Compare Lighthouse Local vs. AI Peekaboo

A check is the unit to understand first. On AI Peekaboo one check is one prompt on one model for one brand, once, at $16.67 per 1,000 configured checks a month with a $29 minimum. The default setup is one brand with 40 prompts on three models every two days, and more brands, prompts, models or a faster cadence raise the count. ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode are standard models, while Claude answers come from the Claude API at 20¢ a check and Microsoft Copilot is another add-on. That's a transparent way to buy exactly the coverage you want, and it's the right trade when you already know which models and cadence your market needs.

Two questions follow for any vendor. Who decides which assistants are checked and how often? And once a gap shows up, who turns it into work? AI Peekaboo's action plan lists a priority and effort per task, which is a real head start if someone on your side will work through it.

With Lighthouse Local the coverage is settled before you start. Every plan checks ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI, sweeps every tracked question weekly and checks priority ones daily, so there's no model picker and no cadence slider to tune. Each gap lands on a ranked fix list in plain English, and our specialists make the fixes if you'd rather not.

AI Peekaboo's local tracking is real and specific. You pick one city per prompt from a list of more than 65,000, up to 10 local prompts per brand, and you get the answer text and a separate history for each. Location checks run on Google AI Mode today, and local answers never enter the headline score, the prompt table or the overview charts. Standard tracking measures every prompt from your brand's country. That works well when you want a clean national score and a handful of town-level readings beside it.

The question to ask any vendor is whether the town you serve is part of the number you report or a side panel next to it. For a local business those are very different dashboards, because the score is what you show an owner or a client.

At Lighthouse Local, local-intent questions are tracked by city and service area on every assistant we check, in the same view as your national questions, so a plumber in Austin can see whether ChatGPT names them when someone in Austin asks.

An agency plan usually means two things, room for several clients and a view that carries your brand. AI Peekaboo handles the first with a slider rather than a tier. There's no separate agency product, so you set the brand count, up to 150 on the public page, and each brand gets its own prompts, competitors and dashboard under one login and one bill. Read-only share links come with expiry and revocation, Looker Studio reports can carry your own theme, and white-label logo and colors switch on once the configured price reaches $100 a month. Three things to confirm in writing before you commit. How many brands you can buy on the public page before sales steps in, since its pages give different numbers. Whether client links can sit on your own domain, since its help center says they stay on AI Peekaboo's. And the price of the lead-capture audit, which is a white-label report on your own subdomain sold as a managed service. Cadence is also one setting for the whole workspace, so every client runs on the same schedule.

Ask any vendor whose domain the client sees and what one more client adds to the bill. For us, it's a white-label dashboard with a custom domain and unlimited client reports. Beacon is an embeddable AI visibility audit on your own site that captures leads, with published pricing rather than a quote. Set our agency plans beside a AI Peekaboo configuration at your client count and cadence.