# The best AI visibility tools for online stores in 2026 > Thirteen AI visibility tools compared for online stores, by AI engines, price, team seats and shopping features, read from each tool’s own pages. Source: https://overthefence.io/blog/best-ai-visibility-tools · Published 2026-10-03 · By Denis Vodisek, founder of Over the Fence Most AI visibility tools were built for marketing teams at big brands. A store needs something else, its AI visibility beside its competitors’. Here are 13 tools, what each one tracks and costs, and the one we’d pick for a store. *We make Over the Fence, the first tool below. Every fact about the other tools is from that tool’s own website, read on October 3, 2026, with the page linked. Semrush’s site showed us a CAPTCHA, so its numbers come from the Internet Archive’s copies of its own pricing pages, dated where we use them. Prices change. Check them before you buy.* An AI visibility tool asks AI engines the questions your buyers ask and records which brands and websites the answers name. For a big brand, that number is a marketing metric. For a store, it only means something next to your competitors’. “Cited in 17 answers” is good news if your closest rival has 6, and bad news if it has 36. That’s the test we used. Each tool below is described by what it tracks, how often, what it costs and how many people on your team can use it.
**Our pick for online stores is Over the Fence:** AI visibility against each competitor you name, beside their prices, promotions and Google rankings, with your whole team on every plan. It reads Google’s AI Overviews, the AI answers at the top of Google. If you also want ChatGPT and Perplexity checked daily, add OtterlyAI at $29 a month.
## What a store should look for 1. **Your competitors beside you.** A share of AI answers means nothing on its own. The tool should name your rivals and put their numbers next to yours. 2. **The answers your buyers see.** Google’s AI Overviews sit on top of the search results most shoppers still start with. Alphabet’s CEO said in June 2026 that they have 2.5 billion monthly users, as [The Motley Fool reported](https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/08/21/sundar-pichai-alphabets-ai-billion-users/). ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini matter too, and how much depends on your buyers. 3. **What to do about it.** A score that moves isn’t a plan. Look for the sources the answers trust, the pages they cite instead of yours and what those pages say that yours don’t. 4. **Your products, if you sell many.** A few tools track individual products in AI shopping answers. Most keep that for their bigger plans. 5. **The whole bill.** Check the monthly price, not only the yearly one, and how many people it includes. Extra users often cost extra. ## At a glance Entry prices are billed monthly unless the table says otherwise, as read on October 3, 2026. | Tool | Entry price | AI engines on the entry plan | How often | People on the entry plan | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Over the Fence | $119 a month (Growth) for citations against each rival. Basic AI visibility from $49 | Google’s AI Overviews | Weekly | Unlimited | | Peec AI | $95 a month, 50 prompts | 3 models | Daily | Unlimited | | OtterlyAI | $29 a month, 15 prompts | ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot | Daily | Not stated | | Profound | Custom (brands). Agencies from $99 plus $399 a client | Up to 9 on Enterprise | Daily | Unlimited | | Semrush AI Visibility | $99 a month per domain, billed annually | ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini, Perplexity | Daily | Extra users from $45 a month | | Ahrefs Brand Radar | Lite at $129 a month includes 5 prompts a day | 6 engines, plus Claude for prompts | Daily, weekly or monthly | 1 on Lite | | SE Ranking | Core at $129 a month includes 100 prompts a day | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Mode, AI Overviews | Daily | 1 manager seat | | Scrunch | $250 a month per brand, 125 prompts | ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Copilot | Daily for 14 days, then every 72 hours | 5 | | AthenaHQ | Free plan. Starter $295 a month | 11 models on Starter | 1 to 7 days a week | Unlimited on Starter | | Rankscale | $99 a month (Pro). Essentials $17 a month, billed yearly | 17+ on every plan | Hourly to monthly | Unlimited on Pro | | Goodie | $478.80 a month | 5 engines | Daily | 5 | | Writesonic | $99 a month, 50 prompts | ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews | Daily | 1 | | Similarweb | $129 a month, 150 prompts | ChatGPT, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity | Daily | 1 | ## 1. Over the Fence *Our pick for online stores. This one is ours.* Over the Fence starts from your store and the 3, 6 or 12 competitors you name, not from a list of prompts. Every week it counts how many of Google’s AI Overviews cite you and each competitor, for searches in your country and language, with the questions and sources behind every count. For every keyword you track, it shows whether Google showed an AI Overview and which websites it cited. What no other tool here does is read your rivals’ own shops: their prices, stock and promotions, beside their new pages and Google rankings, in the same weekly read. When a rival’s AI citations climb in the same weeks it published a buying guide and cut its prices, you see all three on one timeline, in one email with three findings at most and what to do first. - **Price:** Growth, $119 a month, has the full AI Overview citations, you against each rival. Starter, $49, has basic AI visibility. Scale, $249, adds a check of whether AI answers get your facts right and whether AI crawlers can read each store. Every plan includes unlimited team members and starts with 3 days free. - **Engines:** Google’s AI Overviews, weekly. Not ChatGPT, Perplexity or Gemini yet. - **Pick it if:** you run a store and want AI visibility as part of knowing where you stand against your rivals. [See how our AI visibility works](/ai-visibility) ## 2. Peec AI *AI search analytics for marketing teams.* [Pricing](https://peec.ai/pricing) Peec AI tracks the prompts you choose every day. Plans start at $95 a month for 50 prompts across 3 AI models, or $80 a month billed annually, with unlimited users on every plan. It checks answers against facts you set about your brand. It was also the only tool we read with product-level AI shopping tracking on its entry plan: it can import a Shopify catalog to see how each product shows up in AI shopping answers. There’s a trial with no card. - **Pick it if:** you have a large catalog and want each product tracked in AI shopping answers. ## 3. OtterlyAI *AI search monitoring at the lowest monthly price here.* [Pricing](https://otterly.ai/pricing) OtterlyAI’s Lite plan is $29 a month, or $25 billed annually, for 15 prompts checked daily across ChatGPT, Google’s AI Overviews, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot. Google AI Mode, Gemini and Claude are paid add-ons. Plans are monthly and can be canceled any time. - **Pick it if:** you want daily ChatGPT and Perplexity checks on a small budget. It pairs well with Over the Fence, which covers your rivals and Google. ## 4. Profound *AI visibility for large brands.* [Pricing](https://www.tryprofound.com/pricing) Profound doesn’t list a self-serve paid plan for brands. Its options are a free trial and a custom-priced Enterprise plan that tracks up to 9 answer engines, among them Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Copilot and Claude. The trial runs 50 prompts a day for 7 days across ChatGPT, Gemini and Google’s AI Overviews, with unlimited seats. On Enterprise, it tracks how products show up in ChatGPT Shopping down to the SKU, including which retailer gets the checkout. Agencies start at $99 a month, plus $399 a month for each client workspace. - **Pick it if:** you’re a large brand with a budget for an enterprise contract. ## 5. Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit *AI visibility inside the biggest SEO suite.* [AI pricing (archived)](https://web.archive.org/web/20260921083641/https://www.semrush.com/pricing/ai/) Semrush’s AI Visibility toolkit started at $99 a month per domain, billed annually, with 25 prompts tracked daily, and it reports mentions from ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini and Perplexity (pricing page as captured on September 21, 2026). Its Starter plan, which combines SEO with AI search, cost $199 a month billed monthly with 50 AI prompts a day ([capture of October 2, 2026](https://web.archive.org/web/20261002154523/https://www.semrush.com/pricing/seo-ai-search/)). Extra users start at $45 a month. - **Pick it if:** your team already lives in Semrush for SEO. Our [Semrush comparison](/compare/semrush) covers the rest. ## 6. Ahrefs Brand Radar *AI visibility inside Ahrefs.* [Brand Radar](https://ahrefs.com/brand-radar) Every paid Ahrefs plan from Lite, at $129 a month, includes custom AI prompts: 5 a day on Lite, 10 on Standard and 20 on Advanced, checked daily, weekly or monthly. Brand Radar covers Google’s AI Overviews and AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot, and custom prompts can also run on Claude. Its AI Visibility Index, the wider data set, is an add-on at $199 a month for one AI platform or $699 for all of them ([help center](https://help.ahrefs.com/en/articles/11064852-what-is-brand-radar-and-how-to-use-it)). Lite includes 1 user. - **Pick it if:** you already pay for Ahrefs. Our [Ahrefs comparison](/compare/ahrefs) covers the rest. ## 7. SE Ranking *Rank tracking and AI prompts in one plan.* [Pricing](https://seranking.com/subscription.html) SE Ranking’s Core plan, $129 a month, tracks 100 AI prompts a day with 2,000 keywords, reading answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Mode and AI Overviews. More prompt capacity is an add-on from $89 a month. Core includes 1 manager seat. The 14-day trial needs no card and includes 20 AI prompts a day. - **Pick it if:** you want daily rank tracking and AI prompts in one SEO tool. Our [SE Ranking comparison](/compare/se-ranking) covers the rest. ## 8. Scrunch *AI visibility for growing brands.* [Pricing](https://scrunch.com/pricing/) Scrunch’s Core plan is $250 a month per brand for 125 prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google’s AI Overviews and Copilot, with 5 user licenses and 5 tracked competitors. It collects answers daily for a new prompt’s first 14 days, then every 72 hours by default. Enterprise covers 9 AI platforms. The 7-day trial needs a card and turns into a paid plan unless you cancel. - **Pick it if:** you want several engines and named competitors at a mid-market price. ## 9. AthenaHQ *Many engines, unlimited seats.* [Plans](https://www.athenahq.ai/plans) AthenaHQ has a free plan with 300 credits, where one credit is one AI response. Starter is $295 a month, or $245 billed annually, for 3,600 credits across 11 AI models, with unlimited seats and unlimited competitor tracking. You choose how many days a week your prompts run, from one to seven. It can publish content to Shopify. - **Pick it if:** you want many AI models and a large team on one plan. ## 10. Rankscale *The most engines for the money.* [Pricing](https://rankscale.ai/pricing) Rankscale says all of its 17+ AI engines are available on every plan, with checks you schedule from hourly to monthly. Pro is $99 a month for 1,200 credits, up to 4,800 AI answers by its count, with unlimited users. Its shopping analysis, which reads shopping results in ChatGPT, Google AI Mode and Copilot, starts on Pro. The smallest plan, Essentials, works out to $17 a month but is sold yearly. Pro has a 7-day free trial. - **Pick it if:** you want the widest engine coverage and control over how often it checks. ## 11. Goodie *AI visibility with commerce tools.* [Pricing](https://higoodie.com/pricing/) Goodie’s Core plan is $478.80 a month billed monthly, or $399 a month billed annually, for 120 prompts across 5 AI engines, collected daily, with 5 seats and a 7-day free trial. SKU-level tracking of AI shopping answers starts on Pro, at $999 a month billed annually. It integrates with Shopify, BigCommerce and Google Merchant Center for product feed fixes. - **Pick it if:** you’re a larger store that wants AI shopping tracking and feed fixes in one tool. ## 12. Writesonic *AI writing with AI visibility tracking.* [Pricing](https://writesonic.com/pricing) Writesonic’s Starter plan is $99 a month, or $79 billed annually, for 50 prompts tracked daily across ChatGPT, Gemini and Google’s AI Overviews, with 1 user and 1 project. All 10 of its AI platforms, Perplexity and Claude among them, are on Enterprise, as is its shopping tracking. Every paid plan also writes AI articles and runs site audits. The trial needs no card. - **Pick it if:** you want one tool to track AI answers and write the content. ## 13. Similarweb *AI brand visibility from a web traffic company.* [AI pricing](https://aisearch.similarweb.com/ai-brand-visibility/) Similarweb’s AEO Intelligence plan is $129 a month billed monthly, or $99 a month billed annually, for 150 tracked prompts and 1 user. It covers ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Gemini and Perplexity, updates daily and shows the top 30 brands for each topic you track. - **Pick it if:** you already use Similarweb for traffic data. [Try Over the Fence on your own site](https://overthefence.io/start) ## How to choose - **You run a store and want to know where you stand against your rivals.** Over the Fence, with AI Overview citations against each rival on Growth at $119 a month and your whole team included. Add OtterlyAI at $29 for daily ChatGPT and Perplexity checks. - **You sell hundreds of products and care how each one shows up in AI shopping answers.** Peec AI from $95, or Rankscale Pro at $99. - **You want the most AI engines for the money.** Rankscale. - **You already pay for an SEO suite.** Try its AI add-on first: Semrush, Ahrefs or SE Ranking. - **You’re a large brand with an enterprise budget.** Profound or Goodie. Whatever you pick, look at it every week, against the same competitors. A trend you watch beats a score you check once. ## Questions ### What is an AI visibility tool? Software that asks AI engines such as ChatGPT, Google’s AI Overviews, Perplexity and Gemini the questions your buyers ask, records which brands and websites the answers name or cite, and shows how that changes over time. Some also say which sources the answers trust and what to fix. ### What is the best AI visibility tool for a small online store? One that shows your AI visibility beside your competitors’, not on its own, at a price a small store can justify. We built Over the Fence for that. Its Growth plan, $119 a month, shows AI Overview citations against each rival you name, with your whole team included. If you also want ChatGPT and Perplexity checked every day, OtterlyAI starts at $29 a month billed monthly (read October 3, 2026). ### Which AI visibility tools track products in AI shopping answers? Of the pricing pages we read on October 3, 2026, Peec AI’s was the only one listing product-level tracking on its entry plan, from a Shopify catalog. Rankscale and Goodie start it on their second plan, and Profound, Scrunch and Writesonic list it on Enterprise. ### How much do AI visibility tools cost? From free to custom enterprise contracts. On October 3, 2026, monthly-billed entry plans ran from $29 (OtterlyAI) to $478.80 (Goodie), and Profound priced brands on request. Count the users too. Several plans include one, and extra users cost more. ### Are AI visibility numbers accurate? They are samples. AI answers change from one asking to the next, so every tool asks a set of questions on a schedule and counts what comes back. Treat the numbers as a trend against your competitors, not as a rank. A good tool lets you open the answers behind every count. ### Is an answer engine optimization tool the same as an AI visibility tool? Mostly. “Answer engine optimization” (AEO) and “generative engine optimization” (GEO) are names for the work of being cited by AI answers. AI visibility tools measure it. Some, like Writesonic and AthenaHQ, also help write and publish the content.