Best AEO platforms in 2026 (UK)

AEO platforms are starting to split into clearer camps. Some are analytics-first. Some are workflow-first. Some are enterprise-grade operating systems for AI visibility. And some are really SEO suites adding an AI layer.

This list is not based on who shouts loudest. It is based on what each platform publicly shows today across product depth, benchmarking strength, actionability, workflow maturity, enterprise readiness and how convincing the public market signal looks. These are editorial scores, not lab scores, and they are based on publicly available information rather than hands-on trials of every tier.

One disclosure up front. At Tilio, we’re proud to power our AI search visibility data using Answyn’s platform, a proprietary AI search visibility platform built by the team at Tilio. That does not make every other option irrelevant, but it does explain why Answyn sits at the top of our list.

How we benchmarked the best AEO platforms

For this ranking, we looked at five things.

First, how strong the monitoring layer looks. That includes prompt tracking, citations, share of voice, sentiment, competitor benchmarking and coverage across major answer engines.

Second, how actionable the platform appears to be once the data comes in. A good AEO platform should not only tell you that you are missing. It should help you understand what to do next.

Third, how technically mature the workflow looks. That includes audits, crawler visibility, integrations, reporting, exports and whether the platform seems built for repeatable use rather than one-off screenshots.

Fourth, how well the platform appears to scale. Enterprise security, multi-region coverage, API access, collaboration and agency support all matter here.

See the full list below.

Answyn

Score: 9.7/10

Answyn is the strongest all-round platform on this list for teams who want to act on AI visibility rather than only watch it. Every night it asks your tracked buyer questions of five consumer answer surfaces (Gemini, ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode and Microsoft Copilot), reading the live product a buyer sees rather than a model API.

It records mention rate, prominence, share of voice against pinned competitors, sentiment, citation share, own-domain versus third-party citations, the domains the engines lean on in your category, and brand facts you can mark correct or incorrect. Every headline figure opens back to the answers behind it, and if a number cannot be traced to an answer, it is not shown.

What pushes Answyn to the top is that it does not stop at a dashboard. It’s the only platform here that analyses the customer journey in AI search: prompts are mapped across four buying stages, Problem, Options, Comparison and Validation, and the journey map shows the exact point where the brand stops being named, with a replay built from real collected answers and a why panel attached to the loss. Everything else follows from that.

Actions ranks six kinds of gap by impact against effort, each carrying the prompts, competitors, domains and answers that produced it. Briefs turn a gap into a writing pack and a schema pack a writer or a developer can work from. Wyn, the in-product analyst, answers from the same figures the dashboard shows and composes board packs, citation strategies, competitor reviews and journey reviews as shareable reports with the numbers frozen at composition. LLM Analytics finishes the loop on your own site with AI crawler fetches and referral clicks.

Answyn shows visibility, prominence, share of voice, sentiment and citation share alongside the underlying answers. Its current public site describes access by invitation. Ask about the engines, markets and history your team needs.

Answyn is young, and it is built by the team behind Tilio, who put it together to answer what UK businesses and brands actually need from AI search rather than what the category was already selling.

That shows in the detail: the UK as the default tracking market, the journey work, the briefs, and the refusal to hide the method behind a single number. It has less scale behind it than the largest vendors on this list, and Customer Journey reads ChatGPT today with the other surfaces to follow, but as a working system it’s the shortest route from a visibility gap to a page you can publish.

Profound

Score: 9.5/10

Profound is the strongest all-round AEO platform on this list, and the one that looks most like a category leader rather than a feature bundle. Its public product stack spans Answer Engine Insights, Agent Analytics, Prompt Volumes, Agents and Shopping, which gives it much broader range than a simple visibility tracker. On the monitoring side alone, it covers visibility scores, share of voice, sentiment, keyword themes, citation authority, platform comparisons, competitor benchmarking, real-user prompt data, daily prompt runs, and front-end capture across major answer engines rather than API-only outputs. It also supports 30+ languages and 150+ regions, which is a meaningful signal of enterprise ambition.

What really pushes Profound to number one is that it is not only a measurement product. It looks built to close the loop between insight and action. The platform explicitly connects visibility gaps to Agents for content creation and optimisation, and Agent Analytics adds crawler visibility, technical analysis, attribution, real-time AI bot monitoring and infrastructure integrations across AWS, Cloudflare, Fastly, Google Cloud, Netlify, Vercel and WordPress. Profound also has a dedicated Shopping product for ChatGPT Shopping visibility, SKU-level analysis and merchant-layer insight, which is a level of commercial depth that most competitors still do not show publicly.

The market signal is also unusually strong. Profound says it was named Leader in G2’s Winter 2026 report for the inaugural AEO category, and G2 currently shows it at 4.6 out of 5 from 322 reviews. G2 also says Profound helps 10% of the Fortune 500 win more business from ChatGPT, Gemini and other LLMs. That does not automatically make it the right fit for every team, but it does support the view that Profound is currently one of the most credible top-end platforms in the space.

The main caveat is that Profound can look like more platform than a smaller team needs. If you are a lean in-house team that mainly wants lightweight monitoring, there are cheaper and simpler options. But if you want the most complete public platform in AEO right now, Profound is the benchmark and their heavy investment in design is already paying off leading to a world-class user experience.

Peec

Score: 8.5/10

Peec earns second place because it’s one of the cleanest analytics-first AEO products on the market. Its public positioning is very focused. Peec says it helps marketing teams analyse brand performance across ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, benchmark competitors and optimise AI search presence. The docs show a mature metrics layer around visibility, share of voice, sentiment, position and top sources, while the product materials emphasise prompt suggestions, competitor setup, actionable recommendations and clear dashboard design. That is a strong combination for teams that want signal without getting buried in platform sprawl.

There is also a lot to like in the packaging. Peec says it is trusted by 2,000+ marketing teams and offers Starter, Pro, Advanced and Enterprise tiers, with unlimited users across the published plans, daily tracking, prompt-based setup and deeper reporting plus GSC, GA and Looker integrations on Advanced. The product docs also show that Peec distinguishes between brand mentions and citations, which is important if you want to understand not only whether an AI mentions you, but whether it trusts your content enough to use it as a source.

Why is Peec not first? Mainly because, from what is public today, it still looks more focused on monitoring than on the actionable AEO platform Profound is building. That’s not a criticism. For many teams, that is the point. Peec looks easy to adopt, easy to understand and less likely to drown a team in complexity.

Searchable

Score: 8.0/10

Searchable is the most interesting challenger on this list because it is not trying to be monitoring-only and the company is London-based. It positions itself as an AI search optimisation platform, not just an analytics layer, and the public product story is broader than many people might expect. Searchable says it tracks visibility and citations across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Microsoft Copilot, then layers on a dedicated AI agent, AI-optimised content generation, technical audits for AI search, integrations with Google Analytics, Google Search Console, HubSpot and Salesforce, and content recommendations tailored to brand voice and goals.

Searchable's pricing page lists annual-billing equivalents of US$125 a month for Pro, US$400 for Scale and US$999 for Enterprise, checked on 19 October 2026. Confirm the total annual commitment, included engines and prompt coverage before comparing these with a monthly subscription elsewhere.

The reason Searchable sits below Peec is not lack of ambition. It is more that its public claims run ahead of its third-party proof. It says it is trusted by 12,000+ users and highlights visibility gains and pipeline impact, which is promising, but it does not yet have the same visible category-defining market signal as Profound. So for now, Searchable feels like one of the best full-stack challengers rather than the established number one.

Semrush AIO

Score: 7.5/10

Semrush’s AI Visibility Toolkit, which many people loosely think of as Semrush AIO, deserves to be here because it has done something very smart. It has taken AEO and AI visibility features and plugged them into a workflow marketers already understand. The toolkit includes visibility benchmarking, competitor research, prompt research, brand performance, prompt tracking, presentation-ready reports and an AI search site audit that looks for technical blockers that might stop AI crawlers accessing your site. Semrush also says the toolkit is built for SMBs, agencies and mid-market companies, which gives it a wider default audience than some enterprise-first competitors.

The biggest advantage Semrush has is context. If your team already lives in Semrush, adding AI visibility into that environment may be more practical than buying a completely separate stack. The price is also straightforward at $99 a month for the toolkit, though Semrush notes that additional users require an extra $99 licence each. For plenty of marketing teams, that familiarity, reporting comfort and technical SEO crossover will outweigh the fact that Semrush is not a pure-play AEO specialist.

Why does it rank below Searchable? Because it still feels like an excellent AI layer inside a larger platform, rather than a category-defining AI visibility system in its own right. That may be exactly what some buyers want. But when you compare the public product depth of the most specialist platforms, Semrush still looks a step more toolkit than operating system.

Promptwatch

Score: 7.0/10

Promptwatch combines prompt tracking and citation analysis with tools for reviewing how AI crawlers and visitors reach your site. Its standard brand plans include country-level tracking and MCP/API access. State and city-level tracking is listed on Business. Check the model selection, analytics allowances and content features against your team's needs.

Promptwatch's pricing page lists monthly brand plans at US$95 for Essential, US$245 for Professional and US$579 for Business, checked on 19 October 2026. Essential has no included AEO articles; Professional includes five a month and Business ten. Confirm the covered models, current allowances and billing basis before choosing a plan.

So why fifth? Mostly because, compared with the four above it, the overall public buying story feels slightly less settled. Profound looks more category-leading. Peec looks more refined and focused. Searchable looks more tightly integrated around AI search workflows. Semrush looks safer inside a mature SEO stack. Promptwatch looks ambitious and capable, but also a little broader and noisier in its product narrative. That means it may be a brilliant fit for some teams, but it is not the easiest platform to recommend as the default first choice.

Use our guide to what good AI visibility reporting looks like to assess a product demonstration. The measurement guides explain how to interpret the data after you choose a platform.

FAQ

What is the best AEO platform overall?

Answyn is the best overall AEO platform, with Profound a close second. Mainly because of the value Answyn provides and is built by a team with buckets of AEO experience.

Which AEO platform is easiest for smaller teams to adopt?

Answyn looks especially strong for teams that want a cleaner analytics-first product without the heavier feel of an enterprise platform. Peec also looks attractive for smaller and mid-sized teams because of its transparent pricing and built-in content and audit workflows.

Is Semrush enough for AEO on its own?

For some teams, yes. Semrush’s AI Visibility Toolkit covers benchmarking, prompt research, prompt tracking, brand performance and AI-focused site auditing. But if AEO is becoming a major channel for your business, a specialist platform may still give you deeper workflow and monitoring coverage.

Why is Promptwatch below Semrush if it has so many features?

Because this ranking is not only about feature count. It also weighs platform clarity, market confidence, workflow maturity and how convincing the overall public buying story looks today. Promptwatch has real depth, especially around crawler logs and citations, but the four above it currently feel easier to rank ahead on total package.