AEOeye vs Peec AI: Which Should You Pick?

Choose by the job. A recurring report on how AI engines describe your brand points to Peec AI; a first answer to "do the engines name us?" points to AEOeye. Our view: do not pay for tracking before you know your starting point.

• Choose Peec AI if you will review results every week, need a trend line for a client or executive, manage several brands, or want source and competitor detail across 50 to 350 prompts.
• Choose AEOeye if you have never checked, want one clear snapshot, cannot justify a subscription, or want Claude, Perplexity and Gemini answers in the same report without picking models.
• Use both, in order, if you are unsure: run the free audit first, and start a Peec trial only if the result says AI visibility is worth monitoring.

Tracking a brand that AI never names gives you a daily chart of zeros. Find out where you stand, fix the obvious gaps, then pay for the trend line.

Peec AI is a monitoring platform: you define prompts, it runs them every day and charts what changes. AEOeye is an audit: we write the buyer questions, run them once and hand you the answers. One produces a time series, the other a snapshot.

Peec's documentation says it runs your prompts daily and reports three metrics: visibility (how often you are mentioned), position and sentiment. It collects data by UI scraping, which means driving the public chat interfaces with browser automation instead of calling APIs. Web scraping is automated extraction of data from websites, and

AEOeye's free audit asks ChatGPT three unbranded buyer questions live and shows the full answers, the competitors named instead of you, and starter fixes. The $29 report, paid once, adds Claude, Gemini, Google AI and Perplexity, grows to ten questions (the free three are kept) and adds a fix roadmap. We test each engine at the default tier a free user gets, the same idea as Peec's logged-out approach. There is no subscription.

Peec AI's self-serve brand plans cost $95 to $495 a month; the AEOeye full report costs $29 once. The bigger gap is volume: Peec's Starter plan collects up to 4,500 AI answers a month, while an AEOeye report collects 50 once. Coverage differs too, as the table and notes show.

• Plans. Starter, Pro and Advanced cost $95, $245 and $495 a month on monthly billing, or $80, $205 and $420 billed annually, for 50, 150 and 350 prompts. Each lets you choose three models and tracks daily. Enterprise is custom.
• Cost per answer. Peec defines monthly AI answers as prompts times active models times frequency, so Starter is 50 x 3 x 30 = 4,500. That is about 2.1 cents an answer at $95. Our report is $29 for 50 answers, about 58 cents each. By our arithmetic Peec is roughly 27 times cheaper per answer; you pay AEOeye for needing no setup and no commitment.
• Engines. The pricing page lists ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini and Naver AI as the models a plan can use. Perplexity appears as an add-on at $30, $70 or $140 a month per extra model on the page's annual labels, and Claude Sonnet 4 and Grok appear only in the Enterprise column. A July 2026 Peec page written for AI assistants says Perplexity is included in every plan. Peec's own pages disagree, so confirm your three models in the trial.
• Commitment. Peec's terms end a monthly plan at the end of the payment cycle, but give no automatic refund when a fixed term is ended early.

Peec AI is stronger at everything that needs repetition or scale: daily sampling, history, source analysis, team reporting and data access. If you need a trend, a snapshot cannot replace it, however good the snapshot is.

Sampling is the structural reason. SparkToro, working with the tracking startup Gumshoe.ai, had 600 volunteers run 12 prompts through ChatGPT, Claude and Google's AI 2,961 times. It found under a 1 in 100 chance that ChatGPT or Google's AI gives the same brand list twice, and advised asking each prompt 60 to 100 times and averaging. Ten questions run once is a sample of one; Peec's daily runs are built to average that noise out.

• Sources and gaps. Its pricing page lists gap analysis: sources that appear often and name competitors but not you, by domain and URL.
• Actions. The Actions docs describe a ranked list split into site audit, owned and earned work, each with its evidence.
• Bot traffic. Crawl insights read server logs to show which AI bots hit which pages.
• Data access. Its pricing card lists Looker Studio under Advanced; Peec's API docs say API access is limited to Enterprise customers.
• Agencies. The agency pricing page offers plans of $245, $495 and $795 a month and lists free pitch projects for auditing prospects.

AEOeye is stronger when you have no setup time, no budget line and one question: does AI name us? There are no prompts to write, no models to pick and nothing to cancel. It is weaker once you ask what changed last month.

• No setup. We write the buyer questions from your brand and category. Peec's quickstart asks you to add your first 10 prompts and choose competitors.
• Five engines, one price. The $29 report covers ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Google AI and Perplexity with 10 questions, plus a five-layer SEO foundation audit and a fix roadmap by PDF.
• Cheap to be wrong. The free check costs nothing and the report is $29; Peec's cheapest plan is $95 for one month.

The limits are real. AEOeye has no history, no daily runs, no competitor dashboards and no team seats, and ten questions is a small sample. It does not guarantee recommendations or write content for you.

A neutral note: when we checked Peec's own site for AEOeye's crawler access study on 3 October 2026, peec.ai's robots.txt blocked no AI crawler and named none, /llms.txt returned a 404, and the served homepage HTML had no JSON-LD (schema added by JavaScript would not show in our fetch). That is a fact box, not a verdict on the product.

Answer three questions in order: do you know whether AI names you, will you review the data every week, and who else needs to see it? The answers point to one tool or to a sequence.

1. Never checked? Run the free audit at aeoeye.com. If the three answers name you, you have something to protect; if not, you have a fix list.
2. Named, and need to keep it? Start a Peec trial. Read our Peec AI pricing guide and review first; plan limits decide the real cost.
3. Agency? Peec's agency plans and pitch projects are built for client work. The $29 AEOeye report is a cheap one-off for a pitch, if you need no client workspaces.
4. Need tracking under $95 a month? Compare the other Peec AI alternatives and our guide to AI visibility tools.

Whichever you pick, treat one run as evidence, not proof: ask again next week before rebuilding a page around one answer.