sunbeam (formerly Positional) records 431 monthly visits with -95.1% month-over-month growth and Contact for Pricing pricing. Surfer records 249,599 monthly visits with -29.3% growth and Paid, Contact for Pricing pricing.
An autonomous SEO agent that runs strategy, content and technical SEO end to end
AI visibility platform to get your brand cited in AI search
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | positional.com | surferseo.com |
| Pricing Model | Contact for Pricing | Paid, Contact for Pricing |
| Monthly Visits | 431 (431) | 249.6K (249,599) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -8.28K (-95.1%) | -103.59K (-29.3%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (51.1%) | 🇺🇸 United States (30.2%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 169 | 145.79K |
| User Rating | 4.3 | 4.4 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
An autonomous SEO agent that runs strategy, content and technical SEO end to end
One agent owns strategy, content, editorial and technical SEO, running each workstream independently and in parallel rather than as a stack of separate tools.
Onboarding reads product pages, blog archives, brand-voice documents, competitor sites and customer reviews to build an internal knowledge graph of your business.
The agent drafts and plans content in your mapped brand voice, keeps an editorial calendar moving and tracks performance across pages.
Technical SEO runs alongside content work, so structural issues are identified and addressed without a separate queue.
AI visibility platform to get your brand cited in AI search
Run the prompts your buyers ask across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, and AI Overviews, and see a visibility score, mention rate, and average position by brand, topic, and model.
See every domain and URL the AI answers cite, how often they appear, and whether they mention your brand, so you can target the sources that actually shape answers.
Draft and optimize articles in a guided editor built to earn citations in AI answers and rankings in Google, with content audit and topical map support.
Find the questions your audience asks AI and Google, and spot weak pages and content gaps worth fixing or rebuilding.
Provides robust AI search analytics and sentiment tracking in generative assistants, but offers less granular page-level optimization.
Provides robust AI search analytics and sentiment tracking in generative assistants, but offers less granular page-level optimization.
SpecialistAI Search Visibility Platform for GEO & AEO
Free / Open-sourceAI SEO manager that tracks rankings and AI answers, then does the work
Free / Open-sourceAI SEO manager that tracks rankings and AI answers, then does the work
Free / Open-sourceWin AI search discovery with content agents and strategy
Free / Open-sourceWin AI search discovery with content agents and strategy
Free / Open-sourceThe AI SEO agent that researches, writes, publishes, and builds links for you
Free / Open-sourceThe AI SEO agent that researches, writes, publishes, and builds links for you
SpecialistAI SEO agents that rank on Google and get cited by AI chatbots
SpecialistAI SEO agents that rank on Google and get cited by AI chatbots
Stronger dedicated focus on tracking brand mentions across conversational search engines, but lacks Surfer's broader content optimization workflows.
Stronger dedicated focus on tracking brand mentions across conversational search engines, but lacks Surfer's broader content optimization workflows.
Specializes in AEO brand visibility tracking across major AI engines, though with fewer traditional SEO writing assistant features.
Specializes in AEO brand visibility tracking across major AI engines, though with fewer traditional SEO writing assistant features.
AI agents that write, optimize and publish SEO content for you
AI agents that write, optimize and publish SEO content for you
Effective brand reputation and visibility monitoring across multiple LLMs, though lacking traditional keyword research toolsets.
Effective brand reputation and visibility monitoring across multiple LLMs, though lacking traditional keyword research toolsets.
Combines AI search visibility tracking across Google and LLMs with content optimization tools, but carries a different interface.
Combines AI search visibility tracking across Google and LLMs with content optimization tools, but carries a different interface.
Free / Open-sourceRank in Google and get cited by AI answer engines
Free / Open-sourceRank in Google and get cited by AI answer engines
