Surfer vs. ThriveStack CitedBy (AI Visibility)
A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.
| Metric | Surfer | ThriveStack CitedBy (AI Visibility) |
|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 4.8 | 4.6 |
| Review count | 546 | 40 |
| Ease of use | 9.4 | 9.3 |
| Ease of setup | 9.5 | 9.5 |
| Quality of support | 9.5 | 9.3 |
| Meets requirements | 9.4 | 9.4 |
| NPS | 86.866792 | 86.842105 |
| Small Business | 92.9% | 30.0% |
| Mid-Market | 6.3% | 22.5% |
| Enterprise | 0.8% | 47.5% |
| Total page views | 1,526 | 804 |
| Total LLM citations | 16,624 | 70 |
Surfer
Positive Surfer is an AI Visibility Platform that helps marketing teams become the definitive answer wherever their buyers search — across Google and AI search. It combines data, research-backed optimization, and a user-friendly workflow to grow brand visibility through content where buying decisions start to form. Surfer is used by in-house marketing teams, content marketers, SEO specialists, and agencies around the world to track, plan, write, and optimize content that gets ranked and cited by both search engines and LLMs.
- Content Creation
- SEO Optimization
- Ease of Use
- SEO Improvement
- Time Saving
- User-Friendly
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.