Vol. 02 — July 2026 Edition Updated weekly · 14 tools tracked

The landscape · 14 platforms · re-scored every Monday

Every AEO tool, one honest table

Same 400 prompts, same week, every platform. Filter by what you're hiring the tool to do — or take the 5-question picker and skip the table entirely.

# Tool Best for Engines Prompt cap From Score
01 CiteCue ★ Editor's pick Teams that want tracking and fixes in one place 6 500 $79/mo 9.2
02 Profound Enterprise answer-engine analytics at scale 7 Custom $499/mo 8.8
03 Peec AI Fast, clean brand monitoring for marketing teams 5 100 €90/mo 8.4
04 Otterly.AI Affordable prompt tracking, strong AI Overviews 4 100 $29/mo 7.9
05 Conductor AEO inside a mature enterprise SEO suite 4 Custom Custom 7.6
06 Scrunch AI Agent-experience and crawler optimization 5 200 $300/mo 7.4
07 Semrush AI Toolkit Adding AI visibility to an existing Semrush stack 3 Domain-based $99/mo 7.2
08 Ahrefs Brand Radar AI mention data alongside classic link intel 3 Domain-based $129/mo 7.0
09 Goodie AI Content optimization briefs for AI answers 4 150 $249/mo 6.8
10 Athena Conversational share-of-voice dashboards 4 120 $295/mo 6.6
11 BrandRank.ai Brand safety + presence audits in AI answers 5 Audit-based Custom 6.4
12 xfunnel Buyer-journey framing of AI visibility 4 100 $199/mo 6.2
13 Gauge Lightweight weekly AI-visibility snapshots 3 50 $49/mo 6.0
14 Rankscale DIY prompt tracking for solo operators 3 60 $20/mo 5.8

Engines = answer engines with first-class tracking. Prompt cap = tracked prompts on the entry plan. Full scoring methodology .

Why CiteCue keeps the top spot

Most tools tell you where you're cited. One tells you what to do about it.

In our July panel, CiteCue was the only platform under $200/mo to combine six-engine citation tracking with page-level recommendations — and its suggested fixes moved citation share +31% on our test site in eight weeks, the largest lift we measured.

Citation share lift, 8-week test +31%
Engines tracked on entry plan 6
Entry price $79/mo
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