Looking for a Brand24 alternative that tracks AI search?

It depends on what you're tracking. Brand24 is a social-listening tool — it surfaces brand mentions across Twitter/X, blogs, news, forums, and review sites. AuditAE is an AI-search visibility tool — it audits how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews cite (or skip) your brand inside their answers. Brand24 also sells an AI Visibility add-on (built on its sister product, Chatbeat) that tracks how AI chatbots mention your brand. If your main job is monitoring social chatter, with AI answers as a side view, Brand24 is the better fit. If AI answers are the main job, and you want to know which answers cite your site and what to change when they don't, AuditAE is built for that and bills per check instead of by subscription.

Brand24 is social listening first: it crawls the public web and social networks for posts and articles mentioning your brand, with AI-chatbot visibility available as an add-on module. AuditAE is built around AI answers: it runs your real buyer prompts against ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, records for each answer whether your URL was cited or your brand was only named, shows which competitors were cited instead, and writes a fix for every answer that doesn't cite you. Billing differs too: Brand24 is a monthly subscription with the AI module extra on most plans; AuditAE is pay-per-use with $5 free credit on signup.

Yes, through an add-on. Brand24's AI Visibility module, powered by its sister product Chatbeat, runs prompts you choose across AI models including ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews, and reports a brand score, share of voice, and the sources AI answers draw on. Brand24's pricing page lists it as an add-on on most plans and included on Enterprise; Chatbeat is also sold on its own as a monthly subscription with a set number of tracked prompts. AuditAE differs in three ways: it bills per check with no subscription, it separates a URL citation from a name-only mention in every answer, and each answer that doesn't cite you comes with a written fix, which AuditAE can apply directly on WordPress sites through its free plugin.

Brand24 is sold as a monthly subscription with tiers based on tracked keywords, mentions, and seats, and its AI Visibility module is an add-on on most tiers. AuditAE has no subscription — billing is pay-per-use, where one check is one prompt × one engine, and a $5 free credit lands on signup with no card required.

Brand24's own AI Visibility add-on covers ChatGPT, so check that first if you already pay for Brand24. If you'd rather not add a subscription, AuditAE monitors ChatGPT brand mentions (plus Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews) on pay-per-use. Run a prompt your buyer would actually ask, and AuditAE tells you whether ChatGPT cited your brand, which domains it cited instead, the sentiment of each mention, and the share-of-voice gap between you and the brands the engine picked.

Yes. Brand24 covers social mentions and review-site chatter; AuditAE covers AI-engine answers and the fixes that change them. Brand24 sits closer to PR and social monitoring, AuditAE closer to SEO and AEO. The only overlap is Brand24's AI Visibility add-on, and you don't need both for that: use the add-on for a dashboard view, or AuditAE if you want per-answer citations and fixes without another subscription.

No. The first 5 of audit credit lands in your account when you create a free org — no card on file. That covers about 15 prompts across all four engines — roughly three 5-prompt × 4-engine audits (each one is 20 checks at Perplexity 5¢, ChatGPT 7¢, Google AI Overviews 9¢, Gemini 12¢ = $1.65). Enough to run baseline audits across a couple of brands before deciding whether to top up.

It depends on the surface you're monitoring. For social listening like Brand24's, the usual alternatives are Mention, Brandwatch, Hootsuite (with Talkwalker), and Meltwater, and several of these suites, Brand24 included, now sell AI-visibility add-ons on top. If the reason you're looking is that you need to know whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews cite your site, and what to change when they don't, a dedicated tool fits better. AuditAE is one: pay-per-use, $5 free credit, no subscription.

Both are social tools, so the choice depends on the job. Brand24 is social listening — it surfaces mentions of your brand across X/Twitter, Reddit, blogs, news, and reviews with sentiment scoring. Hootsuite is social media management — scheduling, publishing, and engagement across your own channels, with listening as an add-on. Pick Brand24 if monitoring what others say is the priority; pick Hootsuite if publishing and managing your own accounts is. Both now sell AI-visibility add-ons (Brand24's AI Visibility module; Hootsuite's LLM Insights, powered by Talkwalker). If AI answers are the main job rather than a side view, AuditAE covers ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews per answer, with a fix for each one that doesn't cite you and no subscription.

Brand24 is a monthly subscription priced in tiers by tracked keywords, mentions, and seats — plans start in the low hundreds per month and rise from there, billed whether or not you run a given month, and AI visibility is an add-on on most tiers. AuditAE takes the opposite model: pay-per-use at 5–12¢ per check (one prompt × one engine, priced by engine), no subscription, with a $5 free credit on signup. For periodic audit cadences, pay-per-use is usually far cheaper than any always-on subscription.

Brand24 offers a time-limited free trial (historically 14 days) that requires choosing a plan to continue. AuditAE doesn't gate behind a trial clock at all — a $5 free credit lands on signup with no card required, and it doesn't expire mid-evaluation, so you can run real audits across a couple of brands before deciding whether to top up.