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Rankscale: new features and launches

We confirmed 20 product launches from Rankscale since January 2025. The latest, Local Results, became available Oct. 1, 2026. We also record 2 new companies.

Updated . Launches from October 2024 to Oct. 1, 2026.

Rankscale sells AI visibility tracking to brands and agencies. It monitors brand mentions across many AI engines, including ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini. Reports track citations, sentiment, competitors and AI shopping placements as a visibility score over time, and an MCP server lets AI assistants use the account.

Site
rankscale.ai
Founded
2024
Category
AI visibility
Status
Active
Price
Essentials $20/mo, Pro $99/mo (7-day free trial), Growth $385/mo, Enterprise $780/mo; 15% off annual; custom plans.

Every dated launch, newest first

  1. Local Results

    Available Oct. 1, 2026.

    Tracks how often AI assistants recommend a brand's map listings.

    Features: AI-answer tracking.

    Source: Rankscale changelog.

  2. Meta Muse Spark engine

    Available Sept. 27, 2026.

    Tracks how Meta's Muse Spark model mentions and cites a brand.

    Features: AI-answer tracking.

    Source: Rankscale changelog.

  3. Query Fanout Insights

    Available Sept. 3, 2026.

    Dedicated Brand Details section ranking the internal searches AI engines run for tracked prompts, with activity-over-time and CSV/Sheets export.

    Features: AI-answer tracking.

    Source: Rankscale Changelog.

  4. AI assistant write access via MCP

    Available Aug. 22, 2026.

    Connected AI assistants (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) can now create/update search terms, topics and dashboard views, and activate tracking, not just read data.

    Features: MCP servers and connectors, MCP server.

    Source: Rankscale Changelog.

  5. Sources as a first-class visibility metric

    Available July 16, 2026.

    Dashboards now count when an owned URL supported an AI answer even if the brand was not named.

    Features: AI-cited sources.

    Source: Rankscale (Changelog, 16 Jul 2026).

  6. Track sponsored ads in AI shopping answers

    Available June 17, 2026.

    Tracks sponsored ad placements ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, and Google AI Overview show for tracked queries, with an advertiser leaderboard and ad share of voice.

    Features: AI-answer tracking.

    Source: Rankscale Changelog.

  7. Rankscale MCP Server

    Available June 11, 2026.

    Authenticated remote MCP server lets AI assistants like Claude and Cursor query a brand's AI visibility data directly.

    Features: MCP servers and connectors, MCP server.

    In the skills library.

    Source: Rankscale Changelog.

  8. Traffic intelligence for the AI era

    Available May 20, 2026.

    Shows which AI engines send visitors to a site, surfaces funnel/FAQ gaps and decaying content, and gives prioritized SEO opportunities.

    Features: AI-answer tracking.

    Source: Rankscale Changelog.

  9. Custom Dashboards

    Available May 10, 2026.

    Users build dashboards from citation, sentiment, shopping and source widgets, save views, share them read-only and export to PDF.

    Features: Reporting and measurement.

    Source: Rankscale (Changelog, 10 May 2026).

  10. Metrics API and Looker Studio connector

    Available May 9, 2026.

    Rankscale published a documented Metrics API and a Google Looker Studio connector so teams can build their own reports.

    Features: Reporting and measurement.

    Source: Rankscale (Changelog, 9 May 2026).

  11. Shopping analysis: your AI share of shelf

    Available March 19, 2026.

    Tracks how products show up in AI shopping results, prices, and merchants across ChatGPT and Google AI Mode.

    Features: AI-answer tracking.

    Source: Rankscale Changelog.

  12. GEO analytics skill for OpenClaw (rs-geo-analytics)

    Available March 18, 2026.

    Skill that lets an OpenClaw agent run Rankscale AI search visibility analytics from the terminal.

    Features: MCP servers and connectors, AI-answer tracking, Agent skill.

    In the skills library.

    Source: Rankscale blog.

  13. Live Google AI Overview snapshots & search query fan-out

    Available March 11, 2026.

    Google AI Overview results now come from live rendered snapshots with a full Web View and search query fan-out; adds xAI Grok tracking.

    Features: AI-answer tracking.

    Source: Rankscale Changelog.

  14. Grok tracking

    Available March 11, 2026.

    Tracks how xAI Grok mentions and cites a brand.

    Features: AI-answer tracking.

    Source: Rankscale changelog.

  15. AI Page Audit v2

    Available March 10, 2026.

    Rebuilt page-auditing engine that analyzes pages in parallel for AI-visibility factors, keeps full audit history, and exports to PDF.

    Features: AI-answer optimization.

    Source: Rankscale Changelog.

  16. Global Affiliate Partner Program

    Announced November 2025.

    Rankscale launched its Global Affiliate Partner Program.

    Source: Rankscale: Facts & Entity Definition.

  17. Version 2.0: Sources Box Analysis and Query Fan Out

    Available October 2025.

    Rankscale shipped v2.0, introducing 'Sources Box Analysis and Query Fan Out.'

    Source: Rankscale: Facts & Entity Definition.

  18. Rankscale 2.0: Sources Box Analysis

    Available October 2025.

    Shows which sources and domains AI engines cite in answers (Sources Box Analysis and Query Fan Out).

    Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

    Source: Rankscale (Facts page).

  19. Rankscale GmbH Registered

    Announced July 22, 2025.

    Rankscale GmbH registered in the Austrian Firmenbuch (FN 658253w); official product launch the same month.

    Source: Rankscale: Facts & Entity Definition.

  20. Official product launch of Rankscale (AI visibility tracking)

    Available July 2025.

    Rankscale left its January 2025 early-access beta and launched the paid product.

    Features: AI-answer tracking.

    Source: Rankscale (Facts page, corporate timeline).

  21. Early Access Program (Beta)

    Available January 2025. In beta.

    Rankscale's Early Access Program (Beta) launches, ahead of formal company registration.

    Features: AI-answer tracking.

    Source: Rankscale: Facts & Entity Definition.

  22. Project Inception

    Announced October 2024.

    Work on Rankscale begins, per the company's own corporate timeline.

    Source: Rankscale: Facts & Entity Definition.

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