When your buyers ask AI,
is your brand the answer?
MentionNow tracks how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Grok and Google AI Overviews talk about your brand — then tells you exactly what to fix to get mentioned more often, ranked higher, and described the way you want.
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The buyer journey now starts with an answer, not a list of links.
Hundreds of millions of people now ask AI assistants what to buy, which tools to trust, and which brands to shortlist. AI doesn't show ten blue links — it names two or three brands and moves on. If you're not one of them, you're not losing a click. You're losing the entire conversation.
You can't manage what AI says about you if you can't see it. And you can't change it with SEO alone.
The platform built to get you mentioned.
MentionNow is an AI visibility platform that tracks, measures, and improves how AI assistants — including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, and Google AI Overviews — mention and recommend your brand. It monitors the prompts your buyers actually ask, benchmarks your mention share against competitors, analyzes the sources AI cites, and generates a prioritized action plan to win more AI mentions. MentionNow serves B2B and consumer brands, marketing teams, and agencies.
Everything you need to win the answer
Track the real questions your buyers ask AI
Organized by intent, persona, and funnel stage — refreshed across all nine platforms every 24 hours. Add your own prompts or start from AI-suggested sets with volume signals, and watch mention share, position, and sentiment trend daily.
Competitor benchmarking
Your mention share vs. every rival that matters, per model and per market. Know the moment a competitor overtakes you.
Citation intelligence
Every source AI cites in your category, ranked by influence — the exact review profile, Reddit thread, or article shaping the answer.
Sentiment & narrative
The exact language AI uses about you. Flag inaccuracies, track how your positioning lands across models.
Action recommendations
A weekly ranked to-do list: highest-impact moves first, tied to the prompts and models they'll improve.
Reports, API & MCP
Client-ready reports, CSV/Looker exports, a full API, and an MCP server so your visibility data plugs into Claude, Cursor, and the rest of your agent stack.
From invisible to mentioned in three steps
See what AI says today.
Connect your brand and MentionNow runs hundreds of buyer-intent prompts across every major AI platform — every 24 hours. Your baseline, live in minutes.
Understand why competitors get picked.
See exactly which sources — review sites, comparison posts, Reddit threads, docs, press — AI leans on when it recommends them instead of you.
Act on a ranked playbook.
Gaps become a prioritized feed: pages to create, listings to claim, citations to earn. Ship the work, watch mention share climb.
Built for the teams accountable for being found
Own the new KPI first
Report AI mention share alongside organic traffic — and prove where pipeline now starts, before your board asks for it.
Answers are the new page one
Your rankings still matter — but see which content earns AI citations, which gets ignored, and what to publish next.
Sell AEO with proof
White-label reports, multi-client workspaces, and per-client benchmarks. Sell AEO/GEO retainers with data that proves the work.
Why teams choose MentionNow
MentionNow differs from AI monitoring tools in one fundamental way: it's built to change your AI visibility, not just chart it.
| monitoring-only tools | mentionnow | |
|---|---|---|
| Track mentions across AI platforms | ✓ | ✓ |
| Competitor benchmarks & sentiment | ✓ | ✓ |
| Citation source analysis | Partial | ✓ Ranked by influence |
| Prioritized action playbook | ✗ Data, no direction | ✓ Weekly ranked recommendations |
| Time to first insight | Demo call, onboarding | 2-minute free scan |
| Agency workspaces & white-label | Enterprise tiers only | Every paid plan |
| Pricing | Opaque / sales-led | Transparent, self-serve |
see detailed comparisons → vs. Profound · vs. Peec · vs. Otterly
Find out what AI says about your brand — free
Enter your domain. In under two minutes, MentionNow shows your Mention Share across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini, your top competitor in AI answers, and the three fixes that would move your visibility fastest.
no credit card · no sales call
From tracked to recommended
"We went from mentioned in 12% to 41% of ChatGPT answers in one quarter. MentionNow told us exactly which citations to go earn."
VP MarketingUSA Tech service firm
"The recommendation feed is the difference. Every other tool showed us the gap — MentionNow gave us the work order to close it."
Head of SEOUSA AI consulting firm
"We now sell AEO retainers to nine clients with white-label MentionNow reports. It pays for itself before the first invoice."
FounderB2B marketing agency
Straight answers, the way AI likes them
What is AI visibility?
AI visibility is how often, how prominently, and how positively a brand appears in answers generated by AI assistants like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. It's the AI-era equivalent of search rankings: instead of ranking on a results page, brands compete to be mentioned inside the answer itself.
What's the difference between AEO, GEO, and SEO?
SEO (search engine optimization) improves rankings in traditional search results. AEO (answer engine optimization) and GEO (generative engine optimization) improve how AI-generated answers mention and recommend your brand. The terms AEO and GEO are largely interchangeable; both focus on earning mentions and citations in LLM answers rather than clicks from links.
How does MentionNow track AI mentions?
MentionNow runs your tracked prompts across each selected AI platform every 24 hours, records the full answers, and measures whether your brand was mentioned, at what position, with what sentiment, and which sources were cited — giving you consistent day-over-day trend data by model, market, and prompt.
Which AI platforms does MentionNow monitor?
MentionNow monitors ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google Gemini, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, Meta AI, and DeepSeek.
Can I actually influence what AI says about my brand?
Yes. AI answers are shaped by identifiable sources — your website, review platforms, comparison articles, community discussions, and press. By finding which sources AI cites in your category and systematically improving your presence in them, brands measurably increase their mention share. MentionNow identifies those sources and prioritizes the actions for you.
How is MentionNow different from Profound or Peec?
Profound and Peec focus primarily on monitoring and analytics. MentionNow includes monitoring — mention share, position, sentiment, citations across nine AI platforms — and adds a prioritized action engine that tells you specifically what to publish, claim, and fix to improve your visibility, plus a free instant brand scan, transparent self-serve pricing, and agency features on every paid plan.
Is AI visibility measurable?
Yes. Because AI platforms return consistent answers to consistent prompts, mention frequency, position, sentiment, and citations can be measured daily and trended over time — exactly like rank tracking in traditional SEO, but for answers instead of links.
Your buyers are asking AI right now. Get mentioned. Now.
Every day you're not tracked is a day of AI conversations recommending someone else. Your first scan takes two minutes and costs nothing.
Why teams pick MentionNow over everyone else
A direct, evidence-first comparison of MentionNow against Peec, Profound, Promptwatch, Scrunch, and Searchable — including where each competitor genuinely wins. Read this page and you can make the call in ten minutes.
Every serious AI visibility tool — MentionNow, Peec, Profound, Promptwatch, Scrunch, and Searchable — can tell you how often AI mentions your brand. Only MentionNow converts that data into Campaigns: goal-driven task lists that tell you the exact work to do — the page to publish, the profile to claim, the citation to earn — to get mentioned and cited by LLMs, then measures the lift. Competitors end at the dashboard or generic "optimization tips." MentionNow ends at the mention. Plans are published, self-serve, and start at $99/month.
Six good tools. One question that separates them.
The AI visibility category has matured fast, and the monitoring layer is now table stakes: every tool on this page tracks prompts across major LLMs, measures mention share and position, benchmarks competitors, and maps citations. If dashboards were the deciding factor, you could flip a coin.
The question that actually separates them is what happens Monday morning: when the dashboard shows a competitor winning "best [your category]" prompts, which tool tells your team — specifically, in priority order, with owners and expected impact — what to do about it? That's the job MentionNow was built for, and it's the lens this whole page uses.
Campaigns: the exact tasks that earn the mention
A Campaign is a goal with a generated work plan. Pick a target — "get cited for best CRM for startups in ChatGPT" — and MentionNow analyzes which sources the LLMs actually cite for those prompts, where competitors are present and you're not, and outputs a ranked task list: concrete, assignable, checked off inside the platform.
- Specific, not generic. Not "improve your content" — but "publish a comparison page targeting these 4 prompts" and "earn a citation on the review thread Gemini pulls from."
- Prioritized by impact. Tasks are ordered by how much mention share they're expected to move, so small teams spend effort where it pays.
- Closed-loop. Every task links to the prompts it targets; as tasks complete, the campaign tracks mention and citation lift against its goal.
Competitors offer tips, articles, or raw data. A Campaign is a work order. That's the difference between knowing your score and changing it.
Campaign: Win "best CRM for startups"
activegoal: cited in ≥40% of target prompts · on track
MentionNow vs. the field
| MentionNow | Peec | Profound | Promptwatch | Scrunch | Searchable | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary focus | Getting you mentioned — monitoring + execution | Visibility analytics | Enterprise measurement & research | Monitoring + AI-written articles | Enterprise AI experience (incl. agent delivery) | SEO + AEO combined |
| Action engine | Campaigns: goal → ranked task list → measured lift | Data; you build the plan | Insights & recommendations, enterprise-oriented | Generates AEO articles; content-centric | Optimization guidance + AXP delivery | Recommendations within SEO workflow |
| Task-level execution tracking | ✓ assignable, prioritized, closed-loop | — | — | Partial (content tasks) | Partial (guidance) | Partial |
| Citation source analysis | ✓ ranked by influence, feeds Campaign tasks | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Conversion tracking & crawler logs | ✓ from Pro ($299) | Varies by plan | Enterprise | ✓ | ✓ (bot observability) | ✓ |
| Pricing entry | $99/mo, published, 4 tiers | Published, self-serve | Sales-led, unpublished | From $95/mo, published | Trial, enterprise-weighted | Trial + contact sales |
| Buying motion | Self-serve; demo only for Advance | Self-serve | Demo-first | Self-serve | Trial → sales | Trial → sales |
| Best for | Teams & agencies who need visibility to go up, not just be measured | Analytics-first teams | Enterprise brands with procurement | Content-led SMB teams | Enterprises needing SOC 2, RBAC, agent delivery | Teams merging classic SEO + AEO |
based on public information, August 2026 — spot an inaccuracy? tell us and we'll fix it within 48 hours
The honest one-on-ones
Peec measures beautifully. MentionNow measures — then assigns the work.
Peec earned its reputation with clean, credible visibility analytics: mention share, position, and sentiment benchmarks that agencies trust, with published self-serve pricing. If your team already has a strong AEO strategist who just needs data, Peec is a fine instrument.
MentionNow includes that same analytics layer and adds the part Peec leaves to you: Campaigns turn every gap into an ordered task list with expected impact, so the strategy ships with the product. For teams without a dedicated AEO specialist — most teams — that's the difference between a dashboard subscription and mention growth.
Profound sells measurement to enterprises. MentionNow sells outcomes to operators.
Profound is the enterprise reference point: rigorous measurement, original industry research, and integrations sold through a demo-first sales process with unpublished pricing. For a Fortune-500 brand team with procurement requirements, that motion is a feature.
For everyone else it's friction. MentionNow is live the same afternoon: free 2-minute scan, published pricing from $99, and Campaigns generating your first task list within 24 hours. You'll know your baseline — and be working on it — before an enterprise vendor's first discovery call.
Promptwatch writes articles. MentionNow runs the whole play.
Promptwatch pairs solid monitoring with AI-generated "AEO articles" — a content-first bet that publishing more optimized pages wins mentions. It's self-serve, fairly priced, and a genuine competitor.
The limit is that content is one task type among many. LLM citations are earned across review platforms, community threads, structured data, and third-party press — places an article generator can't reach. MentionNow's Campaigns cover the full surface: content tasks and listing claims, citation outreach, schema fixes, and technical work, each prioritized by measured influence on your actual prompts.
Scrunch re-architects your site for agents. MentionNow wins the answers first.
Scrunch has evolved into an enterprise "AI customer experience" platform — monitoring plus an Agent Experience layer that serves machine-readable versions of your site to AI crawlers, with SOC 2, RBAC, and multi-region governance. Impressive infrastructure for large organizations.
Most teams don't need to re-architect content delivery; they need to show up in this quarter's answers. MentionNow attacks the sources that determine mentions today — citations, listings, comparison content, community — through Campaigns your existing team can execute without an infrastructure project or an enterprise contract.
Searchable straddles SEO and AEO. MentionNow is all-in on the mention.
Searchable bundles traditional SEO tooling with AEO tracking — attractive if you're consolidating tools and your program still centers on rankings, with AI visibility as an add-on.
But the disciplines are diverging: rankings are won with keywords and backlinks, mentions are won with citations, entity consistency, and answer-shaped content — and a hybrid tool optimizes for the average of both. MentionNow is purpose-built for the mention: every metric, every Campaign task, every report exists to increase how often AI names you. Keep your SEO stack; add the specialist.
Who MentionNow is built for — and who it isn't
MentionNow is the right call if you're…
- A B2B SaaS or services brand whose buyers research on ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Gemini before ever visiting your site
- A marketing or SEO team of 1–15 that needs AI visibility to become a reported, improving KPI — without hiring an AEO specialist
- An agency selling AEO/GEO retainers that needs client-ready proof: campaigns executed, mention share moved, custom reports delivered
- A founder who just discovered competitors own your category's AI answers and wants a concrete plan, not a research project
Look elsewhere (honestly) if you…
- Need SOC 2 / RBAC / procurement-grade enterprise governance today — Scrunch or Profound serve that better right now
- Want a tool to mass-generate articles as the whole strategy — Promptwatch is built around that bet
- Only want raw analytics with zero opinion on what to do — Peec is a clean instrument for that
- Track rankings first, mentions second — a combined SEO/AEO suite like Searchable may fit your program better
The questions buyers actually ask
What is the best alternative to Profound and Peec?
MentionNow is the leading alternative for teams that want action, not just analytics: it includes the same core monitoring — mention share, position, sentiment, and citation tracking across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini — and adds Campaigns, which generate the exact prioritized tasks required to get mentioned and cited by LLMs. Pricing is published and self-serve from $99/month.
What are MentionNow Campaigns?
Campaigns are goal-driven work plans. You set a target — for example, being cited for a specific set of buyer prompts — and MentionNow analyzes the sources LLMs cite for those prompts, then generates a ranked task list: comparison pages to publish, review profiles to claim, citations to earn, schema to add. Tasks are assignable, prioritized by expected impact, and tracked against mention and citation lift.
Do the other tools tell you what to do, too?
Partially. Promptwatch generates AEO articles (content only), Scrunch provides optimization guidance and agent-level content delivery (enterprise-oriented), and Profound offers enterprise recommendations. Peec focuses on analytics. MentionNow is the only one whose core product is a closed loop of task-level execution: specific tasks across content, citations, listings, community, and technical work, each tied to the prompts it targets and measured for lift.
Why does MentionNow track 3 models instead of 9 or 10?
ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini account for the large majority of AI-assisted buying research today. Tracking them deeply — daily, with citation-level analysis feeding Campaign tasks — produces more actionable output than shallow coverage of ten models. Additional models roll out to all plans as buyer usage justifies them.
Can agencies run client work on MentionNow?
Yes. The Maxi and Advance plans support multiple projects, 8–15 campaigns, team seats, and custom reports — enough to run execution and reporting across a client portfolio, with dedicated support and custom onboarding on Advance.
How fast does the Campaign approach show results?
Because LLMs retrieve many sources live at answer time, source-level changes — a new citation, a claimed profile, a published comparison page — typically show up in mention tracking within weeks. Each campaign measures its own before/after mention share, so lift is visible per initiative, not just in aggregate.
Ten minutes of reading, two minutes of scanning. Then decide.
Run your free scanTurn AI mentions into growth
See how AI talks about your brand, why competitors get recommended, and what to fix to win the answer. Simple monthly plans that scale from your first tracked prompt to full-portfolio visibility — go live in minutes.
Starter
Claim your AI presence
- 1 project
- 25 prompts · 2,250 responses/mo
- Daily refresh
- 1 campaign
- 1 team seat · 1 custom report
- Email support
Pro
Make AI visibility a KPI
- 2 projects
- 50 prompts · 4,500 responses/mo
- 4 campaigns
- Conversion tracking & crawler logs
- Country-level tracking · 360 dashboard
- 2 seats · 4 custom reports
- Email & chat support
Maxi
Scale across markets
- 4 projects
- 150 prompts · 13,500 responses/mo
- 8 campaigns
- Everything in Pro
- 3 seats · 8 custom reports
- Email & chat support
Advance
Full-portfolio visibility
- 5 projects
- 300 prompts · 27,000 responses/mo
- 15 campaigns
- Everything in Maxi
- 6 seats · 12 custom reports
- Dedicated support + custom onboarding
need more projects, prompts, or SSO? talk to us about Enterprise →
Everything in every plan, in full
Starter $99/mo |
Pro $299/mo · popular |
Maxi $599/mo |
Advance $999/mo |
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| Tracking & volume | ||||
| Projects | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| AI models | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Models included | ChatGPT · Perplexity · Google Gemini | |||
| Prompts | 25 | 50 | 150 | 300 |
| Responses / month | 2,250 | 4,500 | 13,500 | 27,000 |
| Refresh rate | Daily | Daily | Daily | Daily |
| Campaigns | 1 | 4 | 8 | 15 |
| Analytics & insights | ||||
| Conversion tracking | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Crawler logs | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Country-level tracking | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 360 dashboard | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sitemap pages | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Team & reporting | ||||
| Team seats | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| Custom reports | 1 | 4 | 8 | 12 |
| Support | ||||
| Support channels | Email & chat | Email & chat | Dedicated support | |
| Custom onboarding | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Get Starter | Get Pro | Get Maxi | Book a demo | |
Straight answers
How do I get started?
Run the free AI Visibility Scan to see what ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini currently say about your brand, then pick the plan that fits your prompt volume. Setup is self-serve: add your brand, competitors, and prompts, and your first full tracking data arrives within 24 hours.
Which AI models are included?
All plans track ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google Gemini — the three platforms where the large majority of AI-assisted buying research happens today. Additional models are on the roadmap and will roll out to existing plans.
What counts as a prompt and a response?
A prompt is one buyer question tracked daily — for example, "best CRM for startups." Each time that prompt runs on one AI model, it produces one response. 25 prompts tracked daily across 3 models generates roughly 2,250 responses per month.
What's a campaign?
A campaign is a focused tracking initiative — a product launch, a market, or a topic cluster — with its own prompt set, benchmarks, and reporting. Starter includes 1 campaign; Advance includes 15.
What happens if I need more prompts or responses?
Upgrade to the next plan at any time — the change takes effect immediately and billing is prorated. If you consistently need more than the Advance plan's 300 prompts and 27,000 monthly responses, contact us for an Enterprise arrangement.
Can I upgrade, downgrade, or cancel anytime?
Yes. Plans are month-to-month and fully self-serve: upgrade, downgrade, or cancel from your billing settings whenever you like. Upgrades are prorated; downgrades and cancellations take effect at the end of the current billing cycle.
Do you offer annual billing?
Yes. Annual billing saves 20% versus monthly on every plan. You can switch between monthly and annual billing from your account settings.
Is MentionNow suitable for agencies?
Yes. The Maxi and Advance plans support multiple projects, campaigns, team seats, and custom reports — enough to run tracking and reporting across a portfolio of clients. Advance adds dedicated support and custom onboarding for agency workflows.
Can I track my competitors?
Yes. Every plan benchmarks your mention share, position, and sentiment against competitors on the same prompts, so you always know who AI recommends instead of you and which sources drive it.
How is MentionNow priced compared to Profound or Peec?
MentionNow publishes its pricing and is fully self-serve, while several competitors gate pricing behind sales calls. Plans start at $99/month, with conversion tracking, crawler logs, country-level tracking, and the 360 dashboard included from the Pro plan up.
See what AI says about your brand — then pick your plan.
Run your free scanMentionNow vs. Profound: the honest comparison
Both platforms measure how AI assistants talk about your brand. The difference is what happens after the dashboard. Here's a fair, specific breakdown — including where Profound is the better choice.
Choose MentionNow if…
You want monitoring plus a prioritized playbook to improve your visibility, self-serve pricing you can start today, a 2-minute free scan instead of a sales cycle, and agency features (white-label, multi-client) on every paid plan. Best for startups, mid-market teams, and agencies.
Choose Profound if…
You're a large enterprise with procurement requirements, want a managed onboarding relationship, and value their enterprise integrations and research publications. Profound is a strong monitoring platform for big-budget, sales-assisted buying.
Side by side
| profound | mentionnow | |
|---|---|---|
| AI platforms tracked | Major platforms | 9 platforms incl. Grok, Meta AI, DeepSeek |
| Mention, position & sentiment tracking | ✓ | ✓ Refreshed every 24h |
| Citation source analysis | ✓ | ✓ Ranked by influence |
| Prioritized action recommendations | Limited | ✓ Weekly ranked playbook |
| Getting started | Book a demo | Free 2-minute scan, self-serve signup |
| Pricing | Sales-led, not published | Published, from $99/mo |
| White-label & multi-client workspaces | Enterprise tiers | Every Agency plan |
| API & MCP access | ✓ | ✓ From Growth plan |
| Best for | Enterprise brands | Startups, mid-market & agencies |
comparison based on publicly available information as of July 2026 — spot an inaccuracy? tell us and we'll fix it
Dashboards tell you the score. Playbooks change it.
Profound built its reputation on enterprise-grade measurement: clean data on how AI models mention brands, and original research the industry cites. If your goal is to report AI visibility, it does that well.
MentionNow starts from a different question: what do I do on Monday to get mentioned more? Every metric feeds a recommendation engine that outputs a ranked list of specific actions — the comparison page to publish, the review profile to claim, the third-party citation to earn — each tied to the prompts and models it will improve. Monitoring is the input; the mention is the output.
The 30-second summary: Profound is a measurement platform sold to enterprises through a sales process. MentionNow is a measurement and improvement platform that any team can start using in two minutes, with pricing on the website.
MentionNow vs. Profound FAQ
Is MentionNow a Profound alternative?
Yes. MentionNow is a Profound alternative that covers the same core monitoring — mention share, position, sentiment, and citations across major AI platforms — and adds a prioritized action engine, self-serve pricing from $99/month, and agency features on every paid plan.
Does MentionNow track the same AI platforms as Profound?
MentionNow tracks nine platforms: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google Gemini, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, Meta AI, and DeepSeek — covering the major assistants both tools' customers care about.
Can I switch from Profound to MentionNow?
Yes. Setup takes minutes: add your brand and competitors, import or select your prompt sets, and MentionNow builds your baseline within 24 hours. Historical trending begins from your first tracked day.
Which is cheaper, MentionNow or Profound?
MentionNow publishes pricing starting at $99/month self-serve. Profound's pricing is sales-led and not published; it is generally positioned for enterprise budgets.
Run the scan first. Compare with your own data.
Scan my brand free →MentionNow vs. Peec: the honest comparison
Peec and MentionNow are both modern, self-serve AI visibility tools — which makes the differences subtler and worth spelling out. Here's a fair breakdown, including where Peec is the better choice.
Choose MentionNow if…
You want your metrics to end in a ranked action playbook, not just charts — plus an instant free brand scan, white-label reporting on every Agency plan, and citation analysis ranked by influence so you know exactly which sources to pursue first.
Choose Peec if…
You primarily want clean, well-designed analytics and benchmarks, are comfortable turning data into your own action plan, and value their established European presence and multi-language tracking maturity. Peec is a strong, credible monitoring tool.
Side by side
| peec | mentionnow | |
|---|---|---|
| AI platforms tracked | Major platforms | 9 platforms incl. Grok, Meta AI, DeepSeek |
| Mention, position & sentiment tracking | ✓ | ✓ Refreshed every 24h |
| Citation source analysis | ✓ | ✓ Ranked by influence |
| Prioritized action recommendations | Limited | ✓ Weekly ranked playbook |
| Getting started | Self-serve | Free 2-minute scan + self-serve signup |
| Pricing | Published, self-serve | Published, from $99/mo |
| White-label & multi-client workspaces | Higher tiers | Every Agency plan |
| API & MCP access | ✓ | ✓ From Growth plan |
| Best for | Analytics-first teams | Teams that want analytics → action |
comparison based on publicly available information as of July 2026 — spot an inaccuracy? tell us and we'll fix it
Same category, different finish line.
Peec earned its reputation with clean, credible analytics: visibility, position, and sentiment benchmarks that agencies and in-house teams trust. If your goal is to measure AI visibility with a well-built dashboard, Peec does that well.
MentionNow treats those same metrics as the starting line. Every data point feeds a recommendation engine that outputs a ranked weekly playbook — the comparison page to publish, the review profile to claim, the citation to earn — each tied to the prompts and models it will improve. The dashboard is the input; the mention is the output.
The 30-second summary: Peec is a measurement platform; you bring the strategy. MentionNow is a measurement and improvement platform; the strategy ships with the product, as a ranked action feed.
MentionNow vs. Peec FAQ
Is MentionNow a Peec alternative?
Yes. MentionNow is a Peec alternative that covers the same core monitoring — mention share, position, sentiment, and citations across major AI platforms — and adds a prioritized action engine, an instant free brand scan, and white-label agency features on every Agency plan.
Does MentionNow track the same AI platforms as Peec?
MentionNow tracks nine platforms: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google Gemini, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, Meta AI, and DeepSeek — covering the major assistants both tools' customers care about.
Can I switch from Peec to MentionNow?
Yes. Setup takes minutes: add your brand and competitors, import or select your prompt sets, and MentionNow builds your baseline within 24 hours. Historical trending begins from your first tracked day.
Which is cheaper, MentionNow or Peec?
Both publish self-serve pricing. MentionNow starts at $99/month with the action recommendation engine included from the Growth plan; compare current plans on each site for your prompt volume.
Run the scan first. Compare with your own data.
Scan my brand free →What is AI visibility?
AI visibility is how often, how prominently, and how positively a brand appears in answers generated by AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, and Google AI Overviews. It is the AI-era equivalent of search rankings: instead of competing for position on a results page, brands compete to be mentioned inside the answer itself.
Why AI visibility matters
Buyer research is moving from search results to AI answers. When someone asks an assistant "what's the best project management tool for a 10-person team," the response typically names two or three brands — not ten links. Brands inside that answer inherit the assistant's trust; brands outside it are simply absent from the decision.
Unlike traditional search, there is no page two. An unmentioned brand doesn't rank lower — it doesn't exist in that conversation. That makes AI visibility a pipeline metric, not a vanity metric: it determines whether you enter the shortlist at all.
The four metrics of AI visibility
- Mention Share — the percentage of relevant AI answers that name your brand. Your market share inside the answer.
- Average Position — where you appear when the assistant lists options. Position #1 in an AI answer is the new rank #1.
- Sentiment — how the AI describes you: the strengths it repeats, the objections it raises, the framing it defaults to.
- Citation Share — which of your pages, and which third-party sources, the AI actually pulls from when discussing your category.
Because AI platforms return consistent answers to consistent prompts, all four can be measured daily and trended over time — exactly like rank tracking in SEO, but for answers instead of links.
How AI decides which brands to mention
AI answers are shaped by identifiable inputs: a model's training data, and — increasingly — the live sources it retrieves and cites at answer time. In practice, that means your visibility is a function of:
- Your own site — clear, definitional, crawlable content that states what you are and who you serve.
- Third-party authority — review platforms, comparison articles, industry publications, and documentation the AI treats as evidence.
- Community signal — Reddit threads, forums, and discussions where real users recommend (or dismiss) you.
- Entity consistency — the same description of your brand appearing across LinkedIn, G2, Crunchbase, and press, so models resolve you as one confident entity.
How to improve AI visibility
Improving AI visibility is the practice of answer engine optimization (AEO), also called generative engine optimization (GEO) — see AEO vs GEO vs SEO. The reliable playbook:
- Measure your baseline. Track the buyer prompts that matter across each AI platform and record mention share, position, sentiment, and citations.
- Find the influencing sources. Identify which specific pages the AI cites when it recommends competitors instead of you.
- Close the gaps, highest-impact first. Publish definitional and comparison content, claim and enrich review profiles, earn the third-party citations that shape your category's answers.
- Re-measure and iterate. Mention share responds to source changes in weeks, not quarters — daily tracking shows what worked.
See your own AI visibility in 2 minutes. MentionNow's free scan shows your mention share across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini, your top AI-answer competitor, and the three fixes that would move your visibility fastest. Run the free scan →
FAQ
Is AI visibility the same as SEO?
No. SEO improves rankings in traditional search results; AI visibility measures presence inside AI-generated answers. They overlap — strong content helps both — but AI visibility depends heavily on third-party citations and entity consistency, and it's measured in mentions, not clicks.
Can AI visibility be measured?
Yes. By running consistent prompts across AI platforms daily and recording mentions, positions, sentiment, and citations, AI visibility can be tracked and trended with the same rigor as keyword rankings.
Which tools measure AI visibility?
AI visibility platforms include MentionNow, Profound, Peec, Otterly, and Rankscale. MentionNow additionally converts the measurements into a prioritized weekly action plan for improving mention share.
AEO vs GEO vs SEO: what's the difference?
SEO (search engine optimization) improves rankings in traditional search results. AEO (answer engine optimization) and GEO (generative engine optimization) improve how AI-generated answers mention and recommend your brand. AEO and GEO are largely interchangeable terms; both focus on earning mentions and citations inside LLM answers rather than clicks from links.
The three disciplines, side by side
| seo | aeo / geo | |
|---|---|---|
| Where you compete | Search results pages | Inside AI-generated answers |
| Unit of success | Rankings & clicks | Mentions & citations |
| Who evaluates you | Ranking algorithms | LLMs synthesizing sources |
| Key inputs | Keywords, backlinks, technical health | Definitional content, third-party citations, entity consistency, community signal |
| Measured by | Rank trackers, Search Console | AI visibility platforms like MentionNow |
| Failure mode | Rank on page two | Not mentioned at all |
Where the terms come from
AEO frames the work around "answer engines" — assistants like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Copilot that respond with an answer instead of a list. GEO comes from the research literature on "generative engines" and emphasizes optimizing for how generative models retrieve and cite sources. Vendors and agencies use both; the practice underneath is the same.
Does SEO still matter?
Yes — and it compounds with AEO. Strong SEO makes your pages crawlable and authoritative, which feeds the retrieval systems AI platforms use. But SEO alone is insufficient: AI answers lean heavily on third-party sources — review platforms, comparison articles, Reddit — that classic SEO programs rarely touch. Teams that win treat SEO as the foundation and AEO/GEO as the layer that converts authority into mentions.
What an AEO/GEO program actually does
- Tracks buyer prompts across AI platforms and measures mention share, position, sentiment, and citations. (See what is AI visibility.)
- Maps the citation landscape — which sources AI trusts in your category, ranked by influence.
- Publishes answer-shaped content — definitional pages, honest comparisons, and FAQs written so a model can lift them confidently.
- Builds third-party presence — review profiles, community credibility, and press that models cite as evidence.
- Re-measures weekly and reprioritizes.
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FAQ
Is AEO the same as GEO?
Functionally, yes. AEO (answer engine optimization) and GEO (generative engine optimization) describe the same practice — improving how AI-generated answers mention and cite your brand. The terms differ in origin, not in method.
Should I stop doing SEO and switch to AEO?
No. SEO remains the foundation: crawlable, authoritative content feeds AI retrieval systems. AEO/GEO extends the program to the third-party citations and entity signals that determine mentions. The strongest teams run both from one strategy.
How long does AEO/GEO take to show results?
Mention share typically responds to source-level changes within weeks, because AI platforms retrieve live sources at answer time. Daily tracking makes cause and effect visible far faster than traditional SEO timelines.
The shortlist moved. We follow it.
MentionNow exists because the most important moment in marketing — the moment a buyer forms their shortlist — now happens inside an AI answer that nobody was watching.
Our story
We spent a decade in go-to-market: agencies, SaaS startups, growth teams. Then, running AEO programs for B2B brands, we watched the same scene repeat. A founder would ask ChatGPT the question their buyers ask — "best tools for X" — and see three competitors named, confidently, with reasons. Their brand: absent. Not ranked low. Absent.
The tools available could chart that absence beautifully. None of them answered the only question that matters on Monday morning: what do we do about it? So we built the platform we needed in those client engagements — one that measures AI visibility with rigor and converts every gap into a ranked, specific action. That platform became MentionNow.
What we believe
Mentions over dashboards
Measurement is the means. The mention is the outcome. Every feature we ship must shorten the path from data to action.
Radical transparency
Published pricing, self-serve trials, honest comparison pages — including the rows where a competitor wins. It's how we'd want to buy.
Practitioners first
MentionNow is built from live AEO/GEO engagements, not conference-stage theory. If a recommendation wouldn't survive a client call, it doesn't ship.
MentionNow, defined
MentionNow is an AI visibility platform that tracks, measures, and improves how AI assistants — including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, and Google AI Overviews — mention and recommend brands. It serves B2B and consumer brands, marketing teams, and agencies with daily mention tracking, competitor benchmarks, citation intelligence, and a prioritized action engine.