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Ahrefs Brand Radar review: what it costs and who it is for

Brand Radar is the AI visibility module inside Ahrefs, and the interesting part is not the dashboard. It is the corpus. Ahrefs advertises 476 million-plus organic prompts, which turns "what should we track" from a guess into a lookup.

Pricing is layered and the layers add up. An Ahrefs base plan starts around $129/mo. Brand Radar is then roughly $199/mo per AI index or about $699/mo for all six. Custom prompt tracking is another add-on. On the UK page we read on 6 August 2026 the two tiers showed as £318 and £560 a month.

Ahrefs Brand Radar pricing

Plan	Price	What it includes
Select platforms	£318/mo (about $199/mo per individual index)	AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini, plus YouTube, TikTok and Reddit in beta
All platforms	£560/mo (about $699/mo)	476M+ organic prompts across all platforms, plus 2,500 monthly custom prompt checks
Custom prompt add-ons	About $50/mo for 2,500 checks, $100/mo for 7,000	On top of the index pricing

Read on 6 August 2026. Vendors in this category reprice often — check Ahrefs Brand Radar’s own pricing page before you buy.

What Ahrefs Brand Radar is

SEO suite AI module

Pricing:: About $199/mo per AI index, about $699/mo for all six
Best for:: Ahrefs customers who want scale in the prompt corpus

Ahrefs' AI visibility module, sold per AI index on top of an Ahrefs plan, with a very large corpus of organic prompts behind it.

Pros

The organic prompt corpus is enormous — Ahrefs advertises 476M+ prompts — so you see demand you did not think to track
Covers six AI platforms plus YouTube, TikTok and Reddit as sources
Sits inside Ahrefs, next to backlink and rank data

Cons

Priced per AI index: about $199/mo for one, about $699/mo for all six
Custom prompt tracking is an add-on — 2,500 checks for about $50/mo, 7,000 for about $100/mo
Independent reviews put a realistic full setup between $828 and $1,148/mo

Verdict

The best data in the category, at the highest total cost

If you are a brand where a single point of AI share of voice is worth five figures, Brand Radar is defensible and the prompt corpus is a real advantage over every dedicated tracker on this list.

Below that, the stacking gets uncomfortable. Base plan, plus index, plus custom prompt checks, and you are past $800/mo before anyone has decided what to publish. Most teams shopping for a Brand Radar alternative are not unhappy with the product; they are unhappy with the total.

Buy Ahrefs Brand Radar if

You already run Ahrefs and the reporting lives there
The organic prompt corpus is the specific thing you want
Four figures a month is inside your budget for this

Look elsewhere if

You need more than one AI index and cannot spend $699/mo
Custom prompt tracking is your main use case, since it is an add-on here
You are one product with one category to cover

CueScout vs Ahrefs Brand Radar

	CueScout	Ahrefs Brand Radar
The question it answers	"Which conversations is AI actually citing about my category, and how do I get into them?"	What is the whole category asking, and where does my brand sit across six AI platforms.
Citation sources	Collects the URLs AI answers cite for your category, ranks the domains behind them, and flags which cited pages rank nowhere in Google.	Brand and source visibility across AI platforms plus YouTube, TikTok and Reddit.
Where demand comes from	Mines Reddit, Hacker News and Quora for repeating buyer questions, scored for intent with a plain-language reason on every match.	A corpus of 476M+ organic prompts you can query.
From report to plan	A dated 30-day writing plan with the source thread attached to each item, then a re-check on every page you publish.	Reporting inside Ahrefs; the publishing decision is yours.
Entry price	$49/mo (Basic, one product), with $99 Growth and $249 Agency above it	About $199/mo per index, about $699/mo for all six, on top of an Ahrefs plan.

Competitor details read on 6 August 2026 and change often. Verify current features, pricing, and source coverage with Ahrefs Brand Radar directly.

Where CueScout is the wrong choice

Fewer engines checked than the dedicated trackers — we would rather name a short list we have validated than a long one we have not.
No SSO, no SAML, no procurement paperwork. If your security review needs those, buy one of the enterprise platforms.
No white-label client reporting suite. Agencies can run multiple products, but the deliverable is our interface, not yours.

Demand comes from the public corpus

The questions CueScout mines are the ones buyers ask in public, in their own words, in the same communities the engines read. There is no sales-call recording to upload, no CRM export, no prompt list to maintain. Describe the product and the scan builds its own queries.

It starts where the answers start

Prompt trackers measure the output: how often your name appears when a set of questions gets asked. CueScout also records the input, which is the specific threads and pages the engines cite for your category. That list is the part you can act on, because every cited conversation is somewhere a better source could exist, and CueScout shows you which questions that source has to answer.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Ahrefs Brand Radar cost?

About $199/mo per AI index, about $699/mo for all six at entry. Select platforms: £318/mo (about $199/mo per individual index). All platforms: £560/mo (about $699/mo). Custom prompt add-ons: About $50/mo for 2,500 checks, $100/mo for 7,000. Read on 6 August 2026. Ahrefs' own page rendered in GBP for us — £318/mo for select platforms and £560/mo for all platforms. The dollar figures come from Peec's published comparison..

Which AI engines does Ahrefs Brand Radar track?

AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini and Grok, plus YouTube, TikTok and Reddit sources. Engine counts are the most-inflated number in this category, so check what the tier you are actually buying includes rather than what the homepage advertises.

Is Ahrefs Brand Radar worth it?

The best data in the category, at the highest total cost. Buy it if you already run Ahrefs and the reporting lives there. Skip it if you need more than one AI index and cannot spend $699/mo.

What are the best Ahrefs Brand Radar alternatives?

The nearest on price are Semrush AI Toolkit, AthenaHQ, Scrunch AI. We compare all of them, and CueScout, on the Ahrefs Brand Radar alternatives page.

Is this review independent?

No, and it would be dishonest to imply otherwise: CueScout competes with Ahrefs Brand Radar. Everything factual here comes from ahrefs.com/brand-radar or a named third-party source and was checked on 6 August 2026. Where Ahrefs Brand Radar is the better buy, this page says so.

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Alternatives

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Index

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How CueScout does the parts above

Citation Sources

Every URL the engines cited in your category, classified, checked for whether you appear in it, and sorted by what you can actually win.

4.43%

Domain leaderboard

Citation share per host, so you can see the five domains producing half your category's answers instead of scrolling forty URLs.

58 of 96

Rank overlap

Per cited page, the Google position for the question it was cited for — and a count of the ones that have no position at all.

All fifteen features

See it on your own product

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