Best AI visibility tools 2026: price and AI engines compared

The best AI visibility tools, scored out of 100

MentionChecker scores 95 of 100, and no other tool here is above 69. GEO tools, AEO tools and AI visibility tools are three names for the same work: checking whether AI engines mention your brand when people ask about what you do, and what the answers say instead. Each tool is scored at its cheapest paid tier against the five criteria in the next section, every weight published. Scores level with each other are ordered by name.

The five columns after the score add up to it. Prices read 21 September 2026 to 30 September 2026, each tool's page and day in its entry below.

How the score is built

Five criteria, 100 points, and every weight is here. A tool is scored at the cheapest tier on its own pricing page that carries a price, because that is the tier somebody starting out buys. The cost bands read the figure the tool's own page prints, in the currency it prints it in.

Each of the fifteen subscription tools scores the same 8 of 20 for what you commit to, because each of them is a monthly plan. Five of them have something free to start with, and three publish a price for every tier.

Twelve of the fifteen keep at least one tier priced after a call, and that is the 0 of 10 in the last scoring column.

What does an AI visibility tool measure?

An AI visibility tool measures whether AI engines mention your brand, how often against every other brand, and which websites the answers cite. A MentionChecker report opens on three numbers: mentioned is the share of answers with your brand in them, share of voice is your mentions as a share of every mention in the check, and average rank is your average place in the answers that listed names in order.

A mention is your brand's name inside the answer itself. Every number is counted from answers you can open, question by question, with the AI engine that gave each one, so one check monitors AI mentions of your brand across every AI engine you pick.

Competitor mentions come with it. The report ranks every other brand the answers mentioned by how often, without you naming anyone first, and each name opens the answers it was counted from.

A citation is a website the answer gives as its source, and the report lists every one the answers cited.

Run the same check again and the history chart shows how the numbers moved between runs, which is AI brand tracking over time.

Every AI visibility tool in the ranking, one by one

The sixteen run from 95 of 100 down to 25.

MentionChecker

95 of 100. A pack from $9 with no monthly fee, credits bought once, a first check that is free and a price on the pricing page for every pack take the full weight of four of the five criteria. Six AI engines on every pack is 15 of 20, because two of the tools below ask ten or more on their entry tier. Every pack asks the same six, and none of them is held back for a dearer one.

Ahrefs Brand Radar

69 of 100. Ahrefs Brand Radar is part of the Ahrefs SEO suite, and its Custom Prompts come with a paid Ahrefs plan, 5 tracked questions checked daily on Lite with no separate fee, read on 29 September 2026 on Ahrefs' Brand Radar page. Its AI Visibility Index is sold separately at 199 dollars a month for one AI engine and 699 dollars for all of them.

Rankscale

66 of 100. Rankscale prints a price on all four of its tiers, and credits roll over above the entry one, read on 29 September 2026 on Rankscale's pricing page. Its entry tier counts up to 480 AI answers a month, its Pro tier is 99 euros a month and its Enterprise tier 780 euros.

HubSpot AEO

60 of 100. HubSpot AEO is a tracker inside the HubSpot marketing suite, and its free grader gives one check and five scores out of 100, with the full report behind a second form, read on 28 September 2026 on HubSpot's AEO product page. Its paid tracker covers 25 questions on three AI engines daily, and inside Marketing Hub the Professional tier carries 25 tracked questions and Enterprise 50.

Promptwatch

54 of 100. Promptwatch's free Explore tier tracks 10 questions on ChatGPT, and its plans are sized around agents that write content, read on 29 September 2026 on Promptwatch's pricing page. Its Essential tier allows 6,000 AI responses a month, and its Business tier at 579 dollars a month is bought through a call.

AthenaHQ

50 of 100. AthenaHQ's free Essential tier runs on a credit allowance, and its one tier with a price on it covers 11 AI engines, read on 28 September 2026 on AthenaHQ's plans page. That paid tier buys a monthly allowance of AI responses, one credit to one response, and the tier above it has no price on the page.

Profound

50 of 100. Profound's brand plan has no published price, only a free trial on ChatGPT and a demo, so it is scored on Agency Growth, the entry tier of its agency track, which asks ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, read on 21 September 2026 on Profound's pricing page. A client workspace on that track is 399 dollars a month on top, and five more trial workspaces 199 dollars.

Otterly

46 of 100. Otterly's tiers ask ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot, and Gemini and Google AI Mode are paid add-ons on every tier, 9 dollars a month each on the cheapest, read on 28 September 2026 on Otterly's pricing page. Its Lite tier covers 15 questions and cannot buy more, and its Standard tier at 189 dollars a month covers 100.

AskWatch

37 of 100. AskWatch puts all six AI engines on every plan and bills answers over the allowance on top of the fee, read on 29 September 2026 on AskWatch's pricing page. Its allowance resets each month and does not carry over, and a second website is 25 dollars a month.

Peec AI

35 of 100. Peec AI is an AI visibility tracker whose Starter tier picks three of the six AI engines its page lists, read on 21 September 2026 on Peec AI's pricing page. Above it, its Pro tier is 205 euros a month for 150 questions, and its Enterprise tier is quoted and billed annually.

Superlines

35 of 100. Every Superlines package picks three AI engines of the ten it lists, and the entry one keeps one month of history, read on 29 September 2026 on Superlines' pricing page. Its Growth package is 379 euros a month for 300 questions and seven brands, and its Enterprise packages are tailored.

Writesonic

35 of 100. Writesonic is a content platform whose brand plans include ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews and keep the other seven AI engines it lists for Enterprise, read on 28 September 2026 on Writesonic's pricing page. Its brand plans carry written articles and site audits as well, 15 and 10 a month on the entry one.

Semrush

31 of 100. Semrush's AI Visibility Toolkit is an add-on to the Semrush SEO suite, priced per domain, and one tracking campaign covers one AI engine, read on 28 September 2026 on Semrush's pricing page. Another domain is 99 dollars a month, another person 99 dollars, and 50 more tracked questions 60 dollars.

Searchable

28 of 100. Searchable includes ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity and sells the other six AI engines it lists as paid add-ons, read on 29 September 2026 on Searchable's pricing page. Its Pro tier tracks 100 questions per AI engine and keeps 12 months of data, where the tiers above keep all of it.

Gauge

26 of 100. Gauge carries one plan with a price on it, and the tier above is quoted after a demo, read on 30 September 2026 on Gauge's pricing page. That plan counts 108,000 AI answers a month, from 600 questions asked on six AI engines every day.

Scrunch AI

25 of 100. Scrunch AI's Core tier covers ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Microsoft Copilot, in one country and for one brand workspace, read on 28 September 2026 on Scrunch's pricing page. Its agency tier is 500 dollars a month for 250 questions and three brand workspaces, and its Enterprise tier has no price on the page.

Each tool's name in the table above opens a page of its own, with the whole plan list as that tool's page served it. The page on what AI visibility is explains the measure itself, and the guide to how to check ChatGPT visibility shows one AI engine end to end.

How AI engines answer when people ask for an AI visibility tool

AI engines mention tools by name inside the answer and cite websites as its sources. On 13 September 2026 eight questions about AI visibility tools went to six AI engines, and 46 of the 48 answers came back.

A check asks the same kind of question about what you do and puts the count on your own brand: every question, every AI engine that answered, and how many of those answers mentioned you.

What an AI visibility tool costs

A MentionChecker check is paid for with credits bought once, from $9, where the fifteen subscription tools scored here charge a monthly fee. One question on one AI engine is one credit, so a check costs what you ask of it, and credits last 12 months.

Every pack is on the pricing page, and the pay as you go AI visibility tracker page says how the balance works. Among the fifteen above, the cheapest paid tier is 20 euros a month, read on 29 September 2026 on Rankscale's pricing page, and the dearest is 599 dollars a month, read on 30 September 2026 on Gauge's pricing page.

Next month that fee is owed again whether a check was worth running or not.

Why most AI visibility tools are not in this ranking

Sixteen tools are scored, and the directory lists 257. A tool is scored here when this site has a comparison page for it holding the whole plan list read off its own pricing page between 21 and 30 September 2026, and MentionChecker is scored on its own pricing page.

The other 241 are in the directory of AI visibility tools with what each one does, 55 of them with an entry price and the day it was read.

Which AI visibility tool to pick

MentionChecker, and the only thing to decide is how often. Every check asks any of the six AI engines on your own questions and keeps the answers themselves. A repeat runs the same check daily, weekly or monthly, each run paid from the balance, so even a daily check needs no monthly plan, and a weekly one tracks your brand in ChatGPT, Gemini and the other AI engines week by week. Credits last 12 months.

MentionChecker is a pay-as-you-go AI visibility checker. It asks ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot the questions people ask about what you do, and tells you whether your brand is mentioned in the answers.

Run the same check again and you are doing AI visibility tracking, with nothing owed between runs. The AI visibility report page shows what comes out of one, and the directory of AI visibility tools lists all 257, the sixteen scored here among them. Your first check is free.

Questions people ask about AI visibility tools

What is the best AI visibility tool?

MentionChecker, at 95 of 100. The next-highest score here is 69, and the gap is the plan: MentionChecker is the one of the sixteen you can run once and owe nothing for afterwards, and every pack can ask all six AI engines (ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot) on the questions people ask about what you do.

What are the best AI visibility tools in 2026?

Sixteen were scored on prices read between 21 and 30 September 2026, and MentionChecker leads at 95 of 100 with the next tool at 69. One is pay as you go and fifteen are monthly plans, their cheapest paid tiers run from 20 euros a month to 599 dollars a month, and three publish a price for every tier. Your first MentionChecker check is free.

Is there a free AI visibility tool?

Your first MentionChecker check is free, with no card: 5 questions about what you do on ChatGPT and Gemini, and the report shows which answers mention your brand, the names they mention instead and the websites they cite. After that a pack is $9, bought once, and the credits last 12 months, so nothing is owed in a month you do not run a check.

What is the cheapest AI visibility tool?

MentionChecker, at $9 for 50 credits, with the first check free and no monthly plan. The cheapest paid tier among the fifteen subscription tools scored here is 20 euros a month, read 29 September 2026, which comes to 240 euros over a year whether you open the dashboard or not. A pack is paid for once.

Which AI engines do AI visibility tools track?

The six a check asks: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot. Six of the sixteen tools scored here ask six or more on their cheapest paid tier, and seven ask three or fewer. Every pack here asks any of the six, and one question on one AI engine is one credit.

Do AI visibility tools need a monthly subscription?

Most do, and all fifteen of the subscription tools on this page sell a monthly plan. MentionChecker is the exception: credits are bought once, spent on the checks you run, and they last 12 months, so a quiet month costs nothing.

Can an AI visibility tool track competitors?

Yes, and without you naming anyone first. A MentionChecker report ranks every brand the answers mentioned by how often, with your own row marked, and each name opens the answers it was counted from. The list includes competitors you had not thought of, and it moves as the answers move.

How often should you check AI visibility?

A monthly repeat suits most brands, and a weekly one suits a market where the answers change often. A MentionChecker repeat runs the same check daily, weekly or monthly, each run paid from your credit balance, so checking every day still needs no monthly plan, and the report says what changed since the last one.

What are the best GEO tools in 2026?

GEO, generative engine optimization, is the work of getting AI engines to mention your brand, and a GEO tool measures whether that work shows in the answers. MentionChecker measures it on the questions you choose, on any of ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot, and one question on one AI engine is one credit, so a check before the work and one after are paid for by the question.

What are the best AEO tools?

AEO, answer engine optimization, aims at the answer itself, so an AEO tool has to show what the answer said. MentionChecker reads every answer for your brand and for every other brand it mentions, ranks them, and lists the websites the answers cited, so you see who the AI engines mention in your place and which websites they cite for it.

What is an AI visibility tool?

An AI visibility tool checks whether AI engines mention your brand when people ask about what you do, and what the answers say instead. Most are sold as a dashboard on a monthly plan, and all fifteen others scored here are, which is why each scores the same 8 of 20 for what you commit to. A check here is run when you want one, on your own questions, and the report keeps every answer word for word.