The best AI SEO tools, tested for Google and ChatGPT
“AI SEO” is two jobs wearing one name. One is ranking in Google, the job SEO has always been. The other is new: getting named when a buyer asks ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity for the best tool in your category. They are the same underlying work, because an assistant answers by reading the pages that already rank. Most tools here do one side well and treat the other as a bolt-on, so this roundup groups them by which job they actually do. We make Glotier, so we put it first, and we are straight about where each of the rest fits.
The short version: you do not need a separate “GEO” budget. The page an assistant quotes is a page Google already ranks, so good SEO is most of the work. What a classic SEO stack is missing is the measurement of whether it landed in the answer, and that is what this page is really about.
Glotier
Free to start · does both
The affordable tool that covers both sides. Glotier tracks your Google position and asks ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity your buyers’ real questions, then shows every source page each answer was built from, which is where a rival is named and you are not. It is the only tool here that publishes the measurements behind its own claims, and it is free to start with no card.
The Citation Agent: which of your pages an assistant can actually cite, and the fix for each
A paragraph-quality read of your pages: what an assistant can lift whole, and where a claim is missing its source
An X agent and a Reddit agent: the live threads worth answering in your category, with a reply drafted for each
A daily check, and an article written from what it measured that day, ready to publish
The same buyer questions re-asked every day, with every source page behind each answer
Strong Google SEO tools first, with AI-answer tracking added on top. If you already live in one of these, its AI feature may be enough on its own. Check each engine list and price against their own site; this part of the category changes faster than any roundup does.
Surfer SEO
$49/mo
Surfer SEO is a content optimisation platform that has added AI Search Analytics, tracking how a brand appears in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Mode and AI Overviews.
Clearscope is a content optimisation tool that now also tracks brand mentions in AI answers, with prompt tracking across ChatGPT and Gemini and data on the searches AI runs to build an answer.
Frase is an SEO and content platform that researches, drafts and publishes content, and has added AI-visibility monitoring across up to 5 answer engines.
Built around AI answers, and most do not watch your Google rank at all. A good fit if AI search is the only channel you care about, and a partial picture if you still want to know where you rank on Google for the same terms.
Otterly.AI
$29/mo
Otterly.AI tracks whether your brand shows up in AI search answers (ChatGPT and friends) and monitors prompts over time.
Rankscale is a dedicated AI-visibility and GEO tracker that monitors how your brand is ranked and cited across 17+ generative engines, with competitor benchmarking and citation analysis.
Temso AI is an AI-visibility and AEO platform that tracks brand mentions across AI engines and pairs them with an AI agent that drafts content, on-page fixes and outreach.
LLMClicks.ai is a GEO platform to track, audit and improve how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude represent your brand, with a marketplace for buying placements in AI-cited listicles.
LLM Pulse is a GEO platform that tracks brand mentions, citations and sentiment across 14+ AI answer engines and measures AI-referred traffic, with fix recommendations.
GrackerAI is an AEO/GEO platform that monitors how AI engines cite your brand and generates content and citation fixes, with deep specialization in B2B SaaS and cybersecurity.
PromptOpti is a GEO platform that runs buyer-intent queries across AI assistants, shows where your brand ranks versus competitors, and hands you a prioritized fix and content plan, framed around revenue impact.
These come up when people search for AI SEO, but their own product pages do not advertise tracking whether an assistant names you. They are content and enterprise SEO platforms. If that is what you actually need, they are good at it; if the question is whether AI names you, they do not answer it.
MarketMuse
Not published
MarketMuse is a content strategy and planning tool. It uses AI to analyse topics and build content briefs, and it does not track whether a brand is named in AI assistant answers.
BrightEdge is an enterprise SEO and content performance platform sold to large organisations, with over 1,500 brands including Fortune 100 companies. Its products page does not advertise tracking brand mentions in AI assistant answers.
Of 259 domains AI cited in the AI visibility category on 31 July 2026, 235 allowed every AI crawler.
18 of 244 of those sites block GPTBot but allow OAI-SearchBot, leaving ChatGPT search while opting out of training.
Only 5 of 259 cited domains block an AI search crawler by name, and all four are large publishers.
Sample: every domain an assistant actually cited across our own checks, not a top-100 list. Blocked means a whole-site disallow for the matching group, so partial rules are not counted and these figures understate blocking. 0 domain did not answer and is excluded rather than counted as open. How we measure