AEOSearch or Ahrefs Brand Radar

Where Ahrefs Brand Radar Is the Better Pick

• A pre-built index: see any brand without setup

  “See any brand’s AI visibility instantly across 447M prompts. No setup.”ahrefs.com, read 2026-10-05

• Answer history back to 2025

  “Search through millions of AI responses from when we started collecting AI responses in 2025 from the moment you gain access.”help.ahrefs.com, read 2026-10-05

• Video visibility on YouTube

  “Scour YouTube for thumbnails, video titles, descriptions, and transcripts.”ahrefs.com, read 2026-10-05

• Crawler and SEO data behind it

  “powered by the world’s second-most active crawler and 10+ years of web-scale data”ahrefs.com, read 2026-10-05

The Eight Questions

Each one is something you can test in a trial of either tool. A cell that says “not stated” means we found no page that says it, not that the tool cannot do it.

1. Lowest Listed Price

   What the cheapest thing on the price page costs, and what it buys.

   Ahrefs Brand Radar

   “Free for every paid Ahrefs Lite plan and above. … Starts at $50/mo”ahrefs.com, read 2026-10-05Our reading: The AI Visibility Index starts at $199 a month, and $699 covers every model.

   AEOSearch

   A free scorecard: 4 questions on ChatGPT and Gemini. A report of your own from $25, priced before you pay.

2. Assistants Measured

   Which AI assistants the numbers come from.

   Ahrefs Brand Radar

   “Brand Radar measures AI visibility by running 447M+ search-backed prompts through AI platforms (AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot) and storing every response. … Custom Prompts supports all of the above plus Claude.”ahrefs.com, read 2026-10-05

   AEOSearch

   ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode. You choose which ones a report asks.

3. Times Each Question Is Asked

   An assistant answers the same question differently from one run to the next, so a number built on one answer per question can move on a reroll.

   Ahrefs Brand Radar

   “Each prompt uses 1 check per platform, location and update. … Each prompt is checked daily on every selected platform.”ahrefs.com, read 2026-10-05

   AEOSearch

   Once or 3 times per question, chosen before you pay and printed on the report.

4. Model Named on the Answer

   ChatGPT is several models, and they disagree. A number that does not say which one answered cannot be checked against the app.

   Ahrefs Brand Radar

   “Claude — Anthropic's AI assistant, tracked via API (Claude Sonnet 4.6 with web search).”help.ahrefs.com, read 2026-10-05Our reading: A version is named for Claude; the other assistants are named without one.

   AEOSearch

   Stored with every answer, and printed on the report for each engine whose provider reports it.

5. Web Search Labelled

   An answer written without a web search reports what a model remembers, not what the live assistant says today.

   Ahrefs Brand Radar

   “Prompts are asked in the web version of all AI platforms that we support without any stored user data or prior context.”help.ahrefs.com, read 2026-10-05

   AEOSearch

   Stored with every answer. The report says, engine by engine, whether web search was on, and for Claude and Perplexity, how many answers searched.

6. Answers You Can Read

   Whether the full answer behind a number opens when you ask for it.

   Ahrefs Brand Radar

   “Search through millions of AI responses from when we started collecting AI responses in 2025 from the moment you gain access.”help.ahrefs.com, read 2026-10-05

   AEOSearch

   Every answer is stored in full, and the report opens the text behind its numbers.

7. Branded Questions Counted Apart

   A question that already names you is one you will almost always win. Mixed into the headline, it inflates it.

   Ahrefs Brand Radar

   Not stated on any Ahrefs Brand Radar page we read (2026-10-05).

   AEOSearch

   Yes. Questions that name you or a competitor you track are scored apart from the ones that name none of them.

8. Changes to Your Site

   Whether it edits your site, and whether each edit can be undone.

   Ahrefs Brand Radar

   “Patches let you fix issues and make changes on your website directly from Site Audit. … once published, you can unpublish it at any time to undo a patch.”help.ahrefs.com, read 2026-10-05Our reading: Patches belong to Site Audit, not Brand Radar.

   AEOSearch

   Only through our plugins, only after you opt in on that site, and every change carries a rollback. The platform itself never edits your site.

Check Us the Same Way

Run the free scorecard: it shows the stored answer for up to three questions you lost, and a paid report opens every answer behind every number, with the model where the provider names one, the search label and the full text. The standard lists the five marks every number carries, and the other comparisons ask the same questions of every tool on the list. Something here wrong about Ahrefs Brand Radar? Write to support@aeosearch.io with the page that says otherwise and we will correct it.