The short version:
- Adacity is a pay-per-report alternative to Ahrefs Brand Radar: one report, from $5, no subscription and no account. The $39 full report covers ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude.
- Brand Radar is a research subscription: €358 a month for platforms you select, €654 for all of them, backed by 476 million monthly prompts. No Claude at any price.
- If you check monthly or quarterly, a report fits better. If you research many brands or already live in Ahrefs, Brand Radar is built for that.
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What is Ahrefs Brand Radar?
Brand Radar is Ahrefs' AI visibility product. It indexes 476 million prompts a month, derived from search data, and shows how any brand, product, or person appears across AI Overviews and AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, and Gemini, with zero setup and unlimited projects. It also tracks YouTube, TikTok, and Reddit as AI sources, free while in beta. Pricing is €358 a month for selected platforms or €654 for all platforms with 2,500 custom prompt checks, shown in your local currency. Ahrefs says 3,000+ companies use it.
How Adacity compares to Brand Radar
| Adacity | Brand Radar | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5 to $39 per report | €358 to €654 per month |
| Billing | Per report | Subscription |
| Account required | No | Yes |
| Prompts | 100+ discovered for you | 476M+ database, plus custom prompts |
| ChatGPT | Yes, in the $39 report | Yes |
| Gemini | Yes, every tier | Yes |
| Claude | Yes, in the $39 report | No |
| AI Overviews, Copilot, and Perplexity | No | Yes |
| Visibility by buying stage | Yes | No |
| Competitor comparison | Yes, discovered from AI answers | Yes, any brand you search |
| Continuous monitoring | No | Yes |
| Trends over time | Snapshot only | Yes |
| Best for | Founders, small businesses | SEO teams in the Ahrefs stack |
Brand Radar pricing and features checked on August 4, 2026 against its product page, which prices in your local currency; a capability its site does not show is marked No. Check their site for the latest.
What is different about Adacity
You pay per report, not per month
Brand Radar starts at €358 a month, over €4,000 a year. Adacity charges per report. Run one now, run another in three months to see if the work moved anything. Nothing recurring, and nothing to cancel.
Your buyers' questions, not market prompts
Brand Radar's index shows what millions of people ask AI, which answers a market research question. Adacity answers a narrower one: does AI name you when your buyer asks? We look at your site, what communities say about you, and what authoritative sources publish in your category, then run 100+ of those questions and break the results out by buying stage.
Claude is in the $39 report
Brand Radar does not track Claude at any price. Adacity runs ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude in the $39 full report, and each engine answers differently, which is why checking a subset is a partial read.
When Brand Radar is the better choice
We are honest about the fit. Brand Radar is the stronger pick when:
- You research at market scale. 476 million monthly prompts with zero-setup lookups on any brand is something no report matches.
- You want AI Overviews, AI Mode, Copilot, or Perplexity, which Adacity does not cover at any price, or YouTube, TikTok, and Reddit tracked as AI sources.
- Your SEO already runs in Ahrefs and you want AI visibility in the same workspace.
If instead you want one clear answer about where you stand and what to fix, without a subscription, that is what Adacity is for. For the whole field, see the best AEO tools in 2026, compared. To see live rankings built from our report data, browse the free AEO industry leaderboards.
Common questions
- How much does Ahrefs Brand Radar cost?
- Two tiers, shown in your local currency. On its European storefront: €358 a month to track platforms you select, or €654 a month for all platforms plus 2,500 monthly checks for custom prompts. Additional custom prompts cost extra.
- Does Ahrefs Brand Radar track Claude?
- No, at any price. It covers AI Overviews and AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, and Gemini, with Grok in its prompt database. Adacity includes Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini in the $39 full report.
- What is Brand Radar's prompt database?
- 476 million monthly prompts derived from search data, the largest index of its kind. It shows what people ask AI at market scale. That is demand data, useful and real, but it is not the specific questions your buyers ask about your category.
- When is Brand Radar the better choice?
- When you research many brands, want instant zero-setup lookups against a huge prompt index, track YouTube, TikTok, and Reddit as AI sources, or already run your SEO in Ahrefs. Adacity gives you one clear answer per report.