Ahrefs Brand Radar vs AthenaHQ

as AI assistants see them, week of 2026-09-14

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Ahrefs Brand Radar leads AthenaHQ by a fair margin here, scoring 22 overall versus 11, and showing up in 28 of 61 answers compared to 14 of 61. Ahrefs Brand Radar's strongest score comes from Claude (37), while AthenaHQ tops out at 23 on the same assistant, with both dropping lowest on Perplexity (10 and 5). Head-to-head, Ahrefs Brand Radar was named more often in 11 questions, AthenaHQ in just 1, with 8 ties. Ahrefs Brand Radar swept mentions for tools tracking AI search ranking alerts and citation sources, at 3 of 3 answers each.

Head to head

metric	Ahrefs Brand Radar	AthenaHQ
score	22	11
questions won	18	11

By assistant

Ahrefs Brand Radar

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	24	35% of answers	#4.1
Claude	37	90% of answers	#10.5
Gemini	not sampled this week
Perplexity	10	15% of answers	#4.7

AthenaHQ

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	6	10% of answers	#5.0
Claude	23	50% of answers	#9.1
Gemini	not sampled this week
Perplexity	5	10% of answers	#7.0

Where they differ

Only Ahrefs Brand Radar gets named for

What's the best tool to find which pages AI assistants cite in my industry?
What's the best tool to get alerts when my AI search rankings change?
What's the best tool to measure traffic coming from ChatGPT and Perplexity?
What's the best AI visibility tool for a small startup budget?
Which AI search tracking tool gives the most actionable recommendations?
What's the best tool for a SaaS founder to get recommended by AI assistants?
What's the best tool to track AI visibility for a local or regional business?

Only AthenaHQ gets named for

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