Citation intelligence inside AI answers versus crawler-access verification
SE Visible and AI Crawl Score both touch AI search, but SE Visible (from the makers of SE Ranking) tracks how often and where a brand is mentioned and linked inside AI-generated answers, while AI Crawl Score checks whether that brand’s pages are fetchable by crawlers at all.
What SE Visible does
Per SE Visible’s own site, the Core plan starts at $189/month for 450 tracked prompts and 5 brands, the Plus plan is $355/month for 1,000 prompts and 10 brands, and a Max plan is also offered; all plans include unlimited users and a 10-day free trial. SE Ranking customers can access a reduced-scope AI Search add-on starting at $89/month. Stated features include Citation Intelligence (tracking which URLs AI engines cite) and Competitive Benchmarking across AI engines.
What AI Crawl Score does
AI Crawl Score’s free readiness checker does not track prompts, citations, or brand mentions inside any AI platform. It runs a single bounded raw-fetch scan of up to five pages per run: robots.txt rules by crawler identity, sitemap presence, JSON-LD structured data, and an optional llms.txt structural check, with no account needed.
Side by side
| Question | AI Crawl Score | SE Visible |
|---|---|---|
| AI-answer citation tracking | No | Yes |
| Prompt-based brand monitoring | No | Yes, 450–1,000 prompts by tier |
| Robots/sitemap/schema technical check | Yes, free | Not its stated focus |
| Pricing | Free | From $89/month (SE Ranking add-on) or $189/month (standalone Core) |
| Trial | Not applicable, always free | 10-day free trial |
Which one fits your situation
Use AI Crawl Score for a free, immediate check of a page sample’s crawler-access and structured-data setup. Use SE Visible when the ongoing need is tracking which URLs get cited inside AI-generated answers and benchmarking that against competitors over time, a materially different and metered workflow. Citation tracking in SE Visible will not catch a broken robots.txt rule or malformed sitemap, and AI Crawl Score’s scan says nothing about whether a page is actually cited inside an AI answer. Google’s AI-optimization guidance still treats crawler access as a prerequisite to any citation showing up in the first place.
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Frequently asked questions
Does AI Crawl Score show which pages get cited in AI answers like SE Visible?
No. AI Crawl Score has no citation-tracking feature; it only reports technical crawler-access findings for a bounded page sample.
Can existing SE Ranking customers get SE Visible more cheaply?
Per the pricing page of SE Visible, SE Ranking customers can add AI-search tracking starting at $89/month rather than paying the $189/month standalone Core price; the AI Crawl Score scan remains free regardless of any existing subscription.