Best AI Visibility Tools for SaaS & Tech GEO in 2026

If you're running marketing for a SaaS startup or a tech company, you've probably noticed the shift: your potential customers aren't just Googling anymore. They're asking ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude for software recommendations.

Your next +$50k deal could come from generative AI tools. If your brand isn't appearing in those AI-generated answers, you're invisible to a growing segment of senior decision makers your market.

At Generate More, we've spent +80 hours over the past few weeks testing every major AI visibility platform to understand which ones actually deliver for tech companies. Here's what I learned, and what you should be looking for.

What You Should Expect from an AI Visibility Tool

Before diving into specific tools, let's establish baseline expectations. A good AI visibility solution should:

• Track the AI engines that matter: At minimum ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Bonus points for Claude, Gemini, and emerging platforms.
• Show you where you're mentioned: Not just that you appeared, but in what context, for which prompts, and compared to competitors.
• Provide actionable insights: Data without direction is useless. You need to know what to fix, not just what's broken.
• Scale with your needs: Whether you're tracking 50 prompts or 500, pricing should be reasonable and transparent.

What you shouldn't expect (yet): Perfect attribution from AI mention to closed deal. The technology isn't there, and any tool promising complete ROI tracking is overselling. These tools give directional insights. Don't go looking for a GA4 replacement.

Top AI visibility tools for SaaS startups and tech companies

This evaluation is based on the needs of software companies and services between $1-20M ARR, who need an AI visibility solution to help grown awareness and new revenues in a competitive market segment. All solutions have actually been tested and recordings can be seen on our Youtube channel.

Based on comprehensive testing across pricing, features, data accuracy, and usability, here's how the major platforms stack up for use by SaaS startups and technology companies. All pricing and feature elements are up-to-date as of October, 2025.

1. Writesonic — Best All-in-One Platform

Rating: 3.9/5

Writesonic started as an AI content creation platform and has evolved into a comprehensive solution combining content writing, SEO tools, and AI search visibility monitoring. The platform tracks brand mentions across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and parses citations from AI Overviews and Perplexity.

What makes Writesonic unique

Writesonic is the only platform that genuinely integrates content creation with visibility tracking. The Content Strategy Planner analyzes your website, compares it to competitors, and provides content ideas that directly impact AI search visibility, connected to Ahrefs data with traffic estimates and difficulty ratings.

Standout features

1. Action Center: Writesonic conducts a site audit and provides a list of recommendations to enhance AI search visibility, with some issues fixable directly within Writesonic if you connect your website.
2. Geographic Intelligence: The platform scrapes AI interfaces while simulating different geographical locations, revealing how your brand appears differently across markets—critical intelligence that location-agnostic API monitoring misses.
3. Content Gap Analysis: Identifies opportunities where competitors are visible but you're not, providing specific content angles to cover in your next content batch.

Limitations

Writesonic cannot directly connect AI citations to actual leads or revenue—you'll still need GA4 setup to track actual conversions from AI search engines. Sentiment tracking exists but is locked behind the expensive $499/month Advanced plan, making comprehensive sentiment monitoring unaffordable for most SaaS companies.

Platform support is limited to WordPress, Cloudflare, and Vercel for AI crawler analytics, with no integration for Wix, Shopify, or Squarespace. At $249/month for the Professional plan (minimum for AI visibility features), it's competitively priced but not the cheapest option.

See our in-depth Writesonic AI visibility review.

2. SE Ranking — Best Value for Combined SEO + AI Visibility

Rating: 3.8/5

SE Ranking is an established all-in-one SEO platform that recently added AI Search Visibility as an optional add-on. The platform is used by agencies, founders, and in-house teams to manage the entire search process, making it a natural fit for tech companies already invested in SEO.

What makes SE Ranking unique

SE Ranking offers the best price-to-benefit ratio in the market, costing 35-50% less than buying separate SEO and AI visibility tools while offering comparable or better features. If you need both traditional SEO tracking and AI visibility monitoring, this is the most economical choice.

Standout features

1. Real-Time Interface Scraping: Rather than relying on vague third-party APIs, SE Ranking scrapes real AI search interfaces and stores cached snapshots of each AI result, allowing you to verify every mention by viewing the actual AI response.
2. AI Traffic Estimation: SE Ranking shows estimated traffic coming from AI Search Engines to your website without any additional Cloudflare setup—a feature not many tools offer.
3. Comprehensive Platform: For approximately €138/month, you get the full SEO suite (keyword research, rank tracking, backlink analysis, technical audit) plus 250 daily AI prompts tracked, 500 keywords to track daily, and access to SE Visible for sentiment analysis.

Limitations

AI visibility features are fragmented across three separate interfaces, creating a steep learning curve for new users. SE Ranking currently offers tracking for only two AI search engines—Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT—though they're working to add AI Mode and Perplexity.

The sentiment analysis is vague and lacks context, providing just a basic score rather than detailed information. For teams prioritizing user experience over comprehensive data, the scattered interface may be frustrating.

See our in-depth SE Ranking AI visibility review.

3. Scalenut — Best Budget Option

Rating: 3.75/5

Scalenut is positioned as a simple and low-cost tool to track how brands show up in AI search, working with four AI search engines: Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, ChatGPT, and Claude.

What makes Scalenut unique

Scalenut offers usage-based pricing that's completely flexible, ensuring brands of all sizes can access AI-powered search visibility monitoring without unnecessary overhead. For tech companies with limited budgets, this is the most cost-effective entry point.

Standout features

1. Unbeatable Pricing: Tracking 150 prompts across 3 AI engines with weekly refresh costs approximately $78/month—significantly less than $249/month alternatives.
2. AI Traffic Monitor: Shows both top AI sources of traffic and most visited pages, displaying measured (not just estimated) traffic once you connect your domain through Cloudflare.
3. Reddit Sentiment Tracking: Social UpReach module tracks Reddit threads and sentiment about your brand, valuable because Reddit is frequently mentioned in AI search results and influences AI answers.

Limitations

Scalenut monitors only 4 AI search engines and does not include Copilot. The tool provides data but minimal execution guidance—there's no "Action Center" with clear issues and solutions.

Despite claims of daily updates in their help center, in practice the process may run monthly rather than daily or weekly, potentially causing delays in decision-making. The AI Traffic Monitor requires connecting your domain to GEO Watchtower through Cloudflare, adding setup complexity.

See our in-depth Scalenut AI visibility review.

4. Gumshoe AI — Best for Persona-Driven Strategic Insights

Rating: 3.7/5

Gumshoe AI is a Seattle-based startup founded by Patrick O'Donnell, known for his work on Urbanspoon and MightyAI. The company raised $2 million in pre-seed funding in May 2025 and has quickly established itself with a unique persona-driven approach to AI visibility tracking.

What makes Gumshoe AI unique

Unlike competitors that track generic keywords, Gumshoe builds rich, realistic buyer personas and shows you WHO sees your brand and in what context. This strategic lens reveals insights other tools completely miss—particularly valuable for SaaS companies with distinct customer segments like technical buyers versus business decision-makers.

Standout features

1. Persona-First Methodology: Instead of treating all queries the same, Gumshoe asks AI models to respond through the lens of distinct customer types, providing human details that the models would know about their users. For B2B SaaS, this means you can see how your product appears to CTOs versus marketing directors versus procurement managers.
2. Most Comprehensive AI Engine Coverage: Tracks ChatGPT (multiple versions including GPT-5, GPT-5 Mini, GPT-4o), Gemini, AI Overviews, Perplexity, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek, and AI Mode—only missing Copilot. This is the most complete coverage available.
3. Rigorous Data Quality: Dual validation system (API-first connection plus native interface validation) ensures results stay consistent with real-world responses. Every conversation starts fresh with no cookies or history, and you get full conversation transcripts to verify every finding yourself.

Limitations

Gumshoe doesn't analyze whether mentions are positive, negative, or neutral—you can see you're mentioned, but not if AI is praising or criticizing your brand. Additionally, it can't connect AI citations to actual visits, leads, or revenue, functioning as a monitoring tool rather than an attribution platform.

The pricing model is polarizing: fantastic value for weekly monitoring at $60-224/month, but premium-priced for daily comprehensive tracking at $450-1,680/month. For comparison, tracking 50 prompts across 3 AI engines costs $60/month weekly or $450/month daily, while Writesonic offers daily monitoring of 150 prompts for $249/month. For SaaS companies needing daily monitoring of many prompts, costs escalate quickly.

See our in-depth Gumshoe AI visibility review.

5. Otterly AI — Best for Detailed GEO Audits

Rating: 3.3/5

Launched in October 2024, Otterly AI has grown rapidly to over 10,000 users by September 2024 and positions itself as a specialized tool for understanding brand visibility in AI-generated responses across six platforms.

What makes Otterly AI unique

Otterly AI offers the most detailed GEO audit at this price point, analyzing 25+ factors and delivering specific recommendations including content optimization strategies, technical improvements, structured data implementation guidance, and authority signal enhancement.

Standout features

1. Comprehensive Platform Coverage: Monitors six AI platforms—ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and AI Mode—more comprehensive coverage than most competitors.
2. Brand Visibility Index: A unique metric showing how visible each brand is in AI answers based on mention frequency and average position within answers, not found in other AI search visibility tools.
3. Best-in-Class GEO Audit: Analyzes 25+ factors affecting AI visibility and provides specific recommendations, making it the most detailed audit tool in the ~$200/month price range.

Limitations

Otterly AI does not provide direct website traffic estimation from AI search engines and cannot correlate citations to actual website visits. Documentation claims sentiment tracking as a core feature, but it's not accessible in the dashboard—representing either a hidden feature, removed functionality, or marketing claims ahead of product reality.

Data refreshes only weekly, meaning monitoring can be up to 7 days behind real-time. At $189/month for 100 prompts, pricing is competitive but the interface has too many disconnected table charts, creating a steeper learning curve than competitors.

See our in-depth Otterly AI visibility review.

6. Peec AI — Best for Multi-Engine Monitoring

Rating: 3.2/5

Peec AI is an AI search visibility tool focused on helping businesses monitor their visibility across major AI search engines with a clean, intuitive interface and straightforward setup process.

What makes Peec AI unique

Peec AI has comprehensive multi-AI engine coverage including ChatGPT, AI Overview, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and AI Mode—tracking all major platforms except DeepSeek.

Standout features

1. Excellent User Experience: The interface is easy to navigate with a 3-minute setup process, suggested prompts included, and kickstart sessions available for group onboarding.
2. Affordable Sentiment Tracking: Brand sentiment tracking is included in the €199/month intermediate plan, compared to gated behind the $499/month plan in Writesonic or missing entirely from other platforms at this price point.
3. Real-Time UI Scraping: Peec AI queries AI platforms at regular intervals (usually daily) and runs prompts through multiple AI search engines in real-time.

Limitations

Peec AI does not provide a playbook or AI-search visibility auditing tool that shows all issues with your site and how to fix them—you get signals that you need to translate into a content strategy yourself. It does not show an estimated number of visits coming from AI search engines, and offers no built-in end-to-end AI referral attribution.

The sentiment metric is just a number without much additional context—it would be more useful with explanations of how to improve brand sentiment or examples of conversations contributing to the score.

See our in-depth Peec AI visibility review.

7. GetMentioned — Best for Unlimited Users

Rating: 3.1/5

GetMentioned is a newer AI search visibility platform that takes a unique approach by mimicking real user behavior rather than relying on API integrations, providing more authentic visibility data.

What makes GetMentioned unique

Unlike tools that use API integrations, GetMentioned mimics real user queries by automating what you would do manually—opening ChatGPT, typing the question, reading the response, and analyzing it.

Standout features

1. Real User Data Accuracy: Mimics actual user behavior instead of API shortcuts, showing responses real users see rather than API-optimized versions that minimize token usage.
2. Unlimited Users and Companies: Track multiple brands and invite entire teams at no extra cost—both €89/month (30 prompts) and €199/month (100 prompts) plans include unlimited users and companies tracked, making it ideal for agencies.
3. Multi-Geo Tracking: Allows tracking prompts across more than five countries, capturing how AI tools provide different answers depending on the user's location.

Limitations

GetMentioned doesn't perform automated sentiment analysis of how your brand is portrayed in AI responses. It also won't show how many visits or conversions came from AI mentions, functioning as a monitoring tool rather than attribution platform.

The actionable insights function is still in beta testing and needs improvement—the tool provides a list of action points but doesn't explain how to execute them. Documentation is minimal, likely because it's a recent product still in beta.

See our in-depth AI GetMentioned AI visibility review.

Other AI visibility solutions on our radar

In addition to the above tools, we're aware of a number of other solutions that we either plan to test, or have excluded from our review because of the scope of the solution.

Our bottom line on AI visibility tools

Over the past year we've seen a massive increase in AI visibility startups. The barriers to enter this market are relatively low, but that also means that there is a lot of confusion in the market about what features are needed and which features are expensive good-to-haves. The incumbent SEO visibility solutions Ahrefs, SEMRush and SE Ranking are all investing heavily into the space, but there is no clear market leader.

For most SaaS companies, I'd recommend starting with Writesonic if you need a comprehensive platform that combines visibility tracking with content strategy and actionable recommendations. At $249/month, it delivers the most complete package for teams serious about optimizing their AI presence.

If you're already invested in SEO and want the most economical option, SE Ranking delivers incredible value: full SEO suite plus AI visibility for €138/month. Just be prepared for a fragmented user experience.

For companies that need strategic, persona-driven insights to understand how different buyer types see your brand, Gumshoe AI at $60-224/month for weekly monitoring reveals opportunities other tools miss entirely. It's perfect for B2B SaaS companies with distinct customer segments, though daily monitoring gets expensive fast.

And if budget is your primary constraint, Scalenut offers legitimate monitoring capabilities at $78/month—you won't get fancy audits or action centers, but you'll know where you stand.

The AI visibility space is evolving rapidly. What works in Q4 2025 might be obsolete by Q2 2026. Test before committing to annual contracts, and remember: no tool will magically fix your AI visibility. They just help you understand where you are and what might move the needle.

If you have any questions about our rankings or you have other solutions to suggest, reach out on LinkedIn.