GEO tools compared

Nine tools that measure whether and how AI answers mention your brand. With engines, interval, prices and technical basis, as of October 2026.

Michael Weber
Michael WeberFounder of searchVIU, around 20 years of SEO experience · updated on October 17, 2026

searchVIU is one of the tools in this comparison. How we compared them and where the information comes from is explained at the end of the page.

In short

You are responsible for technical SEO and want to see AI visibility together with robots.txt, llms.txt and bot requests.searchVIU
Your team queries many engines daily, needs data on prompt demand and has an enterprise budget.Profound
You want daily figures in self-service, from a provider based in Berlin.Peec AI
You are looking for a small entry point with four engines and public prices.Otterly.AI
You need many prompts in seven engines at a fixed price.Scrunch
SISTRIX is already in use, and you want to measure AI visibility without another tool.SISTRIX
Semrush is already in use, and a first look at ChatGPT and AI Mode is enough for you.Semrush
You want to compare your own prompts with a large prompt database.Ahrefs Brand Radar
SEO, AI visibility, content and monitoring should come from one enterprise suite.Conductor

What a GEO tool measures

GEO stands for Generative Engine Optimization. A GEO tool asks AI engines such as ChatGPT, Gemini or Google AI Mode the same questions again and again and analyzes the answers. It measures whether your brand is mentioned, in which position, in what tone, and which pages the answer cites as a source.

Keep three things apart here. Is your brand only mentioned, is a page cited as a source, or does someone actually click through to your website afterwards? The tools measure this differently, and not every tool measures everything.

What sets the tools apart

  • Engines and interval. Some query nine engines every day, others three once a week. Almost everywhere, more engines and a shorter interval cost more money.
  • Prompt data. Profound, Ahrefs, SISTRIX and Semrush have databases on what people ask AI tools. Others work only with the prompts you create yourself.
  • Technical basis. Whatever AI bots are not allowed to fetch via robots.txt is also missing from the answers. Only a few tools also check robots.txt, llms.txt and bot requests.

AI answers vary from run to run. One query per day or week is therefore a sample, and only becomes meaningful over weeks and many prompts.

Three types of GEO tool

The nine tools work in three ways. The graphic shows schematically what each type queries over one week.

AI queries only

Queries AI engines with fixed prompts, usually daily, and analyzes mentions, sources and sentiment. These tools do not crawl the website itself. This is how Profound, Peec AI, Otterly.AI and Scrunch work.

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SEO suite with AI module

Rankings, keyword data and a site audit, plus prompts at a fixed interval. This is how SISTRIX, Semrush, Ahrefs and Conductor work.

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Monitoring with AI module

A complete crawl every week and Page Watch for the most important pages, plus AI queries once a week, robots.txt and llms.txt. This is how searchVIU works.

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Crawl of the websiteindividual page requests in betweenQuery to AI enginesSchematic, one week from Monday to Sunday

Agent Analytics at Profound, Peec AI, Otterly.AI and Scrunch counts how often AI bots fetch your pages.

Which tool answers which question

Are we mentioned in AI answers?

All tools on this page measure this. They differ in engines, interval and number of prompts.

Which sources do the answers cite?

Profound, Peec AI, Otterly.AI, Scrunch, SISTRIX, Ahrefs, Conductor and searchVIU show the cited pages or domains.

Can AI bots fetch our pages at all?

searchVIU checks the robots.txt every 15 minutes per AI bot and the llms.txt once a day. Peec AI checks the robots.txt in its audit, Otterly.AI, Scrunch and Semrush check individual pages. Conductor Monitoring checks the robots.txt.

How often do AI bots come by?

Profound, Peec AI, Scrunch, Otterly.AI (from the Standard plan) and Ahrefs (Bot Analytics, beta) analyze bot requests, searchVIU with the log file analysis add-on.

The tools in detail

Every card has the same fields. The information comes from the vendors' websites, pricing pages and documentation, last checked on October 17, 2026.

searchVIU

Ours

SEO monitoring for complex websites. AI visibility is an add-on and runs in the same project as the crawl, Search Console, robots.txt and llms.txt.

ApproachWebsite crawl plus weekly AI queriesMTWTFSS
PriceAdd-on from €199 per month
DataProject data in the EU

Strengths

  • ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode weekly. Reports on share of voice, sentiment, recommendations and prominence, plus a fact check of the answers against your information.
  • Shows whether the engines find and cite your website. A work list names the sources that AI answers cite for competitors but not for you.
  • robots.txt every 15 minutes with an overview of which AI bot may fetch what, and llms.txt Monitoring once a day. Both are part of SEO Monitoring. searchVIU also shows how many Google clicks the pages bring that an AI bot is not allowed to fetch.

Limits

  • Three engines and a weekly interval by default. More engines and daily queries are available as an option.
  • No database of real AI prompts. The prompts are created from your keywords and your own specifications.
  • No self-service trial, entry via a demo. Interface in English, no SSO.

Good fit for Teams responsible for technical SEO who want to measure AI visibility alongside it. Agencies too.

Add-ons AI visibility from €199, log file analysis from €199, Rank Tracking from €99 per month, each only together with SEO Monitoring. Migration Pack from €1,999 one-off. robots.txt and llms.txt monitoring are part of SEO Monitoring.

Consulting Up to 250,000 URLs: 30 minutes per month with the team
From 250,000 URLs: one hour per month with a senior consultant

Details on searchVIU
Price
Public, excl. VAT. AI visibility from €199 per month, 300 prompts included. The add-on is only available together with SEO Monitoring, which costs from €399 per month, 50,000 URLs included. Together, both cost from €598 per month. Log file analysis from €199 per month.
Specific to searchVIU
Shows which AI bots your robots.txt locks out and how many Google clicks the blocked pages bring. If your llms.txt changes or a link in it stops working, you get an alert.
Security
ISO/IEC 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type 2, project data in the EU (Google Cloud). No AI training with customer data.

Compared with other GEO tools Fewer engines and a slower interval than the specialists. In return, AI answers, robots.txt, llms.txt, bot requests and the website crawl sit in one project.

Profound

US platform for AI visibility and AI marketing. It measures how AI engines answer your prompts and counts AI bot requests from your CDN logs.

ApproachNo crawl, prompts dailyMTWTFSS
Pricenot public
Datanot stated

Strengths

  • In the Enterprise plan, up to nine engines daily, including ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Claude.
  • According to the provider, Prompt Volumes shows how often topics come up in real AI chats.
  • Agent Analytics analyzes bot requests, with connections to Cloudflare, Akamai, AWS, Fastly, Vercel and others.

Limits

  • Prices on request only. The trial runs for 7 days with three engines, without export, API or support.
  • No website crawl, no technical SEO monitoring, no rank tracking.

Good fit for Large brands for whom AI search is a main topic and who want to measure many engines daily.

Details on Profound
Price
Not public. Enterprise individually priced. 7-day trial with 50 prompts daily in ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews.
Specific to Profound
Prompt Volumes, visibility in ChatGPT Shopping and the AI Marketer agent.
Security
SSO via SAML and SOC 2 in the Enterprise plan. Data location not stated on the pages we checked.

Compared with other GEO tools The most engines in this comparison and its own demand data. Website technology and rankings are missing.

Peec AI

AI search analytics from Berlin. Measures visibility, position, sentiment and sources in AI answers, and counts AI bot requests from CDN logs or uploaded log files.

ApproachNo crawl, prompts dailyMTWTFSS
Pricefrom €85 per month
DataCompany in Berlin, hosting not stated

Strengths

  • Prompts run every day in all plans, with three models from ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Copilot, Gemini and Naver AI.
  • Sources down to the individual page, with citation share and classification of the source, plus gap analysis and fact checks.
  • Agent Analytics checks the robots.txt for more than 40 bots and counts AI bot requests via Cloudflare, AWS, Vercel, Akamai or CSV upload. Plus API, MCP server and unlimited users.

Limits

  • No website crawl and no rank tracking.
  • Three models per plan, each additional one costs extra. Agent Analytics is included in all plans, with a monthly quota of bot visits per plan. Once it is reached, Peec AI stores no new data until the end of the month (as of November 4, 2026).

Good fit for SEO and content teams who want to measure AI visibility daily in self-service.

Details on Peec AI
Price
Public, in euros. Monthly: Starter €85 with 50 prompts, Pro €205 with 150, Advanced €425 with 350 prompts; with annual payment €70, €180 and €360 per month. Enterprise individually priced with up to 13 models. An additional model costs from €30 per month depending on the plan, from €25 with annual payment.
Specific to Peec AI
Share of answers per source, counted at page level, and a daily interval in every plan.
Security
DPA linked, SSO in the Enterprise plan. Certifications and data location not documented.

Compared with other GEO tools Daily interval, self-service and bot requests. Website crawl and rankings are missing.

Otterly.AI

AI visibility tool from Austria with a small entry point. Measures mentions and cited links and checks individual pages in the GEO audit.

ApproachNo crawl, prompts daily, audits on demandMTWTFSS
Pricefrom $29 per month
DataAWS Frankfurt, monitoring data USA

Strengths

  • ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Copilot run daily in every plan. AI Mode, Gemini and Claude are available as add-ons.
  • GEO audits check the crawlability of individual pages; Agent Analytics counts bot requests from the Standard plan.
  • Public prices from $29 per month, API and MCP from Standard.

Limits

  • 15 prompts in the smallest plan. Additional engines cost extra per plan.
  • According to the security page, public monitoring data is stored in the USA.

Good fit for Marketing teams and agencies who want to start on a small budget.

Details on Otterly.AI
Price
Public, in US dollars. Lite $29 with 15 prompts, Standard $189 with 100, Premium $489 with 400 prompts per month, 15% cheaper with annual payment. Enterprise from 1,000 prompts. From the Standard plan, 100 extra prompts cost $99.
Specific to Otterly.AI
GEO audits as a quota, 1,000 to 10,000 per month.
Security
Software on AWS in Frankfurt, public monitoring data in the USA. GDPR, DPA on request, SSO via SAML in the Enterprise plan. Otterly only names certificates for the AWS data centers.

Compared with other GEO tools Low-cost entry and a daily interval. Otterly only checks the website page by page in the audit, without ongoing monitoring.

Scrunch

US platform for AI visibility with many prompts per plan. Measures citations and requests from AI agents to the website.

ApproachNo crawl, prompts at a fixed intervalMTWTFSS
Pricefrom $250 per month
Datanot stated

Strengths

  • Seven engines in every plan, with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, AI Overviews and Meta.
  • 350 custom prompts in the smallest plan, plus 1,000 industry prompts.
  • Citations and agent traffic in all plans, plus page audits for 5 or 10 pages depending on the plan.

Limits

  • The pricing page does not state interval, data location or certifications.
  • Data API only in the Enterprise plan.

Good fit for Brands that want to measure many prompts in many engines at a fixed price.

Details on Scrunch
Price
Public, in US dollars. Starter $250 per month with annual payment ($300 monthly), Growth $417 ($500), Enterprise individually priced. 7-day trial in Starter.
Specific to Scrunch
Industry prompts in addition to your own prompts.
Security
Google SSO in all plans, SAML and OIDC in the Enterprise plan. Data location and certifications not stated.

Compared with other GEO tools Many engines and prompts even in the entry plan. Website technology and rankings are missing.

SISTRIX

SEO suite from Bonn, Germany, with a visibility index. AI Check, Prompt Tracking and Prompt Research run as a beta and are currently included in all packages.

ApproachWeekly crawl, rankings, prompts dailyMTWTFSS
Pricein the packages from €119
DataEU data centers

Strengths

  • Currently at no extra cost, from €119 per month with 9,300 prompt updates.
  • Sources by URL, hostname and domain. Up to nine competitors can be set per project.
  • Prompt Research and visibility index in the same tool, data in EU data centers.

Limits

  • The AI page names AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT and Perplexity, the manual only three of them.
  • Beta, with pricing to follow later as a possibility. AI-specific technical checks are not documented.

Good fit for Teams who already use SISTRIX and want to measure AI visibility without another tool.

Details on SISTRIX
Price
Public, excl. VAT. Start €119, Plus €239, Professional €419, Premium €799 per month, with 9,300 to 139,500 prompt updates. One update is one prompt in one model.
Specific to SISTRIX
Visibility index with an AI share and its own keyword database.
Security
Servers exclusively in EU data centers certified to ISO/IEC 27001, core systems operated in-house. The site does not name a certificate for SISTRIX itself or a DPA. SSO via SAML, two-factor login, no AI training with customer data.

Compared with other GEO tools Many prompt updates at the package price and a German provider. Bot requests, llms.txt and ongoing website monitoring are missing.

Semrush

SEO suite, part of Adobe since April 2026. The AI Visibility Toolkit is available on its own or in the Semrush One plans.

ApproachPrompts daily, plus Site AuditMTWTFSS
PriceToolkit from $99 per month
DataUSA

Strengths

  • Daily Prompt Tracking, share of voice in Brand Performance.
  • Prompt Research and competitor comparison in AI answers.
  • Site Audit with AI checks for at most 100 pages.

Limits

  • Prompt Tracking in the toolkit only in ChatGPT and Google AI Mode, 25 prompts.
  • No trial for the toolkit. Additional users cost $99 each.

Good fit for Teams who already use Semrush and want a first look at AI answers.

Details on Semrush
Price
Public, in US dollars. Toolkit $99 per month with 25 prompts, 50 more prompts $60. In Semrush One, 50 prompts in Starter and 100 in Pro+, more in Advanced.
Specific to Semrush
AI data alongside keyword and backlink databases in one contract.
Security
Data centers in the USA, PCI DSS Level 1. SSO via SAML is enabled by support, data processing via a Data Processing Addendum. The security page does not mention SOC 2 or ISO 27001.

Compared with other GEO tools Low-cost entry in a well-known suite, with few prompts and two engines.

Ahrefs Brand Radar

AI module of the Ahrefs SEO suite with a large prompt database and custom prompts.

ApproachPrompts at a freely selectable intervalMTWTFSS
Pricefrom €47 per month
DataAWS, region not named

Strengths

  • Six engines, plus Claude in the AI Visibility Index.
  • Database with over 481 million prompts per month.
  • Custom prompts daily, weekly or monthly, with cited pages.

Limits

  • Billing via checks per prompt, engine and update. All engines together cost €654 per month.
  • llms.txt is not documented. Bot Analytics for AI crawlers is currently in beta.

Good fit for Teams who use Ahrefs and want to compare AI visibility with market data.

Details on Ahrefs Brand Radar
Price
Public, in euros. Custom prompts from €47 per month, according to the provider at no extra cost in paid plans from Lite. AI Visibility Index from €179 per month with 83 prompts daily.
Specific to Ahrefs Brand Radar
Prompt database with volumes per engine.
Security
Hosted on AWS, region not named. Data processing with EU standard contractual clauses. According to Ahrefs, SOC 2 is in progress; SSO via SAML is available in the Enterprise plan.

Compared with other GEO tools Large database and a freely selectable interval. The technical basis of the website is missing.

Conductor

US platform for SEO and AI search. AI visibility is part of Conductor Intelligence, technical monitoring part of Conductor Monitoring.

ApproachPrompts at a selectable interval, monitoring separateMTWTFSS
Pricenot public
DataData center not named

Strengths

  • Nine engines, interval per topic daily, weekly or monthly. Conductor also counts citations of your website per subfolder.
  • With Conductor Monitoring, the platform also checks the website, the robots.txt every 5 minutes.
  • ISO 27001, ISO 42001 and SOC 2 Type II, MCP server and Data API.

Limits

  • No public prices. AI queries use AI Search Credits; according to the pricing page, Essentials and Growth each include 2,500 per year.
  • According to the provider, a daily interval increases credit consumption significantly.

Good fit for Enterprise teams that want SEO, AI visibility, content and monitoring from one suite.

Details on Conductor
Price
Not public, billed by usage. Packages Essentials, Growth and Enterprise, AI queries via AI Search Credits. 21-day trial.
Specific to Conductor
Apps for ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot with the Conductor data.
Security
ISO 27001, ISO 42001, SOC 2 Type II, DPA, SSO from Growth. Conductor does not name the data center location.

Compared with other GEO tools Many engines and a whole suite, billed via credits. Prices only in a conversation.

Comparison at a glance

At the top are the capabilities around AI visibility, below them data, interfaces and getting started. Hover over a cell or tap it to see what the rating is based on.

AI engines by defaultHow many engines are included at no extra cost?
IntervalHow often do the prompts run?
Public pricesCan you see in advance what it costs?
Sources and citationsCan you see which pages the answers cite?
CompetitorsComparison with other brands, share of voice?
Prompt researchIs there data on what people ask AI tools?
Technical basisrobots.txt for AI bots, llms.txt, crawlability?
AI bots on the websiteAre requests from AI bots analyzed?
Website monitoringDoes the tool monitor the whole website?
Rankings and Search ConsoleClassic SEO data in the same tool?
Data and getting started
Data and securityCertification, data location, DPA?
API and MCPCan you get to the data via API or MCP?
Try it yourselfIs there a self-service trial?
AI engines included: Partial. ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode. More engines can be added.
Frequency: Partial. Weekly. Daily queries are available as an option.
Public pricing: Yes. Add-on from €199 per month with 300 prompts, only together with SEO Monitoring, together from €598 per month.
Sources and citations: Yes. Cited sources and domains, and whether the engines find and cite your website. Plus a work list of the sources that AI answers cite for competitors but not for you.
Competitors: Yes. Share of voice, sentiment, recommendation rate and prominence per competitor, plus the prompts in which a competitor is recommended and you are not.
Prompt research: No. No database of real AI prompts. The prompts are created from your keywords and their search volume, plus your own specifications.
Technical foundation: Yes. robots.txt every 15 minutes with an overview of which AI bot may fetch what, llms.txt Monitoring once a day with alerts by email, Slack, Teams or webhook, every URL rendered in the crawl. Part of SEO Monitoring.
AI bots on the website: Yes. Log file analysis as an add-on from €199 per month, also for AI bots, with verification of genuine bots.
Website monitoring: Yes. A complete crawl every week, Page Watch checks the most important pages continuously.
Rankings and Search Console: Yes. Search Console in the project, Rank Tracking as an add-on from €99 per month.
Data and security: Yes. ISO/IEC 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type 2, project data in the EU (Google Cloud), no AI training with customer data. No SSO.
API and MCP: Partial. MCP server and AI assistant. The MCP server reads the project's data and cannot change anything. No public API.
Try it yourself: No. No self-service trial. Entry via a demo with Michael.
AI engines included: Yes. Up to nine engines in the Enterprise plan, three in the trial.
Frequency: Yes. Daily, in the trial for 7 days.
Public pricing: No. Enterprise prices individual. Only the free trial is public.
Sources and citations: Yes. Citation Analytics with the sources across all answers.
Competitors: Yes. Comparison with competitors in the industry.
Prompt research: Yes. Prompt Volumes, according to the provider from real conversations.
Technical foundation: Not documented. Not described on the pages we checked.
AI bots on the website: Yes. Agent Analytics with connections to Cloudflare, Akamai, AWS, Fastly, Vercel and others.
Website monitoring: No. Does not crawl the website.
Rankings and Search Console: No. No rank tracking.
Data and security: Partial. SOC 2 and SSO in the Enterprise plan. Data location not stated.
API and MCP: Partial. API in the Enterprise plan. An MCP server is not mentioned on the pages we checked.
Try it yourself: Yes. Free for 7 days, 50 prompts, three engines.
AI engines included: Partial. Three models of your choice, more in the Enterprise plan.
Frequency: Yes. Daily, according to the documentation.
Public pricing: Yes. €85 to €425 per month with 50 to 350 prompts, Enterprise individual.
Sources and citations: Yes. Sources down to the individual page, with citation share and classification of the source.
Competitors: Yes. Visibility, position, sentiment and share of voice compared with selected competitors, daily.
Prompt research: Partial. Prompt suggestions, prompts from keywords and a relative demand per prompt on a scale from 1 to 5. A database with search volumes is not described.
Technical foundation: Partial. A crawlability audit shows which of more than 40 bots the robots.txt allows. llms.txt is not described.
AI bots on the website: Yes. AI bot requests per page with status code, via Cloudflare, AWS, Vercel, Akamai, webhook or CSV upload. In all plans, with a monthly quota per plan (as of November 4, 2026).
Website monitoring: No. Does not crawl the website.
Rankings and Search Console: No. No rank tracking.
Data and security: Not documented. DPA linked, SSO in the Enterprise plan. Certifications and data location are not documented.
API and MCP: Yes. API and MCP server.
Try it yourself: Yes. Trial via the pricing page; Peec AI does not state the duration there.
AI engines included: Yes. ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Copilot. AI Mode, Gemini and Claude at extra cost.
Frequency: Yes. Daily in all plans.
Public pricing: Yes. $29 to $489 per month, add-ons with prices.
Sources and citations: Yes. Shows the cited links and brands.
Competitors: Yes. Shows which brands are cited.
Prompt research: Not documented. The vendor makes no public statement on this.
Technical foundation: Partial. GEO audits check the crawlability of individual pages. Ongoing monitoring of robots.txt or llms.txt is not described.
AI bots on the website: Partial. Agent Analytics from the Standard plan.
Website monitoring: No. Checks individual pages in the audit, without ongoing monitoring.
Rankings and Search Console: No. No rank tracking.
Data and security: Partial. Software on AWS in Frankfurt, public monitoring data in the USA. DPA on request, certificates only for the data centers.
API and MCP: Yes. API and MCP from the Standard plan.
Try it yourself: Yes. Trial for new users; the pricing page does not state the duration.
AI engines included: Yes. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, AI Overviews and Meta in every plan.
Frequency: Not documented. The pricing page does not state the interval.
Public pricing: Yes. $250 to $417 per month with annual payment.
Sources and citations: Yes. Citations in all plans.
Competitors: Not documented. The vendor makes no public statement on this.
Prompt research: Partial. 1,000 to 2,500 industry prompts per plan; a database with volumes is not described.
Technical foundation: Partial. Page audits for 5 or 10 pages depending on the plan. robots.txt and llms.txt are not described.
AI bots on the website: Yes. Agent traffic in all plans.
Website monitoring: No. Page audits check individual pages, 5 or 10 depending on the plan.
Rankings and Search Console: No. No rank tracking.
Data and security: Not documented. The pricing page does not state data location or certifications.
API and MCP: Partial. Data API in the Enterprise plan.
Try it yourself: Yes. 7-day trial in the Starter plan, without a credit card.
AI engines included: Yes. The AI page names AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT and Perplexity, the manual three of them.
Frequency: Yes. Daily according to the manual, weekly depending on the setting.
Public pricing: Yes. Included in the packages from €119 per month, currently at no extra cost.
Sources and citations: Yes. Sources by URL, hostname and domain.
Competitors: Yes. Up to nine defined competitors per project, plus all brands that appear in the answers.
Prompt research: Yes. Prompt Research with its own database.
Technical foundation: Not documented. On-page crawler weekly. AI-specific checks are not mentioned on the AI page.
AI bots on the website: Not documented. Not described for the AI section.
Website monitoring: Partial. On-page crawler weekly, without ongoing change monitoring.
Rankings and Search Console: Yes. Daily rankings and visibility index.
Data and security: Partial. Servers in EU data centers with ISO/IEC 27001. The site does not name a certificate for SISTRIX itself or a DPA.
API and MCP: Yes. MCP server for all users, API limited from Plus, full from Professional.
Try it yourself: Yes. 14-day trial for the Start and Plus packages.
AI engines included: Partial. Prompt Tracking in the toolkit only in ChatGPT and Google AI Mode.
Frequency: Yes. Prompt Tracking daily, Brand Performance weekly.
Public pricing: Yes. Toolkit $99 per month with 25 prompts.
Sources and citations: Not documented. Not described on the toolkit documentation page we checked.
Competitors: Yes. Share of voice in Brand Performance, weekly.
Prompt research: Yes. Prompt Research in the toolkit.
Technical foundation: Partial. Site Audit with AI checks for at most 100 pages.
AI bots on the website: Not documented. Not described for the toolkit.
Website monitoring: Partial. Site Audit in the Semrush plans, not in the toolkit alone.
Rankings and Search Console: Yes. Position Tracking in the Semrush plans.
Data and security: Partial. Data centers in the USA, SSO via SAML through support. SOC 2 or ISO 27001 are not mentioned on the security page.
API and MCP: Yes. MCP server from the Starter plan.
Try it yourself: No. There is no trial for the toolkit.
AI engines included: Yes. Six engines, plus Claude in the AI Visibility Index. Checks are charged per engine.
Frequency: Yes. Daily, weekly or monthly, selectable.
Public pricing: Yes. Custom prompts from €47 per month, at no extra cost in paid plans from Lite. AI Visibility Index from €179.
Sources and citations: Yes. Cited pages per prompt.
Competitors: Yes. Comparison of your own brand with competitors.
Prompt research: Yes. Database with over 481 million prompts per month.
Technical foundation: Not documented. Not described for Brand Radar.
AI bots on the website: Yes. Bot Analytics in Brand Radar shows which AI crawlers fetch your pages, currently as a free beta.
Website monitoring: Partial. Site Audit in the Ahrefs plans, not in Brand Radar alone.
Rankings and Search Console: Yes. Rank Tracker in the Ahrefs plans.
Data and security: Partial. Hosted on AWS, region not named. According to Ahrefs, SOC 2 is in progress.
API and MCP: Yes. MCP server from the Lite plan, billed via API units.
Try it yourself: Not documented. The vendor makes no public statement on this.
AI engines included: Yes. Nine engines, billed via AI Search Credits.
Frequency: Yes. Daily, weekly or monthly per topic. Daily uses significantly more credits.
Public pricing: No. No public prices, billing via credits.
Sources and citations: Yes. Counts citations of your website in the answers, also per subfolder.
Competitors: Yes. Market share and competitors in Conductor Intelligence.
Prompt research: Not documented. The vendor makes no public statement on this.
Technical foundation: Partial. Conductor Monitoring checks the robots.txt every 5 minutes. llms.txt is not documented.
AI bots on the website: Not documented. Not described for AI visibility.
Website monitoring: Partial. With its own product, Conductor Monitoring.
Rankings and Search Console: Yes. Rank tracking in Conductor Intelligence.
Data and security: Yes. ISO 27001, ISO 42001, SOC 2 Type II, DPA. Contracting party and hosting provider for Monitoring in the Netherlands, data center not named.
API and MCP: Yes. MCP server and Data API.
Try it yourself: Yes. 21-day trial.

Yes: included in the product, also as an add-on. Anything that costs extra is stated in the cell. · Partial: only part of it or only in certain plans. · No: not available. · Not documented: the vendor makes no public statement on this. What is rated is the providers' AI offering. For SISTRIX, Semrush, Ahrefs and Conductor, the cell says when a capability is only part of the rest of the package.

A combination often fits. If you need many engines every day, take a specialist. If you want to know whether the website is reachable for AI bots, you also need a tool that checks robots.txt, llms.txt and bot requests.

What searchVIU does not replace

Other tools on this page cover these points better. If one of them matters to you, a specialist fits better or complements searchVIU.

Many engines every day

By default, searchVIU queries ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode once a week. More engines and daily queries are available as an option. Profound, Conductor and Scrunch measure seven to nine engines, many tools daily.

Data on real AI prompts

searchVIU derives the prompts from your keywords and your own specifications. How often a topic comes up in AI chats is shown by Profound, Ahrefs, SISTRIX and Semrush, and by Peec AI as relative demand per prompt.

Trying it without a conversation

You start searchVIU with a demo. Profound, SISTRIX and Conductor have a self-service trial.

Content and AI marketing

searchVIU does not write content. Profound has an agent for this, Conductor a content writer.

German interface and SSO

The searchVIU interface is in English, and there is no SSO. Consulting is available in German and English.

Frequently asked questions

What is a GEO tool?
A tool that regularly queries AI engines such as ChatGPT, Gemini or Google AI Mode with fixed prompts. It shows whether your brand is mentioned, in which position, in what tone and which sources the answers cite. Some tools also check whether AI bots are allowed to fetch your pages and actually do so.
Which tools show which sources AI answers cite?
Profound, Peec AI, Otterly.AI, Scrunch, SISTRIX, Ahrefs Brand Radar, Conductor and searchVIU show the cited pages or domains. Peec AI and SISTRIX break this down to the individual URL, Conductor also counts citations per subfolder. searchVIU also lists the sources that AI answers cite for competitors but not for you. And searchVIU shows whether the engines find and cite your own website.
Measure daily or weekly?
A daily interval shows fluctuations earlier, but costs more with many providers. For trends over weeks, a weekly interval is often enough if enough prompts are running.
Is the AI module of my SEO suite enough?
For a first overview, often yes. SISTRIX currently includes its AI features at no extra cost, Semrush and Ahrefs offer their own modules. The specialists usually measure more engines and show more detail on sources and competitors.
How much does a GEO tool cost?
Public entry prices start at $29 per month (Otterly.AI). Peec AI starts at €85 per month, or €70 with annual payment. Scrunch costs from $250 per month with annual payment. The AI modules of the SEO suites cost from €47 (Ahrefs) or $99 (Semrush); at SISTRIX the features are currently included in the package. Profound and Conductor only state prices in a conversation. At searchVIU, AI visibility costs from €199 per month. You add it to SEO Monitoring from €399, so together from €598 per month.
Does a GEO tool also check whether AI bots are allowed to fetch my website?
Only a few do. searchVIU checks the robots.txt every 15 minutes per AI bot and the llms.txt once a day, both as part of SEO Monitoring. Peec AI checks the robots.txt in its audit, Otterly.AI, Scrunch and Semrush check individual pages. Profound, Peec AI, Scrunch, Otterly.AI (from the Standard plan) and Ahrefs (Bot Analytics, beta) analyze which bots actually come by.

How we compared

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