Aperture

Open-source AI visibility infrastructure.

Track how your brand appears (or doesn't) across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and other LLM-powered search engines. Self-hosted. Bring your own keys.

Free alternative to Profound and Peec AI.

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Why Aperture?

AI search engines are replacing traditional search for product recommendations, brand discovery, and purchase decisions. If an LLM doesn't mention your brand, you're invisible to a growing share of your customers.

Aperture lets you:

• Monitor — Track whether AI models recommend your brand for the queries that matter
• Compare — See which competitors get cited instead of you
• Audit — Run structured visibility audits across models, languages, and markets
• Track — Measure changes over time as you optimize your content

No vendor lock-in. No per-seat pricing. Your infrastructure, your data, your keys.

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Tracked AI Search Engines

Engine	Status
ChatGPT (OpenAI)	🟢 Supported
Perplexity	🟢 Supported
Google AI Overviews	🟡 Planned
Claude (Anthropic)	🟡 Planned

Supported LLM Providers (BYOK)

Aperture doesn't ship with API keys. Bring your own:

• OpenAI
• Anthropic
• Google (Gemini)
• Perplexity
• Any OpenAI-compatible endpoint (Ollama, vLLM, etc.)

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Use Cases

• Brands — Monitor whether AI recommends you or your competitors
• Agencies — Run client audits at scale without per-seat SaaS costs
• SEO/AEO teams — Track the impact of content optimization on AI visibility
• Researchers — Study LLM recommendation patterns across markets and languages

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Comparison

How Aperture compares to commercial AI visibility tools:

Feature	Aperture	Peec AI	LLMrefs	Semrush	Profound	Otterly AI
Self-hosted	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Open source	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
BYOK (bring your own keys)	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Multi-language queries	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
ChatGPT tracking	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Perplexity tracking	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅
Google AI Overviews	🟡 Planned	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Competitor benchmarking	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Citation/source tracking	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Sentiment analysis	🟡 Planned	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅
Your data stays on your server	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
No per-seat pricing	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
API/export	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Pricing	Free	€89/mo+	Free tier / paid	$$$+	Enterprise	Enterprise

Why self-host? Your audit queries, brand strategy, and competitive intelligence never leave your infrastructure. No vendor lock-in, no usage caps, no surprise pricing changes.

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Documentation

See DOCS.md for quick start guide, architecture, configuration, and roadmap.

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Contributing

Contributions are welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

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License

MIT

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Acknowledgements

Aperture is built by Anyin (安引), an AEO agency helping brands become visible in AI-powered search.