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BrightEdge AI Catalyst
Quick answer
BrightEdge AI Catalyst is BrightEdge's intelligence layer for AI search. It tracks brand presence, sentiment and citations against competitors across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode and Gemini. Features include prompt intelligence to find the questions buyers ask AI platforms, and AI recommendations showing which competitor page earns citations. Reporting dashboards export as PNG or CSV, and an MCP connector links BrightEdge to a customer's AI stack. Pricing is not published and no free plan is listed.
Best for
Teams that want competitor benchmarking in AI search with prompt and citation analysis, and a connector for their own AI tools.
Not for
A team that wants a published price, or monitoring of news, blogs and social beyond AI answers.
Facts
Pricing
Not publicly published.
From BrightEdge AI Catalyst's website, checked Oct 2026.
AI engines tracked
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini
API / MCP
MCP connector to link BrightEdge to a customer's AI stack
How MarketHQ compares
| Feature | MarketHQ | BrightEdge AI Catalyst |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Free (paid from $29/mo) | Not publicly published |
| Free plan or trial | Free tier, no card required | Not published |
| Sources covered | Hacker News, GitHub, RSS, Stack Overflow, Dev.to, Lobsters, Reddit, LinkedIn, YouTube, X, Perplexity, Product Hunt, Broader web crawl, Bluesky | Not published |
| AI engines tracked | ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, DeepSeek | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini |
| API / MCP | Yes, on every paid plan | MCP connector to link BrightEdge to a customer's AI stack |
Alternatives
- MarketHQ: tracks brand mentions across communities, news, blogs, social and AI answers, with gap analysis and action plans.
- Ahrefs Brand Radar: Teams already paying for Ahrefs that want AI-answer visibility alongside their existing SEO tracking.
- AthenaHQ: A team that wants to try AI visibility tracking across many AI engines on a free plan before paying.
- Birdeye: Multi-location businesses that want reviews, listings and AI visibility under one reputation platform.
- Cision: PR and communications teams that need broadcast, print and journalist-outreach tools alongside AI visibility tracking.
- Conductor AI Visibility (Conductor Intelligence): Enterprises that want an all-in-one AEO platform with AI visibility tracking and an API.
- Critical Mention: PR teams that need broadcast monitoring and AI brand visibility in one place.
- Evertune: A marketing team focused on AI visibility benchmarking that has budget for an $800 a month starting plan.
- Goodie: Teams that want AI visibility tracking tied to revenue attribution and content generation in one workflow.
- Isentia: PR and communications teams in the APAC region that need broadcast and print monitoring alongside AI View.
- Keyword.com: A team that wants rank tracking and AI brand presence checks at a low monthly price.
- Knowatoa: Marketing teams that want AI visibility tracking with gap analysis and drafted content.
- LLMrefs: A team that wants broad AI search coverage, including Google's own AI surfaces, at a single listed price.
- Meltwater: PR and communications teams that need broad media, social and AI-signal coverage in one suite.
- Onclusive: A PR or comms team that wants media monitoring bundled with multi-engine AI visibility tracking.
- Otterly.ai: A solo marketer or small team that wants AI-answer visibility tracking at a low entry price and doesn't need community or social monitoring in the same tool.
- Peec AI: Teams that want daily AI-visibility tracking connected to their own tools through MCP or API.
- Profound: A team that only needs AI-answer visibility tracking and is prepared to go through a custom sales conversation for pricing.
- Prowly: A PR team that wants pitching, media monitoring and AI-citation targeting in one toolkit.
- Pulse: A team that wants Reddit lead discovery and AI-visibility scanning in one tool.
- Rankscale: Teams that want AI visibility tracking across many engines plus page-level AI readiness audits.
- Scrunch: Teams that want AI citation tracking paired with page-level AI readability audits.
- Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit: An existing Semrush customer who wants AI-visibility reporting layered onto that subscription.
- seoClarity Clarity ArcAI: Enterprise SEO teams that want AI-visibility data to drive content decisions.
- Signal AI: Enterprise risk, reputation and comms teams that need licensed premium media data and entity-level analysis.
- Synthesio: Enterprise research teams that want consumer intelligence across social, search and ecommerce signals.
- Synup: Multi-location businesses that want listings management bundled with review monitoring.
- Trustpilot: A business that wants to collect customer reviews and show them in widgets, starting on a free plan.
- Waikay: A brand or agency that wants AI-prompt visibility tracking with hallucination and knowledge-gap checks.
- Writesonic GEO: A marketing team that wants citation tracking in AI answers paired with generated content fixes.
- XFunnel: A team that wants a one-time free AI-visibility audit before committing to ongoing tracking.
- Yext (Reviews): A multi-location brand that wants review generation, responses and reporting across many platforms.
- Yotpo: An online store that wants reviews, loyalty and AI shopping visibility in one e-commerce platform.
Related
- Best AI visibility and brand monitoring tools: category shortlists with a disclosed method.
- Glossary: definitions of the terms that come up when comparing tools like this one.
Sources
- BrightEdge AI Catalyst: https://www.brightedge.com/ai-catalyst (checked Oct 2026)