SE Visible Review (2026): Pricing, Engines, Pros and Cons

SE Visible is the AI visibility product from SE Ranking, a rank tracker that has been around long enough to have an opinion about how tracking should work. That heritage shows. It is priced like a rank tracker, it refreshes like a rank tracker, and it reports like one — which is both the best and the most limiting thing about it. At $99/mo for 200 prompts across five engines it is one of the few tools in this category that gives you a serious prompt allowance without an enterprise conversation.

This review covers what SE Visible measures, what each plan costs (prices checked October 2026), how the standalone product differs from the add-on inside SE Ranking, and who should and should not buy it. Disclosure: we build a competing product, and the comparison section says so. Everything else comes from SE Ranking's published product, pricing and documentation pages and from public reviews — we have not run SE Visible on a paid plan.

TL;DR: SE Visible tracks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode on every plan, refreshes daily, and gives you 200 prompts and 3 projects for $99/mo with unlimited seats. The Sources view — which domains and URLs the engines actually cite, scored for coverage and gaps — is the best part of the product. Claude and Copilot are not tracked, the action layer is a dashboard and a CSV export, and the prompt allowance is shared across every brand you add. It is a strong monitor and not an answer to what you do next.

What SE Visible Is

SE Visible is sold two ways, and conflating them is the main source of confusion in comparisons of it:

• SE Visible, the standalone product — its own app on visible.seranking.com, bought without an SE Ranking subscription. This is what most people evaluating it mean.
• The AI Search add-on inside SE Ranking — from $89/mo on top of an SE Ranking plan, which bundles SE Visible alongside the suite's existing rank data. SE Ranking's own Core plan is $129/mo.

Both are built on the same collection method, and both track the same five engines: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode. Claude and Microsoft Copilot are listed as upcoming rather than live. Engine coverage does not vary by plan — you get all five on the cheapest tier, and the engines do not consume your prompt allowance separately.

SE Visible Pricing (Checked October 2026)

Every plan includes all five engines, unlimited user seats and daily refresh. There is no free tier; there is a 10-day trial with no credit card. SE Ranking's Core plan, for the add-on route, is $129/mo and carries its own 100-prompt allowance.

Three things about that table are worth saying out loud:

1. $99 for 200 prompts is about $0.50 per prompt per month, which is the cheapest serious allowance in the category. HubSpot AEO is $50 for 25 prompts — $2 each. Profound's Growth plan starts at $399. If the number of questions you want to watch is the thing standing between you and a tool, this is the one that solves it.
2. The allowance is shared across projects, not per project. 200 prompts across 3 brands is roughly 66 questions each, and an agency on Plus is at 100 per client. Read the prompt column and the project column together or the plan looks twice as generous as it is.
3. The Max tier is less consistently published than the others. It appears in roundups at $519 for 1,500 prompts but is not always on the vendor's own pricing page, and the Basic tier is sometimes shown at a promotional "from $79". Check the live page before you budget.

Standalone or the SE Ranking Add-On

This is the real decision for anyone who already pays SE Ranking, and the answer is not simply "the cheaper one".

The add-on puts AI results next to your existing rank data, which reviewers consistently name as its advantage: there is no second tool, no second login, and the AI numbers sit in the workflow you already run every Monday. If you are an SE Ranking customer, that is a genuine reason to take the $89 route even though the standalone Basic plan is only $10 more.

Against that, reviewers of the in-suite experience are notably harder on it than reviewers of the standalone app — the common complaint is that AI features are spread across several interfaces rather than gathered into one, with one reviewer scoring the user experience 2 out of 5 and others describing a steep learning curve. The standalone app is the newer, tighter surface. If you are not already on SE Ranking, there is no reason to buy the suite to reach it.

How SE Visible Works Day to Day

The app is four views: Dashboard, Prompts, Competitors and Sources.

You define prompts — the questions a buyer would actually ask — and group them by topic. SE Visible runs them daily and stores every answer in full, tagged with the engine, the market and the collection date. Each prompt then carries its own visibility, share of voice, average position, mention count and net sentiment, and opens up to show every individual answer: whether you were mentioned, where, how you were described, and whether your site was cited.

Two design decisions shape what the numbers mean:

Collection happens through a browser interface rather than an API. SE Ranking's position is that this captures what a person would actually see rather than what a model returns to a developer. That is a real fidelity argument. It also means what you are watching is a clean, logged-out, market-scoped answer — a reasonable proxy for your buyers, not a recording of them.

Citations do not count toward the visibility score. Being cited and being mentioned are tracked as separate things: the headline score measures mentions, and citations of your own pages live in the Sources view instead. Net sentiment is likewise scored on its own formula and does not feed the visibility number. This is more honest than rolling everything into one figure, and it does mean the headline number on the dashboard is not the whole answer to "how are we doing".

The Sources view is where the product is most interesting. It lists the domains and URLs the engines cite for your prompts, and scores each one for coverage and for the gap between where you appear and where you do not. That is the closest thing in the product to a to-do list.

What SE Visible Does Well

Five engines on every plan, including both Google surfaces. AI Overviews and AI Mode are reported separately, which more expensive tools still fail to do, and you do not pay more to see them.

The prompt allowance is the category's best value. 200 prompts at $99 removes the rationing that defines the cheap end of this market.

Daily refresh. AI answers move. A weekly snapshot tells you that something changed, not when or after what.

Unlimited seats on every tier. Nobody is priced out of looking at the dashboard, which quietly matters more than it sounds in agencies and in teams where the person who fixes the page is not the person who bought the tool.

Source and citation reporting with a gap score. Knowing which domains shape the answers about you is the input to every useful next step, and SE Visible reports it better than most tools at this price.

Honest score construction. Separating mentions, citations and sentiment instead of blending them into one number is a defensible choice and it is documented.

Setup needs no demo. Reviewers repeatedly note that you can sign up and be tracking the same day, which is not true of much of this category.

Where SE Visible Stops

No Claude, no Copilot, no Grok. Two of those are listed as coming soon, which is not coverage. If your buyers research in Claude, this tool cannot see it — and in B2B software categories that is not a rounding error.

It measures; it does not act. The standalone product is a dashboard plus CSV export. Reviewers are blunt about this: it will not surface the easiest opportunities, it does not generate content, and there is nothing agent-native in the standalone plan. You leave with a list of gaps and take them somewhere else.

The prompt allowance is shared across brands. Generous at one project, ordinary at three, thin at ten.

Reported refresh rates disagree. SE Ranking documents daily refresh and an independent October 2026 check confirmed it, but several earlier reviews describe the standalone product as weekly. If refresh frequency is why you are buying, confirm it in the trial rather than from a roundup.

"Traffic from AI" is an estimate. It is modelled, not measured, and should be read as a direction rather than a number.

The in-suite experience is fragmented. The add-on route scatters AI features across interfaces; this is the most consistent criticism in the public reviews.

No free tier, and a short trial. Ten days with no card is fair, but it is ten days to build a prompt set, let it collect, and form a view.

It reports on pages you do not own and stops there. This is the structural limit the whole category shares, and it is sharper here because the Sources view is good enough to show you exactly which third-party pages are shaping your answers — and then leaves getting onto them entirely to you. Ahrefs' study of 75,000 brands found branded web mentions correlate about three times more strongly with AI visibility than backlinks do, and a large share of the citations land on roundups and "best of" pages you cannot edit.

What Users Say

The praise is consistent and it is about friction: fast setup with no demo or onboarding call, a clean interface, unlimited users, and multi-brand management at a price agencies can actually pass on. The source analysis is the feature reviewers name most often as genuinely useful, along with a view that flags prompts where competitors appear and you do not.

The criticism is equally consistent and lands in two places. The first is coverage — the missing assistants, and disagreement about how often data actually refreshes. The second is that it stops at monitoring: reviewers who wanted the tool to tell them what to do next describe being handed a dashboard instead. Where people are unhappy, it is rarely with what SE Visible measures; it is with what happens after it has measured it.

SE Visible vs Sightivo

We make Sightivo, so weigh this section accordingly.

The honest summary: SE Visible watches far more questions across more engines than we do, and if your requirement is breadth of monitoring at a low price it is the better buy — we are not going to pretend 20 prompt checks competes with 200. What it does not do is the half that comes after the dashboard. We track fewer questions and then act on the answer: the roundup that ranks your competitors, the person who wrote it, the pitch. If you want to know where you stand across five engines, buy SE Visible. If you already know you are missing from the pages AI quotes, a better chart of that fact is not the thing you need.

SE Visible Alternatives

The short version: HubSpot AEO at $50/mo if you want the smallest possible paid commitment — see our HubSpot AEO review; Otterly AI at $29/mo for tracking without an ecosystem, in our Otterly AI review; Athena HQ for a free multi-engine tier, in our Athena HQ review; Scrunch AI for persona-modelled prompts and page audits, in our Scrunch AI review; Profound if you want research depth and have outgrown a monitor, in our Profound review; Sightivo if you want the gaps acted on off-site. The full comparison on price, coverage and action layer is in best AEO tools and LLM visibility tools, and the no-budget options are in free AI visibility tools.

When SE Visible Is the Right Choice

• You want to watch a lot of questions and the budget is $100, not $400. This is the clearest case for it, and nothing else in the category answers it as well.
• Both Google surfaces matter to you and you want AI Overviews and AI Mode reported separately.
• You are an agency or consultant with several brands and a team that all needs access — unlimited seats and multi-brand at $99 is a real advantage.
• You already pay for SE Ranking and want AI numbers next to your rank data: take the $89 add-on rather than a second subscription.
• You have your own content process and need the measurement layer, not advice.

When to Look Elsewhere

• Claude, Copilot or Grok matter in your category.
• You want the tool to tell you what to do next, or to do it — the standalone product ends at a dashboard and a CSV.
• You track one brand intensively rather than several broadly; a shared allowance is the wrong shape for you.
• You need attribution from AI visibility to traffic or pipeline rather than a modelled estimate.
• The action you need is a mention on a page you do not own.

Common Questions

How much does SE Visible cost?

SE Visible is $99/mo for 200 prompts and 3 projects on Basic, $189/mo for 450 prompts, $355/mo for 1,000, and $519/mo for 1,500 on the top tier. Basic is sometimes shown at $79/mo on annual billing. Every plan includes all five engines, unlimited user seats and daily refresh. Inside SE Ranking it is instead an AI Search add-on from $89/mo on top of a plan such as Core at $129/mo. Prices checked October 2026.

What engines does SE Visible track?

Five, on every plan: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode. Claude and Microsoft Copilot are listed as upcoming rather than live, and Grok, Meta AI and DeepSeek are not covered. Reporting AI Overviews and AI Mode separately is unusual at this price and genuinely useful, since they behave differently.

Does SE Visible have a free version?

No free tier. There is a 10-day trial that does not require a credit card. If you want something permanently free to start with, Athena HQ has a free multi-engine tier and there are more options in free AI visibility tools.

Is SE Visible the same as SE Ranking's AI Visibility Tracker?

Effectively yes, sold twice. SE Visible is the standalone app on its own subdomain; the AI Search add-on inside SE Ranking bundles the same tracking alongside the suite's rank data from $89/mo. The standalone app is the tighter surface; the add-on's advantage is that AI results sit next to the rank data you already check.

How often does SE Visible update?

SE Ranking documents a daily refresh, and an independent October 2026 check confirmed it. Several earlier third-party reviews describe the standalone product as refreshing weekly, so the public record disagrees with itself. If refresh frequency is central to your decision, verify it during the trial.

Is 200 prompts enough?

For one brand, comfortably — 200 questions is a thorough map of a category, and it is roughly eight times what the cheap end of the market gives you. The thing to watch is that the allowance is shared across projects, so three brands on Basic is about 66 prompts each. Count your brands before you count your questions.

What does SE Visible not do?

It does not track Claude, Copilot or Grok; it does not generate content or draft fixes; it does not connect visibility to traffic or pipeline with measured data; and it does not help you get onto the third-party pages its own Sources view shows you are missing from. The standalone plan's output is a dashboard and a CSV export.

SE Visible vs Profound: which is better?

Different products at different prices. Profound is a research platform with deeper citation analysis and prompt-volume data, starting at $399/mo. SE Visible is a monitor with an unusually large prompt allowance at $99/mo. If you want to understand the category you are competing in, Profound; if you want to watch a lot of questions across five engines cheaply, SE Visible. See our Profound review.

Key Takeaways

• SE Visible gives you 200 prompts across five engines for $99/mo with unlimited seats and daily refresh — the best raw monitoring value in the category.
• All five engines are on every plan, and Google AI Overviews and AI Mode are reported separately, which tools twice the price still do not do.
• The prompt allowance is shared across projects, so read the two columns together before deciding the plan is generous.
• Claude and Copilot are not tracked, and "coming soon" is not coverage.
• The Sources view, with its coverage and gap scoring, is the strongest part of the product — and it stops at telling you.
• Inside SE Ranking it is an $89/mo add-on; take that route if you are already a customer, and the standalone app if you are not.

If you would rather your AI visibility tool handed you the next page to write and the next person to email, see how Sightivo works — or check what ChatGPT says about your brand for free first.