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Cost Per AI Mention: $0.0072 — The Real Price of B2B Software Brand Visibility

Between 2026-09-03 and 2026-10-02, AIDailyPulse ran 390 AI visibility probes against Perplexity, querying a set of 13 keywords relevant to the monitored B2B software vendor. Each probe cost $0.0060 USD, bringing the total expenditure to $2.34. The vendor was mentioned by name in

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