Index › GTM › Products › Ahrefs Brand Radar · November 2026 Edition
AI visibility and answer engine tracking tools · Ranked

Ahrefs Brand Radar

Ahrefs Brand Radar is a tool from Ahrefs for tracking brand visibility in AI-generated answers, a practice known as GEO tracking · ahrefs.com ↗

#13Best rank (enterprise)
14/14Models named it
2First choices
19Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked inAI visibility and answer engine tracking tools #13 enterprise

Gane, the publisher, sells software in AI visibility, where this product is measured. It is measured there by the same method as every other product. How the conflict is handled.

What AI models recommend

Read the same way at every company size.

The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.

Why models recommend it

“Available on Ahrefs paid plans, allowing you to fold LLM mention tracking across major engines directly into your existing subscription.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Established SEO platforms (like Semrush, Ahrefs, or Google Search Console) have added AI Overview and citation monitoring features”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · alternative
“If you're already on Ahrefs: Ahrefs Brand Radar adds AI Overviews tracking at no extra subscription cost.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Direct question · alternative
“Built into the Ahrefs ecosystem; combines AI visibility with backlink and organic data in one dashboard”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Comparative question · alternative

What gives them pause

“Ahrefs has publicly stated it is not currently SOC 2 Type II certified and should be scrutinized closely if you require high compliance standards.”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“impressions are estimated using Google search-volume data for matched prompts; that's a modeled metric, not a count of AI-answer viewers”GPT-6 Luna · Negative question · warning
“Ahrefs Brand Radar notably lacks sentiment ... refreshes its chatbot index only monthly”MiniMax M2.5 · Comparative question · warning
“Strong on SEO data, but focus is more on backlinks than direct AI-search monitoring.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Paraphrase question · warning

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as Ahrefs Brand Radar, over the 72 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

What the models named instead of Ahrefs Brand Radar →

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

At a glance

Stated on Ahrefs Brand Radar's own site, not checked by Gane.

Headquarters
Singapore, Singapore
Founded
2010
Visit ahrefs.com ↗

How this is measured

Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.

Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.

Read the method →

Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages the answers that named Ahrefs Brand Radar came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 72 of the 72 answers that named Ahrefs Brand Radar and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

blog.hubspot.com36
sona.com21
gane.ai/indexpublisher (Gane)18
otterly.ai17
blog.closelyhq.com16
metehan.ai16
peec.ai11
hubspot.com10
semrush.com10
ahrefs.comIts own site9

137 of the 164 domain citations in answers naming Ahrefs Brand Radar came from a third party's page. Eighteen were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on Ahrefs Brand Radar across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501001
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash04004
Perplexity Sonar01102
Grok 4.2001102
Mistral Small00112
DeepSeek V4 Flash01001
Llama 4 Maverick01001
Qwen 3.7 Flash01102
Kimi K201102
GLM 4.7 FlashX01214
MiniMax M2.501012
GPT-6 Luna01012
Muse Glimmer 30B01001