SEMrush, Ahrefs, and SE Ranking were designed for the Google SERP era. They tell you where you rank in 10 blue links. Rankxa tells you whether ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews are recommending you when buyers ask the questions that matter.
The legacy SEO suites bolted on AI features last year. We started with AI search and added everything else. Here's the side-by-side.
| Capability | Rankxa | SEMrush | Ahrefs | SE Ranking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT visibility trackingPer-prompt rank, share of voice, citation source | ||||
| Claude visibility trackingAnthropic Claude is third in AI search; nobody else tracks it | ||||
| Gemini visibility tracking | ||||
| Google AI Overviews trackingThe AIO panel that now appears above the blue links | ||||
| AI-specific audit signalsllms.txt, FAQ schema, E-E-A-T, citation breadth, freshness | ||||
| Prompt-level competitor rankingsFor every buying-intent prompt: who shows up in each AI engine | ||||
| Opportunity FinderThree-pillar grading on every prompt in your industry: Reach, Intent, Win-ability | ||||
| Trust Badge for your siteLive, server-rendered embed proving real-time AI rank | ||||
| Revenue EstimatorProject annual revenue at each AI rank position based on your deal economics | ||||
| Keyword research (Google SERP) | ||||
| Backlink analysisDomain authority, referring domains | ||||
| Site auditor (technical SEO) | ||||
| Action queue with deliverablesGenerate the schema, brief, or outreach plan, not just a to-do | ||||
| Plan starts at | $49/mo | $140/mo | $129/mo | $65/mo |
If your buyers are asking ChatGPT or Gemini and you can't see what those engines are recommending, your dashboard is showing yesterday's game.
SEMrush still measures Google rank #6 vs. #7. Buyers don't see those anymore. They see one paragraph from ChatGPT, three sources from Gemini, and an AI Overview at the top of Google. We measure those.
Domain Authority is a 2014 metric. The signals that move you in AI answers are E-E-A-T (experience, expertise, authoritativeness, trust), entity citations across the open web, FAQ schema, llms.txt declarations, and content freshness. We score those, then tell you which ones to fix first.
Other tools give you a list of issues. Rankxa generates the JSON-LD schema you should paste, the content brief you should hand to your writer, and the outreach plan that builds the citations AI engines reward. One click each.
The legacy SEO suites charge for legacy features. We priced Rankxa for the team that needs to know whether ChatGPT recommends them tomorrow.
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