# RankLens — AI brand visibility and LLM rank tracking from SEO Vendor, with repeated-sampling entity reports.

> Source: CitedIndex — https://citedindex.com/ranklens (structured, researched, re-verified)
> Facts last verified: 2026-10-11

RankLens is SEO Vendor's AI brand visibility tracker, sampling AI engine answers repeatedly to measure where a brand is recommended, how often it is discovered and which competitors surface instead. It is measurement only, with optimisation and content execution sold as separate managed GEO campaigns.

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Website | https://ranklens.seovendor.co |
| Price | Create a free SV account to access RankLens and start checking your AI brand visibility. |
| Free tier | Yes |

Access comes with a free SV account and the homepage invites free reports; the vendor says engines, sampling options and account limits are shown inside the platform rather than published.

## What it does

**Monitors AI answers** · Yes — Core purpose: it samples AI recommendations repeatedly and reports recommendation order, brand discovery, competitor context and a Visibility Index rather than one chat reply.

> RankLens is SV's AI brand visibility tracker. It measures how brands and websites appear in sampled AI recommendations, including recommendation order, brand discovery, competitor context and an overall Visibility Index.
> — https://seovendor.co/ranklens-llm-rankings/ · FAQ section, 'What is RankLens?' answer

**Optimises your content** · No — The vendor states plainly that RankLens measures and does not act; findings are meant to inform your own content and positioning decisions, with no page-level analysis or change list in the tool.

> RankLens is a measurement tool, not an automatic ranking or lead-generation service. Use its findings to prioritize content, brand positioning and GEO work.
> — https://seovendor.co/ranklens-llm-rankings/ · FAQ section, 'Will RankLens improve rankings or generate leads automatically?' answer

**Generates content** · No — RankLens itself writes nothing; the vendor describes it as a measurement tool, and content production sits in the separate Z-SERIES GEO service and other SV content tools.

> RankLens is a measurement tool, not an automatic ranking or lead-generation service.
> — https://seovendor.co/ranklens-llm-rankings/ · FAQ section, 'Will RankLens improve rankings or generate leads automatically?' answer

**Publishes to your site** · No — No CMS or publishing path exists in a reporting-only product; its outputs are reports and CSV/PDF exports, and the vendor frames execution as managed campaign work instead.

> Use RankLens to decide where to investigate and what to improve. Need a team to help execute? Explore SV's managed SEO and GEO campaigns.
> — https://seovendor.co/ranklens-llm-rankings/ · 'From visibility to your next growth decision' section, intro paragraph

**Technical AEO** · No — Nothing in RankLens touches schema, llms.txt or crawler directives; the vendor positions it as measurement and puts on-site change specification in the Z-SERIES GEO service.

> RankLens is a measurement tool, not an automatic ranking or lead-generation service.
> — https://seovendor.co/ranklens-llm-rankings/ · FAQ section, 'Will RankLens improve rankings or generate leads automatically?' answer

**Done-for-you service** · Partly — The tool is self-serve, but the same vendor sells managed Z-SERIES GEO campaigns from $599/mo in which people do the entity, content and authority work and RankLens supplies the monthly report.

> Every plan targets the same major AI engines and includes the GEO dashboard, analysis, audit, change specification, reputation assessment, human-reviewed delivery, authority support, and monthly RankLens reporting.
> — https://seovendor.co/geo-pricing/ · 'Choose your GEO capacity' section, paragraph above the four plan cards

## Answer engines

**ChatGPT** · Yes — ChatGPT is covered in several model variants plus a search mode, and the API's engine parameter exposes eight separate OpenAI options to choose between.

> 0 OpenAI ChatGPT 4o1 OpenAI GPT 4o Mini2 OpenAI ChatGPT 4.13 OpenAI ChatGPT (Search)4 OpenAI GPT 5 Mini5 OpenAI ChatGPT 5.26 OpenAI GPT 5.57 OpenAI GPT 5.6
> — https://seovendor.co/api/ranklens · Request parameters table, 'engine' row enum values 0-7

**Perplexity** · Yes — Perplexity is a selectable engine in both the marketing engine list and the API engine enum, offered as Sonar and as a 'Latest' alias.

> 8 Perplexity Sonar
> — https://seovendor.co/api/ranklens · Request parameters table, 'engine' row enum value 8

**Gemini** · Yes — Google Gemini is covered across three pinned model versions plus a 'Latest' alias, so a report can be run against Gemini specifically.

> 9 Google Gemini 2.510 Google Gemini 311 Google Gemini 3.1 Pro
> — https://seovendor.co/api/ranklens · Request parameters table, 'engine' row enum values 9-11

**Google AI Overviews** · No — Google AI Overviews is not among the 27 documented engine values; Google is represented only by Gemini models, and no Google search surface is selectable for a report.

> 9 Google Gemini 2.510 Google Gemini 311 Google Gemini 3.1 Pro
> — https://seovendor.co/api/ranklens · Request parameters table, 'engine' row, the only Google entries in the 0-26 enum

**Google AI Mode** · No — Google AI Mode is likewise missing from the engine enum; the single search-mode option documented is OpenAI's, not Google's, across all 27 values.

> 3 OpenAI ChatGPT (Search)
> — https://seovendor.co/api/ranklens · Request parameters table, 'engine' row, the only search-mode entry in the 0-26 enum

**Claude** · Yes — Anthropic Claude is a first-class engine choice, listed twice as pinned Sonnet versions and once as a 'Latest' alias in the engine enum.

> 12 Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.513 Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6
> — https://seovendor.co/api/ranklens · Request parameters table, 'engine' row enum values 12-13

**Microsoft Copilot** · No — Microsoft Copilot is absent from the complete 27-value engine enum, which enumerates OpenAI, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek and Llama options and nothing from Microsoft.

> 17 Deepseek 3.218 Deepseek v4 Pro19 Llama 4 Maverick20 ChatGPT (Latest)21 DeepSeek (Latest)22 Perplexity (Latest)23 Grok (Latest)24 Anthropic Claude (Latest)25 Gemini (Latest)26 Llama (Latest)
> — https://seovendor.co/api/ranklens · Request parameters table, 'engine' row, expanded enum tail

**Grok** · Yes — xAI Grok appears as three pinned versions plus a 'Latest' alias in the documented engine selector, and the product FAQ names Grok among comparable engines.

> 14 xAI Grok 415 xAI Grok 4.116 xAI Grok 4.3
> — https://seovendor.co/api/ranklens · Request parameters table, 'engine' row, expanded enum values 14-16

**DeepSeek** · Yes — DeepSeek is selectable as two pinned versions and a 'Latest' alias, so a brand's visibility can be sampled in DeepSeek answers like any other engine.

> 17 Deepseek 3.218 Deepseek v4 Pro
> — https://seovendor.co/api/ranklens · Request parameters table, 'engine' row, expanded enum values 17-18

**Meta AI** · No — Meta AI as an assistant is not an option; the enum's only Meta-related entries are Llama models queried directly, and the full 0-26 list ends at Llama (Latest).

> 19 Llama 4 Maverick20 ChatGPT (Latest)21 DeepSeek (Latest)22 Perplexity (Latest)23 Grok (Latest)24 Anthropic Claude (Latest)25 Gemini (Latest)26 Llama (Latest)
> — https://seovendor.co/api/ranklens · Request parameters table, 'engine' row, expanded enum tail

**Coverage in the vendor’s words** · Yes — The vendor states coverage of ChatGPT and search modes, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek and Llama, with the API exposing 27 pinned-version and 'Latest' choices; which engines a given account may select is not published.

> RankLens supports reporting across ChatGPT and search modes, Perplexity, Gemini, Anthropic Claude, Grok, DeepSeek, Llama and more. Choose from the engines available in your account.
> — https://seovendor.co/ranklens-llm-rankings/ · FAQ section, 'Which AI engines can I compare?' answer

## What it reports

**Names the cited sources** · Partly — Reports 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 assigned to a brand compared to all other brands.
> — https://ranklens.seovendor.co/microsoft-ai-brand-visibility · Sidebar card 'Metric Definitions', Brand Appearance

**Competitor tracking** · Yes — Competitor comparison is a named feature and an API action: a ranking report returns an id you pass back to retrieve the rival brands surfacing for the same entity.

> Compare the businesses appearing around the same entity, their recommendation order and how often they are discovered.
> — https://seovendor.co/ranklens-llm-rankings/ · 'Who is getting the recommendations you want?' section, intro paragraph

**Brand sentiment** · Partly — It measures how precisely engines associate and match the brand - Brand Match, Brand Target, category association - but publishes no sentiment or attribute analysis of what AI says about the brand.

> Brand Match The strength of name, URL, spelling, and variant matching across responses and contexts.
> — https://seovendor.co/geo-generative-engine-optimization/ · 'How RankLens measures AI Brand Visibility' section, factor 05

**Recommendations** · No — The product reports and the buyer decides: the vendor explicitly says it does not act on findings, and recommends its managed campaigns for the execution half.

> RankLens is a measurement tool, not an automatic ranking or lead-generation service. Use its findings to prioritize content, brand positioning and GEO work.
> — https://seovendor.co/ranklens-llm-rankings/ · FAQ section, 'Will RankLens improve rankings or generate leads automatically?' answer

**AI crawler analytics** · No — The 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.
> — https://seovendor.co/ranklens-llm-rankings/ · Frequently Asked Questions, 'How does RankLens collect data from AI without breaking rules?'

**Wrong answers about you** · Partly — Brand-confusion failures are an explicit target of the entity and match analysis, but the vendor describes misspellings, wrong categories and merged companies rather than false factual claims.

> AI systems can misspell a brand, connect it to the wrong category, merge it with another company, or recommend a competitor when the request clearly favors you.
> — https://seovendor.co/geo-generative-engine-optimization/ · 'Catch brand confusion early' section, intro paragraph

## Plans and signing up

**Prompt or credit allowance** · Partly — Metered 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.
> — https://seovendor.co/how-to-use-ranklens-to-double-your-brands-ai-visibility/ · Section 'Accurate AI Visibility Requires Multiple Samples'

**Projects or brands** · Yes — Reports are organised per project with saved entity sets that can be rerun, and agencies get project-level Collective reporting across multiple clients.

> Save the entities that matter to a project and rerun the report. Spend less time rebuilding the setup for every review.
> — https://seovendor.co/ranklens-llm-rankings/ · 'Reusable project setup' card, body text

**Countries** · Yes — Location and language are per-report settings, with the API exposing a 40-value language enum and a free-text location field, so other markets can be tracked deliberately.

> Yes. Set the location and language to reflect the market you want to understand.
> — https://seovendor.co/ranklens-llm-rankings/ · FAQ section, 'Can I track local businesses and different languages?' answer

**How often it checks** · Yes — Weekly or monthly scheduled runs, plus on-demand runs from the report page.

> Schedule weekly or monthly runs with no dev work or complex setup.
> — https://seovendor.co/ranklens-llm-rankings/ · Feature section 'Track AI Visibility Automatically Over Time'

**Card required to start** · No — Registration 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!
> — https://access.seovendor.co/signup · Registration form — headline above the email and password fields

**Self-serve signup** · Yes — Anyone can read the public company reports and then create a free SV account to run their own, with no sales conversation anywhere in the path.

> Create a free SV account to access RankLens and start checking your AI brand visibility. You can also explore the public company reports before signing up.
> — https://seovendor.co/ranklens-llm-rankings/ · FAQ section, 'Is RankLens free to access?' answer

## Access and integrations

**API** · Yes — A documented POST endpoint returns the full metric set with rank, appearance, confidence intervals and a composite score, plus a competitors action keyed on the returned task id.

> action string optional rank Generate RankLens report. competitors Find RankLens competitors.
> — https://seovendor.co/api/ranklens · Section 01 Request parameters, 'action' row

**MCP server** · Yes — RankLens is exposed as a tool on the vendor's hosted MCP server over streamable HTTP with OAuth 2.1, so an agent can call it without handling an API key.

> ranklens ranklens Sync How a site ranks across repeated AI-engine queries, and its competitors.
> — https://seovendor.co/api/mcp · Section 06 Available tools, 'ranklens' row of the MCP tool table

**BI export** · Partly — Data leaves as CSV and PDF exports, or via the REST API, but no warehouse, Looker or Power BI connector is documented anywhere on the product or API pages.

> RankLens supports recurring reports, project-level Collective reporting and CSV/PDF exports.
> — https://seovendor.co/ranklens-llm-rankings/ · FAQ section, 'Can agencies use RankLens for client reporting?' answer

## Repository (as of 2026-08-30)

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| Stars | 2 |
| Forks | 0 |
| Last push | 2025-10-31 |

## Coverage elsewhere

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| zenodo.org | Independent source | 2026-07-19 |
| toolpilot.ai | Independent source | 2026-07-19 |
| seo-supercharger.lovable.app | Independent source | 2026-07-19 |

## CitedIndex in AI answers

2 of 4 answers cite CitedIndex.

| Engine | Result | Question | Asked on | Other sources |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gemini | Cites CitedIndex | RankLens alternatives | 2026-09-04 | elmohq.com, tryanalyze.ai, toolvern.com, impulsecreative.com, tooltester.com, onelittleweb.com |
| Perplexity | Cites CitedIndex | RankLens alternatives | 2026-10-12 | flownib.com, elmohq.com, ithub.global.ssl.fastly.net, sitechecker.pro, nathanojaokomo.com |
| ChatGPT | Does not cite CitedIndex | RankLens alternatives | 2026-10-12 | elmohq.com, huntscreens.com, crawlspider.com, slatehq.com, amicited.com, hubspot.com |
| Claude | Does not cite CitedIndex | RankLens alternatives | 2026-09-04 | therankmasters.com, rankshift.ai, aiclicks.io, g2.com |

## What changed

- 2026-10-11 — Capabilities · Free tier · Price
- 2026-09-01 — Capabilities · Free tier
- 2026-08-31 — Capabilities · Free tier
- 2026-08-22 — Alternatives · LinkedIn link · Repository · Summary · Tagline

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