Searchable Review 2026

Key takeaways

• Searchable is a polished, fast-moving AEO platform with strong visibility scoring, sentiment tracking, and a genuinely useful embedded AI agent — best suited to in-house brand teams and agencies that already have content production capacity.
• Base plans only track ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity. Claude, Copilot, Grok, and DeepSeek are paid add-ons or Custom-plan exclusives, which undercuts the value at $125/mo if you need broad engine coverage.
• It lacks several capabilities Promptwatch includes out of the box: real prompt volume and difficulty numbers (Searchable shows color-coded estimates), AI crawler logs, Reddit and YouTube citation tracking, ChatGPT Shopping and Ads Radar on lower tiers, and page-level citation rates.
• The agent is promising but has rough edges — it runs one task at a time, stops if you navigate away, and can be slow.
• G2 rating is excellent: 4.8/5 from roughly 100 reviews, with most praise going to the visibility dashboards and the team's responsiveness.

What Searchable does

Searchable, founded in 2025 by Chris Donnelly (with co-founders Sam Hogan and Arya Nagabhyru), raised a $4M pre-seed at a $40M valuation within two weeks of launch and later a £10.3M round led by Headline. That funding velocity tells you something about the category right now: AI search visibility is hot, and Searchable is one of the better-funded players chasing it.

The product is organized into modules under one dashboard. AEO Insights is the core: a visibility score, mentions and citations, sentiment, and a sources view showing which domains influence the answers you care about. Prompt Intelligence tracks buyer questions and suggests new prompts to monitor. Content Studio drafts AI-ready articles with an AI Readiness score and one-click export to Shopify, WordPress, or Webflow. Technical Optimisation crawls your site for schema, crawlability, and AEO readiness issues. There's also an AI Shopping module for e-commerce brands tracking product visibility and merchant coverage.

The standout feature is the Agent. It sits across the whole product and answers questions like "Why did visibility drop?" or "Where is Canyon beating us in AI answers?" using your live data. In demos it's impressive. In practice, per Profound's comparative review, it only works while the chat window stays open — navigate away and the task stops. Workflows run one at a time, so there's no executing agent tasks at scale in the background. It's a good analyst, not yet a good worker.

The MCP server is a nice touch, exposing your visibility data to Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, n8n, Slack, Notion, and Looker Studio. Searchable also launched a ChatGPT connector in August 2026, letting you query your data from inside ChatGPT itself.

Pricing

• Pro — $125/mo: 100 tracked prompts per model, 9,000 AI answers analyzed monthly, unlimited domains, 20 articles, 200 site audits, MCP and API access, 14-day free trial.
• Scale — $400/mo: 500 prompts, 45,000+ answers, 10 projects, 80 articles, 1,000 audits, white-label reports, dedicated account specialist.
• Enterprise: roughly 1,250 prompts per model, sitting between Scale and Custom.
• Custom: contact sales for unlimited articles and audits, SSO, SLA, and the add-on engines (Claude, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek).

Annual billing saves 20%. An older $50/mo Starter tier appears in cached listings but no longer exists on the live pricing page.

Here's the catch that matters most: Pro and Scale only track ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity by default. Claude, Copilot, Grok, and DeepSeek cost extra or require Custom. For a platform marketed as covering "all major AI engines," that's a meaningful gap at the entry price. Compare that to Promptwatch, which includes tracking across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, DeepSeek, Copilot, Mistral, Meta Llama, Google AI Overviews, and AI Mode on every paid plan starting at $95/mo.

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Strengths

The visibility dashboards are genuinely good. The visibility score, share of voice, sentiment, and sources views give you a clear picture of where you stand, and the sources analysis — seeing which domains AI engines trust when answering questions about your category — is one of the more actionable parts of the product. Case studies claim 40% visibility increases and 206% share of voice improvements, and the 303 agency case study (£1m+ pipeline) is worth reading if you're evaluating.

The Agent concept is right even if the execution lags. Asking "why does AI trust BikeRadar over Specialized?" and getting a grounded answer from your own citation data is where this whole category is heading, and Searchable got there early.

Content Studio produces structurally sound drafts — clear heading hierarchies, comparison tables, answer-first blocks — and the AI Readiness scoring gives editors a concrete checklist. It still needs expert review before publishing, but it compresses the drafting phase considerably.

The team ships fast. A G2 reviewer noted an April update that improved load speed significantly, and the ChatGPT connector launch shows they're keeping pace with the platform changes that matter.

Limitations

Beyond the engine-coverage paywall, a few things stood out from user reviews and third-party testing:

• No real prompt volume data. You get color-coded volume and difficulty bars, not measured numbers. Prioritizing which prompts to chase becomes guesswork. Promptwatch provides monthly search volumes and difficulty scores per prompt, plus query fan-outs showing how AI expands a prompt into sub-queries — Searchable has a fanout view but not the hard numbers behind it.
• No AI crawler logs. You can't see when ChatGPTBot or ClaudeBot actually visited your pages, what they read, or whether they hit errors. Promptwatch's Agent Analytics logs 400+ crawlers and shows the crawl-to-citation path with a citation rate per page. For diagnosing why you're invisible, this matters.
• No Reddit or YouTube citation tracking. Given that social platforms are a meaningful citation source in AI answers, missing dedicated reporting here is a real gap.
• No side-by-side engine comparison. You view one engine at a time, which gets tedious when you're managing multiple models.
• Steep learning curve. Multiple G2 reviewers flag the interface as overly technical, with heavy filters and metrics that assume you already understand AEO terminology.
• Data refresh lag. Not real-time; reviews note occasional delays.

One framing note: ChatGPT cites only about 5 sources per web-search answer on average, roughly half of what Google AI Overviews and Perplexity cite, per Promptwatch's data on average sources per response. That makes ChatGPT citation slots the most contested — and it means tools that only monitor three engines (Searchable's default) are covering the easier two-thirds of the problem while leaving the hardest, highest-value surface under-tracked unless you pay up.

Who it's for

Searchable fits mid-market B2B SaaS companies ($5M–$50M ARR) with a dedicated marketing function, e-commerce brands that need the AI Shopping module, and agencies that want white-label reporting and already have content teams to act on the insights. It's a poor fit for smaller sites that just want cheap prompt monitoring, and for teams that need full multi-engine coverage without negotiating a Custom plan.

Bottom line

Searchable is a credible, well-funded entrant with excellent dashboards, a 4.8/5 G2 rating, and an agent concept that points at where the category is going. But it's a monitoring-first product with content tools bolted on, and the gaps are structural: estimated rather than measured prompt data, no crawler logs, no Reddit/YouTube tracking, engine coverage paywalled above three engines, and an agent that can't yet run work in the background. If you want a platform that not only shows where you're invisible but explains why (crawler logs), measures actual AI-driven traffic and conversions, and then fixes the problem with automated content generation and CMS publishing, Promptwatch covers that full loop at a lower entry price with all 10+ models included. Searchable is worth a demo if you're brand-side and ChatGPT/AI Overviews/Perplexity are your priority engines — just go in knowing what the base plan doesn't include.