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Daily workflowsUpdated April 24, 2026

How to analyze competitors in AI recommendations

Use the Competitors page to compare share of voice, benchmark your brand against rivals, and spot which competitors are gaining traction in AI answers.

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AI Competitor Analysis

See which competitors AI recommends and why. Track share of voice, rankings, and visibility trends across ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity.

PromptScout competitor analysis view with share of voice and ranking data

What Competitors shows

Who's winning the AI recommendation space in your category — not just whether you were mentioned, but who keeps showing up instead of you in Monitoring.

Competitors is based on monitored AI answers, brand mentions, rankings, share of voice, and supporting sources. It does not scan competitor domains or produce page-by-page competitor website diffs.

What's on the page

  • Share of voice across monitored prompts
  • Competitor leaderboard
  • Timeline of who's gaining or losing ground
  • Comparisons grounded in the responses PromptScout collected

When to use it

  • A monitoring run moved — and you want to know who moved with it.
  • Visibility is flat but a rival spiked.
  • You're deciding which competitors to prioritize tracking.

How to read it

  • One-off appearance = noise.
  • Repeat appearance across runs = signal.
  • Same rivals on your key prompts = your real benchmark set.

Focus on sustained patterns, not single data points. Then use Insights to decide what to change next and Reports to show whether the change worked.

Best practice

Pair Competitors with Sources. If a rival keeps winning, Sources usually shows the evidence around that win — reviews, threads, docs, or publications AI systems already trust them for.

Use Website for your owned-domain audit. PromptScout does not need to crawl competitor sites to show recurring AI recommendation patterns.

Next steps

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Put this into practice

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Keep reading the docs, then run the workflow on your own brand data when you are ready.

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  • Monitoring

    Documentation

    Use the Monitoring page to run monitors, inspect recent runs, and compare how your AI visibility changes across providers over time.

  • Sources

    Documentation

    Use the Sources page to see which websites, documents, and communities AI systems cite when they recommend brands in your category.

  • Insights

    Documentation

    Use PromptScout's active Competitors, Sources, and Content surfaces to turn generated evidence into focused follow-up work.

  • AI Brand Monitoring Platform

    Guide

    Track how ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity mention your brand over time.

  • AI Visibility Reports

    Guide

    Turn monitoring results into weekly visibility reports for trends, competitors, and sources.