AI visibility tools Google AI Mode recommends
Across 40 buying questions asked in Google's AI Mode on Mon, Wed, Fri (Nov 12 to Nov 12, 2026), Google AI Mode recommended Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Semrush, Ahrefs Brand Radar, and Profound most often, statistically tied: Otterly.AI in 32 of 40.
First answers: 1 day so far. This shows who Google AI Mode names, not yet an order: it answers differently from day to day, so a ranking needs about two weeks of answers to read and 28 days to settle (around December 9).
Who made this: Askadia makes an AI visibility tracker, one of the products in this list. We publish this from our own measurements: no product pays to be listed or can opt out, and no one here moves a product by hand. Askadia is listed only where Google AI Mode names it, counted like everyone else and marked "(us)".
| # | Product | Recommended in | 95% range | Top pick in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 tied | Otterly.AI | 32 of 40 questions | 65–90% | 1 of 40 |
| 1 tied | Peec AI | 30 of 40 questions | 60–86% | 0 of 40 |
| 1 tied | Semrush | 26 of 40 questions | 50–78% | 0 of 40 |
| 1 tied | Ahrefs Brand Radar | 24 of 40 questions | 45–74% | 0 of 40 |
| 1 tied | Profound | 20 of 40 questions | 35–65% | 2 of 40 |
| 6 tied | ZipTie | 13 of 40 questions | 20–48% | 0 of 40 |
| 6 tied | Scrunch | 9 of 40 questions | 12–38% | 0 of 40 |
| 6 tied | Similarweb | 8 of 40 questions | 10–35% | 0 of 40 |
| 6 tied | Evertune | 5 of 40 questions | 5–26% | 0 of 40 |
| 6 tied | SE Ranking | 5 of 40 questions | 5–26% | 0 of 40 |
| 6 tied | Slate | 4 of 40 questions | 4–23% | 0 of 40 |
| 6 tied | Petra Labs | 4 of 40 questions | 4–23% | 0 of 40 |
| 6 tied | Searchable | 3 of 40 questions | 3–20% | 2 of 40 |
| 6 tied | Goodie AI | 3 of 40 questions | 3–20% | 0 of 40 |
| 6 tied | Google Search Console | 3 of 40 questions | 3–20% | 0 of 40 |
| 6 tied | Writesonic | 3 of 40 questions | 3–20% | 0 of 40 |
| 17 tied | ChatGPT | 2 of 40 questions | 1–17% | 0 of 40 |
| 17 tied | Conductor | 2 of 40 questions | 1–17% | 0 of 40 |
| 17 tied | AthenaHQ | 2 of 40 questions | 1–17% | 0 of 40 |
| 17 tied | Bing Webmaster Tools | 2 of 40 questions | 1–17% | 0 of 40 |
| 17 tied | HubSpot AEO | 2 of 40 questions | 1–17% | 0 of 40 |
| 17 tied | Llumo | 2 of 40 questions | 1–17% | 0 of 40 |
| 17 tied | Promptwatch | 2 of 40 questions | 1–17% | 0 of 40 |
| 17 tied | Rankscale | 2 of 40 questions | 1–17% | 0 of 40 |
| 17 tied | Semrush AI Search Visibility Checker | 1 of 40 questions | 0–13% | 1 of 40 |
| 17 tied | AI Visibility Optimizer for Claude | 1 of 40 questions | 0–13% | 0 of 40 |
| 17 tied | Cognizo.ai | 1 of 40 questions | 0–13% | 0 of 40 |
| 17 tied | Free AI Visibility Checker by Ahrefs | 1 of 40 questions | 0–13% | 0 of 40 |
| 17 tied | HubSpot | 1 of 40 questions | 0–13% | 0 of 40 |
| 17 tied | Radarkit | 1 of 40 questions | 0–13% | 0 of 40 |
Askadia (us): recommended in 0 of 40 questions. A product counts for a question when most of that question's answers recommend it (the top pick or an option, not named in passing); every question weighs the same. Counts, never a score. 45 more products named less often.
The questions
40 questions ranked, the same for every product, of 8 kinds (broad, use case, persona, company size, budget, integration, feature, and long ones with context). Each links to Google AI Mode's answers in full.
- 1 What are the best AI visibility tools? broad
- 2 What are the best LLM visibility tracking tools? broad
- 3 What are the best AEO and GEO tools? broad
- 4 What are the best tools to monitor how my brand shows up in AI search? broad
- 5 What's the best tool to track whether ChatGPT recommends my product? use case
- 6 Which tool shows which websites and pages ChatGPT cites when it answers questions in my industry? use case
- 7 What tool can compare my brand's share of voice against competitors in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini answers? use case
- 8 What's the best tool to track my brand's mentions in Google AI Overviews and AI Mode? use case
- 9 What tool can tell me why ChatGPT recommends my competitors instead of my product? use case
- 10 What's the best tool to monitor AI answers for wrong or outdated information about my company? use case
- 11 Which tool helps me find the prompts people actually ask AI assistants about my category? use case
- 12 What's the best AI visibility tool for a SaaS founder? persona
- 13 What's the best AI visibility tool for an SEO agency managing many clients? persona
- 14 What AI search visibility tool should an in-house SEO team use? persona
- 15 What's the best tool for a PR team to track brand mentions in ChatGPT and other AI assistants? persona
- 16 What's the best AI visibility tool for an ecommerce brand? persona
- 17 What's the best AI visibility tool for a content marketing team? persona
- 18 What's the best AI visibility tool for a small business? company size
- 19 What's the best AI visibility tool for a startup? company size
- 20 What AI visibility platform do enterprise brands use? company size
- 21 What's the best AI visibility tool for a mid-size B2B company? company size
- 22 Is there a free AI visibility checker? budget
- 23 What's a good AI visibility tracker for under $50 a month? budget
- 24 Which AI visibility tools can I sign up for without talking to sales? budget
- 25 Is there a free tool to check if ChatGPT mentions my brand? budget
- 26 Which AI visibility tool gives the best value for money? budget
- 27 Which AI visibility tools have an API? integration
- 28 Which AI visibility tools work with AI agents like Claude Code through MCP? integration
- 29 Which AI visibility tool integrates with Google Search Console and GA4? integration
- 30 What's the best white-label AI visibility tool for agencies? integration
- 31 Which SEO platforms have AI visibility tracking built in? integration
- 32 Which AI visibility tool tracks the most AI engines? feature
- 33 Which AI visibility tools show how often people search each prompt? feature
- 34 Which AI visibility tool tracks citations as well as brand mentions? feature
- 35 Which AI visibility tool tracks answers daily and keeps the history? feature
- 36 I run a B2B SaaS doing about $10k MRR, and customers keep telling us they found our competitors through ChatGPT. What tool can show me which questions ChatGPT answers without us, and why? long
- 37 I run a small SEO agency and clients are asking about AI search. I need to add AI visibility reporting to our retainers for about 15 clients without a huge budget. What tool should I use? long
- 38 We're a direct-to-consumer skincare brand selling on Shopify. How can we track whether ChatGPT and Google's AI Overviews recommend our products, and which tool is best for that? long
- 39 I'm the head of marketing at a 500-person software company. Leadership wants a monthly report on our visibility in AI search across ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity compared with three competitors. Which platform should we use? long
- 40 I'm a developer building internal tooling for our marketing team. I want to pull AI visibility data into our own dashboards and automate reports. Which AI visibility tool has the best API? long
Reported apart, not ranked, because naming a product in the question lifts the ones it names:
- What are the best Profound alternatives?
- What are the best Peec AI alternatives?
- Profound vs Peec AI: which is better?
- Semrush's AI toolkit vs Ahrefs Brand Radar: which is better for tracking AI visibility?
- Is there a cheaper alternative to Profound?
- Is Otterly.AI a good AI visibility tool?
How we measured this
- The questions: the 40 above, published before the first answer, written for how buyers of AI visibility tools ask, not around any product.
- The answers: asked in Google's AI Mode, logged out, from the US, a new chat each time, on Mon, Wed, Fri; one answer a question a day counts.
- The window: the last 28 days (Nov 12 to Nov 12, 2026).
- The count: a product counts for a question when most of its answers recommend it; the range is a 95% Wilson interval, and products whose ranges overlap share a place.
- The limits: another wording, an account or another country gets a different list; this is what Google AI Mode said to these questions, not a review of the products.
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Each product on its own buyers' questions
7 AI visibility tools, and how often Google AI Mode name each one when its buyers ask.
Each dot is a question: top pick mentioned not mentioned · a line per assistant, each counted on its own · tracked in public: the last 28 days
Counted in questions, never a score. Each product is asked the questions its own buyers ask, so it shows up more in its own than another would: compare how each assistant treats each product on its own buyers' questions, not one list. How we measure.
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