AI Search Visibility (AEO & GEO)

Contents

1. 01WelcomeWhat these tools do, how many we grade and what to know before choosing
2. 02Our top threeThe three we'd look at first, and who each one suits
3. 03What they costWhat paid plans start at, the best buy at each budget and the free plans
4. 04The gradesThe highest graded, and how the whole category does on each subject
5. 05Keep or make?Which are worth paying for, and which you could make yourself
6. 06Every toolAll of them, best graded first, with what each costs
7. 07Quick answersThe questions people ask when choosing, each answered in a line or two
8. 08About ToolGPAWho made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it

ToolGPA put this guide together from each tool’s own pages, their app-store listings and our grades. Every fact in it is on the AI Search Visibility (AEO & GEO) page too, where it is kept up to date. Checked Oct 23, 2026.

See whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI answers mention your brand, which pages they cite and what to change so they do.

Before you choose, here are 7 things to know about AI search visibility tools, worked out from every one we grade.

1. 1

   We grade 158 AI search visibility tools

   35 of them are free or have a free plan, and 92 more let you try before paying. Everything in this guide comes from their own pages and our grades.

2. 2

   Paid plans start at $59 a month in the middle

   From $7 (AEO Vision) to $599 (Gauge), going by what each one's paid plans start at.

3. 3

   Best value: Rankscale AI, LLMs Ledger and TollBit

   Nothing on our chart scores higher than these without costing more.

4. 4

   0 of 158 have iPhone and Android apps

   158 run in a web browser and 1 have a Windows app. Check the one you need before you fall for anything.

5. 5

   The middle GPA is 2.2

   4 score 3.0 or higher. The highest is geoSurge, at 3.0.

6. 6

   Best free option: geoSurge

   geoSurge has the highest GPA of the free ones, 3.0. Free AI visibility tracking that runs on your own AI subscriptions.

7. 7

   156 worth keeping, 0 you could make

   By our keep-or-make rules, 156 do something you couldn't reasonably build yourself, 0 are simple enough to make with an AI app builder, and 2 are a close call.

Part 02 · Top three

Our top three

The three we'd look at first, and who each one suits

The three AI search visibility tools we'd look at first. First place suits the most people; second and third are the best picks for the people it leaves out. Each has an Insider's Guide of its own.

1. 1st

   

   3.0GPA

   Rankscale AI

   Free trial · from $17/mo

   For: Most people tracking their brand in AI answers

   Rankscale AI tracks how a brand is ranked, cited and described in 17+ AI engines, including ChatGPT, Google AI Mode and AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok and Copilot, with sentiment, cited sources, the searches engines run while answering, and places in AI shopping cards and local packs. Essentials is $17 a month for 120 credits, billed yearly only; Pro is $99 a month for 1,200. Know the limits: a run costs 0.25 to 2 credits, so Essentials covers about five prompts a day on ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, tracking pauses when credits run out, there is no free plan, the 7-day trial is for Pro, and the REST API starts at $229.

   The Rankscale AI Insider’s Guide

2. 2nd

   

   2.6GPA

   ZipTie

   Free trial · from $25.65/mo

   For: Agencies, and anyone who wants daily checks for less

   ZipTie checks ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, Perplexity, Copilot, Bing's AI Overview and Gemini at the same price per engine, scoring citations, mentions and sentiment per prompt, with a ranked list of gaps. You build a plan from prompts, engines and how often they run, at about a cent a check: the smallest preset is $25.65 a month for 30 daily prompts on 3 engines, and seats, projects and white-label PDF reports cost nothing extra. It is second because it covers 7 engines to Rankscale's 17+, with no Claude; the API and MCP are a $10 add-on, the no-card trial runs only 3 engines, and unused time is not refunded.

   The ZipTie Insider’s Guide

3. 3rd

   

   3.0GPA

   geoSurge

   Free plan

   For: Anyone who wants to pay nothing beyond their AI plans

   geoSurge tracks how ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini mention a brand: share of answers, each mention in context, competitors, cited sources and rank over time, with all-time history. A desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux runs your prompts daily through your own ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini subscriptions, or its cloud runs them on your own API keys, both at $0 with no cap on prompts or seats, API and MCP included. It is third because it covers 3 engines, none of them Perplexity, Copilot or Google's AI Overviews; model costs and limits are yours, and crawler data sits on a sales-only Enterprise plan.

   The geoSurge Insider’s Guide

Going by our grades, Rankscale AI, LLMs Ledger and TollBit give the most for the money among AI search visibility tools: no tool on this chart scores higher without costing more.

Paid plans start at a middle price of $59 a month across the 129 that charge, from $7 (AEO Vision) to $599 (Gauge). 2 more cost nothing at all.

52 of the 131 score above the category's average while starting at or below its middle price. 13 cost more than the middle price and score below the average.

Every tool gets five grades, A to F, each with its reason, and a GPA that averages them. Here are the 12 highest graded AI search visibility tools, then how the whole category does on each subject.

Tool	Value	Free	Features	Ease	Platforms	GPA
geoSurge	A	A	C	C	B	3.0
llms-txt.io	A	B	C	B	B	3.0
Rankscale AI	A	C	A	C	B	3.0
TollBit	A	A	C	C	B	3.0
LLMs Ledger	A	C	C	B	B	2.8
AreYouMention	B	A	C	C	C	2.6
Beamtrace	B	C	C	B	B	2.6
Botric	A	C	C	C	B	2.6
Known Agents	B	B	C	C	B	2.6
Radarkit	B	C	B	C	B	2.6
Trackerly	B	C	B	C	B	2.6
ZipTie	B	C	B	C	B	2.6

Some software does something you couldn’t reasonably build yourself. Some is simple enough that an AI app builder could make the core of it in an afternoon. Here’s where AI search visibility tools land, by the same rules for every tool.

• 156

  Keep it

  It does something you could not reasonably make for yourself, or it costs nothing.

• 2

  Your call

  You could make the core of it, and you would give something up.

• 0

  You could make this

  What it does is the kind of thing an AI app builder makes well, and it charges every month.

Every AI search visibility tool we grade, with its GPA and what it costs. Each one has a page of its own on toolgpa.com, with its Insider’s Guide.

1. 1geoSurgeFree plan3.0
2. 2llms-txt.ioFree plan · from $15/mo3.0
3. 3Rankscale AIFree trial · from $17/mo3.0
4. 4TollBitFree3.0
5. 5LLMs LedgerFree plan · from $9/mo2.8
6. 6AreYouMentionFree2.6
7. 7BeamtraceFree trial · from $24/mo2.6
8. 8BotricFree plan · from $12.50/mo2.6
9. 9Known AgentsFree plan · from $25/mo2.6
10. 10RadarkitFree trial · from $29/mo2.6
11. 11TrackerlyFree trial · from $27/mo2.6
12. 12ZipTieFree trial · from $25.65/mo2.6
13. 13AirefsFree trial · from $24/mo2.4
14. 14AskyFree trial · from €99/mo2.4
15. 15CiteCueFree plan · from $29/mo2.4
16. 16DagenoFree trial · from $49/mo2.4
17. 17GEO MetricsFree trial · from €72/mo2.4
18. 18GEORankFree trial2.4
19. 19LLMClicksFree trial · from $159 one-time2.4
20. 20llmstxt.studioFree plan · from £15.83/mo2.4
21. 21OmniaFree trial · from €63/mo2.4
22. 22Orchly AIFree trial · from $37/mo2.4
23. 23Otterly.AIFree trial · from $25/mo2.4
24. 24PromptScoutFrom $15/mo2.4
25. 25PromptwatchFree trial · from $95/mo2.4
26. 26QwairyFree trial · from $74/mo2.4
27. 27RankshiftFree trial · from $82/mo2.4
28. 28SpotaqFree plan · from $19 one-time2.4
29. 29TraqerFree trial · from $21/mo2.4
30. 30WaikayFree trial · from $24.95/mo2.4
31. 31WellowsFree trial · from $29/mo2.4
32. 32XofuFree plan · from $99/mo2.4
33. 33ZeroRankFree trial · from $33/mo2.4
34. 34AEO VisionFrom $7/mo2.2
35. 35AI PeekabooFree trial · from $30/mo2.2
36. 36AI SEO TrackerFrom $49 one-time2.2
37. 37AisoFree trial · from $16/mo2.2
38. 38AIVisibilityFree plan · from $19/mo2.2
39. 39AllmondFree trial · from $29/mo2.2
40. 40Amadora AIFree trial · from $83/mo2.2
41. 41AparokFree trial · from $49/mo2.2
42. 42AthenaHQFree plan · from $245/mo2.2
43. 43Atomic AGIFree plan · from $40/mo2.2
44. 44AUQ LLMrankingsFree plan · from $10/mo2.2
45. 45AyzeoFree trial · from $31/mo2.2
46. 46BeeSeenFree trial · from $29/mo2.2
47. 47BrandPeekFree plan · from $25/mo2.2
48. 48BrantialFree trial · from $119/mo2.2
49. 49CairrotFree trial · from $39/mo2.2
50. 50ChatbeatFree trial · from $99/mo2.2
51. 51CiteFlowFree trial · from $33/mo2.2
52. 52CitePulseFree plan · from $40/mo2.2
53. 53DeepSmithFree trial · from $80/mo2.2
54. 54ElmoFree plan · from $29/mo2.2
55. 55EnGeniusFree trial · from $19.99/mo2.2
56. 56FinseoFree trial · from €70/mo2.2
57. 57GeoTestFree plan · from $49/mo2.2
58. 58GetIntelFree trial · from $29/mo2.2
59. 59GoodieFree trial · from $295/mo2.2
60. 60HikooFree plan · from €69/mo2.2
61. 61IndexlyFree plan · from $99/mo2.2
62. 62KIMEFree trial · from $109/mo2.2
63. 63KnowatoaFree trial · from $59/mo2.2
64. 64LLMrefsFree trial · from $79/mo2.2
65. 65Mangools AI Search WatcherFree plan · from $34.90/mo2.2
66. 66MeteoriaFree trial · from €75/mo2.2
67. 67Nimt.aiFree trial · from $89/mo2.2
68. 68ParseFree plan · from $79/mo2.2
69. 69Peec AIFree trial · from $95/mo2.2
70. 70ProfoundFree trial · from $99/mo2.2
71. 71ProminaraFree trial · from $29/mo2.2
72. 72PromptmonitorFree trial · from $33/mo2.2
73. 73PromviaFree plan · from €49/mo2.2
74. 74QuattrPaid2.2
75. 75Rank PromptFree trial · from $39/mo2.2
76. 76ReachdFree trial · from $79/mo2.2
77. 77SE VisibleFree trial · from $79/mo2.2
78. 78SearchableFree trial · from $125/mo2.2
79. 79Seen-By.AIFree trial · from £4.99 one-time2.2
80. 80SiftlyFree plan · from $79/mo2.2
81. 81SitelineFree plan · from $49/mo2.2
82. 82Sorn.aiFree trial · from $29/mo2.2
83. 83SpyglassesFree trial · from $79/mo2.2
84. 84StrajistFree plan · from $30/mo2.2
85. 85SuperlinesFree trial · from €69/mo2.2
86. 86TrakkrFree trial · from $100/mo2.2
87. 87VerciteFree trial · from $39/mo2.2
88. 88VisbyFree trial · from $79/mo2.2
89. 89VismoreFree trial · from $99/mo2.2
90. 90WritesonicFree trial · from $79/mo2.2
91. 91Addlly AIPaid2.0
92. 92Adobe Brand VisibilityFree trial2.0
93. 93AgentrailFree plan2.0
94. 94AIclicksFree trial · from $59/mo2.0
95. 95ALLMOFree trial · from €30/mo2.0
96. 96Am I On AIFree trial · from $100/mo2.0
97. 97Analyze AIFree trial · from $99/mo2.0
98. 98AnswerScoutFree trial · from $39.99/mo2.0
99. 99AttensiraFree trial · from $129/mo2.0
100. 100AzomaPaid2.0
101. 101BluefishPaid2.0
102. 102BrandBeaconFree plan2.0
103. 103Citation RadarFree plan · from $39/mo2.0
104. 104DemandSphereFrom $79/mo2.0
105. 105DopplerFree trial · from $33/mo2.0
106. 106GeneoFree trial · from $39.9/mo2.0
107. 107GenrankFree trial · from $69/mo2.0
108. 108GEO Hack SuiteFree trial2.0
109. 109GEO ToolboxFree trial · from $79/mo2.0
110. 110GeoIQFree plan · from $69/mo2.0
111. 111GoVISIBLEFree trial · from $49/mo2.0
112. 112GumshoeFree trial · from $99/mo2.0
113. 113HubSpot AEOFree trial · from $45/mo2.0
114. 114LimyPaid2.0
115. 115LLM PulseFree trial · from $49/mo2.0
116. 116LoudminkFrom $99/mo2.0
117. 117MentionaryFree trial · from $79/mo2.0
118. 118MentionBirdFrom $66/mo2.0
119. 119MentionRankFree plan · from $39/mo2.0
120. 120PromptRushFrom $19/mo2.0
121. 121rocketblueFree trial · from $159/mo2.0
122. 122SellmFree trial · from $89/mo2.0
123. 123ShowIn AIFree trial · from $99/mo2.0
124. 124SiteSignalFree plan · from $89/mo2.0
125. 125SkillaeoFree plan · from $33.25/mo2.0
126. 126SourcePickFree trial2.0
127. 127Temso AIFree trial · from $8/mo2.0
128. 128TopifyFree trial · from $99/mo2.0
129. 129VisiblieFree trial · from $71/mo2.0
130. 130BeNoticed.AIFrom ₹7,999/mo1.8
131. 131CognizoFrom $499/mo1.8
132. 132ErlinFrom $47/mo1.8
133. 133EvertuneFrom $60/mo1.8
134. 134GenSight.AIFree trial · from $99 one-time1.8
135. 135GeoptieFrom $49/mo1.8
136. 136GetMintPaid1.8
137. 137KNWNFrom $49/mo1.8
138. 138LightSite AIFree trial · from $129/mo1.8
139. 139MolePaid1.8
140. 140RankBeeFree trial · from £99/mo1.8
141. 141RelixirPaid1.8
142. 142RivalSeeFree trial · from $69.99/mo1.8
143. 143ScrunchFree trial · from $250/mo1.8
144. 144TrackAIMentionsFree plan · from $49 one-time1.8
145. 145xSeekFree trial · from $49/mo1.8
146. 146AppearOnAIFree trial · from $99 one-time1.6
147. 147BrandlightPaid1.6
148. 148BrandRank.AIPaid1.6
149. 149ChosenlyFrom $150/mo1.6
150. 150CitationIQFrom $167/mo1.6
151. 151emberosPaid1.6
152. 152GaugeFrom $599/mo1.6
153. 153GhostdFree trial · from $175/mo1.6
154. 154GrowByDataPaid1.6
155. 155PromptSignalFrom $99/mo1.6
156. 156ReverePaid1.6
157. 157SnezziFree trial · from $500/mo1.6
158. 158Highlighted.aiFrom $29/mo1.4

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