Roundup · 2026

The best AI visibility tools for indie founders

When someone asks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity for “the best [your category]”, are you in the answer? These tools track that. Full disclosure: we make Glotier, so we put it first, but we’ll be straight about who each tool is really for.

1

Glotier

Free to start

The only one built for indie founders that tracks all the channels that matter, AI search (live web search + a model, or your own ChatGPT/Claude key), Google, indie communities (Reddit/HN/Product Hunt), and app stores, then hands you one focused action each week. Free tier, no credit card.

Ready to buy? See plans and pricing.

2

Otterly.AI

$29/mo

Otterly.AI tracks whether your brand shows up in AI search answers (ChatGPT and friends) and monitors prompts over time.

Best for: Clean, focused AI-search monitoring with a friendly entry price, a solid pick if AI search is the only channel you care about.

Glotier vs Otterly.AI
3

Peec AI

$95/mo

Peec AI is an AI-search analytics tool aimed at marketing teams tracking brand visibility across answer engines.

Best for: Team-oriented analytics and reporting around AI-answer visibility.

Glotier vs Peec AI
4

Profound

From $99/mo

Profound is an enterprise-grade answer-engine optimization platform with deep AI-search analytics across many models.

Best for: The most engines and the deepest enterprise analytics, if you have the budget and a brand team.

Glotier vs Profound
5

Ahrefs Brand Radar

$129 + $199/mo

Ahrefs Brand Radar adds AI-mention tracking on top of Ahrefs' established SEO toolset.

Best for: If you already pay for Ahrefs, Brand Radar bolts AI visibility onto best-in-class SEO data, you may not need anything else.

Glotier vs Ahrefs Brand Radar
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Scrunch AI

From $250/mo

Scrunch AI helps brands understand and improve how they show up in AI-generated answers across the major assistants.

Best for: Enterprise-leaning answer-engine optimization analytics for brands that want a dedicated AI-visibility platform.

Glotier vs Scrunch AI
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HubSpot AEO Grader

Free

HubSpot's AEO Grader (formerly AI Search Grader) is a free one-off tool that scores how visible your brand is in AI search.

Best for: Free and frictionless for a quick one-time snapshot, backed by the HubSpot brand.

Glotier vs HubSpot AEO Grader
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Semrush

From ~$140/mo

Semrush is an established, all-in-one SEO and marketing suite that has added AI-search and brand-mention tracking.

Best for: Best-in-class Google SEO data and a huge toolset, if you already live in Semrush, the AI features bolt on.

Glotier vs Semrush
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Knowatoa

Freemium

Knowatoa monitors how AI assistants answer questions about your brand and tracks how that changes over time.

Best for: Approachable, indie-friendly AI-search monitoring focused squarely on answer-engine visibility.

Glotier vs Knowatoa
10

Nightwatch

From ~$39/mo

Nightwatch is an established rank tracker that has added AI-search visibility on top of its Google SEO monitoring.

Best for: Mature, granular Google rank tracking with geo and device segmentation, now extended to AI answers.

Glotier vs Nightwatch
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Visiblie

Paid tiers

Visiblie tracks brand mentions across many AI models from one dashboard, scaling up to eight engines on higher tiers.

Best for: Breadth of AI engines, on its top plan it watches ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, DeepSeek, Grok, Meta AI and Mistral.

Glotier vs Visiblie
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Hikoo

Free + from €69/mo

Hikoo is a European, GDPR-by-design AI-visibility platform covering audit, monitoring, a prioritized action plan and competitive analysis.

Best for: A full audit-to-action cycle across up to seven AI engines, with a privacy-first European footing.

Glotier vs Hikoo

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