Ahrefs Brand Radar
An Ahrefs add-on. Custom prompts from $50 a month. The AI Visibility Index starts at $199, or $699 for all models. Owned by Ahrefs.
The top three on this test
Published plans, 18 October 2026. The citation counts below were not rerun.
| Test | Profound Growth, $399/mo billed yearly | Scrunch Core, $250/mo | Ahrefs Brand Radar, from $50/mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Does it measure the right thing | ChatGPT, Gemini, and AI Overviews. Perplexity and Copilot start at Enterprise. | ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, and Copilot. Gemini starts at Enterprise. 5,000 answers you can open. | All five engines, plus AI Mode, on the index. No sentiment field. The $199 index is Ahrefs’ prompts, not yours. |
| Does the advice help answers | 400 credits write a draft. The plan does not name the paragraph or the source. | One page fix a month. Not a paragraph and a source. | No page writing. Crawler data says whether a bot fetched the URL. |
| Does it move citations | Mentions and citations are separate. Visits are an Enterprise add-on. | Mentions, citations, and bot traffic are on Core. One page a month is the only edit. | A check can be daily, weekly, or monthly. Unlinked mentions are not a field. You edit the page yourself. |
| Is it safe to trust | The trial uses Profound’s prompts. Checking 100 prompts on three engines is 300 answers. Storage is not on the pricing page. | The stored answers are what you compare by hand. Google SSO is on Core. Storage past that login is not published. | 2,500 checks at $50 is the set you can rerun. Index prompts tie to Ahrefs keyword data. Data sits in the Ahrefs account. |
Buy these three
Semrush is the better login when keyword rankings and a light AI check should sit together. Its AI toolkit is $99 a month, billed annually: 25 prompts, one domain, $99 per extra user, no bot logs, no content fixes, no Claude. A larger prompt count means Semrush One Pro+ at $299 or Advanced at $549.
1. Profound Growth
$399 a month, billed yearly: 3 engines, 100 prompts, 400 agent credits. The $99 Starter on the chart is ChatGPT only.
Why Better Than SEMRush:
Semrush One Advanced is $549 and still has no writing credits. Profound is the AEO Leader. Semrush is a Contender because the SEO suite is large.
2. Scrunch Core
$250 a month: 125 prompts, 5,000 answers, four engines, five seats, bot traffic, and one page fix.
Why Better Than SEMRush:
Core includes bot logs, a page fix, and five seats. Semrush charges $99 for each extra user and includes neither logs nor a fix.
3. Ahrefs Brand Radar
Custom prompts start at $50 a month for 2,500 checks. The index starts at $199. Paid Ahrefs plans already include 5, 10, or 20 custom prompts.
Why Better Than SEMRush:
The $50 pack is 2,500 checks, and custom prompts include Claude, YouTube, Reddit, and crawler traffic.
Monthly price used here
Lowest published paid entry, except BrandRadar, which is the $699 Momentum plan. Signal is $399 and Command is $999. Profound also has a free 7-day trial, then custom Enterprise. Evertune, Writesonic, Profound, and the Semrush toolkit are annual contracts shown as a monthly rate. Peec’s dollars did not render; $95, $245, and $495 match Capterra and two reads on 8–10 October 2026.
Share of the top tools buyers see
Capston, Q2 2026. Share of 27 buyer-intent Google queries where the tool was named in the top 10. One US desktop pass. This is how often buyers find the name, not how often an AI cites the product, and not customers. G2’s AEO category grew from 7 products in March 2025 to 150+ by 30 January 2026.
Feature comparison
Cells describe the published entry plan unless they name a higher tier. “Yes” means the vendor lists it. It does not mean the depth matches.