Free toolFree AEO audit
An AEO audit checks whether AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews can crawl, extract, and cite a page. This free AEO audit tool is built for SaaS homepage, pricing, feature, docs, and comparison pages: it scores six AI-readiness dimensions, shows the failed checks with evidence, and gives copy-paste fixes.
Paste one SaaS page URL and see what prevents AI from using it as a source. Get your AI-readiness score, the exact failed checks, why each one matters, and the first fixes to ship - no signup, no credit card.
Last updated: July 8, 2026
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Free single-page AEO checker. No signup. We show the evidence before asking for email or payment.
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Evidence and fixes
Most AEO checkers hand you a number and stop. This free AEO audit shows the raw HTML, schema, and headings it read, tells you which of the six AI-readiness dimensions failed, explains why each failure keeps AI from citing you, and gives you a fix you can paste in today. You inspect the evidence before you unlock anything.
For SaaS pages with buyer intent
This AEO audit is for SaaS founders and founder-led growth teams who need to make specific pages easier for AI to extract and cite. It is most useful when you are improving a homepage, pricing page, feature page, comparison page, alternatives page, integration page, or docs page that should support buyer-intent AI answers.
| Page | Run the audit when | What you want back |
|---|---|---|
| Homepage | AI knows your category but does not explain your product clearly | Entity clarity, answer-first copy, SoftwareApplication schema |
| Pricing page | AI answers price/comparison prompts without citing your pricing page | Extractable pricing facts, last-updated signal, FAQ fixes |
| Feature page | A competitor gets cited for a use case you also support | Better answer block, proof examples, schema-to-content match |
| Comparison page | You rank in Google but AI quotes someone else's comparison | Citation signals, table structure, source clarity |
| Docs / integration page | AI answers implementation questions but skips your docs | Crawl access, clean HTML, concise task answers |
Six-dimension score
A page can rank on Google and still be impossible for AI to quote. This AEO audit scores the six things answer engines actually use to decide whether your page is safe to extract and cite.
| Dimension | What the AEO audit checks | Why it matters for AI citations |
|---|---|---|
| 1. AI crawler access | robots.txt rules for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended; server-rendered HTML vs JS-only; canonical & sitemap | If AI bots are blocked or your content only loads in JS, you can't be cited at all |
| 2. Structured data | Organization, SoftwareApplication, FAQPage, Article, BreadcrumbList JSON-LD; whether schema type matches the page | Schema is how AI reliably extracts your facts, price, and answers |
| 3. Answer structure | An answer-first paragraph in the first 100 words, question-style H2s, FAQ block, concise definitions, scannable lists/tables | AI quotes extractable answer blocks, not walls of text |
| 4. Entity clarity | Consistent brand/product/category naming, sameAs, author, and about signals | Ambiguous entities get skipped or mis-attributed in AI answers |
| 5. Citation signals | Original data, stats, examples, freshness/date, quotable passages, E-E-A-T markers | AI cites sources it can trust and quote verbatim |
| 6. Machine readability | Clear title/meta, heading hierarchy, clean extractable HTML, llms.txt presence | The easier your page is to parse, the more often it's used |
Beyond classic SEO checks
Classic SEO crawlers tell you a title tag is too long or a link is broken. They will not tell you that GPTBot is blocked in your robots.txt, that your JSON-LD type doesn't match the page, or that your answer isn't in the first 100 words. Those are the AEO and GEO signals that decide whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews can cite you. This AEO checker is built for exactly those gaps - it's a complementary layer on top of your Lighthouse or Screaming Frog run, not a replacement.
Sample report preview
This is close to a real report, not a marketing mockup. Your own AEO audit fills these fields with your SaaS page.
<head> has no JSON-LD. Only Open Graph tags found.First 100 words are a marketing tagline; no direct answer.No dates, no original data, no quotable stats.Passed checksPASSED - Crawl access (82) · Machine readability (71)
Locked after the free previewLocked until $1 unlock: 7 more fixes · site-wide scan · before/after retest history
Methodology and limits
The AEO audit is a page-level diagnostic, not a promise that ChatGPT will cite you. It checks observable blockers: crawler access, server-rendered content, structured data, heading and answer structure, entity clarity, citation signals, and machine readability. We show the raw evidence we found, link to the scoring methodology, and let you retest the same URL after fixes ship.
AEO, GEO, and SEO boundaries
| GEO | AEO | SEO | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Question it answers | Does AI recommend my brand? | Can AI extract & cite this page? | Can this page rank & earn clicks? |
| Level | Brand / across prompts | Page / technical | Page / keywords |
| Main signals | Mentions, citations, share of voice | Schema, answer structure, crawler access | Keywords, links, technical health |
| Where it lives on this site | AI Visibility Checker | This AEO audit | Your existing SEO stack |
They overlap, but they answer different questions. This tool is your AEO audit - it makes a page extractable and citable. To see whether AI actually recommends your brand across buyer prompts, run the AI Visibility Checker. For the full definitions, see our answer engine optimization and generative engine optimization guides when those pillar pages are published.
From score to shipped fix
Paste one SaaS page URL and get a six-dimension AI-readiness score.
Open the evidence drawer to see the raw HTML, schema, headings, and answer blocks the audit found.
Copy the recommended schema, answer block, FAQ, or llms.txt snippet into your page.
Re-run the same URL after shipping the fix and track what changed before adding the page to weekly AI visibility monitoring.
Manual checks vs repeatable audits
Lighthouse and Screaming Frog are great for classic SEO. But they can't tell you why an answer engine won't quote you. The AEO audit is built for that one job, and it makes fixing it repeatable.
Prioritize the fixes that move citations
When a page fails an AEO audit, the fix is almost never "write more." It is closing the specific machine-readability gaps, highest impact first:
SoftwareApplication + FAQPage JSON-LD that matches the page.last updated date and one quotable, original stat.llms.txt summary of your product facts.The free AEO audit shows your top 3 fixes; the paid plan unlocks the full backlog with impact and effort per task, plus weekly monitoring and retest tracking.
Free preview, transparent unlock
The single-URL AEO audit is free - no signup, no credit card. After you see the failed checks and top fixes, unlock the full fix backlog for $1 for 24 hours. It then renews at $79/month unless you cancel before the trial ends.
$1 today, then $79/month after 24 hours
Unlock Full Fix Backlog for $1Compare plansCancel anytime before renewal. We show the renewal time before checkout and email it after payment. Money-back if the audit isn't useful.
AEO Audit FAQ
An AEO audit checks whether AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews can crawl, extract, and cite a page. It scores schema, answer structure, crawler access, entity clarity, and citation signals.
Start with SaaS pages that should influence buyer prompts: homepage, pricing, feature, comparison, alternatives, integration, and docs pages.
Yes. The single-URL audit is free with no signup and no credit card. You can unlock site-wide auditing and the full fix backlog for $1.
The score combines crawl access, schema, answer structure, entity clarity, citation signals, and machine readability. Each failed check includes evidence and a recommended fix.
An AEO audit checks whether a page is extractable and citable. A GEO check measures whether AI recommends your brand across prompts. This tool does the AEO audit; the AI Visibility Checker does the brand-level GEO part.
Classic SEO tools check titles, links, and speed. An AEO audit checks AI-specific signals: GPTBot access, schema-to-content match, answer-first structure, and llms.txt.
It scores readiness for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overviews, and Copilot, based on their crawlers and citation behavior.
Yes. It flags whether GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended are allowed or blocked.
Yes. Run the AEO audit on any public URL to see why a competitor gets cited and you don't.
No. The AEO audit removes the technical blockers and shows fixes. No tool can guarantee an AI citation.
The free audit only needs a public URL. The page explains what is fetched before requesting email or payment, and private or login-only content is not required.
No. Just paste a URL. The single-page audit runs without an account.
The free audit covers one URL. Site-wide and bulk auditing are part of the paid console.
Fix the page AI skips
Your buyers are asking AI which tools to use, and AI can only cite pages it can read. Run the free AEO audit, see which of the six AI-readiness checks fail, and copy the fixes that make your page citable.
Free. No signup. Unlock the full report only after you see your failed checks.