Summary
RankLens is an AI brand visibility tracker from SEO Vendor that probes generative engines with repeated sampling and scores how prominently they mention a brand's entities. It publishes free sector leaderboards and per-company reports alongside a self-serve account, API and MCP server.
- Best for
- brands and agencies that want free, broad-engine AI-visibility tracking and are comfortable relying on a not-yet-independently-reviewed product
- Not for
- buyers who need a proven, independently reviewed vendor, a committed pricing roadmap, or real-time (rather than periodic) monitoring
- From
- Free
- Free tier
- YesFree account gives access to RankLens; during Beta the vendor states PRO mode is free, including 16X MGPT sampling and time-series graphs. No per-account report, entity or sampling quota is published.
What it does
- Monitors AI answers
- YesIts stated purpose is measuring how often and how confidently AI engines mention and recommend a brand.
RankLens is an AI-visibility tracker that shows how often and how confidently ChatGPT-style bots mention and recommend your brand, websites, and…
seovendor.co/ranklens-llm-rankings - Optimises your content
- NoRankLens samples and scores AI responses; it does not analyse your existing pages or prescribe page changes.
It runs controlled sampling of AI responses, tracks where and how often your brand is mentioned, and normalizes the results into a Visibility Index
ranklens.seovendor.co/microsoft-ai-bran… - Generates content
- NoRankLens is defined as a visibility tracker; content generation is a different SEO Vendor tool (SEO GPT), not RankLens.
RankLens is an AI-visibility tracker that shows how often and how confidently ChatGPT-style bots mention and recommend your brand, websites, and…
seovendor.co/ranklens-llm-rankings - Publishes to your site
- NoOutputs are reports and exports; no CMS publishing is described anywhere in the feature list or FAQ.
Export CSV and PDF reports for decks, dashboards, and client updates.
seovendor.co/ranklens-llm-rankings - Technical AEO
- NoNo schema, llms.txt or crawler-directive work: setup is entities, brands, domains and locations, and the output is measurement.
Add your project/site and core brands/domains/entities/locations.
seovendor.co/ranklens-llm-rankings - Done-for-you service
- PartlyRankLens itself is self-serve software, but its vendor SEO Vendor sells done-for-you and white-label GEO/SEO fulfilment alongside it.
Scale with done-for-you SEO, GEO, PPC, content, and white-label fulfillment powered by experienced teams and CORE AI workflows.
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Answer engines
- ChatGPT
- YesMultiple OpenAI models plus ChatGPT Search and a 'ChatGPT (Latest)' selector appear in the API engine enum.
Track visibility across ChatGPT (5, 5.1, 4.1, 4o), SearchGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Anthropic, Grok, DeepSeek, Llama, and more.
seovendor.co/ranklens-llm-rankings - Perplexity
- YesPerplexity Sonar and 'Perplexity (Latest)' are selectable engines on the RankLens API endpoint.
8 Perplexity Sonar
seovendor.co/api/ranklens - Gemini
- YesSeveral Google Gemini models plus a 'Gemini (Latest)' selector are in the engine enum.
25 Gemini (Latest)
seovendor.co/api/ranklens - Google AI Overviews
- NoThe engine enum is a closed list of 27 chat/LLM engines; Google AI Overviews is not one of them.
20 ChatGPT (Latest)21 DeepSeek (Latest)22 Perplexity (Latest)23 Grok (Latest)24 Anthropic Claude (Latest)25 Gemini (Latest)26 Llama (Latest)
seovendor.co/api/ranklens - Google AI Mode
- NoGoogle AI Mode is absent from the enumerated 27 engines; only chat models and ChatGPT Search are offered.
Measure AI brand visibility across 27 generative engines.
seovendor.co/api/ranklens - Claude
- YesAnthropic Claude Sonnet models and 'Anthropic Claude (Latest)' are selectable engines.
24 Anthropic Claude (Latest)
seovendor.co/api/ranklens - Microsoft Copilot
- NoMicrosoft Copilot does not appear in the closed 27-value engine enum, which names OpenAI, Perplexity, Google, Anthropic, xAI, DeepSeek and Llama only.
0 OpenAI ChatGPT 4o1 OpenAI GPT 4o Mini2 OpenAI ChatGPT 4.13 OpenAI ChatGPT (Search)4 OpenAI GPT 5 Mini
seovendor.co/api/ranklens - Grok
- YesxAI Grok models and a 'Grok (Latest)' selector are in the engine enum.
23 Grok (Latest)
seovendor.co/api/ranklens - DeepSeek
- YesDeepSeek models and a 'DeepSeek (Latest)' selector are in the engine enum.
21 DeepSeek (Latest)
seovendor.co/api/ranklens - Meta AI
- NoMeta AI is not in the enumerated engines; Meta's Llama models are offered as raw models, which is not the Meta AI assistant.
19 Llama 4 Maverick20 ChatGPT (Latest)21 DeepSeek (Latest)22 Perplexity (Latest)23 Grok (Latest)24 Anthropic Claude (Latest)25 Gemini (Latest)26…
seovendor.co/api/ranklens - Coverage in the vendor’s words
- YesThe API enumerates 27 selectable engines across seven model families; one engine is chosen per report run, and report columns appear only where data exists.
Measure AI brand visibility across 27 generative engines.
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What it reports
- Names the cited sources
- PartlyReports track whether the brand or its domain appears in sampled answers; they do not list the source pages an engine cited.
How many times the brand or website appears in the sampled responses out of total iterations. Share of Voice (SoV): % of all responses the AI…
ranklens.seovendor.co/microsoft-ai-bran… - Competitor tracking
- YesEvery entity report carries a 'Top 5 by Average Rank' competitor table, and the API exposes a dedicated competitors action.
Competitor brands ranked for the same task. Same object structure as rank results.
seovendor.co/api/ranklens - Brand sentiment
- YesReports are run against an attribute 'brand match' type, and the vendor states over 200 such intents are selectable.
Use 200+ match types (Fastest Delivery, Ethical Sourcing, Local Pickup, etc.).
seovendor.co/ranklens-llm-rankings - Recommendations
- NoRankLens reports and benchmarks; it prescribes no changes, and the vendor points to separate tools for the optimisation work.
tracks where and how often your brand is mentioned, and normalizes the results into a Visibility Index so you can benchmark and track AI brand…
ranklens.seovendor.co/microsoft-ai-bran… - AI crawler analytics
- NoThe product reads AI responses rather than your server or bot logs; no crawler or bot-hit reporting is described.
RankLens works by modeling realistic entity-probes and reading the AI's responses, not by hacking, unrealistic prompts, or scraping anything private.
seovendor.co/ranklens-llm-rankings - Wrong answers about you
- PartlyBrand Match and Brand Target surface wrong-entity and name-variant confusion, but no check on false factual claims about the brand.
Use Brand Match to find misspellings, name variants, and wrong associations.
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Plans and signing up
- Prompt or credit allowance
- PartlyMetered as sampling depth per entity (4x, 8x or 16x runs) with no published cap on entities or reports.
RankLens, by default, tests visibility 4×, 8×, or 16× times.
seovendor.co/how-to-use-ranklens-to-dou… - Projects or brands
- YesProjects hold multiple brands, domains, entities and locations, and agency accounts run many clients with collective project-level reports.
Manage Fortune 500–style setups: hundreds of entities, engines, and locations.
seovendor.co/ranklens-llm-rankings - Countries
- YesA location parameter plus 40 language locales; published reports state the location and language they were run in.
Report in up to 40 languages for global and regional campaigns.
seovendor.co/ranklens-llm-rankings - How often it checks
- YesWeekly or monthly scheduled runs, plus on-demand runs from the report page.
Schedule weekly or monthly runs with no dev work or complex setup.
seovendor.co/ranklens-llm-rankings - Card required to start
- NoRegistration takes an email address and a password only; no payment step exists.
Create a FREE Account. Unlock a ton of free tools, business growth training, and 30+ OEM-priced services!
access.seovendor.co/signup - Self-serve signup
- YesOpen sign-up with no sales contact; the vendor states the tool is live and available to everyone.
RankLens is now fully LIVE, available to everyone. Create a FREE account to check your brand visibility!
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Access and integrations
- API
- YesA documented POST endpoint returns rank and competitor rows, with engine, language, location and sampling as parameters; the key is free.
Get programmatic access to every SV AI tool — your API key is free.
seovendor.co/api/ranklens - MCP server
- YesA hosted MCP server at mcp.seovendor.co exposes RankLens as an MCP tool (ranklens_rank), authenticated by OAuth 2.1.
A FastMCP server that exposes every SV API and CLI tool natively to AI agents — Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-capable host.
seovendor.co/api/mcp - BI export
- PartlyCSV and PDF export plus a JSON API, but no named connector for Looker, Power BI or a warehouse.
Export CSV and PDF reports for decks, dashboards, and client updates.
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Platform record2026-08-30
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- 2025-10-31
Coverage elsewhere3
Answer-engine source observations2 of 4
2 of 4 collected answers have source URL/title annotations naming CitedIndex. These are the latest stored observations per engine, not current consumer-UI results. They do not measure product mentions or establish that a source supports a claim.
- GeminiCitedIndex domain found in source annotationsModel: gemini-2.5-flash · Collected on · 39 source annotationsQuery:
RankLens alternatives
Other source hosts (up to 6): elmohq.com, tryanalyze.ai, toolvern.com, impulsecreative.com, tooltester.com, onelittleweb.com - PerplexityCitedIndex domain found in source annotationsModel: sonar · Collected on · 20 source annotationsQuery:
RankLens alternatives
Other source hosts (up to 6): elmohq.com, libhunt.com, techniver.com, ai-review.com, cloro.dev, onelittleweb.com - ChatGPTNot assessable — no source annotationsModel: gpt-4o-mini · Collected on · 0 source annotationsQuery:
RankLens alternatives
- ClaudeCitedIndex domain not found in observed source annotationsModel: claude-haiku-4-5 · Collected on · 4 source annotationsQuery:
RankLens alternatives
Other source hosts (up to 6): therankmasters.com, rankshift.ai, aiclicks.io, g2.com
Updates3
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