BrightLocal Local AI Visibility review: pricing, features & alternatives

brightlocal.com/local-seo-tools/local-ai-visibility, brightlocal.com/pricing, brightlocal.com/llms.txt and help center articles on plans, metrics, prompts, scheduling and export (read 20 October 2026). Setup is a location plus up to 20 prompts, which BrightLocal suggests from the business category. Prompts are tagged branded or unbranded, and each one gets its own score, mention rate, share of voice and average position.

The visibility score combines how often the location is mentioned, where it appears in the answer, how positively it is described and how strongly it is recommended. BrightLocal reads above 75 as consistent recommendation and below 50 as mostly absent. The first run is a snapshot. From the second run on you get a trend view filterable by period, platform and prompt type.

Reports run weekly, monthly or on demand. A manual refresh uses one manual report run. The help center is direct about gaps: export and white-label are on the roadmap, not live, and the module only exists on BrightLocal's new platform. The landing page's comparison table rates BrightLocal against Local Falcon, Search Atlas and Semrush; that is vendor material.

The fit is a single location or a small group that already uses BrightLocal for rankings and citations. The pages we read do not describe AI crawler logs or AI-referred traffic tracking, so measuring what happens after an AI answer is outside this module.

Every row below is a capability we already listed for BrightLocal Local AI Visibility. It is the published feature set for this page, not a guess at an unpublished demo. Compare it with the Promptwatch checklist that follows.

On this listing, BrightLocal Local AI Visibility is a SEO suite with AI tracking for Local businesses and agencies already on BrightLocal that want a simple per-location AI score tied to citation work. What we sourced here: Engines: ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews; Up to 20 branded or unbranded prompts per location, suggested from the business category and editable; Visibility score from 0 to 100, plus mention rate, share of voice and average position by platform and prompt; Auto-detected local competitors with an AI explanation of why each one outranks you; AI sources leaderboard and source-by-source view of where the location is and is not listed.

If you buy BrightLocal Local AI Visibility for the job above, plan a second tool (or Promptwatch) for the layers this listing does not document. Still missing here: AI crawler logs (Agent Analytics), crawl-to-citation path, bot errors; Visitor analytics: AI-referred sessions and conversions; Content Agents that plan, write, and publish GEO pages to a CMS with a review inbox; Citation analytics at page, domain, Reddit, YouTube, and offsite level; Prompt volumes, difficulty, query fan-outs, personas, city-level geo; Prompt and citation trends (what changed between checks); ChatGPT Shopping tracking and Ads Radar; Agent Chat, Unified Actions, MCP server / REST API on paid plans. Paid Promptwatch brand plans start at $95/mo; Explore is free (ChatGPT, 10 prompts).

BrightLocal Local AI Visibility's public pages (and this listing) describe a narrower job than Promptwatch. Most rivals answer whether you were mentioned. Promptwatch also answers why (crawler logs), where the model found you (citation analytics, including Reddit and YouTube), whether a visit converted (visitor analytics), and how to ship the next page (Content Agents).

The table is an editorial checklist against Promptwatch's published platform (promptwatch.com/llms.txt, 2026-08-23). It is not a hidden feature list for this vendor. 'Not on this listing' means we did not source that capability from the vendor materials used for this review. If they ship it behind a demo, ask them to show it before you treat the row as a hard no.