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Jul 26 · Tools & Comparisons

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Best Cross-Platform AI Visibility Trackers (All Engines in One Dashboard)

Avinash Saurabh
Avinash Saurabh · CO-Founder & CEO
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You already know the feeling. You search your best use case in ChatGPT, and there is a competitor sitting in the answer, cited, not you. So you open Perplexity. Different story. Then Gemini, then Copilot, then Google's AI Mode. Five tabs, five versions of reality, and no single place that tells you where you actually stand.

That is the job a cross platform AI visibility tracker is built to do. One dashboard watches every engine at once, a single place to track brand across AI engines, so you stop tab-hopping and start seeing the whole picture. Instead of guessing, you get mention rates, citation rates, and share of voice across the engines your buyers actually use.

Here is the honest part. These tools do not all cover the same engines, and the gap is bigger than the marketing pages admit. Some watch three engines. Some watch twelve. A few also help you fix what they find. This guide ranks them on genuine breadth of coverage and on what you can do once you see a gap.

Take a breath. You only need to pick one. Let's find the right one for you.

How we ranked these tools

Breadth is the headline, but breadth alone is not the whole story. The best all engine AI visibility tool does more than count engines. We scored every tool on four things:

  1. Engine coverage. How many AI answer engines it actually monitors, at the highest available plan tier, without you overstating a listed engine as a tracked one.
  2. One consolidated dashboard. Whether you see every engine in a single view, with no separate logins or exports to stitch together.
  3. True multi engine AI tracking. Per-prompt mention and citation data across engines, not just a single blended score.
  4. What happens next. Whether the tool only reports the gap, or also helps you produce the content to close it.

A pure tracker tells you where you are invisible. A platform that also produces content lets you act on that in the same place. Both are valid. Which one you need depends on whether you already have a way to fill the gaps you find.

Cross-platform AI visibility trackers at a glance

ToolMax engines trackedContent production built inStarts at
DeepSmith5 (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Mode)Yes, full pipeline$99/mo
Goodie12+ (adds Amazon Rufus, Sparky)No$399/mo
LLMrefs11+ (adds DeepSeek, Brave)No$79/mo
Profound10No$99/mo (billed yearly)
Writesonic10+Yes, writing suite$99/mo
MaxAEO8NoOn request
AthenaHQ8+No$295/mo
Otterly7No$29/mo
Peec AI6+No~$89/mo
Conductor7+Writing assistant~$1,500/mo
Semrush AI3 to 4No~$140/mo

Coverage reflects each tool's highest plan tier. Lower tiers often restrict you to three or four engines, so read the fine print before you buy.

1. DeepSmith

Best for: marketing leads who need to see where they are invisible across AI engines and produce the on-brand content to fix it, all in one place.

DeepSmith is an AI search analytics and content production platform in one. It tracks how AI engines answer the questions that matter in your space, shows you exactly where you are losing, then produces publish-ready articles to close those gaps from the same data. That second half is what sets it apart. Most tools on this list hand you a problem. DeepSmith hands you the problem and the fix.

On coverage, let's be straight with you. DeepSmith tracks five engines: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Mode. That is fewer than the breadth leaders further down this list. Coverage rises by tier. Pro tracks ChatGPT, Grow adds Perplexity, Scale adds Gemini, and Enterprise covers all five. If your buyers live in Grok, DeepSeek, or Amazon Rufus, this is not your widest net.

Here is why it still earns the top spot for most teams. The visibility side gives you the metrics that actually matter: mention rate, citation rate, share of voice, and visibility trend, with a per-platform breakdown and a competitor leaderboard. You can see which of your pages AI cites, which prompts drive those citations, and exactly which competitor pages are winning the answers you want.

Then you act. The Content Studio turns any gap into a finished article, researched, internally linked, and formatted for citation, grounded in your stored brand context through Deep IQ so it sounds like you and describes your real products. Autowrite can even schedule that production hands-off, so the pipeline runs during the weeks you are buried.

Key features:

  • Visibility tracking across five engines with mention rate, citation rate, share of voice, and per-platform breakdowns.
  • A competitor leaderboard and page-level citation data showing who wins each prompt and why.
  • A multi-agent production pipeline that writes publish-ready, brand-grounded articles to close the gaps you find.
  • Deep IQ brand context so every draft carries your voice, personas, and product facts.
  • Autowrite scheduling plus publishing to WordPress, Strapi, Webflow, and webhooks.

One honest limitation: five engines is narrower than the pure-breadth trackers. If tracking the widest possible list of niche engines is your single priority, look at Goodie or LLMrefs below. If closing gaps matters more than counting engines, DeepSmith is the strongest all-around pick.

DeepSmith starts at $99 a month, with a 7-day free trial that gives you real data and real drafts before you pay. No long-term contracts.

2. Profound

Best for: enterprise brand teams and agencies that want deep, technical measurement of how AI interprets them across every major engine.

Profound is an enterprise-focused visibility platform that tracks all ten major answer engines, including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Grok, Meta AI, and DeepSeek. Its Conversation Explorer digs into how AI frames your brand, and its agent analytics show how specific bots crawl and read your site. This is a serious measurement tool for teams that treat AEO as its own function.

Key features:

  • Ten-engine coverage on Enterprise, with agent-level crawl analytics.
  • Conversation Explorer for deep insight into how AI discusses your brand.
  • Profound Sheets for scaling AEO audits with data-driven analysis.
  • SOC2 compliance and SSO at the Enterprise tier.

One honest limitation: onboarding is complex and usually needs a dedicated team or agency, and full ten-engine coverage sits behind custom Enterprise pricing. The Starter plan tracks ChatGPT only. If you want to compare the two approaches directly, DeepSmith's track-and-write model is the closest alternative to Profound's measurement depth.

3. Peec AI

Best for: small marketing teams that want a simple, fast dashboard for the major models without a steep setup.

Peec AI is a lightweight analytics tool built for speed and ease. It tracks brand mentions and sentiment across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and several more core models, with clean competitive benchmarks. It was recently named a strong pick for tracking Gemini visibility, and it earns that with solid coverage of the big three plus a friendly interface.

Key features:

  • Coverage of the major models including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude.
  • Source identification showing which sites (Reddit, G2, and others) drive your AI citations.
  • A Looker Studio connector for client-facing agency reports.
  • Country and language targeting.

One honest limitation: Peec is strong on monitoring but does not give you tools to produce the content that fixes a gap. Its credit-based pricing can also feel fiddly at first. It is a tracker, not a fixer.

4. MaxAEO

Best for: B2B leaders who want a clean, high-level view of visibility trends across eight engines, focused on the shift from SEO to AI search.

MaxAEO is a strategic visibility tool aimed at professional services and high-ticket B2B brands. It tracks eight engines, including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek, and Mistral, in a unified dashboard built around comparing your performance to competitors and watching how visibility diverges across engines.

Key features:

  • Eight-engine comparative data on brand visibility across the major models.
  • A unified dashboard focused on competitor comparison and provider reliability.
  • An AEO-first methodology tuned for high-ticket B2B positioning.

One honest limitation: MaxAEO does not publish pricing, so you have to book a call to find out if it fits your budget, and it has no built-in content production. Budget-conscious mid-market teams may find the opacity frustrating.

5. Writesonic

Best for: teams that want visibility data feeding directly into a high-volume writing suite inside one SEO and GEO platform.

Writesonic blends AI visibility tracking with its established writing tools, positioning itself as an all engine AI visibility tool bundled with production. It tracks ten or more platforms, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI, and layers on sentiment analysis and query fan-out monitoring so you see how one prompt splits into sub-queries.

Key features:

  • Ten-plus platform coverage with citations, sentiment, and share of voice.
  • Query fan-out monitoring to see how a prompt branches into follow-ups.
  • Integrated writing tools for a direct path from gap to draft.
  • A full SEO suite bundled with the GEO features.

One honest limitation: the widest engine coverage sits behind the Enterprise tier, and the Starter plan limits you to three engines at fifty prompts. The bundled suite also carries a higher entry cost than a pure tracker if visibility is all you need.

6. Otterly

Best for: solo marketers and small agencies wanting the cheapest real entry point into cross-engine tracking.

Otterly is a focused monitoring tool with a clear Visibility Index and automated GEO audits. It tracks seven core engines, including ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Gemini, and Copilot, and it does it at the lowest starting price in this whole category.

Key features:

  • Seven-engine coverage with a simple Visibility Index score.
  • GEO audits that check how likely a specific URL is to be cited.
  • Scheduled crawl cycles that store responses and extract citations.
  • A budget entry point at $29 a month.

One honest limitation: the $29 Lite plan only covers fifteen prompts, and there are no content production tools. Because it uses neutral monitoring rather than personalized results, what you see may differ from an individual user's experience. It is a clean, cheap tracker and nothing more.

7. Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit

Best for: teams already living inside Semrush who want basic AI visibility without adding another tool.

The Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit is a module inside the broader Semrush SEO platform. It tracks the most common engines, roughly three to four, including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, all under the login you already pay for.

Key features:

  • Basic AI visibility tracking alongside a full SEO suite.
  • One login for both keyword and visibility work.
  • Competitor analysis inside the familiar Semrush interface.

One honest limitation: engine breadth is very limited next to the specialists, and AI visibility is an add-on rather than the platform's focus. There are no dedicated AEO production tools and no deep citation intelligence. Good enough for a basic pulse check, not for a serious AEO program.

8. AthenaHQ

Best for: data-driven marketers who want to understand the technical "why" behind each citation.

AthenaHQ is a high-precision AEO platform focused on what makes a page citable by specific LLMs. It tracks eight or more platforms, including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, and Grok, and its standout is depth of analysis rather than raw engine count.

Key features:

  • A Citation Engine that analyzes what makes a page citable by each model.
  • Discrepancy detection that flags where different engines frame your brand inconsistently.
  • Unlimited competitor tracking on certain plans.

One honest limitation: there is a steep learning curve, and the volume of data can overwhelm a non-technical marketing lead. Its credit-based pricing starts at $295 a month, higher than several mid-market options. This is a tool for teams that want to go deep, not fast.

9. LLMrefs

Best for: SEOs and agencies who want the most prompts across the most engines for the lowest price.

LLMrefs is a high-efficiency tracker built for volume. It covers eleven or more models, including ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok, Copilot, Meta AI, DeepSeek, and Brave AI Mode, and it does it at a price that is hard to beat: $79 a month for five hundred prompts with unlimited seats.

Key features:

  • Eleven-plus engine coverage, including niche and emerging models.
  • An AI crawlability checker and an LLMs.txt generator.
  • Geo-targeting across fifty-plus countries and twenty-plus languages.
  • High prompt volume at a low, flat cost.

One honest limitation: LLMrefs has no built-in content production, so you execute every optimization manually outside the tool. If you want to see everything cheaply and already have a way to act on it, this is a strong buy. If you need the fix built in, it is only half the job.

10. Goodie

Best for: enterprise and e-commerce brands that need the widest possible net, including shopping agents.

Goodie is an end-to-end AEO platform with the broadest coverage in the market: twelve-plus surfaces, including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, Grok, Meta AI, DeepSeek, and commerce agents like Amazon Rufus and Sparky. If your buyers ask an AI what to purchase, Goodie is watching those surfaces too.

Key features:

  • Twelve-plus surfaces, including shopping agents no other tool here tracks.
  • An Agent Experience Suite that analyzes how AI crawlers read your site.
  • Revenue modeling that connects visibility to actual attribution.

One honest limitation: the entry price is $399 a month, which puts it out of reach for solo marketers and small teams, and the Explorer plan only covers three engines. Full coverage requires custom Enterprise pricing. The breadth is real, but so is the cost.

11. Conductor

Best for: global enterprises folding AEO into an existing large-scale SEO governance suite.

Conductor is a large SEO platform that has added AEO reporting and a writing assistant. It tracks seven or more engines, including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Google AI Overviews, and Claude, inside a broader suite built for enterprise governance and reporting.

Key features:

  • Enterprise governance with high-level reporting.
  • A writing assistant tuned for AI citation optimization.
  • Multi-location and multi-device tracking.

One honest limitation: the AI visibility piece is really an add-on to a very large SEO suite, and pricing typically starts around $1,500 a month. For a team that only wants AEO, it is overkill and overpriced.

How to choose the right tracker for you

Feeling clearer already? Good. Here is the simple way to decide.

  • Pick DeepSmith if you are tired of knowing you have a visibility gap but having no way to close it. It is the tool that bridges tracking and production, so you go from finding a gap to publishing the fix in one workflow. Best for teams that want one system, not a stack.
  • Pick Goodie or LLMrefs if raw breadth is your only priority. If you need eyes on niche engines like DeepSeek, Grok, or Amazon Rufus, these cast the widest net.
  • Pick Profound or AthenaHQ if you are an enterprise team with dedicated AEO people who want deep technical citation intelligence and agent-crawl analytics.
  • Pick Otterly or Peec AI if you are a small team that just needs a simple, affordable dashboard for the big three engines.
  • Pick Writesonic if you want SEO and GEO bundled with an established writing suite and your budget supports mid-tier pricing.
  • Pick Conductor or Semrush if you already pay for a large SEO suite and only need a basic visibility signal.

The trap to avoid is buying breadth you will never use. Tracking twelve engines feels thorough, but if you have no way to act on what you see, you have bought a very detailed picture of a problem you still cannot fix. Start with the engines your buyers actually use, then ask what you will do the day you find a gap.

Not sure where to start? Start here. Track the engines that matter to your buyers, and make sure the tool can help you close the gaps it finds. If that sounds like your situation, you can start a DeepSmith free trial at https://app.deepsmith.ai/auth/sign-up and see real data and real drafts before you pay.

Frequently asked questions

Which tool covers the most AI engines in one place?

Goodie currently offers the widest breadth, covering twelve-plus surfaces including shopping agents like Amazon Rufus and Sparky. LLMrefs and Profound follow closely with eleven-plus and ten engines. If your goal is to track brand across AI engines as widely as possible, those three lead on raw count. Just remember that more engines only helps if your buyers actually use them.

What is the difference between AI visibility tracking and traditional SEO tracking?

Traditional SEO tracks your position among blue links on a results page. AI visibility tracking measures whether you are mentioned and cited inside a synthesized AI answer. The core metrics are share of voice, how often you are named, and citation rate, how often the AI links to your page as a source. They are related but not the same thing.

Can a tracker actually make me rank higher in AI answers?

No tool can guarantee a citation. What the better tools do is give you the "why," through citation intelligence, and the "how," through content production, so you raise the odds of being cited by publishing well-structured, trustworthy content. Tracking shows the gap. Acting on it closes the gap.

Do I need a separate AEO tool if I already have an SEO tool?

If you only want a basic pulse, a module like the Semrush toolkit may be enough. If you need prompt-level data on what buyers ask and how each engine responds, you need a specialized tracker, since traditional SEO tools cannot capture that. A dedicated cross platform AI visibility tracker gives you the multi engine AI tracking that a general SEO suite does not.

What is the cheapest option that still covers multiple engines?

Otterly Lite at $29 a month is the lowest entry point, though it caps you at fifteen prompts across four engines. LLMrefs at $79 a month for five hundred prompts across eleven-plus engines is the best value once you need real volume.