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Surfaced AI vs the alternatives
An honest comparison of what each tool does, where each one wins, and when to pick which.
Surfaced AI is for founders who want to understand why AI engines recommend competitors instead of them, and get the exact assets to fix it. It is not a Google SEO suite, and it is not only an AI mention monitor. Here is how we score and how that compares to the alternatives founders usually consider.
If you need Google keyword rankings or an enterprise dashboard for a marketing team, buy Semrush or Profound. This is not that.
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Compare · How Surfaced fits # Surfaced AI vs *the alternatives* An honest comparison of what each tool does, where each one wins, and when to pick which. Surfaced AI is for founders who want to understand why AI engines recommend competitors instead of them, and get the exact assets to fix it. It is not a Google SEO suite, and it is not only an AI mention monitor. Here is [how we score](https://surfaced.so/methodology) and how that compares to the alternatives founders usually consider. If you need Google keyword rankings or an enterprise dashboard for a marketing team, buy Semrush or Profound. This is not that. [Run Free Audit](https://surfaced.so/audit)[See a sample audit](https://surfaced.so/sample-audit) Built for AI answers Assistant recommendations, not Google rankings. Fixes, not just findings Six paste-ready assets generated from your own copy. Single-seat by design One founder, unlimited sites, no onboarding call. Explainable score 32 binary checks you can reproduce by hand. Head to head [Surfaced AI vs ProfoundEnterprise AI-visibility analytics vs. a founder-grade audit that hands you the fixes.](https://surfaced.so/compare/surfaced-vs-profound) [Surfaced AI vs OtterlyAI search monitoring vs. structural diagnosis with generated fixes.](https://surfaced.so/compare/surfaced-vs-otterly) [Surfaced AI vs Peec AITeam-oriented AI analytics vs. a single-seat audit built around fixes.](https://surfaced.so/compare/surfaced-vs-peec) [Surfaced AI vs SemrushA full SEO suite vs. a focused answer-engine audit.](https://surfaced.so/compare/surfaced-vs-semrush) [Surfaced AI vs AhrefsBacklink and ranking authority vs. answer-engine legibility.](https://surfaced.so/compare/surfaced-vs-ahrefs)
An agent gets this page whole: its own text is in the HTML the server sends.
The figures
100 pages, set against the 168,101 sites with figures and 649 in software. Change is since the read on October 24, 2026.
- Readablehigher is better
- 100%100 of 100 pages
- Same as the read before
- All 168,101 sitesBetter than 47%649 software sitesBetter than 47%
Pages whose own text is in the HTML the server sends, enough of it for their kind.
- Cleanhigher is better
- 65%middle page
- Same as the read before
- All 168,101 sitesBetter than 42%649 software sitesBetter than 31%
Of the words before script, the share that are the page and not menus, footer and forms. 2 pages are not measured, with no <main> or no words.
- Costshown, never scored
- 53,710tokens
- About 537 a page
To read every page once. A long page that answers well is not worse for it. Tokens are estimated at about 4 characters each.
Readable and Clean over 4 reads
Readable from 100% to 100% and Clean from 65% to 65%, between October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026.
How its pages spread on Clean
98 pages measured. Not measured: 2 with no <main> or no words.
Against its rivals
The sites nearest it by what they do, with figures. Close means similar work, not better.
| Readinghigher is better | Costnot scored | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Site | Readable | Clean | Tokens a page |
| surfaced.soThis site, 100 pages | 100% | 65% | 537 |
| logicballs.com100 pages | 100% | 92% | 4,616 |
| rankdots.com100 pages | 100% | 99% | 5,814 |
First of 3 on Readable, third on Clean.
AI crawler access
What robots.txt says to each, as read on October 24, 2026. 8 of 8 may read the site.
| Crawler | robots.txt says | Used for | The line that decides |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPTBotOpenAI | Allowed | Training models | User-agent: GPTBot / Allow: / |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI | Allowed | ChatGPT search | User-agent: OAI-SearchBot / Allow: / |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI | Not named | A page a person asks about | Falls to User-agent: * |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic | Allowed | Training models | User-agent: ClaudeBot / Allow: / |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic | Not named | Claude’s search | Falls to User-agent: * |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | Allowed | Perplexity search | User-agent: PerplexityBot / Allow: / |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle | Allowed | Training Gemini | User-agent: Google-Extended / Allow: / |
| bingbotMicrosoft | Not named | Bing and Copilot | Falls to User-agent: * |
Every AI crawler mttr checks may read it. Not named means the rules for every crawler apply.
Every page
Worst first. Each opens in Agent View at the top.
2 pages of 100 lose something. Pick a loss to see what to do about it.Open the action plan
| What an agent getshigher is better | Signals | Costnot scored | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Page | Words | Clean | Readable | Main heading | Tokens | What it loses |
| /forgot-password | 70 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 159 | No <main> |
| /reset-password | 60 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 148 | No <main> |
| /audit | 26 | 25% | Yes | Yes | 38 | Nothing |
| /tools | 112 | 45% | Yes | Yes | 228 | Nothing |
| /tools/llms-txt-generator | 184 | 60% | Yes | Yes | 302 | Nothing |
| /ai-visibility-for-builder-tools | 209 | 60% | Yes | Yes | 379 | Nothing |
| /blog/llms-txt-guide | 197 | 60% | Yes | Yes | 336 | Nothing |
| /help/how-often-to-audit | 207 | 61% | Yes | Yes | 392 | Nothing |
| /help/pages-that-earn-citations | 213 | 61% | Yes | Yes | 424 | Nothing |
| /blog/faq-schema-for-founders | 204 | 61% | Yes | Yes | 349 | Nothing |
| /help/build-entity-profile | 214 | 61% | Yes | Yes | 401 | Nothing |
| /help/site-speed-ai-visibility | 214 | 61% | Yes | Yes | 428 | Nothing |
| /help/llms-txt-vs-robots-txt | 218 | 62% | Yes | Yes | 380 | Nothing |
| /help/what-makes-content-citable | 221 | 62% | Yes | Yes | 438 | Nothing |
| /compare/surfaced-vs-ahrefs | 219 | 62% | Yes | Yes | 449 | Nothing |
| /help/how-the-score-is-calculated | 216 | 63% | Yes | Yes | 411 | Nothing |
| /help/backlinks-for-ai-visibility | 223 | 63% | Yes | Yes | 430 | Nothing |
| /help/why-my-score-changed | 226 | 63% | Yes | Yes | 425 | Nothing |
| /ai-visibility-for-agencies | 226 | 63% | Yes | Yes | 392 | Nothing |
| /help/ai-confuses-my-brand | 236 | 63% | Yes | Yes | 407 | Nothing |
| /compare/surfaced-vs-peec | 229 | 63% | Yes | Yes | 451 | Nothing |
| /compare | 217 | 63% | Yes | Yes | 432 | Nothing |
| /help/wikipedia-and-wikidata | 229 | 63% | Yes | Yes | 404 | Nothing |
| /help/how-ai-crawlers-discover-sites | 232 | 63% | Yes | Yes | 450 | Nothing |
| /help/do-i-need-llms-txt | 230 | 63% | Yes | Yes | 389 | Nothing |
Show where it stands
A card, a badge and a line, each with the figures.
A badge for the site
<a href="https://mttr.si/agent-view/surfaced.so"><img src="https://mttr.si/agent-view/surfaced.so/badge.svg" alt="Agent View: 100% readable, 65% clean" height="20"></a>
The figures in one line
surfaced.so in Agent View: 100% of pages readable, better than 47% of software sites; 65% clean; 53,710 tokens to read all 100 pages. mttr.si/agent-view/surfaced.so
What to do next
Fix the pages, let an agent do it, and read the site again to see the figures move.
Fix what agents miss
- Wrap 2 pages in <main>Clean measured
Connect your agent
Claude Code, Codex or Cursor reads the site’s fixes over MCP, fixes a page in your code, has mttr read it again, and checks the fix landed.
https://mttr.si/mcpSet up an agent
Claim the site
Prove it is yours with a DNS record or a file. Your agent can then reach its reads and jobs, and set each change to wait for your approval.
Claim the siteDrawn from the HTML mttr fetched on its read of October 24, 2026, not a screenshot, and only from the 100 pages read, where the read stopped at its page limit. An assistant’s own reader may differ. Tokens are estimated at about 4 characters each. A site an agent reads well is not a site an assistant cites.