See how we compare
We measured who AI assistants actually name when buyers ask who to hire for answer engine optimization: 100 unbranded buying questions, 5 engines, 485 answers. The most-named name in this category was not a software platform. It was an agency.
So these are comparisons against the providers that genuinely come up, with the share of answers each was named in, what each costs, and an honest section on every page about where they beat us.
Updated 18 September 2026.
Compared to the agencies AI names
SourceRank AI vs First Page Sage
Enterprise SEO and GEO
Read comparison Named in 4.5% of answersSourceRank AI vs iPullRank
Enterprise AI search strategy
Read comparison Named in 3.9% of answersSourceRank AI vs Blend
Full revenue lifecycle for PE-backed B2B
Read comparison Named in 3.5% of answersSourceRank AI vs Omniscient Digital
Organic content at volume for B2B software
Read comparison Named in 2.9% of answersSourceRank AI vs NoGood
Full-stack growth marketing
Read comparisonCompared to AI visibility software
The other question buyers ask is whether to buy a tool instead of hiring anyone. Profound, Scrunch AI and Otterly.ai are platforms your own team operates. SourceRank AI is a managed service: we run the programme and the software is included rather than sold.
How we decided who to compare against
Not by picking names we liked the look of. We took our own published measurement run, 100 unbranded buying questions across 5 engines on 12 September 2026, and counted how often each provider was named in the 485 answers. The list above is the result, in order.
It measures our question set, not the whole market, and a different set of questions would produce a different order. The method, including how much a number moves between runs, is published at our benchmark methodology. Every competitor fact on these pages was read from that company's own public pages on 18 September 2026 and is dated on the page.
Find out where you stand first
Whoever you end up hiring, start by finding out whether your buying questions return a provider at all, and who gets named instead of you today. Get your visibility scorecard.