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ThriveStack CitedBy (AI Visibility) vs. Surfer

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

MetricThriveStack CitedBy (AI Visibility)

by ThriveStack

Surfer

by Surfer

Overall rating4.64.8
Review count40546
Ease of use9.39.4
Ease of setup9.59.5
Quality of support9.39.5
Meets requirements9.49.4
NPS86.84210586.866792
Small Business30.0%92.9%
Mid-Market22.5%6.3%
Enterprise47.5%0.8%
Total page views8041,526
Total LLM citations7016,624

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.

Pros

    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.

    Pros

    • Content Creation
    • SEO Optimization
    • Ease of Use
    • SEO Improvement
    • Time Saving
    • User-Friendly