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Known Agents, formerly Dark Visitors, is an analytics and access control tool for the bots and AI agents that visit websites. Built by Bit Flip LLC and used by more than 5,000 websites, it shows in real time which crawlers, scrapers and AI agents visit each page, among more than 2,000 known agents in 15+ categories. It also measures human visits referred by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity and other AI chats, generates a robots.txt that updates as new bots appear, blocks agents that ignore it through a WordPress plugin, and offers an Agent Identification API, a Reporting API and MCP access to reports.
Prices in October 2026, in US dollars per month: Free for 1 project and 100K events, Startup at $29, Growth at $299 and Enterprise on quote.
Pros: free plan for most sites, a large directory of identified bots, AI referral tracking, automatic robots.txt, APIs and MCP. Cons: measures bot visits and AI referrals but not brand mentions inside AI answers, no content, keyword or rank tracking features, price jump from $29 to $299.
Promptwatch is an AI search visibility and GEO platform for brands, SEO teams and agencies that want to know how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and other AI describe them. It tracks prompts across up to 11 AI models, shows a visibility score, share of voice, sentiment and competitor rankings, breaks down which pages and sources the AI cite, logs AI crawler visits in real time and uses content agents to write AEO articles based on real citation data.
Plans are billed in dollars: Essential at $95 a month, Professional at $245 and Business at $579, with a 7-day free trial on the first two and a free Explore plan; MCP and API access are included.
Pros: wide model coverage, crawler logs and visitor analytics, citation-based content agents, API and MCP. Cons: high entry price, few articles per month (0, 5 or 10), Business only on a demo, no white label shown.
Known Agents, formerly Dark Visitors, is an analytics and control tool for the bots and AI agents that visit websites. It shows in real time which crawlers, scrapers and AI agents visit your pages, measures visits referred by AI chats such as ChatGPT and Claude, generates an automatic robots.txt and offers APIs to identify agents.
In October 2026, Known Agents has a Free plan at $0 (1 project, 100K events), Startup at $29 per month (3 projects, 1M events), Growth at $299 per month (10 projects, 10M events) and Enterprise on quote. Prices are in US dollars with monthly billing.
No. Known Agents tracks AI bots visiting your site and the human visitors that AI chats send you, but it does not check whether your brand is mentioned or cited in AI answers. Sorank asks ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini your customers' questions every week and shows mentions, competing brands and the sources the AI use.
Promptwatch is an AI search visibility and GEO platform that tracks how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and other AI mention your brand. It shows a visibility score, share of voice, competitors and cited sources, logs AI crawler visits in real time and uses content agents to write AEO articles based on citation data.
Promptwatch costs $95 a month for Essential, $245 for Professional and $579 for Business. Essential and Professional include a 7-day free trial, Business is sold after a demo, and a free Explore plan is listed.
Yes, within limits. Promptwatch content agents write AEO articles based on the sources AI cite: none on Essential, 5 per month on Professional and 10 on Business. Sorank publishes 20 to 120 articles a month in topic clusters, with one-way backlinks and weekly AI tracking in one subscription.
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