Best AI Visibility Tools in 2026: An Honest, Sourced Comparison

The AI-visibility / GEO (generative engine optimization) category has gone from a handful of players to over a dozen in about a year, and most "best tools" lists in this space are written by one of the vendors — which makes them hard to trust. So this one is sourced differently: every price and feature below comes directly from each company's own live pricing page, checked on July 19, 2026. Where a company doesn't publish its price, we say so instead of guessing. We build one of these tools (Seige AI), so take that as the disclosure it is — but every number here is independently verifiable on the vendor's own site.

Ranked by real starting price, cheapest to most expensive

1. FactSentry.ai (formerly aivisibility.io) — from $19/month

aivisibility.io's own site now redirects positioning to FactSentry.ai, a live ChatGPT-audit tool for SaaS brands. Free tier exists (1 brand, manual re-audits); Starter is $19/month for one brand with weekly refreshes.

• Good if: you only care about ChatGPT specifically and want the lowest possible entry price.
• Not for you if: you need multi-engine coverage — it doesn't track Perplexity, Gemini, or Claude at all.

2. GenAI Ranker — from $24/month

Free tier available; the $24/mo Site plan covers 1 brand across 6 AI engines, though it's thin at 15 prompts. Its standout feature is an "Autonomous GEO Agent" that claims to find and ship fixes on its own — a genuinely different angle from pure monitoring tools.

• Good if: you want the cheapest multi-engine option and might use the automated-fix feature at a higher tier.
• Not for you if: 15 prompts on 1 brand won't cover your real prompt list — you'll likely need Starter ($83) or Growth ($249) for actual usage.

3. CiteHQ — from $25/month

A focused, no-frills AI-visibility tracker — share of voice, position tracking, citation-source classification — with 24-hour data refresh. Basic tier covers 25 prompts across 3 of its 4 supported models.

• Good if: you want a lean, purpose-built tracker and don't need a free tier.
• Not for you if: you want all of CiteHQ's models on the entry tier — Basic caps you at 3 of 4.

4. Seige AI — $49 one-time, or $49/month

This is us, so judge the framing accordingly — but the mechanics are real: a full report (your AI Visibility Score, competitor gap analysis, a ranked action plan) across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and DeepSeek for a flat $49, either as a genuine one-time purchase or a $49/month plan that adds competitor tracking, Slack alerts, and a content calendar.

• Good if: you want a real report without committing to a subscription just to see where you stand, or want monthly tracking without a sales call or tiered pricing ladder.
• Not for you if: you specifically need Grok, Copilot, or Google AI Overviews coverage — we don't track those yet.

5. Semrush AI Visibility — from $165/month (Starter, annual)

Not sold standalone — AI-visibility tracking (50 prompts/day on Starter, scaling to 200/day on Advanced) is bundled into Semrush's broader SEO suite, backed by their 289M+ prompt database.

• Good if: you already use or want Semrush for SEO and want AI tracking included rather than as a separate tool.
• Not for you if: you just want AI visibility and don't need (or want to pay for) a full SEO suite around it.

6. Brand24 — from $199/month (but the AI module needs $1,499/month)

Brand24 is primarily a social-listening tool tracking 25M+ traditional sources (social, news, forums, reviews) — genuinely strong at that. The catch: its AI Visibility module is only included on the Enterprise tier, starting at $1,499/month.

• Good if: social listening is your primary need and AI visibility is a nice-to-have you're willing to pay a premium for.
• Not for you if: AI visibility is the actual thing you want — the entry-level $199/mo plans don't include it at all.

7. Scrunch AI — from $250/month (annual)

Positions itself as an "AI customer experience platform," combining visibility monitoring with an Agent Experience Platform (serving AI-crawler-optimized page versions) and real crawl observability — features genuinely distinct from pure trackers.

• Good if: you want crawl-level observability and AI-optimized page serving, not just a visibility score.
• Not for you if: you just need the tracking piece — $250/month is a lot of tool for that alone.

8. AthenaHQ — free tier, then $295/month (Starter)

Tracks 9+ AI platforms (including Grok, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews, which most of this list doesn't) and adds AI-hallucination / brand-integrity monitoring aimed at larger marketing teams.

• Good if: you need the widest platform coverage on this list plus hallucination detection, and have an enterprise-sized budget.
• Not for you if: $295/month is out of range for what's fundamentally the same core loop (score, gaps, competitors) available elsewhere for much less.

9. Ahrefs Brand Radar — free checker, then ~€358–654/month

The free AI Visibility Checker is a genuinely useful instant top-5 preview. The full Brand Radar product is backed by Ahrefs' real search-query database (401M+ monthly prompts) — a scale advantage almost nobody else on this list can match.

• Good if: you trust Ahrefs' existing SEO data and want AI tracking backed by real query-volume data, not synthetic prompts.
• Not for you if: the free checker's top-5 preview isn't enough and €358+/month is more than you want to spend just to go deeper.

10. Peec AI — pricing not published

Four tiers (Starter/Pro/Advanced/Enterprise) exist, but none show a number — you have to talk to sales to find out what it costs. Its source-identification tooling (surfacing which G2, LinkedIn, and editorial pages AI cites) is genuinely useful for larger SEO teams.

• Good if: you don't mind a sales conversation and want Copilot / Google AI Mode coverage plus detailed source attribution.
• Not for you if: you want to know the price before you talk to anyone.

11. Pixis — no public pricing (enterprise quote only)

Pixis is primarily an AI advertising platform — campaign optimization and creative generation — with a 'Visibility' module bolted on for tracking AI search presence. It's not a dedicated AI-visibility product.

• Good if: you're already running paid media through Pixis and want the visibility module as a convenient add-on.
• Not for you if: AI visibility is your primary need — you'd be buying into an entire ad-optimization platform to get it.

How to actually choose

Price alone is misleading here — a $19 or $24 entry tier that only covers one engine or fifteen prompts isn't necessarily cheaper than a $49 flat rate that covers five engines and a full competitor breakdown. The honest way to pick: decide whether you want a one-time snapshot or ongoing monthly tracking first, then compare the plans that actually match that model at the prompt/engine volume you'd really use — not just the smallest number on the pricing page.