Best Ahrefs Brand Radar Alternatives in 2026

Key takeaways

• Ahrefs Brand Radar bills Custom Prompts by the check from $50 a month, offers no free trial, and its reports stop at mentions and citations rather than fixes.
• Cituna checks seven engines for $49 a month, includes a 3-day trial, and writes the fix for each gap it finds, using 2026 vendor pricing throughout this guide.
• AthenaHQ covers eleven engines on a $295 plan with a free tier to try first, and Trakkr covers eight engines, including Grok and DeepSeek, from $100 a month.
• Brand Radar's AI Visibility Index, a market-wide lookup across hundreds of millions of prompts, has no direct equivalent among the alternatives here.
• Claude costs far more to check on Brand Radar than the other platforms it tracks, and Grok is not tracked at all.

If per-check billing and no trial are what put you off Brand Radar, start a 3-day Cituna trial at cituna.com; a card is required.

Ahrefs Brand Radar charges for tracked prompts by the check, offers no free trial and reports what it finds without acting on it. This guide compares eight tools with a fixed monthly price, a way to test first, or help with the fixing, using each vendor's own pages checked on 29 September 2026.

We built it for teams that already pay Ahrefs for SEO and are weighing whether Brand Radar's per-check billing is worth it, against tools priced by the month instead. Every price, trial and engine count below comes straight from the vendor's own site, read on the date shown, so you can check it again before you decide.

For the manual check worth doing before you pay for any tracker, see how to track your brand's visibility in ChatGPT; for every tool's live price and trial in one place, browse the AI visibility category.

How do the 8 Ahrefs Brand Radar alternatives compare?

Prices checked 29 September 2026.

How this list works: we scored each tool's cheapest paid self-serve plan, or its free plan where there is no paid one, on five checks: 7 or more named engines on the entry plan, a published price, a free trial or free plan, a Google Search Console connection, and whether it writes the fixes or content for you rather than only recommending them, ranked by checks met and then by the lower entry price, using each vendor's own pages read on 29 September 2026. Profound, the lowest scorer among the directory's other tools, is left out to keep this list to eight; see Profound alternatives if Profound is the tool you use today.

Which Ahrefs Brand Radar alternatives are worth paying for in 2026?

11. Cituna

Best for teams that want each gap fixed, not just reportedFree trial · from $49/moPlans and prices

Cituna checks seven AI engines every day and writes the fix for each gap it finds, publishing the resulting article itself, instead of leaving you a report to act on.

Price: Starter is $49 a month, Pro is $119 and Max is $399, on Cituna's pricing page (checked 22 October 2026). To see the fixes it writes before you commit, try Cituna free for 3 days at cituna.com; a card is required.

Engines: 7, checked daily: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode.

Strength: it writes the fix for each gap it finds and publishes articles, it is priced by monthly plan rather than per check, and Google Search Console and MCP are included.

Limit: Cituna does not track Microsoft Copilot, one of the platforms Brand Radar's Custom Prompts can check, and the 3-day trial needs a card.

Pick it if: you want a predictable monthly bill and the fixing done for you rather than left as a report.

See Cituna in our directory or read Cituna vs Ahrefs Brand Radar for the side-by-side.

22. Trakkr

Best for a flat price across all 8 tracked engines

Trakkr swaps Brand Radar's per check billing for one flat monthly plan that includes all 8 of the engines it tracks, plus a dedicated Google Search Console integration.

Price: Growth is $100 a month, or $1,000 billed yearly, on Trakkr's pricing page (checked 29 September 2026); Scale, at $500 a month, adds 10 tracked brands.

Engines: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Grok, DeepSeek and Meta AI, all included on Growth with no per-check fee; Google AI Mode and Microsoft Copilot are not tracked on any plan.

Strength: all 8 tracked engines, including Grok and DeepSeek, come with the entry plan, alongside a Search Console integration piped into Looker Studio and articles it drafts and publishes for you.

Limit: the 14-day trial needs a card, and Google AI Mode and Microsoft Copilot are missing from every plan.

Pick it if: you want a flat monthly bill instead of per-check billing, with Search Console data and written content included.

Trakkr is not in the Automate Basics directory yet, so there is no dedicated page or head-to-head comparison to link here.

33. AthenaHQ

Best for the widest model list on one planFree plan · from $245/moPlans and prices

AthenaHQ tracks eleven AI models from its first paid plan and pairs that with a content optimisation agent that acts on what it finds.

Price: Starter is $295 a month, or $245 a month billed annually, on AthenaHQ's plans page (checked 29 September 2026). A free Essential plan gives $25 of credit, about 300 AI responses, across five engines, more than Brand Radar lets you try for nothing.

Engines: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI and Mistral, all included with no per-check fee.

Strength: Claude is included at no extra cost, where Brand Radar's Custom Prompts charge more checks for a single Claude update than for the other platforms.

Limit: the jump from the free plan to Starter is steep, and API access and extra credits are priced only on request.

Pick it if: you want the widest engine list on one self-serve plan and a flat price instead of per-check billing.

See AthenaHQ in our directory or Cituna vs AthenaHQ.

44. Scrunch

Best for site audits alongside prompt trackingFree trial · from $250/moPlans and prices

Scrunch bundles prompt tracking with monthly site audits and basic content generation in one flat-priced plan.

Price: Core is $250 a month, with no annual price shown, on Scrunch's pricing page (checked 29 September 2026), after a 7-day free trial that upgrades to a paid plan automatically unless cancelled.

Engines: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Copilot on Core; Claude, Gemini, Google AI Mode and Grok need the custom-priced Enterprise plan.

Strength: Core includes five site audits a month and basic content generation, not just tracking, plus Google single sign-on and a free instant AI audit tool.

Limit: four engines is fewer than Brand Radar's Custom Prompts can reach, at five times Brand Radar's entry price.

Pick it if: site audits and some content generation matter as much to you as the prompt tracking itself.

See Scrunch in our directory or Cituna vs Scrunch.

55. Otterly.AI

Best for a fixed monthly price to startFree trial · from $25/moPlans and prices

Otterly's Lite plan swaps Brand Radar's per-check billing for one flat monthly price on four core engines.

Price: Lite is $29 a month, or $25 billed annually, on Otterly's pricing page (checked 29 September 2026); its FAQ states a free trial exists without naming its length.

Engines: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot on Lite; Claude, Gemini and Google AI Mode are paid add-ons on every plan.

Strength: it costs less than Brand Radar's Custom Prompts package, with a predictable flat bill instead of per-check overage.

Limit: 15 prompts a day is a thin sample, and adding the missing engines raises the price on every plan.

Pick it if: a flat, predictable bill matters more than Brand Radar's per-check flexibility.

See Otterly.AI in our directory or Cituna vs Otterly.AI.

66. Peec AI

Best for teams that want unlimited seats on every planFree trial · from $80/moPlans and prices

Peec AI charges one flat price per project rather than per check, and every plan includes unlimited users.

Price: Starter is $95 a month, or $80 billed annually, on Peec's pricing page (checked 29 September 2026); the page offers a free trial without stating its length.

Engines: three chosen from ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini and Naver AI; Perplexity sits outside the base pool.

Strength: unlimited users on every plan, plus a separate agency pricing tier for teams managing several client brands.

Limit: three included models is fewer than Brand Radar's Custom Prompts can reach in a month, and no Search Console connection is named.

Pick it if: many people on your team need access and you are comfortable with three tracked models.

See Peec AI in our directory or Cituna vs Peec AI.

77. SE Visible

Best for a large, fixed prompt allowanceFree trial · from $79/moPlans and prices

SE Visible trades Brand Radar's per-check billing for a flat monthly price and a much larger prompt count.

Price: Basic is $99 a month, or $79 billed annually, on SE Visible's pricing page (checked 29 September 2026), with a 10-day free trial.

Engines: ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, the same five on every plan; Claude is listed as coming soon.

Strength: 200 prompts a day across five engines, about 30,000 answers a month, is a large sample for one flat price.

Limit: no Copilot, no Claude yet, and no Google Search Console connection is named on its pages.

Pick it if: you track hundreds of prompts and want one predictable bill instead of per-check overage.

See SE Visible in our directory or Cituna vs SE Visible.

88. Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit

Best for existing Semrush usersFrom $99/moPlans and prices

The toolkit adds AI prompt tracking next to the SEO data a Semrush subscriber already has, for one flat monthly price.

Price: the standalone toolkit is $99 a month, and a new $0 plan with no credit card required now also lists AI visibility features, on Semrush's pricing page (checked 29 September 2026).

Engines: ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode are the only platforms named for prompt tracking, fewer than Brand Radar's Custom Prompts reach.

Strength: the free plan is a genuine no-card way to try AI visibility reporting inside an account many teams already use for SEO.

Limit: the standalone toolkit has no free trial, like Brand Radar, and its named engine list is narrower.

Pick it if: your team already runs Semrush and wants AI prompts in the same login.

See Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit in our directory or Semrush vs Ahrefs Brand Radar.

Why do people leave Ahrefs Brand Radar?

Brand Radar's Custom Prompts bill per check, where one prompt on one platform on one day is a check, starting at $50 a month for 2,500 checks and rising to $0.010 to $0.020 a check in overage (checked 29 September 2026). A Claude update costs more checks than a ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity update, so a prompt list spread across several engines can burn through an allowance fast.

The second reason is that Ahrefs offers no free trial for Brand Radar. Its pricing FAQ states plainly that it never runs discounts and points new users only to the unrelated Ahrefs Free plan for Site Explorer and Site Audit.

A third reason is what happens after tracking: Brand Radar reports brand mentions, citations and AI share of voice, but nothing on its pages describes it writing fixes, schema or articles for you. Grok is also not tracked at all, and Claude sits on a markedly more expensive tier than the rest of the platform list.

What does Ahrefs Brand Radar still do well?

Brand Radar's AI Visibility Index, from $199 a month, is the one feature nothing else in this comparison matches: it looks up any brand across a database Ahrefs states covers more than 448 million search-backed prompts, with no setup and daily updates across six platforms (checked 29 September 2026). For competitor research across a whole market, rather than a fixed list of your own prompts, that breadth is hard to replace.

Ahrefs also publishes a free, no-signup AI Visibility Checker that covers ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Overviews with no limit on how many brands you can check, though only as a one-time snapshot rather than ongoing monitoring.

How do you switch from Ahrefs Brand Radar to another tool?

Ahrefs' general FAQ states there are no contracts or setup fees and that you can switch or cancel anytime, but no export terms specific to Brand Radar are published, so treat the steps below as general practice:

• Export or note the custom prompts you currently track in Brand Radar so you can rebuild the same list elsewhere.
• Recreate those prompts in the alternative you are trying, on the same platforms where possible.
• Run both tools in parallel for a week or two before you decide.
• Compare how each tool reports the same prompts on the same day, including which sources they cite.
• Cancel your Custom Prompts package before your next billing date, checking your Ahrefs account for the exact terms.

Which Ahrefs Brand Radar alternative should you choose?

If per-check billing and no trial are what bother you most, Cituna offers a flat $49 a month, a 3-day trial and the fix written for each gap it finds. If you want the widest engine list regardless of price, AthenaHQ reaches eleven engines with a free plan to try first, and if you want a flat price across 8 engines with Search Console and written content included, Trakkr's Growth plan fits at $100 a month (checked 29 September 2026).

If you track hundreds of prompts and want one predictable bill, SE Visible or Scrunch fit better than per-check billing, and if your team is moving its SEO work to Semrush, its toolkit puts AI tracking in the same login. Keep Ahrefs for the AI Visibility Index if market-wide brand research, not your own fixed prompt list, is the job.

Whichever you choose, see what a 3-day Cituna trial includes at cituna.com if a flat monthly price and a written fix for every gap is what per-check billing never gave you.