Before you pay anyone to make AI assistants recommend you, find out where you stand. Here are twelve ways to check, in alphabetical order, what each one costs, which engines it covers, and one thing each does not do.
It depends on what you want to see. For a free one-time look, try the AIScope report, the Semrush free checker or the Namebeam free check. For low-cost monthly monitoring, look at Otterly.AI, Ayzeo or HubSpot AEO. If you want the same questions asked every day, with every answer kept and dated so you can compare a month and not a single day, that is what Namebeam does, and Namebeam is our product. For more prompts and engines at a larger budget, look at Peec AI, Semrush AI Visibility, ZipTie or Profound. Prices below were read from each vendor's own page on 2026-10-06.
Disclosure: Namebeam is our product. The list below is in alphabetical order. It is not a ranking. We included tools that check whether AI assistants name a small business and whose pricing page we could read. We read each price and engine list from the vendor's own page on the date shown. If a fact is wrong, tell us and we will correct it and print the correction date in the change log below.
Alphabetical by name. Not a ranking. Prices and engine lists were read from each vendor's own page on 2026-10-06; prices change, so confirm on each vendor's site.
| Tool | Suited to | Engines | Starting price (read 2026-10-06) | One thing it does not do |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIScope AI Search Brand Report (AI Marketing Labs) | A free look at what the assistants say about your business | ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity | Free report | Its page names three engines; Gemini and Google AI Overview are not named |
| Ayzeo | Small sites that want a flat price per project | ChatGPT and Google AI Overview included; Claude, Perplexity and Gemini are add-ons | Starter $39 per month (1 project, 20 prompts) | Claude, Perplexity and Gemini are not in the base price ($29 per month each) |
| Duda AI Visibility (add-on for Duda accounts) | Agencies that want white-labeled automated monthly AI visibility reporting for clients | ChatGPT and Google's AI Overviews are named as examples; its page prints no full engine list | Plans start at $19 per month for one domain (read 2026-10-06) | Its page prints only the one-domain starting price; higher-tier plans add domains and other features, with prices on Duda's pricing page |
| FRANK (Duda App Store) | Agencies that want automated SEO and AEO work, installed from the Duda App Store | Standard: ChatGPT and AI Mode; Pro: ChatGPT, AI Mode and Perplexity | Frank Standard $19 monthly (3 AI answer prompts monitored monthly); Frank Pro $34 monthly (5 AI answer prompts monitored monthly) (read 2026-10-06) | Perplexity appears only in the Pro plan list; AI answer monitoring is capped at 3 prompts a month on Standard and 5 on Pro |
| HubSpot AEO (Beta) | Teams already working in HubSpot | ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity | $50 per month ($45 per month if paid annually) | Its page names three engines; Claude and Google AI Overview are not named |
| Manual check | A no-cost start: ask each assistant yourself and log the answers | Whichever assistants you open | $0 in cash, plus your time | Keeps no dated record unless you write each answer down |
| Namebeam Get-Picked Check (ours) | Owners and agencies who want the same questions asked every day, with every answer and a file hash kept in a public dated record | ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overview | Free check; $397 one-time agency evidence pack | Does not measure sentiment or compute a share-of-voice percentage; it returns dated transcripts |
| Otterly.AI | Small budgets that want daily tracking of a few prompts | ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot; Claude, Gemini, Google AI Mode are add-ons | Lite $29 per month (15 prompts) | Claude, Gemini and Google AI Mode are not in the base price |
| Peec AI | Marketing teams tracking many prompts | 3 models of your choice on each plan, from a list that includes ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Grok | Starter $95 per month (50 prompts, 1 project) | Each plan covers 3 models you choose; more models cost extra |
| Profound | Larger teams that work with a sales team on a custom plan | Trial: ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews; Enterprise: up to 9 engines | Free 7-day trial; Enterprise is custom, no public monthly price | Prints no self-serve monthly price for brands; trial prompts cannot be customized |
| Semrush AI Visibility | Tracking mentions for one domain, in an account that also holds Semrush SEO tools | ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini, Perplexity | $99 per month per domain (25 prompts) | Base plan tracks 1 domain; each added domain is $99 per month |
| ZipTie | Plans built around the prompts, engines and refresh rate you pick | ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Microsoft Copilot, Bing AI Overview, Gemini (price follows the number of engines) | Starter preset from $42.75 per month (3 engines, 50 daily prompts) | No white-label reports and no cross-client rollup (its pricing FAQ) |
Alphabetical. Ties and order carry no meaning. Each tool name links to the page the figures were read from; Namebeam figures are from namebeam.ai (home page and llms.txt), read 2026-10-08.
Each limit below comes from the vendor's own page, read on 2026-10-06. Entries are in the same alphabetical order.
AIScope. The page names ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity; Gemini and Google AI Overview are not named. It offers a free report and says automation re-runs the report month over month, and the page prints no price for the re-runs.
Ayzeo. Starter at $39 per month includes ChatGPT and Google AI Overview, with 1 project and 20 prompts. Claude, Perplexity and Gemini cost $29 per month each. The 14-day Pro trial asks for a card up front.
Duda AI Visibility. It is an add-on for Duda accounts, with automated monthly reporting. Its AI Visibility Score is the share of responses that mention the brand, from AI tools like ChatGPT and Google's AI Overviews. Monthly reporting shows what the engines answered on the days sampled.
FRANK. The Duda App Store page lists 3 AI answer prompts monitored monthly on Standard and 5 on Pro. Monthly monitoring shows what the engines answered on the days sampled.
HubSpot AEO. At $50 per month ($45 if paid annually) the page names ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity; Claude and Google AI Overview are not named. The product is labeled Beta on its page.
Manual check. It costs no cash and takes your time on every check. It keeps no dated record unless you log each answer with its date, and a single answer is a sample.
Namebeam. Namebeam is our product. It does not measure sentiment and does not compute a share-of-voice percentage; it returns the dated raw transcript of what each engine said (namebeam.ai/vs-hubspot-ai-search-grader).
Otterly.AI. Lite at $29 per month covers 15 prompts on ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot. On Lite, Claude is a $29 per month add-on and Gemini and Google AI Mode are $9 per month each.
Peec AI. Starter at $95 per month covers 50 prompts, 1 project and 3 models you choose. An additional model is listed from $30 per month on annual billing.
Profound. The brands tab lists a free 7-day trial (50 prompts daily on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews) and a custom Enterprise plan with no public monthly price. Trial prompts cannot be customized.
Semrush AI Visibility. The base plan is $99 per month per domain with 25 tracked prompts; an added domain is $99 per month and 50 more prompts are $60 per month (semrush.com/kb/1493-ai-visibility-toolkit). That page says the toolkit has no free trial, and Semrush lists a free AI Visibility Checker separately.
ZipTie. Price depends on prompts, engines and refresh rate; the Starter preset is from $42.75 per month. Its own pricing FAQ says there are no white-label reports and no cross-client rollup. It offers a 7-day free trial with 25 daily prompts.
We ask the same local buyer questions every day and keep every answer with its date. In September 2026, about 3 to 4 in 10 of the businesses Perplexity named carried over to the next day. On Google, about 8 in 10 of the result domains did.
One law firm was mentioned in 10 of Perplexity's 27 September answers to the same question. A single screenshot on any of the other 17 days would have said it was invisible.
On 2026-08-05 we ran the same roster twice, minutes apart. No two answers were byte-identical, and the named or not-named verdict flipped in 4.5 percent of 22 comparable checks (namebeam.ai/llms.txt, dated 2026-08-05).
So whichever tool you use, check more than once, and compare the month, not the day.
We ask Perplexity "What is the best service to check if AI engines like ChatGPT recommend my small business?" every day. Across its 41 answers from 2026-08-20 to 2026-10-02, these pages were cited most often.
14 Perplexity answers, 2026-09-21 to 2026-10-04. Last refreshed: counts through 2026-10-04; not re-run in this rebuild.
1. Which engines, and on how many days? One run is a snapshot. Ask how many days the result covers.
2. Did the engine actually answer? Engines sometimes fail or refuse. A failed run is not a "no".
3. Does it show the sources? The pages an engine cites are where the fix usually starts.
Yes. You can ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity the question your customers would ask and write down what each says. Free tools also exist: the Namebeam free check, the AIScope report and the Semrush AI Visibility Checker. One answer is a sample and can change tomorrow, so repeat the check on different days.
Assistants generate each answer when asked and can cite different pages from one day to the next. In our record, about 3 to 4 in 10 of the businesses Perplexity named in September 2026 were named again the next day. When we ran the same roster twice minutes apart on 2026-08-05, no two answers were byte-identical, and the named or not-named verdict flipped in 4.5 percent of 22 comparable checks.
No single number fits every business. One day is a sample, so look at a month of daily answers and count the days you were named out of the days the assistant answered. A failed or refused run is not a no, and should be counted separately. One law firm in our record was named by Perplexity on 10 of 27 days in September 2026.
From the vendor pages read on 2026-10-06: Otterly.AI Lite is $29 per month, Ayzeo Starter $39, HubSpot AEO $50, Peec AI Starter $95 and Semrush AI Visibility $99 per domain. ZipTie's Starter preset is from $42.75. Namebeam's free check costs nothing and its agency evidence pack is $397 one time. Plans differ in prompts and engines, so compare the table.
No tool can promise that. They measure what the assistants say. What you change on your own site and listings afterward is up to you, and results vary. A tool that guarantees placement in AI answers is making a claim nobody can verify.
Check the ones your customers use. Every vendor tool in the table covers ChatGPT. Coverage of Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Overview varies, and some tools charge extra for each added engine. Namebeam asks five: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overview.
No. Namebeam is our product and is one of the twelve entries. The list is in alphabetical order and is not a ranking. We read each price and engine list from the vendor's own page on 2026-10-06 and print the date next to each figure. See the disclosure at the top and the change log at the bottom.
Inclusion rule. A tool is listed if it checks whether AI assistants name a small business and its own pricing page could be read on 2026-10-06. A tool whose page could not be read would be marked unverified and shown without a price.
Price rule. Every price, engine list and free-tier statement comes from the vendor's own page on the date shown. No price comes from a third-party article.
Corrections. If a fact is wrong, tell us. We will correct it and print the correction date in the log below.
Method. Daily API runs of fixed buyer questions on each engine, every answer stored with its date and file hash in a public record. The 3 to 4 in 10 figure is the median day-to-day overlap of the businesses Perplexity named (0.40 exact names, 0.50 with name variants merged), 46 city and trade combinations, September 2026. Google figure: median overlap of top-result websites between consecutive runs, 0.78. Citation counts: Perplexity sources_cited on the question above, 41 answers that returned OK.
