Cloudflare gives crawler analytics away free and identifies bots by user agent. On our own site, 102 of 103 requests claiming to be ClaudeBot came from outside Anthropic's published IP ranges. What the tools cost and what they can prove.
Real prices for 19 AI visibility tools, read off the vendor's own page on 28 August 2026. Profound's $99 plan tracks ChatGPT only, Ahrefs Brand Radar needs a $129 base plan underneath, and the range across the category is 42 times.
We asked ChatGPT and Perplexity the same buying questions about 92 SaaS products and kept every source. The two engines overlapped on 8.9% of domains and agreed on a source 4.3% of the time.
Best of lists are 43.8% of ChatGPT's cited pages, 84% of AI citations are earned media, and 80% of cited Reddit posts have under 20 upvotes. What the measured research says about earning citations.
Two runs of the same prompt return the same brand list less than 1% of the time. What the research says about AI visibility variance, and what a number you can trust looks like.
Discover practical workflows for auditing and building backlinks with our comprehensive guide to backlink analysis tools, including a comparison of top options.
Unlock your SEO potential with our strategy template for 90 days. A plan laid out one step at a time, tailored for SaaS and small businesses using real tool workflows.
A working comparison of AI visibility tools: LadderFox, Promptwatch, Peec, Profound and Writesonic. What each measures, what it costs, and where each one is the wrong choice.