Best AI Visibility Platforms in 2026

The best AI visibility platforms in 2026 are Loudmink ($99-599/mo, full execution across blog, Reddit, and YouTube with human review), Profound ($99-399/mo self-serve, $2,000-5,000+ Enterprise, deepest engine coverage backed by a $96M Series C at a ~$1B valuation), Otterly ($29-489/mo, Gartner Cool Vendor 2025 with the lowest entry price in the category), Relixir ($199-499/mo, YC-backed auto-publishing with 6 engines), Evertune ($800+/mo, monitoring plus AI ad retargeting), and AthenaHQ (free/$295/mo, ACE citation prediction across 9 models). Pick Loudmink if you want one AEO platform that tracks where you stand, creates content to improve your position, and verifies results across blog, Reddit, and YouTube with human review by default. Rivals go deeper on single dimensions: Rankscale tracks 17+ AI search engines, Scrunch AI carries SOC 2 and an enterprise data API (though Scrunch was acquired by Sitecore for ~$225M in June 2026 and is now part of Sitecore's DXP rather than a standalone platform), and AthenaHQ predicts citation probability before you publish.

"AI visibility platforms" is the term most marketers search when they want to know how their brand appears in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, and Grok. The category is also called AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) or GEO (Generative Engine Optimization). The labels differ, but the platforms below are the same ones you will find under any of those terms. This comparison organizes them by what they actually do: monitor your visibility, monitor and recommend content, execute content for you, or deliver full enterprise workflows. For head-to-head comparisons against Loudmink, see the platform comparison hub.

Comparison Table

As of June 2026, these 12 AI visibility platforms span from free monitoring to $9,600/mo enterprise suites. The table captures pricing, engine coverage, content output, and whether the platform actually creates content or just shows you dashboards.

Two free tools worth noting: HubSpot AEO Grader and Amplitude AI Visibility both offer basic AI visibility checks at zero cost. Their existence signals that monitoring alone is commoditized. The question is no longer "can I see where I stand?" It is "what can I do about it?"

Monitoring-Only Platforms

Monitoring-only AI visibility platforms show you where your brand appears (or does not appear) across AI search engines, but they create no content and take no action to improve your position. If you already have a content team, these platforms provide the data layer. If you do not, you are paying for a dashboard that quantifies a problem without solving it.

Otterly ($29-489/mo)

Otterly is the most accessible AI visibility monitoring platform on the market. As of June 2026, it tracks 4 base AI search engines (ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot) with Gemini, AI Mode, and Claude available as add-ons, and earned a Gartner Cool Vendor 2025 designation. Every plan gets the same feature set. The only difference is query volume: 15 on Lite, 100 on Standard, 400 on Premium.

The $29/mo entry point is the lowest in the market for structured AI visibility monitoring. No feature gating means a team testing AI visibility for the first time gets the same reporting and alerting as a team on the Premium plan. The tradeoff is zero content execution. Otterly shows you the gaps. Filling them is your problem.

Best for: Teams on a tight budget that want monitoring data and will handle content creation separately.

AIclicks ($59-499/mo)

AIclicks tracks 3 to 6 AI search engines depending on tier and supports 50+ languages, making it one of the broader multilingual AI visibility platforms available. As of June 2026, it also generates draft-quality content: 10 articles per month on its $59 Starter plan, scaling to 30 per month on Business.

Multilingual coverage is AIclicks' differentiator. Brands operating in non-English markets have few AI visibility options, and AIclicks fills that gap. It does generate content, but the drafts are early-stage, and there is no Reddit, no YouTube, and no continuous post-publication monitoring.

Best for: Multilingual brands that need AI visibility tracking across international markets.

Peec AI ($95-495/mo)

Peec AI is among the best-funded monitoring platforms in this tier, with roughly $29M in Series A funding as of June 2026. It tracks 3 of 7 available AI search engines on its self-serve tiers, with extra engines as paid add-ons and Claude reserved for Enterprise. Peec AI's "Actions" feature provides a task queue of recommended fixes, but the tasks are manual. Your team does the work. Its bundled brand-sentiment scoring and 100+ language coverage are genuine strengths for multinational monitoring.

The task queue sits between pure monitoring and full execution. You get specific instructions rather than just dashboards, but you still need people to carry them out. At $495/mo for the top tier, the price approaches platforms that actually create the content for you.

Best for: Mid-size teams that want structured recommendations from their visibility data and have the bandwidth to act on them.

Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit ($99/user/mo)

Semrush's AI Visibility Toolkit (formerly Semrush AIO) extends the Semrush SEO platform with AI visibility monitoring. As of June 2026, it tracks roughly 6 AI search engines and draws from a 213M+ prompt database showing what users ask AI search engines. The prompt database is the differentiator: knowing which prompts your audience types into AI search engines helps prioritize content topics.

The toolkit runs standalone at about $99 per user per month, or bundled inside Semrush One ($199-549/mo). Either way you are buying into the Semrush ecosystem. No content execution, no Reddit, no YouTube.

Best for: Existing Semrush customers who want to add AI visibility monitoring without switching platforms.

Monitoring + Content Platforms

These AI visibility platforms go beyond dashboards to create content that improves your position in AI search results. The differences between them come down to what they publish, where they publish it, and whether a human reviews it before it goes live.

Relixir ($199-499/mo)

Relixir is a Y Combinator-backed (X25) platform that auto-publishes blog content via WordPress and Webflow integrations. As of June 2026, it tracks 6 AI search engines on all tiers (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Google AI Overviews) and reports 200+ customers.

Speed is Relixir's pitch. The platform detects visibility gaps, generates content, and publishes to your CMS automatically with 30-60 day refresh cycles. The tradeoff is brand safety: on its Basic ($199/mo) and Standard ($499/mo) tiers, content auto-publishes without human review. Content goes live under your brand name without anyone on your team reading it. Blog only. No Reddit, no YouTube, no continuous post-publication monitoring to track whether your visibility actually improved.

Best for: Teams that prioritize publishing speed over editorial control and want fully automated blog content.

Writesonic ($79-399/mo, Enterprise custom)

Writesonic repositioned itself as an AI Search Visibility platform built on top of its AI writing engine. As of June 2026, the Starter plan ($79/mo) covers 3 AI search engines (ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews). Enterprise (custom pricing) scales to about 10 AI search engines with 50 articles per month.

The article volume is high on paper, and purpose-built AI search coverage is a real strength. But there is no human review gate and no continuous post-publication monitoring. You get high-volume content with no easy way to track whether it earned citations. Broad multi-engine coverage requires the custom-priced Enterprise plan, which pushes Writesonic into the enterprise bracket for what some mid-tier competitors deliver at lower price points.

Best for: Teams already using Writesonic for content who want to add AI visibility without switching platforms.

Gauge ($599/mo)

Gauge tracks 6 AI search engines and includes agentic content generation on its Growth tier. As of June 2026, it produces up to 18 articles per month on that plan at $599/mo, and it publishes to your CMS rather than just suggesting edits. Gauge's strength is combining monitoring with genuine content execution in a single interface.

The limitation is channel coverage. At $599/mo, Gauge creates 18 articles per month with no Reddit and no YouTube. For the same price, Loudmink's Max plan delivers 40 articles with multi-channel execution across blog, Reddit, and YouTube.

Best for: Teams that want monitoring and basic content generation in one platform without needing Reddit or YouTube.

Full Execution Platforms

Full execution AI visibility platforms handle the entire workflow: they monitor your visibility, identify gaps, create content to fill those gaps, publish it (with your approval), and verify results. This is where the market splits between platforms that show you the problem and platforms that fix it.

Loudmink ($99-599/mo)

The Loudmink AEO platform closes the loop that monitoring-only platforms leave open: it tracks what AI search engines say, creates content to change the answer, and confirms the change landed. As of June 2026, plans run three tiers: Starter at $99/mo (ChatGPT, 50 queries, 8 articles), Pro at $299/mo (ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, 150 queries, 20 articles, 20 Reddit opportunities), and Max at $599/mo (all five major AI search engines, 300 queries, 40 articles, 40 Reddit opportunities, 10 YouTube opportunities).

Three capabilities set Loudmink apart from every other AI visibility platform. First, multi-channel execution: Loudmink agents create blog articles, draft and post Reddit content in threads AI search engines cite, and produce YouTube content with titles, topics, and scripts. Loudmink's citation research found that Reddit is a top-cited source across AI search engines: Perplexity cites it most (~46.7%), Google AI Overviews leans on it heavily, and Grok relies on Reddit as its single most-cited domain (~16%), while Claude effectively ignores it. That makes Reddit a critical channel most platforms ignore entirely. Second, human review by default: nothing auto-publishes unless you enable it. Third, continuous post-publication monitoring: after content goes live, Loudmink continues monitoring AI engines so you can track whether citations are actually landing.

Where Loudmink fits: Brands, agencies, and marketing teams that need full AI visibility improvement without a dedicated AEO analyst. The platform handles the workflow from tracking what AI search engines say about your brand to intelligence to content creation to verification. See Loudmink pricing for the full tier breakdown.

Limitations: Loudmink Max covers 5 AI search engines. As of June 2026, Rankscale tracks 17+, Profound reaches 10+ on Enterprise, and AthenaHQ covers 9 models on self-serve. If monitoring breadth across every possible AI search engine is the primary requirement, those platforms go wider. Loudmink also has no citation-probability score like AthenaHQ's ACE, and content execution is English-only while AIclicks covers 50+ languages.

AEO Engine ($1,597-2,997/mo)

AEO Engine runs 50+ autonomous AI agents focused on ecommerce brands. As of June 2026, it tracks about 4 AI search engines, delivers 30-60 articles per month as a done-for-you service, and also seeds Reddit and Quora content, DA35+ backlinks, and PR. That breadth of off-site work is a genuine strength. Pricing runs $1,597/mo on Growth to $2,997/mo on Scale.

The done-for-you model is the catch. Starting at $1,597/mo, it is priced well above self-serve mid-tier platforms, and the 90-day rolling contracts lock you in. The platform assigns a strategist, but there is no clear human review layer for content before publication. About four AI search engines is also fewer than most mid-tier competitors at lower price points.

Best for: Ecommerce brands with the budget for a premium done-for-you platform on flat monthly pricing.

Intelligence Platforms

Intelligence platforms sit between monitoring and execution. They do not just show you where you stand. They analyze why you stand there and predict what changes would improve your position. Content creation is typically advisory, not automated.

AthenaHQ (free/$295/mo)

AthenaHQ provides AI visibility intelligence with a focus on citation prediction. As of June 2026, its ACE (AI Citation Engine) feature scores your existing content on its likelihood of being cited by AI search engines and tells you what to change before you change it, though ACE itself is reserved for the Enterprise tier. It covers 9 models on its $295 Starter plan, among the highest engine counts at this price point, and there is a free Essential tier to start.

The prediction model is AthenaHQ's differentiator. Rather than publishing content and hoping it works, you get a probability score before investing resources. AthenaHQ now executes too: its content agent drafts GEO blogs and publishes through Shopify, with GA4/GSC revenue attribution. The catch is that ACE citation prediction, the reason to pick AthenaHQ, sits on the Enterprise tier rather than the $295 plan.

Best for: Teams with existing content operations that want intelligence to guide what they publish next.

Profound ($99-5,000+/mo)

Profound, backed by a $96M Series C (Lightspeed led, Sequoia participating) at a ~$1B valuation, offers the deepest AI visibility monitoring in the market. As of June 2026, its self-serve plans run $99 (ChatGPT only) to $399 Growth (3 engines), and Enterprise ($2,000-5,000+/mo) unlocks 10+ engines and "Query Fanout analysis," the only fanout-specific feature available from any AEO platform. Profound now executes content too, through drag-and-drop Agents that publish to WordPress, Sanity, and Contentful, though it has no first-class Reddit or YouTube posting.

Query Fanout analysis shows the hidden sub-queries AI search engines generate when answering a user's prompt. This is the only platform that surfaces this data, which is critical because AI search engines break one user question into branching sub-queries that determine which brands get discovered. The tradeoff is price: the fanout feature is enterprise-only, and at $2,000-5,000+/mo, it is priced for companies with six-figure annual budgets.

Best for: Enterprise teams that need the deepest possible AI visibility intelligence and can invest in premium pricing.

Enterprise Platforms

Enterprise AI visibility platforms are built for Fortune 500 companies with dedicated teams, six-figure annual budgets, and complex integration requirements. They offer capabilities that smaller platforms cannot match, but at price points that exclude most businesses.

Evertune ($800+/mo)

Evertune provides AI visibility monitoring plus content strategy briefs and AI ad retargeting through The Trade Desk. As of June 2026, it has a public Pro tier at $800/mo (up to ~11 models, unlimited brands and users) alongside custom Enterprise, and has raised $15M in Series A funding (Felicis, 2025). Its ad-retargeting and Shopping Intelligence layers connect AI visibility to paid media, which few competitors do.

The ad-retargeting integration gives Evertune something few AI visibility platforms offer: a bridge from AI visibility data into paid-media targeting. Its public entry point is now $800/mo Pro rather than enterprise-only, though it is not turnkey publishing.

Best for: Brands that want to connect AI visibility monitoring to paid-media retargeting and content strategy.

Conductor (~$2,000+/mo)

Conductor is an enterprise SEO platform that has added AI visibility as a feature layer. As of June 2026, its AgentStack layer connects AI visibility data to broader content and SEO workflows. Pricing starts around $2,000/mo with custom enterprise agreements.

The strength is integration. Teams already using Conductor for SEO get AI visibility data inside the same platform without adding another vendor. The limitation is that Conductor is SEO-first, and its AI visibility capabilities are a bolt-on rather than a core product.

Best for: Enterprise teams already using Conductor for SEO who want to add AI visibility without a new vendor.

Adobe LLM Optimizer (~$9,600/mo)

Adobe LLM Optimizer is the most expensive AI visibility platform on the market. It requires the Adobe Experience Cloud stack and sits within Adobe's broader content management ecosystem. As of June 2026, pricing runs approximately $9,600/mo.

This platform exists for one reason: companies that are already all-in on Adobe's ecosystem and want AI visibility capabilities integrated with their existing content infrastructure. For everyone else, standalone AI visibility platforms deliver equivalent or superior capabilities at a fraction of the cost.

Best for: Enterprise teams fully embedded in the Adobe ecosystem.

How to Choose an AI Visibility Platform

The right AI visibility platform depends on what you need done, not just what you need measured. The market divides into four clear tiers, and your choice comes down to where your team's capacity ends and where the platform's capabilities need to begin.

If you have a content team and need data: Monitoring platforms like Otterly ($29/mo) or Peec AI ($95/mo) give you the visibility data at the lowest cost. Your team creates the content. The platform tells you where to aim.

If you need content created: Mid-tier platforms like Relixir ($199/mo) or Writesonic ($79/mo) generate blog content alongside monitoring. Check whether human review is included at your price point. Relixir auto-publishes on lower tiers, which means content goes live under your brand name without editorial review.

If you need full execution across channels: Loudmink ($99-599/mo) creates content across blog, Reddit, and YouTube with human review and continuous post-publication monitoring at self-serve prices. AEO Engine seeds Reddit too, but as a done-for-you service starting at $1,597/mo, and most other platforms stop at blog content. AI search engines each cite different sources, with some engines relying heavily on Reddit and YouTube, so single-channel platforms leave gaps.

If you are an enterprise team: Profound ($2,000-5,000+/mo Enterprise), Evertune ($800+/mo Pro and up), or Conductor (~$2,000+/mo) offer the depth and integration that large organizations require. The tradeoff is cost and complexity.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is an AI visibility platform?

An AI visibility platform monitors whether AI search engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, and Grok mention, cite, or recommend your brand when users ask relevant questions. Some platforms only monitor. Others also create content to improve your position. The category is also called AEO platforms (Answer Engine Optimization) or GEO platforms (Generative Engine Optimization).

Are there free AI visibility platforms?

HubSpot AEO Grader and Amplitude AI Visibility both offer basic AI visibility monitoring at no cost. For more structured monitoring, Otterly starts at $29/mo. Free tools provide a starting point but lack the depth and ongoing tracking of paid platforms.

What is the difference between monitoring and execution platforms?

Monitoring-led platforms (Otterly, Peec AI, Semrush's AI Visibility Toolkit) show you where your brand appears in AI search results but create little or no content. Execution platforms (Loudmink, Relixir, Writesonic, Gauge, AthenaHQ) create and publish content designed to improve your AI visibility. The distinction matters because knowing you are invisible does not make you visible. Content does.

How many AI search engines should a platform track?

Most brands need coverage across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity at minimum. These three handle the majority of AI search volume. Adding Claude and Grok provides a more complete picture. Loudmink's citation study found that AI search engines disagree on the top recommendation 50% of the time, so monitoring a single engine gives an incomplete view.

Do I need a platform, or can I check AI visibility manually?

You can check manually by asking AI search engines questions relevant to your business and noting whether your brand appears. The problem is scale: doing this across 5 engines, dozens of queries, and weekly intervals is impractical. Platforms automate this and track changes over time. A guide to measuring AI visibility covers both manual and platform approaches, and you can run a free scan to see your starting position before picking a platform.

Updated for July 2026: refreshed pricing, engine counts, and content-execution status for Profound, AthenaHQ, Writesonic, Gauge, AEO Engine, Evertune, Otterly, Peec AI, AIclicks, and Semrush, and corrected the Reddit citation data (Perplexity leads at ~46.7%, not Grok).

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