AI visibility tools · Head to head

SE Visible vs PromptWatch: which AI visibility tool wins in 2026?

Two entry plans four dollars apart with very different products behind them: a tracker built on prompt volume and a platform that also writes content. Compared on engines, prompts, what each does with a gap and who each fits. Sourced from both companies' live pages.

Javed Khatri Co-founder, Prefer
Updated September 2026 · Facts checked September 2026 (SE Visible 30 Sep, PromptWatch 23 Sep)
On this page
TL;DR

SE Visible is the pick for teams that want to measure a lot: 200 prompts on five fixed engines for $99 a month, with no content work; PromptWatch is the pick for teams that want the tool to act: 50 prompts on 4 models of your choice from 11 for $95, with agents, crawler logs and AEO articles starting on its $245 plan. Prefer, our product, starts below both at $24 a month, tracks five engines and includes 15 AI articles a month on that entry plan.

The split is volume against action. SE Visible counts each prompt once across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Mode and AI Overviews, so its $99 plan reads about 30,000 AI answers a month, and it adds a gap score that ranks the sources citing your competitors but not you. It stops there: no writing, no publishing. PromptWatch tracks fewer prompts but lets you pick your models, Claude and Grok included, ingests AI crawler logs from your CDN and runs content agents on credits, with five articles a month from $245. Neither documents off-page work.

SE Visible vs PromptWatch at a glance
  • SE Visible starts at $99/mo (or $79 billed annually) for 200 prompts; PromptWatch starts at $95/mo for 50 prompts and 6,000 responses (read 30 and 23 September 2026).
  • SE Visible tracks five fixed engines on every plan, with Claude announced as coming soon; PromptWatch lists 11 models and each brand plan tracks 4 of your choice, Claude and Grok included.
  • PromptWatch writes content (5 AEO articles a month at $245, 10 at $579, none at $95); SE Visible writes none and points to outreach targets instead.
  • PromptWatch adds AI crawler logs, conversion tracking, MCP and commerce surfaces; SE Visible adds prompt intent labels, a published visibility formula and a Data Studio connector.
  • PromptWatch sells agency plans from $199 with all models and unlimited prompts; SE Visible has no agency plan and no white label yet.

The contenders

Screenshot not captured
SE Visible SE Ranking's standalone AI visibility tracker
  • VendorSE Ranking (SEO software since 2013)
  • Starting price$99/mo Basic ($79/mo billed annually)
  • Prompts at entry200 prompts, 3 projects
  • Engines5 fixed on every plan; Claude coming soon
  • Acts on findingsNo; measurement and source gaps only
  • Third-party ratingListed on G2, no reviews yet (30 Sep 2026)
Screenshot not captured
PromptWatch AI visibility and GEO platform with metered AI agents
  • FoundedLaunched April 2025, Amsterdam
  • Starting price$95/mo (50 prompts, 4 models)
  • Free tierNo; 7-day free trial
  • Engines at entry4 of your choice from 11 listed
  • Seats1 / 2 / 5 on brand plans
  • Acts on findingsAEO articles from $245/mo; agent credits
  • Third-party rating4.7/5 G2 badge on its site; count not verified
Capability SE Visible PromptWatch Prefer
Tracks AI citations across engines
Writes content to act on findings
AI crawler logs
Done-for-you Managed service

The Prefer column is shown for reference: it is our product, and this page compares the other two. Website screenshots captured September 2026 (SE Visible 30 Sep, PromptWatch 23 Sep); every claim is referenced in Sources.

Where each tool sits

Feature comparison

Capability
SE Visible
PromptWatch
Coverage
Engines per brand plan[1]
5 fixed: ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Mode, Perplexity, AI Overviews
4 of your choice
Engine pool[1]
5; Claude announced as coming soon; no Copilot or Grok
11 listed: ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Claude, Gemini, Meta Llama, DeepSeek, Grok, OpenCode, Claude Code
Prompts at entry[1]
200 (Basic), pooled across 3 projects
50 (Essential), 1 project
Answer volume at entry[1]
About 30,000 AI answers a month
6,000 responses a month
Locations[1]
7 countries on the marketing site; 42 in the help center; local coming soon
Country and state / city tracking on Business and agency plans
Seats[1]
Unclear: site says unlimited users, help center shows a seat meter
1 / 2 / 5 on Essential / Professional / Business
Action and features
Core metrics[2]
Visibility score, share of voice, average position, sentiment, cited sources
Citations, share of voice, sentiment, sources
Acts on findings[2]
Gap score ranks sources citing competitors but not you
Content agents and agent credits (500 to 2,500 a month)
Writes articles[1]
No
5 a month at $245, 10 at $579, none at $95
Publishes to CMS[2]
No
Webflow, WordPress, Framer
AI crawler logs[2]
Not listed
From CDNs such as Cloudflare, Fastly, Vercel, Netlify (200K to 100M rows)
Commerce and ads[1]
Not listed
Shopping Insights and Ads Radar (Business)
API and integrations[2]
SE Visible API (beta), Data Studio connector, CSV and XLSX
API and MCP on every plan; GSC, Slack
Trust and fit
Third-party rating[3]
Listed on G2, no reviews as of 30 Sep 2026
4.7/5 G2 badge on its site; live count not verified
Company[2]
SE Ranking, SEO software since 2013
Launched 2025, Amsterdam; EUR 6M seed (July 2026)
Agencies[1]
No agency plan; white label not yet (on the roadmap)
Agency plans $199 / $399 / $799, all models, unlimited prompts, 10 seats
Best for[2]
Teams that want to measure many prompts daily
Teams wanting tracking plus content agents; e-commerce; agencies

Based on both products' public pages, facts checked September 2026 (SE Visible 30 Sep, PromptWatch 23 Sep). "Not advertised" means we could not verify the capability from public materials. Spot something out of date? Tell us.

Pricing, side by side

Plan
SE Visible
PromptWatch
Entry plan[1]
Basic $99/mo (200 prompts, 3 projects, 5 engines)
Essential $95/mo (50 prompts, 4 models, 500 credits, no articles)
Mid tier[1]
Core $189/mo (450 prompts, 5 projects)
Professional $245/mo (150 prompts, 5 articles, Agent Analytics)
Upper tier[1]
Plus $355/mo (1,000 prompts, 10 projects), book a demo
Business $579/mo (350 prompts, 10 articles), book a demo
Enterprise / agency[1]
Custom, not priced; no agency plan
Agency $199 / $399 / $799 a month
Annual billing[1]
Save 20% ($79 / $151 / $284 a month)
Brand discount not captured; agency $1,990 / $3,990 / $7,990 a year
Other ways to buy[1]
SE Ranking's AI Search add-on includes SE Visible ($89/mo at 200 prompts)
None
Free trial[1]
10 days; card requirement not stated
7 days (Essential and Professional)

Prices checked September 2026 (SE Visible 30 Sep, PromptWatch 23 Sep) from each product's public pricing page.

SE Visible is SE Ranking's AI visibility product, sold separately from its SEO platform. It publishes $99, $189 and $355 plans with 200 to 1,000 prompts on five engines, collects answers through a browser rather than the API, and lists Claude as coming soon (read 30 September 2026). SE Ranking has sold SEO software since 2013; SE Visible itself is listed on G2 with no reviews yet. PromptWatch launched in Amsterdam on 1 April 2025, raised a EUR 6M seed in July 2026 and says 1,780+ brands and agencies use it. It pairs model choice from 11 with content agents, crawler logs ingested from CDNs and commerce surfaces, and publishes both brand and agency prices; the G2 badge on its site reads 4.7/5, and we could not confirm the live review count. Sources

Which should you choose?

Choose SE Visible if…

  • You want 200 or more prompts tracked daily for about $100 a month
  • ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Mode and AI Overviews cover your market
  • You want a ranked list of sources that cite your competitors but not you
  • Your team will do the writing and outreach and wants the data to aim it

Choose PromptWatch if…

  • You want content agents that write AEO articles inside the same tool
  • You need Claude or Grok tracked today, from a pick of 11 models
  • AI crawler logs, conversion tracking or commerce surfaces matter to you
  • You are an agency that wants all models and unlimited prompts
The third option · Our product
One measures at volume. One meters its articles. Prefer includes them from $24 a month.

Prefer tracks the same signals across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode, then produces the content and citations that move the number. Free trial, paid from $24/mo. See how it compares to PromptWatch.

Run your free audit No card, no commitment

SE Visible vs PromptWatch, answered

Is SE Visible or PromptWatch better?

They are built for different jobs: SE Visible is better for measuring a large prompt set, 200 prompts on five engines for $99 a month, and PromptWatch is better if you want the tool to act, with 4 models of your choice, crawler logs and AEO articles from its $245 plan. Prefer, our product, starts below both at $24 a month and includes 15 AI articles on that plan. Choose SE Visible to measure more, PromptWatch to act inside one tool.

Which is cheaper, SE Visible or PromptWatch?

At entry they are close: PromptWatch's Essential is $95 a month and SE Visible's Basic is $99, or $79 a month billed annually (read 23 and 30 September 2026). Prefer starts lower than both, at $24 a month for 30 prompts on five engines. Per prompt SE Visible is far ahead, 200 prompts against 50, and higher up Core gives 450 prompts for $189 against Professional's 150 for $245. PromptWatch's higher price buys content: five AEO articles a month on Professional.

Which AI engines do SE Visible and PromptWatch track?

SE Visible tracks five fixed engines on every plan (ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity), with Claude announced as coming soon; PromptWatch lists 11 models and each brand plan tracks 4 of your choice. Prefer, our product, tracks the same five as SE Visible on every plan, with Claude on Enterprise only. PromptWatch's 11 are ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Claude, Gemini, Meta Llama, DeepSeek, Grok, OpenCode and Claude Code, and its agency plans track all of them.

Does PromptWatch write content, and does SE Visible?

PromptWatch does, SE Visible does not. Prefer, our product, writes 15 AI articles a month on its $24 Starter plan. PromptWatch's content agents write AEO articles and publish to Webflow, WordPress and Framer: none on the $95 Essential, five a month on the $245 Professional and ten on the $579 Business. SE Visible ranks the sources citing your competitors but not you, and its own sources page says the next step is outreach, content and coverage work that your team does.

How do SE Visible and PromptWatch meter usage?

SE Visible meters prompts only: each prompt counts once across its five engines and the allowance is pooled across projects, so Basic's 200 prompts read about 30,000 answers a month. Prefer, our product, also meters tracked prompts, 30 on Starter, each run on all five of its engines. PromptWatch meters several things per tier: prompts, responses (6,000 on Essential), agent credits (500 to 2,500), articles, projects and seats, which gives more tools but more limits to watch.

Which is better for agencies, SE Visible or PromptWatch?

PromptWatch has more for agencies today: agency plans at $199, $399 and $799 a month with all models, unlimited prompts and projects, pitch projects and ten seats. Prefer, our product, sells an agency track on its pricing page with a base price plus a fee per active client. SE Visible has no agency plan, says white label is not yet available (it is on the roadmap), and lists built-in report generation as coming soon.

Who is SE Visible best for?

Business owners, CMOs and agencies who want a standalone AI visibility tracker without deep SEO knowledge, which is who SE Ranking says it built it for, and teams that need hundreds of prompts. Prefer fits better if you want articles written as well, from $24 a month. SE Ranking customers can unlock SE Visible through the AI Search add-on instead of a separate plan.

Who is PromptWatch best for?

Teams that want tracking and content agents in one product and can budget $245 a month for articles, e-commerce brands that want Shopping Insights and Ads Radar on the $579 plan, and agencies that want all models and unlimited prompts from $199 a month. Teams that want articles at the entry price fit Prefer, from $24 a month. PromptWatch's meters (credits, responses, article quotas) reward a team that will watch them.

Do SE Visible or PromptWatch do off-page work?

Neither documents it: SE Visible points to outreach targets and PromptWatch works on your own site through articles and technical agents, so earning mentions on other sites stays with your team or an agency. Prefer offers off-page work (Reddit participation, PR pitches, placements) on Prefer Enterprise and the done-for-you Prefer Managed, not on its self-serve plans.

What is the best alternative to SE Visible and PromptWatch?

Prefer is a strong pick if you want tracking and articles on one entry plan: it tracks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode with 30 prompts, writes 15 AI articles a month from $24, and offers a free audit and a free trial on every paid plan. The category also includes Otterly, Peec AI, Profound, Ahrefs Brand Radar and Semrush's AI toolkit. See our roundup of the best AI search monitoring tools.

References

Sources

  1. SE Visible homepage and pricing section (raw and rendered 30 Sep 2026) visible.seranking.com Accessed September 2026 (SE Visible 30 Sep, PromptWatch 23 Sep)
  2. PromptWatch pricing page, brands (rendered 22 Aug, read 23 Sep 2026) promptwatch.com Accessed September 2026 (SE Visible 30 Sep, PromptWatch 23 Sep)
  3. PromptWatch agency pricing (rendered 19 Sep 2026) promptwatch.com Accessed September 2026 (SE Visible 30 Sep, PromptWatch 23 Sep)
  4. SE Visible AI sources page (read 30 Sep 2026) visible.seranking.com Accessed September 2026 (SE Visible 30 Sep, PromptWatch 23 Sep)
  5. SE Visible FAQ, SE Ranking help center (rendered 30 Sep 2026) help.seranking.com Accessed September 2026 (SE Visible 30 Sep, PromptWatch 23 Sep)
  6. SE Visible API documentation (read 30 Sep 2026) seranking.com Accessed September 2026 (SE Visible 30 Sep, PromptWatch 23 Sep)
  7. PromptWatch homepage (features, checked 16 Jul 2026) promptwatch.com Accessed September 2026 (SE Visible 30 Sep, PromptWatch 23 Sep)

Keep comparing

Head to head Prefer vs PromptWatch Roundup The best AI search monitoring tools Alternatives The best PromptWatch alternatives Head to head SE Visible vs Otterly Head to head Ahrefs vs PromptWatch

Get your free AI visibility report
in about 10 minutes.

See how answer engines describe your brand today, and where the openings are to outpace the competition.