The AEO software market went from a handful of tools to a couple of hundred in about eighteen months, and almost every directory covering it does the same thing: invent a score out of ten, sort by whoever paid, and call it a ranking. GetMentionedByAI does the opposite. It records what each vendor publishes, leaves unpublished facts blank, and shows a counter on its own about page reading zero invented scores. That restraint is the entire product, and it is more useful than it sounds. It also comes with a caveat in the site footer that anyone relying on this should read first.
What Is GetMentionedByAI?
GetMentionedByAI is a curated index of tools that track and improve how brands appear inside AI answers. It is not itself an AEO platform, which the site states plainly, and that independence is the reason the listings are worth reading.
The editor is named Prabhas Raju, with a public email for corrections and a GitHub repository for the project. In a category where most directories hide behind a company name and an anonymous rating algorithm, a named human who says he read each vendor’s site is a meaningful difference.
Coverage spans eight categories. AI Visibility Monitoring and AEO Platforms hold the bulk of the listings, with smaller groups for GEO content optimisation, citation tracking, brand reputation, AI search analytics, free utilities, and a set of established SEO suites that have bolted on AI-search tracking.
How Does GetMentionedByAI Work?
The editorial rule is three lines long and does all the work. Published price means the vendor’s own currency, billing period, and tier boundaries recorded as printed. Verified capability means yes, no, and not published stay three separate findings rather than collapsing into two. Sourced company facts means funding, founders, and ownership appear only when a source supports them.
In practice, that produces listings with gaps in them, and the gaps are the point. When a vendor does not publish pricing, the field is blank rather than filled with an estimate, which tells you something real about that vendor.
A Verified badge means the editor read the vendor’s public site and recorded what it publishes. It is not a quality endorsement, and the site does not present it as one.
Key Features
- 210 catalogued tools. Eight categories covering monitoring, AEO platforms, GEO optimisation, citation tracking, reputation and SEO suites with AI features.
- No scores of any kind. There are no stars, grades or rankings, so nothing on the page is a disguised advertisement.
- Four free checkers, no signup. An llms.txt checker, an AI crawler checker against robots.txt, an AI crawl checklist and a JSON-LD schema checker.
- Engine coverage labels. Listings note which assistants a tool monitors, across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Grok, Copilot, Meta AI, DeepSeek and Mistral.
- Capability tags. Short markers such as Citations, Writes, Traffic, Agency and SEO add-on let you filter by what a tool actually does.
- Full machine-readable stack. An OpenAPI 3.1 spec, a JSON catalogue endpoint, an MCP server with four read-only tools, markdown twins of every page and llms.txt discovery files.
- Labelled monetisation. Submissions are free, sponsor placements are marked as sponsored, and affiliate links are noindexed.
Performance and Experience
As a research surface, this works well. The categories map to how buyers actually think, the capability tags let you eliminate most of the list quickly, and nothing is hidden behind an email form. If your job this week is to shortlist five AEO platforms to demo, this shortens that from a day to about an hour.
The free checkers deserve their own mention. Testing whether GPTBot and Claude’s crawler can reach your site, whether you publish an llms.txt, and which schema types a page actually ships are the four checks that matter before you spend money on any AEO platform. All four run server-side against a live URL with no account. Several paid tools charge for the same information.
The developer surface is genuinely unusual for a directory. An MCP server means an assistant can query the catalogue directly rather than scraping pages, and the errors return structured problem responses rather than HTML. This is a site built to be read by machines as well as people, which is fitting given the subject.
Two things are worth noticing while browsing. Category counts differ between the homepage sections and the footer index, with AI Visibility Monitoring appearing as both 95 and 87. And the depth of each listing varies, since a vendor who publishes little produces a thin entry by design.
Integrations and Compatibility
For a directory, the machine access here is close to best in class. The catalogue is available as JSON at a public endpoint, described by an OpenAPI 3.1 contract, with no API key, OAuth flow, or write access to worry about.
The MCP server exposes four read-only tools covering tool search, single listings, category lists and blog posts, and connects to Cursor or Claude over Streamable HTTP without authentication. Any page can also be requested as markdown by appending a suffix or sending the right accept header.
What it does not do is equally clear from the documentation. There is no live rank tracking, no model API responses, no generated review scores, and no write access. That scoping is deliberate and correctly stated rather than left for you to discover.
Is GetMentionedByAI Worth Using?
Yes, and the reason is the thing it refuses to do. Every competing directory in this space converts vendor marketing into a number, sorts by that number, and quietly takes money to influence it. Publishing a counter that reads zero invented scores, and keeping not published as a distinct finding from no, is a harder editorial standard than most paid research firms hold themselves to. The free crawl checkers are a real contribution on top.
The weaknesses are structural rather than editorial. This is one person with a personal email address maintaining 210 listings in a market that adds tools weekly, so freshness will always be the pressure point. Category counts already disagree between sections of the same page. And the footer notice that the whole thing is for sale is the single most important line on the site for anyone deciding how much to depend on it.
Our position: use it today as a research shortcut and run the free checkers on your own site. Do not make it a permanent fixture in a documented process until the ownership question resolves.
