Best AI visibility trackers in 2026: LLM visibility trackers compared

Every AI visibility tracker promises the same thing: it will tell you whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews name your brand. The difference shows up after you sign up, when you open a reading and try to work out what to do about it. Some trackers give you a score. Others give you the answers, the cited pages and the brands named instead of you.

So this comparison asks one question of each tracker: what does it record? Disclosure: alwayscited is ours, and it is ranked first. Every other entry is limited to what the vendor's own website said when we read it on 31 October 2026.

What an LLM visibility tracker should record

Before comparing tools, it helps to know what you will need from a reading. Five things:

1. Mentions: which brands each answer names, and whether you are one of them.
2. Citations: which pages each answer links to as sources.
3. The answer itself: the text, so you can see how you were described and why a competitor came first.
4. Engine by engine: a result per engine, because a single blended number hides the engine where you are missing.
5. History: the same prompts on a schedule, because the models behind these answers are not deterministic. OpenAI's API documentation says outputs may differ from request to request.

Some trackers add sentiment and share of voice on top. Those are useful summaries, but they are built from the first four, so check those first.

The 8 best AI visibility trackers at a glance

1. alwayscited (alwaystracked): every answer kept with its sources, beside your Google ranking; 50 prompts daily, from $129 a month.
2. Rankscale: mentions, rankings, citations and sentiment across 17 plus engines, from $17 a month billed yearly.
3. Scrunch: presence, position, sentiment and citations; 125 prompts, $250 a month.
4. Similarweb AI Brand Visibility: mentions by topic and the sources behind them; 150 prompts, $99 a month billed annually.
5. Peec AI: daily tracking with a gap analysis of sources that name competitors but not you; $95 a month.
6. AthenaHQ: prompt and response analysis across 11 models; free plan, Starter $295 a month.
7. Keyword.com: share of voice, citation analysis and sentiment, credit based, from $9.80 a month.
8. Ahrefs Brand Radar: citations, sentiment and fan out queries; prompt packages from $50 a month.

The 8 best AI visibility trackers in 2026

1. alwayscited (alwaystracked)

What it records: every answer, kept in full with the pages it cited, for every prompt on every engine, every day. Each cluster joins one Google keyword to five buyer prompts, and your Google position for that keyword sits beside the AI readings, never averaged into one score. You see which engines named you, which brands they named instead, and the cited pages behind each answer.

Engines: Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity.

Allowance: 10 clusters, so 50 prompts and 10 keywords checked daily. Extra packs of 5 clusters are $49 a month.

US price: from $129 a month, monthly with no minimum term, and a 14 day free trial (card required). See the alwaystracked plan for details.

Best for: teams who want to read the answers and the sources, not just a number. Start with our free LLM visibility checker, which runs the same kind of reading once: five buyer prompts on four engines, 20 answers with their sources, in about two minutes, with no card and no email.

2. Rankscale

What it records: Rankscale lists mentions, rankings, citations and sentiment, with citations analysis and an analysis of the sources box on its pricing page, plus page audits.

Engines: 17 plus AI engines, including ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, DeepSeek, Mistral, Grok and Microsoft Copilot, on every plan.

Allowance and frequency: credit based, with checks from hourly to monthly. Essentials includes 120 credits a month.

US price: Essentials is $17 a month billed yearly only. Pro is $99 a month billed monthly, or $84 billed yearly, with a 7 day free trial of Pro.

Best for: wide engine coverage at a low entry price.

3. Scrunch

What it records: Scrunch says it shows brand presence, competitive presence, position, sentiment and citations.

Engines: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Copilot on Core.

Allowance: 125 prompts and 5,000 responses a month on Core. The pages we read do not state a check frequency.

US price: Core is $250 a month, with a 7 day free trial.

Best for: teams that want competitive position and citations in one view with a larger prompt allowance.

4. Similarweb AI Brand Visibility

What it records: how a brand shows up in AI answers, which topics drive mentions, whether you are cited as a source, and the sources that influence mentions for each topic and prompt.

Engines: ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Gemini and Perplexity.

Allowance and frequency: 150 tracked prompts and one user; Similarweb says it updates daily.

US price: $99 a month billed annually, or $129 billed monthly.

Best for: teams that think in topics and want the source domains behind them.

5. Peec AI

What it records: daily prompt tracking with sentiment, and a gap analysis of sources that appear often and name competitors but not you.

Engines: on Starter you choose 3 from ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini and Naver AI.

Allowance and frequency: 50 prompts, daily.

US price: Starter is $95 a month.

Best for: teams that want a focused tracker pointed at the sources they are missing from.

6. AthenaHQ

What it records: AthenaHQ lists prompt and response analysis, and sources and competitor insights. It prices in credits, where one credit is one AI response.

Engines: the free Essential plan covers ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Gemini and Copilot; Starter covers 11 models.

Allowance: 3,600 credits on Starter. The pages we read do not state a check frequency.

US price: Essential is free with $25 of credit. Starter is $295 a month billed monthly, or $245 a month billed annually.

Best for: teams that want response level analysis across many engines.

7. Keyword.com

What it records: share of voice against competitors, citation analysis and brand sentiment, alongside its classic rank tracker.

Engines: chat apps including Google AI Overview, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot, plus API models at a higher credit cost.

Allowance and frequency: 20 credits on the entry AI Visibility plan; you choose daily, weekly or monthly.

US price: $9.80 a month billed monthly, or $7.83 a month billed annually, with a 14 day free trial and no card.

Best for: a small prompt set on a tight budget.

8. Ahrefs Brand Radar

What it records: AI citations, brand sentiment, and the fan out queries AI generates behind a prompt.

Engines: AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot, with Claude available on custom prompts.

Allowance and frequency: you choose daily, weekly or monthly per platform.

US price: custom prompt packages from $50 a month; the Lite plan, at $129 a month, includes 5 daily prompts.

Best for: Ahrefs users who want AI citations next to their link data.

How to choose an AI visibility tracker

1. Open a sample reading before you pay. Ask to see one answer, end to end. If you cannot see the answer text and the cited pages, you will struggle to act on what it tells you.
2. Check engines on the plan you would pay for. Several trackers cover fewer engines on entry plans.
3. Count your prompts. Five per topic is a sensible minimum. Multiply by your topics and compare plans on that.
4. Look for history. One reading is a sample. Daily readings on fixed prompts give you a trend.
5. Decide who acts on it. A tracker tells you where you are missing. Getting onto the pages the engines cite is separate work, and it is what our placement tiers do.

Questions

What is an LLM visibility tracker?

A tool that puts a fixed set of prompts to AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, and to Google's AI Overviews, on a schedule, and records whether your brand is named, which pages are cited and how that changes over time.

What should an AI visibility tracker record?

At minimum: which brands each answer names, whether you are one of them, and which pages it cites. The most useful trackers also keep the answer text, so you can read why a competitor was named.

Is a free LLM visibility checker enough?

For a first reading, yes. A free check shows where you stand today. Because answers vary from run to run, you need repeated readings on the same prompts to see a trend, which is what a tracker is for.

How much does an AI visibility tracker cost?

On the vendors' own pricing pages on 31 October 2026, entry plans in this list ranged from $9.80 a month (Keyword.com, 20 credits) to $295 a month (AthenaHQ Starter, billed monthly), and some vendors offer free plans or trials.