LLMO and GEO tools compared: Parallel World and 8 tools

This page is for site owners and marketing teams comparing tools for AI search (LLMO, AIO, GEO). It lines up what each tool measures and offers, on the same rows.

Parallel World does not track mentions and citations in AI answers (mention rate); it measures and monitors from the crawler's point of view.

We compared tools that at least one of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and DeepSeek named in answers in checks we ran on 11 and 12 October 2026, plus tools from Japanese providers. The list is not complete.

Information about each tool is what its vendor's public pages stated on 13 October 2026.

All 8 tools compared here track how your brand is mentioned and cited in AI answers (as stated on their pages). Parallel World does not track mention rate. Parallel World measures and monitors how your website looks to AI crawlers and AI agents, stage by stage. "measuring from the crawler's point of view" means fetching your site the way an AI crawler would and checking it (analysis of crawler access logs is planned). It does not create its own scoring criteria: it gathers the published criteria of Cloudflare, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and others, plus official tool results where a provider has one, and shows where they conflict and when they change. We have no partnership with, or endorsement from, any of them. It is not an optimization agency or consultancy.

Item	Parallel World	Profound	Peec AI	AthenaHQ	Otterly.AI	Ahrefs (Brand Radar)	Semrush (AI Visibility Toolkit)	Mieruca GEO (ミエルカGEO)	AKARUMI
Answer engines tracked (mentions and citations in AI answers)	Does not track mentions and citations in AI answers (mention rate)	Yes. Trial: ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews. Enterprise: up to 9 engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Claude, Google AI Overviews, Exa Search) (confirmed in a browser view)	Yes. Choose from ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, Naver AI (3 on Starter to Advanced). Perplexity as an extra model. Enterprise: up to 13 models (confirmed in a browser view)	Yes. All plans: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Copilot. Paid plans also Google AI Mode, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI and more	Yes. Every paid plan: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot. Claude, Google AI Mode and Gemini as add-ons	Yes. AI Overviews, AI Mode, Copilot, Gemini, Perplexity, ChatGPT	Yes. Google AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and more	Yes. ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews	Yes. Light: ChatGPT, Gemini. Standard adds Perplexity, Copilot, AI Mode, AIO. Enterprise adds Claude (confirmed in a browser view)
Traffic and conversions from AI	No	Yes (AI-sourced traffic and attribution)	Not stated	Yes (connects to GA4 to tie AI search visibility to traffic and conversions)	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated	Yes (traffic and conversions from AI search, daily)	Yes (visits, conversions and more per LLM, from GA4)
Crawlers observed (AI bot access, server logs, CDN)	Import of your own logs: planned	Yes (Agent Analytics. Integrations: Akamai, AWS, Cloudflare, Fastly, Google Analytics, Google Cloud Platform, Netlify, Vercel, WordPress) (confirmed in a browser view)	Yes (server log and CDN integrations: Vercel, Cloudflare, AWS CloudFront, Google Cloud CDN, WordPress, Akamai, webhook, CSV/CLF upload; monthly bot-visit limit per plan) (confirmed in a browser view)	Not stated (a tool to manage robots.txt and llms.txt for AI crawler access is stated; analysis of the access is not)	Not stated	Yes (Bot Analytics, beta; server-side data from Cloudflare, Vercel, Amazon CloudFront, Fastly)	Not stated	Not stated	Yes (AI crawler analysis; Enterprise plan only, not on Light or Standard; method not stated) (confirmed in a browser view)
Whether AI can read your site (robots.txt, llms.txt, structured data, etc.)	Available now. Stage by stage (training, search index, fetch at answer time, browsing and actions), measures robots.txt, llms.txt, sitemap, structured data, raw HTML, responses to AI fetcher User-Agents and more, read-only. Records the results of each provider's published criteria and official tools, and shows where they conflict and change	Not stated	Yes (agent readiness audit: robots.txt, llms.txt, sitemaps, structured data, OAuth, MCP and more, levels 0 to 5; competitors' sites too. Checks which AI bots robots.txt allows, across 40+ bots)	Not stated (a tool to manage robots.txt and llms.txt dynamically is stated; measuring whether AI can read the site is not)	Yes (crawlability checks, content audit; method not stated)	Not stated	Yes (Site Audit "AI Search Health": technical issues that might stop AI bots from crawling)	Not stated	Not stated
Doing the work for you, consulting	No (measurement and monitoring only)	Human consulting not stated. Its "AI Marketer" drafts work and rewrites pages, then asks for your approval	Not stated (has a section for agencies)	Yes (Enterprise: a Certified GEO/SEO Specialist and onboarding. In the tool too: on-page and off-page actions)	Not stated (has an agency partner programme)	Not stated	Not stated	States support "through to the actions that bring improvement". Consulting itself not stated (confirmed in a browser view)	Yes (LLMO consulting, a dedicated advisor, hands-on support)
Japanese language, Japanese market	Japanese-language site and Japanese PDF report (available now)	On the pages we checked, Japan and Japanese not stated	States tracking "across all countries". On the pages we checked, Japan and Japanese not stated	States tracking in 60+ countries and languages (Enterprise). On the pages we checked, Japan and Japanese not stated	States support for 50+ countries. On the pages we checked, Japan and Japanese not stated	Brand Radar page available in Japanese. On the pages we checked, coverage of Japan data not stated	Japan is among the regions of some features. On the pages we checked, Japanese interface not stated	Japanese provider (Faber Company Inc.). Japanese, prices in yen	Japanese provider (ipe Inc.). Japanese
Published pricing	Contact us	No amounts stated. Trial is free, Enterprise is custom (confirmed in a browser view)	Published (USD). Billed monthly: Starter $95, Pro $245, Advanced $495, Enterprise custom. 15% off for annual billing (confirmed in a browser view)	Published (USD). Essential is free (300 credits), Starter $295 per month, Enterprise custom. 17% off for annual billing	Published (USD). $29 to $489 per month, Enterprise custom	Published (USD). Brand Radar AI from $199 per month, custom prompts from $50 per month	Published (USD). AI Visibility Toolkit $99 per month	Published (JPY). Single site ¥49,800 per month, multiple sites ¥99,800 per month (both excl. tax, plus an initial fee). AI search share monitoring is an option from ¥50,000 per month (excl. tax) (confirmed in a browser view)	Plan names only (Light, Standard, Enterprise). Amounts not stated (the price list is given by document download) (confirmed in a browser view)
Free trial	Planned	Yes (free; 7 days, 50 prompts a day, 3 engines) (confirmed in a browser view)	"Start free trial" button (period and terms not stated) (confirmed in a browser view)	Trial not stated. A free plan (Essential) exists	Yes (the page states both 7 days and 14 days)	Brand Radar trial not stated. A free plan (Ahrefs Free) exists	Pages differ (help article: no trial; pricing page: free tier)	Yes (application form; period not stated) (confirmed in a browser view)	Yes (7 days, no payment details needed, no automatic billing afterwards)

"Not stated" means the vendor pages we checked did not say; it does not mean the feature is missing. "Confirmed in a browser view" means a plain fetch did not show it, and we confirmed it from the page as shown in a browser (JavaScript on, view only). Prices are monthly, as written on each vendor's page.

• You want to know how often AI answers mention or cite you and your competitors All 8 tools compared here track this. Parallel World does not track mention rate.
• You want traffic and conversions from AI Mieruca GEO, AKARUMI, Profound and AthenaHQ state this on their pages.
• You want AI bot access from your server logs or CDN, now Ahrefs, Peec AI and Profound state this on their pages. AKARUMI offers it on the Enterprise plan only. Import of your own logs into Parallel World is planned.
• You want someone to do the work or advise you AKARUMI states consulting on its page. Mieruca GEO and AthenaHQ also state support for taking action. Parallel World does not.
• You want to check prices Ahrefs, Otterly.AI, Peec AI, AthenaHQ, Semrush and Mieruca GEO publish their prices. Profound's and AKARUMI's pages state no amounts. For Parallel World pricing, contact us.
• You want to try it for free Profound has a free trial (7 days). AKARUMI states 7 days with no payment details needed. Otterly.AI, Mieruca GEO and Peec AI also mention a trial. AthenaHQ and Ahrefs have a free plan. A Parallel World free trial is planned.

Parallel World fits when you want to check regularly, read-only, whether AI crawlers and AI agents can read your site correctly against each provider's published criteria, and to see where those criteria conflict or change, with their sources.

How is Parallel World different from Profound or Peec AI? Profound and Peec AI mainly offer tracking of how your brand is mentioned and cited in AI answers (as stated on their pages on 13 October 2026). Parallel World does not track mention rate. It measures and monitors how your website looks to AI crawlers and AI agents, from the crawler's point of view, stage by stage. It does not create its own scoring criteria; it uses the published criteria and official tool results of each provider. Note that Peec AI also offers an Agent readiness audit (robots.txt, llms.txt, sitemaps, structured data and more) and server log and CDN integrations, which overlaps with Parallel World. Within the comparison table, we did not find on Peec AI's pages a statement that it records the results of each provider's published criteria and shows where they conflict and change.

Does it support Japanese? Yes. The site and the scan report are in Japanese. A Japanese PDF report is available now and is included in the Starter plan (Business and Enterprise include everything in Starter).

How much does it cost? Can I try it for free? Please contact us for pricing. A free trial is planned; we plan to give you the results of one scan of one site.

Can you do LLMO work or consulting for us? No. Parallel World is a measurement and monitoring service; it does not do optimization work or consulting. Scans are read-only: they never submit forms, add to cart or log in.

• Profound: https://www.tryprofound.com/, https://www.tryprofound.com/pricing (accessed 13 October 2026, confirmed in a browser view)
• Peec AI: https://peec.ai/, https://peec.ai/pricing, https://docs.peec.ai/crawl-insights.md, https://docs.peec.ai/api-reference/agent-analytics/get-agent-readiness.md (accessed 13 October 2026, confirmed in a browser view)
• AthenaHQ: https://athenahq.ai/, https://athenahq.ai/plans (accessed 13 October 2026, confirmed in a browser view)
• Otterly.AI: https://otterly.ai/, https://otterly.ai/pricing (accessed 13 October 2026)
• Ahrefs: https://ahrefs.com/brand-radar, https://ahrefs.com/ja/brand-radar, https://ahrefs.com/pricing, https://ahrefs.com/bot-analytics (accessed 13 October 2026)
• Semrush: https://www.semrush.com/kb/1493-ai-seo-toolkit, https://www.semrush.com/pricing/ (accessed 13 October 2026)
• Mieruca GEO: https://mieru-ca.com/geo/ (accessed 13 October 2026, confirmed in a browser view)
• AKARUMI: https://akarumi.jp/, https://akarumi.jp/price/ (accessed 13 October 2026, confirmed in a browser view)

This comparison is based on what each vendor's public pages stated on 13 October 2026. It may have changed since. Prices and features may change; please check each vendor's page for the latest. No vendor has reviewed this page. If anything here is wrong or out of date, please tell us via the contact form. We will check and correct it.

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