India · SEO · AI visibility software
Oftheard is SEO and AI visibility software for businesses and agencies in India and worldwide, built in Chennai. It runs a 12-week campaign for one business: the searches people in its town make, the fixes its site needs, new and better pages written from the business’s own confirmed facts, and a weekly check of Google, Bing and what ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode tell a buyer in India. SEO comes first and the AI answers alongside, because the assistants answer from the same pages and listings Google ranks; the trade calls the AI half AEO or GEO. It is priced in rupees: the site check is free, and a campaign is ₹4,999 or ₹9,999 per business, paid once. Below is a page for each of 96 cities and districts, each saying what its businesses sell, what buyers there search for, and which platforms a business there can compare. Choosing a tool? The best AEO platforms in India are compared side by side on their own page.
Buyers search and ask about their own city: the best hospital in Coimbatore, a pump supplier near Pune, a D2C brand a Mumbai buyer would trust, a knitwear exporter in Tiruppur. Google and the AI assistants search with the location and read local listings, so the names that come back change with the place. Each page below says what SEO and AI visibility mean for that place’s businesses, the districts around it, the AEO platforms a business there can compare, and what to ask an agency there.
Visakhapatnam · Vijayawada · Guntur · Tirupati · Nellore
Ahmedabad · Surat · Vadodara · Rajkot · Gandhinagar
Mumbai · Pune · Nagpur · Nashik · Thane · Navi Mumbai · Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar · Kolhapur
Chennai · Coimbatore · Madurai · Tiruchirappalli · Salem · Tiruppur · Erode · Vellore · Tirunelveli · Hosur · Thoothukudi · Thanjavur · Kanchipuram · Ariyalur · Chengalpattu · Cuddalore · Dharmapuri · Dindigul · Kallakurichi · Kanniyakumari · Karur · Krishnagiri · Mayiladuthurai · Nagapattinam · Namakkal · Ooty · Perambalur · Pudukkottai · Ramanathapuram · Ranipet · Karaikudi · Tenkasi · Theni · Thiruvallur · Thiruvarur · Tirupattur · Tiruvannamalai · Villupuram · Virudhunagar
A business in a town that is not listed gets the same campaign; these pages exist because buyers name these places when they search.
The AI visibility tools a business in India is likely to shortlist, with what each is built for, whether it asks the AI assistants as a buyer in India, which assistants it covers, and the published price. Rivals’ facts and prices are from their own pages on 26 September 2026, and those prices are monthly. The same platforms side by side, India-wide, are on the best AEO platforms in India, and the long version is on the best AI visibility tools in India. What each costs in rupees, with the options under ₹5,000, is on AI visibility pricing in India.
| Platform | Built for | Asks as a buyer in India? | AI assistants covered | Published price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oftheard | Businesses and agencies in India and worldwide | Yes, every question | ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode every week, Claude every other week on Growth, beside Google and Bing rankings | Site check free; ₹4,999 or ₹9,999 per 12-week campaign, paid once |
| AITLAS by Shiprocket | D2C sellers in India | Not stated | Two of six platforms on each self-serve plan | Free; from ₹999 monthly |
| Depra | Small businesses in India, Hinglish prompts | Yes | ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews; AI Mode and Claude only as Enterprise add-ons | From ₹1,999 monthly |
| Paprik | Marketing teams and agencies in India | Yes | The ChatGPT app only on Solo; any three of seven on Pro | From ₹3,999 monthly |
| BeNoticed | Brands in India | Yes | ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews | From ₹7,999 monthly |
| Otterly | Marketers worldwide | India is one of 70+ countries | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Overviews, with Claude, Gemini and AI Mode as add-ons | From $29 (about ₹2,800) monthly |
| Semrush AI Toolkit | Semrush users | India can be selected | ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode and AI Overviews, with Perplexity in brand reports | $99 (about ₹9,500) monthly |
| Peec AI | Brands and agencies, mostly in Europe | Not named | Three platforms per tier, more as add-ons | From $95 (about ₹9,100) monthly |
| Profound | Enterprise brands, and agencies | As a region on Enterprise | Up to nine platforms on Enterprise; three on the trial | Enterprise on request; agencies from $99 monthly |
| Scrunch | Enterprise brands and agencies | Any country, India included | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Overviews; nine platforms on Enterprise | From $250 (about ₹23,900) monthly |
| Ahrefs Brand Radar | SEO and marketing teams | Not confirmed for custom prompts | ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode; Claude on custom prompts | From $50 (about ₹4,800) monthly |
| SE Ranking | SEO teams and agencies | Yes, any country | ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode and AI Overviews | From $129 (about ₹12,400) monthly |
| Yozigo | Brands and agencies; built in Bengaluru | South Asia as a region | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews; AI Mode and Copilot from $149 | From $39 (about ₹3,700) monthly |
Per business, in rupees, the same in every city. An agency account holds its clients, and each client’s campaign is paid on its own, Starter or Growth; the business owner agrees to it by a code sent to their business email and sees the same weekly numbers.
| Site check | Starter | Growth | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | ₹4,999 / 12 weeks | ₹9,999 / 12 weeks |
| Searches and questions tracked | – | Up to 20 | Up to 50 |
| Competitors measured | – | 5 | 10 |
| Google and Bing rankings | – | Every week | Every week |
| ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode | – | Every week | Every week |
| Claude | – | – | Every other week |
| Weekly reports | – | 12, plus 2 spare | 12, plus 2 spare |
| Page drafts (one per tracked question) | – | 20 | 50 |
| Rewrites of each page in a round | – | Up to 2 | Up to 2 |
| Publish to WordPress, with undo | – | Yes | Yes |
| Search Console and Analytics connected | – | Yes | Yes |
Per business, paid once for twelve weeks by card, UPI or net banking through Razorpay; nothing renews by itself, and extending is another twelve weeks, paid again. There is no monthly plan. Everything else is on the pricing page.
The same work goes by several names. Here is each, its full form, and what it means for a business in India. AEO vs GEO has the definitions in full.
An answer engine is an AI that answers a question in a sentence instead of a list of links: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode are answer engines. AEO is the work of being the business those AI answers name and cite when a buyer asks who to buy from.
The same work named from the engine’s side: the engines generate an answer, and GEO is being in it. AEO vs GEO is a difference of vocabulary, not of method.
The measurement: whether the AI assistants can read your site, and how often their answers to your buyers’ questions name or recommend your business, per assistant and per question. AI search visibility and LLM visibility mean the same.
The same work again, in the words of whoever is selling it: making a business readable to AI crawlers and present on the pages the assistants read, so that their answers name it. None is a separate service to buy twice.
No. Search ranks pages and gives the buyer ten to choose from; an answer engine names two or three companies and stops. But the assistants read the same pages Google ranks, and everything that stops a crawler reading you hurts both. That is why Oftheard does the SEO first and checks the AI answers alongside.
Whether it is sold as SEO, AEO services, GEO services or AI visibility services, the work breaks into the same pieces.
Whether Googlebot, GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and the other crawlers can reach, read and quote your pages, and what each page needs, with the fix written out. The free site check runs it in about half a minute.
The searches a buyer makes before choosing something like yours, and a page that answers each one directly under its own heading, written from facts the business has confirmed rather than guessed.
Per assistant, whether your business is named for each question and which competitors are named instead, with each answer kept whole with the sites it read.
The part that takes longest: being on the directories, comparison pages, review sites and forum threads the assistants read before they answer. The weekly answers show which those are; being on them is work on other sites, over months.
Both favour a page that answers one question under one heading, with the address and the business in the markup; the guides for AI Overviews and AI Mode say what else decides it.
The same searches, the same assistants, every week for twelve weeks. Without this step nobody knows whether the work bought anything.
Each engine has its own guide: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, and how to get ChatGPT to recommend your business.
AEO is sold by SEO agencies that added it to the list, by specialists calling themselves AEO consultants or GEO experts, and by software. What differs is who does the work, and whether you can read the measurement yourself.
| You are | What fits |
|---|---|
| A business with someone who can approve pages | Software that writes the pages from your facts and checks the result every week; you approve each change. |
| A business with nobody to do the work | An agency, measured by rankings and AI answers you can read yourself. |
| An agency selling SEO and AEO to clients | An agency account: each client’s campaign paid on its own, the owner agreeing by a code sent to their business email, and the same weekly numbers for both. |
| A shop, clinic or firm with one location | The free site check, then Starter, tracking the searches people in your town make. |
More on what a retainer should buy: answer engine optimization services in India.
Oftheard is SEO and AI visibility software built in Chennai for businesses and agencies in India and worldwide. It runs a 12-week campaign per business: it fixes the site, writes pages from facts you confirm, publishes them to WordPress once you approve them, and checks Google, Bing and ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode every week, as a buyer in India. It is ₹4,999 or ₹9,999 per business, paid once, with a free site check first. The enterprise tools built in the United States measure from there and bill monthly in dollars; the comparison is on the best-tools page.
Yes. The same question asked from Chennai and from Delhi can return different names, because Google and the AI assistants search with the location and read local listings. Oftheard checks the Google ranking from the business’s city, Bing from India, and asks the AI assistants as a buyer in India.
Yes. It is a web application used from anywhere in India; the city and district pages exist because buyers ask about their own place by name.
Software that measures what the AI assistants say about a business and helps change it: whether they can read the site, whether they name the business and why, which sites they read before answering, and the pages to write. Tools sold as AEO platforms, for answer engine optimisation, or GEO tools do the same work under another name; the best AEO platforms in India are compared on their own page.
AEO, answer engine optimisation, and GEO, generative engine optimisation, are two names for the work of being named when an AI answers a buyer’s question. AI visibility is the measurement of whether you are: whether the assistants can read you, and whether they name you, per assistant and per question.
No. SEO wins a place in the list of links; AEO gets the business named in the AI answer above or instead of that list. The assistants read the same pages Google ranks, so the SEO comes first. What AEO adds is being written about on the pages the assistants read, and a measurement of whether they then name you.
Searches about your town or a narrow service often move in one to three months. City-wide searches also need reviews and listings, and national ones need other sites linking to you, and time. The AI answers follow the pages they read, so they move after the site and the listings do.
The site check reads your own public pages; nothing on your site is changed. Rivals’ facts and prices are as their own pages published them on 26 September 2026, and conversions to rupees are approximate.