September 2026 snapshot · 72 AI answers Leader emerging

SEO Crawlers & Site Audit: AI Visibility Ranking

Website crawling and technical SEO audit tools: crawl a site, find indexability and content issues, and track fixes. Right now, Screaming Frog is the brand AI assistants recommend most, with a Visibility Score of 74 and the #1 spot in 57% of answers. Head-to-head: Screaming Frog vs Ahrefs →

These rankings are measured from what the three models know from training, not a live web search. When the models DO search the web, see which sources they cite. Methodology.

Screaming Frog wins first pick; Ahrefs gets considered, not chosen.

Screaming Frog is the standout with a 57% first-pick rate despite only 79% mention share, meaning when it shows up it almost always leads the recommendation. Ahrefs is nearly as present at 76% mention share but converts that presence into a first pick just 6% of the time, which signals that the models treat it as context rather than conclusion. That gap between being remembered and being trusted enough to lead is the defining tension in this category.

AI-generated analysis of the September 2026 measurements.

#	Brand	Visibility Score	Trend (3 mo)	Mention rate	Avg. position	#1 pick rate	Models
1	Screaming Frog	74 ±4.3	flat	79%	1.7	57%	ChatGPT #1 Claude #1 Gemini #1
2	Ahrefs	56 ±3.8	flat	76%	3.7	6%	ChatGPT #3 Claude #3 Gemini #2
3	Sitebulb	50 ±5.7	▲ 11	65%	3.3	3%	ChatGPT #2 Claude #4 Gemini #3
4	Semrush	48 ±3.3	▼ 6	65%	3.6	7%	ChatGPT #4 Claude #2 Gemini #5
5	Lumar	32 ±4.4	flat	47%	4.2	6%	ChatGPT #5 Claude #7 Gemini #4
6	Botify	20 ±3.8	flat	31%	4.3	6%	ChatGPT #8 Claude #6 Gemini #6
7	Google Search Console	15 ±3.4	flat	24%	4.8	0%	ChatGPT #10 Claude #5 Gemini #14
8	JetOctopus	14 ±4.4	flat	24%	5.2	0%	ChatGPT #6 Claude #13 Gemini #8
9	Oncrawl	13 ±3.7	flat	21%	5.0	0%	ChatGPT #7 Claude #10 Gemini #13
10	Firecrawl	12 ±0.7	▲ 1	13%	1.4	10%	ChatGPT #9 Claude #8 Gemini #9
11	SE Ranking	8 ±1.7	flat	17%	6.4	1%	ChatGPT #11 Claude #12 Gemini #10
12	Apify	7 ±2.9	flat	10%	3.4	0%	ChatGPT #12 Claude #11 Gemini #15
13	Crawl4AI	7 ±3	flat	8%	3.0	1%	ChatGPT #14 Claude #9 Gemini #12
14	ContentKing	7 ±1.7	flat	17%	7.3	0%	ChatGPT #15 Claude #14 Gemini #7
15	Beam Us Up	6 ±2	flat	8%	4.0	3%	ChatGPT #13 Claude #15 Gemini #11

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: Xenu Link Sleuth (4.6), Seobility (4), Netpeak Spider (3.9), Spider (3.6), Ubersuggest (3.5). 54 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 26/100: 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.