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AI-Visibility report card

Is Surfer recommended by AI?

Surfer is rarely recommended by AI. Here is its measured AI-Visibility Score, drawn from 8 live AI engines across our 16-category B2B/GTM audit.

12.1
/ 100 · #28 of 354
13
times recommended
4
times the #1 pick
2
categories appeared in
6
of 8 engines named it
What this means

Surfer sits below the short list buyers see

When a buyer asks ChatGPT or Google's AI "what's the best tool for this," only a handful of names make the answer. Surfer earned an AI-Visibility Score of 12.1/100, ranking #28 of 354 measured tools. That is below the three-or-so names most buyers hear when they ask AI for a recommendation, so there is visibility upside to capture.

It was the single top answer 4 times, which is the position that actually gets read aloud when a buyer asks for one recommendation. 6 of 8 engines named it, so it is visible on some assistants and absent from others. Its standing is uneven: #3 in SEO tools but #7 in GEO / AI visibility. A category-level view is the only one that tells a buyer anything.

AI visibility is winnable and separate from Google rankings: the engines we tested disagreed on the #1 tool in most categories, so a product can be invisible to one assistant and a top pick on another. The lever is being named where AI looks, mapped in the cross-engine comparison and the source-bias data.

Competitive position

Where Surfer sits against the tools it competes with

Surfer made the ranked leaders in 2 of the 16 categories measured. Each table shows that category's ranked leaders, so you can see exactly which rivals the engines named ahead of it and which they named behind.

GEO / AI visibility · Surfer ranks #7 of 8
#ToolWeighted score
1Ahrefs6.28
2BrightEdge3
3SEMrush2.87
4Brand242
5None1.83
6Brandwatch1.7
7Surfer (this tool)1.67
8MarketMuse1.5
Top pick by engine: Llama 3.3 via Groq chose Ahrefs · Cohere Command-A chose Ahrefs · Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite chose Ahrefs · Perplexity chose Siftly · ChatGPT chose Profound · Llama 4 Scout chose Ahrefs · GPT-OSS chose Surfer · Qwen 3.6 chose None
SEO tools · Surfer ranks #3 of 8
#ToolWeighted score
1Ahrefs14.45
2SEMrush9.08
3Surfer (this tool)4.6
4Moz Pro2.17
5Google Search Console1.75
6Clearscope1.6
7Screaming Frog1.33
8Moz1.33
Top pick by engine: Llama 3.3 via Groq chose Ahrefs · Cohere Command-A chose Ahrefs · Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite chose SEMrush · Perplexity chose SEMrush · ChatGPT chose Ahrefs · Llama 4 Scout chose Ahrefs · GPT-OSS chose Ahrefs · Qwen 3.6 chose Ahrefs

Weighted score is position-weighted recommendation frequency within that category (a #1 mention counts 1.0, a #2 counts 0.5, and so on), summed across every engine and phrasing. It is not a quality judgement.

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Method

From the open, CC-BY AI Recommendation Audit: a dated snapshot of what live AI engines recommend, not an endorsement or a quality ranking. Surfer appeared in 13 of 1549 recorded recommendations. Open data.

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