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Free AI visibility checkers, tested: what each one shows without an email
Of 11 free AI visibility checkers tested on broadcastwell.com, 7 showed a result without an email or an account, and none showed the full answer text behind the result. One named who the engines named instead.
Broadcastwell publishes this page and its own free check is in the table, listed first and scored on the same six things as every other tool. It does not lead on score. The runs, the scoring and the dates are below.
What the count shows
Key findings
- 7 of 11checkers showed a result with no email and no account.
- 3 of 11asked for an email or an account before showing anything; one stalled with no result.
- 0 of 11showed the full answer text an engine returned; none showed the sources it cited.
- 1 of 11named the companies the engines named instead.
How this page was scored
Each checker was run once on broadcastwell.com, with no email, no account and no sign up, and scored on six things a buyer can see on the result page.
Yes
The result page shows it.
Partial
The result page shows part of it, for example sources for some answers only.
No
The result page does not show it, or no result was shown without an email or an account.
Run date
Each checker was run once on 18 September 2026, in a normal browser, with no email, no account and no sign up. Where a tool asked for an email or an account, the run stopped there.
Broadcastwell's own free check was not run for this page, because each run costs money; its row is described from its live page and from the one recorded production run on 16 September 2026.
Every checker, tested
Broadcastwell first, because it publishes this page, not because of its score. Sort by the score or the name.
| Engines | Result without email | Answer text | Sources | Who is named instead | Points to a fix | Stated limits | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free 10-question checkOur listingBroadcastwell | Perplexity only, one engine | Yes | No | No | No | Partial | Yes | 2 of 6 |
| Agent Site AuditGoodie | No engine asked; scans the homepage and well known paths for agent readiness | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | 3 of 6 |
| AI Crawler Access ReportCitant | No engine asked; requests pages as 15 named AI crawlers | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | 3 of 6 |
| AI Search GraderMangools | ChatGPT, Mistral Small 3.2, Llama 3.3 on the free run; DeepSeek, Claude and Gemini need a login | Yes | Partial | No | Yes | Partial | Yes | 3 of 6 |
| AI Search Visibility CheckerSemrush | ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews | Yes | No | No | No | Partial | Yes | 2 of 6 |
| AI Site GraderTrakkr | No engine answers shown; crawler checks for 11 AI bots and a cold knowledge test on an unnamed frontier model | Yes | No | Partial | No | Yes | Partial | 2 of 6 |
| AI Search GraderHubSpot | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini | Yes | No | No | No | No | Partial | 1 of 6 |
| AI Visibility CheckerAhrefs | ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Google AI Overviews; the FAQ adds Google AI Mode | Yes | No | No | No | No | Partial | 1 of 6 |
| AI Brand ResearchOmniSEO | ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Google AI Mode (per the tool page) | No | No | No | No | No | Partial | 0 of 6 |
| AI Brand Visibility ReportPromptwatch | ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity (per its FAQ) | No | No | No | No | No | Partial | 0 of 6 |
| AI Brand Visibility ReportAmICited | ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, DeepSeek (per the tool page) | No | No | No | No | No | Partial | 0 of 6 |
| GEO Content CheckOtterlyAI | Not stated on the tool page | No | No | No | No | No | No | 0 of 6 |
What each run showed
| Checker | What happened | Run |
|---|---|---|
| Free 10-question check | Not run for this page. From the one recorded production run on 16 September 2026 with no email: category AI search visibility agency, website broadcastwell.com, result in 33.5 seconds, named 0 of 10 by Perplexity, with the ladder position and the one engine statement. | 16 September 2026 |
| Agent Site Audit | Scored broadcastwell.com 63 percent, Solid: 26 checks passing, 7 warnings, 20 failing; agentic readiness 53 percent, content quality 70 percent; commerce not evaluated. | 18 September 2026 |
| AI Crawler Access Report | Scored broadcastwell.com 100 of 100, Fully open: none of 15 AI crawlers blocked across 21 checks on 6 pages. It measures whether AI systems can read the site, not whether they name it. | 18 September 2026 |
| AI Search Grader | Took a brand name and a niche; Broadcastwell and AI search visibility audits were entered. Present in 0 percent of five generated prompts, score 0. The top 20 named instead included Moz Pro, Ahrefs and Semrush. ChatGPT described Broadcastwell as a live video broadcasting company, which it is not. | 18 September 2026 |
| AI Search Visibility Checker | Returned N/A for score, mentions, citations and audience reach, with the line Your brand is not showing up in AI search yet. No answers or prompts were shown. | 18 September 2026 |
| AI Site Grader | Headline: Broadcastwell named in 0 of 200 answers, a figure the tool took from Broadcastwell's own July 2026 study on its site, not from a measurement of its own. It found 11 of 11 crawlers allowed, deep structured data, no independent outside signals and pages that cite Broadcastwell to itself. | 18 September 2026 |
| AI Search Grader | Asked for company name, location, product and industry. Returned overall scores of 37 (ChatGPT), 50 (Perplexity) and 40 (Gemini), with brand recognition, market score, presence quality, sentiment and share of voice as numbers. No answers shown. | 18 September 2026 |
| AI Visibility Checker | Takes a brand name, not a domain; Broadcastwell was entered. Returned No AI mentions found, with the note that the data may still be collecting. Competitor data locked. | 18 September 2026 |
| AI Brand Research | The form asks only for a work email and detects the company from it. No domain field. Not run, because a run needs an email. The page lists live answers with sources and competitors named alongside as what the report contains. | 18 September 2026 |
| AI Brand Visibility Report | No email or account was asked for. The live scan sat at step 05, Recon in progress, fetching crawler access, for more than five minutes and never produced a score or answers. Recorded as no result, not retried. | 18 September 2026 |
| AI Brand Visibility Report | The tool card is labelled free. After broadcastwell.com was entered and Run free report pressed, a Log in to continue dialog asked for an email and password or a Google or GitHub sign in. Stopped there. | 18 September 2026 |
| GEO Content Check | After the URL was submitted, the page asked for an email address and a first name and said it would notify by email when the check is complete. Stopped there. The otterly.ai main site reset the connection on this run; the tool subdomain loaded. | 18 September 2026 |
Cite this page: Free AI visibility checkers, tested: what each one shows without an email. Broadcastwell. Last reviewed 18 September 2026. https://broadcastwell.com/best-free-ai-visibility-checkers
What this page does not prove
Each row records one run on one domain on one date. Engines vary from run to run, so a second run can return a different result. This page scores what each checker shows a buyer, not whether its numbers are right.
Broadcastwell's own limitations
- Three named clients.
- One early directional result.
- No third party reviews yet.
- Founded 2026.
- A team of twelve.
Questions
Which free AI visibility checkers work without an email?
7 of the 11 tested showed a result on the page with no email and no account: AI Search Visibility Checker, AI Visibility Checker, AI Search Grader, AI Crawler Access Report, AI Site Grader, Agent Site Audit, AI Search Grader. The rest asked for an email or an account first, and the table records what each asked for.
Do free checkers show what ChatGPT actually said?
None of the 11 showed the full answer text an engine returned, and none showed the sources it cited. One showed part of an answer. Most return a score or a count, which cannot be checked without the answers behind it.
What does Broadcastwell's free check do?
It asks Perplexity ten buyer questions about your category, one run each, marks each question named or not named, and shows where you sit on the absence ladder. It runs one engine, not five, and it does not show the answer text, the sources or who was named instead; the $490 Category Audit does, across five engines and three runs.
Why did the results differ from tool to tool?
Each tool asks different questions, of different engines, a different number of times, and most do not say which. That is why a free score is a starting point and not a measurement, and why the stated limits column matters.
How was each checker tested?
One run per tool, one domain only, broadcastwell.com, with no email, no account and no sign up. Where a tool asked for an email or an account before showing anything, that is recorded as the result. Each run has a screenshot on file.
A free check is a first look at one engine. The $490 Category Audit measures ten buyer questions across five engines, three runs each, and hands over every answer and its sources.
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.
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Every figure comes from the published method, v1.1.