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Cognizo
AEO platform tracking brand visibility in AI answers, with agents that create and publish content.
From $499/monthWhy it's on this listGenerates content · YesAgents produce briefs, outlines, drafts, FAQs and refreshes in the brand's voiceEvidence ↗
Where it improves on AEOlens
- +Publishes to your site · YesPublishes to the customer's own site, with approval-per-piece or fully autonomous auto-publishEvidence ↗
- +Done-for-you service · PartialDone-for-You executes autonomously via agents rather than staff; a human strategist is an Enterprise inclusionEvidence ↗
Trade-offs against AEOlens
- −Self-serve signup · NoEvery plan, including the $499 Platform tier, routes to Book a demo, and onboarding includes a call with a customer success partner.Evidence ↗
30/32 researched criteria · 2 not established - 02
Trakkr
AI visibility platform tracking brand answers across eight AI models, with recommended actions.
From $100/monthWhy it's on this listGenerates content · YesArticle credits are metered per plan: 25/mo on Growth, 100/mo on ScaleEvidence ↗
Where it improves on AEOlens
- +Publishes to your site · YesWordPress, Shopify and Webflow integrations publish to the live site; changes await approvalEvidence ↗
- +Google AI Overviews · YesGoogle AI Overviews is one of the eight tracked surfacesEvidence ↗
Trade-offs against AEOlens
- −Microsoft Copilot · NoAbsent from the vendor's closed list of eight tracked modelsEvidence ↗
31/32 researched criteria · 1 not established - 03
ApexGEO
GEO/AEO platform measuring brand citations across 7 AI answer engines, with site audits and ranked fixes.
From FreeWhy it's on this listPublishes to your site · PartialCREATE ships a publish loop with a WordPress connector, hosted white-label blogs and auto-publish; it rides on the Content Generator feature, which is Professional and above.Evidence ↗
Where it improves on AEOlens
- +Done-for-you service · PartialSelf-serve software, not a retainer agency; the one human-delivered offering is a free, manually reviewed AI Visibility Snapshot for one South African brand.Evidence ↗
- +Google AI Overviews · YesSampled weekly via a search API rather than alongside the chat engines; reports inclusion, mention and citation inside Google's AI answer box.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against AEOlens
- −Meta AI · NoAbsent from both the tracked-today list and the six-engine roadmap; the six pending engines are Cohere, Mistral, Llama, YandexGPT, Kimi and Qwen.Evidence ↗
31/32 researched criteria · 1 not established - 04
SEORCE
Unified SEO and AI visibility platform that tracks brand citations across 10 platforms and ships the fixes.
From FreeWhy it's on this listGenerates content · YesContent Studio generates blogs, product, landing, comparison, case-study and FAQ pages from a configured brand engine.Evidence ↗
Where it improves on AEOlens
- +Publishes to your site · YesDirect CMS push to WordPress, Webflow, Contentful and custom integrations from inside the platform.Evidence ↗
- +Google AI Overviews · YesCounted as one of the three search surfaces, with brand presence, position and citation frequency tracked inside the AI Overview.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against AEOlens
- −Brand sentiment · PartialSentiment scoring and entity-attribute mapping are published features, but the plan comparison table marks AI Sentiment Analysis absent on Free and Lite.Evidence ↗
- −AI crawler analytics · PartialThe crawl audits whether named AI bots can reach your content and flags robots.txt rules blocking them; the vendor publishes no AI bot hit counts or server-log analytics.Evidence ↗
31/32 researched criteria · 1 not established - 05
Qwairy
GEO platform that monitors brand mentions across 10 AI engines and feeds content, technical and traffic work.
From FreeWhy it's on this listGenerates content · YesContent Studio generates articles, briefs and outlines through a brief-outline-content wizard in 45+ languages, at 50 credits per article or brief.Evidence ↗
Where it improves on AEOlens
- +Google AI Overviews · YesGoogle AI Overview is a Core model at 1 credit per answer, collected from the public Google surface rather than an API.Evidence ↗
- +Google AI Mode · YesGoogle AI Mode is a separate Core model at 1 credit per answer, listed alongside AI Overview rather than folded into it.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against AEOlens
- −Meta AI · NoAbsent from the ten engines Qwairy enumerates by name, and absent from both the Core and Premium model tables in its docs.Evidence ↗
- −AI crawler analytics · PartialBusiness and Enterprise only. Classifies 13 published AI user agents from server or CDN logs via nine collectors, keeping bounded daily aggregates for 30 analytic days.Evidence ↗
32/32 researched criteria - 06
Promptwatch
AI search visibility platform for brand mentions, citations and AI crawler logs, with content agents.
From FreeWhy it's on this listPublishes to your site · YesDrafts push to a connected CMS as an unpublished draft, then publish live as a separate step; the pricing table marks the WordPress row 'Coming soon'.Evidence ↗
Where it improves on AEOlens
- +Done-for-you service · PartialA fully managed option exists, but the vendor states its own agents do the work; it is ticked only on Business and the Custom tier, which adds a dedicated success manager.Evidence ↗
- +Google AI Overviews · YesLive-search platform, collected from real Google results pages and part of the default monitor set.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against AEOlens
- −Technical AEO · PartialCovers crawler directives (robots.txt and bot blocks seen in Crawler Logs) and page-level technical health; llms.txt only via a standalone free generator, and no schema-markup capability is claimed.Evidence ↗
- −AI crawler analytics · PartialCrawler log ingestion is crossed out on Essential in the pricing comparison; Professional includes 25M crawler log events a month and Business 100M.Evidence ↗
30/32 researched criteria · 2 not established
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