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What is Brand Radar, and how to use it?

Learn how to use Brand Radar to monitor any brand's AI visibility.

Written by Constance Tan

What Is Brand Radar

Brand Radar is Ahrefs' AI visibility tool that tracks how any brand shows up in AI search in over 405+ million search-backed prompts (modeled after real keywords from our database, asked by real humans).

With it, you can benchmark your AI share of voice against competitors, identify top cited pages and domains, and find opportunities to get mentioned in AI answers.

There’s no setup time, and you can search anything: brands, products, regions, and authors.

Watch the full Brand Radar Course on Ahrefs Academy for a video walkthrough of every feature.

What data it tracks

Brand Radar is a discovery tool that maps out the breadth of your AI funnel across six AI platforms, but also across other channels that influence AI visibility: SEO, YouTube, Reddit, and TikTok.

AI Platforms

  • AI Overviews & AI Mode — AI-generated answers in Google search results

  • ChatGPT — Responses from OpenAI’s conversational assistant

  • Perplexity — AI-powered search engine with cited sources

  • Gemini — Google’s conversational AI

  • Copilot — Microsoft’s AI assistant

  • Grok — Conversational AI assistant integrated with X (Twitter), focused on real-time trends and social data. (Note: Following recent policy changes by Grok, we are temporarily unable to gather new data)

Search & Web

  • Search Demand — How often people search for your brand or related terms

  • Web Visibility — Mentions of your brand across web pages with content

Emerging Channels (Beta)

YouTube — Brand mentions in video content

Reddit — Visibility within Reddit threads that appear in SERPs

TikTok — Brand presence in short-form video

Note: Indexes in beta are free for all subscribers to Lite or higher plans. When an index exit beta, they will be an additional chargeable add-on.

Custom prompts

Custom prompts let you track the AI answers for any question of your choice. This can be done for all AI platforms supported in Brand Radar, and can be adjusted to check monthly, or as frequently as daily.

Learn more about custom prompts and how they work in this article.

Why choose Brand Radar (over other AI monitoring tools)

The largest AI visibility database

Brand Radar allows you to check AI responses for 405+ million search-backed prompts across 7 AI platforms. These are derived from People Also Ask questions from our keyword database, so the prompt data mirrors what people are actually looking for (not what most AI visibility tools think they might ask about your brand).

No setup or waiting required to view brand mentions in AI responses (Ahrefs index)

Search through millions of AI responses from when we started collecting AI responses in 2025 from the moment you gain access.

Research anything

Brand Radar is not just limited to brands. It allows you to monitor products, regions, and people.

Map the full AI funnel: from source to answer

Brand Radar gives you insights not just into AI answers, but also the sources that influence it: SEO, Reddit, YouTube, TikTok.

Unlimited domains for AI visibility

There is no cap on the number of brands or domains you can analyze.

Affordable custom prompts

Pay based on how regularly you check AI, rather than the number of prompts alone.

Custom prompts can be purchased as a standalone:

Or comes included with the All platforms Brand Radar purchase:

Or comes included with every Ahrefs plan from Lite onwards:

Learn more about how Custom prompts work, and how to set them up.

How to Use Brand Radar

Quickstart

Simply enter in your website and click on "Analyze". Brand Radar will automatically find your brand name, as well as commonly associated competitor brands and websites.

Manual search

To manually specify your brand and your competitors, click on "add your brand and competitors manually":

You'll be shown a form to set up both names and websites for each brand:

Grouping multiple brands together

Any brand can be configured to have mutiple brand names and websites and tracked together as a single entity:

Once your setup is ready, click on "Explore" to view the report.

How to create a saved report in Brand Radar

Creating a saved report in brand radar allows you to save all the brands and filters you've used to be reviewed again later. It also allows you to track custom prompts.

Any search you make in Brand Radar can be saved as a report. Once you’ve applied filters and configured the view you want, click on "Save report" in the sidebar, and click on "Create report":

Learn more about creating and managing your Brand Radar reports

Navigating the Overview report

The Overview report is the default view for any entity you monitor. It summarizes performance across all tracked channels in a single screen.

View how your brand stacks against its competitors across key metrics: Share of Voice, number of mentions, citations, and impressions:

You can also compare how multiple brands perform over time for a single metric:

From here, you can navigate to more specific reports of these brands:

  1. AI visibility

  2. Search demand

  3. Web visibility

  4. Video visibility

  5. SERP visibility

Using filters

Filters let you narrow Brand Radar data to exactly what you need. They are accessible from the filter bar at the top of any report.

Multiple filters can be stacked to hone in on very specific results:

Select a specific date to see data from an earlier time in history:

Sorting Results

Result tables within each report can be sorted by different metrics. In AI visibility reports for example, you can sort by Relevance (responses with more mentions of your entity appear first) or by Search Volume (highest-traffic queries appear first).

Creating Brand radar widgets using Report Builder

Create live, custom reports by combining Brand Radar charts and widgets with other supported widgets in the Ahrefs Reports Builder tool:

Pulling Brand Radar data from Ahrefs MCP or API directly

You can pull data from Brand Radar using API. Any report whose data can be pulled via API will have this API button:

You can click on to see information on how to make the API request, and how many units it would cost per row to return the results.

Full information about the Brand Radar API can be found here.

Create Looker Studio reports with Brand Radar Connector

Track and optimize your brand's visibility in AI search alongside your other looker studio reports.

Full information about the Brand Radar connector can be found here.

Where the Data Comes From

Ahrefs extracts People Also Ask questions from keyword queries in its keyword index, then enters those questions into the web version of each AI chatbot using the default model.

How Fresh Is the Data

Different indexes update at different frequencies. Understanding this helps you set the right expectations for how often to check your reports. Below refers to the update frequency of data for the +350 million prompt database:

Index

Update Frequency

Search Demand

Every few days (matches Keywords Explorer)

Web Visibility

Every few minutes (matches Site Explorer)

AI Overviews

Every few days (matches Keywords Explorer)

AI Chatbots (ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.)

Once a month

For Custom prompts, data starts from when you first add the custom prompts, and freshness depends on your frequency settings:

Historical Data Range

Index

Data Available From

Search Demand

2015

Web Visibility

2013

AI Overviews

August 2024

AI Chatbot Sources

May 2025

YouTube

December 2023

TikTok

December 2024

Reddit (SERP visibility)

2015

What It Costs

All prices below are in USD and may vary slightly by region.

Lite and higher Ahrefs plans come included with Custom prompts to track in AI

If you increase the frequency from daily to weekly or monthly, you can increase the number of total prompts that you track. Lite or higher plans can track custom prompts on Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Copilot.

Single, or all Platform Access are standalone purchases

Single platform: $199/month per index

All platforms: $699/month (includes 2,500 custom prompt checks/month)

Custom Prompt Tracking Tiers

Basic

Growth

Scale

Monthly cost

$50

$100

$250

Included checks

2,500

7,000

25,000

Overage per check

$0.020

$0.015

$0.010

Overage charges apply only after included checks are used for the month. Higher tiers offer lower per-check overage rates.

Plan Requirements

Feature

Required Plan

Search Demand

Starter and above

Web Visibility

Standard and above

AI Indexes (ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.)

Brand Radar AI Add-on (any paid plan)

Beta indexes

Free on any paid plan

How to Purchase Brand Radar platforms

New Users

Click on Sign up for Brand Radar directly on https://ahrefs.com/brand-radar and pick a plan of your choice.

Existing Subscribers

Navigate to Account Settings → Billing → Subscription. You’ll see a list of available add-ons. Select the Brand Radar indexes or custom prompt tracking purchase option you want to add to your subscription.

Frequently Asked Questions

How is the data for AI/LLM Search data sources from different countries collected?

Prompts are entered in each respective AI platform (ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.), in the same location as the keyword that it was sourced from, ensuring location-appropriate responses.

Does the tool take into account personalization? / How do you handle that prompts trigger different AI overviews for different users

Prompts are asked in the web version of all AI platforms that we support without any stored user data or prior context. No normalization, personalization, pre-prompting, or filtering is applied; responses are captured as a typical user would see them.

Why doesn't Brand Radar support Claude, or ___ AI platform?

If the AI platform requires you to login before you can use it, or doesn't have a publicly available free version, then we currently don't monitor AI responses for that platform. Otherwise, you can suggest AI platforms for us to support in our Feature suggestions board.

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