SE Ranking’s AI tracking now starts inside its SEO suite. The Core plan, $129/mo billed monthly, tracks 100 prompts a day on five AI engines (Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity), with source analysis, AI competitor research and MCP access, and its 14-day free trial needs no card. An AI Search add-on, from $89/mo for 200 prompts, adds SE Visible, SE Ranking’s separate AI dashboard. That is good value if you use the rest of the suite. It is less so if AI answers are all you want to watch, or if your buyers ask Claude, Grok or Microsoft Copilot, none of which SE Ranking tracks. The seven alternatives below cover that ground, starting with Cituna, which checks seven engines including Claude and Grok daily from $39/mo with no suite to buy. Every competitor fact here comes from the vendor’s own pages, read on September 25, 2026.
A note on fairness:
Why people look for SE Ranking AI Results Tracker alternatives
SE Ranking is a good suite, and none of the reasons below make its AI tracker a bad tool, they are simply where its packaging stops matching what a growing team needs. Teams evaluating it and then shopping around usually cite a consistent set of triggers (from seranking.com, read September 25, 2026):
- You pay for a whole SEO suite. AI tracking comes inside the Core plan at $129/mo billed monthly, together with rank tracking, site audits and backlink research. If AI answers are all you want to watch, you are paying for those tools as well.
- Five engines, and no Claude, Grok or Copilot. SE Ranking tracks Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity. Claude, Grok and Microsoft Copilot are not among them, so several engines your buyers may use go unwatched.
- The standalone route has the same gap. SE Visible, SE Ranking’s AI dashboard that works without the suite, starts at $99/mo for 200 prompts and tracks the same five engines, and its FAQ lists Claude as coming soon (visible.seranking.com).
If one or more of those brought you here, the tables below compare SE Ranking with seven alternatives on exactly those points.
All seven SE Ranking AI tracker alternatives at a glance
Seven tools that track how AI engines mention and cite a brand, ordered as the list below runs. Every figure comes from that vendor’s own pricing page as we read it on September 25, 2026.
| Tool | Best for | Engines at entry | Claude, Grok or Copilot | Listed entry price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cituna | Claude and Grok checked daily, plus the fixes, with no suite to buy | 7 | Claude and Grok | $39/mo Starter (10 prompts) |
| Semrush AI Toolkit | Keeping AI tracking inside the other big SEO suite | 4 | None | $99 per domain a month, annual billing (25 prompts) |
| Peec AI | A standalone tracker where Copilot can be one of three models | 3 of 6, your choice | Copilot, if it is one of your three | $95 a month on monthly billing (50 prompts) |
| Otterly.ai | Copilot tracking on a short prompt list | 4 | Copilot; Claude as a paid add-on | $29/mo Lite (15 prompts) |
| Trakkr | Claude and Grok on every plan | 8 | Claude and Grok | $100/mo Growth (50 prompts, 1 brand) |
| Ahrefs Brand Radar | Moving AI tracking into Ahrefs | 6 in the index | Copilot; Claude in Custom Prompts | $199/mo per AI platform; Custom Prompts from $50/mo |
| Profound | Enterprise security reviews and data exports | 3 on the trial, up to 9 on Enterprise | Claude and Copilot on Enterprise | Free 7-day trial (50 prompts); Enterprise on request |
Figures come from each vendor’s pricing page as we read it on September 25, 2026, and are per month on monthly billing unless the cell says otherwise. The benchmark: SE Ranking’s Core plan costs $129/mo billed monthly for 100 daily prompts on Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, and covers none of Claude, Grok or Copilot (seranking.com). These prices move often, so confirm on the vendor’s site before buying, and let us know if a figure here has changed.
The side-by-side matrix
Everything below reflects each vendor’s entry option as published on its own pricing page on September 25, 2026, not the maximum a higher tier or enterprise contract can unlock. Two of these are SEO suites with AI tracking inside or on top (SE Ranking and Semrush) and two are dedicated AI-visibility tools (Cituna and Peec). The table above covers all seven alternatives.
| What you get | CitunaThat’s us | SE Ranking | Semrush AI Toolkit | Peec AI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry price / month | $39 | $129* | $99* | $95* |
| AI engines at entry | 7 | 5 | 4 | 3 of 6 |
| Claude tracked | ||||
| Grok tracked | ||||
| Microsoft Copilot | If chosen | |||
| Google AI Overviews | — | If chosen | ||
| Search Console integration | — | — | ||
| MCP access at entry | — | — | ||
| Generated fixes | Source analysis | — | — | |
| Free trial | 3 days (card) | 14 days (no card) | — | Yes, length not stated |
Sources, all read September 25, 2026: seranking.com/subscription.html and seranking.com/ai-visibility-tracker.html for SE Ranking, semrush.com/pricing/ai for Semrush, peec.ai/pricing for Peec. A dash marks a detail the vendor’s page does not give, so look it up there. * SE Ranking Core costs $129/mo on monthly billing ($103.20/mo on annual) with 100 daily prompts across five AI engines, MCP access and Search Console built in; the AI Search add-on starts at $89/mo for 200 prompts and includes SE Visible access. Semrush charges $99/mo per domain, billed annually, for 25 prompts on ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini and Perplexity. Peec’s Starter runs $95/mo on monthly billing for 50 prompts across the three models you pick. Cituna runs all seven of its engines daily; MCP read tools come with every plan from $39 and write tools with Pro ($119). Vendors change prices often, so check before you buy, and tell us if you spot a mistake. Peec AI’s pricing page, read October 9, 2026, offers a free trial without stating its length or whether a card is needed.
Read the matrix by the row that matters most to you. Cituna is the only column with Claude and Grok, checked daily at $39 for ten prompts. SE Ranking gives you ten times the prompts, 100 a day on Core, plus the rest of an SEO suite for $129, and Peec is the one that can add Microsoft Copilot. No column wins every row.
What SE Ranking does well
Give SE Ranking its due, because it should shape your decision. SE Ranking is a trusted mid-market SEO suite, and its AI tracking is part of the Core plan rather than a separate bill: 100 prompts a day across five engines, mention and link tracking with source analysis that shows which pages the engines pull from, AI competitor research, and saved copies of the answers so you can read how each engine frames your brand. SE Ranking collects those answers through each engine’s own interface, as a user would see them, and puts them next to your rankings, audits, backlinks and Search Console data, with MCP access on the same plan. The gaps are the engines: no Claude, Grok or Microsoft Copilot, and SE Visible, SE Ranking’s standalone dashboard from $99/mo, covers the same five ( seranking.com, read September 25, 2026). A fair pick if you already run SE Ranking for SEO and five engines cover the models your buyers use.
The 7 SE Ranking AI tracker alternatives in detail
How this list works: every entry tracks how AI engines mention and cite a brand. Cituna comes first: it is our product, and it tracks all seven engines daily, writes the fixes and publishes articles from $39/mo. After that the numbers help you find your way; they are not a ranking.
How the seven were chosen: we included tools that monitor how AI engines mention and cite a brand for prompts you pick, and only those with a public pricing page; the figures below were read there on September 25, 2026. Because SE Ranking’s five engines leave out Claude, Grok and Microsoft Copilot, we looked for tools that fill at least one of those gaps. Six do. The Semrush AI Toolkit does not, and is here as the other way to get AI tracking inside an SEO suite.
1. Cituna (best for Claude, Grok and the work done, from $39)
Cituna is a dedicated AI-visibility tool that leads with coverage and the fix: it scans how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode cite your brand, all seven checked daily, shows the exact buyer prompts where you are missing, and generates the fix for each gap (schema, FAQ markup, llms.txt and the page changes), and its AutoSEO writes 30 articles a month on Starter and publishes them to WordPress, Shopify, a GitHub repo or any CMS by webhook. All seven engines are in the $39/mo Starter with no base plan to buy first; Pro ($119) adds write-enabled MCP and backlink, keyword and SERP-rank data, and Max ($399) serves agencies and high-volume sites with 90 tracked prompts, 10 brands, daily scans on every brand, API access and priority support, with custom Enterprise plans (tailored prompt pools, brands and engine cadences, invoiced billing, priority onboarding) when you scale further. A native Google Search Console integration ties the work back to real clicks, and a built-in MCP server is included from $39 so you can query your scans from Claude or any MCP client, read tools on Starter, write actions like running a scan on Pro. MCP is not unique to us; pairing it with Search Console at this price is the rarer part. Our 3-day trial asks for a card up front, no charge during it, cancel anytime, and we run Cituna on our own site daily, the same seven-engine scan, gap list and generated fixes you get.
2. Semrush AI Toolkit (the other suite add-on)
If you want AI tracking inside an SEO suite, Semrush’s is the direct analog: the Semrush AI Toolkit is the AI-visibility layer on the other big SEO suite. Semrush AI Toolkit’s published entry is $99/mo per domain, billed annually, for 25 prompts tracked daily across ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini and Perplexity (semrush.com/pricing/ai, read September 25, 2026). Like SE Ranking, it fits teams already in the parent suite, and the per-domain billing is worth modelling if you track more than one site. Semrush does not cover Claude, Grok or Copilot either.
3. Peec AI (a dedicated tool without the suite)
Peec AI is the other dedicated tool here, not an add-on to a suite but a purpose-built AI-visibility product. Peec’s Starter plan is $95/mo billed monthly for 50 prompts tracked daily, on three models you choose from ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, AI Overviews, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini and Naver AI, with unlimited users (peec.ai/pricing, read September 25, 2026). That makes it one of four tools on this list that can watch Copilot, as long as Copilot is one of your three. If you want a standalone AI-visibility tool rather than one inside a suite, but Cituna is not the fit, Peec is the other name to weigh.
4. Otterly.ai (best for Copilot tracking on a short prompt list)
Otterly.ai tracks Microsoft Copilot, which SE Ranking does not, from its lowest plan. Lite checks ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Copilot daily, with unlimited team members. Otterly’s pricing page (read September 25, 2026) lists Lite at $29/mo billed monthly, or $25/mo billed annually, for 15 prompts, and offers a free trial. Claude, Gemini and Google AI Mode are extra: $29, $9 and $9 a month on Lite, so all seven of Otterly’s engines come to $76/mo on that plan by our arithmetic. Where it falls short: 15 prompts is a short list next to the 100 in SE Ranking’s Core plan, Grok is not offered, and API and MCP access start on Standard at $189/mo. Otterly suits a team leaving SE Ranking that watches a few key buyer questions and needs Copilot in the mix. Our Otterly alternatives page goes further.
5. Trakkr (best for Claude and Grok on every plan)
Trakkr includes Claude and Grok on every plan, with no per-model fees. Each brand is tracked daily across eight models: Claude and Grok, plus ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, DeepSeek and Meta AI. Trakkr’s pricing page (read September 25, 2026) lists Growth at $100/mo, or $1,000 a year, for one brand, 50 prompts, 25 articles a month, three seats and MCP access, with a 14-day free trial that asks for a card. Where it falls short: Microsoft Copilot and Google AI Mode are not on its model list, Growth covers one brand and half the prompts of SE Ranking’s Core plan, and the REST API starts on Scale at $500/mo. Trakkr suits a team whose buyers ask Claude or Grok and who wants help writing content in the same tool. See our Trakkr alternatives page for the wider comparison.
6. Ahrefs Brand Radar (best for moving AI tracking into Ahrefs)
If you are moving from SE Ranking to Ahrefs, Brand Radar keeps AI tracking in the new suite and adds Microsoft Copilot. Brand Radar’s index holds roughly 451 million prompts across six AI surfaces, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, AI Overviews and AI Mode, and a separate Custom Prompts feature checks your own questions on a daily, weekly or monthly schedule, with Claude on offer there. Ahrefs’s Brand Radar page (read September 25, 2026) charges $199 a month for each AI platform in the index, $699 for the full set, and from $50 a month for Custom Prompts. You can buy it without an Ahrefs plan, and Ahrefs’s Lite, Standard and Advanced plans come with 5, 10 and 20 daily custom prompts. Where it falls short: chatbot data in the index is refreshed once a month, every Claude run costs eight checks, and Grok is missing. Brand Radar suits teams that want market-wide research beside their Ahrefs link and keyword data. Our Ahrefs Brand Radar alternatives page covers it in full.
7. Profound (best for enterprise security reviews and data exports)
Profound covers two of the three engines SE Ranking lacks, Claude and Microsoft Copilot, but only on a custom Enterprise contract. That contract, per Profound’s pricing page (read September 25, 2026), brings daily tracking on up to nine answer engines, all-time history, CSV and JSON exports, an API, unlimited seats and SSO, with no listed price. What you can start today is a free trial: 50 prompts a day for seven days on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, taken from a set Profound picks for your industry. Where it falls short: you see a price only after a sales call, the trial cannot test your own prompts or the engines SE Ranking is missing, and Grok is not covered at any level. Profound suits an enterprise brand that needs more from AI tracking than an SEO suite’s module provides and has a security review to pass. Compare it with the rest on our Profound alternatives page.
The category runs wider than the tools above, from enterprise platforms at the top end to free single-shot checkers at the bottom, and we price out the full field, side by side, in our best AI visibility tools rundown.
How to switch from SE Ranking
Moving your AI monitoring across is a short job, because the inputs are the same prompts and competitors you already track. If you kept the Core plan mainly for its AI prompts, switching can retire that $129 a month too:
- Export your prompts and competitors from SE Ranking. Copy the buyer questions you monitor and the competitor list you benchmark against, that set is the only thing you truly need to carry over.
- Recreate them in Cituna. Add your domain, paste the same prompts and competitors, and let it map them across all seven engines, including Claude and Grok, with no base plan to buy first.
- Run your first scan. Your first run establishes a baseline across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode, and surfaces the prompts where you are missing plus the generated fixes to close them.
- Connect Google Search Console. Link GSC so the tool can tie AI citations back to real clicks and impressions, and, if you want the scans and fix statuses in your own workflow, connect the MCP server.
The fastest way to compare is to point both tools at the same prompts and domain during a trial and see which one shows you the gaps, and the fixes, you care about. For the wider field, see our rundown of the best AI visibility tools.
Drafted with AI assistance from our own research and Search Console data, and reviewed by Rahul A before publishing. Rules and prices change; check the linked official source before you act.