AI visibility tools, head to head
Ahrefs Brand Radar vs Peec AI
Pricing, features and differences, researched August 2026.
Ahrefs Brand Radar and Peec AI both help marketing teams track how brands appear in AI-generated answers. They monitor major AI platforms, measure brand mentions and citations, and show how competitors compare. That overlap makes them natural options for teams that need to measure AI visibility alongside their wider search work. The main differences fall under data coverage, reporting metrics, platform connections, and workflow. Ahrefs Brand Radar connects AI visibility data with Ahrefs’ SEO, YouTube, Reddit, and TikTok data, which may suit teams already using Ahrefs for search research. Peec AI puts more focus on AI search analytics, including sentiment, answer position, citations, competitor share of voice, and prioritized actions. The right choice depends on what your team needs to track, how it plans to act on the findings, and whether broader SEO and social search data matter to your reporting.
At a glance
Ahrefs Brand Radar
Pick it if you already pay for Ahrefs, since this is a $199 add-on on top of that plan and the entry tier tracks 5 to 20 prompts.
- Entry price
- $199/mo add-on, plan on top
- Tracked prompts
- 5–20 prompts; 150–600 checks/mo
- Free trial
- None
Peec AI
Pick it if monitoring is the whole job and you want agency seats, though any one plan covers 3 of its 11 engines.
- Entry price
- $95/mo
- Tracked prompts
- 50–350
- Free trial
- 7 days
Hi, MooseOur AEO tool
Pick it if you want the fix shipped rather than scored: an agent that publishes the change, audio repurposing no other tool here offers at any price, and a built-in model so the AI can cost you nothing.
- Entry price
- $39/mo BYOK; $79/mo AI included
- Tracked prompts
- No hard limit on any plan
- Free trial
- n/a - free plan, no expiry
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Full comparison
202 rows across 20 categories. Values are quoted as published; where a vendor does not publish a number, the cell says so.
| Feature | Ahrefs Brand Radar | Peec AI | Hi, Moose Our AEO tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing & cost model | |||
| Free plan available | Free account, no AI visibility | No | Yes - free forever, no card |
| Free daily visibility runs, no cap | No | No | Yes - local runs unlimited on every plan |
| Engines free to run daily | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Entry paid price | $199/mo add-on, plan on top | $95/mo | $39/mo BYOK; $79/mo AI included |
| Annual billing discount | Yes - 2 months free | Yes (~15%) | Yes - BYOK 2 months free; managed plans ~10% |
| Pricing model | Per engine index + prompt checks | Per prompt (brands) / credits (agency) | Flat plan with monthly AI credit balance, or BYOK |
| Bring your own API key | No | No | Yes - OpenRouter |
| Can run with $0 AI cost to vendor | No | No | Yes |
| Usage metered in one transparent unit | Partial - checks cover custom prompts only | Yes - credit = 1 prompt × 1 model × 1 day | Yes - AI credits, published rate card |
| In-app usage dashboard | Yes - limits and usage page | Partial - credit allocation per project | Yes - % used, reset date, pace warning |
| Agency / reseller tier | No - agency directory listing only | Yes | Yes - $149 BYOK Agency; $449+ AI included |
| Affiliate program | No - discontinued | Yes - Refer & Earn, up to $1,000 | Yes |
| Annual contract required | No - Enterprise annual only | No | No |
| Free trial length | None | 7 days | n/a - free plan, no expiry |
| Paid plans pricing range | $29–$1,499/mo + $199–$699 add-ons | $95–$795/mo + custom | $39–$1,999/mo |
| Deployment, privacy & data ownership | |||
| Native desktop app | No - browser extension only | No | Yes - Windows and macOS |
| Browser-based app | Yes | Yes | No |
| Local-first data storage | No - cloud SaaS | No - cloud SaaS | Yes - local database on the device |
| Works offline | No | No | Partial - local models and stored data; engine checks need the web |
| On-device AI Inference | No | No | Yes |
| Local model sizes offered | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Data export on cancellation | CSV + API anytime | CSV export anytime | CSV, PDF, DOCX exports plus full local backup |
| SOC 2 certification | SOC 2 Type 2 | Pursuing, not certified | Pending |
| ISO certification | ISO 27001 (2022) | Not published | No |
| Local backup and restore | No | No | Yes - export and import a backup file |
| Visibility & prompt tracking | |||
| Engines tracked | 8 listed; 6 collecting | 11 available, 3 per plan | 10; 5 of them also collected locally |
| Real consumer-surface capture | Yes - free web UI, no login | Yes - cloud UI scraping | Yes - 5 engines read from the device, no API |
| ChatGPT | Yes - $199/mo index | Yes | Yes |
| Claude | Custom prompts only, 8 checks each | Enterprise only | Yes |
| Gemini | Yes - $199/mo index | Yes | Yes |
| Google AI Mode | Yes - $199/mo index | Yes | Yes |
| Google AI Overviews | Yes - $199/mo index | Yes | Yes |
| Grok | Listed, collection paused | Paid add-on | Yes |
| Bing Copilot | Yes - $199/mo index | Yes | Yes |
| DeepSeek | No | Enterprise only | Yes |
| Meta AI | No | No | Yes |
| Tracked prompts included | 5–20 prompts; 150–600 checks/mo | 50–350 | No hard limit on any plan |
| Samples per prompt configurable | No | No - 1 run/day | Yes |
| Run cadence options | Daily, weekly or monthly | Daily; weekly on top tiers | Multiple times a day, weekly, monthly, and on-demand |
| On-demand run now | Not published | No | Yes |
| Instant one-off check | Yes - search the stored index | No | Yes |
| Prompt manager | Yes - add, tag, delete | Yes | Yes |
| Branded vs non-branded classification | Not published | Yes - automatic | Yes |
| Prompt categories and topics | Yes - tags + topic clusters | Yes - topics + tags | Yes |
| Per-prompt model selection | Yes - engines set per prompt | No - set per project | Yes |
| Brand name variant support | Yes - multiple names per brand | Yes - aliases + regex | Yes - secondary brand terms |
| Brand multi-domain support | Yes - uncapped | Yes | Yes - secondary owned domains |
| Suggested prompts from Google Search Console | No | No | Yes - real GSC questions |
| Suggested prompts from competitor gaps | Partial - AI generator from brand focus areas | No - from brand profile + search volume | Yes |
| Perplexity | Yes - $199/mo index | Yes | Yes |
| Scoring & analysis | |||
| Mention detection | Yes - string match | Yes | Yes |
| Citation detection | Yes - cited vs found-not-cited | Yes - sources and citations tracked separately | Yes - domain and page level |
| Sentiment scoring | No | Yes - 0–100 | Yes |
| Average position / rank | No | Yes | Yes |
| Share of Voice | Yes - impression-weighted | Yes | Yes |
| Share of Mentions | Partial - mention counts per brand | Yes - "Visibility" | Yes |
| Share of Citations | Partial - citation counts per domain | Yes | Yes |
| Narrative drift detection | No | Partial - Brand Perception attributes | Yes - scored against a brand truth profile |
| Feature-parity / accuracy scoring | No | Partial - AI Shopping attributes only | Yes |
| Untracked brand extraction | Partial - auto-suggests rivals at setup | Yes | Yes - with sentiment and average rank |
| Cited source categorization | Partial - by domain and page, not typed | Yes - 5 types + custom | Yes - 8 source types |
| Topic-level breakdown | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Engine-level breakdown | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Competitor tracking | Yes - any brand, no setup wait | Yes | Yes - or promote any brand seen in results |
| Competitors included | Uncapped | Uncapped | 15 |
| Visibility gap analysis | Yes - topic and citation gaps | Yes - Gap Score | Yes |
| ChatGPT fan-out capture | Yes - ChatGPT and Perplexity | Yes | Yes |
| AI Mode grounding queries capture | No | No - fanouts on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot | Yes - the live grounding searches |
| Bing Index probe | No | No | Yes |
| AI crawler access check | Partial - bot traffic logs, no robots check | Yes - 40+ bots | Yes - retrieval, live fetch and training |
| Reporting & exports | |||
| Executive dashboard | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| AI-written narrative summary | No | Partial - Brand Perception summary | Yes |
| Data export | Yes - CSV, API, Looker Studio | Yes - CSV, Data Studio, API | Yes - CSV |
| Branded PDF report | No - Ahrefs branding, stated policy | No | Yes |
| Scheduled email reports | Partial - report scheduling, $249+ | No | Yes - paid, per-user opt-in |
| Action log with export | No - audit log on Enterprise | Chat archive CSV only | Yes - CSV on paid managed plans |
| Historical data retention | AI answers from 2025; 6–60 mo by plan | Not published | No cap - stored on device,. Paid plans offer 400 day backup on-cloud; audio analytics 180–365 days |
| Taking action (the AEO loop) | |||
| Covers full loop: track → fix → verify → deploy | No - measurement only | No - track + recommend only | Yes |
| Page-level AEO audit | No - technical SEO audit only | No | Yes |
| Scored categories | 0 for AI readiness | 0 | 9 |
| Retrieval-readiness scoring | No | No | Yes - deterministic dense retrieval |
| Evidence tiers on recommendations | No - no recommendations | No - 1–3 opportunity score | Yes - proven, directional, best-practice |
| Element-level rewrite suggestions | No | No | Yes - element, character budget, before and after |
| Second-model QA pass | No | No | Yes - pass, revised or needs human review |
| Static crawler-view snapshot | No | No | Yes - full-page screenshot, JavaScript off |
| Audit input sources | n/a - no AI page audit | n/a | Live URL, pasted text, file, WordPress, Webflow, Grav |
| Baseline vs verification re-runs | Partial - crawl compare, not AI | Partial - Actions "Impact" view | Yes - compares against the baseline |
| Recommendation status tracking | No | Partial | Yes - planned, staged, completed |
| Visibility data sets page priority | Partial - cited pages report | Yes - Relative Opportunity Score | Yes - defend, recover, convert, earn |
| Search Console sets page priority | Partial - GSC data in platform | No | Yes - protect, balanced or expand |
| Branded audit PDF | n/a - no AI page audit | No | Yes |
| CMS integration & publishing | |||
| WordPress | Plugin for audits, no publishing | Log plugin only, no publishing | Yes - official plugin, production and staging |
| Webflow | No | No | Yes - OAuth MCP, pages and collection items |
| Framer | No | No | On roadmap |
| Grav | No | No | Yes - official plugin |
| Shopify | No | Catalog import only | On roadmap |
| Surgical element-level edits to live page | No | No | Yes |
| Preview before applying | No | No | Yes |
| Staging environment support | No | No | Yes - WordPress, with promote to production |
| One-click rollback | No | No | Yes - WordPress |
| Patch history per site | No | No | Yes - WordPress |
| Visual placement picker | No | No | Yes - pick the spot on the rendered page |
| Push Schema JSON-LD into page | No | No | Yes - FAQPage schema |
| Publish approval gate | n/a - never publishes | n/a - never publishes | Yes - always, including scheduled runs |
| Agentic capability | |||
| Truly agentic (agent chooses its own steps) | No - separate product, $99+/mo | No | Yes - plans and executes against the live web |
| Fixed-workflow automation only | No workflow builder either | No automation either | No - workflows exist alongside the agent |
| Agents can run on local model at zero cost | No | No | Yes |
| Multi-agent panel | No | No | Yes - two extra agents, paid plans |
| Live browser view | No | No | Yes |
| Take control mid-run | No | No | Yes |
| Steer agent while running | No | No | Yes - talk to any agent mid-job |
| Background execution | No - separate product | No | Yes - with notify on completion |
| Approval gate before real-world actions | n/a - takes no actions | MCP writes only | Yes |
| Long-running deep work jobs | No | No | Yes |
| Scheduled agent jobs | No - scheduled prompt checks only | No | Yes - daily, weekdays, weekly, monthly |
| Agent produces saved artifacts | No | No | Yes - briefs, drafts, FAQs, audits |
| Evidence capture | Partial - raw AI answers stored | No | Yes - screenshots and captured proof |
| Searchable job history | No - saved reports only | No | Yes |
| Chat & assistant | |||
| Agentic chat with mid-answer tool calls | No - data exposed to outside assistants via MCP | Partial - in-app data agent + MCP | Yes |
| Model picker per conversation | No | No | Yes |
| LLM models available | n/a | n/a | 27 hosted + 3 local; any model on BYOK |
| Chat memory across conversations | No | No | Yes - semantic search over past chats |
| Live web search | No | No | Yes |
| Fetch and read URLs | Partial - import a URL in the editor | Cited source URLs only, via MCP | Yes |
| Semantic search over your own site | No | No | Yes - on-device index |
| Topic coverage check | Partial - topic score vs top pages | No | Yes - covered, partial or not covered |
| File attachments | No | No | Yes - txt, md, doc, docx, pdf, images |
| In-app screenshot capture | No | No | Yes - screen or window, with crop |
| Custom specialists with own tool access | No | No | Yes - plus 6 presets |
| Image generation | No | No | Yes |
| Content generation | |||
| Research-backed briefs | Partial - topics and headings from top pages | No | Yes |
| Live SERP / PAA research | Yes - separate $99/mo add-on | No - fanout queries only | Yes - plus related searches and AI search snapshots |
| Full draft generation | No - assisted editor, 1 doc/mo free | No | Yes |
| Brand voice grounding | Yes - brand kits | No | Yes |
| Brand truth profile | No - brand names and domains only | Partial - Brand Profile | Yes |
| Internal linking placement | No - listed as coming soon | No | Yes |
| Featured image generation | No | No | Yes |
| FAQ generation with schema export | No | No | Yes - HTML and JSON-LD |
| Key points extraction | No | No | Yes - pushable into the live pag |
| AI-tell removal pass | Separate free tool, not in product | No | Yes - paid, toggleable |
| Artifact library | Partial - saved documents | No | Yes |
| Export formats | CSV, PDF; API, Looker | CSV | Markdown, HTML, DOCX, PDF, TXT |
| Revise artifacts in place | Yes - editor + version history | No | Yes |
| Deploy directly to CMS | No | No | Yes |
| Content repurposing / audio | |||
| Turn any page into audio | No | No | Yes - URL, pasted text or file |
| Two-voice conversation format | No | No | Yes |
| Voices | 0 | 0 | 30 |
| Languages | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| Length options | n/a | n/a | Short, standard, deep dive |
| Embeddable audio player | No | No | Yes |
| Player theming and layout | No | No | Yes - theme, layout, accent, title, transcript |
| White-label audio attribution | No | No | Yes - agency plans |
| Attribution backlink to agency | No | No | Yes - real link in page HTML |
| Listening analytics | No | No | Yes - plays, completion, listen time |
| BYOK audio generation | No | No | Yes |
| Site crawl & monitoring | |||
| Automatic site discovery | Yes - own crawler + sitemap | No | Yes |
| Scheduled full-site crawl | Yes - 100k–5M pages/mo by plan | No - reads AI bot logs, not your site | Yes - weekly or on demand |
| Monitored page management | Yes | No | Yes |
| Batched change digests | Partial - crawl comparison + email alerts | No | Yes |
| On-device semantic index | No | No | Yes |
| Page freshness tracking | Partial - page and content change data | No | Yes |
| Entity & knowledge graph | |||
| Site-wide entity graph | No | No | Yes |
| Inferred relationships | No | No | Yes |
| Salience scoring | No | No | Yes |
| Graph readable by AI agent | No | No | Yes |
| Graph export | No | No | Yes - CSV and PDF |
| Automation & workflows | |||
| Visibility-threshold triggers | No | No | Yes - mentions or citations, all or one topic |
| Pre-built recovery recipe | No | No | Yes - detect, locate, audit, stage a fix |
| Conditional branching | No | No | Partial - branches on whether a matching page exists |
| Scheduled content cadence | No | No | Yes - daily to monthly |
| Workflow reports | No | MCP slash-commands only | Yes - posted to the inbox |
| Alerts & inbox | |||
| Unified project inbox | No | No | Yes |
| Native OS notifications | No | No | Yes - Windows and macOS |
| Customized notifications with severity thresholds | No | No | Yes - per project |
| Email digest | Partial - web mentions and rankings, not AI | No - product newsletter only | Yes |
| Teams & workspaces | |||
| Seats included | 1 | Unlimited | Unlimited on paid managed; 10 BYOK Premium, 25 BYOK Agency |
| Cost per additional seat | $40–$80/mo | $0 | $0 on paid managed plans, +$7 per seat for BYOK plans |
| Shared allowance across team | Yes - shared checks and credits | Yes - shared prompt/credit pool | Yes |
| Per-member usage visibility | Partial - per-user credit usage | No | Yes |
| Multi-project workspaces | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Projects included | 5 / 20 / 50 / 100 | 1–5 brands; 3–25 agency | 1 free, 3–10 managed, 25–unlimited agency; +$10 each |
| Archive and restore projects | Not published | Prompts only | Yes |
| Per-project API keys | No - account-level | No - company-level, Enterprise | Yes - rotatable |
| SSO / SAML | Enterprise only | Enterprise only | Roadmap |
| Agency & white-label | |||
| White-label PDF reports | No - stated policy | No | Yes - visibility report and audit |
| Custom logo, color and link | No | No | Yes |
| White-label audio player | No | No | Yes - custom attribution text and link |
| Client-facing backlink | No | No | Yes |
| Dedicated agency tier | No | Yes - 4 tiers | Yes - four tiers |
| Client sub-accounts | No - projects and seats only | Yes - client seats + pitch projects | No - clients are projects, no client logins |
| Integrations | |||
| Google Search Console | Yes | No | Yes - OAuth, credentials stay on device |
| Google Analytics | Partial - GA4 import into their analytics | Yes - AI Referrals | Roadmap |
| MCP connector support | Yes - hosted server, $129+ | Yes | Partial - Webflow connects over MCP |
| Public API | Yes - $129+, unit-metered | Enterprise only | No - project keys for own plugins only |
| Slack | No | No - community only | No |
| Zapier | No | No | No |
| Custom connection support | Yes - API and data connector | Generic log webhook | Yes - request a connection, paid plans |
| Platform & support | |||
| UI languages | 12 | 1 (English) | 6 |
| Troubleshooting and recovery tools | No | No | Yes |
| In-app help agent | Partial - live chat with support | Yes | Yes |
| Done-for-you service available | No - partner agency directory | No - partner agency directory | Yes |
| Team | |||
| Founders have SEO backgrounds | Yes. | No. Marius Meiners, Daniel Drabo and Tobias Siwonia, who met in Antler's Berlin accelerator cohort; Meiners came from PwC's venture deals team rather than search. | Yes. Founder Sam Morris has 15+ years in SEO and software engineering. |
Which one to pick
Ahrefs Brand Radar and Peec AI work well for teams that mainly need cloud-based AI visibility tracking. Ahrefs suits teams that value its search-backed prompt index, SEO data connections, public API, and SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 certifications. Peec AI suits agencies that need client sub-accounts or unlimited seats, along with cloud-based tracking, sentiment, position, and citation metrics.
Hi, Moose fits teams that want to move from visibility data to page changes in one tool. It tracks 10 engines, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Grok, Bing Copilot, DeepSeek, Meta AI, and Perplexity. It also captures Google AI Mode grounding queries, runs page-level AEO audits across nine scored categories, prepares element-level edits, compares verification runs with a baseline, and supports approved publishing to WordPress, Webflow, and Grav.
Cost and control also separate Hi, Moose from both options. The free plan has no expiry or card requirement, and every plan includes unlimited local daily visibility runs across five engines. Paid plans start at $39 per month with BYOK or $79 per month with AI included. Teams can use an OpenRouter key or local models, which can reduce AI costs to $0 for the vendor. Hi, Moose stores data in a local database on the user’s device and supports full local backup and restore.
Agencies can also use Hi, Moose for branded PDF reports, white-label audio players, and four dedicated agency tiers. It does not offer client logins, a public API, browser access, or completed SOC 2 or ISO certification. Those limits matter for enterprise procurement and cloud-first client portals. For SMBs and agencies that want AI visibility tracking, evidence-based fixes, approval-controlled publishing, and local data control at a lower entry price, Hi, Moose offers the broader working loop.
Sources and research date
Researched August 2026
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