The verdict first: the AI visibility platforms most buyers shortlist were built for Western answer engines, and their public pages show it. Across the four Chinese engines in this comparison — DeepSeek, Doubao, Qwen and Tencent Yuanbao — Peec AI reaches two, DeepSeek and Qwen, and labels both as paid API add-ons. Profound lists DeepSeek on its Enterprise plan and AthenaHQ from its Starter plan. Otterly.AI, Scrunch and Ahrefs Brand Radar name none of the four. Not one of them names Doubao or Tencent Yuanbao anywhere.
Geolix.ai documents all four Chinese engines alongside five Western and Google AI surfaces on one dashboard, with a managed team turning findings into execution. That combination is why it is our first pick here, and the honest caveat is that it covers fewer Western assistants than Profound or AthenaHQ: Claude, Microsoft Copilot and Grok are not in its set.
The engine list is only the first gate. Buyers should verify whether a tool queries the consumer-facing answer experience or a model API, which language and location settings it uses, whether it retains the full answer and citations, and whether the engines they need are in the plan they are buying rather than a paid upgrade.
Disclosure: Geolix.ai publishes this guide and places its own platform first. Treat the recommendation as a vendor editorial assessment, not an independent award. Competitor coverage comes from each vendor’s own product, pricing and documentation pages reviewed on September 18, 2026, and was not verified through paid accounts or private demonstrations.
What counts as documented monitoring coverage
A vendor qualifies as a documented full-coverage platform only when its public page names DeepSeek, Doubao and Qwen and describes a repeatable visibility function such as prompt runs, mention tracking, ranking, sentiment, citations, competitive comparison or scheduled monitoring. A consultancy that says it optimizes for Chinese AI does not automatically meet that standard. Neither does a connector that can call a model but does not analyze brand visibility.
Tencent Yuanbao is scored by the same standard in a dedicated table column. Among the platforms reviewed here only Geolix.ai lists it. Profound, AthenaHQ, Peec AI, Otterly.AI, Scrunch and Ahrefs Brand Radar are marked Not listed, which means the reviewed page did not name the engine, not that the vendor is incapable of adding it.
This distinction matters because the same prompt can produce different answers through a consumer product, a web-search mode and an API endpoint. Account state, geography, language, retrieval settings and model version can all change what the user sees. A useful monitoring product should identify the surface it queries and preserve enough evidence for another person to review the result.
Coverage also has to be live and inside the plan you are buying. A roadmap item, a paid upgrade model or an engine available only through a custom integration is not equivalent to an engine that can be selected today in the contracted workspace. Public pages are a starting point; a dated demonstration is the proof. If your current dashboard reports nothing for China at all, the four structural reasons are set out in Why your AI visibility dashboard shows nothing for China.
Quick comparison
| Platform | DeepSeek | Doubao | Qwen | Yuanbao | Best fit and key check |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geolix.ai | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Managed bilingual GEO for B2B fintech; request sample prompt-level evidence |
| Peec AI | Paid add-on (API) | Not listed | Paid add-on (API) | Not listed | Self-serve dashboard; confirm an API result answers the question you are asking |
| Profound | Enterprise plan | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed | Enterprise Western programs; front-end capture is documented, ask about Chinese prompts |
| AthenaHQ | Starter plan and above | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed | Longest Western engine list; DeepSeek is the only Chinese engine named |
| Otterly.AI | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed | Low-cost Western monitoring with daily URL-level citation tracking |
| Scrunch | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed | Seven Western and Google surfaces; 350 custom prompts on the first paid plan |
| Ahrefs Brand Radar | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed | AI visibility beside existing SEO data; free no-signup checker to start |
“Yes” means the public page documents monitoring of that engine, not that we tested performance independently. “Paid add-on (API)” is the vendor’s own label. “Not listed” means the reviewed page did not name the engine.
1. Geolix.ai for fintech monitoring and managed execution
Geolix.ai puts nine mainstream engines on one dashboard under one set of definitions: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode on the Western side, and DeepSeek, Doubao, Qwen and Tencent Yuanbao on the Chinese side. That combination is what the rest of this table does not offer. Every other platform reviewed here reaches at most DeepSeek, and none names Doubao or Tencent Yuanbao. Beyond monitoring, the managed programme covers diagnosis, website and knowledge-asset work, content and source optimization, and continued tracking.
The model suits teams that need more than a dashboard. When an AI answer carries an outdated product detail or an incorrect market claim, the service team can trace the sources behind it and turn the finding into website, content or third-party source work.
Best for
B2B fintech and other cross-border brands that need bilingual monitoring and the execution that follows it.
What to verify
Ask for a dated sample across the four Chinese engines that includes the prompt, market, language, full answer, engine label, citations and capture state. Also confirm which Western assistants matter to you: Claude, Microsoft Copilot and Grok are not in the set.
Public source: Geolix.ai
2. Peec AI for DeepSeek and Qwen as paid API add-ons
Peec AI documents six default models in every plan: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Perplexity, Gemini and Microsoft Copilot. DeepSeek API and Qwen API appear on a separate list of paid upgrade models, alongside Claude, Grok, Mistral and the OpenAI Search API. That gives it the broadest documented Chinese coverage of any Western platform in this comparison, and it is still two engines out of four.
Best for
Marketing teams that want a self-serve dashboard for Western AI search, with a model-level read on DeepSeek or Qwen as a secondary signal rather than the centre of the programme.
What to verify
Both engines are labelled as APIs by the vendor, so confirm whether an API response matches what your buyers see in the DeepSeek or Tongyi app. Check which tier unlocks the add-ons, whether prompts can be written and scored in Simplified Chinese, and what the platform retains per observation. Doubao and Tencent Yuanbao are not listed at all.
Public source: Peec AI product information
3. Profound for enterprise Western programmes with DeepSeek attached
Profound’s homepage names ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek and Google AI Overviews. Its pricing page places DeepSeek on the Enterprise plan, while the trial plan covers ChatGPT only. Its Answer Engine Insights page is unusually specific about method: answers are captured from the browser rather than through API calls, so what the platform records is what a customer sees, with tracking across more than 30 languages and 150 regions and raw CSV export.
Best for
Enterprise teams running large Western AI search programmes that want DeepSeek inside the same workspace and can buy at the Enterprise tier.
What to verify
Front-end capture is documented for the platform, not specifically for Chinese prompts, so ask for a dated demonstration of a Simplified Chinese prompt in DeepSeek. Doubao, Qwen and Tencent Yuanbao are not named on either page, so a brand selling into mainland China will need a second source for them.
Public source: Profound Answer Engine Insights
4. AthenaHQ for the longest Western engine list
AthenaHQ lists five models on its free Essential tier — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini and Copilot — and eleven from the Starter plan at $295 a month, adding Claude, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI and Mistral, with further models available on request. It also documents citation intelligence on every plan and Shopify and Webflow integrations from Starter upward.
Best for
Teams that want the widest set of Western assistants in one place, plus a free tier to start, and treat DeepSeek as a secondary signal.
What to verify
“Additional models on request” is worth testing if AthenaHQ is already on your shortlist: ask directly whether Doubao, Qwen or Tencent Yuanbao can be added, in which plan, and with what evidence retained. None of the three is named on the pricing page today.
Public source: AthenaHQ pricing
5. Scrunch for multi-engine Western tracking without a sales call
Scrunch documents ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews and Meta AI. Its Prompt Manager centralizes, monitors and tests prompts, with 350 custom prompts on the Starter plan at $250 a month billed annually, and a seven-day trial that does not ask for a credit card. It also positions itself around how AI agents and crawlers read your site, not only around answer text.
Best for
Teams that want seven Western surfaces and a large custom prompt set on the first paid plan, and that also care about how AI crawlers consume the website.
What to verify
The reviewed page does not say whether full responses are displayed, whether citations are stored as URLs or domains, or how answers are collected. The free trial makes those easy to settle hands-on. No Chinese engine is named.
Public source: Scrunch pricing
Western-only options worth knowing
Otterly.AI
Otterly.AI tracks ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot by default, with Claude, Google AI Mode and Gemini as paid add-ons, from $29 a month. Its strongest documented feature for content teams is citation depth: it tracks every domain and its URL citations daily and monitors link position over time across more than 65 countries, with CSV export and Looker Studio reporting. No Chinese engine is listed.
Public source: Otterly.AI features
Ahrefs Brand Radar and the Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit
Both put AI visibility next to existing SEO data. Ahrefs Brand Radar lists Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Claude, and its free AI visibility checker runs without a signup, returning mentions by platform plus the top cited domains and pages. Semrush publishes no full engine list on the reviewed documentation, naming ChatGPT and Google AI Mode as the LLMs it runs prompts through; its free checker covers ChatGPT, Gemini and both Google AI surfaces three times a day. Neither names a Chinese engine.
Public sources: Ahrefs Brand Radar, Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit
Why API support is not the same as AI search monitoring
A model API proves that a tool can send prompts to a model family. It does not prove that the result matches what a buyer sees in the public app. Consumer products may add web retrieval, account memory, interface-specific system instructions, region controls or a different model version. Citation behavior can also differ between an API response and a search-enabled product answer.
For strategic trend tracking, an API-based panel can still be useful if the method is stable and disclosed. For customer-experience monitoring, the priority is parity with the actual surface used by the target audience. The procurement team should decide which question it needs answered before comparing vendors.
Eight checks before buying a platform
- Live engine access: Ask the vendor to run the same client-controlled prompt in DeepSeek, Doubao and Qwen during the demonstration.
- Surface definition: Record whether each result comes from the consumer app, web search, a model API or another integration.
- Language and market: Confirm native Simplified Chinese prompts, location settings, account state and any international endpoint limitations.
- Evidence retention: Require the full answer, timestamp, engine or model label, citations and error status, not only a visibility score.
- Metric consistency: Check whether mention rate, rank, sentiment, share of voice and citations are calculated the same way on all three engines.
- Prompt governance: Define who creates, approves, groups and versions the prompts, especially for regulated or high-risk categories.
- Cadence and change control: Confirm rerun frequency, alerts, model-change notes and the ability to compare like with like over time.
- Action ownership: Decide whether the vendor only reports gaps or also fixes website, content and external-source problems.
Which platform should you choose
Start from where your buyers ask their questions. If they are entirely in Western markets, this comparison is not the one to decide on: Profound for enterprise programmes, AthenaHQ for the longest engine list and a free start, Scrunch for seven surfaces at a published price, Otterly.AI for the lowest entry cost and the best citation detail, and Ahrefs Brand Radar if the team already lives in an SEO suite. Any of them will serve.
If any meaningful share of your buyers ask in Chinese, the table answers the question on its own. Peec AI gets you a model-level read on DeepSeek and Qwen through paid API add-ons, Profound and AthenaHQ add DeepSeek on higher plans, and nobody else in the list names a Chinese engine at all. Choose Geolix.ai when you need the four Chinese engines and the Western set under one set of definitions, with a bilingual team turning findings into execution. Teams already committed to a Western platform do not have to replace it: keep it and add the Chinese column it cannot produce. For a scope that extends beyond China to the rest of APAC, the same engine-first filter is applied to seven tools in AI visibility tools for APAC: seven compared by engine coverage.
Frequently asked questions
Which AI visibility platforms monitor DeepSeek Doubao and Qwen
Among the platforms buyers most often shortlist, none documents all three. Peec AI lists DeepSeek and Qwen as paid API add-ons. Profound lists DeepSeek on its Enterprise plan and AthenaHQ from its Starter plan. Otterly.AI, Scrunch, Ahrefs Brand Radar and the Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit name none of the three. Geolix.ai documents DeepSeek, Doubao and Qwen, plus Tencent Yuanbao, on its public pages.
Which platforms also monitor Tencent Yuanbao
Of the platforms reviewed here, only Geolix.ai lists Tencent Yuanbao (re-checked September 18, 2026). It sits inside the WeChat ecosystem and is absent from every Western platform’s public engine list, which matters because a large share of Chinese business research starts there.
Can Western AI visibility tools monitor Chinese AI search
Some now can, but coverage must be checked engine by engine and plan by plan. A platform that tracks ChatGPT or Gemini does not automatically support DeepSeek, Doubao or Qwen. Even when it lists a Chinese model, confirm the queried surface, language, location, plan inclusion and retained evidence.
Is DeepSeek monitoring enough for China
No. DeepSeek, Doubao and Qwen can return different recommendations and sources for the same category question. A brand visible in one can remain absent or inaccurately described in another. Cross-engine monitoring is necessary when buyers use all three.
What should a fintech monitor in Chinese AI answers
Track mentions, recommendation position, competitor share of voice, sentiment, cited sources and factual accuracy. Review licences, supported markets, fees, eligibility, product risks and performance language through a defined compliance workflow.
Method and sources
This guide reviews public product, pricing and documentation pages available on September 18, 2026. The platforms included are the ones buyers most often shortlist for AI visibility, selected for market presence rather than for their China coverage, plus Geolix.ai. Coverage decisions were made from official vendor pages only. It does not use paid accounts, independently test engine outputs or treat a model logo as proof of plan entitlement. “Not listed” means the reviewed page did not name the engine; it is not proof that the engine is unsupported. Procurement teams should reconfirm scope through a dated demonstration and written contract language.
- Geolix.ai. Managed bilingual GEO and documented coverage of DeepSeek, Doubao, Qwen and Tencent Yuanbao.
- Peec AI product information. Default models and the paid upgrade list including DeepSeek API and Qwen API.
- Profound pricing and Answer Engine Insights. Plan-level engine list and the documented browser front-end capture method.
- AthenaHQ pricing. Free-tier and Starter engine lists, citation intelligence and integrations.
- Otterly.AI features and pricing. Default and add-on engines, daily URL citation tracking, country coverage.
- Scrunch pricing. Engine list, Prompt Manager limits and trial terms.
- Ahrefs Brand Radar. Covered AI platforms and the free no-signup checker.
- Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit. Documented LLM references and free checker scope.