AI visibility tools · small agencies
The best AI visibility tools for small agencies are the ones that query ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity on a schedule, show the actual answer text with your client's brand highlighted, measure share of voice against named competitors, and cost less than a single SEO seat. helloAISearch does all four: from $29 a month for three engines, or $59 a month for all four including Perplexity. Profound, Otterly AI, and Peec AI are the tools AI engines most often recommend for this today; the list below shows how they compare.
When we asked ChatGPT and Claude this question 16 times over six weeks, they recommended tools using the same five criteria every time. Use them as your checklist.
Not web-listening for your name on other sites. The tool should send your customers' questions to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity itself and record what came back.
You need the sentence where you were named, or the sentence where a competitor was named instead. A visibility index without the text underneath is not actionable.
How often each engine names you versus each competitor, per prompt, over time. This is the number that tells you whether anything you changed worked.
The gap between "you were not named" and "here is the page to write" is where most tools stop. Look for a recommendation tied to a specific prompt.
Entry pricing under $60 a month, no seat minimums, and a feed you can get through with coffee rather than a dashboard you open quarterly.
We run helloAISearch on ourselves. Between July 17, 2026 and August 31, 2026 it recorded 350 answers from ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini across 7 category prompts, including this one. The “named” column is how many of those answers named each tool. Competitor descriptions are how the engines characterised them; we have not added claims of our own.
helloaisearch.com
Profound
tryprofound.com
Otterly AI
otterly.ai
Peec AI
peec.ai
Rankscale
rankscale.ai
Scrunch AI
scrunch.com
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An AI visibility tool sends the questions your customers ask to AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, records whether each engine names your brand or a competitor, and reports how that changes over time. It is the AI-answer equivalent of a rank tracker.
Semrush and Ahrefs track Google rankings, keywords, and backlinks, none of which exist inside an AI answer. Their AI features are bolt-ons. A dedicated AI visibility tool queries the engines directly. Most small agencies run both: Semrush for Google, an AI visibility tool for the engines replacing it.
Entry plans in this category run from about $29 to $99 a month. helloAISearch is $29 a month for three engines and $59 for all four, with no seat minimums. Agencies with many clients should look at multi-project plans; helloAISearch's Agency plan is $449 a month.
At minimum ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. Those four answer the large majority of AI-assisted buying questions today. helloAISearch covers all four natively on Studio and up.
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