ChatGPT SEO tools come in three kinds: free platform tools for crawling and indexing, trackers that count how often AI mentions you, and tools that do the work. supereo is our pick, because it does the work.
The short answer, by what you need
Getting cited by ChatGPT takes five steps: crawler access, indexing, the right pages, a place on the lists ChatGPT reads, and measuring. Indexing is free in Bing Webmaster Tools and Search Console, so this table covers the other four. "Not found" means the tool's own pages that we read don't describe it.
| Tool | Crawler access | Page work | Lists | Measuring | From / month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| supereo ours | Which AI crawlers read which pages, via Cloudflare or Vercel | What to change on each page; Autopilot ships fixes and new pages, each with an Undo | Autopilot finds the lists AI cites and pitches you onto them | Recommendation rate with its range; each change tested against control questions | $149 |
| Cloudflare AI Crawl Control | Allow or block each crawler; robots.txt violations | Not found | Not found | Crawler requests | Free |
| Profound | Agent Analytics on AI crawler traffic | Agents write and publish content, with approval | AI Marketer proposes publisher pitches | Visibility Score | 7-day trial, then custom |
| Peec AI | Not found | Recommended actions; in-app agent | Not found | Visibility Score | $95 |
| Otterly.AI | GEO audits with crawlability checks | Recommendations | Not found | Brand Coverage | $29 |
| SE Visible | Not found | Recommendations; agents in beta | Not found | Visibility | $89 |
| Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit | AI-ready site audit | Content guidance in the wider suite | Not found | AI Visibility Score | $199 |
| Ahrefs Brand Radar | Not found | Not found | Not found | Mentions, share of voice | $50 prompt pack |
| Scrunch | Site audits | Page-by-page action plan; Agent Pages on Enterprise | Not found | Brand presence | $250 |
| AthenaHQ | Not found | Content optimization agent | Off-page actions | Share of Voice | Free, then $295 |
| Writesonic | Site audits | AI articles; Action Center trial | Off-page actions in Action Center | AI Visibility | $79, yearly |
From each vendor's pricing page and docs, read November 8, 2026. Profound's Agents and AI Marketer are on Enterprise; brands can buy only the free trial online. Semrush's price is its SEO + AI Search Starter plan.
Most of these tools lead with one number, and they don't count the same thing. Here's each headline metric in the vendor's own words. Most count mentions: a name anywhere in the answer, often one of several.
| Tool | Headline metric | The vendor's definition |
|---|---|---|
| supereo ours | Recommendation rate | The share of answers to your buyers' questions that recommend you, with its range; each answer is also judged mentioned or cited |
| Profound | Visibility Score | "The percentage of responses that mention your brand, out of all responses that mention at least one brand." |
| Peec AI | Visibility Score | "measures the percentage of AI responses that mention your brand." |
| Otterly.AI | Brand Coverage | "Percentage of prompts that mention my brand compared to all prompts" |
| SE Visible | Visibility | Mentions weighted by their position in the answer |
| Semrush | AI Visibility Score | "how often your brand is mentioned in AI-generated answers compared to the median number of mentions for your top industry competitors." |
| Ahrefs Brand Radar | Mentions | "A single mention is counted when a brand appears at least once in an AI generated response." |
| Scrunch | Brand presence | "Percentage of responses in which your brand was mentioned." |
| AthenaHQ | Share of Voice | "The percentage of mentions your brand receives compared to all brands." |
| Rankscale | Visibility Score | "aggregate 0-100 score on a prompt variation or prompt group." |
| Writesonic | AI Visibility | "The percentage of tracked AI-generated answers where your brand is mentioned" |
From each vendor's docs, read November 8 and 9, 2026: Profound, Peec AI, Otterly.AI, SE Visible, Semrush, Ahrefs, Scrunch, AthenaHQ, Rankscale, Writesonic.
The difference matters because a typical answer names several brands. When supereo asked the engines for the best AEO tools on November 7, 2026, the typical answer named six. A mention count rises when you're one of six; a recommendation rate rises when the answer picks you.
Public posts from people who used these tools, word for word and linked, complaints first. They're individual posts, not reviews or ratings. Where a tool here answers the concern, the reply says how.
“Implementation is impossible. It tracks the source, but gives zero actionable strategy on how to restructure content to get cited.”u/FeelingRequirement19 on r/DigitalMarketing · Nov 30, 2025 · Read the post
What helpssupereo's Copilot gives you the change for each gap, with the evidence and the wording to use, and Autopilot ships it.
“Honestly as a solo founder its hard to keep my subscription going with Profound, it’s pricey and the starter plan only gave me access to monitor only no action plan…”u/simao23 on r/LLMTraffic · Apr 24, 2026 · Read the post
What helpssupereo's $149 plan comes with the action plan: what to change on each page, with the evidence and the wording.
“After trying the big players like peec or otterly, Ive come to the conclusion that the price of these tools is ridiculous. Im not paying $250 to get more prompts.”u/Biffxs on r/SEO · Oct 12, 2026 · Read the post
What helpsPer tracked prompt, SE Visible Basic is the cheapest plan here, $89 for 75; Otterly.AI Lite is the cheapest way in, at $29. supereo tracks up to 40 questions on all six engines, Claude included, and does the work on them.
“The insights are generic and non-deterministic (run the same prompt twice, get different results).”u/Own-Description1939 on r/OtterlyAI · Jan 21, 2026 · Read the post
What helpsAnswers do vary between runs. supereo asks every question again and again and reports each rate with its range, so one odd run doesn't move the number.
“I would be highly skeptical of a searchable index like Ahrefs Brand Radar. For multiple clients where I tested it, the data made absolutely zero sense.”u/AdSimilar2942 on r/GEO_optimization · Oct 10, 2026 · Read the post
What helpssupereo writes your buyers' questions from your own site rather than reading a shared prompt database, and you can edit them.
“With Athena I find the credit-based pricing for AI responses a bit confusing.”u/oh_kayeee on r/SEO_LLM · Apr 23, 2026 · Read the post
What helpssupereo is a flat price per brand each month.
“Ahrefs Brand Radar is useful if you're already paying for Ahrefs, but it's bolted on rather than built around this problem.”u/caffeinemojo on r/aeo · Oct 27, 2026 · Read the post
supereo is an AI agent for AI visibility. It works out the questions your buyers ask ChatGPT and the other engines, tracks how often each one recommends you, and works on the pages until the answers name you. On Copilot it tells you exactly what to change on each page, with the evidence and the wording, and shows which AI crawlers read which pages once you connect Cloudflare or Vercel. On Autopilot, its higher plan, with more questions, it ships the fixes and new pages itself, each with an Undo, on WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, Wix, Framer, Next.js and Astro sites, and pitches you onto the lists AI cites. Every change gets a test registered before it goes live: 10 target questions it should move and 10 control questions it shouldn't, with a verdict in 45 to 60 days. The MCP server lets you run it from Claude or ChatGPT.
Best for teams that want to be cited and recommended, not handed another dashboard.
If your site runs through Cloudflare, this is where you see which AI crawlers request your pages, how many requests were allowed or unsuccessful, and which crawlers break your robots.txt, and where you allow or block each one. Check it first: Cloudflare's AI policies can block ChatGPT's crawlers without an error, as step 1 of the main guide explains. Cloudflare docs
Best for confirming OAI-SearchBot actually gets through.
Bing is a search partner OpenAI names for ChatGPT, and Bing Webmaster Tools is where you submit your sitemap. Its AI Performance report counts "Total Citations" and "Average Cited Pages" across "Microsoft Copilot, AI-generated summaries in Bing, and select partner integrations", with the grounding queries the AI used to find you. Bing's announcement
Best for getting indexed in Bing and seeing Copilot citations.
Indexing for Google, which supplies many of the outside results ChatGPT reads, plus the Generative AI performance report, rolled out to every site on August 31, 2026, which counts "how many times links to your site were shown" in AI Overviews and AI Mode. Google's help page
Best for Google's AI features and for indexing.
Tracks ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot, with AI Mode, Gemini and Claude as paid add-ons. Lite is $29 a month for 15 prompts; Standard, $189 for 100 prompts, adds API and MCP access and GEO audits that check pages for crawlability and content. Otterly pricing
Best for the cheapest start with ChatGPT included.
SE Ranking's AI tracker. Basic is $89 a month for 75 prompts on ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini and Copilot, with API and MCP access on every plan; Claude tracking is on the $399 Agency plan. SE Visible pricing
Best for the most tracked prompts per dollar.
Starter is $95 a month for 50 prompts on three models you choose, with unlimited users and MCP on every plan, plus recommended actions and an in-app agent. Pro, $245, adds the API. Peec pricing
Best for a clean tracker the whole team can use.
The enterprise platform: up to nine answer engines on Enterprise, Agent Analytics for AI crawler traffic, and agents that write and publish content with an approval step. Brands can start a free 7-day trial online (50 prompts a day on ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews); Enterprise is priced on a call. Profound pricing
Best for large brands buying through sales.
AI visibility inside Semrush's SEO plans. The SEO + AI Search Starter plan is $199 a month for 50 prompts tracked daily, an AI-ready site audit and MCP access. Its pages name ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini "& more". Semrush pricing
Best for teams already doing SEO in Semrush.
Research any brand across Ahrefs' index of more than 542 million prompts from $199 a month, or track your own prompts from $50 a month (2,500 checks, about 80 prompts a day on one platform). Tracking and research only. Ahrefs pricing
Best for researching competitors' AI presence.
Core is $250 a month for 125 prompts on ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews and Copilot, with five site audits a month. Enterprise adds its Agent Experience Platform, which serves AI agents a version of your site. Scrunch pricing
Best for brands that want to serve AI agents a separate site.
Bills in credits, one per AI response. A free plan includes 300 credits; Starter is $295 a month for 3,600 credits across 11 models, with a content optimization agent and on-page and off-page actions. AthenaHQ pricing
Best for tracking many models from one account.
AI visibility bundled with AI writing. Starter is $79 a month billed yearly for 50 prompts tracked daily on ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews, 15 AI articles a month and site audits. Its Action Center for on-page and off-page actions comes as a trial on Growth and in full on Enterprise. Writesonic pricing
Best for small content teams that want articles and tracking together.
supereo, if you want the work done: it tells you what to change on each page, ships fixes and new pages on Autopilot, pitches the lists ChatGPT reads and tests every change against control questions. For the groundwork, Cloudflare AI Crawl Control, Bing Webmaster Tools and Google Search Console are free. For tracking alone, Otterly.AI and SE Visible are the cheapest.
Yes. Cloudflare AI Crawl Control shows whether ChatGPT's crawlers reach your site, Bing Webmaster Tools gets you into Bing, and supereo's free audit shows how six engines, ChatGPT included, answer 20 of your buyers' questions, with no card.
The ones that change what AI reads: supereo, which ships page fixes and gets you onto the lists AI cites; and the free crawl and indexing tools, which make sure ChatGPT can read you at all. Trackers tell you whether it worked.
A tool can't make ChatGPT cite you, but it can do what makes citation likely: open the crawler path, fix the pages ChatGPT reads, and place you on the lists it cites. Check any tool's claims against a test with control questions, which supereo runs for every change.
No. Visibility counts mentions, and most trackers above lead with it. Being recommended means the answer tells the buyer to pick you; supereo leads with that rate, with its range.
Prices and plan limits come from each vendor's pricing page and docs on November 8, 2026, and metric definitions from their docs on November 8 and 9. "Not found" means the vendor's own pages we read don't describe a feature. We didn't run hands-on tests of these tools. Posts are quoted word for word and linked. Full method.