The AI SEO tool for the answer, not the ranking
When buyers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini or Google AI Overviews, there is no page one. AuditAE checks whether the answer cites you, what each lost citation costs in Google Ads clicks, and what to change on the site first. Pay per check, no subscription.
See who the AI engines cite for your buyer question right now.
One prompt × four engines. No signup, no card. Your mention, your citation, and every competitor named, in about three minutes.
Most “AI SEO tools” use AI to chase a ranking. This one does SEO for the AI that answers.
AI that does your SEO
Content writers, keyword clusterers, brief generators. They use a model to produce pages for Google's ten blue links faster. Useful, and a different job: they optimize for a ranking.
SEO for AI search
When the buyer asks ChatGPT instead of Google, there is no ranking to win, only an answer to be cited in. This kind of tool measures whether you are, prices what you lost, and tells you what to change on the site. That is AuditAE.
A buyer who asks an AI engine for the best option in your category gets one answer that names a few brands and links a few sources. Either you are in it or the click goes to whoever is. Rank trackers cannot see this because there is no rank. There is an answer, a set of sources the engine cited, and a set of brands it mentioned.
Those clicks are not free to replace. The same question typed into Google has a cost per click that advertisers pay every day, and for the buying questions that matter it runs from a few dollars to over fifty. AuditAE prices every prompt it runs with that number, so a lost citation is not a percentage, it is a monthly dollar figure you can put in front of a client or a CFO.
Then it does the SEO part: a live read of your site against what the engines need to cite it, and a fix list ordered by which lost prompts each change closes.
Six things in every AI SEO audit
Per prompt, per engine, with a public share link so the report can go straight to a client or a boss without a login.
Cited or not, per engine
Every buyer prompt runs on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. Each cell records whether your URL was cited, whether your brand was merely mentioned, and every source the engine used instead.
What each citation is worth
Each prompt is matched to the Google search with the same intent and priced with live Google Ads cost per click and monthly searches. The report totals what buying those clicks would cost and how much of it AI answers already send you for free.
Who won instead
The brands named and the domains cited in your place. On AI search your competitive set is often a directory or a review site, not the rival in your deck.
Can the engines even read you?
The free AI search audit checks the site side: crawler access for GPTBot and friends, JSON-LD, llms.txt, answer-first page structure, text that survives without JavaScript. Every failed check ships with the copy-paste fix.
Do this first
A ranked fix list built from the prompts you lost and a live read of your own pages: which page to change, what to add, which lost prompts it closes.
Run-to-run change
Every audit diffs against the last: prompts gained and lost, new competitors in the answer, score and dollar value over time. Schedule it monthly and get the email when it moves.
Measure, then do
Every audit ends in a ranked “do this first” list built from the prompts you lost and a live read of your own pages. Each item names the page, the change, and which lost prompts it closes, so the most expensive citations come back first.
On WordPress the free AuditAE plugin ships most of the site-side fixes itself: llms.txt, schema, crawler rules, broken links. Everywhere else, the free AI search audit emails the copy-paste code for each one.
- 1Open /compare with a 60-word answer, then the table
Perplexity and ChatGPT quote ledgerly.io/compare on 3 of 4 prompts. It answers in the first paragraph; yours opens with a hero image and 700 words of story.
closes 6 of 13 lossesledgerly.io/compare - 2Get named in the two roundups Gemini already trusts
Both cite billsimple.co and ledgerly.io by name. Neither has been asked to include you.
closes 4 of 13 lossestoolfinder.iothe-roundup.com
From a domain to a dollar figure in three steps
The prompts are chosen by what they are worth: real buying questions, priced in Google Ads clicks, highest value first. Edit them or paste your own.
Live calls to ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, and a live capture of the Google AI Overviews box. Same prompts, same day, one grid.
A 0–100 score, the Google Ads value of the prompts you hold and the ones you lost, and a “do this first” list. Re-run in 30 days and watch both numbers move.
One full audit costs less than one seat-day on the alternatives
Subscription tools charge whether you run an audit or not. AuditAE charges per (prompt × engine): Perplexity 5¢, ChatGPT 7¢, Google AI Overviews 9¢, Gemini 12¢. A 5-prompt audit across all four is $1.65, less than one click on most of the prompts it checks.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Cost · one 5×4 audit | Per-domain |
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| AuditAE | 5–12¢ / check | Pay-as-you-go | $1.65 | No — any domain |
| Otterly Lite | $29 / month | Subscription | $29 | Tier-dependent |
| Semrush AI Visibility | $99 / mo / domain | Sub + per-domain | $99 | Yes — multiplies |
| Profound Lite | $499 / month | Subscription | $499 | Yes |
| Peec AI | ~€49 / month | Subscription | tier-dependent | Yes |
That is a different pricing model, not a discount. The pricing page shows the per-engine math, and pay-per-check vs subscription shows where each model wins.
Built for the people paying for the expensive clicks
A dollar figure per client
Every client site gets its own prompts, score and Google Ads value. The monthly client report says what the citations they hold are worth and what the lost ones would cost to buy. No seats, no per-domain fee.
The expensive clicks are yours to lose
Plumbers, lawyers, roofers and movers pay the highest cost per click on the web. When ChatGPT names three of them for your city, the citation is the click. Check whether you are one of the three.
Walk in with a number the CFO reads
Rankings need explaining. “AI answers cite us for $310 of the $1,240 a month these searches cost in Google Ads” does not.
Measure the page, not the rank
See which of your pages the engines actually quote, fix the ones they can’t read, and shape the rest to match.
Running a client roster? The agency page covers importing a client list, auditing every site in one click, monthly re-checks and sending each client their report.
Questions about AI SEO tools
New to the field? AI search optimization explains what changes when the answer replaces the results page, and the AEO tool page covers answer engine optimization end to end.
What is an AI SEO tool?
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The phrase means two different things. Most AI SEO tools use a language model to do traditional SEO faster: write pages, cluster keywords, draft briefs, all aimed at ranking on Google. AuditAE is the other kind: SEO for AI search. It measures whether AI answer engines cite your site when buyers ask them questions, prices what each lost citation is worth in Google Ads clicks, checks whether the engines can read your site at all, and tells you what to change first.
Is there a free AI SEO tool?
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Two, and neither needs a login. The free citation check on this page runs one buyer prompt across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews and shows who was cited. The free AI search audit checks whether those engines can fetch, read and trust your site: crawler access, schema, llms.txt and page structure, with every fix. A full account starts with $5 of free credit, no card.
How does an AI SEO audit differ from a normal SEO audit?
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A normal SEO audit checks rankings, backlinks and technical health for Google's results page. An AI SEO audit reads the answer instead of the ranking: whether an engine named or linked you, every source it used, and every competitor it named. AuditAE also runs the site-side checks that decide whether an engine can cite you at all, which classic audits skip: GPTBot access, llms.txt, JSON-LD authorship and answer-first structure.
What does “what a citation is worth” mean?
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Every prompt AuditAE runs is a question people also type into Google, where a click has a market price. AuditAE matches each prompt to that search and prices it with live Google Ads cost per click and monthly volume. The report adds them up: what buying those clicks would cost each month, and how much of that AI answers already cite you for. A plumber prompt at $31.65 a click makes the case faster than a citation rate does.
Which AI engines does it cover?
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ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, each run live on the same prompts. AI Overviews are captured from the live results page rather than estimated, because that box is where organic click-through drops by a third when it appears.
How much does it cost?
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Per check, by engine: Perplexity 5¢, ChatGPT 7¢, Google AI Overviews 9¢, Gemini 12¢. A 5-prompt audit on all four engines is $1.65. There is no subscription and no per-domain fee, and signup comes with $5 of free credit. The price is roughly three times what each engine costs us to run, and the pricing page shows the math.
Does it write content or fix the site for me?
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It tells you exactly what to change and, on WordPress, can do much of it. The fix list names the page and the change. The free AuditAE WordPress plugin generates llms.txt, schema and robots rules from wp-admin, and AEBOT, the built-in assistant, can draft the page or the section the engines are missing.
Four engines, one grid, one score
ChatGPT
The biggest AI answer surface, with zero native analytics.
Track ChatGPT PPXPerplexity
Citation-first answers where every response names its sources.
Track Perplexity GEMGemini
Google's assistant, grounded in Search, a different index than ChatGPT.
Track Gemini AIOAI Overviews
The answer box above the blue links, captured live on every run.
Track AI OverviewsFind out what your AI citations are worth.
Sign up and add your site. AuditAE drafts the buyer prompts worth the most, runs them on all four engines, and hands you a score, a dollar figure and the fix list. About three minutes.