Every claim, with the page it was read off
30 claims, 11 re-checked automatically| Claim | What it says | Read off | Last read |
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| Profound's entry plan price and what it covers | Trial FREE, ChatGPT only, limited AI Marketer credits, 10 unique prompts run once, no history, exports or API. Enterprise custom, tailored prompt tracking plan, daily frequency, up to 9 answer engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Anthropic Claude, Google AI Overviews, Exa Search), unlimited seats. No self-serve paid price is published. |  Profound, Pricing (vendor page) | 2026-09-25 |
| Profound's most recent round and customer countstale-source | $96M Series C at a $1B valuation, February 2026; 700+ enterprise customers | no public source | 2026-08-01 |
| Peec AI's entry price and prompt allowance | Starter $95/mo, 50 prompts, choose 3 models, 1 project. Pro $245/mo, 150 prompts, 3 models, 2 projects. Advanced $495/mo, 350 prompts, 3 models, 5 projects, multi country and Looker Studio. Enterprise custom, "Choose from all models", "Up to 13 LLM models tracked", unlimited projects, API access, SSO. Extra models are a published add-on on every paid tier: $30/mo on Starter, $70/mo on Pro, $140/mo on Advanced, "Add extra models anytime in your dashboard". Annual billing: "We offer a 15% discount". |  Peec AI, Pricing (vendor page, read with a browser) | 2026-09-25 |
| Which entry tiers actually track Perplexity, and at what price | AthenaHQ Essential FREE does (all five engines, credit-metered). Profound Starter $99/mo does NOT, ChatGPT only. Otterly Lite $29/mo does (15 prompts). Peec Starter €85/mo can, but only within a 'choose 3 models' cap. CiteRank Solo $19/mo does (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, 10 questions). |  Composite of four vendor/review sources, tryprofound.com/pricing, otterly.ai/pricing, omr.com Peec AI pricing (all read 2026-08-02) and athenahq.ai/pricing (read 2026-08-03) | 2026-09-25 |
| AthenaHQ's tiers, including its free entry plan | Essential FREE, ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Gemini and Copilot, unlimited members, metered by credit ($25 free credit = 300 credits, "1 credit = 1 AI response"), and "competitor insights" IS listed on the free tier, the tier-gated wording is "Unlimited competitor tracking, impersonation, and benchmarking", which is Starter and above. Starter $295/mo, 11 models, vendor wording "Visibility across 11 models" (ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI, Mistral) with "Additional models available upon request", 3,600 credits, $300/mo credit value, 17% off annual. API access and extra credits are paid add-ons on Starter. Enterprise custom. | AthenaHQ, Pricing (vendor page) | 2026-09-25 |
| Otterly.AI's price band and what each tier monitors | Lite $29/mo, 15 prompts. Standard $189/mo, 100 prompts. Premium $489/mo, 400 prompts. Enterprise custom. Annual billing -15% ($25 / $160 / $422). Every paid tier monitors the same four core engines, in the vendor's words 'Tracking of 4 AI Search Engines: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, MS Copilot'. Claude, Gemini and Google AI Mode are paid add-ons: Google AI Mode $9, $149/mo and Gemini $9, $149/mo depending on tier, Claude $29, $439/mo. |  Otterly.AI, Pricing (vendor page) | 2026-09-25 |
| Which vendors name competitor tracking / share of voice on a pricing tier, and at what pricestale-source | CiteRank lists competitor share of voice on all three plans, from $5/mo Solo. AthenaHQ carries 'Unlimited competitor tracking, impersonation, and benchmarking' on Starter $295/mo and Enterprise, NOT on the free Essential tier. Semrush names SEO share of voice at Advanced $455.67/mo and no AI-specific share-of-voice metric on any tier. Otterly.AI names no competitor or share-of-voice feature on Lite $29, Standard $189 or Premium $489, all three list an identical core capability set. Profound names none on Starter $99, Growth $399 or Enterprise, though its product copy says it tracks 'how your brand and competitors appear in AI platforms'. | Composite of four vendor pricing pages, all read 2026-08-05, athenahq.ai/pricing, otterly.ai/pricing, tryprofound.com/pricing, semrush.com/pricing | 2026-08-05 |
| Which vendors cover Google AI Overviews versus Google AI Mode, and at what price each surface arrives | Google is TWO surfaces and every vendor read prices them separately. AI Overviews: AthenaHQ Essential FREE, CiteRank Solo $5/mo, Otterly Lite $29/mo, Profound only from Growth $399/mo (Starter is 'ChatGPT tracking only'), Ahrefs not named on the pricing page. Google AI Mode: Otterly sells it as a paid add-on at $9, $149/mo on top of any tier, AthenaHQ from Starter $295/mo, Profound at Enterprise only, CiteRank NOT AT ALL on any plan, Ahrefs not named on the pricing page. | Composite of four vendor pricing pages, all read 2026-08-07, otterly.ai/pricing, tryprofound.com/pricing, athenahq.ai/pricing, ahrefs.com/pricing | 2026-09-25 |
| How Semrush sells AI visibility tracking and at what tier share of voice appears | No standalone AI Toolkit SKU on the pricing page, AI tracking is bundled into the main plans. The SEO plan lists basic AI tracking ('Track performance in AI search', 'Monitor AI sentiment'); Starter tracks 50 prompts daily, Advanced $455.67/mo tracks 200 prompts daily. 'SEO share of voice' is an Advanced-tier feature; no AI-specific share-of-voice metric is named on any tier. |  Semrush, Pricing (vendor page) | 2026-08-05 |
| Mangools AI Search Watcher price and engine coverage, the cheapest incumbent, no longer the only sub-$50 one (see otterly-price)stale-source | From $15.60/mo ON ANNUAL BILLING, vendor wording: "Subscriptions start at $15.60 per month with annual plans. Monitor hundreds of prompts in ChatGPT, Google AIO, and other LLMs for a reasonable price!" Month-to-month price is NOT published. Engines named by the vendor: ChatGPT and Google AIO; Perplexity is NOT named, and Google AI Mode is not mentioned at all. An add-on inside the Mangools SEO suite. Per-tier limits for Basic / Premium / Agency remain unread, that panel still renders client-side. |  Mangools, AI Search Watcher plans and pricing (vendor page; the tier panel renders client-side, but the vendor states price and engine coverage in the page's own meta description / og:description / twitter:description) | 2026-08-09 |
| Ahrefs' tiers, which of them carry Brand Radar, and whether its llms.txt generator is a paid perk | Free · Starter $29/mo · Lite $129/mo · Standard $249/mo · Advanced $449/mo · Enterprise $1,499/mo. Brand Radar is named on Lite, Standard, Advanced and Enterprise, NOT on Starter. Tracked AI prompts: Lite 5, Standard 10, Advanced 20, Enterprise 20. There is no 'Pro' tier and no $79/mo tier. The pricing page names NEITHER 'Google AI Overviews' NOR 'Google AI Mode' on any tier, the AI wording is generic ('Tracked AI prompts', 'Brand Radar', 'Custom Prompts'). The llms.txt generator is a FREE standalone tool, not bundled into a paid plan. Semrush bundles AI tracking into its main plans rather than selling a separate AI Toolkit SKU (see semrush-ai-tracking). |  Ahrefs, Plans & Pricing (vendor page) | 2026-08-22 |
| Branded web mentions correlate with AI visibility far more strongly than backlinks | Branded web mentions correlate 0.664 with AI Overview brand visibility against 0.218 for number of backlinks, over 75,000 brands. The top three correlations are all off-site: branded web mentions (0.664), branded anchors (0.527), branded search volume (0.392). Link metrics trail: Domain Rating (0.326), referring domains (0.295), backlinks (0.218). Ahrefs states this is correlation, not causation. | Ahrefs: which search factors correlate with brand mentions in AI Overviews (75,000 brands) | 2026-09-25 |
| Engines overwhelmingly cite listicles on commercial 'best X' questions, often on low-authority domainsstale-source | ChatGPT cites a listicle ~100% of the time on commercial 'best X' queries; ~35% of cited lists sit on low-authority domains | no public source | 2026-08-01 |
| llms.txt receives almost no AI crawler traffic and no engine has committed to reading it | Ahrefs analysed 137,000 sites and found 97% of published llms.txt files never get read, zero AI crawler requests | Ahrefs, 'We Analyzed 137K Sites: 97% of llms.txt Files Never Get Read' | 2026-08-06 |
| Schema markup has no demonstrated causal effect on AI citation | Matched-control analysis found a causal null for schema on AI citations. Google retired FAQ rich results from Search on 7 MAY 2026, the vendor doc reads "The FAQ rich result feature is no longer shown in Google Search results, as announced in the changelog entry in May 2026", and the changelog entry itself reads "This feature will no longer appear in Google Search starting May 7, 2026." |  Google Search Central, FAQ (FAQPage) structured data, deprecation notice + changelog | 2026-08-08 |
| Which index each answer engine retrieves throughstale-source | ChatGPT = Bing + its own crawler index + Google fallback; Claude = Brave (whose crawler honours Googlebot permissions); Gemini and AI Overviews = Google via Google-Extended; Perplexity leans hardest on live retrieval | no public source | 2026-08-01 |
| A single probe run is unreliable, cited domains vary between runs of the same promptstale-source | ~2.2% of domains cited consistently across three runs of the same prompt | no public source | 2026-08-01 |
| G2 and Capterra profiles function as inclusion gates for AI tool recommendationsstale-source | 100% / 99% of ChatGPT-recommended tools have them; review volume does not matter, existence does | no public source | 2026-08-01 |
| The structural demand driver, searches that end without a clickunused | Fewer than one third of Google searches now send a click (SparkToro) | no public source | 2026-08-01 |
| Rankscale's tiers, engine coverage and credit model | Essentials 'Starting at $20/mo'. Pro $99/mo, '1.200 credits included each month', 'Track up to 4.800 answers from AI engines', 7-day free Pro trial. Growth $385/mo, 5.500 credits, up to 22.000 answers. Enterprise $780/mo, 12.000 credits, up to 48.000 answers. Custom above that. All standard plans monitor 'ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, DeepSeek, Mistral, Claude, Grok, Copilot, and more' with unlimited search terms across all regions. Credit top-up model, not a flat prompt allowance. | Rankscale, Pricing (vendor page) | 2026-08-15 |
| SE Ranking's plan prices, the daily prompt allowance each carries, and the free AI visibility check it runs without an account | Core $129/mo month-to-month, $103.20/mo billed annually ("Save 20%"), "10 projects & 1 manager seat", "2k keywords & 100 prompts to track daily", "5 domains in GEO research". Growth $279/mo, $223.20 annually, 30 projects, "5k keywords & 250 prompts to track daily". Enterprise custom. 14-day free trial, "No credit card required". Separately, seranking.com/ai-visibility-tracker.html runs a FREE check with no account against AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, against up to five competitors, capped at "You have 5 free attempts left for today". |  SE Ranking, Pricing, and the AI Visibility Tracker page (vendor pages) | 2026-08-21 |
| Scrunch's entry plan price and what it covers | Core $250/mo, "125 unique prompts", "5 site audits / month", "1 brand workspace", "5 user licenses", "4 LLMs supported" (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AIO, Copilot), 1 country, 2 languages, 3 personas, 5 competitors, "Start 7-day free trial". Enterprise custom, "9 LLMs supported" adding Claude, Gemini, Meta AI, Google AI Mode and Grok, plus AXP, API access, SSO (SAML, OIDC) and a dedicated account team. Only one paid price is published. |  Scrunch, Pricing (vendor page) | 2026-08-21 |
| Monde AI's plan prices, engine coverage and what it meters instead of seats | Starter €75/month, "Track up to 25 prompts", "Access to ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and AIO", "Prompts run across models on a daily interval", 2,250 AI answers analysed/month, "Unlimited countries", "Unlimited seats", 1 competitor tracked. Pro €169/month, 100 prompts, 9,000 answers, 3 competitors. Enterprise €424+/month, "Track 300+ prompts", 27,000+ answers, unlimited competitors. Annual billing: "Save up to 15%". Prices print in euros. |  Monde AI, Pricing (vendor page) | 2026-08-21 |
| What HubSpot's AI Search Grader is, and whether it costs anything | A free one-time AEO brand check requiring no account: "AI Search Grader: Free One-Time AEO Brand Check, No Account Required", "Find out how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini describe your brand with one free check." Three engines. Not a tracker, it is one check, not a schedule. |  HubSpot, AI Search Grader (vendor page) | 2026-08-21 |
| Searchable (Searchable Limited, London) entry price, free-tier position and engine coverage | Pro $125/month, vendor wording "Pro Plan - $125/month" and "100 tracked prompts / model", with 9,000 AI answers analysed monthly, 20 articles and 200 site audits. Scale $400/month (500 prompts, 45,000 answers, white-label reports, API access, Looker Studio); Enterprise $999/month (1,250 prompts, 112,500 answers); Custom is talk-to-sales. 20% off annual. NO FREE PLAN, vendor wording as rendered on 2026-08-31: "Start with a 14-day free trial" against the $125/month tier, "Try it free, 14 days" on the buttons, and in JSON-LD "14-day free trial on all self-serve plans; free AI visibility report available without signup". The older sentence "Searchable provides a 14-day free trial on the Pro plan…" now survives only inside the page's i18n script blobs, not in rendered text. ENGINES ARE AMBIGUOUS ON THE VENDOR'S OWN PAGE: the plan grid prints all nine (ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot, DeepSeek, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Grok, Claude) against every tier under "Select in onboarding", while the prose scopes Pro to "Track 100 prompts across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity" and calls Microsoft Copilot "Available as a custom add-on for enterprise plans". We print the narrower reading and say why. The same page states it "offers three pricing tiers" and then lists four. |  Searchable, pricing (vendor page; prices appear in served prose, though the plan grid's digits sit inside shadow-DOM templates) | 2026-09-25 |
| CiteRank's own published plan ladder, the figure every comparison page quotes about us | Solo $5, 1 brand, 10 questions, on ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI, with competitor share of voice. Founder $12, 3 brands, 25 questions, on all five engines adding Gemini and Claude, with a cited-source list. Studio $19, 6 brands, 50 questions, on all five engines, with a cited-source list. The grid states the period once, above the table: monthly, in US dollars, cancel from the Stripe receipt. The free check is one question, not a plan. | CiteRank, our own live pricing grid, rendered from src/lib/plans.ts | 2026-09-25 |
| Omnia (useomnia.com) entry price, free-tier position, engine coverage and prompt allowance | Growth €79/month (€63/month billed yearly, toggle wording "Yearly (save 20%)"), "Monitor up to 25 prompts", 150 insight credits. Pro €279/month (€223 yearly), "Monitor up to 100 prompts", 600 credits. Enterprise "From €499/month" (€399 yearly), "Monitor 200+ prompts", 1,500 credits. ENGINES ARE THE SAME ON EVERY TIER: "Monitor 4 AI engines by default, unlock up to 7", the four included are ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, while Claude, Gemini and Microsoft Copilot are each printed "(available on request)". NO FREE PLAN, every tier's button reads "Start Free 14-Day Trial" with "No credit card required"; a separate free AI visibility checker is a one-off look. Priced in EUR, the only vendor in our table that is. |  Omnia, Pricing (vendor page) | 2026-09-25 |
| Orchly's paid tiers, and which engines each one includes | Essential $49/month ($37/month on annual billing, "Save $144"): "25 AI Prompts, refreshed daily", "Create or Refresh 20 Articles", "100 Page Audit & Tracking", "25 Organic Rank Tracking", 1 Website, MCP Access. Pro $125/month ($93 on annual, "Save $384"): 100 prompts, 50 articles, 300 page audit, 50 rank tracking, 3 Websites, 5 Users, Whitelabel Report, 5 Agency Pitches, MCP & API Access. Enterprise is "Custom / Contact Sales" with "Unlimited Tracked Prompts". ENGINES ARE FLAT ACROSS PAID TIERS: Essential and Pro both carry the identical sentence "AI platforms ChatGPT, Google AI Overview and Perplexity are included in the base plan. Gemini, AI Mode, Grok and Claude are available as on-demand paid add-ons." Three engines included, four metered on top, at either price. No free plan: "All plans include a 7-day free trial." |  Orchly AI: Autonomous Agents for SEO & AI Search Visibility (vendor homepage, pricing rendered inline) | 2026-09-05 |
| Geoptie's tier prices, the billing basis they are printed on, and its engine cap | The pricing page's headline figures are the ANNUAL effective rate, not the monthly price. Starter prints "$41/mo" with $588/yr struck through and $490/yr as the annual price; Professional "$83/mo", $1188 struck, $990/yr; Enterprise "$333/mo", $4788 struck, $3990/yr. The FAQ gives the basis: "Choosing annual billing gives you 2 months free, you pay for 10 months and get 12", so month-to-month is the struck figure over twelve: $49/mo Starter, $99/mo Professional, $399/mo Enterprise. Prompts: "15 monitoring prompts" Starter, 100 Professional, 400 Enterprise, plus "Monitor 100 more prompts at $99/mo" on Enterprise. ENGINES DO NOT MOVE WITH PRICE: all three tiers read "Any 4 of 7 AI engines". Brands are the metered axis instead: 2, 10, unlimited. Unlimited audit reports, content generations and team members on every tier. "All plans are month-to-month with no long-term contract." |  Geoptie Pricing: Plans for AI Search Visibility & GEO (vendor page) | 2026-09-05 |
| Surmado's membership price, how its AI Visibility report is sold, and which engines it covers | Two memberships on a billing toggle reading "Billed annually · Save 34%". Billed annually: PRO $99/mo ("per month, billed annually, $1,188/year"), PRO+ $199/mo ("$2,388/year"), and PRO+ carries a "BEST VALUE" flag. Month to month: PRO $150/mo, PRO+ $250/mo. The FAQ states the same in prose: "Pro is $99/month billed annually, or $150 month to month". AI Visibility is not a standalone subscription: it is one of three research "Jobs" (AI Visibility, Site Audit, Strategy) bundled into the membership and "Included with every plan." Jobs are the metered unit: "PAYG Jobs ($50) never expire. Pro includes 5 Jobs/month and Pro+ includes 10", and "Members can buy extra Jobs for $25 anytime (valid 30 days)". A single $50/Job needs no membership: "Any single Job type, your pick", "Scout access for 14 days per Job". Seven engines, flat across tiers: "ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Meta AI, Grok, DeepSeek", and Google AI Overviews is NOT among them. "50+" "Persona-Aware Queries" per Job, varied by customer type, location and language. "7-day money-back guarantee on all plans." Reports in seven languages. |  Surmado Sites Pricing | Managed Websites from $99/mo (engine list and query count from https://www.surmado.com/ai-visibility) | 2026-09-25 |
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