July 2026 snapshot · 72 AI answers Leader emerging

AI Visibility & AEO: AI Visibility Ranking

Tools that measure and improve how brands show up in AI assistant answers (ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews). Right now, Profound is the brand AI assistants recommend most, with a Visibility Score of 49 and the #1 spot in 29% of answers. Head-to-head: Profound vs Semrush →

These rankings are measured from what the three models know from training, not a live web search. The live-web grounded surface is rolling out across the index. Methodology.

Profound leads, but its Gemini blind spot keeps the race open.

Profound sits atop the index with a score of 48.8 and is a first pick 29% of the time, yet Gemini scores it at just 19.6 while favoring Perplexity at 45 and BrightEdge at 38. Semrush matches Profound's mention rate of 57% but converts that exposure into a first-pick rate of only 7%, signaling broad awareness without strong preference. The category has no consensus pick across all three models, which means brand position here is genuinely fragile and model-dependent.

AI-generated analysis of the July 2026 measurements.

#	Brand	Visibility Score	Mention rate	Avg. position	#1 pick rate	Models
1	Profound	49 ±6.4	57%	2	29%	ChatGPT #1 Claude #1 Gemini #5
2	Semrush	38 ±7.5	57%	4	7%	ChatGPT #4 Claude #2 Gemini #3
3	Perplexity	23 ±5.9	32%	4	8%	ChatGPT #7 Claude #12 Gemini #1
4	BrightEdge	21 ±5.1	24%	2	10%	ChatGPT #8 Claude #8 Gemini #2
5	Otterly.ai	20 ±4.7	28%	4	1%	ChatGPT #9 Claude #3 Gemini
6	Brandwatch	18 ±6.6	24%	3	7%	ChatGPT #13 Claude #4 Gemini #8
7	Ahrefs	18 ±6.3	31%	5	1%	ChatGPT #3 Claude #7 Gemini #7
8	Peec AI	17 ±5.5	25%	4	6%	ChatGPT #2 Claude #9 Gemini
9	Peec.ai	9 ±4.2	15%	5	0%	ChatGPT Claude #5 Gemini
10	SerpAPI	9 ±3.2	11%	3	4%	ChatGPT #11 Claude #11 Gemini #6
11	Mention	9 ±5.4	13%	4	0%	ChatGPT #12 Claude #6 Gemini #9
12	Conductor	8 ±2.6	10%	3	0%	ChatGPT #10 Claude #10 Gemini #10
13	WordLift	8 ±4.4	11%	4	0%	ChatGPT Claude Gemini #4
14	Goodie AI	7 ±4.7	11%	4	0%	ChatGPT #5 Claude #14 Gemini
15	Goodie	7 ±4.6	10%	4	0%	ChatGPT #6 Claude #13 Gemini

The ± under each score is the reliability band: how much the number would move if we re-ran the identical measurement. It is tight because each prompt is sampled multiple times. It is not the same as how much the ranking depends on which prompts we ask — a separate, wider figure shown on hover.

Just below the cutoff: OpenAI (6.8), MarketMuse (6.1), Google (5.4), Brandlight (5), AthenaHQ (4.9). 144 brands were scored in this category; the leaderboard shows the top 15.

Visibility Score: position-weighted presence across all measured answers, 0 to 100. A score of 100 means the brand was the first recommendation in every answer. Every point in a trend line is a live monthly measurement; there is no modeled or backfilled history. Full methodology.

Openness 51/100: the share of this category's recommendation weight not held by the leader.

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Do the models agree?

Per-model Visibility Scores for the top 10. A long gray bar means the three assistants disagree about the brand. Hover a row for exact values.

ChatGPT Claude Gemini

Where they land in the answer

When a brand is mentioned, where does it appear? Box shows the middle 50% of positions, the thick line is the median, whiskers are the extremes. Hover a row for the detail.