Benchmark report
AI Visibility Platforms Benchmark
A benchmark-style AnswerRoute report comparing AI visibility platforms by AI answer mentions, citation presence, prompt coverage, and positioning.
Report type
Category benchmark
Last updated
Jun 29, 2026
Engine
AnswerRoute Index
Model / source
public_index / demo_seed / seed-v1 / perplexity-live-v1
This report now reads from AnswerRoute Index tables, but the current local category sample is marked demo_seed / seed-v1. Treat it as seed-supported observed evidence, not as a live full-market ranking.
Latest evidence
Jun 29, 2026
latest Index stat or answer snapshot
Platforms
8
observed category entities
Observed scans
547
seed-supported or observed scan signals
Citation signals
286
domain citation signals in query stats
Executive summary
best AI answer ranking tools is the strongest available public Index query in this category cut, with 32 seed-supported scans and 82 citation signals.
Profound is the top brand signal in the current Index evidence, appearing across 5 tracked queries with 92.9% avg mention rate, 38 citation signals.
answerroute.com is the leading cited domain signal in this cut, with 54 citation signals.
The benchmark should be used to plan rechecks, compare pages, and citation targets rather than as a static vendor ranking.
Prompt set
Citation domains
Observed brands
| Brand | Mention status | Rank | Strength |
|---|---|---|---|
| Profound | seen across 5 Index queries | avg 2.2 | 92.9% avg mention rate, 38 citation signals |
| AnswerRoute | seen across 5 Index queries | avg 1.4 | 89.2% avg mention rate, 52 citation signals |
| Topify | seen across 3 Index queries | avg 2.4 | 75% avg mention rate, 14 citation signals |
| Peec | seen across 3 Index queries | avg 2.8 | 68% avg mention rate, 24 citation signals |
| Frase | seen across 2 Index queries | avg 3 | 100% avg mention rate, 4 citation signals |
| GrowthOS | seen across 2 Index queries | avg 3 | 100% avg mention rate, 4 citation signals |
| Peec AI | seen across 2 Index queries | avg 4 | 100% avg mention rate, 4 citation signals |
| Scrunch | seen across 2 Index queries | avg 3.6 | 53% avg mention rate, 10 citation signals |
Category ownership summary
This benchmark now reads from AnswerRoute Index evidence instead of legacy static leaderboards. Current rows remain seed-supported, so they are useful for comparing visibility signals and planning rechecks rather than making permanent vendor-position claims.
| Platform | Best for | Strengths | Mention rate | Average rank | Citation signals | Observed queries |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Profound seen across 5 Index queries | Larger teams benchmarking broad AI search visibility. | Enterprise AI visibility and analytics positioning in category answers. | 92.9% | 2.2 | 38 | 5 |
AnswerRoute seen across 5 Index queries | Teams that want Track - Compare - Optimize - Recheck workflows. | AI Answer Index records, citation-gap tracking, optimization actions, and recheck workflows. | 89.2% | 1.4 | 52 | 5 |
Topify seen across 3 Index queries | Teams evaluating GEO and AI recommendation workflows. | GEO and AI recommendation visibility positioning. | 75% | 2.4 | 14 | 3 |
Peec seen across 3 Index queries | Marketing teams focused on AI visibility analytics. | AI search visibility analytics and citation-monitoring positioning. | 68% | 2.8 | 24 | 3 |
Frase seen across 2 Index queries | Teams comparing AI answer visibility evidence. | Observed in AnswerRoute Index evidence for this category cut. | 100% | 3 | 4 | 2 |
GrowthOS seen across 2 Index queries | Teams comparing AI answer visibility evidence. | Observed in AnswerRoute Index evidence for this category cut. | 100% | 3 | 4 | 2 |
Peec AI seen across 2 Index queries | Teams comparing AI answer visibility evidence. | Observed in AnswerRoute Index evidence for this category cut. | 100% | 4 | 4 | 2 |
Scrunch seen across 2 Index queries | Teams exploring AI search optimization. | AI brand visibility, monitoring, and discoverability positioning. | 53% | 3.6 | 10 | 2 |
Standards note
This benchmark uses seed-supported AnswerRoute Index evidence to demonstrate the standards layer and public ranking asset model. It is not a claim that any vendor has a fixed permanent rank. Real AI answer rankings vary by engine, prompt, market, location, retrieval context, and time.
How AnswerRoute measured this
Methodology
AnswerRoute reads public Index query stats, answer snapshots, parsed brand mentions, and citation-domain records from the local database.
Brand rows aggregate topBrandsJson from relevant English AI answer ranking and visibility query stats, then average mention rate and observed rank across those query records.
Citation rows aggregate topDomainsJson citation signals and supporting brand labels across the same public Index records.
What this report does not claim
Limitations
The current category data is seed-supported and locally observed; it is not a complete live market crawl or durable vendor ranking.
AI answers vary by engine, model, time, region, retrieval context, and prompt phrasing.
Search Console inspection state and production worker cadence are tracked separately and should be reconciled before publishing stronger growth claims.
Related Index nodes
Next actions
Use live Index checks to validate the current category answer before making content decisions.
Create a Brand Answer Index to monitor your own brand against this competitor set.
Prioritize citation targets where competitors are repeatedly supported by source domains.