BrightEdge vs Lighthouse
as AI assistants see them, week of 2026-10-12
BrightEdge and Lighthouse land in a dead heat overall, each scoring 5 out of 100. BrightEdge gets named in 7 of 75 answers, Lighthouse in 6 of 75, and across the shared question set it's an even split: 4 questions favor BrightEdge, 4 favor Lighthouse, and 17 end in a tie. By assistant, Claude rates both similarly (8 for BrightEdge, 9 for Lighthouse), while ChatGPT and Perplexity score each in the low single digits. BrightEdge shows up most for alternatives-to-Ahrefs questions, Lighthouse for general "best SEO tools" questions. Neither is named for technical audits, rank tracking, blog optimization, value-for-money, or AI-answer tracking questions.
Head to head
| metric | BrightEdge | Lighthouse |
|---|---|---|
| score | 5 | 5 |
| questions won | 5 | 5 |
By assistant
BrightEdge
| assistant | score | named in, this week | usual spot, this week |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 4 | 5% of answers | #13.0 |
| Claude | 8 | 10% of answers | #31.0 |
| Gemini | not sampled this week | ||
| Perplexity | 2 | 5% of answers | #3.0 |
Lighthouse
| assistant | score | named in, this week | usual spot, this week |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 1 | 0% of answers | |
| Claude | 9 | 20% of answers | #8.8 |
| Gemini | not sampled this week | ||
| Perplexity | 4 | 10% of answers | #8.0 |
Where they differ
Only BrightEdge gets named for
- What are the best alternatives to Ahrefs?
- What's the best all-in-one SEO platform right now?
- What are the best alternatives to Semrush?
Only Lighthouse gets named for
- What are the best free or low-cost SEO tools?
- What are the top SEO tools in 2026?
- Which SEO tools have the most accurate data?
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Scores count how often each assistant names a product, weighted by position. How the score works · Full SEO tools leaderboard