More customers now ask ChatGPT, Claude or Google's AI Overviews for recommendations. AI visibility (GEO) tools show whether your business is named in those answers. Most measure; a few also help you get named. Here's how the main options compare.
The short answer
Tracking tells you where you stand; getting recommended takes work on your site and content.
Why people switch
How we picked
ChatGPT, Claude, Google AI Overviews and others.
Does it only measure, or also do the work?
Usable by a business owner?
Does it show what changed and why?
The list
AI visibility analytics for large brands: answer-engine tracking across many engines, languages and regions, plus analytics on how AI crawlers read your site.
Pick it if you're a large brand with a team to act on the data.
Tracks your visibility, sentiment, share of voice and the sources AI cites, across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and more.
Pick it if you have a team that will act on clear AI visibility data.
Monitors brand mentions and citations in AI search, with GEO audit reports.
Pick it if you want to keep an eye on AI mentions on a budget.
Best for: Businesses that need to be recommended by AI over the long term, not just measured
Riya checks what ChatGPT, Claude and Google AI Overviews answer when people ask about your kind of business, finds where competitors are named instead of you, then improves the pages and sources those answers rely on and writes the content that's missing. Every week she re-checks and reports what moved.
Pick it if you want AI assistants to recommend you, and someone to do the work to get there.
Monitors how AI platforms present your brand and helps make your site easier for AI agents to read.
Pick it if your marketing team wants monitoring plus technical AI readiness.
Best for: AI tracking inside an SEO suite you already use
Semrush's AI visibility tracking sits next to its SEO tools, so rankings and AI answers live in one account.
Pick it if you already run Semrush.
Ahrefs' add-on that tracks how often your brand and competitors show up in AI answers.
Pick it if you're already an Ahrefs customer.
At a glance
| Best for | Tracks AI answers | Improves them | Built for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Profound | Enterprise analytics | Yes, many engines | Your team acts | Enterprises |
| Peec AI | Clear analytics | Yes | Your team acts | Marketing teams |
| Otterly | Budget monitoring | Yes | You act | Small teams |
| Votrix AI | Getting recommended by AI, long term | ChatGPT, Claude, Google AI Overviews | Yes: pages, fixes and content | Business owners |
| Scrunch AI | Monitoring and AI readability | Yes | Readability tools; content is yours | Marketing teams |
| Semrush AI visibility | Semrush users | Yes | You act | SEO teams |
| Ahrefs Brand Radar | Ahrefs users | Yes | You act | SEO pros |
Details from each company's own website, October 2026.
A tool that checks whether AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude and Google AI Overviews mention your business when people ask questions in your category, and who they mention instead.
Generative engine optimization: improving your site and content so AI assistants cite and recommend you, the way SEO does for Google rankings.
Otterly is a simple way to monitor. If you want the work done to get recommended, Votrix's Riya tracks and improves your AI answers.
No. Tools can show where you stand and what's missing; the work on your pages and sources is what moves it.
Sources, checked October 2026
Riya · SEO
Maya · Web
Rebecca · Social
Victor · Leads