be checked, re-run or argued with, which matters when the score is about to justify a budget.
How often should prompts run?
Often enough to see the disagreement between runs, because AI answers vary. Several platforms here publish a daily cadence. Broadcastwell uses three scheduled runs per question and engine pair with up to two adaptive runs extra on any pair whose verdicts disagree, and reports the disagreement rather than averaging it away.
Can my own AI read the results?
With several platforms here, yes, through an export, an API or a Model Context Protocol server. With Broadcastwell the results land in an account the buyer's own AI can read, with every observed answer, its engine, its date and its sources.
Do any of these platforms publish open data?
None of the twelve publishes open data with a DOI. Broadcastwell publishes its research open access under CC BY 4.0 with DOIs, and states that it is not peer reviewed.
See where the engines place you
See which buyer questions leave you out, who is named instead of you, the sources visible in those answers, and the three changes worth testing first. The Category Audit covers one category, ten buyer questions, five engines and three measured runs, with findings within 48 hours of the category being confirmed.
Start with the $490 Category Audit$490 once. Results appear in your account. The full $490 credits against the Diagnostic within 30 days. Refundable in full, no questions asked, within 30 days of delivery of the findings.
Get the Diagnostic, $990$990 once. 35 questions, five engines, three scheduled runs per question and engine pair, 525 scheduled observed answers, adaptive runs extra. The full $990 credits against the program.
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