# AI visibility and answer engine tracking tools for enterprise buyers: what AI models recommend, September 2026

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Gane Index, September 2026 Edition. Asked as "AI visibility and answer engine tracking tool" and as "tool for tracking brand visibility in AI answers", six framings each, to twelve models with search on, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/marketing/ai-visibility-tracking/2026-09/enterprise

This is the permanent record of the September 2026 Edition, published September 15, 2026 and superseded since. The current standing: https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/marketing/ai-visibility-tracking/enterprise/index.md

**Standing:** Profound leads with 61% of first choices; verdict clear leader. 44 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [Profound](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/profound/index.md) | 61% | 14% | 59 |
| 2 | [AirOps](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/airops/index.md) | 5% | 8% | 13 |
| 4 | [Scrunch](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/scrunch/index.md) | 2% | 18% | 28 |
| 5 | [Conductor](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/conductor/index.md) | 2% | 0% | 14 |
| 6 | [BrightEdge AI Catalyst](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/brightedge-ai-catalyst/index.md) | 2% | 0% | 12 |
| 7 | [Peec AI](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/peec-ai/index.md) | 2% | 22% | 23 |
| 8 | [AthenaHQ](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/athenahq/index.md) | 2% | 21% | 14 |
| 17 | [Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/semrush-ai-visibility-toolkit/index.md) | 0% | 21% | 28 |
| 85 | [Ahrefs Brand Radar](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/ahrefs-brand-radar/index.md) | 0% | 41% | 17 |
| 102 | [Otterly](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/otterly/index.md) | 0% | 53% | 15 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 102 products named; products with the same share are tied, and the order among them carries no meaning. The table lists those with at least 10 labels.

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: Profound; alternatives Evertune
- GPT-5.4 mini: Profound; alternatives BrightEdge AI Catalyst, Conductor, Yext
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Profound; alternatives AirOps, RadarKit, Scrunch, Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit
- Perplexity Sonar: Profound; alternatives Amplitude AI Visibility, KIME, Peec AI, Wellows
- Grok 4.20: Profound; alternatives Ahrefs Brand Radar, KIME, Scrunch, Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit
- Mistral Small: Profound; alternatives Ahrefs Brand Radar, Brandwatch Generative AI, Petra Labs, SE Visible
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Profound; alternatives AirOps, BrightEdge AI Catalyst, Scrunch
- Llama 4 Maverick: Profound; alternatives KIME, Otterly, Peec AI, Scrunch
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Finseo, Profound; alternatives Scrunch
- Kimi K2: Profound; alternatives Omnibound, Peec AI
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Profound; alternatives Scrunch, Wellows
- MiniMax M2.5: Profound; alternatives Wellows

## Sources the answers cite

23 of 72 answers came back with a source list, from 4 of 12 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- tryprofound.com: 7 answers, 9 citations
- youtube.com: 6 answers, 21 citations
- llmpulse.ai: 6 answers, 7 citations
- nicklafferty.com: 6 answers, 7 citations
- visible.seranking.com: 6 answers, 7 citations
- kime.ai: 6 answers, 6 citations
- zapier.com: 6 answers, 6 citations
- blog.hubspot.com: 5 answers, 6 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://visible.seranking.com/blog/best-ai-visibility-tools (6 answers)
- https://zapier.com/blog/best-ai-visibility-tool (6 answers)
- https://integrate.io/blog/best-ai-visibility-tracking-tools (5 answers)
- https://kime.ai/blog/best-ai-visibility-tools (5 answers)
- https://wpengine.com/blog/ai-visibility-tracking-tools (5 answers)
- https://llmpulse.ai/blog/best-geo-tools (4 answers)
- https://nicklafferty.com/blog/best-ai-visibility-optimization-platforms (4 answers)
- https://primacy.com/blog/best-geo-tools-for-enterprise (4 answers)
- https://wellows.com/blog/ai-visibility-tools (4 answers)
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=DMPSZw75vko (4 answers)

## Warned against

- Profound: 8 of 59 labels negative. "Profound (Self-Serve Plans): ... strictly seat-capped ... forced into a highly customized, expensive Enterprise contract" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, budget prompt)
- Otterly: 8 of 15 labels negative. "Otterly.ai: Claude is not tracked on any self-serve plan... $29/mo → $189/mo is a 6.5x jump... Strong monitoring but no practical path to action" (GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt)
- Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit: 6 of 28 labels negative. "What to Avoid for Your Specific Criteria: Semrush & Ahrefs ... they heavily monetize user seats" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, budget prompt)
- Ahrefs Brand Radar: 7 of 17 labels negative. "What to Avoid for Your Specific Criteria: Semrush & Ahrefs" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, budget prompt)

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, September 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/gtm.