# AEOlens — AI search visibility audits and buyer-simulation across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok

> Source: CitedIndex — https://citedindex.com/aeolens (structured, researched, re-verified)
> Facts last verified: 2026-08-23

AEOlens scores how well a page is built for AI citation, then simulates real buyer questions across five answer engines to show where a brand gets cited, where it ranks and where it is missing entirely. The audit looks at content, schema, technical and structural signals. The simulation puts buyer-intent prompts through ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok, and reports citation rate, average position, sentiment, and which competitors were recommended instead. A server-side tracker captures AI crawlers at the edge, so bots that never run JavaScript still get counted.

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Website | https://aeolens.ai/ |
| Pricing | Free tier with one scan per month. Paid plans from $35/month (Starter), $99/month (Growth), $249/month (Agency, $212/month on annual). Annual billing saves 15%. Enterprise tier is custom-quoted. 30-day money-back guarantee on paid plans. |
| API | Yes |
| Best for | Founders, growth marketers and SEO agencies that want to monitor AI citation readiness on their own domains or run AI visibility audits on client sites under their own brand. |
| Not for | Enterprise buyers who need a sales-led contract, named customer references, Microsoft Copilot or DeepSeek in the simulation, or fully shipped integrations with the major BI tools. |

## Pricing

| Tier | Price |
| --- | --- |
| Free | Free |
| Starter | $35/month |
| Growth | $99/month |
| Agency | $249/month |
| Enterprise | Custom, contact sales |

## Verdict

AEOlens is built for the team that wants to fix pages, not just watch a dashboard. The audit is its centre of gravity: 48 checks that end in a snippet you can paste, rather than a score and a shrug. Pair that with a simulation that names the competitor cited in your place, and you get a short list of things to do on Monday morning. It is priced for that audience too. Every tier is published, the first audit is free and needs no account, and the Agency plan carries white-label exports at a level where most tools of this scope route you to a sales call. It stops where an enterprise buyer would want it to keep going. Copilot and DeepSeek are absent from the standard simulation set. The BI connectors and several deployment integrations are on the roadmap rather than in the product. It is a young company and the track record is short. Take it if the job is auditing and fixing your own pages across the main engines, on a published price. If you need Copilot coverage, deep BI plumbing or a long reference list, look at Profound, Otterly or Peec.ai.

## How it works

1. Paste your URL into the homepage scanner; AEOlens crawls raw HTML and rendered output without requiring an account
2. Get a 0-100 AEO score broken into content, technical, schema and structure, with every failing check paired to a prioritised fix and copy-paste code
3. Run the AI Buyer Simulation: 25 prompts through ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok, with per-engine citation rate, position and sentiment plus named competitors
4. Install a server-side integration (Vercel log drain, Cloudflare Workers, Next.js middleware, Nginx log forwarding or generic HTTP beacon) to capture AI bot hits without adding JavaScript to your pages
5. Receive score-drop alerts and weekly digests over email, webhook, or in Slack or Discord; export to PDF, Markdown or JSON, or pull into GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or CircleCI as a build gate

## Who it's for

- Founders and growth teams who need an AEO score they can act on without an SEO agency
- In-house SEO and content teams running GEO programs across one brand site
- SEO and PR agencies that want to resell AI visibility audits to clients under their own brand
- Engineering teams that want a CI gate that fails the build when AEO score regresses

## Strengths and weaknesses

- ✓ Public USD pricing for every tier including the Agency plan; competitor tools at this scope usually require a sales call
- ✓ Free first audit with no account or card required; useful for evaluating fit before paying
- ✓ 48-check structural audit groups findings into content, technical, schema and structure with prioritised fixes and code snippets
- ✓ AI Buyer Simulation runs 25 prompts across 5 models and identifies competitors cited when you are not
- ✓ Server-side bot capture through Vercel, Cloudflare Workers, Next.js middleware or Nginx, with no JavaScript on the customer site
- ✓ Agency tier ships with white-label PDF, Markdown and shareable links, plus multi-domain analytics
- ✗ Copilot and DeepSeek are not in the standard simulation set, so coverage stops at five models
- ✗ Slack and Discord integrations are marked beta on the integrations page
- ✗ Looker Studio, Power BI, Cloudflare Pages, CloudFront, Fastly, Netlify and Render are on the roadmap, not shipped
- ✗ A young company with a short public track record next to Profound or Otterly
- ⚠ Five-model simulation set on the standard tier; Copilot and DeepSeek not yet supported
- ⚠ Slack and Discord integrations marked beta on the integrations page
- ⚠ Cloudflare Pages, AWS CloudFront, Fastly, Microsoft Teams, Render, Netlify, Looker Studio and Power BI integrations are listed as planned, not shipped

## Key features

- **48-check structural AEO audit** — Crawls raw HTML and rendered output (30 checks on Free, 48 on paid), scores 0-100 across content, technical, schema and structure, and pairs every failing check with prioritised copy-paste fixes including JSON-LD and meta tag rewrites
- **AI Buyer Simulation across 5 models** — 25 buyer-intent prompts per run through ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok with per-engine citation rate, position and sentiment; 4 simulations per month on Starter, 15 on Growth, 40 on Agency
- **Custom prompt runs** — Run your own buyer questions through the 5 models (e.g. "best tool for X?") at 15 per month on Starter, 50 on Growth, 200 on Agency
- **Server-side AI bot capture** — Edge log forwarding from Vercel, Cloudflare Workers, Next.js middleware or Nginx so GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot, Bytespider, Google-Extended and Meta-ExternalAgent hits are recorded without any JavaScript on the customer site
- **Brand monitoring on 5 platforms** — Tracks X, Reddit, Hacker News, Product Hunt and GitHub mentions on Growth and Agency; 2-hour refresh on X and Reddit so teams catch live threads while they still affect AI citation
- **White-label PDF and Markdown exports** — On the Agency tier: your logo and brand name on every PDF, Markdown brief and shareable scan link, with 365-day scan history and multi-domain crawler analytics; set via the workspace branding API
- **JSON API and CI/CD hooks** — Drop-in snippets for GitHub Actions, GitLab CI and CircleCI; supports a build gate that fails deploys when AEO score regresses below your threshold
- **Free llms.txt and robots.txt generators** — Included on every plan; produces an llms.txt file telling AI models what your site is about and a robots.txt file that controls which AI bots can fetch which pages

## Use cases

- **Diagnose why a page is not cited by ChatGPT** — A growth team sees traffic flat in GA4 and uses AEOlens to scan the category page. The audit flags missing FAQPage schema, no llms.txt and an H1 that buries the answer. They ship the prioritised fixes and re-score; simulation shows ChatGPT citation moving from absent to position 1 across the buyer prompts.
- **Track AI bots that bypass JavaScript analytics** — SEO team discovers that ChatGPT and Claude crawlers visit their product pages but never fire their GA4 events. AEOlens server-side capture logs GPTBot and ClaudeBot hits by ASN, shows which pages are crawled, and alerts when crawl volume drops.
- **Resell AI visibility audits to clients under an agency brand** — An SEO agency buys the Agency tier, turns on white-label with their own logo and brand name, runs the 48-check audit plus 5-model simulation on each client, and exports branded PDFs. The agency math on the for-agencies page shows 10 audits per month at $500 each against a $249 cost basis.
- **Block an AI visibility regression before deploy** — Engineering wires the AEOlens GitHub Actions snippet into the deploy pipeline. When a merge drops the AEO score below the agreed threshold, the build fails and the PR is held until the score recovers.

## Integrations

Vercel · Cloudflare Workers · Next.js middleware · Nginx · Generic HTTP beacon · Managed DNS proxy (for Webflow, Wix, Framer) · Email notifications · Generic webhook (HMAC-signed) · Slack (beta) · Discord (beta) · GitHub Actions · GitLab CI · CircleCI (via generic curl) · PDF report export · Markdown brief export · JSON API

## Sources

- https://aeolens.ai/
- https://aeolens.ai/pricing
- https://aeolens.ai/integrations
- https://aeolens.ai/for-agencies
- https://tracxn.com/d/companies/aeolens/__dolanQdtUxPt0F-OiOZz-blmS7uAXYS-o6IJk8Kx6m4