Best AI visibility tool for a telecoms provider, ranked on whether the buyable plan covers the assistant that ships on your customer's device

Telecoms is the one category where the assistant your customer uses is decided by a device you may have sold them. An Android handset opens Gemini. A Windows laptop opens Microsoft Copilot. A business customer comparing connectivity sits inside Microsoft 365 all day. So for a telecoms provider the engine list is not a preference, it is the market definition, and a tool that covers ChatGPT beautifully and leaves out the two platform assistants has measured the wrong population.

Read on 31 October 2026, here is which vendors publish Gemini and Microsoft Copilot on the cheapest tier you can buy off the page.

Gemini and Copilot, on the tier you can buy

Vendor	Gemini	Microsoft Copilot	Cheapest buyable tier
Rankscale	Yes, published at a weight of 0.25 credits	Yes, listed as Copilot GUI among its engines	Essentials $20 a month, yearly only at $17; Pro $99
Peec AI	Yes, in the six available models	Yes, in the six available models	Starter $95, but only 3 active models at a time
OtterlyAI	Yes, as a priced add on, $9 a month on Lite, $59 on Standard, $149 on Premium	Yes, in its four tracked engines	Lite $29, so $38 a month with Gemini added
Scrunch AI	No, Gemini appears at Enterprise	Yes, in its four on Core	Core $250
Depra AI	Yes, checked daily on every plan	No, an Enterprise add on	Starter Rs 1,999 plus GST
Semrush	Yes, named on the AI Visibility plan	Not named on either pricing tab	AI Visibility Base $99 per domain, billed annually
Profound	Yes, on the free trial	No, named in the Enterprise capability list	Trial, free, 7 days
Ahrefs	Not enumerated; the Index plan says all platforms with Claude available	Not enumerated	Bundled from $129, Index $199

On that criterion Rankscale ranks first, because both assistants sit in one credit pool from $20 a month on an annual term or $99 monthly, with nothing capped, a published 17 or more engines and scheduling from hourly to monthly. OtterlyAI ranks second and is the cheapest monthly route to both, because Copilot is in its base four and Gemini is an add on priced on the same page at $9 a month on Lite, so $38 a month in total, with unlimited countries, unlimited team members and daily tracking at that figure. Peec ranks third, and the reason is structural rather than financial: its comparison table publishes Active models as 3 on Starter, Pro and Advanced, so covering ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot means giving up Google AI Overviews, and unlimited active models arrives only at Enterprise, which is custom and annual. An Add-ons block further down the same page does sell Additional Models on a monthly plan, priced against the prompts that plan includes, and those figures were not in the served HTML on the date we read it, so a fourth surface is available and cannot be costed from the page.

Everybody else forces a choice you cannot buy your way out of. Scrunch gives you Copilot on Core and puts Gemini at Enterprise. Profound's free trial carries Gemini and names Copilot only in its Enterprise capability list. Depra gives you Gemini daily on a Rs 1,999 plan and holds Copilot behind an Enterprise add on. That is not a flaw in those products, it is a difference that happens to matter enormously to this one industry.

The second criterion, which is the product name rather than the company name

A telecoms group is usually several names: the parent, the consumer brand, the business brand, sometimes an acquired regional network and a prepaid label. Customers ask about the one on the bill. So the second published thing to look for is brand variation handling, and three vendors publish it plainly. OtterlyAI publishes brand tracking and brand variation tracking on every tier including Lite, with unlimited brands and competitors. Peec publishes sub brand tracking and brand classification, which labels each prompt branded or non branded. Rankscale publishes brand dashboard slots at 2, 10, 25, 50 and 100 with extra slots addable in the app, so each label can have its own container.

For a group running four customer facing names, OtterlyAI Standard at $189 with unlimited workspaces and unlimited brands is the cheapest published route to measuring all four as separate things, and Rankscale Pro at $99 with ten dashboards is cheaper still if four containers is all you need.

The third criterion, which only matters at telecoms scale

Large consumer brands already own a listening or analytics suite, and the question that follows is whether this is a new subscription or a module of something you pay for already. Two published facts are useful here. Semrush publishes its AI visibility twice, as a $99 a month per domain standalone plan billed annually and as 50 to 100 prompts inside the SEO plans at $199 and $299, which is the consolidation route. And an incumbent social listening suite may already claim the ground: we counted vendor names across 1,260 assistant readings in September and October 2026 and found Brandwatch named in four of them, all four on Gemini, with two of those four naming it in order to rule it out of AI answer work, while its own suite navigation read Search Intelligence and GenAI Monitoring. The detail is in Brandwatch alternatives for AI answer monitoring, and it is worth reading before you accept that an existing suite already covers this.

Scale and seats, since this is a large organisation buying

Telecoms teams are large and the report gets read in several places at once. Published seat positions, same date: OtterlyAI publishes unlimited team members on every tier including the $29 one. Peec publishes unlimited users on every plan. Rankscale publishes team workspaces with unlimited seats. Profound publishes unlimited seats on both of its plans, free trial included. Scrunch publishes 5 user licences on Core. Ahrefs publishes 1 user with extras at $40, $60 or $80 a month by tier. Semrush publishes Additional Users starting at $45 a month.

And on the governance side a company of this size will ask about single sign on. Scrunch publishes Google single sign on on its $250 Core plan, the only self serve SSO in the set, with SAML and OIDC at Enterprise. Profound publishes SSO and SAML with SOC 2 compliance at Enterprise. Peec and OtterlyAI publish SSO at Enterprise, Rankscale on its unpriced Custom plan, Ahrefs at $1,499 a month with SSO, access management, an audit log and a stated no training on your data.

Where we rank on this page's criterion, which is behind both leaders

We sell in this category and on the stated criterion we are not first, because we do not publish Microsoft Copilot at all. Read on 31 October 2026 our pricing page publishes five engines on the GEO plans, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews, with Claude included at a published 3 credits a check against 1 for the others. Gemini is there and Copilot is not, so a telecoms provider whose Windows and Microsoft 365 customers matter should buy Rankscale or Peec for that surface and we will not argue the point.

Two more published lines go against us for an organisation this size. We publish Logins included, 1, full access, where five of the vendors above publish unlimited seats, and we publish no single sign on at any tier. Our cadence is weekly on priority questions with 30 and 90 day cycles on the rest, where most vendors here publish daily and Rankscale publishes hourly as an option.

What our plans publish that the monitors do not is the production half: GEO Growth at $299 a month or Rs 11,799 with 100 buyer questions, 1,200 scheduled answers and 20 pages a month written and published, and GEO Scale at $599 with 300 questions, 3,500 answers, 40 pages, a Visibility API, questions asked in your city and in your language, and the source mix per market. For a provider whose coverage, tariff and bundle questions have no page answering them on your own domain, that is the half a dashboard cannot do.

Questions a telecoms provider asks about these tools

Which tool covers both Gemini and Microsoft Copilot on a plan I can just buy

Three of them. Rankscale, from Essentials at $20 a month sold yearly or Pro at $99, with both in one credit pool. OtterlyAI, at $29 for Lite plus a $9 a month Gemini add on, which is the cheapest monthly route to both. Peec, from Starter at $95, with the caveat that only 3 models can be active at once on every monthly tier.

Why does Copilot matter more for telecoms than for other industries

Because the business buyer lives in Microsoft 365 and the consumer buyer may be on a Windows laptop you helped sell. Coverage questions, bundle comparisons and business connectivity shortlists get asked wherever the assistant already is, and for that audience it is frequently Copilot.

How do I measure a sub brand rather than the group

OtterlyAI publishes brand variation tracking with unlimited brands and competitors on every tier. Peec publishes sub brand tracking. Rankscale gives each name its own brand dashboard slot, 10 of them on Pro at $99. Pick by whether you want the names in one report or in separate ones.

Is an existing social listening suite enough

Read the published navigation rather than the sales deck, and read what assistants currently say. In our own 1,260 reading count, Brandwatch came up four times, all on Gemini, and two of those four named it in order to exclude it from AI answer work. That is a small sample stated as a small sample, and it is a reason to test rather than assume.

Do any of them handle regional coverage differences

Rankscale publishes local results on its paid tiers and Peec publishes Local GEO. OtterlyAI publishes unlimited countries and languages without a sub national feature. For a network with regional availability, test whether the recorded answer actually changes when the location does.

What should a large team check before signing

Seats and single sign on, in that order, because they are the two things that turn a cheap plan into a slow procurement. Five vendors publish unlimited seats, one publishes single sign on on a self serve tier, and everybody else puts it behind a quote.

How we know this

We read the assistants rather than guessing what they do. In our own audit of 1,260 saved answers from ChatGPT and Gemini across the United States, the United Kingdom and India, 82.0% of every citation landed on a site the business itself owned, and review directories took 0.7%. Counted as one domain per reading, 16,516 of 20,143.

That is the whole asymmetry: the pages you own are the pages an assistant quotes back to a buyer. See the dated readings and the method on our proof page.

Find out whether assistants name your business, on your own domain and your own buying questions.

By Aditya Goel, Founder, AI Knows Us. Reviewed 1 November 2026.