Fresh data, not a monthly snapshot
Vidrys probes your prompts every two days, or daily on Scale. Brand Radar refreshes ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot monthly over a 90-day window.
VidrysvsAhrefs Brand Radar
Vidrys vs Ahrefs Brand Radar: a monthly snapshot, or a live loop?
Ahrefs Brand Radar adds AI visibility to an Ahrefs subscription, with each AI engine priced as its own index and ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot data refreshed monthly. Vidrys re-measures your prompts every two days — daily on Scale — explains each answer, and drafts and publishes the fix.
By the Vidrys team · Verified 13 September 2026
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Why choose Vidrys over Ahrefs Brand Radar?
From citation list to published fix
Brand Radar lists the pages AI cites. Vidrys explains why a rival won, drafts the fix and publishes it to your CMS; Ahrefs' content tools are a separate add-on without CMS publishing.
Engines included in the plan
Vidrys starts at $129 a month with two engines included. Brand Radar prices each AI engine at $199 a month, on top of a paid Ahrefs plan.
What Vidrys does
From the answer, to the fix, back to the number.
Vidrys measures whether AI assistants recommend your brand to buyers, explains why each answer went the way it did, drafts and publishes the fix, and proves whether it worked. One loop, one product.
01Measurement
Are we in the answer?
Your buyers' questions go to live AI engines, drawn more than once per engine. The score counts a recommendation, not a mention.
A visibility score with its interval
02Diagnosis
Why did a rival win it?
Each answer is read the way a buyer reads it. Where a competitor won, the reasoning card names their edge and the sources behind it.
The reason, and the move that closes it
03Optimization
What do we change?
The gap becomes a drafted page grounded in your own site, checked against an answer-engine audit and published to your CMS.
A published fix, not a report
04Improvement
Did it work?
The prompt is probed again on the next sweep. The change is reported only if it clears the confidence interval.
Proof the fix moved the answer
Improvement feeds the next measurement. The loop runs every sweep.
Illustrative data
Head to head
Compare Vidrys vs Ahrefs Brand Radar
| Capability | Vidrys | Ahrefs Brand Radar |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $129/mo with 2 engines · $77 during pilot | $199/mo per engine + a paid Ahrefs plan |
| Refresh cadence | Yes: Every 2 days · daily on Scale | Partial or gated: Monthly for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot |
| Explains why a rival won the answer | Yes: Reasoning card on every answer | No: Lists cited pages only |
| Drafts the content | Yes: Grounded in your crawled pages | Partial or gated: Separate add-on (Content Kit) |
| Publishes to your CMS | Yes: WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, Ghost | No |
| Sampling and confidence | Yes: Up to 2 runs per engine per sweep · confidence interval on every score | Partial or gated: 1 run per engine and location · metrics described as directional |
| AI-readiness site audit | Yes: Crawler access, rendering, structured data, llms.txt | Partial or gated: General Site Audit |
| AI-referral traffic | Yes: GA4 traffic and key events, correlated with visibility | Partial or gated: Referral traffic, no conversions |
| Multiple brands | Yes: Up to 10 · white-label reports on Scale | Partial or gated: Groups brand names |
Ahrefs Brand Radar data from its public documentation, verified 13 September 2026.
Vidrys vs Ahrefs Brand Radar
Frequently askedquestions.
What buyers ask when they are choosing between Vidrys and Ahrefs Brand Radar.
Brand Radar adds AI visibility data to Ahrefs, refreshed monthly for most AI engines. Vidrys re-measures every two days, explains why a competitor won each answer, and drafts and publishes the fix.
Yes. Ahrefs covers backlinks and keywords. Vidrys covers AI answers end to end, and does not require an SEO subscription.
No. Each plan includes its engines — ChatGPT and Perplexity on Track, plus Google AI Overviews from Grow. Gemini, Claude and Copilot are optional add-ons from Scale.
Every Ahrefs fact on this page comes from Ahrefs'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. Vendor features change; if something here is out of date, email legal@vidrys.com and we will correct it.
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