AI visibility and answer engine tracking tools · RankedAthenaHQ
AthenaHQ is a platform for tracking and improving how a brand appears in answers from AI answer engines, a practice known as generative engine optimization (GEO) or answer engine optimization (AEO) · athenahq.ai ↗
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.
Why models recommend it
“Evaluate AthenaHQ alongside it if brand hallucinations and automated content recommendations are critical”Kimi K2 · Direct question · alternative
“Prescriptive rather than passive; focuses on telling marketing teams what specific edits to make”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“Free (300 credits, 5 engines) | One‑off brand perception score; no ongoing monitoring”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Want visibility connected to traffic and conversions? Evaluate AthenaHQ”GPT-6 Luna · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as AthenaHQ, over the 33 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 11 | View → | |
| 24 | 1 | View → | |
| 22 | 5 | View → | |
| 21 | 7 | View → | |
| 19 | 0 | View → | |
| 17 | 0 | View → | |
| 16 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 1 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of AthenaHQ →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on AthenaHQ's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- commercial & enterprise businesses
- Price stated
- Essential Free; Starter $295/month; Enterprise Custom
- Starting price
- Free
- Free plan or trial
- Essential Free; $25 free credit; includes 300 credits
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, NIST CSF
- Hosting
- multi-region, 60+ countries and languages
- Customers named
- verito.com, Grüns, Popl.co, Lago, L'Oréal, SoFi, ZoomInfo, OneSignal
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
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 33 of the 33 answers that named AthenaHQ and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Seventy of the eighty-one domain citations in answers naming AthenaHQ came from a third party's page. Eleven 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
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 65 | 0 | 2026-03-18 | SEO | |
| Report or ebook | 57 | 0 | 2026-02-15 | ||
| News or press | 31 | 0 | 2026-03-18 | SEO | |
| Comparison | 14 | 0 | 2026-02-15 | SEO, CRM | |
| Case study | 9 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 1 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 1 | 1 | 2026-09-09 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-09Prompt discovery podcast or video
- 2026-03-18Athenahq noble partnership blog
- 2026-03-18Athenahq noble partnership news or press
- 2026-03-09Track brand in ai search blog
- 2026-03-09Track brand in ai search news or press
- 2026-03-07Ai seo blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page athenahq.ai exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name SEO (22); 0 name the category the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.