# The best AI rank trackers (2026): which ones actually show you a rank?

> Source: https://citedindex.com/best-ai-rank-trackers (curated, re-verified)

Searching for an "AI rank tracker" or a "Perplexity rank tracker" assumes the tool will tell you where you rank: a position, like a classic Google rank tracker. In practice, most tools sold into this category do something different: they tell you whether your brand was mentioned in an AI answer, and how (share of voice, sentiment, citation links), without ever assigning a number for where you stand.

Both are useful. But they answer different questions, and the SERP for this exact query doesn't draw the distinction. The top results are single-vendor product pages and thin agency roundups, none of which checked, tool by tool, whether the product actually returns a rank. We fetched each vendor's own pricing or product page to find out. The evidence for each verdict is quoted in its entry below.

| # | Name | What it is | Pricing | API |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Rankscale](https://citedindex.com/rankscale.md) | Credit-based AI visibility platform tracking brand mentions, citations and sentiment across 17+ AI engines. | From $20/month | Yes |
| 2 | [Nightwatch](https://citedindex.com/nightwatch.md) | Daily keyword rank tracking plus AI answer visibility and citation attribution in one dashboard. | From €99/month | Yes |
| 3 | [RankLens](https://citedindex.com/ranklens.md) | AI brand visibility and LLM rank tracking from SEO Vendor, with repeated-sampling entity reports. | Free | Yes |
| 4 | [AI Search Watcher](https://citedindex.com/mangools-ai-search-watcher.md) | LLM rank tracker from Mangools that monitors brand mentions and citations across eight AI search engines. | Free, then €24/month | Yes |
| 5 | [LLMrefs](https://citedindex.com/llmrefs.md) | Keyword-based AI search visibility tracker for brand mentions, rankings and citations. | From €79/month | Yes |
| 6 | [OtterlyAI](https://citedindex.com/otterly-ai.md) | AI search visibility monitoring across seven engines, with citation tracking and GEO content audits. | From $29/month | Yes |
| 7 | [Peec AI](https://citedindex.com/peec-ai.md) | Tracks brand visibility, position and sentiment in AI answers, with source, competitor and crawler reporting. | From €85/month | Yes |
| 8 | [SE Visible](https://citedindex.com/se-visible.md) | AI visibility tracking for brands, competitors and cited sources across five answer engines. | From $99/month | Yes |
| 9 | [Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit](https://citedindex.com/semrush-ai-visibility-toolkit.md) | Tracks brand mentions and citations in ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews and AI Mode, plus an AI-readiness site audit. | From €94.94/month | Yes |
| 10 | [Morningscore](https://citedindex.com/morningscore.md) | All-in-one SEO tool with ChatGPT prompt tracking, Google AI Overviews tracking and a GEO visibility score. | From $69/month | Yes |
| 11 | [LLM Pulse](https://citedindex.com/llm-pulse.md) | Tracks brand mentions, citations and sentiment in AI answers, and drafts content to win more of them. | From €49/month | Yes |
| 12 | [Local Dominator AI Tracker](https://citedindex.com/local-dominator-ai-tracker.md) | AI visibility tracking for local brands and agencies inside a Google Maps rank-tracking platform. | From $39/month | Yes |
| 13 | [Local Falcon](https://citedindex.com/local-falcon.md) | Geo-grid tracking of local rankings and AI answer visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews, AI Mode and Grok. | From $24.99/month | Yes |
| 14 | [SEORCE](https://citedindex.com/seorce.md) | AI answer-engine visibility tracking, rank tracking, content generation and one-click technical fixes in one platform. | Free, then $49/month | Yes |
| 15 | [AI Sightline](https://citedindex.com/ai-sightline.md) | AI visibility monitoring and AI traffic analytics across six answer engines, with ranked fix recommendations. | Free, then $29.95/month | Yes |
| 16 | [Keyword.com AI Visibility](https://citedindex.com/keyword-com-ai-visibility.md) | AI visibility tracking from a rank tracker: brand mentions, citations, sentiment and competitors in AI answers. | From $9.80/month | Yes |
| 17 | [TrueRanker](https://citedindex.com/trueranker.md) | SEO suite pairing Google rank tracking with brand-citation monitoring across six AI answer engines. | From $14.99/month | Yes |
| 18 | [Distribb](https://citedindex.com/distribb.md) | AI SEO agent that researches, writes and publishes content, earns backlinks and tracks AI-engine citations. | From $97/month | Yes |
| 19 | [AEOlens](https://citedindex.com/aeolens.md) | AEO/GEO platform: 48-check site audit, ranked code fixes and weekly buyer-question tracking across AI engines. | Free, then $59/month | Yes |
| 20 | [WhyIQ AI Radar](https://citedindex.com/whyiq-ai-radar.md) | Weekly citation tracking across five AI engines, with a per-answer fix checklist. | From $29/month | No |
| 21 | [Emergine](https://citedindex.com/emergine.md) | AI visibility tracking across Western and Chinese answer engines, with prompt discovery and citation analysis. | From $29/month | Yes |