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The market, mapped: nine tools, with published prices →
There are good AI-visibility tools out there, most are monthly subscriptions built for marketers tracking many brands. We are built for the business owner who wants an answer, a fix plan, and their evenings back. Here's the honest comparison (as at August 2026).
They're real, and you should use them. Google Search Console is rolling out a generative-AI performance report (your impressions inside AI Overviews and AI Mode), and Bing Webmaster Tools now shows how Copilot cites you, with Citation Share in preview. Connect both. What they can never show you: whether you were in the answer at all. Google and Bing tell you when AI sent you traffic; we show whether you were named in the saved AI answers, which competitor took your spot, the exact words AI used, and the fix. First-party dashboards report your own pages. The decision happens in the comparison, and the comparison is what we measure.
They're real too, and for the right person they're excellent. Lettertrace (MIT-licensed, launched August 2026) tracks mentions across five engines on a bring-your-own-key model: you create provider API keys, curate the prompts, pay the token bill and self-host or use their instance. If you're a developer, genuinely consider it. The trade is the same one this whole page is about: a BYOK tool hands you the tracking lever and stops. No inferred buyer questions, no registry-verified identity, no multi-sample majority voting, and no fix at the end. Our free scan asks for none of that setup, and the paid tiers exist because the fix, not the chart, is the product.
| Are you found by AI? | Typical subscription tracker | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | The business owner or founder: a verdict, the receipts, and a fix plan; and the agency running many of them from one console. | Marketing teams & agencies who run tracking as a job |
| Setup | Nothing to configure: the scan reads your site and infers the real buyer questions itself | You supply SEO keywords, then review auto-generated prompt lists before anything runs |
| Entry | Free scan, no signup, no card: real engine answers in ~60s | Trial or demo, card usually required |
| Pricing | Free scan; Pro, 14-day free trial, then US$79 a month per site | US$49–99+/month, forever |
| Measurement | Each question asked several times per engine: reported as "named in 2 of 6 asks", never a single-run tick | Usually single-run sampling |
| Proof | The receipts: every AI answer quoted verbatim, your name highlighted, position stated honestly | Scores and dashboards, answers rarely shown in full |
| Market context | Public live index: 21+ industry leaderboards across three countries, growing nightly | Private per-account data only |
| Local depth (AU) | ABN registry verification, suburb & region visibility map, Google Business Profile signals | Generally global/US-centric |
| Deliverable | A living report: re-renders with every product improvement, plus copy-paste schema and llms.txt | Dashboard access while you keep paying |
When a subscription tracker is the better fit: you need historical trend lines across many markets from day one, or you want screenshots of Google's AI Overviews interface today. For agencies, one link runs your whole client list under your logo, every client re-measured weekly, and each person on your team gets a scoped key so their AI reads only the clients they run; ask for an agency rate. One more honesty note: a tracker that asks each question once a week is reading a coin flip, because AI answers wobble from ask to ask, which is why we ask every question several times and majority-vote it.