GEOFast vs Brandlight

Brandlight is an enterprise AI visibility platform sold as a program: it builds your prompt set, counts 13 engines, runs the full set weekly and puts a strategist, an analyst and a customer success lead on each account, starting with a paid 3-month pilot at no published price. GEOFast publishes its prices from $29 a month, tracks the prompts you write and puts a 90% range on how often you're mentioned and picked first.

Checked against brandlight.ai's own pages on October 13, 2026. Sources at the foot of the page.

At a glance

How GEOFast and Brandlight compare.

GEOFast vs Brandlight, fact by fact
What you getGEOFastBrandlight
Starting priceGEOFast$29 a month for one site; Growth $99, Agency $249BrandlightNot published: a paid 3-month pilot, then an annual platform and service contract scoped by dashboards, markets and lines of business[1, 2]
Free to tryGEOFastThe X-ray, free with no account; a 14-day trial of Growth's featuresBrandlightNo free trial, free plan or self-serve tier, by its own account; entry is a paid 3-month pilot. Its research site has public industry leaderboards, not a check of your own brand[1, 2, 3]
EnginesGEOFastChatGPT, Gemini, Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode, Perplexity weekly, and Claude weekly on 5 to 25 prompts, by plan, on every planBrandlight13 by its own count, with no full list published: its pages name ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Claude and Grok, and Naver and Kakao in Korea[2, 4, 5]
How answers are collectedGEOFastChatGPT and Gemini captured from the apps, signed out; Google's AI answers from its results pages; Perplexity and Claude through their APIs with web searchBrandlightSays it measures the consumer interfaces buyers see, not the APIs, and collected them by scraping in its own study; its pages don't say how each engine is collected in the product[6, 7]
PromptsGEOFastYour own: 50 on Watch, 100 on Growth, up to 1,500 on AgencyBrandlightBuilt by Brandlight, not written by you: a few thousand per brand topic or line of business, from panel, search and your own data, with no prompt caps; you can review the set, exclude from it and set priorities[1, 8]
How oftenGEOFastWeekly on Watch, daily on Growth and Agency; Perplexity and Claude weeklyBrandlightThe full set weekly, with a smaller subset daily as an option; each prompt runs once per engine per cycle[8]
How sure the numbers areGEOFastA 90% range on mention and first-pick rates; a change shows only when it beats the usual swingBrandlightPoint values read across groups of prompts; its methodology says a single prompt's result is one observation, and publishes no range or margin of error[8]
AI crawler checksGEOFastThe free X-ray checks 13 AI crawlers against robots.txt, fetches the homepage as 4 of them, compares pages with and without JavaScript, and reads up to 300 pagesBrandlightA Technical module reads server logs to show which AI crawlers visit your sites and which are denied access, and audits indexability and robots.txt access across domains[2, 9]
API and MCPGEOFastAn MCP on every plan: reads, and edits or runs when you allowBrandlightLists an API, SSO and integrations in its own comparisons; its pages mention no MCP server of its own and link no API docs[4, 10]
Agencies and white-labelGEOFastAgency plan: unlimited client projects, with your name and logo on reports and share linksBrandlightA partner program for agencies that serve global brands, with co-pitching, co-selling and training for the agency's team; no agency plan, pitch tier or white-label reports published[11, 12]
Strengths

Where each one is stronger.

Where Brandlight is stronger

  • A dedicated strategist, analyst and customer success lead on every account, with a bi-weekly check-in and a monthly readout.[1]
  • Copilot and Grok among its engines, and Naver and Kakao in Korea; GEOFast tracks none of the four.[2, 4, 5]
  • A prompt set of a few thousand prompts per brand topic, built from licensed panel data of real AI prompts; GEOFast tracks the prompts you write.[8]
  • Server log analysis of AI crawler visits; GEOFast has no analytics of AI crawler visits from server logs.[9]
  • Tracking of retailer product pages, shopping answers by product and, in an enterprise beta, ads inside AI answers.[1, 13, 14]
  • SOC 2 Type II and SSO for security reviews; GEOFast has neither.[4, 15]

Where GEOFast is stronger

  • Published prices from $29 a month; Brandlight publishes none and starts with a paid 3-month pilot.[1]
  • The X-ray is free with no account, and there is a 14-day trial; Brandlight says it has no free trial and no self-serve tier.[1]
  • A 90% range on mention and first-pick rates; Brandlight's methodology reads its figures across groups of prompts and publishes no range or margin of error.[8]
  • Open to any site owner, team or agency; Brandlight says it works with enterprises only.[1]
  • You write and change your own prompts on every plan; Brandlight builds the set, and you review it and exclude from it.[8]
  • A stated source for each engine's answers; Brandlight says it measures the consumer interfaces and doesn't say how for each engine.[6]
  • White-label reports and unlimited client projects on the Agency plan, $249 a month; Brandlight's partner program is for agencies that serve global brands, and it says it has no free pitch tier.[11, 12]
Which to choose

Who each one is for.

Choose Brandlight if

You're a Fortune 500 or multi-brand enterprise that wants the prompt set built for you and a strategist's team running the program alongside yours.

Choose GEOFast if

You want a published price, a free X-ray today with no sales call, your own prompts and numbers that say how sure they are.

FAQ

Questions about GEOFast and Brandlight.

  • Is GEOFast cheaper than Brandlight?

    GEOFast publishes its prices: $29 a month for one site (Watch), $99 for Growth and $249 for Agency. Brandlight publishes none: it says entry is a paid 3-month pilot, then an annual platform and service contract scoped by dashboards, markets and lines of business, and that it is not the cheapest way to get an AI visibility number.

  • Which engines do Brandlight and GEOFast track?

    Brandlight says it tracks 13 engines without publishing the full list; its pages name ChatGPT, Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Claude and Grok, with Naver and Kakao in Korea. GEOFast tracks ChatGPT, Gemini, Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode, Perplexity weekly, and Claude weekly on 5 to 25 prompts, by plan, on every plan.

  • How do Brandlight and GEOFast collect answers?

    Brandlight says it measures the consumer interfaces buyers see, not the APIs, and its own study found 6 to 12 percent overlap in brands between the two; its pages don't say how each engine is collected. GEOFast captures ChatGPT and Gemini from the apps, signed out, reads Google's AI answers from its results pages, and asks Perplexity and Claude through their APIs with web search.

  • Who writes the prompts in Brandlight and GEOFast?

    Brandlight builds the set: a few thousand prompts per brand topic or line of business, from licensed panel data, search demand and your own data, run in full weekly. You can review it, exclude from it and set priorities. In GEOFast you write your own: 50 on Watch and 100 on Growth.

  • Can I try Brandlight or GEOFast for free?

    Brandlight says it has no free trial and no self-serve tier; entry is a paid 3-month pilot. GEOFast's X-ray is free with no account, and its 14-day trial has Growth's features.

Sources

Where each fact comes from.

Every claim about another tool links to that vendor's own page, read on October 13, 2026. Prices are as each vendor lists them, in US dollars unless marked; vendors change them, so check before you buy.

  1. 1Brandlight: Brandlight vs Profound: Which AI Visibility Platform Fits Your Team?brandlight.ai/blog/brandlight-vs-profound
  2. 2Brandlight: llms.txtbrandlight.ai/llms.txt
  3. 3Brandlight: AI Visibility Indexresearch.brandlight.ai/indexes
  4. 4Brandlight: The 15 Best AEO Software Tools for AI Search (2026)brandlight.ai/blog/best-aeo-software
  5. 5Brandlight: 8 Best AI Visibility Tools in 2026: Comparedbrandlight.ai/blog/best-ai-visibility-tools
  6. 6Brandlight: The UI vs API Gapresearch.brandlight.ai/ui-vs-api.html
  7. 7Brandlight: Brandlightbrandlight.ai/
  8. 8Brandlight: The Prompt Universe: methodologyresearch.brandlight.ai/prompt-universe.html
  9. 9Brandlight: Technical Analysisbrandlight.ai/product/technical
  10. 10Brandlight: Brandlight vs. Peec AIresearch.brandlight.ai/compare/brandlight-vs-peec
  11. 11Brandlight: AI Visibility for Agenciesbrandlight.ai/agencies
  12. 12Brandlight: The 12 Best AI Visibility Tools for Agencies (2026)brandlight.ai/blog/best-ai-visibility-tools-for-agencies
  13. 13Brandlight: Agentic Commercebrandlight.ai/product/commerce
  14. 14Brandlight: Ad Analysisbrandlight.ai/product/ad-analysis
  15. 15Brandlight: Built for the Enterprisebrandlight.ai/enterprise
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