AthenaHQ vs Rankscale
as AI assistants see them, week of 2026-10-12
AthenaHQ and Rankscale tie overall with a score of 11 out of 100, and both get named in 14 of 61 answers. The split by assistant looks different, though: Claude favors Rankscale (32 vs 23), while AthenaHQ edges ahead on ChatGPT (6 vs 0) and Perplexity (5 vs 3). AthenaHQ shows up most for "best AI visibility tracking tools" and share-of-voice questions, while Rankscale leads on "best free or cheap AI visibility tools." Head-to-head across shared questions, Rankscale comes out ahead slightly more often (6 vs 5), with 9 questions tied between them.
Head to head
| metric | AthenaHQ | Rankscale |
|---|---|---|
| score | 10 | 11 |
| questions won | 14 | 15 |
By assistant
AthenaHQ
| assistant | score | named in, this week | usual spot, this week |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 8 | 15% of answers | #4.7 |
| Claude | 19 | 30% of answers | #8.5 |
| Gemini | not sampled this week | ||
| Perplexity | 4 | 5% of answers | #4.0 |
Rankscale
| assistant | score | named in, this week | usual spot, this week |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 2 | 5% of answers | #2.0 |
| Claude | 26 | 45% of answers | #9.2 |
| Gemini | not sampled this week | ||
| Perplexity | 7 | 15% of answers | #3.7 |
Where they differ
Only AthenaHQ gets named for
- What's the best enterprise AI visibility platform?
- What's the best tool to track whether ChatGPT recommends my brand?
Only Rankscale gets named for
- What's the best AI visibility tool with an API or data export?
- What's the best tool to find which pages AI assistants cite in my industry?
- Which tool best tracks brand mentions across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude?
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Not sold on either?
Scores count how often each assistant names a product, weighted by position. How the score works · Full AI visibility trackers leaderboard