Searchly vs SE Visible
Searchly tracks buyer prompts with full answers and citations, then adds what SE Visible does not document. Its $99 Starter plan shows AI crawler logs, GA4 AI visits and Search Console for each page, with ranked next steps, the Agent and AI shopping.
Compared from SE Visible's own pricing and documentation, checked Oct 21, 2026. How we compare
Our verdict
Our pick: Searchly
Searchly is the better choice for most teams: it puts your own site data and a ranked list of what to fix next beside full answers and citations. At $99 a month (SE Visible Basic is $99), Searchly Starter includes AI crawler logs, GA4 AI visits, Search Console, Opportunities, the Agent and AI shopping for ChatGPT, none of which SE Visible documents. Starter also includes Perplexity, the REST API and the MCP server; SE Visible's own pages disagree on whether it tracks Perplexity and name no plan for its API.
| Searchly | SE Visible | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $99 a month (Starter) | $99 a month (Basic) |
| 50 prompts, 3 engines, daily | $99 a month | $99 a month |
| Engines on the entry plan | ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity | ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews; Perplexity disputed |
| Site data on the entry plan | AI crawler logs once you connect a source, GA4 AI visits and Search Console | Not documented in its public pages |
| Free trial | 14 days on Pro | 10 days |
strengths
Where Searchly comes out ahead.
From each company's own pricing pages and documentation, checked Oct 21, 2026. Each point links to its source.
Where Searchly is stronger
- AI crawler logs once you connect a log source, plus GA4 AI referral visits and Search Console clicks for each page, on every plan. SE Visible's public pages do not document any of them, and no other platform in our comparison documents all three on its entry plan. Source
- Opportunities on every plan: a ranked list of next steps tied to the evidence, from setup and on-page fixes to sites worth pitching, with the outreach drafted for you to send. SE Visible's public pages do not document recommendations as a shipped feature; its February 2026 plans post listed them as a roadmap item and says the tool will not find contacts or run PR for you. Source
- The Agent on every paid plan: ask about your AI visibility in plain language and it reads your Searchly data, opens the right page and proposes new prompts or competitors for you to confirm. SE Visible's public pages do not document an agent. Source
- AI shopping on every plan, Starter included: the products ChatGPT shows for your prompts, whose they are and where they rank, with each product's price, rating and retailer. SE Visible's public pages do not document shopping tracking. Source
- Buyer prompts suggested from your site and topics on every plan, Starter included, tracked only after you accept them. SE Visible's public pages do not document prompt suggestions and label query fan-out analysis as coming soon. Source
Where SE Visible focuses
- One pool of 200 prompts on Basic ($99 a month), shared by its 3 projects, so every brand you add draws on the same 200. Source
- Gemini and Google AI Mode on the entry plan beside ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews. Its pricing page also lists Perplexity, but its API reference and FAQ leave it out. Source
capabilities
Feature by feature, with sources.
The same capabilities, in the same words, for both tools. A tag beside the status names the plan or the limit, and each note links to the page it came from. Not documented means we could not find it in SE Visible's public pages.
| Capability |  Searchly |  SE Visible |
|---|---|---|
| TrackingWhat is tracked, how often and for how many brands. | ||
| AI enginesIncluded means five or more named engines on a published plan, counting paid add-ons. | Included3 included, 2 add-ons ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity on every plan; Gemini and Claude as paid add-ons (Starter +$50 and +$100 a month, Pro +$150 and +$300, Business +$250 and +$500, Custom included); Copilot, DeepSeek, Google AI Mode and Grok coming soon. Source | IncludedPerplexity disputed ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews per the pricing page; the API reference and FAQ list four without Perplexity; Claude and Copilot coming soon. Source |
| Tracking cadenceIncluded means a daily run is available on a published plan. | Included Each tracked prompt runs once a day on every engine in the plan. Source | Included Daily by default; a project can switch to weekly. Source |
| Prompt suggestions and researchSuggested prompts or a prompt database; the note says whether volume data is shown. | IncludedNo volume data Buyer prompts suggested from your site and topics, tracked only after you accept them, or typed, pasted or uploaded as CSV and tracked at once; no search volume or difficulty. Source | Not documented Prompt suggestions or volume data not documented; query fan-out analysis is labelled coming soon. Source |
| Competitor benchmarkingCompetitors measured on the same answers. | Included Benchmark the competitors you choose on visibility, share of voice, position and citations. Source | Included Competitor benchmark on every plan. Source |
| Several projects or brandsTwo or more projects, brands or workspaces on one published plan. | Included2 on Pro, 3 on Business 1 project on Starter, up to 2 on Pro and up to 3 on Business, sharing one prompt budget; more on Custom. Source | Included3 projects 3, 5 or 10 projects sharing one prompt pool. Source |
| Answer evidenceWhat you can open and take away from each answer. | ||
| Full answer textThe full answer behind each result, exportable or available through an API. | IncludedAPI fallbacks labelled Open the answer behind every score with its date and citations; API fallback answers are labelled and kept out of headline metrics, and Claude is collected through Anthropic's API; answers export as CSV. Source | Included Every prompt opens to its full list of answers with mention, position, sentiment and citation; results through the API. Source |
| Citations and sourcesCited pages and domains for each answer, with source analysis. | Included Cited domains and pages per answer, the sources that cite competitors but not you and content types including Reddit threads and YouTube videos. Source | Included Sources by URL or domain with coverage and the competitors mentioned. Source |
| SentimentHow answers describe the brand, per answer or per brand. | Included How AI answers describe you, positive, neutral or negative, and why. Source | Included Sentiment per answer; a fuller 'AI Brand Sentiment Tracking' is labelled coming soon. Source |
| Data exportsCSV or spreadsheet exports of answers, prompts or citations. | IncludedCSV CSV exports of answers, prompts, page evidence and crawler logs on every plan; articles export as Markdown, HTML or text on Pro and up. Source | IncludedCSV CSV export. Source |
| Site evidenceWhat your own site data adds. | ||
| AI crawler logsAI crawler requests read from server, CDN or edge logs. | Included Requests from AI crawlers, verified or declared, after you connect Cloudflare (Logpush or Worker), Vercel, Next.js, Netlify, WordPress or the HTTP API; 90-day retention; CSV export. Source | Not documented AI crawler logs are not documented. Source |
| AI referral visitsHuman visits from AI assistants, from GA4 or the vendor's own script. | IncludedVia GA4 Visits from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and other AI assistants, read from Google Analytics 4 through a read-only connection, with no extra script. Source | Not documented AI referral traffic and GA4 are not documented. Source |
| Google Search ConsoleSearch Console data inside the product. | Included Search Console clicks, impressions, CTR and position by query, page, country and device beside the AI evidence for each page; no indexing data. Source | Not documented Search Console is not documented for SE Visible. Source |
| Site auditIncluded means a multi-page technical or AI-readiness audit. | LimitedHomepage only Site Health checks your homepage and selected root files, including AI crawler access in robots.txt, llms.txt and structured data, with a fix for each; not a whole-site crawl. Source | Not documented Not part of SE Visible; SE Ranking's separate SEO platform has a site audit. Source |
| Taking actionWhat happens after a finding. | ||
| Recommendations or action queueA ranked list of next steps or tasks. | Included Opportunities: a ranked list of next steps tied to the evidence, from setup and on-page fixes to sites worth pitching; outreach is drafted, nothing is sent. Source | Not documented Recommendations were a roadmap item in February 2026; the vendor says the tool will not find contacts or run PR for you. Source |
| Content generationIncluded means article generation that is generally available. | IncludedPro and up Content Studio on Pro, Business and the Pro trial: full articles or writer briefs in 8 formats from verified sources, readiness checks and accept or reject revisions; English only, hourly generation caps, no monthly article quota. Source | Not documented Not part of SE Visible; SE Ranking's separate platform has content tools. Source |
| CMS publishingIncluded means content sent to two or more CMSs, as drafts or live. | LimitedWebflow drafts, Pro and up Approved articles go to your Webflow CMS as drafts on Pro and up; WordPress, Framer and Shopify publishing are not built. Source | Not documented CMS publishing is not documented. Source |
| AI agent or assistantAn in-app agent that works on the product's own data. | Included Agent on every paid plan and the Pro trial: ask about your AI visibility in plain language; it reads your Searchly data, opens the right page and proposes changes such as new prompts or competitors that you confirm; it does not write or publish articles. Source | Not documented An in-app agent is not documented. Source |
| Access and teamsHow data leaves the tool and who can sign in. | ||
| REST APIA documented API for the visibility data. | Included REST API with an OpenAPI spec and scoped, expiring keys on every plan; operations that generate content need an active subscription or the Pro trial. Source | IncludedPlan not stated Read and write API for projects, brands, competitors, prompts and topics, plus results and sources; plan gate not stated. Source |
| MCP serverA documented MCP server for the visibility data. | Included MCP server on every plan for AI tools that support Streamable HTTP and a custom Authorization header (bearer key, no OAuth). Source | IncludedSE Ranking MCP Through SE Ranking's MCP server; the data depends on your subscription and the plan gate is not stated. Source |
| Agency plans and client reportingAn agency plan, client workspaces or branded or shareable client reports. | Not offered No agency plan, white label, scheduled or PDF reports or share links; client data leaves as CSV or through the API. Source | LimitedNo white label Multi-client projects and ready dashboards; white label 'not yet', on the roadmap. Source |
| SSO (SAML or OIDC)Company identity-provider sign-in; Google sign-in does not count. | Not offered No SSO, SAML, SCIM or audit log; customers sign in with email and password or Google. Source | Not documented SSO is not documented. Source |
| Shopping and adsProducts and ads inside AI answers. | ||
| AI shopping visibilityIncluded means the products AI answers show are captured and tracked; the tag names the engines. | IncludedChatGPT AI shopping on every plan: the products ChatGPT shows for your prompts, whose they are, their price, rating and retailer and where they rank. Source | Not documented AI shopping tracking is not documented. Source |
| AI ads trackingIncluded means ads inside AI answers captured on two or more surfaces. | Not offered AI ads tracking is not built. Source | Not documented AI ads tracking is not documented. Source |
| BuyingPublic prices and free trials. | ||
| Published priceA public price for a paid plan that tracks AI answers, listed on the vendor's pricing page. | Included Starter $99, Pro $239 and Business $499 a month; yearly billing is 10 times monthly; Custom is quoted. Source | Included $99, $189 and $355 a month; $79, $151 and $284 billed annually; Plus books a demo. Source |
| Free trial or free tierA documented free trial or free tier that includes AI-answer tracking. | IncludedOn Pro, 14 days 14-day trial on Pro ('Start for free'); Starter and Business have no trial; the free AI visibility report is a one-off sample, not a trial. Source | Included10 days 10-day free trial; no free tier. Source |
pricing
The same workload, priced on both.
One brand, 50 buyer prompts on ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity, checked once a day in one country: a common base for AI visibility tracking. Every Searchly plan includes all three engines; where SE Visible counts or includes engines differently, the note says so.
| Item | Searchly | SE Visible |
|---|---|---|
| Covers the workload | Covers it | Covers it |
| Plan | Starter | Basic |
| Monthly price | $99 | $99 |
| Billed yearly | $990 a year ($82.50 a month) | $79 a month billed annually |
| The three engines | All three included | ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews included; Perplexity disputed (its API docs and FAQ list four engines without it) |
| Extra cost | None | None |
| Free trial | None on Starter; a 14-day trial of Pro ($239 a month after) | 10 days |
| What the plan counts | 50 prompts on 3 engines once a day: up to 4,500 runs in 30 days, the whole Starter allowance | 200 prompts shared across 3 projects; this workload uses 50 prompts |
Basic also includes Gemini and Google AI Mode. If Perplexity matters, confirm it with SE Ranking first.
Prices before tax, in each company's own currency, as published on Oct 21, 2026. est. marks our arithmetic from published units. Units differ: Searchly counts runs, up to 4,500 in 30 days on 50 prompts.
Sources: Searchly: Searchly pricing; SE Visible: SE Visible home and pricing, API reference
fit
Which one to choose.
Choose Searchly if…
you want your own site data beside the answers for each page and a ranked list of what to fix next, with the Agent and AI shopping included from the first plan.
SE Visible may suit you if…
you mainly need one prompt pool shared across several brands or client projects and handle site data and next steps in other tools.
switching
Moving from SE Visible, or running both.
- Your prompts.SE Visible exports to CSV. Source In Searchly, paste or upload your prompts as CSV. Prompts you add are tracked at once; the ones Searchly suggests wait until you accept them.
- Competitors.Add the competitors you follow in SE Visible. Searchly benchmarks the ones you choose.
- History.Past results stay in SE Visible. Scores are not comparable between tools, because engines, collection methods and formulas differ, so compare trends from the same start date.
- Site data.Connect Google Analytics 4 and Search Console read-only, and send AI crawler logs from Cloudflare, Vercel, Netlify, WordPress, Next.js or the HTTP API by following a setup guide. Searchly installs nothing on your site.
- Run both.Track the same prompts in both tools during the 14-day Pro trial before you decide.
evaluation
Put both tools to the test.
Use your own brand, the same buyer prompts and the same dates in both tools. Ask the other vendor these three questions.
- Does my plan track Perplexity today, and which plan includes API and MCP access?
- Where does the tool show AI crawler requests, AI referral visits and Search Console data for my own pages?
- Once a gap is found, does the tool rank the next steps or offer an agent, or is that left to other tools?
sources
Sources and scope.
How we compare. We read each company's own pricing page, documentation and changelog, noting the day we checked each one. A capability we could not find is marked Not documented; Not offered means the company's own pages say it is not part of the product. Both columns follow the same rules. We do not compare visibility scores between tools: engines, collection methods and formulas differ.
SE Visible sources
- SE Visible home and pricing
- SE Visible buyer's guide (Oct 8, 2026)
- SE Visible FAQ
- API reference
- SE Ranking MCP server
- SE Visible plans for 2026 (Feb 4, 2026)
Searchly sources
Spotted an out-of-date detail about SE Visible? Email piotr@trysearchly.com and we will check it against SE Visible's pages.
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