Best AI Visibility Platforms with SEO Capabilities 2026: 11 Compared, Including Small-Business Options
The best AI visibility platforms with SEO capabilities in 2026, and the best AI SEO tools for small businesses and B2B teams for answer engines, compared on nine criteria: Ahrefs Brand Radar, Semrush, Profound, Peec, AthenaHQ, Scrunch, Otterly, Trakkr, Rankability, Promptmonitor and Prime, with pricing and the best GEO tools under $100/month. Reviewed Nov 5, 2026.
Short answer: the best AI visibility platforms with SEO capabilities in 2026 come in two kinds: SEO suite modules from Ahrefs and Semrush that sit beside keyword and audit data, and dedicated platforms that track what AI engines name and cite. Entry paid plans in this comparison run $29 to $295 a month, and Prime AI Visibility's Flash and AthenaHQ's Essential plans are free to start. This guide compares AI-answer visibility features, not organic or local rank tracking.
One platform cannot turn every SEO signal into an AI citation. This guide is for owners, small marketing teams and B2B revenue teams choosing a tool to see what ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI answers say about their category. Pyra makes one listed product, Prime AI Visibility; it is held to the same nine criteria and listed last. Prices are what each vendor displayed on November 5, 2026, and "not described" means the pages reviewed did not say, not that the feature is absent.
What the best AI SEO tools for B2B 2027 selections actually cover
Searches for "best AI visibility platforms with SEO capabilities 2025" are answered here with 2026 findings from vendor pages reviewed November 5, 2026. If your team is planning its 2027 selection, treat everything below as current 2026 findings from vendor pages reviewed November 5, 2026, not verified 2027 facts. Recheck each tool's price, supported engines and plan limits before you buy. "AI SEO" covers three separate jobs, and no tool in this guide does all of them. This page compares the first: monitoring what answer engines say about your category. Crawling and indexing is covered in our technical SEO audit tools guide, and the ChatGPT-specific view in the ChatGPT SEO analysis tools guide. AI SEO must distinguish a ranking from a recommendation: an engine can name you without citing a page, or cite a page without recommending you.
Which citation analysis service is best for AI SEO?
The best citation analysis service for AI SEO is the one that shows, for each buyer question you track, whether you were named or cited and which exact URL was cited. Of the eleven reviewed, Prime AI Visibility saves exact answers and cited websites per question; Peec AI, Otterly.AI, Ahrefs Brand Radar, Scrunch and Trakkr describe source views; Profound and Promptmonitor do not detail per-answer URLs.
If you cannot open the source, you cannot audit the citation. Prime's guide to running an AI visibility audit walks through defining buyer prompts, recording citations and mentions per engine, benchmarking against competitors and isolating citation gaps; it treats every reading as a dated snapshot, not a guarantee. The table lists what each vendor's page says about citations, so you can compare before a trial.
| Tool | Mention vs citation | Exact cited source |
|---|---|---|
| Ahrefs Brand Radar | Yes: it defines mentions (brand name in the answer text) and citations (links to your pages or domains) as separate metrics | Shows which pages and domains get cited, plus Reddit and YouTube sources that influence answers |
| Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit | Mentions are listed; the pricing page does not describe a separate citation metric | Not described on the pricing page |
| Profound | It says it tracks citations, sentiment, ranking and competitive presence in responses | Citation tracking is described; per-answer URL display is not detailed on the pricing page |
| Peec AI | Citation share is listed alongside visibility | Yes: each source is classified, for example competitor or editorial, and retrievals and fanout are shown |
| AthenaHQ | Prompt and response analysis with sentiment and citation intelligence | Sources and competitor insights are listed; Enterprise adds the Athena Citation Engine |
| Scrunch | Sentiment analysis and citations are listed | Citations and sources are included on Core and Enterprise |
| Otterly.AI | Brand visibility and sentiment plus link citations analysis | Citation source tracking and link citation analysis on every plan |
| Trakkr | Visibility and perception are separate views; a Citations view lists the sources AI trusts | A Citations view shows the sources AI trusts |
| Rankability | Monitors AI queries for mentions and citations | Its tracker pages say they show where your domain and competitors appear and why you are cited or not |
| Promptmonitor | Brand mentions, sentiment, competitor and citation tracking on every plan | Citation tracking is listed; per-answer URL display is not described |
| Prime AI Visibility | Yes: brand mention and owned citation are tracked separately | Yes: exact answers and cited websites are saved per question |
Best GEO tools under $100/month
The best GEO tools under $100/month are the ones whose cheap tier still shows what was named and cited. On the pages reviewed on November 5, 2026, Otterly.AI Lite ($29), Promptmonitor ($39 and $79), Prime AI Visibility Starter ($69), Peec AI Starter ($95) and Rankability Starter ($97) fall under $100 a month, and Semrush's Base plan is $99 per domain on annual billing. Affordable software still has to answer the hard buyer question.
| Plan | Price shown | What the price includes | Exact cited source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Otterly.AI Lite | $29 a month | 15 prompts, daily checks, four engines; Claude, AI Mode and Gemini are add-ons | Citation source tracking and link citation analysis on every plan |
| Promptmonitor Starter and Growth | $39 and $79 a month | Starter: 25 prompts on ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, semi-weekly; Growth: 50 prompts, daily, unlimited seats | Citation tracking is listed; per-answer URL display is not described |
| Prime AI Visibility Starter | $69 a month (Flash is free) | Up to 25 buyer questions per check on ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini; exact answer history starts on Agency | Yes: exact answers and cited websites are saved per question |
| Peec AI Starter | $95 a month | 50 prompts on 3 active models you choose (paid add-ons track more), daily tracking, CSV export; API starts on Pro | Yes: each source is classified, for example competitor or editorial, and retrievals and fanout are shown |
| Rankability Starter | $97 a month | 100 tracked AI queries, daily tracking, branded reports | Its tracker pages say they show where your domain and competitors appear and why you are cited or not |
| Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit Base | $99 a month per domain, billed annually | 25 custom prompts with daily rankings for one domain | Not described on the pricing page |
Trakkr's Growth plan is $100 a month, so it is not under the line. Free entry points are Prime's Flash plan (five questions) and AthenaHQ's Essential plan with a $25 credit. Compare history and export before price: at these tiers the limits are prompts, engines and check frequency, and the profiles below list each one.
Best AI SEO tools for small businesses 2026: what changes at small scale
A small business has fewer questions to track and less time to read dashboards, so four details matter more than breadth: the cheapest plan that still shows cited sources, how many people can log in, how soon the first check runs, and what happens when you outgrow the plan. The same November 5, 2026 vendor pages answer each one.
| Tool | Cheapest way in | Seats and trial | Limit to watch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prime AI Visibility | Flash is free (30 credits, one check a month); Starter $69 a month | Flash needs no card; Starter lists 3 team seats | Flash covers ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity; Starter adds Gemini and an AI Overview-style preview for all five supported tools; no Grok, DeepSeek or Copilot |
| AthenaHQ | Free Essential with a $25 credit; Starter $295 a month | Unlimited seats with role-based access listed | Credits scale with responses; API access is an add-on |
| Otterly.AI | Lite $29 a month | Unlimited team members and a free trial on Lite (duration not stated on the pricing page) | Lite covers 15 search prompts and four engines; Claude, AI Mode and Gemini are add-ons |
| Promptmonitor | Starter $39 and Growth $79 a month | Growth lists unlimited seats; free trial | Starter checks 25 prompts on three engines, semi-weekly |
| Peec AI | Starter $95 a month | Unlimited users on every plan | 3 active models are included; more models are paid add-ons, and the API is not on Starter |
| Rankability | Starter $97 a month | 7-day trial with a card | 100 tracked AI queries on Starter |
Two practical rules follow. Start with the free or lowest plan and run five real customer questions before paying for more, and treat entry prompt limits as the first thing you will outgrow. This comparison covers AI-answer visibility features only and is not an evaluation of organic or local rank tracking, including Google Maps results. If that matters to you, check those capabilities separately with each vendor, including the SEO suites listed here.
How we compared AI visibility tools for B2B
The same nine criteria were applied to every option, using only its public pricing and product pages. Prime's guide to choosing an AI visibility tool scores six axes (engines covered, refresh cadence, prompt ownership, metric definitions, raw-data export and pricing) and recommends a trial with your own ten buyer prompts. Do the same here: a B2B shortlist should be tested on the questions your buyers ask before they speak to sales, not a vendor's sample set.
| Criterion | The question it answers |
|---|---|
| Engine coverage | Which answer engines are queried, and on which plan? |
| Mention vs citation | Does it separate 'named in the answer' from 'linked as a source'? |
| Exact cited source | Can you see which URL was cited, yours or a competitor's? |
| History and trend | Are answers kept per run so a change can be dated? |
| Competitor comparison | Does it show who was named or cited instead of you? |
| Question tracking | Can you track your own buyer questions, not only the vendor's sample? |
| Reporting, export, API | Can the evidence leave the tool for your reports and BI? |
| Pricing transparency | Is the price on the public page, and what does it include? |
| Diagnosis to action | Does it help you fix a miss, or only report it? |
Best AI visibility tools for B2B companies compared
Two tables, the same eleven tools. The first covers engines, evidence and price; the second covers history, competitors, questions, reporting and what the tool does after a miss. Scroll sideways on small screens.
| Tool | Type | Engines | Mention vs citation | Exact cited source | Pricing shown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahrefs Brand Radar | SEO suite module | AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot; Claude is available and uses 8 checks per update | Yes: it defines mentions (brand name in the answer text) and citations (links to your pages or domains) as separate metrics | Shows which pages and domains get cited, plus Reddit and YouTube sources that influence answers | Prompt Tracking from $50 a month and AI Visibility Index from $199 a month; free prompts come with paid Ahrefs plans from Lite |
| Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit | SEO suite module | ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini and Perplexity | Mentions are listed; the pricing page does not describe a separate citation metric | Not described on the pricing page | Base $99 a month per domain billed annually; extra users from $45 a month; Enterprise is custom |
| Profound | Dedicated platform | Trial: ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. Enterprise: up to 9 answer engines | It says it tracks citations, sentiment, ranking and competitive presence in responses | Citation tracking is described; per-answer URL display is not detailed on the pricing page | Enterprise is custom; the trial is free for 7 days; an agency plan uses 400 credits a month per client workspace |
| Peec AI | Dedicated platform | Six models listed (ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, Naver AI); Starter, Pro and Advanced include 3 active models you choose, and the page offers paid Additional Models add-ons to track more without switching plans (prices and model lists not itemized here); Enterprise lists up to 13 models, including Claude, Grok and DeepSeek | Citation share is listed alongside visibility | Yes: each source is classified, for example competitor or editorial, and retrievals and fanout are shown | Starter $95, Pro $245, Advanced $495 a month; Enterprise custom |
| AthenaHQ | Dedicated platform | Starter: ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI and Mistral; a free Essential plan covers five | Prompt and response analysis with sentiment and citation intelligence | Sources and competitor insights are listed; Enterprise adds the Athena Citation Engine | Free Essential with $25 credit; Starter $295 a month with 3,600 credits; Enterprise custom |
| Scrunch | Dedicated platform | Core: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AIO and Copilot. Enterprise: nine, adding Claude, Gemini, Meta AI, AI Mode and Grok | Sentiment analysis and citations are listed | Citations and sources are included on Core and Enterprise | Core $250 a month with a 7-day free trial; Enterprise custom |
| Otterly.AI | Dedicated platform | ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot; Claude, AI Mode and Gemini are add-ons | Brand visibility and sentiment plus link citations analysis | Citation source tracking and link citation analysis on every plan | Lite $29, Standard $189, Premium $489 a month; 100 extra prompts $99; Enterprise custom |
| Trakkr | Dedicated platform | Eight models, checked daily, on every plan: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI and Google AI Overviews | Visibility and perception are separate views; a Citations view lists the sources AI trusts | A Citations view shows the sources AI trusts | Growth $100 a month for one brand; Scale $500 a month with 10 brands; 14-day free trial |
| Rankability | Dedicated platform | 11 platforms including ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, AI Overviews, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok, Microsoft Copilot, Brave AI, DeepSeek and Meta AI | Monitors AI queries for mentions and citations | Its tracker pages say they show where your domain and competitors appear and why you are cited or not | Starter $97, Growth $297, Pro $497 a month; 7-day trial with a card |
| Promptmonitor | Dedicated platform | Eight models, including ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek and Grok; Starter covers ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity | Brand mentions, sentiment, competitor and citation tracking on every plan | Citation tracking is listed; per-answer URL display is not described | Starter $39, Growth $79, Pro $149 a month; free trial |
| Prime AI Visibility | Evidence and fix layer | ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity on the free Flash plan; Gemini and an AI Overview-style preview on paid plans. No Grok, DeepSeek or Copilot | Yes: brand mention and owned citation are tracked separately | Yes: exact answers and cited websites are saved per question | Flash free (30 credits, one check a month); Starter $69, Growth $179, Agency $369, Enterprise $1,499 a month |
| Tool | History | Competitors | Question tracking | Reporting, export, API | Diagnosis to action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahrefs Brand Radar | Prompts can be tracked daily, weekly or monthly; trend depth is not described | Benchmarks your brand against competitors in AI search | Custom prompts for the exact questions buyers ask, tagged by topic, funnel stage or campaign; fanout queries are shown | Export is mentioned on the page; an API and reporting limits for Brand Radar are not described | Citation and fanout views point to content gaps; AI traffic and bot analytics are separate free tools |
| Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit | Daily, weekly and monthly data updates | AI competitor analysis and prompt research | 25 custom prompts with daily AI rankings on the Base plan, for one domain | Report add-ons: Base at $10 and Pro at $20 a month (white-label, AI summaries); API and custom integrations are Enterprise | A site audit for AI readiness; Enterprise adds AI automations, content workflows and forecasting with ROI attribution |
| Profound | None on the trial; all-time history on Enterprise | Competitive presence is part of its measurement description | Trial: 50 unique prompts run daily for 7 days. Enterprise: a tailored prompt tracking plan | CSV and JSON export and an API on Enterprise only; none on the trial | AI Marketer agents, shared projects, Profound Sheets, and Agent Analytics for AI-sourced traffic with GA, Cloudflare, Vercel and other integrations |
| Peec AI | Daily tracking; trend depth is not described | Unlimited competitors on every plan | 50 prompts on Starter, 150 on Pro, 350 on Advanced; custom prompt setup on Enterprise | Custom CSV exports and MCP on every plan; Looker Studio from Advanced; API not included on Starter and included on Pro, Advanced and Enterprise | Ranked recommended actions grouped by earned and owned, plus agent actions from your data |
| AthenaHQ | Not described | Unlimited competitor tracking and benchmarking | Unlimited topics and prompts on Starter; usage is metered by credits (1 credit = 1 AI response) | CSV export on Starter; API access and extra credits are paid add-ons; Enterprise adds BI dashboards for Tableau, Power BI and Looker | On-page and off-page actions, a content optimization agent, and GA4 and Search Console integration |
| Scrunch | Not described | 5 competitors on Core; custom on Enterprise | 125 unique prompts and 5,000 responses a month on Core, with funnel stages and prompt management | Reporting dashboard on Core; Looker Studio, query API, MCP and CLI on Enterprise | Insights and recommendations, 5 site audits and 1 page optimization a month on Core; AI agent and bot traffic analysis |
| Otterly.AI | Daily tracking on every plan; trend depth is not described | Unlimited brands and competitors, share of voice and domain ranking | 15 prompts on Lite, 100 on Standard, 400 on Premium, 1,000 or more on Enterprise | Reports and export on every plan; API, MCP and a Data Studio connector from Standard | Recommendations (3 a week on Lite, unlimited above), GEO audit, crawlability and content checks |
| Trakkr | Daily checks; full history is listed on Scale | A Competitors view shows who AI picks instead of you | 50 prompts per brand on Growth, more in blocks of 50 up to 500 | Reports, password-protected dashboards, CSV and Google Sheets export, API and MCP; REST API and Looker Studio on Scale | Agent and Fixes features ship changes to your site |
| Rankability | Daily AI tracking on the pricing page | Competitor benchmarking is part of the tracker description | 100 tracked AI queries on Starter, 300 on Growth, 500 on Pro | Branded reports, API and MCP, unlimited team members and workspaces | Monthly content projects with research, brief, outline, AI-assisted draft and optimization guidance |
| Promptmonitor | Daily on Growth and Pro; semi-weekly on Starter | Competitor tracking on every plan | 25 prompts on Starter, 50 on Growth, 150 on Pro | Unlimited seats on Growth and Pro; SSO and API access on Enterprise | Reporting and publisher contact lists; no content workflow is described |
| Prime AI Visibility | Exact answer history on Agency and above; each check keeps its saved answers | Cited website and competitor evidence per question on Agency and above | Your own buyer questions: 5 on Flash, up to 25 on Starter, 50 on Growth, 120 on Agency, 500 on Enterprise per check | PDF and CSV reports; reading and exporting saved data costs no credits | Content gap recommendations and source-enriched Word drafts from the saved answers |
Profiles
SEO suite module
Ahrefs Brand Radar
Best fit: SEO teams already on Ahrefs that want AI visibility next to keyword and backlink data.
Engines: AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot; Claude is available and uses 8 checks per update.
Evidence: Yes: it defines mentions (brand name in the answer text) and citations (links to your pages or domains) as separate metrics. Exact cited source: Shows which pages and domains get cited, plus Reddit and YouTube sources that influence answers. History: Prompts can be tracked daily, weekly or monthly; trend depth is not described.
Pricing: Prompt Tracking from $50 a month and AI Visibility Index from $199 a month; free prompts come with paid Ahrefs plans from Lite.
Strength: Tags prompts by funnel stage and separates mentions from citations, which suits B2B journeys with long comparison phases.
Limitation: Check allowances are small on entry plans (Lite lists 5 prompts and 150 checks a month), and it is a module of an SEO suite rather than a content fix workflow.
What to verify: Which plan covers your prompt count across all engines, and how Claude's 8-check cost affects it.
Source: ahrefs.com/brand-radar (reviewed November 5, 2026).
SEO suite module
Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit
Best fit: Teams on Semrush that want per-domain AI mention tracking and an AI readiness site audit in the same account.
Engines: ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini and Perplexity.
Evidence: Mentions are listed; the pricing page does not describe a separate citation metric. Exact cited source: Not described on the pricing page. History: Daily, weekly and monthly data updates.
Pricing: Base $99 a month per domain billed annually; extra users from $45 a month; Enterprise is custom.
Strength: Per-domain price and report add-ons are published, and the Enterprise tier names ROI attribution.
Limitation: Base tracks 25 prompts on one domain and does not describe cited sources.
What to verify: Whether cited URLs are visible per answer and how prompt limits change on Enterprise.
Source: semrush.com/pricing/ai (reviewed November 5, 2026).
Dedicated platform
Profound
Best fit: Enterprises operationalizing AI search with agents, traffic attribution and a tailored prompt plan.
Engines: Trial: ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. Enterprise: up to 9 answer engines.
Evidence: It says it tracks citations, sentiment, ranking and competitive presence in responses. Exact cited source: Citation tracking is described; per-answer URL display is not detailed on the pricing page. History: None on the trial; all-time history on Enterprise.
Pricing: Enterprise is custom; the trial is free for 7 days; an agency plan uses 400 credits a month per client workspace.
Strength: The only option here that pairs answer tracking with agent analytics for AI-sourced traffic attribution on the pricing page.
Limitation: Everything beyond a three-engine, 7-day trial is sold through a demo, and no price is published.
What to verify: Which nine engines and what prompt volume your contract covers, and whether exact cited URLs are stored per answer.
Source: tryprofound.com/pricing (reviewed November 5, 2026).
Dedicated platform
Peec AI
Best fit: Marketing teams that want daily tracking, source classification and unlimited users at a published price.
Engines: Six models listed (ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, Naver AI); Starter, Pro and Advanced include 3 active models you choose, and the page offers paid Additional Models add-ons to track more without switching plans (prices and model lists not itemized here); Enterprise lists up to 13 models, including Claude, Grok and DeepSeek.
Evidence: Citation share is listed alongside visibility. Exact cited source: Yes: each source is classified, for example competitor or editorial, and retrievals and fanout are shown. History: Daily tracking; trend depth is not described.
Pricing: Starter $95, Pro $245, Advanced $495 a month; Enterprise custom.
Strength: Source classification, unlimited users and competitors, and CSV export are on every published plan.
Limitation: The three published plans include 3 active models; tracking more means paid Additional Models add-ons, whose prices and model lists are not itemized here, and Enterprise lists up to 13 models. The API is not on Starter.
What to verify: Which 3 models fit your buyers, what the add-ons for more models cost, whether you need the API (Pro and above), and whether the exact answer and cited URL are saved per run.
Source: peec.ai/pricing (reviewed November 5, 2026).
Dedicated platform
AthenaHQ
Best fit: Teams that want broad model coverage, GA4 and Search Console links, and a content optimization agent.
Engines: Starter: ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI and Mistral; a free Essential plan covers five.
Evidence: Prompt and response analysis with sentiment and citation intelligence. Exact cited source: Sources and competitor insights are listed; Enterprise adds the Athena Citation Engine. History: Not described.
Pricing: Free Essential with $25 credit; Starter $295 a month with 3,600 credits; Enterprise custom.
Strength: Eleven models on the entry paid plan with GA4 and Search Console integration to connect AI visibility with site traffic.
Limitation: Credits mean cost scales with responses, and API access is an unpriced add-on.
What to verify: How many credits your prompt set uses a month and the price of API access.
Source: athenahq.ai/pricing (reviewed November 5, 2026).
Dedicated platform
Scrunch
Best fit: Brands that want citations plus agent traffic and site audits, and may need Enterprise model coverage.
Engines: Core: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AIO and Copilot. Enterprise: nine, adding Claude, Gemini, Meta AI, AI Mode and Grok.
Evidence: Sentiment analysis and citations are listed. Exact cited source: Citations and sources are included on Core and Enterprise. History: Not described.
Pricing: Core $250 a month with a 7-day free trial; Enterprise custom.
Strength: Funnel-stage tagging and agent traffic analysis come with a published Core price.
Limitation: Core covers 4 engines, so Claude, Gemini and Grok need Enterprise.
What to verify: Whether Core's four engines include where your buyers ask, and API and export access before Enterprise.
Source: scrunch.com/pricing (reviewed November 5, 2026).
Dedicated platform
Otterly.AI
Best fit: Small teams that want a $29 entry plan with citation source tracking.
Engines: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot; Claude, AI Mode and Gemini are add-ons.
Evidence: Brand visibility and sentiment plus link citations analysis. Exact cited source: Citation source tracking and link citation analysis on every plan. History: Daily tracking on every plan; trend depth is not described.
Pricing: Lite $29, Standard $189, Premium $489 a month; 100 extra prompts $99; Enterprise custom.
Strength: Citation source tracking, daily checks and a prompt research tool are on the $29 entry plan.
Limitation: Lite has 15 prompts and 4 engines, and the step from Lite to Standard is steep.
What to verify: Whether the four included engines and prompt count suit your buyer-question set before upgrading.
Source: otterly.ai/pricing (reviewed November 5, 2026).
Dedicated platform
Trakkr
Best fit: Teams that want eight engines checked daily with no per-model fees and fixes shipped to the site.
Engines: Eight models, checked daily, on every plan: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI and Google AI Overviews.
Evidence: Visibility and perception are separate views; a Citations view lists the sources AI trusts. Exact cited source: A Citations view shows the sources AI trusts. History: Daily checks; full history is listed on Scale.
Pricing: Growth $100 a month for one brand; Scale $500 a month with 10 brands; 14-day free trial.
Strength: Eight engines, daily checks and CSV and Sheets export are all in the entry plan.
Limitation: Entry price is above Otterly Lite or Ahrefs Prompt Tracking, and the pages reviewed do not say whether the exact cited URL is saved per answer.
What to verify: Whether the Citations view stores the exact URL per answer, and what fixes shipped to the site require.
Source: trakkr.ai/pricing (reviewed November 5, 2026).
Dedicated platform
Rankability
Best fit: Agencies and in-house teams that want 11 platforms, unlimited workspaces and a content production workflow in one plan.
Engines: 11 platforms including ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, AI Overviews, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok, Microsoft Copilot, Brave AI, DeepSeek and Meta AI.
Evidence: Monitors AI queries for mentions and citations. Exact cited source: Its tracker pages say they show where your domain and competitors appear and why you are cited or not. History: Daily AI tracking on the pricing page.
Pricing: Starter $97, Growth $297, Pro $497 a month; 7-day trial with a card.
Strength: Tracking and a content workflow share one plan, with unlimited workspaces.
Limitation: Queries are shared across workspaces, and tracker pages elsewhere still describe an older weekly default.
What to verify: The cadence your plan really uses and whether cited sources are saved per answer.
Source: rankability.com/pricing (reviewed November 5, 2026).
Dedicated platform
Promptmonitor
Best fit: Teams that want daily tracking with citations and competitors from $79 and unlimited seats.
Engines: Eight models, including ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek and Grok; Starter covers ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity.
Evidence: Brand mentions, sentiment, competitor and citation tracking on every plan. Exact cited source: Citation tracking is listed; per-answer URL display is not described. History: Daily on Growth and Pro; semi-weekly on Starter.
Pricing: Starter $39, Growth $79, Pro $149 a month; free trial.
Strength: Competitor and citation tracking on every plan with unlimited seats from Growth.
Limitation: Starter has three engines and semi-weekly checks, and API access is Enterprise.
What to verify: Which engines your Growth plan includes and how answers count against monthly limits.
Source: promptmonitor.io/pricing (reviewed November 5, 2026).
Evidence and fix layer
Prime AI Visibility
Best fit: B2B teams that want saved answers, named-versus-cited evidence and source-enriched content drafts for the engines it covers.
Engines: ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity on the free Flash plan; Gemini and an AI Overview-style preview on paid plans. No Grok, DeepSeek or Copilot.
Evidence: Yes: brand mention and owned citation are tracked separately. Exact cited source: Yes: exact answers and cited websites are saved per question. History: Exact answer history on Agency and above; each check keeps its saved answers.
Pricing: Flash free (30 credits, one check a month); Starter $69, Growth $179, Agency $369, Enterprise $1,499 a month.
Strength: Keeps the exact answer, the named-or-cited result and cited URLs for every buyer question, then drafts the page that closes the gap.
Limitation: Flash covers three engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity) and Starter and above cover all five supported tools; no Grok, DeepSeek or Copilot, no Google organic rankings and no traffic attribution or CRM integration described.
What to verify: Whether five engines cover where your buyers ask, and how credits map to your question count.
Source: primeaivisibility.com/pricing (reviewed November 5, 2026).
Which AI visibility platforms have SEO capabilities?
Only two of the eleven are modules inside an SEO suite. Ahrefs Brand Radar is built for SEO teams already on Ahrefs that want AI visibility next to keyword and backlink data, and Semrush adds per-domain AI mention tracking and an AI readiness site audit to the same account. The dedicated platforms add SEO-adjacent features of their own, as their pages describe them: AthenaHQ lists GA4 and Search Console integration with on-page and off-page actions and a content optimization agent, Scrunch lists five site audits and one page optimization a month on Core, Otterly lists a GEO audit with crawlability and content checks, and Rankability lists monthly content projects from research to an AI-assisted draft. Prime AI Visibility turns saved answers into content gap recommendations and source-enriched drafts; it does not crawl your site or monitor Google organic rankings. Trakkr describes fixes that ship changes to your site, and Promptmonitor describes no content workflow.
Separate the AI product from the vendor's wider suite. Semrush's help pages describe its AI Visibility Toolkit as prompt and brand monitoring with an audit for issues that could block AI crawlers, while its SEO Dashboard page describes organic keyword data and Site Audit and Position Tracking widgets for the broader Semrush account. Ahrefs' Brand Radar help page describes AI visibility for custom prompts across Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot, alongside Ahrefs' other SEO data. Whether a given subscription includes the keyword and rank tools depends on the plan, so check the entitlements on your quote instead of assuming an AI add-on includes them. Several dedicated platforms in this table describe no organic rank tracking on the pages reviewed, and "not described" is not the same as absent.
Google's documentation on AI features says a page must be indexed and eligible to appear in Search with a snippet to be a supporting link in AI Overviews or AI Mode, that existing SEO fundamentals remain worthwhile. An AI visibility platform shows what answer engines say; it does not replace the crawling, indexing and content work that makes a page eligible.
Visibility without buyer fit is noise
An AI visibility tool answers one question: what do answer engines name, cite and recommend when a buyer researches your category? Pyra's Prime AI Visibility is built for that evidence step on the engines it covers; it does not monitor Google organic rankings. This page compares AI-answer features, so check organic and local rank tracking separately for the other vendors. Which accounts and verified contacts deserve outreach is a different job. B2B sales intelligence such as Lead Seeker handles prospecting, verified contacts and buyer dossiers; it does not track AI answers.
The bridge between the two is intent. Lead Seeker's guide on how intent data becomes pipeline covers sourcing signals, forecasting coverage and measuring revenue contribution. When signals must become qualified account selection, campaign execution or sales activation, Percepture's B2B intent data services connect them to ICP targeting. These are separate offerings, not one tool.
For the engine-specific and strategy side, see our guides to ChatGPT SEO analysis tools, the best Perplexity rank trackers and the GEO playbook.
Best AI visibility tools for B2B companies: questions buyers ask
What are the best AI SEO tools for small businesses in 2026?
On the pages reviewed on November 5, 2026, the lowest published entry points are Otterly.AI Lite ($29 a month), Promptmonitor Starter ($39), Prime AI Visibility Starter ($69) and Peec AI Starter ($95), with free starts on Prime's Flash plan and AthenaHQ's Essential plan. Pick the one whose entry plan shows cited sources for your own customer questions, and test five real questions first.
Which citation analysis service is best for AI SEO?
The best one shows, for each buyer question you track, whether you were named or cited and which exact URL was cited. On the pages reviewed on November 5, 2026, Prime AI Visibility saves exact answers and cited websites per question, while Peec AI, Otterly.AI, Ahrefs Brand Radar, Scrunch and Trakkr describe source or citation views. Profound and Promptmonitor list citation tracking without detailing per-answer URLs, and Semrush's pricing page does not describe it. Ask any vendor to show one saved answer with its cited URL.
What is the difference between a mention and a citation in AI answers?
A mention is your brand name appearing in the answer text. A citation is a link to one of your pages or domains used as a source. Ahrefs Brand Radar defines them as separate metrics. A tool that reports one combined number hides whether the engine named you without sending anyone to your site.
What are the best AI visibility tools for B2B companies?
It depends on engines, budget and what you need beyond a score. On the pages reviewed on November 5, 2026, Otterly.AI starts at $29 a month and Ahrefs Prompt Tracking at $50; Peec AI starts at $95, Trakkr at $100, Rankability at $97 and Scrunch Core at $250; Semrush's AI Visibility Toolkit is $99 per domain on annual billing. Profound and Scrunch's full engine list are Enterprise, and Peec AI's published plans include 3 active models with paid add-ons for more. Prime AI Visibility is $69 a month for five engines with saved answers and cited sources.
How much do AI visibility tools cost?
Prime AI Visibility (Flash) and AthenaHQ (Essential) list free entry plans. Entry paid plans are published from $29 a month (Otterly.AI Lite) to $295 a month (AthenaHQ Starter). Most mid-range plans run $95 to $300 a month. Profound's enterprise tier and Scrunch's nine-engine coverage are sold through a demo with no public price. Check how each plan counts prompts, responses or credits, because the same budget buys very different coverage.
Which AI visibility tools show the exact source an answer cited?
Several describe citation or source tracking, but few say they save the exact URL per answer. Peec AI classifies every source, Otterly.AI lists citation source tracking on all plans, Ahrefs Brand Radar shows cited pages and domains, Scrunch lists citations and sources, and Prime AI Visibility saves exact answers and cited websites per question. Ask any vendor to show one saved answer with its cited URL before you buy.
Which buyer questions should a B2B company track first?
Start with the questions a buyer asks before they shortlist a vendor: category questions (best tools for a use case), comparison questions (your product against a named rival), integration and pricing questions, and the problem statements your sales team hears. Track 20 to 50 of them in your own wording, group them by funnel stage where the tool allows it, and keep the same set each month so changes can be dated.
Does an AI visibility tool find leads or replace SEO?
No. An AI visibility tool shows what answer engines name, cite and recommend when buyers research a category; it does not tell you which accounts or contacts to approach, and it does not replace Google SEO. Prospecting and contact verification belong to a sales intelligence tool, and turning intent signals into campaigns is a separate service. Treat visibility as an early-discovery input, not a pipeline report.
Sources
Vendor pages are linked from each profile. Vendor-stated figures are attributed to the vendor. All pages reviewed November 5, 2026. Written by Bob Generale, COO and co-founder of Pyra; reviewed by Alex Mannine.
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