The Best AI Visibility & Reputation Tools, Honestly Reviewed (2026)

Short answer: The best AI visibility and reputation tools in 2026 split into two camps. Enterprise monitoring platforms — Profound, Peec AI, Scrunch, Otterly.ai — cost roughly $89–500+/month and are built for teams tracking hundreds of prompts across engines over time. Cheap one-shot audits — Quoted.so ($10), AuditAE (pay-per-check), monitoraeo, and Stork's $29 report — give you a single honest read of what AI says about you right now. Most small businesses need the one-shot read first, not a subscription. Below: an honest table, who each tool is genuinely for, and the traps to skip.

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Almost every product in this category is one of two things, and picking the wrong shape is the most expensive mistake buyers make. Monitoring platforms re-run your prompts on a schedule, chart sentiment and share-of-voice over time, and track competitors — powerful, but only worth it once you have a baseline and a reason to watch it weekly. One-shot audits answer a simpler question: right now, when a buyer asks AI about my category, do I get named — and if not, who does? The average AI-search monitoring subscription runs about $337/month across 30+ tools surveyed (indexly), so paying that before you've even seen your starting position is backwards. Get the read first; subscribe only if the read says you have something to defend.

_Note: this category moves fast and several vendors have shifted to quote-based pricing. Verify the current number on the vendor's own page before you buy._

Profound

The category's best-known name and the one most agencies benchmark against. Deep dashboards, many engines, strong competitor tracking. The catch in 2026 is pricing: Profound has largely moved to quote-based enterprise contracts, with public references citing roughly $99 Starter / $399 Growth and independent reviews putting real enterprise deployments in the thousands per month (Trakkr). Genuinely good — but overkill (and over-budget) for a small business that just wants to know where it stands.

Peec AI

A fast-rising European platform (reportedly $29M raised and $4M+ ARR in ten months, 4.9/5 on G2) that does something most rivals don't: beyond logging whether you appear, it scores how you're framed — the value pick, the enterprise option, or an also-ran — and trends that sentiment over time (Surmado). Starts at $95/mo for 50 prompts and 3 models, unlimited users. Strong pick for a marketing team that will actually act on the framing data.

Scrunch

Enterprise-leaning, B2B/SaaS focus, with sentiment analysis, site mapping, and — usefully — AI bot/agent traffic reporting so you can see which pages the models actually pull from. Pricing starts around $250–300/mo for 350 prompts, up to custom enterprise with nine models (Rankability). Priced for teams, not solo founders.

Otterly.ai & MentionedBy.ai

Otterly.ai is the friendly on-ramp to ongoing monitoring: $29/mo for 15 prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Overviews (Gemini and AI Mode are paid add-ons), scaling to $189 and $489 tiers (Otterly). MentionedBy.ai leans reputation-management, tracking 20+ models with a client-friendly structure from $89/mo — built for PR agencies juggling multiple brands. Both are solid; both are subscriptions you should only start once you've seen a baseline.

Quoted.so, monitoraeo & AuditAE

This is the honest starting tier. Quoted.so runs a $10 one-shot of 30 prompts across six engines, with a free 5-prompt preview and no email required. monitoraeo runs 40 buyer-facing questions across five engines (Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews), scores who names you vs. a competitor, and adds monthly re-runs from $35–95/mo — with a free 8-question preview in ~30 seconds. AuditAE ditches subscriptions entirely: $0.05 per prompt×engine check, $5 free to start, so a full 5×4 audit is about a dollar. If you've never looked at your AI reputation, one of these (or Stork's report, below) is the right first move.

Saidly & Prezlo (for people, not just companies)

Two tools aimed at individuals. Saidly is monitoring-for-your-name at consumer prices — from $2.99/mo — tracking Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok for creators and public figures. Prezlo targets service professionals (consultants, lawyers, doctors, coaches) with profile audits and monitoring across 11+ engines, free to start and $30/mo for the Pro tier. Good fits if the "brand" you're protecting is a person.

44degrees & the done-for-you route

44degrees is not a self-serve tool but a specialist app-growth/ASO agency that now also tracks how apps surface in AI answers — custom-priced, hands-off. Worth naming because the honest map includes the agency option: real done-for-you AEO/PR work exists, but it's a $1,500–10,000/mo commitment you shouldn't make before you've measured whether you even have a problem.

• 1Never checked before? Start with a one-shot: Quoted.so ($10), monitoraeo's free preview, AuditAE ($5 free), or Stork's $29 report (below).
• 2Small brand ready to track over time? Otterly.ai ($29/mo) or monitoraeo's re-run tier.
• 3*Marketing team that cares about framing, not just presence?* Peec AI.
• 4Enterprise / agency with many brands and budget? Profound, Scrunch, or MentionedBy.ai.
• 5Protecting a personal name? Saidly or Prezlo.
• 6Want it done for you? An agency like 44degrees — but only after a baseline read.

We run an AI-tools directory, so we'll happily point you to any of the tools above — several are excellent. Where Stork's AI Reputation Report ($29, one-time) fits is the honest first read: your buyer questions run live across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Grok, and you get the verbatim answers, who AI recommends instead of you, the sources it cites, and a prioritized fix to-do list — no subscription, no guarantees, no "we'll submit you to ChatGPT." A $9/mo monitoring upsell is launching for when you're ready to watch it over time. If the read shows a real gap, escalate to one of the platforms here; if it doesn't, you've saved yourself a retainer.

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_Related reading: the pillar guide AI Reputation Management in 2026, plus Does ChatGPT recommend your product? and what AI reputation management should cost._

Related: What does AI say about your brand?

What are the best AI visibility tools in 2026?

For ongoing enterprise monitoring, Profound, Peec AI and Scrunch lead. For cheap self-serve tracking, Otterly.ai stands out. For a one-shot read, Quoted.so ($10), AuditAE (pay-per-check), monitoraeo, and Stork's $29 report are the honest starting points. "Best" depends on shape: most small businesses need a one-time audit before any subscription.

What's the difference between AI monitoring platforms and one-shot audits?

Monitoring platforms ($89–500+/mo) re-run your prompts on a schedule and chart trends, sentiment and competitors over time. One-shot audits ($10–29) give you a single snapshot: what AI says about you now, who it recommends instead, and what to fix. Start with the audit; subscribe only once you have a baseline worth watching.

What's the cheapest way to check my brand's AI visibility?

Free previews exist: monitoraeo runs 8 questions in ~30 seconds and Quoted.so previews 5 prompts with no email. For a full read, Quoted.so is $10, AuditAE gives $5 of free checks, Saidly starts at $2.99/mo, and Stork's one-time report is $29. You do not need a monthly subscription to get a first honest read.

Can any of these tools guarantee AI will recommend my brand?

No — and none of the legitimate ones claim to. AI engines are non-deterministic and there's no paid placement or submission form. These tools measure and help you improve the public signals AI reads; they can't order an outcome. Any vendor promising guaranteed AI rankings or "submission to ChatGPT" is a red flag to walk away from.

Do I need a subscription or is a one-time audit enough?

For most small businesses, a one-time audit is enough to start. It tells you where you stand and what to fix, which is usually months of work you can do yourself. Move to a monitoring subscription only when you have real ground to defend and need to catch changes — or a competitor gaining — week to week.

Disclosure: Stork sells a $29 one-time AI Reputation Report (with $9/mo monitoring launching) and runs an AI-tools directory, so we're one of the options above. We wrote this roundup because an honest, price-transparent comparison of the category was missing — several competitors here are genuinely good, and we'd rather tell you which read to buy first than pretend ours is the only one.

How do I find out what ChatGPT says about my brand?

Open ChatGPT and type the category questions your buyers ask — things like “best tool for my use case,” “my brand vs a competitor,” or “alternatives to the category leader” — not “what do you know about my brand.” Note whether you're named, where, and who's named instead. Run each a few times, since answers shift by session, login and date.

How much does it cost to check what AI says about you?

Checking manually is free but time-consuming and noisy. A one-time report runs $9–99 depending on how many engines it covers; Stork's AI Reputation Report is $29 for all five. Ongoing monitoring subscriptions run from a few dollars a month up to enterprise dashboards at $89–499/mo.