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Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit vs Wellows: for teams that need AI to cite them, not just name them.

Semrush's AI Visibility Toolkit is a $99-a-month toolkit that reports AI mentions next to your SEO data, with 25 tracked prompts and one project. Wellows is built only for AI search: five engines on every plan, citations counted by URL, and the content and outreach work that closes each gap, from $29 a month.

Four plans from $29 to $497 a month, each with all five AI engines, unlimited projects and unlimited seats. 7-day free trial, card required.

Head-to-head

The Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit and Wellows, row by row

Engines, limits, metrics, follow-up and reporting compared at the standalone toolkit level.

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Wellows Top pick

Coverage and plans

AI engines
All five on every plan: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode
Prompts for about $100
43 prompts on all five engines daily ($97 Standard)
Projects
Unlimited on every plan
Team seats
Unlimited, never metered
Tracking
Daily or weekly, by project

Measurement

Visibility score
Your share of citations against your competitors
Share of voice
For each engine and rival
Sentiment
Rated for each cited page
Explicit citations
Logged by prompt, engine and URL
Implicit citations
Reported as its own metric
Prompt research
Suggested prompts from your category, rivals and Search Console
Daily brief
A Quick Wins card each morning

Acting on the data

Next steps
Quick Wins ranked by impact against effort
Content opportunities
Missing pages, ranked
Content writing
KIVA drafts pages from your Search Console data
Page optimization
Section-level fixes (beta)
Outreach
Cited pages featuring competitors
Contacts and pitch
Verified contacts plus ready-to-send templates
Outreach tracking
Status tracked per opportunity

Reporting

Client reporting
White-label dashboards on every plan
Performance history
Any two dates, compared
Exports
CSV from every module

Trial

Free trial
7 days, card required

Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit

Coverage and plans

AI engines
ChatGPT Search, Google AI Mode and Gemini in Prompt Tracking
Prompts for about $100
25 tracked prompts ($99)
Projects
1 project
Team seats
$99 license for each extra user
Tracking
Prompts daily; Brand Performance weekly

Measurement

Visibility score
Based on brand mentions against competitor medians
Share of voice
In Brand Performance
Sentiment
Brand sentiment, updated weekly
Explicit citations
Sources report includes your cited pages
Implicit citations
Not split out
Prompt research
Volume, difficulty and intent
Daily brief
No daily brief is listed

Acting on the data

Next steps
AI recommendations in Brand Performance
Content opportunities
Prompts where rivals are cited and you aren't
Content writing
Separate Content Toolkit, $60 a month
Page optimization
Not listed in the toolkit
Outreach
"Get mentions" tips per cited page
Contacts and pitch
Not listed
Outreach tracking
Not listed

Reporting

Client reporting
White-label through My Reports Pro reports, $20 each
Performance history
Day-by-day trends in Prompt Tracking
Exports
CSV, Excel and Sheets; 10 exports a day on the toolkit

Trial

Free trial
None for the standalone toolkit

Semrush is a trademark of its owner. Semrush details come from Semrush's Knowledge Base pages for the AI Visibility Toolkit, Prompt Tracking, Content Toolkit and My Reports, and its pricing page. Products and terms change over time, so check each vendor's site before signing up.

Beyond Mentions

A mention says the model knows your name. A citation says it used a page as a source and pointed the reader there. Semrush's toolkit scores the first; Wellows scores the second, and helps you earn more of it.

In short

  • Citations carry the traffic. Semrush bases its AI Visibility Score on how often you're mentioned. Wellows scores your share of citations, then splits them: explicit, when your own URL is the source, and implicit, when a page the engine used names you.
  • Shadow reputation, traced to the page. AI repeats what other sites say about you. Wellows rates the tone of every cited page, so a negative description leads back to a URL you can act on. Semrush reports brand sentiment weekly, at the brand level.
  • Room to track the whole category. Five engines, unlimited projects and unlimited seats on every Wellows plan, against three engines in Prompt Tracking, one project and a $99 license per extra user on the Semrush toolkit.
  • The fix sits in the same tool. Outreach with verified contacts, KIVA drafts and page optimization are part of Wellows. Semrush sells content writing as a separate $60-a-month toolkit.

5

AI engines on every Wellows plan

43 vs 25

prompts tracked daily for about $100 a month

∞

projects and seats, any Wellows plan

2

citation types, each counted on its own

Why teams move

Why teams outgrow the Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit and add Wellows

The Semrush toolkit is a reasonable first look at AI search for teams already in Semrush. Teams move to Wellows when they need more prompts, more engines and a way to act on what they find.

A mention score hides where the clicks go

An engine can name you and still link to a rival's page. Wellows counts the answers that use your page as a source, so you see whether AI is sending buyers to you or past you.

Twenty-five prompts covers a corner of the category

Buyers phrase the same need dozens of ways, across several engines. For a similar monthly price, Wellows tracks 43 prompts on all five engines every day, with no extra charge for more projects or teammates.

A recommendation is not a plan of work

Semrush's toolkit suggests how to position your brand. Wellows turns each gap into a job: a page to draft with KIVA, an existing page to fix, or a cited site to pitch through a verified contact, ranked by likely impact.

Citation types

Two ways AI cites you, and how Wellows grows each one

Every AI answer is assembled from pages the engine retrieves. Some are yours. Some are other people's pages that mention you. Wellows tracks the two separately because you win them in different ways.

Explicit

The engine uses a page from your site

Your URL appears as a source under the answer. Because you control the page, you can improve it until engines rely on it more often.

Grown by content: Content Opportunities, KIVA keyword research, AI drafts and page optimization.

Implicit

The engine uses a page that mentions you

The source is a review, roundup, forum thread or video on someone else's site, and your brand is in it. These pages shape most of your shadow reputation.

Grown by outreach: cited pages that name your rivals, verified contacts and ready-to-send templates.

Start your 7-day free trialSee both in a live sample report ↗Your trial shows your real split between the two.

Inside Wellows

The three screens Semrush users spend the most time on in Wellows

Where you stand today, and what moved overnight

A Quick Wins card arrives each morning with the page to write and the outreach to send. Below it sit your AI Visibility Score, your rank among the rivals you track and your citation totals.

  • Citation share against each rival, engine by engine
  • Explicit and implicit totals, with the change since the last run
  • Filters for engine, region and branded or unbranded prompts
Wellows overview with today's brief, rank #2, visibility score, explicit and implicit citations, and brands ranked by visibility

What you also get

What Wellows covers that the Semrush toolkit leaves to other tools

Outreach for implicit citations

A prioritized list of cited pages where rivals already appear, each with a verified contact and a template, so earning a mention is a task with an owner.

KIVA researches, Wellows drafts

KIVA works from your own Search Console data to choose the terms and follow-up questions a missing page should cover. Wellows drafts the page from that research. On Semrush, writing tools sit in a separate Content Toolkit.

Sentiment you can trace

Wellows rates every cited page for how it describes you, so you can find the exact URLs behind a negative answer rather than a weekly brand-level reading.

A morning card with the next move

Quick Wins ranks changes by impact against effort, and each morning brings the page to write and the outreach to send that day.

Client dashboards in your brand

White-label dashboards on every plan, covering reports, dashboards and the initial audit export, with no per-report fee.

Unlimited projects and seats

Every brand, market and client is its own project, and the whole team can log in. Seats are not metered and never change the price.

Worked example

One gap, two tools

A rival keeps getting cited from a "best tools" roundup that leaves your brand out. This is what each tool does next.

In Wellows

  1. 1The roundup appears in your outreach targets, prioritized by its estimated citation gain.
  2. 2You get a verified contact for the editor and a ready-to-send template for that URL.
  3. 3You track the opportunity, and later runs record the implicit citation once you are added.

Outcome: a task, an owner and a dated result.

In the Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit

  1. 1The Prompt Tracking Sources report shows the roundup among the pages cited for that prompt.
  2. 2The "Get mentions" panel suggests how to get your brand onto that page.
  3. 3Finding the editor and sending the pitch is left to your team and other tools.

Outcome: you know which source matters.

Start your 7-day free trialSee the outreach screenYour trial includes a first list of outreach targets.

Going further

Three places Wellows keeps going after the report

Both tools show how AI presents your brand. Wellows goes further in three ways.

What gets counted

Wellows

Share of citations, explicit and implicit, per URL

Semrush

Brand mentions against competitor medians

Wellows scores whether engines use and point to your pages, and rates the tone of each source page it finds.

From gap to fix

Wellows

Drafts, page fixes and outreach

Semrush

Recommendations and "Get mentions" tips

Each gap becomes a job: draft a new page from KIVA's research, improve an existing page, or pitch a cited source through a verified contact.

Reach for the price

Wellows

5 engines, 43 prompts daily, unlimited projects and seats for $97

Semrush

25 prompts, 1 project, $99 per user

From the $29 plan up, Wellows covers ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode, with tone ratings, share of voice and white-label client dashboards. See Wellows pricing.

This is how Wellows does it

Introducing C.I.T.A.T.I.O.N.™

Wellows' proven framework for AI visibility optimization.

"See, Craft, Proof, Sell" is what you experience. C.I.T.A.T.I.O.N.™ is the eight-step method behind it.

  1. Chart the visibility gap

    Exactly where you're cited today and where you're not, against every named competitor.

  2. Investigate why competitors are cited

    We check both the AI answer and the source pages behind it, the layer most tools never open.

  3. Target the prompts and pages that matter

    The gap becomes a ranked list: the prompts and pages worth going after first, not a generic content calendar.

  4. Author content built to be cited

    KIVA finds the keywords and follow-up questions in your own Search Console data, and Wellows drafts the page from that research.

  5. Trust-build through verified outreach

    Citations you can go earn directly, not just wait for.

  6. Improve against daily signals

    Nothing sits still. Every shift surfaces the next day, at the URL level.

  7. Own the answer

    The goal was never a mention. It's being the source the model pulls from.

  8. Numbers that prove the movement

    Pick two dates, see the exact lift, and put your climb next to a named rival.

Eight steps, one loop. That's the difference between a platform that reports a number and a method built to move it.

See the method in action ›

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Testimonials

Why practitioners rate Wellows

SEO and content people in their own words.

  • I've been testing a tool called Wellows that turns these hidden signals into real visibility. The workflow is surprisingly smart!

    Mike GinleySr. SEO Professional
  • If you want to measure AI visibility, reliably track your LLM citations, identify where competitors are winning, and systematically close those gaps. That's exactly what Wellows is built for.

    Vladi KriulinContent Strategist
  • You're guessing which sites to contact. Guessing what to say. Guessing if it'll even move the needle on AI visibility. That's where Wellows turns this into a repeatable system. And it's why I've decided to use this.

    Alex GrobermanFounder, Alex Groberman Labs
  • Your client's competitors are being cited by ChatGPT. Your client isn't. And until you fix that, the gap is only going to widen. The strategy is simple. Get your client onto the pages that LLMs already trust. But finding those pages? That used to be a nightmare. Wellows changes this completely.

    Freddie ChattEcommerce SEO Consultant

Which to pick

Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit or Wellows: which suits your team?

Go with Wellows if you

  • Need Perplexity and Google AI Overviews tracked daily alongside ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Mode
  • Track more than 25 prompts, or more than one brand, market or client
  • Want your own URLs and third-party mentions counted apart, with tools to grow each
  • Want every negative description traced to the page behind it
  • Want content drafts and outreach in the same tool as the tracking

The Semrush toolkit may suit you if you

  • Already run your SEO in Semrush and want AI data in the same login
  • Need prompt research with volume, difficulty and intent next to keyword data
  • Are tracking one domain and a small set of prompts

Try Wellows

Run your Semrush prompts through Wellows

Track the same prompts and rivals for seven days, then compare what each tool tells you to do next.

Start your 7-day free trial

Your trial

How to spend the seven days of your Wellows trial

Every feature is on during the trial. A card is needed to start it.

Day 1

Set up a project

Add your site, your competitors and the prompts you track in Semrush, then choose your engines and whether each project runs daily or weekly.

Days 2 to 4

Read your citations

Go through both citation types, the tone of each source page and your share of voice per engine as the morning cards start arriving.

Days 5 to 7

Close the first gaps

Pick a Quick Win, let KIVA research a missing page for Wellows to draft, and send your first pitches to cited pages that name your rivals.

Before you start

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit alternative?

Wellows is a strong Semrush AI visibility alternative for teams that want to grow citations, not only monitor mentions. It tracks explicit and implicit citations, sentiment by source and share of voice across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode, from $29 a month with a 7-day trial. Profound and Peec AI are other options worth comparing.

How much does the Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit cost compared with Wellows?

Semrush lists the standalone AI Visibility Toolkit at $99 a month, with 25 tracked prompts, one project and a $99 license for each extra user. Wellows publishes four plans from $29 to $497 a month; the $97 Standard plan tracks 43 prompts on all five engines daily, with unlimited projects and seats.

Which AI engines does the Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit track?

Semrush's Prompt Tracking help page lists ChatGPT Search, Google AI Mode and Gemini. Wellows tracks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode on every plan.

Does the Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit track citations?

Yes. Its Sources report shows the domains and URLs AI platforms cite for your tracked prompts, including your own pages. Its AI Visibility Score is based on brand mentions. Wellows scores your share of citations and reports implicit citations, where a cited third-party page names you, as their own metric.

Is there a free trial for either tool?

Semrush says the standalone AI Visibility Toolkit has no free trial. Every Wellows plan starts with a 7-day free trial, and a credit card is needed to begin it.

Can I use Semrush and Wellows together?

Yes. Many teams keep Semrush for keyword research, backlinks and site audits, and use Wellows for AI citations, sentiment by source and the content and outreach work that changes them.

How do I move from Semrush to Wellows?

Start a 7-day Wellows trial and add the prompts and competitors you track in Semrush to a project. Run both tools for two to four weeks and compare what each recommends. Once Performance History shows a trend, move your AI reporting over. New to the topic? Read our guide to AI visibility.

Want to see it on your data? Book a demo with your Semrush prompt list, or start a 7-day free trial.