10 Best AI Optimization Platforms Analytics Depth in 2026, Compared

Profound is the analytics-depth leader in this list. Enterprise tracks nine answer engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Mode, Gemini, Copilot, DeepSeek, Claude, AI Overviews and Exa Search — and pairs prompt tracking with agent analytics read from your server logs, so you can see which AI crawlers visit your site. Conversation data and prompt volumes show how often people ask about it, not just whether your brand appears.

The catch is the buying path. The $99 Starter and $399 Growth plans were removed in mid-September 2026, so brands go from a free 7-day trial straight to a custom Enterprise contract. The trial covers only 50 prompts Profound picks, on three engines, with no history or exports. If your team can buy on contract, start with the trial; if you need a published price, look at Goodie or Scrunch instead.

Goodie is the most complete self-serve option for teams that want analytics they can act on. Core tracks five engines — ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Perplexity and Copilot — across 110 prompts, then turns the data into 50 optimization actions a month and ties visibility to revenue, so you can see which AI answers actually bring business. Unlimited seats mean the whole team can work in the same account.

The price is the honest trade-off: $295 a month billed annually ($354 monthly) is the highest self-serve entry here, and the G2 score of 4.9 rests on only 11 reviews. Pro at $999 a month adds Gemini and shopping surfaces for teams that sell products. Buy Goodie when you want the loop closed — measure, fix, attribute — in one tool.

Scrunch earns its place on citation depth. Core tracks 125 prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Copilot, and every answer comes with the sources cited, sentiment, funnel stage and competitor positions, so you can see exactly which pages the engines quote and which rivals they prefer. Five site audits a month add the technical side, flagging pages that AI crawlers cannot read well.

At $250 a month with no published annual rate, Scrunch is a mid-market price for a mid-market job, and the limits show it: one country, one language, one persona and five competitors on Core. The API, Looker Studio connector and the full nine-engine set — adding Claude, Gemini, Meta AI, AI Mode and Grok — wait for Enterprise. It fits a team tracking one market deeply, not five markets at once.

Peec AI is the best-priced dedicated tracker in this list for teams that want real analytics depth without an enterprise contract. Starter runs 50 prompts daily across three engines you choose — from ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Copilot, Gemini and Naver AI — and reports visibility, sentiment, position and share of voice per prompt, with a sources report that names the pages the engines cite.

The limits are honest ones: three engines at a time, one project and one country on Starter, and Perplexity is a paid add-on rather than included. Unlimited users soften the price, since the whole team shares one subscription. Peec fits a small team tracking one brand in one market that wants daily data and a recommended-actions list, not just a chart.

Otterly.AI is the cheapest way into daily AI visibility tracking. Lite costs $29 a month and tracks 15 prompts across four engines — ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot — with a brand visibility index, competitor tracking and 1,000 GEO URL audits a month. A prompt research tool helps you pick the questions real users ask before you spend a prompt on them.

Fifteen prompts is a small allowance, and the add-ons matter: Gemini and AI Mode cost $9 a month each on Lite and Claude costs $29, so all seven engines run $76 a month before you count a single extra prompt. Standard at $189 a month is where agencies land, with unlimited workspaces and the Looker Studio connector. Start on Lite to prove the data matters, then budget for Standard.

Writesonic is the only tool here that bundles the tracking with the writing. Starter costs $99 a month ($79 billed annually) and tracks 50 prompts daily across ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, reporting mentions, citations, share of voice and sentiment — then gives you 15 AI articles and 10 site audits a month to act on what the data shows. Ads monitoring in AI answers is included from the entry plan.

The bundle is also the limit: three engines only, one user, one project and one market on Starter, with the full ten-platform set, the complete Action Center and single sign-on held for Enterprise. The G2 score of 4.7 across 2,149 reviews mostly reflects the older writing product. Buy Writesonic when your team writes the content that the tracking says is missing.

SE Ranking is the value pick for teams that already need a full SEO suite. Core costs $129 a month ($103.20 billed annually) and pairs 2,000 keywords tracked daily with AI visibility across five engines — AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity — plus share of voice, AI competitor research and a 250,000-page site audit allowance. One subscription covers rankings, audits and AI answers.

The AI depth is broad rather than deep: the prompt allowance is capped per plan, and larger prompt sets need the AI Search add-on from $89 a month. There is no Claude or Copilot coverage, and sentiment lives in the separate SE Visible product rather than Core. Pick SE Ranking when AI visibility is one more report inside a suite you already use, not a standalone project.

Semrush brings the deepest research data in this list to AI visibility — a keyword database Semrush puts at more than 27 billion keywords, plus backlink, PPC and site audit tools in the same login. The entry SEO plan costs $139.95 a month ($117.33 billed annually) and includes AI visibility reports for any domain, 500 keywords tracked daily and a 100,000-page site audit.

Read the plan carefully before buying for AI depth: the SEO plan includes AI visibility reports but no custom prompt tracking. Daily prompt tracking — 50 prompts a day — starts on Starter at $199 a month, and the standalone AI Visibility Toolkit is $99 a month per domain. Semrush fits teams that already pay for the suite and want AI reports beside their SEO data, not buyers who only need prompt tracking.

Brandlight is built for the largest buyers in this list: global brands running many brands across many regions. Its command center tracks mentions, sentiment, bias and cited sources across 12 engines in 10 markets, with SOC 2 Type II, single sign-on and role-based access for enterprise security review, and strategists who work the account rather than a self-serve dashboard.

Everything about buying it is enterprise-shaped. There is no public price — the pricing page returns a 404 — no free trial and no self-serve signup; prospects start with a paid three-month pilot, then an annual contract. The question set runs weekly and refreshes quarterly, and the platform reports problems without fixing them. It fits a Fortune 500 team with procurement capacity, not a small team that needs a price today.

Ahrefs comes at AI visibility from the data side. Brand Radar, its AI visibility product, searches a database of more than 495 million prompts to show where your brand appears in AI answers, how it compares with rivals and which topics the engines cover — backed by the backlink index and 110-billion-keyword database that Ahrefs is known for. Custom prompts you define are tracked from the Lite plan upward.

The price needs care: the $29 Starter plan includes no AI visibility at all. Brand Radar AI starts at $199 a month per index, custom prompt packages start at $50 a month, and rank tracking on Starter updates weekly by default. Buy Ahrefs for the research depth and add Brand Radar when the AI index is worth $199 a month to you — not as a cheap way into prompt tracking.