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Checker

A free AI visibility check that stays on your site

Visibility in an answer engine is two problems. Can a crawler read you, and does a model choose to name you? This check answers the first one directly and gives you a way to record the second.

Most “AI visibility” products ask for a brand and return a live share of voice across several engines. That is a useful report when you can pay for it, and it is a poor thing to fake on a free page. Benchline takes the other route: fetch the pages a crawler would fetch, score the signals that make a brand citable, and hand you the prompts a buyer actually types.

The form asks for a brand, a website, and an optional category. The category is what makes the check horizontal. “Best email marketing tools 2026” and “what is Acme” are different jobs. A tool that only searches the brand name misses the queries where a new vendor gets recommended.

Run a free check

Brand, website, and an optional category. You get a shareable report with a citability score, a prompt pack, and a paste scorer.

Check a brand
Homepage, robots.txt, and llms.txt only. The report page is public.

We request the homepage, /robots.txt, and /llms.txt.

Fills prompts such as “best {category} tools 2026”.

Free. No account. 8 checks per hour and 30 per day from one network. Turnstile runs only when the site operator configures it.

What you can trust in the result

The checklist is literal. If GPTBot is disallowed, the row says so. If there is no /llms.txt, the row says so. If the H1 never uses the brand, the row says so. Unknown means the fetch failed. Unknown is not a polite way of saying you failed.

The paste box is the other half. Copy an answer you already have from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or Claude. The scorer looks for the brand as a whole word, notes whether it shows up early, and reads list items and “vs” phrases for other names. It does not upload the text.

What this page will not claim

  • That an API reply matches the consumer chat app.
  • That a citability score is a ranking.
  • That fixing robots.txt puts you first in an answer.
  • That we measured how often any engine mentions you.

If you want the definition behind the category, read what generative engine optimization is. If you want the point values, read the methodology.

Questions

Does this checker query ChatGPT for every brand?

No. The free path crawls your homepage, robots.txt, and llms.txt, then builds prompts you can run yourself. A live API call happens only if the operator has configured a key, and even then it is one cheap prompt with a daily cap, not a multi-engine share-of-voice study.

Is the 0–100 score my rank in AI answers?

No. It is the sum of on-site checks. A high score means the pages are easier to fetch and parse. It does not mean a model mentions you.

Why is the report page public?

So you can send one URL to a teammate or a client. Do not run the check on a host you do not want listed on a public page.

What should I do after the report?

Fix the highest-point gaps, run a few prompts from the pack in the products you care about, and paste those replies into the scorer. Treat disagreement between chats as normal.

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