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Gumshoe

Runs AI visibility audits as synthetic buyer personas, through the models' official APIs.

Gumshoe is a GEO platform that measures how AI models answer buying questions about a brand, running conversations as generated buyer personas across models reached through their official APIs. It pairs those audits with technical, content, sentiment and citation audits plus content generation.

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Marketing teams that want AI visibility broken down by buyer persona and topic

What we checked

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What we checked on Gumshoe

YesPartlyNo

Answer enginesYes

ChatGPT

Two OpenAI GPT models sit in the catalogue a buyer chooses six from, both run with live web search on, and ChatGPT is named across the product pages.

GPT-6.1 Sol OpenAI Yes

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Answer enginesYes

Perplexity

Perplexity's Sonar is listed in the model catalogue and runs with live web search, so its answers feed the citation and sources views.

Sonar Perplexity Yes

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Answer enginesYes

Gemini

Two Google Gemini models appear in the catalogue, counted separately from Google's AI Overviews surface, and either can be among the six run per audit.

Gemini 3.1 Pro Google Yes

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Answer enginesYes

Google AI Overviews

Google AI Overviews is treated as its own engine rather than a Gemini variant, and because it has no public API it is captured from live Google results.

Google measured as two surfaces: Google Search AI Overviews is treated as its own engine, separate from the Gemini models

gumshoe.ai/resources/gumshoe-methodologyChecked

Answer enginesNo

Google AI Mode

Google is covered as Gemini models plus AI Overviews; the published model catalogue and the methodology summary of Google surfaces list no Google AI Mode entry.

Broad model coverage: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta Muse Spark, and Google AI Overviews

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Answer enginesYes

Claude

Claude Sonnet and Opus are in the catalogue without web search, and web-search versions of both are included in Pro as opt-in choices.

Claude Sonnet (Web Search) and Claude Opus (Web Search) are included in Pro and are opt in.

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Answer enginesNo

Microsoft Copilot

The model table enumerates every engine a buyer can pick for an audit and the methodology repeats the same roster; Microsoft Copilot appears in neither.

On the page: Methodology at a Glance list, model coverage bullet

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Answer enginesYes

Grok

xAI's Grok is one of the twelve catalogue models, and the vendor flags that it answers from training data rather than looking pages up.

Grok 4.7 xAI No

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Answer enginesYes

DeepSeek

Both DeepSeek Chat and DeepSeek Reasoner are selectable models, again answering from training data alone so they contribute mentions rather than citations.

DeepSeek Reasoner DeepSeek No

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Answer enginesPartly

Meta AI

Meta is covered as the Muse Spark model queried through an API with live search, not as the Meta AI assistant surface that consumers use.

Muse Spark 1.3 Meta Yes

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Answer enginesYes

Coverage in the vendor’s words

The vendor states a catalogue of twelve tracked models of which six run in any one audit, and says all twelve are reachable on either paid plan.

6 per audit, 12 in catalog. Claude included, and Pro adds web search versions of it. Choose the models most important to you.

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What it reportsPartly

Brand sentiment

A Sentiment Audit scores tone from -1 to 1 by persona, topic and buyer stage, but the vendor places that audit on the Pro plan only.

Gives your brand one sentiment score from -1 to 1, built from every scored answer, and ranks it against the competitors you track.

gumshoe.ai/product/sentiment-auditChecked

What it reportsYes

Suggests prompts to track

Gumshoe builds the prompt set itself from each persona and its topics rather than asking the buyer for keywords, though it publishes no figure for how often people ask them.

Persona and topic combine into the kind of questions a real buyer would actually ask AI, not generic keywords

gumshoe.ai/product/our-prompts-approachChecked

Plans and signing upPartly

Projects or brands

Several brands are supported, but each brand plus focus area is a separate project carrying its own monthly subscription rather than sitting inside one plan.

Each project is its own monthly subscription, which is why the prices in the table read per project rather than per brand.

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Plans and signing upYes

Self-serve signup

Both published plans are bought online through Get Started links with no annual commitment; sales is only suggested for buyers running many brands.

No annual commitment. Both plans bill monthly, and you can cancel anytime.

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Gumshoe price and plans

Prices excluding tax, as Gumshoe publishes them.

  • Free sample

    Free

    Trial

    • 20 prompts
  • Starter

    $99 a month

    • 80 prompts
    • Plus per project subscription, $99 a month
  • Pro

    $299 a month

    • 80 prompts
    • Adds Brand sentiment

Terms

Sign up without sales
YesYes
Gumshoe's pricing page

Pricing page, captured

gumshoe.ai/pricing, checked

Gumshoe alternatives

All 9 alternatives

Engines:on every planon some plansnot trackednot stated

Questions about Gumshoe

How much does Gumshoe cost?
Gumshoe costs $99 a month. From gumshoe.ai/pricing, checked 28 October 2026.
Which AI engines does Gumshoe track?
7 on every plan: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Claude, Grok and DeepSeek. 1 more on some plans only: Meta AI. Not tracked: AI Mode and Copilot.
Can you start with Gumshoe without talking to sales?
You can start free, with limits. You can sign up without talking to sales.
What have we checked on Gumshoe?
15 facts, under these headings: Answer engines, what it reports, plans and signing up.
How do we check Gumshoe?
We hold 15 facts on Gumshoe, quoted from 5 pages. Facts and price last checked 28 October 2026.

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