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Surfaced vs. ThriveStack CitedBy (AI Visibility)

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricSurfaced

by Surfaced

ThriveStack CitedBy (AI Visibility)

by ThriveStack

Overall rating4.84.6
Review count1240
Ease of use8.99.3
Ease of setup8.89.5
Quality of support9.99.3
Meets requirements9.79.4
NPS91.66666786.842105
Small Business100.0%30.0%
Mid-Market0.0%22.5%
Enterprise0.0%47.5%
Total page views25804
Total LLM citations670

Surfaced

Surfaced is an AI search visibility platform for generative engine optimization (GEO), also called answer engine optimization (AEO). It tracks how a brand shows up in AI-generated answers across 12 engines (ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Google Search, Google News, Claude, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok, Mistral AI and Microsoft Copilot), shows which content gaps explain the result, and generates the content that closes them. Every paid plan comes with a dedicated AI visibility expert, so the software comes with a person attached.

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    ThriveStack CitedBy (AI Visibility)

    ThriveStack CitedBy is an An AI-visibility platform that measures, fixes, and attributes citations across every major AI engine, turning AI answers into a measurable revenue channel. **Key Capabilities: ** 1. Buyer-prompt probing across 6 engines 2. Citation gaps Vs Names Competitors 3. Daily Visibility score 4. Al crawlability & robots.txt checks 5. Schema & Ilms.txt deployment plans 6. Client-side ghosting detection 7. Agent-drafted pages per losing prompt 8. Optimization of existing pages 9. Citation-readiness scoring 10. Share of AI answers over time 11.

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