The best Ahrefs Brand Radar alternatives in 2026

Ahrefs offers no free trial. Its pricing FAQ says it never runs discounts. On monthly plans, Ahrefs refunds only if you have not used the account. Prices vary by region: we saw £159 a month on the Brand Radar page and €179 on the pricing page. Custom prompts cost extra. Each core plan includes 1 user, and extra users cost more.

Brand Radar has a pre-built index of hundreds of millions of prompts. You can look up any brand with no setup. It covers AI Overviews, AI Mode, Copilot and more, and it ties visibility to search volume. It offers API and MCP access on every core plan. It also monitors Reddit, YouTube and TikTok visibility, free while in beta.

This is ours, and it is our pick. You can start free by signing in at /tools/ai-visibility. The snapshot reads a third-party AI visibility index and needs no card. For a live test, ask for the one-day trial at checkout. It costs $1 and includes one scan.

Each scan asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude with prompts we write for your brand. Ahrefs notes that its index may have limited coverage for brands with low search volume.

Brand Radar monitors Reddit visibility in beta. Our Reddit agent finds threads and drafts replies for you. Rank on socials turns your articles into short videos for YouTube.

Semrush One pairs a full SEO suite with AI visibility tracking. Starter covers 5 sites and tracks 50 prompts daily. Semrush says it reads real consumer responses, not API answers.

You can test it for 7 days and cancel at any time. Claude and Copilot are not in the standard tiers. Extra users start at €43 a month.

Otterly.AI lets you test before you pay. The trial lasts 7 days, needs no card and includes 50 prompts. It reruns every prompt daily.

It covers AI Overviews and Copilot in the base price. Gemini, AI Mode and Claude are paid add-ons. Standard adds an API, MCP and a Looker Studio connector.

Am I On AI suits teams that mostly care about ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews. Pro tracks up to 150 prompts for $100 a month. You get weekly reports with action items.

It offers a 7-day trial and a free AI visibility audit that needs only an email. It covers ChatGPT and AI Overviews only.

The free HubSpot AEO Grader gives a one-time snapshot in under 2 minutes across 3 engines. It has no tracking and no prompt editing.

The paid HubSpot AEO plan costs $50 a month for 25 prompts on ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity. HubSpot does not state how often it refreshes.

Scrunch Starter includes 350 custom prompts, 1,000 industry prompts and 3 seats. Its pricing page lists 7 engines, including Claude, AI Mode and AI Overviews.

You can test Starter for 7 days with no card. It also tracks agent traffic, which means visits from AI crawlers. The Data API is Enterprise only.

AthenaHQ has a free Essential plan with 300 credits, worth about $25 of usage. You can test it before you pay anything. It lists 11 engines, including Claude, Copilot and the Google AI surfaces.

Every plan has unlimited seats, and it offers CSV export. Starter costs $295 a month. The pricing page does not state how often it refreshes.

Rankscale covers 9 engines, including AI Overviews, AI Mode, Copilot and Claude. You schedule runs from hourly to monthly. Pro costs $99 a month and has a 7-day trial.

The REST API starts on Pro+ at $229 a month. Every plan has unlimited seats, while each Ahrefs core plan includes 1 user. Credits run out faster as you add engines, regions or clients.

If you want to test before you pay, we pick AISEO. You can start free with a snapshot and no card. A one-day trial with one scan costs $1.

Each scan asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude with prompts we write for your brand. The report shows your share of voice, sentiment and the sites the engines cite. Share of voice means how often you appear compared with your competitors.

Then you act on it. The Reddit agent finds threads and drafts replies. Rank on socials turns your articles into videos for YouTube. Paid plans start at $49 a month.

1. Sign in at /tools/ai-visibility for a free AISEO snapshot. It needs no card.
2. Write down 10 prompts your buyers ask. Use the same list in every trial so the results compare.
3. Run the free HubSpot AEO Grader for a one-time snapshot.
4. Ask for the $1 one-day trial at AISEO checkout and run one scan.