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AI Visibility • Comparison

Orbator vs Semrush

Semrush is built for the blue-link era: keywords, rankings, backlinks. Orbator is built for how buyers actually search in 2026 — they ask an AI assistant and take the recommendation. Different axis, different scoreboard.

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What AI cites

In Open-source project management software, AI cites these 63 sources — are you on them?

Measured across 5 AI engines from 112 sampled answers. These are the products AI assistants recommend most in open-source project management software right now — the sources buyers see before they ever reach your site.

01
OpenProject
88.4% share · openproject.org
02
Plane
67.9% share · plane.so
03
Taiga
65.2% share · taiga.io
04
Redmine
58.9% share · redmine.org
05
Jira
48.2% share
06
Leantime
35.7% share · leantime.io
07
Trello
28.6% share · trello.com
08
Linear
27.7% share · linear.app

The axis that decides the sale

On this axisSemrushOrbator (AI Visibility)
Primary metric
AI visibility
Google keyword rank
AI recommendation share
Question it answers
AI visibility
Where do I rank?
Does AI recommend me?
Built for
AI visibility
The blue-link / SEO era
The AI-answer era
Directory submission
AI visibility
Not included
To sources AI actually cites
AI-citation tracking
AI visibility
Limited / add-on
Core — re-scored weekly
Keyword & backlink toolkit
Their edge
Deep, mature suite
Focused on AI visibility
Free diagnostic
AI visibility
Limited free tier
Free AI-visibility scan

Ranking #1 doesn't mean AI recommends you

Semrush is excellent at the question it was built for: where do I rank in Google? But a growing share of buyers never see the search results page — they ask an AI assistant and act on the recommendation. You can rank #1 and still be absent from every AI answer in your category. That gap is invisible to a rank tracker.

Orbator measures the AI axis

Orbator tracks recommendation share: how often AI engines recommend you when buyers ask, and which sources they cite to decide. Then it acts on it — submitting you to the cited sources you're missing and re-scoring weekly. It's not a replacement for an SEO suite; it's the layer the SEO suite doesn't cover.

Use both — but start where buyers start

Keep Semrush for keywords and backlinks if you have it. Add Orbator for the axis that now comes first in the buyer journey: the AI recommendation. Start with a free AI-visibility scan to see whether AI recommends you today.

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Is AI recommending you today?

Run one real query and see whether AI recommends you — and exactly which sources it read to decide. That's the gap Orbator closes.

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Orbator vs Semrush — FAQ

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