ChatGPT Claude Gemini Perplexity Google AI Overview Copilot

What is AI Search Visibility?

AI Search Visibility measures how often and how prominently your brand appears when people ask AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overview, and Copilot questions relevant to your business.

Visible expresses it as a single composite score from 0 to 100, calculated from three weighted factors:

Visibility Score = (Mention Rate × 40%) + (Citation Rate × 35%) + (Prominence Score × 25%)

Mention Rate is how often your brand name appears in AI answers. Citation Rate is how often AI cites your domain as a source. Prominence Score reflects how early in the response your brand is mentioned. A higher score means AI assistants mention your brand more often, cite you as a source more frequently, and surface you earlier in their answers.

The problem

Google rankings used to tell you everything.
Now they tell you almost nothing.

A growing share of buying research happens inside AI chat tools — and they answer directly, with no click and no ranking page to check. Most businesses have zero visibility into this new layer.

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Am I even mentioned? A customer says "I found you through ChatGPT" — but you have no idea what it actually said, or whether it usually says that at all. You're flying blind.

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Who's winning the citation? AI tools cite specific web pages as sources. You don't know if it's your pricing page — or your competitor's review page — being referenced.

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Every tool that tracks this costs $300+/mo and starts with a sales call. None of them were built for a business your size.

How it works

From signup to your first Visibility Score:
under 5 minutes.

No onboarding call. No technical setup. No blank page.

01

Tell us your brand

Enter your brand name and website. We automatically extract your brand context — no integrations, no API keys needed.

02

We generate your prompts

Our AI Research Tool scans your brand and suggests real questions your customers ask AI assistants — grouped by intent (discovery, comparison, reputation). Accept, edit, or add your own.

03

Add competitors

Track up to 20 competitors on the exact same questions, in the exact same query runs — true apples-to-apples Share of Voice comparison.

04

Get your Visibility Score

A composite 0–100 score plus per-platform breakdown, trend chart, and plain-language action signals — ready before you've finished your coffee.

What you get

Everything you need to know if you're
showing up — and what to do if you're not.

Visibility Score Dashboard

A 0–100 composite score (40% mention rate + 35% citation rate + 25% prominence) updated every time your checks run. Trend charts with competitor overlays, SOV by model, and date-range filters.

COMPOSITE SCORE

Brand Mention Monitoring

Catch every mention, the exact wording used, where in the response it appeared (prominence rank), and whether the tone is positive, neutral, or negative — classified per mention, not per response.

SENTIMENT INCLUDED

Citation Source Tracking

See which pages on your site AI models trust enough to cite as a source — and which competitor pages they're citing instead. Up to 20 citations stored per response, domain-level and URL-level.

URL-LEVEL DETAIL

AI Search Share of Voice

Among all the times AI mentions you or a tracked competitor, what percentage belongs to your brand? See it overall and broken down by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overview, and Copilot separately.

PER-PLATFORM SOV

Detailed Results Browser

Filter every AI response by model, mention status, citation presence, or competitor mention. Click any row to see the full AI answer, highlighted mentions, cited sources, and sentiment — all in one panel.

FULL RESPONSE VIEW

AI Prompt Research Tool

Enter your brand or domain and get intent-balanced prompt suggestions (discovery, comparison, reputation, factual) — pre-classified so your tracking covers how customers actually search, not just how you think they do.

INTENT-BALANCED

Deep Scan — SEO & AEO Site Audit

Crawls your site into a digital twin and analyzes it for SEO gaps (crawlability, metadata, structure) and AEO gaps (schema, citable facts, entity clarity), then ranks every finding by impact so you know what to fix first.

DIAGNOSE

FAQ Builder

Turns real customer questions into structured, self-contained, schema-marked FAQ content — the format AI assistants extract from and cite most reliably. Closes the AEO gaps Deep Scan finds most often.

FIX
The advantage

The closed loop no one else in this category has.

Most AI-visibility tools measure your score and stop there. Visible diagnoses why the score is what it is, gives you a direct way to fix it, then measures whether the fix worked — in one product, on a cycle you repeat.

01

Diagnose

Deep Scan crawls your site and ranks SEO & AEO gaps by impact.

02

Fix

FAQ Builder turns real questions into citable, schema-marked content.

03

Measure

Your Visibility Score & Citation Rate confirm whether the fix actually worked.

Repeat

Re-scan to find the next gap. A cycle, not a one-time audit.

Read the full breakdown of the closed loop →

6
AI Platforms Tracked
ChatGPT · Claude · Gemini · Perplexity · Google AI Overview · Copilot — the six AI surfaces your customers actually use.
0–100
Composite Visibility Score
One number that tells you exactly where you stand — updated every check cycle, trended over time.
< 5 min
Time to First Score
No sales call, no setup, no blank page — your first Visibility Score ready in under 5 minutes.
How we compare

The rest of the category starts
with a sales call. We don't.

Every other AI visibility platform we evaluated either gates real data behind a demo, charges from day one, or targets enterprise budgets. Visible was built from the ground up for businesses your size.

Unlike Profound and AthenaHQ, which require a sales call and start at roughly $270+ per month, Visible offers a genuinely free-forever plan and self-serve signup on every tier. Unlike Otterly.AI, which has no free-forever plan, Visible includes per-mention sentiment analysis and a full AI-response viewer at an entry price of $69 per month — built specifically for small businesses and solo marketers rather than enterprise teams. And unlike all three, Visible closes the loop: Deep Scan diagnoses why your score is what it is and FAQ Builder gives you a direct way to fix it, in the same product that measures whether the fix worked.

  Visible Otterly.AI Profound AthenaHQ
Diagnose + fix + re-measure (closed loop) ✓ Deep Scan + FAQ Builder ✗ Measures only ✗ Measures only ✗ Measures only
Free forever plan ✓ Yes ✗ No ✗ No ✗ No
Self-serve, no sales call ✓ Every tier ✓ Yes ✗ No ✗ No
Entry price (paid) $69/mo $29/mo Sales-gated $270–295/mo
Sentiment analysis (per mention) ✓ Included ✗ No Enterprise only Enterprise only
Full response viewer ✓ Included ✗ No Enterprise only Limited
Built for SMBs & solo marketers Lean teams, agencies Fortune 500 Mid-market / enterprise

Pricing and feature data based on public information as of mid-2026 — always verify directly with each provider.

Pricing

Start free, forever.
Upgrade when you're ready.

The Free plan is yours to keep — no credit card, no expiry, no catch. Choose Basic or Pro any time to unlock more platforms, brands, and history.

Free
$0/forever
See your first Visibility Score today — no card, no expiry, no catch.
  • 3 tracked prompts
  • ChatGPT + Perplexity (2 platforms)
  • Monthly refresh
  • 1 competitor tracked
  • 1 brand profile
  • 1 deep scan for SEO + AEO
  • 30-day history
Start free
Pro
$249/month
Maximum coverage for serious AI visibility tracking.
  • 20 tracked prompts
  • All 6 AI platforms
  • Daily refresh
  • 10 competitors tracked
  • 5 brand profiles
  • 5 deep scans monthly for SEO + AEO
  • 24-month history
  • 3 team seats
  • Priority support
Start with Pro

Start on Free forever — no card needed. Upgrade to Basic or Pro any time.

From the blog

AI search visibility,
explained.

Practical guides on AEO, SEO, and how AI assistants decide which brands to mention and cite.

Why Visible

The AI Visibility Closed Loop: Diagnose, Fix, Measure, Repeat

Most AI-visibility tools only measure. Visible also diagnoses why you're invisible with Deep Scan and fixes it with FAQ Builder — a closed loop we haven't found anywhere else in this category.

Read article →
Announcement

Introducing FAQ Builder: Turn Your Q&A Into Content AI Assistants Cite

Visible now turns your real customer questions into structured, schema-marked FAQ content — the single strongest lever for getting cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. Available today.

Read article →
Fundamentals

What Is AI Search Visibility? A Complete Guide

What it means to be "visible" in AI search, why traditional rank tracking misses it entirely, and the three factors that determine whether AI assistants mention and cite your brand.

Read article →
AEO · SEO

AEO vs SEO: What's the Difference, and Why Both Matter

SEO gets your page ranked. AEO gets your brand mentioned and cited inside an AI assistant's answer. Here's how the two differ, where they overlap, and what to prioritize.

Read article →
How it works

How AI Models Choose Which Sources to Cite

When ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Perplexity cite a page, what made them pick it? A look at the signals that influence which sources get surfaced — and how to earn citations.

Read article →
Practical

How to Track Your Brand Mentions in ChatGPT

A repeatable method for monitoring whether ChatGPT mentions your brand — and why one-off manual checks give you a misleading picture of your actual AI visibility.

Read article →
Deep Scan · SEO · AEO

How a Deep Scan Reveals What to Fix for SEO & AEO

A deep scan builds a complete crawled model of your website, then analyzes it for SEO and AEO gaps. Here's how that turns guesswork into evidence-based decisions.

Read article →

View all articles →

Questions

Before you start

Yes. The Free plan is genuinely free, forever — no credit card, no countdown, no expiry. You get 3 tracked prompts across ChatGPT and Perplexity, refreshed monthly. Upgrade to Basic or Pro any time to unlock more platforms, prompts, and features.
AI Search Visibility measures how often and how prominently your brand appears when people ask AI assistants questions relevant to your business. Visible calculates a composite 0–100 Visibility Score based on three factors: Mention Rate (how often your brand name appears — 40% of the score), Citation Rate (how often AI cites your domain as a source — 35%), and Prominence Score (how early in the response your brand is mentioned — 25%). Higher score = AI talks about you more and earlier.
We query the official API for each AI platform on a schedule — the same approach used across this category. It's a strong, consistent signal for tracking trends over time. AI answers can vary by exact phrasing and session personalization, so treat results as directional rather than a guaranteed word-for-word match to any single chat.
Visible tracks six AI platforms: ChatGPT (OpenAI), Claude (Anthropic), Gemini (Google), Perplexity, Google AI Overview, and Copilot (Microsoft). All six query live web content so their answers reflect current sources, not just training data. The Free plan includes ChatGPT and Perplexity. Basic includes four platforms — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. Pro unlocks all six, adding Google AI Overview and Copilot.
No. Enter your brand name and website URL — that's it. Visible automatically extracts your brand context, suggests prompts via our AI Research Tool, and handles all API connections on our end. No integrations, no keys, no technical knowledge required.
Yes. No contracts, no minimum term, on any paid plan. And the Free plan never expires or requires a card to begin with.
Deep Scan crawls your website into a digital twin — a complete, analyzable model of your real site — then evaluates it for SEO gaps (crawlability, metadata, structure) and AEO gaps (structured data, citable facts, entity clarity, FAQ-style content), returning a prioritized list of what to fix first. Included on every plan, from 1 scan/month on Free up to 5/month on Pro.
It's Visible's diagnose-fix-measure cycle: Deep Scan diagnoses why you're invisible, FAQ Builder fixes the most common AEO gap with structured, citable content, and your Visibility Score measures whether it worked — then you repeat. Most AI-visibility tools only measure; Visible also diagnoses and fixes, in the same product.

Find out what AI is already
telling people about your brand.

Free forever. No card. No sales call. Ready in under 5 minutes.