Head to head
Peekaboo vs Searchable vs CueScout (2026)
These three tools compete for the same budget: two self-serve tools an agency can start on without a sales call. The comparison below is written by one of the three — CueScout — so read the CueScout column with that in mind.
Both let you sign up and start tracking the same day. Peekaboo prices by configuration and unlocks white-label reports once the monthly price reaches $100. Searchable sells fixed plans from $125, bundles an article writer and page audits, and puts white-label reports on its $400 Scale plan. For an agency, that white-label line is usually what decides it.
Peekaboo entry: $50/mo (1 brand, 40 prompts, 5 models, tracked every 2 days). Searchable entry: $125/mo (100 prompts run daily, 3 engines per prompt). Both read on 30 August 2026 (Peekaboo) and 16 September 2026 (Searchable) from each vendor's own page. CueScout: $59/mo as of September 17, 2026. The $49 option for the research step: which pages the engines cite for a client’s category, which of those rank nowhere in search, and what to publish first.
Peekaboo vs Searchable vs CueScout
| Peekaboo | Searchable | CueScout | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The question it answers | Where does this client brand stand across five AI surfaces, cheaply enough to bill for. | How visible is our brand across daily-tracked prompts, and what content and site fixes should we ship next. | "What discussions are AI engines citing in our category, and what should we write to become the cited authority?" |
| Citation sources | Tracks brand mentions, citations and recommendations across the tracked models. | Sorts every cited URL by source type and content type, with trends per domain. | Extracts cited source URLs from live answers, highlights unranked Google overlap, and clusters recurring forum discussions. |
| Where demand comes from | A prompt set per brand, 40 at the entry tiers. | Prompts generated from your domain at onboarding, plus a research view that proposes more. | Discovers commercial buyer questions from Reddit, Hacker News, and Quora with intent explanations. |
| From report to plan | Content opportunity insights and response gap detection. | Recommendations generated nightly, an article writer, and an agent you can hand audit issues to. | Builds evidence-backed To-dos with source links attached, verifying citations when pages go live. |
| Entry price | $50/mo entry configuration; price scales with brands, prompts, models and cadence; white label at $100/mo. | $125/mo Pro; Looker Studio, white label and API from $400/mo on Scale; 20% off annually. | $59/mo for one brand; $169/mo Growth for three |
| Engines covered | Five AI surfaces — ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode — all five available at the entry price. Claude and Copilot are enterprise-only | Nine listed and chosen at onboarding: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode. The answer counts on the pricing page work out to three engines per prompt on every tier | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode |
| Best for | Agencies reporting on client brands | Teams that want tracking, content and technical audits from one vendor | Agile teams comparing Peekaboo or Searchable who need to know what to publish this week to win citations |
Competitor details read on 30 August 2026 (Peekaboo) and 16 September 2026 (Searchable). This page is published by one of the three tools in it — verify both other columns with the vendors directly.
The case for each
Peekaboo
Peekaboo advantage: fifty dollars a month with all five AI surfaces tracked and a 14-day trial
Peekaboo limitation: the $50 configuration tracks every two days rather than daily, and raising cadence raises the price
Searchable
Searchable advantage: every prompt runs daily on every tier, including the $125 Pro plan
Searchable limitation: nine engines are listed, but 100 prompts run daily is exactly the 9,000 answers a month Pro quotes, which means three engines per prompt
CueScout
The $49 option for the research step: which pages the engines cite for a client’s category, which of those rank nowhere in search, and what to publish first.
No native Looker Studio connector or automated client PDF report templates.
Where CueScout is the wrong choice
- No native Looker Studio connector or automated client PDF report templates.
- No custom white-label client portal branding.
- Built for direct execution by marketing teams rather than outsourced reporting retainers.
Client deliverables that go beyond dashboards
Clients want to know what you are building to win citations, not just a monthly status report. CueScout gives agencies specific recommendations and source evidence for client deliverables.
A narrower tool for the part that decides what to write
A suite earns its price when every module gets used. CueScout spends its $49 on the stretch before the writing: which pages the engines cite for your category, which of those rank nowhere in search, and which public buyer questions sit behind them. There is no crawler analytics and no Looker Studio, and the price reflects that.
Frequently asked questions
Peekaboo vs Searchable: which suits an agency better?
For client reporting on a budget, Peekaboo: white-label reports unlock at $100/mo and Looker Studio is on every plan. For an agency that also wants to write the content and run page audits in the same tool, Searchable, with white-label reports from $400/mo on Scale.
Where does CueScout fit next to Peekaboo and Searchable?
Before either of them. CueScout is $49/mo and shows which pages the engines cite for your category and which buyer questions sit behind them, so you know what to publish. It has no white-label reports, so an agency that bills for branded reporting will still want one of the other two.
Between Peekaboo, Searchable, and CueScout, which has the lowest entry price?
Peekaboo ($50/mo (1 brand, 40 prompts, 5 models, tracked every 2 days)), followed by CueScout ($59/mo), followed by Searchable ($125/mo (100 prompts run daily, 3 engines per prompt)). Beyond the entry tier, consider required engine count and seat limits.
How do I decide between Peekaboo, Searchable, and CueScout?
Choose Peekaboo if agencies reporting on client brands. Choose Searchable if teams that want tracking, content and technical audits from one vendor. Choose CueScout if your primary goal is finding the exact community discussions AI models cite and turning them into To-dos.
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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 96Rank 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.
See it on your own product
Try the live demo with no signup, or run the free AI Visibility Checker to see whether AI engines already recommend you. The rest of the free tools check whether those engines can read your site in the first place.