Temso AI vs. Ahrefs.

The AEO platform, or the SEO suite with an AI add-on?

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Laura Kowalski
Laura Kowalski•August 14, 2026•8 min read
Temso AI
Temso AI Visibility dashboard showing visibility and source presence over time, brand rankings by share of voice, and a per-model breakdown across Google AI Overview, ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity
Ahrefs Brand Radar
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Temso AI

Entry price for AI search

$89/month

Full AI search coverage

$199/month, every engine included

Projects & seats

Unlimited, in every plan

Ahrefs

Entry price for AI search

$328/month (Lite + one AI platform)

Full AI search coverage

From $828/month (Lite + Brand Radar all platforms)

Projects & seats

1 seat per plan; extra seats $40-$80/month

Ahrefs is a solid SEO platform with a great backlink index, and plenty of teams have run their search programs on it for years. Temso is the equivalent for AI search: one platform for how brands get found, understood, and chosen inside AI answers.

Below we compare what each platform measures, what it actually costs once you add the AI pieces, and how each one behaves when you're running AI search for more than one brand.

How they're built.

Temso AI

Temso is a full AEO suite: AI search analytics, website audits, content marketing, off-page authority, and integrations, driven by the industry's most powerful AI agent. It covers the whole workflow, from diagnosing how AI answers describe a brand today through to implementing the work that changes it.

  • Turns a prospect's domain into an audit and a client-ready proposal in minutes
  • Best-in-class AI search analytics, built as the entire product
  • Measures visibility and perception: how often you appear, and how you are described
  • Unlimited projects and seats in every plan
  • Every AI engine is included in the plan price, with no add-ons to buy
  • The agent builds the plan, drafts the content, and executes it inside the guardrails you set
Ahrefs Brand Radar

Brand Radar is Ahrefs' AI visibility module, sold on top of an SEO plan. It tracks how often your brand appears across AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok, benchmarks you against competitors, and shows which sources the answers cited.

  • Great backlink index and crawler behind the data
  • Prompts are assumed for you, inferred from their own database, unless you pay extra to track your own
  • Reports visibility: mentions, share of voice, cited sources
  • Priced as an add-on: full platform coverage is $699/month on top of a plan
  • Built for SEO teams inside an existing Ahrefs workflow

What full coverage actually costs.

Row labelTemso AIAhrefs
Cheapest way to track AI search at all$89/month (Starter, 3 engines)$328/month ($129 Lite + $199 for one AI platform)
All AI engines$199/month (Growth), included$699/month add-on, on top of any plan
Cheapest route to full AI coverage$199/month$828/month ($129 Lite + $699)
AI tracking without an SEO planAI search is the productBrand Radar is an add-on to a paid plan
Tracking your own promptsIncluded: 50 to 350 prompts by plan2,500 checks with the $699 bundle, about 27 prompts daily across 3 engines; $50/month otherwise
Extra seatsFree, unlimited on every plan$40-$80/month each, capped per tier
Client reportingIncluded; white-label on ProfessionalReport Builder add-on from $99/month

The gap comes down to arithmetic. Ahrefs prices AI as an addition to an SEO subscription, so the SEO platform you may never open sets the floor you pay from. Temso prices AI search as the product, because it is the product.

Most agencies reading this already pay for Ahrefs and intend to keep it. In that case the comparison narrows to which add-on goes on top of the plan you already have: $699/month for Brand Radar's six AI platforms, or $199/month for Temso with every engine included. Same base bill, $500/month apart.

Visibility is half the picture.

Row labelTemso AIAhrefs Brand Radar
Do you appear?mentions, citations, share of voicementions, citations, share of voice
How are you described?perception and attribute analysis: the qualities AI assigns you vs. competitorsNot part of Brand Radar's documented metrics; the product is framed around how often you show up
Is the answer accurate?accuracy tracking flags what AI gets wrong about you
Whose prompts get trackedyours, plus suggestions based on your site and goalsAssumed for you from their own prompt database; tracking your actual prompts costs extra
Engines covered7 included, Claude as an add-on6 with the all-platform add-on; one engine per $199/month otherwise
What to do nextprioritized recommendations, and an agent that executes themData and dashboards; the plan and the work are yours
Content executionagent briefs, drafts, and optimizes, publishes to your CMSContent Kit sold separately, from $89/month

Running AI search for many clients.

Row labelTemso AIAhrefs
ProjectsUnlimited on every planCapped per tier
Seats for your teamUnlimited, free1 included; $40-$80/month per extra seat
Onboarding a new clientconnect a domain and the first visibility data lands in minutesSet up a project, then wait on crawl and index cycles
Per-client reportingautomated reports per projectReport Builder add-on from $99/month
White-labelon ProfessionalBranded PDFs only; no client portal or custom domain
Winning the clientagent turns a prospect's domain into an audit and a proposalnot what the platform is for
Cost of adding a client$0 until you outgrow your plan's limitsProject caps and seat fees compound per client
Fede Navarro testimonial
“Temso's support is exceptionally responsive, and their pace of shipping new features is unmatched in the AI visibility space. That frees our team to focus on strategic thinking, while the platform takes care of the measurement and keeps evolving with new capabilities all the time.”

Fede Navarro

Co-Founder & Commercial Director, Vivi Smart Growth

The verdict.

Temso AI

  • Full engine coverage at $199/month, no add-on math
  • Perception and accuracy alongside whether you appeared
  • Unlimited projects and seats, built for multi-client work
  • One product, shipping against a category that changes monthly

Ahrefs

  • A great backlink index and crawler
  • Deep keyword, site audit, and technical SEO tooling
  • Brand Radar is a fair incremental buy if you already pay for Ahrefs
  • Expect add-on pricing, seat fees, and no execution layer

Ahrefs is an SEO platform that added AI visibility. Temso is an AI search platform. Many teams run both, and the honest question is which one you are buying AI search from.

FAQ

Temso vs. Ahrefsquestions, answered.

More than the $129/month headline suggests, because Brand Radar's AI tracking is an add-on rather than part of a plan. The cheapest way in is around $328/month: a $129 Lite plan plus $199 for a single AI platform index. All six platforms costs $699/month on top of the plan, so $828/month at the low end, and that bundle does include 2,500 custom prompt checks. On the single-index route, tracking your own prompts starts at another $50/month. Temso covers three engines at $89/month and every engine at $199/month, prompts included.

No, and most teams don't. Keep Ahrefs for backlinks, keyword research and technical SEO. The decision is only which AI add-on sits on top of it: Brand Radar at $699/month for the six AI platforms, or Temso at $199/month with every engine included, which leaves you roughly $500/month better off on the same base plan.

Temso covers 7 on every plan (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Grok, Microsoft Copilot), with Claude as an add-on. Ahrefs covers 6 through Brand Radar, but only with the $699/month all-platform bundle; otherwise you buy one platform at a time.

Brand Radar is built around visibility: how often you appear, against which competitors, and which sources the answer cited. Ahrefs frames the product around how often you show up rather than how you are characterized, and perception or attribute analysis is not among its documented metrics. Temso measures both, plus accuracy, so you can see when AI gets your brand wrong.

Yes. For classic keyword research, technical SEO, and backlink analysis, Ahrefs is a capable platform and Temso is not trying to replace it. Plenty of teams run Ahrefs for SEO and Temso for AI search.

Minutes. Connect the client's domain, confirm the brand and competitors, and Temso starts collecting AI answers straight away, with the first visibility read in the same sitting. There is no crawl budget to allocate and no index to wait on, so a new client can be onboarded during the call where you win them.

Temso. Projects and seats are unlimited on every plan, so adding a client or a colleague costs nothing, and each client gets their own reporting, white-labeled on Professional. Ahrefs includes one seat per plan, charges $40-$100/month for each extra one, caps projects by tier, and puts client reporting behind a separate Report Builder add-on.

AI search changes month to month: engines launch, answer formats shift, citation behavior moves. For Ahrefs, this is one module among dozens of SEO tools competing for roadmap. For Temso it is the entire company, so changes in how AI answers get built show up in the product quickly.

Still deciding? Talk to our team and we'll walk you through both options honestly.

About the Author

Laura Kowalski

Laura Kowalski

Laura is a content strategist at Temso AI, working at the intersection of content marketing, SEO, and AI search. She helps brands figure out how they show up in AI-generated answers, and what to actually do about it. Before Temso AI, she spent several years at digital marketing agencies in the UK.

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