Most tools count the mention. We score the recommendation.
Whether AI assistants recommend you, why each answer went the way it did, and the fix — then proof it worked.
Competitor data verified 13 September 2026
- Vidrys — covers 4 of 4 loop stages
- Profound — covers 3 of 4 loop stages
- Peec AI — covers 2.5 of 4 loop stages
- AthenaHQ — covers 3 of 4 loop stages
- Scrunch — covers 2.5 of 4 loop stages
- Otterly.AI — covers 2.5 of 4 loop stages
- Semrush — covers 2.5 of 4 loop stages
- Ahrefs Brand Radar — covers 2 of 4 loop stages
How does Vidrys compare with the tools buyers shortlist?
Each comparison is sourced from the other vendor’s own public pages, and dated. Vidrys plans run from ₹999 to ₹47,999 a month, with Custom quoted.
Every platform measures. Few finish the loop.
Measurement, diagnosis, optimization and improvement, scored for each platform from its own public pages against the criteria below.
- Covered
- Partly covered
- Not covered
| Platform | 01Measurement | 02Diagnosis | 03Optimization | 04Improvement |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vidrys | Covered: Share of voice, position, citations | Covered: Reasoning card on every answer | Covered: Drafts and publishes to 4 CMSes | Covered: Confidence interval + GA4 outcomes |
| Profound | Covered: Share of voice, citations | Partly covered: Citation categories | Covered: Agents draft and publish | Partly covered: GA4 revenue; no stated interval |
| Peec AI | Covered: Share of voice, citations | Partly covered: Source gap analysis | Partly covered: Through MCP and your own AI | Partly covered: Referral visits; no stated interval |
| AthenaHQ | Covered: Share of voice, citations | Partly covered: Shows answers and sources | Covered: Content Agents publish | Partly covered: GA4 + Shopify; no stated interval |
| Scrunch | Covered: Share of voice, citations | Partly covered: Insights and diagnostics | Partly covered: Briefs; edge-served pages | Partly covered: GA4 referrals; no stated interval |
| Otterly.AI | Covered: Share of voice, citations | Partly covered: Shows cited URLs | Partly covered: Briefs, no CMS publishing | Partly covered: GA4 template; no stated interval |
| Semrush | Covered: Share of voice, cited pages | Partly covered: Aggregate narrative drivers | Partly covered: Separate product (ContentShake) | Partly covered: Enterprise AIO only |
| Ahrefs Brand Radar | Covered: Share of voice, citations | Not covered: Lists cited pages only | Partly covered: Separate add-on; no CMS publishing | Partly covered: Referral traffic, no conversions |
- Measurement — covered when
- Tracks share of voice and the sources AI cites.
- Diagnosis — covered when
- Explains, per answer, why a competitor was preferred.
- Optimization — covered when
- Drafts the content in-product and publishes it to your CMS.
- Improvement — covered when
- Reports movement against a confidence interval, with AI-referral outcomes.
Which tool fits the job you need done?
Pick what matters most to your team. We’ll show what fits, why, and which parts of Vidrys do the work.
Best fit
Vidrys
A mention count cannot tell a recommendation from a warning. Vidrys grades how each answer treats you on a five-level scale and multiplies the score by it, so a dismissive mention scores zero.
What does the work in Vidrys
- Endorsement-gated visibility score
- Position inside the answer
- Share of voice by engine
Best fit
Vidrys
Every answer gets a reasoning card: what the winning competitor has that you lack, drawn from the answer text, and the specific moves that close it.
What does the work in Vidrys
- Reasoning card per answer
- Citation share: yours, rivals', third-party
- Head-to-heads after 8 co-appearances
Best fit
Vidrys
Each gap becomes a drafted page grounded in your own crawled content, published to your CMS from the same queue and re-probed on the next sweep.
What does the work in Vidrys
- Gap detection and content queue
- Publishing to WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, Ghost
- Answer-engine site audit
Also in this space
- Profound — Agents draft and publish to WordPress, Sanity, AEM
- AthenaHQ — Content Agents publish to six CMSes
Best fit
Vidrys
Every prompt is asked again on every sweep and the score carries a confidence interval. A change inside the interval is reported as inconclusive, and every score is stamped with its methodology version.
What does the work in Vidrys
- Repeated sweeps and confidence intervals
- Version-locked scoring
- Before-and-after impact per published fix
- AI-referral traffic from GA4
Best fit
Vidrys
Limits pool across brands, so adding one never multiplies the bill, and Scale adds white-label reports.
What does the work in Vidrys
- Up to 10 brands on Scale, unlimited on Custom
- Limits pooled across brands
- White-label reports
Also in this space
- Peec AI — Dedicated agency plans
- Profound — Agency Mode
Best fit
Vidrys alongside your suite
If your team lives in Semrush or Ahrefs, their AI add-ons put visibility next to keyword data. Vidrys runs alongside them for the part they sell separately or don't do: explaining each answer and publishing the fix.
What does the work in Vidrys
- Reasoning card per answer
- Drafts and CMS publishing in one plan
- Confidence intervals on every score
Also in this space
- Semrush — AI Visibility Toolkit
- Ahrefs Brand Radar — Pre-built prompt database
Reviewed by Garvit Sharma, Co-founder, on 27 October 2026. Vidrys plans start at ₹999 a month on Solo, in INR and exclusive of 18% GST. It measures the answers given by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Copilot and Claude, depending on the plan.
What should you ask before you choose?
GEO versus AEO, what happens after a fix ships, and how these comparisons were built.
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is about how AI assistants describe and recommend your brand in their answers. Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is about whether those engines can read, trust and cite your pages in the first place. Vidrys covers both: probes measure whether you are recommended, and citation share plus the answer-engine site audit show whether engines can use your content.
An answer that names you only to steer the buyer elsewhere scores zero in Vidrys, however prominently you appear. Vidrys grades how every answer treats you on a five-level scale and folds that into the score, then attaches a reasoning card saying why a competitor was preferred.
AI assistants re-crawl and re-rank on their own schedule, so the prompt the fix targets rests for a 20-day settling window and is then probed on every sweep again. Vidrys compares that prompt's baseline runs with its latest runs, using the same scoring as the dashboard, and reports a change only when it clears the confidence interval. Smaller moves are shown as inconclusive rather than as progress.
Yes. From Track up your plan includes SEO: Search Console traffic, rank tracking with AI Overview detection, keyword research, backlinks and a site audit, next to your AI visibility. It isn't a full competitor research suite, so teams that rely on one keep their SEO tool and use Vidrys for recommendation scoring, the reasoning behind each AI answer, and drafting and publishing the fix.
From each vendor's own public pricing, product, documentation and help pages, read on 13 September 2026. Where a vendor doesn't document a capability, we say what its documentation shows rather than guessing. The loop coverage and the positioning map are computed from the same research, against the criteria printed with them.
Email support@vidrys.com with the row and a link to the page that shows the current fact. We correct the table and move the verification date.
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