AI search visibility companies, compared in 2026

The word company does more work in this category than it looks. Some firms on this page sell a monthly retainer with a twelve month minimum. Others sell a single report at a fixed price and stop. Both call the work AI search visibility, and a buyer comparing them on brand rather than on shape will end up comparing a $440 deliverable with a $120,000 year (prices checked 15 Sep 2026).

The shape matters because of what is knowable at the start. Nobody, including Broadcastwell, can tell a company what a year of this work will return before measuring where it stands. A fixed price measurement makes that first decision cheap and reversible. A twelve month retainer makes it expensive and slow.

Three facts on this page come from Broadcastwell's own research rather than from a vendor. The 2026 State of GEO scored 860 AI answers across 85 B2B software companies in 61 categories and traced 5,160 citations across 1,753 unique domains. The Absence Ladder, its second volume, classifies why a vendor is absent rather than only recording that it is. The third volume measures cross engine divergence and carries the DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21789120. All three are published open access under CC BY 4.0 and are not peer reviewed.

No other company on this page publishes open data with a DOI. Several publish first party studies as blog posts, with sample sizes stated and no dataset attached, and those are noted in their rows.

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.

Price records are dated individually. Unverified prices are marked, and no current market-wide price or purchase-route count is asserted.

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