Disclosure SellOnLLM builds several products listed here. We still describe adjacent categories fairly because most teams need a stack, not one logo. Competitor pricing changes—verify on vendor sites before you buy.
TL;DR — pick by budget
| Budget | Start with | Skip for now |
|---|---|---|
| $0 | SellOnLLM free check, GSC/GA4, free Chrome page audit, llms.txt | Any paid GEO suite |
| Under $30/mo | SellOnLLM Unlimited (~$10) + Shopify AI app if you sell online | Enterprise “AI search OS” contracts |
| Mid-market+ | Otterly, Peec, Profound, etc. after you have a baseline and an owner for weekly action | Buying dashboards before fixing PDPs / entity clarity |
Head-to-heads: Otterly vs Peec · Otterly vs Profound · Peec vs Profound · Semrush vs Otterly · Semrush vs Peec · Scrunch vs Peec · SellOnLLM vs Otterly · SellOnLLM vs Peec · SellOnLLM vs Profound · Best for ecommerce.
How we evaluate “AI visibility” tools
Before comparing vendors, define what you are solving:
- Discovery & crawl health — can models and search engines retrieve clean HTML, stable canonicals, rich schema, and non-conflicting robots directives?
- Entity & trust clarity — is your brand, product line, and authorship machine-interpretable without marketing fluff only?
- Measurement — can you connect AI-influenced sessions, landing pages, and revenue hypotheses to analytics + Search Console evidence?
- Workflow — do specialists live in browser UIs, Slack, BI, or assistant environments like Claude projects?
- Depth of sampling — does the product actually hit an answer engine API (usually paid) or only approximate readiness heuristically?
For the strategic layer (not only vendor selection), start with our pillar: how to improve brand visibility in AI search engines.
Quick comparison by category
| Category | Primary job | Typical buyers |
|---|---|---|
| Search Console + GA4 | Ground truth for queries, landing URLs, rendering issues, conversion paths | Everyone—before buying extras |
| Enterprise SEO suites | Rank tracking, site audits, backlink indexes, content briefs at scale | Mid-market + enterprise growth teams |
| Technical / AEO crawlers | Schema, internal links, thin content, FAQ patterns, LLM readiness | SEO + web engineering pods |
| AI assistant analytics (commerce) | Attribute sessions and orders influenced by AI referrals | Shopify + DTC brands |
| MCP + automation | Repeatable audits & analysis inside Claude with API-backed context | Technical marketing, agencies, operators |
| Citation sampling APIs | Ask real answer engines whether a domain surfaces for prompts you care about | Experimentation-heavy teams |
Free & under $30 AI visibility tools (2026)
If you only remember one section, make it this one. Most brands that bounce after a single scan never needed a suite—they needed proof and a fix list.
| Tool | Job | Cost | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| SellOnLLM AI Visibility Checker | Live prompts, mention/citation score, shareable results | Free, no signup | Founders & freelancers proving the problem |
| SellOnLLM Chrome extension | AI Readiness Score on any page + optional visibility monitor | Free audit; ~$10/mo Unlimited | On-page AEO while you edit templates |
| SellOnLLM Shopify app | AI-referred sessions & orders | App Store pricing | Merchants connecting citations to revenue |
| GSC + GA4 | Queries, indexing, directional AI traffic | Free | Everyone—before buying extras |
| Free LLM audit / llms.txt | Crawl readiness & machine-readable guidance | Free | Technical hygiene before GEO spend |
Mid-market GEO / AI search suites
Otterly, Peec, Profound and peers excel at multi-engine dashboards, large prompt libraries, and agency reporting. Choose them when leadership already funds an “AI search analytics” line item—not as your first experiment. Player matchups: Otterly vs Peec, Otterly vs Profound, Peec vs Profound. Our wedge: SellOnLLM vs Otterly / vs Peec. Confirm list prices on each vendor’s site.
Category breakdown & where SellOnLLM plays
1. Google Search Console + Google Analytics
Still the fairest backbone: query terms, CTR, indexing states, enhancements reports, funnel reporting. Pair with BigQuery exports if your team needs warehouse joins.
SellOnLLM layer: Our GA4 + Search Console conversational assistant turns those properties into narrative diagnostics and prioritized follow-ups—and the SEO MCP connector exposes the same for Claude power users.
2. Enterprise SEO suites (Semrush, Ahrefs, etc.)
Use them for volumetric keyword research (like discovering high-intent prompts), backlog tracking, backlinks, SERP snapshots, competitor content velocity. No suite alone proves AI citation outcomes.
Combination: Export topic clusters → feed into your editorial calendar → validate technical readiness with narrower AEO auditors.
3. AEO & LLM readiness crawlers — SellOnLLM free tier
Specialized crawling helps answer: “Would an automated reader understand what we sell, who we are, and which pages deserve summarization?”
- Free site-wide technical + LLM audit — multi-page scan for schema, meta, crawl files, mobile signals, content patterns.
- Free E-E-A-T scanner — pillar scoring for Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trust heuristics.
- llms.txt generator — publish machine-readable guidance for assistants (see also llms.txt guide).
- Chrome extension — rapid page-level checks while editing templates.
4. AI visibility MCP for Claude
When your team already collaborates in Claude Desktop or Cursor, remote MCP servers reduce copy-paste between tabs. SellOnLLM ships two differentiated connectors:
- AI Visibility MCP — AEO-style crawls and optional citation-style checks tied to Perplexity when you configure an API key (BYOK).
- GA + GSC MCP — live analytics + Search Console querying for persistent SEO workflows.
5. Best AI tools for optimizing product visibility (ecommerce lens)
For SKUs and collections you need merchandising narratives + structured product facts + credible reviews—not only blog traffic. Winning stacks usually combine enriched product feeds, PDP FAQs, concise comparison tables, authoritative returns/shipping disclosures, validated JSON-LD, and AI session attribution.
SellOnLLM Shopify app: measure AI-derived traffic & orders with Shopify-native reporting—grab it on the Shopify App Store listing and reconcile merchandising hypotheses with onsite analytics loops.
6. Link intelligence & outreach automation
Authority still influences what models confidently cite. Agencies often pair classic link research tooling with scripted outreach. Operators using Claude can prototype workflows with our open-source Backlink MCP; keep compliance and relevance review human-in-the-loop.
Starter stacks (mix & match)
- Bootstrap SaaS marketer: Search Console → SellOnLLM free audits → editorial calendar from keyword research spreadsheet → revisit monthly.
- SEO pod + Claude: GA+GSC MCP + AI Visibility MCP for recurring diagnostics; Search Console validates fixes.
- Merchant growth team: Shopify AI analytics app → PDP schema & FAQ upgrades → SEMrush/Ahrefs for demand research → iterative testing.
What nobody should promise
If a vendor guarantees permanent inclusion in ChatGPT answers, walk away—those systems are stochastic, personalized, multilingual, multimodal over time. The responsible promise is tighter readiness, reproducible experimentation, clearer measurement, fewer crawl blockers—not magical omnipresence.
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