Rankli vs Ahrefs Brand Radar
Brand Radar measures. Rankli writes the answer and re-asks, from $99 a month.
7 days free, then your plan. Cancel before day 8 and nothing is charged.
Rankli and Ahrefs Brand Radar, side by side
Rankli asks ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini your customers' questions every week, writes articles for the ones you are losing, publishes them and re-asks each question 7 and 14 days later. Ahrefs Brand Radar measures AI visibility across a prompt index and the custom prompts you add, inside the Ahrefs suite.
| Row | Rankli | Ahrefs Brand Radar |
|---|---|---|
| AI assistants asked | ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini on every plan, with Perplexity added on Scale and Agency. | Custom Prompts cover ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode and Claude, with Claude using 8 checks per update. |
| Questions tracked | 50 on Growth, 150 on Scale, 400 on Agency, asked every week. | Custom prompts: 5 on Lite, 10 on Standard, 20 on Advanced, checked daily, with larger packages sold by checks. The AI Visibility Index covers 449M prompts. |
| Questions you are losing, and who wins them | Each round lists the questions where AI recommends someone else, and who it picks instead. | Benchmarking your brand against competitors in AI answers, and the fanout queries behind a prompt to find content gaps. |
| Writes the answer pages | About 30% of each month's articles are planned at the questions you are losing, and Rankli writes them. | Not listed on the pages we read. |
| Publishes to your CMS | 10 connections: WordPress, WordPress.com, Webflow, Shopify, Wix, Ghost, Notion, Framer, Webhook and Next.js Blog. Live or as a draft. | Not listed on the pages we read. |
| Re-asks the question after publishing | Each article's question is asked again 7 and 14 days after it goes live. | Not listed on the pages we read. |
| Before and after, per article | On every article: named in how many answers before and after, and whether AI cited the page. | Not listed on the pages we read. |
| Price | Growth $99, Scale $249, Agency $499, billed monthly. | Custom Prompts from $50/month and the AI Visibility Index at $199/month. Ahrefs Lite, which includes 5 tracked prompts, is $129/month. |
| Free trial | 7 days free on every plan. A card starts it; cancel during the trial and nothing is charged. | Brand Radar offers "Start free with Custom Prompts". The Ahrefs pricing FAQ answers the free-trial question by pointing site owners to Ahrefs Free. |
Every Ahrefs Brand Radar cell was read on from ahrefs.com/brand-radar and ahrefs.com/pricing. Every Rankli figure on this page is a rule, a limit or a price in the running product; every figure about the other product was read off their own live page on the date stamped above.
- Writing pages for tracked prompts: not listed on the Brand Radar page. The Ahrefs menu lists an AI Content Helper that improves content.
- Publishing to your CMS, and re-asking a prompt after a page goes live: not listed on the pages we read.
Why teams switch
- Rankli starts each month's plan with the questions you are losing and publishes the articles to your CMS.
- 50 questions on Growth, asked of ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini every week, for $99 a month with the articles included.
- Each article's question is asked again 7 and 14 days after it goes live, and the article shows before and after.
Questions
I already pay for Ahrefs. Why add Rankli?
Because Rankli does the part after the chart. It plans articles at the questions you are losing, writes and publishes them, and re-asks each question 7 and 14 days after it goes live, so you see which article moved which answer.
How many questions does Rankli track?
50 on Growth, 150 on Scale and 400 on Agency, asked every week. The same plan writes 30 to 120 articles a month and publishes them.
How do I switch from Ahrefs Brand Radar to Rankli?
Add the questions your customers ask, connect your CMS, and start the 7-day free trial. Rankli asks ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini that week, lists the questions you are losing and plans articles at them. It publishes to any of 10 connections and re-asks each one 7 and 14 days after it goes live.
See which questions you are losing this week.
7 days free, then your plan. Cancel before day 8 and nothing is charged.