Ayzeo vs Ahrefs Brand Radar: Which Tracks Your AI Visibility Better?

Brand Radar's pricing has two layers. Bought directly, the $199/mo AI Visibility Index covers six AI tools (AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, and Gemini) with 83 prompts a day and 2,500 checks a month, and Custom Prompts start at $50/mo and reach $699/mo for all models, Claude included (each Claude update consumes 8 checks). YouTube, TikTok, and Reddit tracking is in beta. At the same time, Ahrefs has been folding Brand Radar into its core plans: Lite at $129/mo now includes 5 prompts and 150 checks, and custom-prompt packages at $50, $100, and $250 extend that quota. In practice, Brand Radar is commonly run alongside a core Ahrefs subscription, though it can also be bought standalone, so the real monthly total for serious AI coverage often lands well above the sticker price of either piece.

Ayzeo prices the other way around: the $39/mo Starter plan includes ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews with 20 prompts (expandable in +10-prompt packs at $15/mo) and unlimited seats, and each additional engine — Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, or Grok — is a $29/mo add-on per model per project, with DeepSeek on request. All seven engines on one project come to roughly $184/mo, optimization suite included. Full coverage on Brand Radar costs about 3.8x that, before a core Ahrefs plan — the trade is that Ahrefs bundles its backlink and keyword data into the household, which Ayzeo does not have. If you only need one or two engines, the gap widens further: $39/mo against Brand Radar's $199/mo AI Visibility Index.

This matchup is less either/or than most: the two tools overlap on AI mention tracking but are built around different centers of gravity. If backlink data, keyword research, and site audits are core to your work, nothing in the GEO category replaces Ahrefs — and we won't pretend Ayzeo does. The practical setup we see is a core Ahrefs plan for classic SEO plus Ayzeo for GEO: Ayzeo monitors citations, mentions, and sentiment across up to seven engines (with Claude as a flat $29/mo add-on, where Brand Radar's Custom Prompts spend 8 checks on every Claude update), then generates the JSON-LD, LLMs.txt files, content, and meta tags to act on what it finds — with a WordPress plugin to ship fixes and white-label PDFs to report them.

That combination typically costs less than adding Brand Radar at $699/mo for all models to the same Ahrefs plan, and it covers the implementation half that Ahrefs leaves to you. The honest exception: if your team wants exactly one vendor and one login, and the budget is not a constraint, extending an existing Ahrefs subscription with Brand Radar is a perfectly reasonable path — start with its bundled Lite quota or the free one-time AI Visibility Checker and see whether the mention data alone is enough. You can run Ayzeo's free instant audit (no card) on the same day and compare what each surfaces for your domain.