# AEO Inspector

> Free AEO (answer engine optimization) grader. Checks whether ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Copilot and other AI answer engines can crawl, read and cite a website. No signup. Paid deep scans, 10-engine reports and weekly tracking for agents over x402 and MCP.

## Free check
- [Run a check](https://aeoinspector.com/?url=example.com): GET https://aeoinspector.com/?url={site}. Server-rendered HTML, redirects (303) to a shareable result page at https://aeoinspector.com/r/{id} (kept 30 days). 5 free checks per IP per day.
- Crawls the homepage plus up to 9 pages from the sitemap (top-level pages first).
- Score out of 100: AI crawler access in robots.txt (20), firewall lets AI user agents through (12), text visible without JavaScript (12), title/description/H1/canonical/Open Graph across pages (10), JSON-LD with required-property validation (10), indexability (8), entity signals: sameAs and Wikidata (7), answer-first question headings (6), freshness (4), TTFB and HTML size (4), XML sitemap (3), lang/hreflang (2), /llms.txt (2).
- Ready-to-paste fixes for each result (llms.txt draft, robots.txt allowing AI crawlers while keeping your disallows, Organization/WebSite/FAQPage JSON-LD): https://aeoinspector.com/r/{id}/fixes.txt
- Badge with the latest cached score (never starts a scan): https://aeoinspector.com/badge/{domain}.svg
- Includes one live Perplexity question while the daily pool (200 per day) lasts.

## Paid API (x402 v2, USDC on Base eip155:8453, pay to 0x2dAF658B01e257206375798a15832E9f547D65dD)
Call without payment to get the 402 challenge (PAYMENT-REQUIRED header). Invalid input is 400, never charged. Failed runs return 5xx and are not settled.
- GET https://aeoinspector.com/api/v1/scan?url={site}: $0.05. Deep scan as JSON: score, sections, checks, fixes, per-page data, entity/freshness/answers/speed, a live Perplexity sample, and the ready-to-paste kit.
- GET https://aeoinspector.com/api/v1/report?url={site} (same as GET https://aeoinspector.com/report?url={site}): $9. Asks 10 engines (ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Meta AI, DeepSeek, Mistral) 5 questions, each asked 3 times (150 answers): per-engine answers, mention rate, citations of the site (counted only when the engine returns your own domain as a source), visibility score, competitor share of mentions (overall and per engine) and the sources cited. Settles only if at least 7 engines answer.
- POST https://aeoinspector.com/api/v1/track?url={site}&email={email}: $19 prepaid for 4 weekly runs of the 10-engine report (first run immediately, then Mondays). Returns a private tracking_url (/t/{token}) with an SVG trend chart and competitor shifts. Settles only if the first run succeeds. Emails a confirmation, then a short result after each run.
- [OpenAPI](https://aeoinspector.com/openapi.json) · [x402 manifest](https://aeoinspector.com/.well-known/x402)

## MCP
- Endpoint: https://aeoinspector.com/mcp (streamable HTTP, stateless). Server card: https://aeoinspector.com/mcp/server-card and https://aeoinspector.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json. AI catalog: https://aeoinspector.com/.well-known/ai-catalog.json.
- Tools: scan_site ($0.05), full_report ($9), pricing (free). Payment in _meta["x402/payment"]; failed calls are not charged.

## Pages
- [Home and FAQ](https://aeoinspector.com/)
- [Pricing](https://aeoinspector.com/pricing): free checks, $0.05 API scan, $9 report, $19 for 4 weeks of tracking
- [Weekly tracking](https://aeoinspector.com/track): card checkout coming soon; x402 today