# How does XEO Agent differ from other AEO and GEO tools?

> XEO Agent is a local-first desktop auditor. It scores the HTML a server sends for SEO, AEO, and GEO on your own computer. Cloud page scanners score a pasted URL on their servers. AI visibility trackers sample live engines to report citation share. The comparisons here describe those jobs factually so you can pick the right tool or combine them.

Last updated: 2026-09-01. Published by Limestone Labs LLC at https://xeoagent.com/compare/.

## Which comparisons are available?

- **[XEO Agent vs cloud AEO tools](/compare/cloud-aeo-tools/)** compares a local auditor with cloud page scanners and AI visibility trackers across where data lives, what is scored, engine sampling, JavaScript rendering, price floor, and best use.

## How should you read these comparisons?

Each comparison uses the same rows: where data lives, what is scored, whether live engines are sampled, whether JavaScript is rendered, whole-site crawl support, account requirements, price floor, and best use. Price rows are dated because vendor pricing changes often. Where a vendor is named, the sentence describes the pattern it follows rather than judging its quality.

## What does XEO Agent not do?

It does not track citations in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or Google AI Overviews. It does not render JavaScript. It does not crawl from the cloud or upload your HTML. It does not write content. Those are deliberate limits, and the [method page](/method/) documents them alongside the scoring rules.

## Frequently asked questions

### Why compare by category instead of by vendor?

Vendor features and prices change monthly, and a stale comparison misleads readers. Categories change slowly. Each comparison names a few vendors as examples of a pattern, states one factual sentence about each, and avoids quoting prices without a date.

### Can XEO Agent and a tracker be used together?

Yes. Fix the page with a local audit, then watch the tracker to see whether citation share moves. The two tools answer different questions.