A score you can’t verify
is just a number.
AIRank and Deep AI Visibility both hand you a figure for how AI assistants see your business. Only one of them can survive the test that settles it — and the test takes sixty seconds, needs no account, and works on us too. Point any AI-visibility scanner at a domain that doesn’t exist. A real measurement has nothing to measure, so it fails. A generated number answers anyway. Watch which one you’re being sold.
Deep AI Visibility measures. Every scan makes live API calls to five AI systems, shows the per-model result, and ships each published Index ranking with timestamps, model IDs, and call counts — receipts, not adjectives. AIRank (airank.tech) sells a 47-point scanner and daily citation tracking from $29/month; on July 11, 2026 its free scan returned an AI Score of 45/100 for a domain that has never existed — the one result a live measurement can never produce. Pick the tool whose number you can check. Then check ours.
Scan a domain that doesn’t exist.
One move separates measurement from theater, and it works on any vendor — us included. A domain that has never existed has no homepage to fetch, no schema to audit, and no citation any model could have made. What comes back tells you everything.
Invent a domain
Make one up — made-up-plumbing-co-98765.com. It has never resolved, so no model has crawled it, cited it, or recommended it. There is, definitionally, nothing to find.
Feed it to the scanner
Run the vendor's free scan on it. A tool that genuinely fetches your page and polls the models has to come back empty here — no HTML to read, no citations to count. Empty is the correct answer.
Read the verdict
An error means the tool measures. A number means the number was invented — and so, most likely, were the rest. On July 11, 2026, airank.tech's free scan gave a nonexistent domain 45/100, and gave it again, unchanged, on every re-run. That is not a measurement. That is a template.
Our scanner passes this test by design: when a provider key is missing or a model is unreachable, the scan reports that provider as unavailable instead of inventing a number, and a site that no AI system mentions scores what it actually earns — including zero.
Dated. Reproducible. No adjectives.
Every AIRank line below is a direct observation of airank.tech’s own public pages on July 10–11, 2026 — quoted or paraphrased, never interpreted. We don’t characterize it. We just wrote down what it says, so you can check it yourself. That is the whole argument.
| Dimension | Deep AI Visibility | AIRank (airank.tech) |
|---|---|---|
| Where the score comes from | Live API calls to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and Perplexity on every scan; per-model status shown | Free scan returned "AI Score 45/100" for a domain that does not exist (tested 2026-07-11) |
| When a model can't be reached | Scanner reports the provider as unavailable — it never substitutes a number | Scan page shows "Polling ChatGPT · Claude · Perplexity · Gemini" for domains no AI system could have seen |
| Provenance | Timestamps, model IDs, call counts, and prompt methodology published with every Index run | "47-point audit" — the 47 checks are not enumerated anywhere on the site |
| Published rankings | AI Visibility Index: 380 live calls per run, per-engine mention counts, raw-answer receipts | Leaderboard states hourly refresh across 1,200 queries × 8 categories × 4 engines |
| Security claims | No compliance claims we don't hold | Homepage FAQ says "SOC 2 Type II"; their /security page lists SOC 2 Type 1 as a Q3 2026 target |
| Trademark | AIR Score™ — USPTO filing in progress, claimed as ™ until registered | Displays "AI RANK ®"; we found no live USPTO registration for the mark (searched 2026-07-10) |
| Customer evidence | Named, dated, first-party measurement data | Of three case-study domains, one does not resolve; another is described as "developer tools" on the homepage and an "AI writing workspace" on the blog |
| Price | Free scanner, no signup; engagements scoped to the work | $29–$199/mo self-serve (PayPal) |
We’d rather lose the wrong customer.
Choose Deep AI Visibility if…
- ✓You need to know what AI systems actually say about you — with per-model receipts you can show a boss, a board, or a client.
- ✓You want the score's methodology published: prompts, model IDs, timestamps, call counts.
- ✓You'd rather see an honest zero than a comfortable 62.
- ✓You want the fix engineered — entity architecture, schema, citations — not just a number.
Choose AIRank if…
- —You want the lowest possible monthly price and self-serve signup.
- —You've run the nonexistent-domain test yourself and are satisfied with the result.
- —You've asked them which models are queried, when, and with what prompts — and gotten answers with receipts.
Is Deep AI Visibility an alternative to AIRank?
Yes. Both products score how visible a business is to AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. The difference is how the score is produced. Deep AI Visibility's scanner makes live API calls to five AI systems on every scan and reports per-model status, timestamps, and model IDs — and returns an explicit error instead of a score when a provider is unavailable. When we tested AIRank's free scan on July 11, 2026, it returned an AI Score of 45/100 for a domain that does not exist, which a live measurement could not do.
How can I tell if an AI visibility score is real?
Run the nonexistent-domain test: give the tool a made-up domain that has never resolved and cannot have been crawled or cited by any AI system. A measured score must fail or return nothing. If the tool returns a numeric score, the score was generated without measuring anything. Then ask the vendor for provenance: which models were queried, when, with what prompts, and how many calls. A measurement has receipts; a number does not.
What does Deep AI Visibility measure that AIRank doesn't show?
Every Deep AI Visibility scan queries ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and Perplexity live and shows the raw per-model results: whether each system named you, who it recommended instead, real citation URLs from Perplexity's grounding, and a per-dimension score breakdown. Our published AI Visibility Index is built the same way — 380 live API calls per run, with model IDs, timestamps, and call counts published alongside the rankings.
Is AIRank cheaper than Deep AI Visibility?
AIRank's listed pricing starts at $29/month, which is inexpensive. Price is only meaningful if the underlying data is real, so we recommend running the nonexistent-domain verification test on any vendor — including us — before paying anything. Deep AI Visibility's scanner is free to run, requires no signup, and fails loudly rather than returning a score it didn't measure.
All observations of AIRank are based on the public pages of airank.tech and its free scan output as accessed July 10–11, 2026, and on a USPTO trademark register search conducted July 10, 2026; their product, claims, and filings may change — verify current details with AIRank directly. AIRank is a mark of its respective owner; this page is an independent comparison and is not affiliated with or endorsed by AIRank or MATO. Deep AI Visibility is a Deep AI Solutions Inc product.