Airefs Review: an affordable AEO tool in 2026?

Airefs Review: an affordable AEO tool in 2026?

Paul Boudet · Co-founder

Full disclosure: this is a review of our own product. We built Airefs, we use it daily, and we’re not neutral. We’ll try to be honest anyway—including about where we fall short.

The AEO space is full of tools making vague promises. The people evaluating them deserve specifics.

If you want an independent take, check Reddit threads or G2 reviews. What we can offer is the most detailed account of what Airefs actually does. We’ll also be clear about where it genuinely isn’t the right choice.

What is Airefs?

Airefs is an AI search visibility platform for founders, small teams, and agencies. It helps you show up in ChatGPT, Google AI Overview, and other LLM answers. The entry price is $24/mo—not $400.

It tracks your brand across AI search responses and shows which content is being cited. It surfaces Reddit discussions worth joining and monitors when AI crawlers visit your site. There’s also a done-for-you tier where our team handles content and community work directly.

The platform started as a tool to answer one question: “Are ChatGPT and Google AI Overview recommending me?” It’s grown since then. But that founding constraint still shapes it—focused, not feature-maxed.

Who’s behind Airefs?

Airefs is two human founders and a couple of AI employees. We’re not enterprise software. We don’t have Sequoia backing or a $58.5M war chest.

What we have is founders you can actually reach. Pricing doesn’t require a procurement process. We iterate directly based on customer feedback.

That’s both a strength and an honest limitation. We cover the core AEO workflow very well. We don’t have SOC 2, custom data contracts, or a dedicated enterprise sales team.

If those are requirements, we’re not the right fit.

What do users say about Airefs?

The feedback we hear most often is the same. Teams tell us Airefs is the first time they actually understood their AI search presence. Not in theory—but with specific data on prompts, competitors, and influencing URLs.

While every other AI search visibility tool showed me whether I was being cited, Airefs showed me all 571 URLs that were being cited across my targeted search questions.

— Lillian P, Fractional CMO

Airefs gives us clear visibility into how our brand shows up across LLMs. This is something we simply couldn’t easily track before.

— Anthony L, Head of Marketing, LegalVision

I really appreciate how simple Airefs is. It’s fast and easy to find the answers I need without all the extra features that some other tools have.

— Matt M, Co-founder, SEO Gets

Done-for-you customers tend to have stronger results—because the content and community work actually gets executed:

Thanks to Airefs, Techmap went from invisible in LLM answers to showing up every time as one of the best courses for tech recruiters—in just a few weeks.

— Ruben K, Co-founder, Techmap

We weren’t looking for prettier charts—we wanted to show up in AI answers. Airefs found the opportunities, built the content, and increased our visibility in weeks across LLMs, Google and Reddit.

— Kiyan F, Co-founder, Needle

Without Airefs we would have zero insight into how Ravenna shows up in searches across LLMs. Now we can take actionable steps to increase our visibility. In the era of AI this is a game changer.

— TJ, Owner, Ravenna

The Genlook case study

The clearest documented result is Genlook. Thibault, Genlook’s founder, used Airefs to identify prompts and content gaps in his category. He published content targeting those gaps and joined the right Reddit conversations.

Genlook became the #1 most-recommended brand in its category on ChatGPT. 30% of new signups now come directly from ChatGPT.

The results I achieved using Airefs are seriously impressive. I’m super happy with it and I’m already recommending it to everyone I know.

— Thibault M, Founder, Genlook

Airefs itself follows the same playbook: roughly 20% of all our signups come through ChatGPT. We’re a live case study of the approach we’re helping customers execute.

Airefs features

Prompt tracking and share of voice

The core of the platform is prompt tracking. You set up queries—the questions your customers ask AI models. Airefs runs them on a schedule across both ChatGPT and Google AI Overview, recording which brands appear, at what position, with what citations.

The share of voice view shows how you compare to competitors across all tracked prompts. Each prompt has a full execution log: the AI’s response, competitors, and citation breakdown. Filter by country or tag to see whether your efforts are moving the needle.

This is where most teams start. The first surprise is realizing they’re invisible in queries where competitors appear regularly. Those competitors show up because specific articles and Reddit threads are influencing AI answers.

LLM crawler activity (Impressions)

When ChatGPT visits your site, it leaves a server-side footprint. The request comes from bots like ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, or ClaudeBot. Airefs captures these and shows which pages are crawled, by which AI systems, and how often.

The charts view shows total impressions over time, broken down by crawler. The logs view shows individual visits: timestamp, LLM name, bot name, and type. It also shows IP address and the specific page path visited.

LLM visitor tracking (Clicks)

Beyond crawls, Airefs tracks when real users arrive from an AI search. These are people who saw your brand in a ChatGPT or Perplexity response and clicked through. This connects AI visibility to real traffic—not just brand mentions.

Reddit alerts

Reddit is disproportionately influential in how AI models answer questions about product categories. A single well-upvoted thread on r/marketing or r/SEO can become a persistent citation in ChatGPT answers for months. Airefs monitors Reddit for keywords you specify and alerts you when new threads appear.

Each alert shows the thread title, subreddit, whether your brand was mentioned, and when it was found. Jump directly to the thread from the dashboard. Participate early—before the thread becomes an established AI citation that’s harder to influence.

Source insights

The Sources panel shows which URLs ChatGPT is citing across all your tracked prompts—ranked by frequency. This is the intelligence layer that tells you what content is actually influencing AI answers in your category.

Discussion opportunities

Airefs surfaces relevant discussions across Reddit and LinkedIn tied to your tracked prompts. These are conversations where you could contribute—or where a competitor appears and you don’t. The platform also flags threads likely to become AI citation sources.

Article opportunities

Airefs surfaces two distinct ways to act on content gaps.

The first is recommended articles: content gaps where AI models rely on a thin set of sources. Your team—or ours on the done-for-you tier—can act on these directly. If a top-cited article is three years old and outdated, that’s an opening. A fresher, more comprehensive piece can take its place.

The second is AI-generated articles. The AEO content agent writes articles automatically—researched, formatted, and optimised to be cited in ChatGPT and rank in Google.

Backlinks (placement opportunities)

The Backlinks panel shows domains whose articles ChatGPT and Google AI Overview are already citing in your category. Getting mentioned on these pages is one of the most direct ways to increase AI visibility.

MCP server

Airefs also ships a remote MCP server with 37 read-only tools and six built-in workflows, so Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or Claude Code can query your share of voice, sources, competitors, and opportunities directly—no dashboard required.

Pros and cons

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How much does Airefs cost?

Plan Price Prompts Reddit keywords AI analytics
Lite $24/mo 25 3 7 days
Pro $49/mo 60 10 90 days
Expert $83/mo 150 30 180 days
Done-for-you From $300/mo Includes Pro — —

Conclusion

Airefs is a focused, affordable AEO platform for teams that want to build AI visibility. Prompt tracking, source insights, Reddit alerts, and LLM crawler monitoring give you a complete picture. The AI article agent writes content automatically based on the citation gaps it finds. The Backlinks panel surfaces the specific domains being cited in your category so you can pursue placements that actually move the needle. The done-for-you tier turns all of that data into executed results from $300/mo.