Answer Engine Optimization
See how AI answer engines mention and cite your website.
Overview
Answer Engine Optimization is a free AI visibility checker for marketers, founders, and SEO teams. Enter a domain to see whether the brand appears inside AI-generated answers, how mentions change over time, and which sources influence those answers. Reports compare ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, Grok, Google AI Overviews, and AI Mode. Each report includes share of voice, platform comparisons, relevant topics, top-cited domains, and exact source URLs. No account or payment card is required.
Core features
Brand mention tracking across major AI assistants; share-of-voice comparisons by platform; monthly visibility trends; topic discovery; top-cited domains; exact source URL resolution; and reports generated in about one minute.
Use cases
Monitor brand visibility in AI search, compare performance across answer engines, discover sources that influence AI responses, identify competitor citation opportunities, and plan content or digital PR priorities.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Fast cross-engine visibility snapshot
- Citation-level source mapping
- No account, free check available
- Detailed engine-by-engine breakdown
- Actionable top-cited pages list
- Trend and share-of-voice reporting
- Resolves citations to exact URLs
- Helps prioritize PR and publishing targets
- Easy for SEO and comms teams
- Clear separation from classic SEO metrics
Cons
- Free check limited to surface-level data
- Deep historical data behind paid tier
- Coverage varies slightly by engine
- Not a full replacement for rank trackers
- No public API in free plan
- Sampling window may miss rare mentions
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