Author: Omer Faruk Celik

Anthropic crossed a $30 billion revenue run-rate in early 2026, with roughly 30 million monthly active users on Claude (Anthropic and Spotlight, 2026). Inside enterprise buying teams and developer workflows, Claude has quietly become the AI assistant of choice for a high-value audience — which makes how Claude talks about your brand a question worth answering.

The catch: ranking in Claude works nothing like Google, and nothing like Perplexity either. Claude’s baseline answers come from training data; its web tool fires only when the model decides it needs fresh information, and pulls from Brave Search rather than Google. Measuring Claude visibility means measuring appearance — citations, brand mentions, prompt-level share of voice. The eight tools below cover that job at different price points and depths. If a starting point with no commitment helps, the free Claude rank tracker covers citations and mentions across a set of prompts with no credit card and no time limit.

TL;DR — best Claude rank trackers by use case

• Geoptie — best for marketing teams that want multi-engine Claude tracking on a flat-priced entry tier
• LLMrefs — best value: 11 engines including Claude on a single €79 tier with a keyword-led methodology
• Mangools AI Search Watcher — best for SEOs who want Claude tracking bundled with a traditional SEO suite under $40

Those three cover most buyers. The full comparison and the four-question framework are below.

Quick comparison table

Tool	Best for	AI engines covered	Where Claude lives	Starting price
Geoptie	Marketing teams that want multi-engine Claude tracking on a flat entry tier	Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini	Every paid tier from Starter	$49/mo
LLMrefs	SEO teams that want to track AI visibility by keyword rather than by prompt	11 engines on a single tier (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Perplexity, Grok, Copilot, Meta AI, DeepSeek, ChatGPT Search)	Single tier — Claude included	€79/mo
Promptwatch	Teams that want daily Claude refresh with MCP access at the $99 mark	9 models available; paid plans choose 4 at a time	Essential and above (one of four chosen models)	$99/mo
Mangools AI Search Watcher	Solo SEOs who want Claude tracking bundled with a traditional SEO suite	Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews	Every paid bundle from Basic	$30.50/mo
Rankscale	Founders running their own generative-search optimisation at the lowest paid floor	17+ engines (Claude costs 8× base rate per query)	Essentials and above	$20/mo
AthenaHQ	Brands wanting Claude on a credit-pool model with the broadest self-serve engine list (8 LLMs)	Up to 8 major LLMs including Claude on Self-Serve	Self-Serve and above	$295/mo Self-Serve
Scrunch	SEO and content teams that also need to monitor how AI crawlers access their site	ChatGPT, Perplexity, AIO, Copilot (Core); Claude, Gemini, Meta AI, AI Mode, Grok (Enterprise)	Enterprise only	$300/mo Core
Peec AI	Brand teams focused on how Claude describes them, not just whether Claude links them	Choose 3 of 7 on self-serve tiers; Claude on Enterprise via API	Enterprise only	$95/mo Starter

All pricing is monthly-billed. Two of the eight tools below — Scrunch and Peec — gate Claude behind an Enterprise tier with custom pricing. The other six include Claude on a self-serve, published-price tier.

What “tracking Claude” actually means — four questions, one budget

Two Claude trackers can report completely different numbers for the same brand, and both can be correct. They are answering different questions. The four-question framework below clarifies which type of tool fits which buyer.

Question	Tracker type	Why it matters for Claude
Does Claude name my brand in its answer?	Brand-mention tracking	Claude writes long, prose-heavy answers and names brands without linking them. This is the dimension that matters most.
Does Claude cite my page as a source?	Citation / source tracking	Web-tool citations are higher-intent but rarer than mentions; citation-only tools systematically undercount Claude visibility.
Where does my brand rank across the prompts that matter?	Prompt-level tracking	The closest analog to traditional SEO — share of voice across a defined query set.
Can Claude actually find my content?	Crawler / indexability tracking	Two crawlers (ClaudeBot for training, anthropic-ai for retrieval) and a separate Brave Search index Claude reads from when its web tool fires.

Three implications follow from this:

Citation and mention are different metrics, and the gap is wider for Claude than for any other engine. Claude prefers prose to bullet-with-source lists, so it often names a brand without dropping a link. If one tool reports 40% Claude visibility and another reports 8%, the first is counting mentions in the answer text and the second is counting URL citations. Both can be right.

Brave indexing is foundational and routinely overlooked. Strong Google rankings do not automatically translate to Brave coverage, and Claude’s web tool reads from Brave. Most trackers do not test this layer at all.

The strongest setups combine at least two of the four question types. The tool list below flags which questions each one actually answers.

1. Geoptie

Best for marketing teams that want multi-engine Claude tracking on a flat entry tier.

Tracking types: citation, brand mention, prompt-level.

Geoptie tracks how a brand appears across Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini — all four engines included on every paid plan, starting at $49/mo. Most multi-engine competitors gate Claude behind enterprise pricing or skip it entirely, so an entry tier that covers Claude alongside the other three is unusual. The platform combines per-prompt citation and mention tracking, competitor benchmarking, and sentiment scoring in one workspace, plus a set of free diagnostic tools.

Key features

• Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini on every paid tier
• Per-prompt Claude citation and mention tracking with daily refresh
• Competitor share-of-voice benchmarking
• Sentiment scoring on every tracked Claude response
• Multi-brand workspaces (10 on Professional, unlimited on Enterprise)
• CSV and PDF exports
• Free standalone trackers for Claude, ChatGPT, and Perplexity plus a free GEO audit

Pricing

• Starter — $49/mo ($41/mo billed annually). 15 prompts, 2 brands.
• Professional — $99/mo ($83/mo annually). 100 prompts, 10 brands.
• Enterprise — $199/mo ($166/mo annually). 400 prompts, unlimited brands.

Pros

• Full Claude coverage on the $49 entry plan alongside three other engines
• Affordable scaling — Professional gives ~7× the prompts for ~2× the price
• Agency-friendly: 10 brand workspaces on the $99 tier

Cons

• Four engines, not the 8+ that AthenaHQ covers at the higher self-serve tier
• No dedicated ClaudeBot crawler-log tracking — only Scrunch does this well
• Brand-mention sentiment scoring is less granular than Peec’s, which specialises in this dimension

2. LLMrefs

Best value: 11 engines including Claude on a single tier with a keyword-led methodology.

Tracking types: citation, brand mention, keyword-led prompt-level.

LLMrefs takes a keyword-first approach to AI visibility. Instead of asking users to write prompts manually, it imports SEO keyword lists and auto-generates fan-out prompts that reflect how real users talk to chatbots. Brand rankings, share-of-voice, and citation sources are aggregated and weighted across those prompts for statistical significance — one keyword maps to a confident visibility score rather than a noisy per-prompt readout. Customers include eBay, IKEA, NVIDIA, Shopify, HubSpot, Klarna, Twilio, Washington Post, and Zoom.

Key features

• 11 AI engines on a single tier with no per-engine gating, Claude included
• Keyword-led methodology — imports SEO keywords, generates prompts automatically
• Aggregated share-of-voice and position metrics across prompts
• Full citation source list per keyword
• Geo-targeting across 50+ countries and 20+ languages
• Unlimited projects and unlimited team seats
• CSV export and API access

Pricing

• All in One — €79/mo. 500 prompts, all 11 engines, 7-day free trial, cancel anytime.

There is no Pro or Enterprise upsell — LLMrefs runs on the single tier.

Pros

• Cheapest tool on this list that ships Claude without engine gating
• Strongest enterprise customer base on this list at the sub-€100 price point
• Keyword-led methodology removes prompt-writing overhead

Cons

• Single-tier pricing hits a 500-prompt ceiling sooner than multi-tier platforms
• Aggregated scoring is less granular than the per-prompt drill-downs in Peec or Promptwatch
• EUR pricing — USD-only teams will see a small FX premium

3. Promptwatch

Best for teams that want daily Claude refresh with MCP access at the $99 mark.

Tracking types: citation, brand mention, prompt-level, AEO content generation.

Promptwatch covers Claude alongside eight other AI engines, with daily-refresh tracking on every paid tier and MCP (Model Context Protocol) access from the $99 Essential plan upward. The structural constraint: paid plans track 4 of 9 supported models at a time, so Claude is one of four choices alongside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Mode, AI Overviews, Meta, DeepSeek, and Grok. Customers include Duolingo, Typeform, Yelp, Shutterstock, and Monks.

Key features

• 9 models available; paid plans track 4 (Claude selectable on Essential and above)
• Daily refresh on every paid tier
• MCP access from $99 Essential — rare in this category
• AEO Articles content generation included (5/15/30 articles per month by tier)
• Country-level tracking on Essential; state and city-level on Professional and above
• Agent Analytics and API access on Professional and Business

Pricing

• Explore — free, ChatGPT only, 10 prompts. No Claude on the free tier.
• Essential — $99/mo. 1 project, 50 prompts, 4 chosen models, 5 AEO Articles/mo.
• Professional — $249/mo. 2 projects, 150 prompts, 15 AEO Articles/mo, API access.
• Business — $579/mo. 5 projects, 350 prompts, 30 AEO Articles/mo.

Pros

• Claude on the $99 Essential tier with daily refresh — rare at this price
• Content-generation layer included in the base subscription
• Strong customer logos for the tier

Cons

• 4-of-9 engine cap means tracking Claude trades against another model on the same plan
• 50 prompts on Essential is tight for fully-built prompt libraries
• Less sentiment depth than Peec

4. Mangools AI Search Watcher

Best for solo SEOs who want Claude tracking bundled with a traditional SEO suite under $40.

Tracking types: brand mention, prompt-level.

Mangools added AI Search Watcher PRO to its existing SEO bundle (KWFinder, SERPChecker, SERPWatcher, LinkMiner). Claude tracking ships on the Basic tier alongside the full Mangools SEO toolkit, which makes the bundle hard to beat on a per-feature-dollar basis once an SEO already wants Mangools. The trade-off versus dedicated AEO specialists is depth — lighter sentiment analysis and a smaller AEO feature surface — but the price is roughly a third of LLMrefs and a sixth of Promptwatch.

Key features

• Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews in AI Search Watcher PRO
• Up to 500 prompts monitored and unlimited monitors on Basic
• Full Mangools SEO suite included with every tier
• Free AI Search Grader for a no-account snapshot across eight LLMs
• Clean UI with low setup overhead

Pricing

• Basic — $30.50/mo monthly ($19.83/mo billed annually). 500 prompts, no extra seats.
• Premium — $40.50/mo. Same Claude tracking; 3 extra seats.
• Agency — $70.50/mo. 5 extra seats; agency-oriented.
• AI Search Grader — free, one-shot snapshot.

Pros

• Cheapest paid bundle on this list once the SEO tools are factored in
• Free AI Search Grader is the lowest-friction Claude demo from any vendor
• Strong fit for SEOs who already want Mangools’ classic toolkit

Cons

• AI Search Watcher PRO is bundle-only — no standalone purchase
• Lighter sentiment and citation depth than dedicated AEO tools
• Less suited as a long-term enterprise tool

5. Rankscale

Best for founders running their own generative-search optimisation at the lowest paid floor.

Tracking types: citation, brand mention, prompt-level.

Rankscale offers the cheapest paid entry in the category. Claude is included on the $20 Essentials plan, alongside competitor benchmarking and citation tracking across 17+ AI engines. The catch is the credit-pool model: Pro at $99/mo includes 1,200 credits, but per-engine rates are uneven. ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode cost 0.25 credits per run; DeepSeek costs 1; Claude costs 2 — eight times the base rate. A Claude-heavy tracking cadence depletes the pool fast.

Key features

• 17+ engines tracked (including Claude, with credit-cost asymmetry)
• Mention trends, citations, and competitor benchmarking
• Lightweight interface for founders and consultants
• Free trial on Pro

Pricing

• Essentials — $20/mo. Claude included.
• Pro — $99/mo. 1,200 credits per month.
• Growth / Enterprise — custom.

Pros

• Lowest paid floor in the category at $20/mo
• Claude included on the cheapest paid plan
• Quick to set up

Cons

• Credit math means Claude usage scales spend faster than other engines
• Smaller team and ecosystem than the established platforms
• Reporting depth scales quickly past the entry tier

7. Scrunch

Best for SEO and content teams that also need to monitor how AI crawlers access their site.

Tracking types: citation, brand mention, prompt-level, AI-crawler analytics.

Scrunch is the AI-crawler analytics specialist of this list. It exposes named coverage of ClaudeBot, GPTBot, and PerplexityBot — which pages they crawl, how often, what they extract — alongside citation and mention tracking on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Copilot on the Core tier. The Claude caveat is significant: Claude visibility tracking is Enterprise-only on Scrunch. Core covers four engines, none of them Claude. For technical SEO teams who want crawler-log data first and Claude visibility second, Scrunch is the strongest fit; for everyone else, the Claude gate is a real friction. See the Scrunch AI alternatives breakdown for the broader comparison.

Key features

• Named ClaudeBot, GPTBot, PerplexityBot crawler analytics on Core
• Citation, mention, and sentiment tracking
• Persona-based prompt sets
• Page-level audits
• Brand-share-of-voice reporting

Pricing

• Core — $300/mo ($250/mo billed annually). 4 engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AIO, Copilot), 350 custom prompts, 3 seats.
• Growth — $500/mo ($417/mo annually). 5 seats, 700 custom prompts.
• Enterprise — custom. Adds Claude, Gemini, Meta AI, AI Mode, Grok.

Pros

• Best AI-crawler analytics in the category at a published price
• Strong technical SEO orientation (llms.txt, crawler segmentation)

Cons

• Claude requires Enterprise; the published $300 Core tier does not include Claude visibility
• Higher entry price than the dedicated Claude-on-self-serve tools above
• No free trial; sales-led for Enterprise

8. Peec AI

Best for brand teams focused on how Claude describes them, not just whether Claude links them.

Tracking types: brand mention, prompt-level, sentiment.

Peec’s sentiment scoring is the strongest in this category — it tracks how AI describes a brand (industry leader, budget alternative, cheap knockoff) rather than just whether it names you. The caveat for Claude buyers is the gating model: Peec’s published self-serve tiers cap engine selection at 3 of 7 (ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Copilot, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok), and Claude Sonnet 4 is only available on the Enterprise tier via API access. If sentiment depth is the primary need and budget allows for an Enterprise sales conversation, Peec is the right pick; otherwise the lower-cost tools above ship self-serve Claude. See the Peec AI alternatives comparison for context.

Key features

• Sentiment scoring across answer engines (best-in-list for Claude framing)
• 7 self-serve engines, choose 3 per project
• Claude Sonnet 4 and GPT-5 Search available on Enterprise via API
• Daily prompt updates and competitor benchmarking
• Multi-language and country-level breakdown
• Looker Studio integration; unlimited user seats

Pricing

• Starter — $95/mo (€89/mo). 50 prompts, choose 3 of 7 non-Claude models.
• Pro — $245/mo. 150 prompts.
• Advanced — ~$495/mo. 350 prompts.
• Enterprise — custom. Claude Sonnet 4 and GPT-5 Search via API.

Pros

• Best-in-class sentiment depth — answers “how does Claude frame us?”
• Unlimited user seats on every plan
• Strong multilingual and regional analytics

Cons

• Claude requires Enterprise — never appears on the self-serve tiers
• 3-of-7 cap means engine selection trade-offs even at higher tiers

6. AthenaHQ

Best for brands wanting Claude on a credit-pool model with the broadest self-serve engine list.

Tracking types: citation, brand mention, prompt-level, content optimization.

AthenaHQ ships Claude on its $295 Self-Serve tier alongside seven other engines — one of the few self-serve tools in this category to do so. Pricing is credit-based rather than flat: Self-Serve includes 3,600 monthly credits plus a $300/month free credit allowance, with add-on credits available for higher volumes. Each AI response consumes credits depending on the engine being queried. Customers include SoFi, Coinbase, Twilio, and PagerDuty. See the AthenaHQ alternatives comparison for the wider context.

Key features

• Flexible AI visibility across up to 8 major LLMs including Claude on Self-Serve
• On-page and off-page GEO analysis in one workspace
• Competitor monitoring and impersonation detection
• Granular authority and citation intelligence
• Dynamic AI crawling — finds lost or hidden parts of a website
• AI blindspot detection
• Unlimited seats with role-based access control (RBAC)

Pricing

• Self-Serve — $295/mo. 3,600 credits + $300/mo free credit allowance. Up to 8 LLMs including Claude. Add-on credits available. First-month promo currently 67% off.
• Enterprise — custom. Adds LLM traffic analytics, self-improving content workflows, AI agent with Deep Research, Athena Citation Engine, SAML/OIDC SSO, audit logs, dedicated GEO specialist, API access.

Pros

• Claude on a self-serve, published-price tier — broadest self-serve engine count (8) on this list
• $300/mo free credit allowance softens the headline $295 floor
• Unlimited seats with RBAC on the entry tier is unusual at this price

Cons

• $295 is the highest published self-serve entry price in this category
• Credit-based pricing means usage forecasting is harder than with flat plans
• No free trial; the first-month promo functions as the trial substitute

How to choose the right Claude tracker

The right tool depends on which of the four question types matters most, the team’s existing stack, and budget.

• Multi-engine Claude on a flat-priced entry tier: Geoptie. Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini on the $49/mo Starter.
• All 11 engines including Claude on a single tier: LLMrefs at €79/mo, with the keyword-led methodology.
• Daily-refresh Claude tracking with MCP access at $99: Promptwatch Essential.
• Cheapest paid Claude tracking when an SEO suite is also wanted: Mangools Basic at $30.50/mo monthly.
• Lowest paid floor at $20/mo: Rankscale Essentials (with the credit-math caveat).
• Broadest self-serve engine list (8 LLMs) including Claude: AthenaHQ Self-Serve at $295/mo, credit-based.
• ClaudeBot crawler analytics: Scrunch, on the Enterprise tier where Claude is unlocked.
• Sentiment depth on how Claude describes a brand: Peec AI Enterprise.
• Agencies tracking many client brands: Geoptie Professional — 10 brand workspaces at $99/mo.
• Free Claude citation and mention tracking: the Claude rank tracker — no credit card, no time limit.

Frequently asked questions

What to do next

The first step in any Claude program is seeing where a brand stands today: which prompts surface it, where Claude mentions it, and how it compares to competitors. The fastest way is the free Claude rank tracker or a free GEO audit for the broader four-engine picture.

From there, match the tool to the real question. For broad coverage at the lowest entry price, Geoptie tracks Claude alongside ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini from $49/mo. For deeper background, see AEO vs GEO vs SEO and the sister roundups of the best LLM tracking tools, best AEO tools, and best Perplexity rank tracker tools.

Forecasting a monthly bill on a credit-pool plan only works if every credit buys the same thing — and on Rankscale, that calculation isn’t symmetrical. Rankscale is an AI visibility tracker with the broadest engine breadth in the category (17+ engines, with enterprise customers including Bosch, UBS, and WPP Media), sold on a credit-pool model where Pro at $99/mo buys 1,200 credits a month. The catch is that engines don’t cost the same: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode bill at 0.25 credits per run, DeepSeek at 1, and Claude at 2 — eight times the base rate. A weekly cadence across the four base engines uses roughly 217 credits a month; adding Claude at the same cadence adds another 433. The pool runs dry faster than the 1,200 figure suggests once Claude or DeepSeek enters the mix.

The eight alternatives below price as a flat monthly line item, with no per-engine credit weighting to model. The free AI rank tracker covers ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini at no cost if a zero-commitment option is useful first.

TL;DR — best Rankscale alternatives by use case

• Geoptie — flat per-plan pricing across the four major engines, with no per-engine credit asymmetry. Claude included on the $49 Starter at the same rate as ChatGPT.
• Otterly AI — best for solo SEOs and small teams that want the cheapest paid entry at $29/mo
• Profound — best for enterprise teams that need the deepest engine coverage with compliance

The full comparison is below.

Quick comparison table

Tool	Best for	AI engines covered	Pricing model	Starting price
Geoptie	Marketing teams that want flat-priced multi-engine AI visibility	ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini	Flat per-plan	$49/mo
Otterly AI	Solo SEOs testing AI visibility at the cheapest paid entry	ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot (4 included); AI Mode and Gemini as paid add-ons	Flat per-plan	$29/mo Lite
Profound	Enterprise teams needing the deepest engine breadth with compliance	ChatGPT (Starter); + Perplexity + AI Overviews (Growth); 10 engines incl. Claude (Enterprise)	Flat per-plan; Enterprise custom	$99/mo Starter
Peec AI	Brand teams focused on how AI describes their brand, with sentiment scoring	ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Copilot, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok — choose 3 of 7 on self-serve; Claude Enterprise-only via API	Flat per-plan + engine add-ons	$95/mo Starter
Scrunch	Technical SEO teams that need AI-crawler analytics alongside citation tracking	ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AIO, Copilot (Core); Claude, Gemini, Meta AI, AI Mode, Grok (Enterprise)	Flat per-plan	$300/mo Core ($250 annual)
SE Ranking AI Search	SEO teams that want AI visibility folded into a full SEO suite	ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Perplexity	Flat plan + flat add-on	$218/mo combined
Ahrefs Brand Radar	Established SEO teams already in the Ahrefs ecosystem	AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini, Grok	Flat per-plan	$398/mo Select
Semrush AI Toolkit	SEO teams that want AI visibility inside their existing Semrush workflow	ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini, Perplexity (Claude Enterprise-only)	Per-domain add-on, multiplied per seat	$99/mo per domain per user

All pricing is monthly-billed. Annual discounts apply on most plans.

1. Geoptie

Best for marketing teams that want flat-priced multi-engine AI visibility without credit metering.

Geoptie tracks brand visibility across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini — all four engines on every paid tier from $49/mo. Compared to Rankscale Pro at $99/mo, Geoptie Professional at $99/mo gives 100 prompts across the four major engines with no credit calculator, no per-engine cost asymmetry, and no risk of a Claude-heavy cadence draining the budget mid-month. The monthly bill is the same line item regardless of which engines are queried.

Key features

• Four engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini) on every paid tier
• Citation and brand-mention tracking with daily refresh
• Competitor share-of-voice across the same prompt set
• Multi-brand workspaces — 10 on Professional, unlimited on Enterprise
• Free single-engine rank trackers (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity) plus a free GEO audit
• CSV and PDF exports on every plan

Pricing

• Starter — $49/mo ($41/mo billed annually). 15 prompts, 2 brands.
• Professional — $99/mo ($83/mo annually). 100 prompts, 10 brands.
• Enterprise — $199/mo ($166/mo annually). 400 prompts, unlimited brands.
• Add-on prompt pack: +100 prompts at $99/mo.

Pros

• Flat per-plan pricing — no credits, no per-engine rate asymmetry
• Claude included at $49 Starter without the 8×-rate-per-query penalty
• Free single-engine trackers with no credit card and no time limit

Cons

• Four engines vs Rankscale’s 17+ engine list (the practical gap is narrower once Rankscale’s credit math is applied to a sustainable cadence)
• No dedicated ClaudeBot or GPTBot crawler-log analysis
• Brand-mention sentiment scoring is less granular than Peec’s specialism

2. Otterly AI

Best for solo SEOs and small teams that want the cheapest paid entry at $29/mo.

Otterly is the cheapest paid entry on this list. Lite at $29/mo covers four engines (ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot) with 15 prompts and daily tracking. For a Rankscale prospect worried about the credit-pool model, Otterly is the simplest flat-priced contrast — same monthly cost regardless of which engines run heaviest. Gartner Cool Vendor 2025. See the Otterly alternatives breakdown.

Key features

• 4 engines on every tier (ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot)
• AI Mode and Gemini available as add-ons ($9–$149/mo by tier)
• Real-time visibility alerts and sentiment analysis
• Public API on Standard and Premium tiers
• Google Looker Studio connector

Pricing

• Lite — $29/mo ($25/mo billed annually). 15 prompts.
• Standard — $189/mo ($160/mo annually). 100 prompts, public API.
• Premium — $489/mo ($422/mo annually). 400 prompts.

Pros

• Cheapest paid entry on this list, fully self-serve
• Flat monthly cost — no credit metering
• Strong real-time alerting

Cons

• No Claude on any tier — a meaningful gap if Claude visibility matters
• Gemini and AI Mode are paid add-ons rather than included
• 15 prompts on Lite is enough for a single-brand audit, not a team rollout

3. Profound

Best for enterprise teams that need the deepest engine coverage with compliance.

Profound is the enterprise pick of this list. Ten engines on the top tier (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Copilot, Meta AI, Grok, DeepSeek), SOC2 Type II compliance, and a full Agent Analytics layer for AI crawlers. The trade vs Rankscale: Profound publishes a flat price on Starter ($99 ChatGPT-only) and Growth ($399 with three engines + 6 AEO-optimized articles per month), so the monthly spend is locked. Enterprise is custom-priced, but the self-serve floor is visible before any sales call. See the Profound alternatives comparison.

Key features

• 10 engines on Enterprise — broadest in this list
• Growth includes 6 AEO-optimized articles per month alongside monitoring
• SOC2 Type II compliance, SSO/SAML, dedicated Slack support on Enterprise
• Agent Analytics — full AI-crawler visibility with Cloudflare integration
• Conversation Explorer with a large real-prompt dataset

Pricing

• Starter — $99/mo. 50 prompts, ChatGPT only.
• Growth — $399/mo. 100 prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews. 6 articles/mo.
• Enterprise — custom. 10 engines including Claude, SSO/SAML + SOC2.

Pros

• Deepest engine coverage in this list for enterprise buyers
• Flat per-plan pricing on Starter and Growth — no credit pool
• Strongest compliance posture for regulated industries

Cons

• Starter is ChatGPT-only — multi-engine starts at $399 Growth
• Enterprise pricing is custom — Claude tracking is sales-led
• Smallest prompt allowances on self-serve tiers among comparable platforms

4. Peec AI

Best for brand teams focused on how AI describes their brand, with sentiment scoring.

Peec is Berlin-headquartered and specializes in brand-mention sentiment — the dimension that matters when an AI names a brand without linking it. Self-serve tiers cap engine selection at 3 of 7 (ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Copilot, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok), and Claude Sonnet 4 is available only on Enterprise via API. The pricing structure is flat per-tier with engine add-ons rather than a credit pool, so the monthly bill is predictable. See the Peec AI alternatives breakdown.

Key features

• 7 self-serve engines, choose 3 per project
• Claude Sonnet 4 and GPT-5 Search on Enterprise via API
• Best-in-class brand-mention sentiment scoring
• Multilingual brand-mention analytics across 14+ languages
• Country-level breakdown of citation share
• 7-day free trial; unlimited user seats on every plan

Pricing

• Starter — $95/mo (€89/mo). 50 prompts, choose 3 of 7 engines.
• Pro — $245/mo. 150 prompts.
• Advanced — ~$495/mo. 350 prompts.
• Enterprise — custom. Adds Claude Sonnet 4 + GPT-5 Search via API.
• 15% discount on annual billing.

Pros

• Flat per-tier pricing — no credit pool to forecast against
• Best-in-class sentiment depth on AI brand framing
• Unlimited seats on every paid plan

Cons

• 3-of-7 engine cap means selection trade-offs even at higher tiers
• Claude requires Enterprise — same gating shape as Rankscale’s Claude credit penalty, just visibly priced
• Engine add-ons stack quickly past the $95 headline

5. Scrunch

Best for technical SEO teams that need AI-crawler analytics alongside citation tracking.

Scrunch is the AI-crawler analytics specialist of this list. It exposes named coverage of ClaudeBot, GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, and PerplexityBot — which pages they crawl, how often, what they extract — alongside citation and mention tracking. Core covers four engines on the publicly-priced tier; Claude, Gemini, Meta AI, AI Mode, and Grok are Enterprise-only. Flat per-plan pricing means the bill does not move with usage. See the Scrunch AI alternatives comparison.

Key features

• Named-crawler analytics for ClaudeBot, GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot
• 4 engines on Core (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AIO, Copilot)
• Citation, mention, and sentiment tracking
• Persona-based prompt sets and page-level audits
• Strong technical SEO orientation (llms.txt, crawler segmentation)

Pricing

• Core — $300/mo monthly ($250/mo billed annually). 4 engines, 350 custom prompts, 3 seats.
• Growth — $500/mo ($417/mo annually). 5 seats, 700 custom prompts.
• Enterprise — custom. Adds Claude, Gemini, Meta AI, AI Mode, Grok.

Pros

• Best AI-crawler analytics in the category at a published price
• Strong technical SEO orientation
• Flat per-plan pricing

Cons

• 4-engine Core ceiling — Claude and Gemini require Enterprise
• $300 entry is higher than Geoptie, Otterly, or Peec
• No free trial; demo-only at Enterprise

6. SE Ranking AI Search

Best for SEO teams that want AI visibility folded into a full SEO suite.

SE Ranking is a traditional SEO suite with an AI Search add-on layered on top. The combined entry is $218/mo (Core $129 + AI Search $89) — slightly above Geoptie Professional, but with a full SEO suite alongside. The AI Search add-on covers ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Perplexity. 14-day free trial on Core with no credit card.

Key features

• Full SE Ranking SEO suite (rank tracking, backlinks, audits, competitive research)
• AI Search add-on with “SE Visible” dashboard for brand mentions, citations, and sentiment
• 4 AI engines tracked (ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Perplexity)
• 14-day free trial on Core, no credit card

Pricing

• Core (SEO) — $129/mo ($103.20/mo billed annually).
• AI Search add-on — $89/mo ($71.20/mo annually). 200 prompts.
• Combined entry — $218/mo ($174.40/mo annually).
• Growth (SEO) — $279/mo ($223.20/mo annually).

Pros

• SEO and AEO in one platform, published pricing on every plan
• 14-day free trial with no credit card
• Flat per-plan pricing — no credit metering

Cons

• True entry is $218/mo combined — Core alone does not include AI Search
• Four-engine ceiling on the AI Search add-on — no Claude, Copilot, Grok, or Gemini
• Best fit when the team already wants SE Ranking’s SEO suite

7. Ahrefs Brand Radar

Best for established SEO teams already in the Ahrefs ecosystem.

Brand Radar layers AI visibility tracking onto Ahrefs’ 395M+ monthly organic prompt dataset — the largest real-search-backed prompt source in the category. Seven engines tracked (AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini, Grok); no Claude. The entry tier (Select platforms) is $398/mo and the All platforms tier is $699/mo with 2,500 custom prompt checks. Higher price floor than Rankscale Pro, but the prompt dataset and the bundled Ahrefs ecosystem are the structural value.

Key features

• 395M+ monthly organic prompts — largest real-search dataset in the category
• Brand mentions, citations, and share-of-voice tracking
• Beta tracking on Reddit, YouTube, and TikTok — surfaces AI engines cite heavily
• Integration with the full Ahrefs SEO suite
• 7 AI engines tracked (no Claude)

Pricing

• Select platforms — $398/mo. Six engines.
• All platforms — $699/mo. Adds Grok and 2,500/mo custom-prompt checks.

Pros

• Largest real-search prompt dataset of any tool here
• Flat per-plan pricing — no credit pool, no per-engine asymmetry
• Tight integration with Ahrefs’ existing SEO data

Cons

• No Claude coverage
• $398/mo entry is high for AI-visibility-only use
• Bundled-suite model — effectively paying for Ahrefs too

8. Semrush AI Toolkit

Best for SEO teams that want AI visibility inside their existing Semrush workflow.

The Semrush AI Toolkit is a $99/mo per-domain add-on layered onto a Semrush plan (Semrush One bundles start at $199/mo). It tracks ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini, and Perplexity; Claude is Enterprise-only with no public price. For Rankscale prospects already on Semrush, this is the lowest-friction option. The catch: the $99 add-on is per domain per user. Three teammates needing access on one domain runs $297/mo for the add-on alone, before the base Semrush plan.

Key features

• 4 AI engines tracked (ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini, Perplexity)
• Brand mentions and competitive AI visibility benchmarking
• Integration with Semrush’s existing keyword, traffic, and SEO data
• Position tracking across both traditional SERPs and AI surfaces

Pricing

• AI Toolkit add-on — $99/mo per domain per user.
• Semrush One — Starter — $199/mo.
• Semrush One — Pro+ — $299/mo.
• Semrush One — Advanced — $549/mo.
• Claude — Enterprise-only, custom quote.

Pros

• Bolts onto a tool many SEO teams already pay for
• Flat (not credit-metered) pricing on the add-on
• Strong prompt-research depth from the Semrush data layer

Cons

• Per-seat multiplication makes team rollouts expensive fast
• No Claude on any publicly-priced tier
• Bundled-suite model — paying for Semrush too

How to choose the right Rankscale alternative

• Broadest answer-engine coverage at the lowest published flat entry price: Geoptie at $49/mo — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini.
• Cheapest paid entry under $30: Otterly AI Lite at $29/mo — no Claude included.
• Enterprise programs across 10 engines with SOC2: Profound Enterprise.
• Sentiment depth on how AI describes a brand: Peec AI Starter ($95) with the 3-of-7 cap.
• AI-crawler analytics on a publicly-priced tier: Scrunch Core.
• SEO and AEO in one suite: SE Ranking combined Core + AI Search.
• Largest real-search prompt dataset: Ahrefs Brand Radar.
• Teams already on Semrush: Semrush AI Toolkit (watch per-seat multiplication).
• Free AI visibility tracking with no credit card and no time limit: the AI rank tracker.

Frequently asked questions

What to do next

The free AI rank tracker tracks brand visibility across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini with no credit card, no time limit, no credit-pool forecasting. For broader category context, see the best LLM tracking tools and best AEO tools roundups. The sister Tier 2b alternatives posts for Goodie and AthenaHQ cover adjacent shortlists.

Most AEO platforms ask buyers to commit before they’ve watched the dashboard answer a real question — and AthenaHQ asks more than most. It’s a capable platform: eight engines on a single self-serve tier, dynamic AI crawling, blindspot detection, and a customer roster that includes SoFi, Coinbase, Twilio, and PagerDuty. The question buyers tend to get stuck on is the floor. Self-Serve starts at $295/mo, billing runs on a credit pool of 3,600 credits/month (where one credit equals one analyzed AI response, and engines consume different amounts), and there’s no free trial to walk through before that first invoice lands.

The eight alternatives below all publish a flat monthly price below that floor, and every one offers either a free trial or a free tier so an evaluation window doesn’t require finance approval. For a starting point that costs nothing, the free AI rank tracker covers ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini with no credit card.

TL;DR — best AthenaHQ alternatives by use case

• Geoptie — the predictable flat-price option for teams that don’t want a credit pool to forecast. $49/mo Starter covers ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini, with no per-engine usage math.
• Profound — best for enterprise brands that need the deepest AI visibility coverage across ten or more engines with compliance and historical data
• Otterly AI — best for solo SEOs and small teams that want to start tracking AI visibility for under $30 a month

Those three cover most buyers. The full comparison, the pricing-model framework, and the budget options are below.

Quick comparison table

Tool	Best for	AI engines covered	Pricing model	Starting price
Geoptie	Marketing teams that want full multi-engine AI visibility on a flat entry-tier plan	ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini	Flat per-plan	$49/mo
Profound	Enterprise brands needing the deepest engine coverage with compliance and historical data	ChatGPT (Starter); ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok, Copilot, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Meta AI, DeepSeek (Growth+/Enterprise)	Flat per-plan (enterprise custom)	$99/mo Starter
Peec AI	Global brands tracking multilingual AI visibility across multiple projects	ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity (Starter); Gemini, Copilot, AI Mode, Grok (add-ons); Claude Sonnet 4 / GPT-5 Search (Enterprise)	Flat per-plan + engine add-ons	$89/mo
AirOps	Content + SEO teams that want execution workflows alongside visibility tracking	ChatGPT (Free); ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google, Google AI Studio (Pro)	Free tier + flat per-plan	Free / custom Pro
Otterly AI	Solo SEOs and small teams tracking AI visibility for under $30/mo	ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot (4 on all tiers); AI Mode + Gemini as add-ons	Flat per-plan	$29/mo Lite
Scrunch	Technical SEO teams that need AI-crawler and citation tracking in one tool	ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Meta AI	Flat per-plan	$300/mo Starter
Ahrefs Brand Radar	Established SEO teams already in the Ahrefs ecosystem	ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Grok	Flat per-plan	$398/mo
Semrush AI Toolkit	SEO teams that want AI visibility inside their existing Semrush workflow	ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini, Perplexity (Claude Enterprise-only)	Flat per-domain add-on (per-seat multiplied)	$99/mo per domain

All pricing is the monthly-billed rate. Annual discounts apply on most plans. Engine coverage often changes by tier — the engine you care about may not be unlocked on the entry plan.

The three pricing models in AEO tools — and why AthenaHQ’s credit model is the outlier

AEO tools price on three distinct models. Once you see them side by side, the AthenaHQ pain becomes obvious.

Pricing model	How it works	Examples	What it means for your budget
Credit-based / per-task	You buy a pool of credits or tasks per month; each AI response, prompt run, or competitor check burns one. Spend tracks usage.	AthenaHQ (3,600 credits at $295/mo), Semrush AI Toolkit (per-task on top of seats)	Hardest to forecast. Audit weeks, competitive responses, and team adoption all spike credit burn. Procurement teams typically push back.
Flat per-plan	You pay a fixed monthly fee for a tier that bundles prompts, users, and engine coverage. Limits are explicit; adding teammates doesn’t multiply the bill.	Geoptie, Profound, Scrunch, Peec AI, Otterly AI, Ahrefs Brand Radar	Predictable line item. When you hit a tier limit you upgrade — no surprise overages.
Usage-tiered prompt buckets	Hybrid — flat fee buys a specific prompt allowance (e.g. 100 prompts/mo). Going over either blocks or charges.	Most paid AEO tools above their entry tier	More predictable than credits but you tier-shop as you scale.

Two things about the credit model in particular. First, on AthenaHQ’s 3,600-credit Self-Serve plan, “one credit equals one AI response” means usage scales with the number of prompts you run times the number of engines you check — one prompt across all eight engines is eight credits before you’ve looked at anything, and a multi-competitor analysis multiplies from there. Heavy weeks deplete the pool fast. Second, credits convert badly to procurement language — “what will we spend next quarter” has no clean answer when next quarter’s spend depends on how many questions you ask.

Flat per-plan is the dominant model among the alternatives below. Otterly’s Lite at $29 a month gives you 15 prompts whether you check them daily or never. Geoptie’s Starter at $49 a month gives you all four major engines on a fixed plan. You decide whether the limits fit your workflow, and the line item is settled.

How we evaluated

Each tool below was tested in May 2026 against the same set of criteria: pricing-model predictability (flat over credit-based), how many major engines land on the entry tier vs are gated above it, what the cheapest paid plan actually delivers, whether evaluation is possible before committing (free trial or free tier), brand-mention vs URL-citation tracking, refresh frequency, and how quickly the dashboard surfaces useful data after signup. Geoptie is on the list and at the top; Profound is the better pick for enterprise breadth with SOC2; Ahrefs Brand Radar carries the largest real-search-backed prompt dataset; Scrunch has the best AI-crawler analytics. If one of those fits the scenario better than a flat-priced multi-engine entry, pick accordingly.

1. Geoptie (best for marketing teams that want full multi-engine AI visibility on a flat entry-tier plan)

Pricing model: flat per-seat.

Geoptie is an AI search visibility platform built for marketing teams that want answers across the four engines that matter — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini — without buying enterprise software to do it. On the $49 per month Starter plan you get all four engines, daily refreshes, citation and brand-mention tracking, and competitor comparison. AthenaHQ’s $295 Self-Serve plan and credit pool become a single fixed line item.

Key features

• Daily tracking across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini on every paid tier — no engine add-ons, no enterprise-gating
• Citation tracking (your URL surfaced in an AI answer) and brand-mention tracking (your brand named in the answer text) in one dashboard
• Competitor share-of-voice across the same prompt set
• Free AI rank tracker, ChatGPT rank tracker, Claude rank tracker, and Perplexity rank tracker — no credit card, no time limit

Pricing

• Free — geoptie.com/geo-rank-tracker. No credit card, no time limit.
• Starter — $49/mo. All four engines, daily tracking, citation + brand-mention, competitor comparison.
• Professional — $99/mo. Up to 10 brands.

Pros

• Cheapest flat entry to full multi-engine coverage (ChatGPT + Claude + Perplexity + Gemini) on the list
• Predictable per-plan pricing — no credit pool to forecast against
• Free product with no time limit, so evaluation is friction-free

Cons

• Four engines, not eight — Copilot, AI Mode, AI Overviews, and Grok are not yet tracked
• Smaller historical dataset than Profound or Ahrefs
• Brand-mention sentiment scoring is less granular than Peec AI’s

2. Profound (best for enterprise brands needing the deepest engine coverage with compliance and historical data)

Pricing model: flat per-plan; enterprise tiers are custom-priced. See best Profound alternatives for the full breakdown.

Profound is the enterprise-positioned alternative to AthenaHQ. The Starter plan at $99 a month tracks ChatGPT only, but on Growth and Enterprise tiers Profound covers ten or more engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok, Copilot, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Meta AI, DeepSeek) with SOC2, SSO, and the deepest historical-data archive of any tool on this list. The shift toward enterprise-custom pricing means Self-Serve entry is narrowing — Growth and above are now the meaningful comparison to AthenaHQ.

Key features

• Up to 10+ engines on Growth and Enterprise tiers
• Strongest historical data retention in the category
• Enterprise compliance — SOC2, SSO, audit logs
• Boardroom-ready reporting and citation source breakdowns

Pricing

• Starter (Lite) — $99/mo ($82.50/mo billed annually). ChatGPT only.
• Growth and Enterprise — custom pricing. Multi-engine, advanced reporting, compliance features.

Pros

• Broadest engine coverage of any flat-priced tool here
• Enterprise compliance posture matches AthenaHQ’s largest-customer profile
• Flat per-plan pricing — no credit-pool forecasting

Cons

• Starter tier is single-engine; multi-engine starts on the higher (enterprise-custom) tiers
• Public pricing transparency has narrowed in 2026 — Growth and above require a sales conversation
• Higher all-in cost than AthenaHQ Self-Serve once you need multi-engine coverage

3. Peec AI (best for global brands tracking multilingual AI visibility across multiple projects)

Pricing model: flat per-plan with engine add-ons. See best Peec AI alternatives for the deep comparison.

Peec AI sits in the same premium-mid tier as AthenaHQ but trades the credit model for a flat per-plan structure with engine add-ons. The Starter plan at $89 a month tracks 25 prompts across three default engines (ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity); each additional engine is +$30/mo. Claude Sonnet 4 and GPT-5 Search are Enterprise-only. Peec is the multilingual specialist — multiple languages and regions per project — and its brand-mention sentiment scoring is the most granular in this list.

Key features

• Multilingual prompt tracking across regions and languages
• Granular brand-mention sentiment scoring
• Unlimited user seats on all paid plans
• 14-day free trial — direct contrast with AthenaHQ

Pricing

• Starter — $89/mo. 25 prompts, 3 default engines (ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity), 3 countries.
• Pro / Advanced — higher prompt limits, more projects, daily tracking.
• Enterprise — custom; unlocks Claude Sonnet 4 and GPT-5 Search.
• Engine add-ons +$30/mo each.

Pros

• 14-day free trial removes the AthenaHQ “commit blind” friction
• Best-in-class sentiment scoring on brand mentions
• Strong multilingual support for global brands

Cons

• Claude and GPT-5 Search gated to Enterprise — meaningful if Claude coverage matters
• Engine add-ons can stack quickly past the $89 headline
• 25 prompts on Starter is tight for larger teams

4. AirOps (best for content + SEO teams that want execution workflows alongside visibility tracking)

Pricing model: free Insights tier plus flat Solo / Pro / Enterprise plans (Pro is custom-priced).

AirOps positions itself as the tool that closes the gap between insight and action. Most AEO tools — AthenaHQ included — show you where your visibility drops; AirOps adds the content-production workflows to actually fix them. The Insights free tier gives you 1,000 tasks/month for evaluation. The Solo plan covers ChatGPT only; Pro adds multi-engine insights across Google, Perplexity, ChatGPT, and Google AI Studio.

Key features

• Free Insights tier — 1,000 tasks/mo, ChatGPT-only tracking, 1 brand kit
• Content-production workflows alongside tracking (the differentiator)
• Multi-engine insights on Pro (Google, Perplexity, ChatGPT, Google AI Studio)
• 14-day Scale-features trial on paid plans

Pricing

• Insights — Free. 1,000 tasks/mo, basic templates, 1 brand kit.
• Solo — free tier available; 20,000 tasks, ChatGPT only.
• Pro — custom-priced; 75,000 tasks, multi-engine, unlimited team seats.
• Enterprise — custom; unlimited tasks, custom agent builds, dedicated CSM.

Pros

• Genuine free tier — no AthenaHQ-style blind commitment
• Action layer (content production) on top of measurement
• Unlimited team seats on Pro

Cons

• Engine coverage on Pro is narrower than AthenaHQ (4 vs 8)
• Pro pricing isn’t published — sales conversation required
• Less specialized as a pure visibility tracker

5. Otterly AI (best for solo SEOs and small teams tracking AI visibility for under $30/mo)

Pricing model: flat per-plan. See best Otterly alternatives for the deeper comparison.

Otterly is the budget entry. The Lite plan at $29/mo covers four engines — ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and Microsoft Copilot — with 15 search prompts. That’s roughly $266/mo cheaper than AthenaHQ Self-Serve, and Otterly’s Gartner Cool Vendor 2025 nod adds credibility for SMB buyers. The trade-off is engine breadth: Claude isn’t tracked on any tier, and Gemini and AI Mode sit behind paid add-ons.

Key features

• $29 entry tier — the cheapest paid AEO tracker in the category
• Four engines on all plans (ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot)
• Public API on Standard and Premium
• Google Looker Studio connector for reporting

Pricing

• Lite — $29/mo ($25/mo billed annually). 15 prompts.
• Standard — $189/mo ($160/mo annual). 100 prompts, public API (2,000 reqs/mo), Looker connector.
• Premium — $489/mo ($422/mo annual). 400 prompts, public API (5,000 reqs/mo).
• AI Mode and Gemini add-ons $9–$149/mo depending on tier.

Pros

• Cheapest paid entry on the list
• Gartner Cool Vendor 2025 credibility for SMBs
• Public API on the mid-tier — rare at this price band

Cons

• No Claude on any tier — direct miss if Claude visibility matters
• Gemini and AI Mode cost extra
• 15 prompts on Lite is small for a real evaluation

6. Scrunch (best for technical SEO teams that need AI-crawler and citation tracking in one tool)

Pricing model: flat per-plan. See best Scrunch AI alternatives for the deeper comparison.

Scrunch is the technical SEO pick. The Starter plan at $300 a month ($250/mo annual) covers six major AI platforms — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Mode and AI Overviews, and Meta AI — plus a feature AthenaHQ doesn’t expose: AI-crawler analytics. Scrunch shows which AI bots (ClaudeBot, GPTBot, PerplexityBot) are actually accessing your site, and how often. That’s the foundational layer beneath citation and mention tracking — if the crawler can’t read you, the citations don’t happen.

Key features

• AI-crawler access tracking (ClaudeBot, GPTBot, PerplexityBot and others)
• Citation and brand-mention tracking across six platforms including Claude
• Persona-based prompt sets
• Page-level audits

Pricing

• Starter — $300/mo ($250/mo billed annually, 17% off). 3 user licenses, 350 custom prompts, 1,000 industry prompts, 3 personas, 5 page audits.
• Growth — $500/mo ($417/mo annual). 5 users, 700 custom prompts, 2,500 industry prompts.
• Enterprise — custom. Enterprise Data API, dedicated GTM team.
• Extra seats $25/mo each.

Pros

• Unique AI-crawler analytics layer — not in AthenaHQ
• Claude on the entry tier, with five other engines alongside
• Genuine multi-engine coverage on a single flat plan

Cons

• Starter price ($300) overlaps with AthenaHQ Self-Serve — the win is feature, not price
• 350 custom prompts is mid-range for the price
• Less brand-mention sentiment depth than Peec AI

7. Ahrefs Brand Radar (best for established SEO teams already in the Ahrefs ecosystem)

Pricing model: flat per-plan.

Ahrefs Brand Radar is the alternative for teams already running Ahrefs for traditional SEO. Brand Radar tracks six AI platforms — AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini, and Grok — and pairs them with a 243 million-plus monthly organic prompt database, the largest in the category. Pricing is high but flat: $398/mo for Select platforms or $699/mo for All platforms with full prompt access. Claude isn’t on the engine list — a meaningful gap for teams that need Claude visibility.

Key features

• 243M+ monthly organic prompts — largest real-search-backed dataset in the category
• Tight integration with the rest of the Ahrefs SEO suite
• Six AI platforms covered
• YouTube, TikTok, Reddit tracking (beta) on the All-platforms tier

Pricing

• Select platforms — $398/mo.
• All platforms — $699/mo. 2,500/mo custom-prompt checks, beta YouTube/TikTok/Reddit tracking.

Pros

• Largest real-search prompt dataset of any tool here
• Flat per-plan — no credits
• Strongest fit for teams already standardized on Ahrefs

Cons

• No Claude coverage
• Higher entry price than AthenaHQ Self-Serve
• Less specialized as a pure AEO tool than Profound or Peec

8. Semrush AI Toolkit (best for SEO teams that want AI visibility inside their existing Semrush workflow)

Pricing model: flat per-domain add-on, multiplied by seats.

Semrush AI Toolkit is the most natural fit for teams already on Semrush. The Toolkit is a $99/mo per-domain add-on on top of a Semrush plan, or bundled into Semrush One starting at $199/mo. It tracks ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini, and Perplexity, with Claude available only on Enterprise. Access is also per-seat — three teammates wanting access means $297/mo for the add-on alone, so the headline $99 understates the real team cost.

Key features

• AI visibility data inside the Semrush dashboard alongside traditional SEO
• 25 custom prompts with daily rankings
• ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini, Perplexity coverage
• Bundled options via Semrush One

Pricing

• AI Toolkit add-on — $99/mo per domain, per user.
• Semrush One — Starter — $199/mo.
• Semrush One — Pro+ — $299/mo.
• Semrush One — Advanced — $549/mo.
• Claude available on Enterprise only.

Pros

• Tight integration with existing Semrush SEO workflows
• Flat pricing — no credit metering
• Bundled Semrush One option for teams that need both SEO and AEO

Cons

• Per-seat multiplication makes the team cost much higher than the headline
• Claude is Enterprise-only — gated for most buyers
• Adds cost on top of an existing Semrush bill rather than replacing it

How to choose the right AthenaHQ alternative

• Broadest answer-engine coverage at the lowest flat entry price: Geoptie — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini on the $49/mo Starter.
• Enterprise programs across 10+ engines: Profound.
• Multilingual or multi-region brand tracking: Peec AI.
• Execution workflows alongside tracking: AirOps.
• Cheapest paid entry under $30/mo: Otterly AI.
• AI-crawler analytics plus citation tracking: Scrunch.
• Largest real-search-backed prompt dataset: Ahrefs Brand Radar.
• SEO teams already standardized on Semrush: Semrush AI Toolkit — with eyes open on per-seat costs.
• Free AI visibility tracking with no credit card and no time limit: geoptie.com/geo-rank-tracker.
• Overall best value: Geoptie.

FAQ

What to do next

The $295 entry to AthenaHQ is the right line item when eight-engine breadth on one self-serve plan is genuinely what the program needs. For most marketing teams shopping the alternatives, a flat-priced four-engine starting point that doesn’t depend on credit forecasting is a faster way to see where the brand actually stands. The free AI rank tracker covers ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini.

For broader category context, see our best LLM tracking tools listicle and the AEO vs GEO vs SEO breakdown.

AI Overviews now appear in roughly half of all Google searches (BrightEdge, 2026), and for a growing share of buyers a chat interface is where product research starts rather than a results page. Search is moving from blue links to synthesized answers, and the tools that win in this new shape are not the ones you used to track keyword positions.

Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the discipline of getting your brand and pages cited inside AI-generated answers. AEO tools measure whether you appear in those answers, help you optimize content to win them, and at the high end analyze the bots and citations behind the scenes. For background on how AEO compares to traditional SEO and GEO, see our guide on AEO vs GEO vs SEO. The ten platforms below cover the full range of what an AEO tool can actually do today, with real pricing.

TL;DR — best AEO tools by use case

• Geoptie — best overall AEO tracking, built on brand workspaces with white-label reporting and content generation included
• Profound — best for enterprise multi-engine AEO programs
• Ahrefs Brand Radar — best data depth, tracking against 470M+ real-search prompts

If you want the short answer, those three cover most buyers. The full comparison and methodology are below.

Quick comparison table

Tool	Best for	AI Platforms Covered	Starting Price
Geoptie	Agencies and teams tracking many brands, with white-label reporting	ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Copilot — choose any 4 of 7 on every plan	$49/mo
AirOps	Enterprise teams needing tracking and execution in one closed loop	ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and others	Custom (enterprise)
HubSpot AEO Grader & AEO	Free one-shot diagnostic; low-cost continuous monitoring	ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini	Free grader / $50/mo
Profound	Enterprise multi-engine AEO programs	ChatGPT only (Starter); 3 engines (Growth); up to 9 (Enterprise)	$99/mo
Airefs	Turning visibility gaps into published content and earned mentions	ChatGPT, Google AI Overview (prompt tracking); all major LLMs (crawler + traffic analytics)	$29/mo
Ahrefs Brand Radar	Largest real-search prompt database (470M+)	AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini (6); Grok on the top tier	$398/mo
Semrush	Brands already running SEO on Semrush	ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, SearchGPT, Google AI Mode, AI Overviews (no Claude)	$139/mo
SE Ranking AI Search	Combined SEO + AEO in one platform	AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity	$89/mo add-on ($218/mo realistic floor)
Scrunch AI	Enterprise AEO with named AI-crawler analytics	4 engines (Core), 9 (Enterprise)	$250/mo
Peec AI	Multilingual tracking and agency credit pooling	7 engines, choose 3 on self-serve; Claude Enterprise-only via API	$95/mo

What does “AEO tool” actually mean? Four different jobs

“AEO tool” is an umbrella term that hides four distinct jobs. Picking the wrong category is the most common mistake we see buyers make.

What you want to do	Job to be done	Tools that focus here
See if AI engines cite my brand	AEO tracking	Geoptie, Profound, Scrunch AI, Peec AI
Optimize content to win AI answers	AEO content optimization	AirOps, Geoptie
Get a one-shot diagnostic score	AEO grading	HubSpot AEO Grader, Geoptie GEO Audit
Add AEO to my existing SEO stack	Full-suite with AEO module	Semrush, Ahrefs Brand Radar, SE Ranking

AEO tracking answers the question “when someone asks an AI for the best tool in our category, are we cited?” This is the most common need and where most dedicated platforms concentrate.

AEO content optimization answers a different question: “How do I structure pages so AI engines pull from them when generating answers?” A few platforms, AirOps most clearly, now cover both jobs in one workspace, which is why it appears in two rows.

AEO grading answers a third: “Give me a number and a list of fixes, what should I do first?” Graders are good entry points but rarely replace ongoing tracking.

Full-suite platforms with AEO modules are the right answer if you already own the suite. The integration cost is low; the standalone AEO value varies.

Before you compare features, decide which of these four jobs you need most. Then read the relevant sections below.

How we evaluated these tools

Tested in May 2026, with pricing and engine coverage re-verified against first-party pricing pages in August 2026. We evaluated each tool against six criteria:

• AI platform coverage — how many answer engines the tool actually tracks, and at which tier
• Tracking method — UI scraping, API access, or real search-backed data
• Content workflow integration — does the tool only measure, or also help you fix things?
• Sentiment and citation analysis — depth of analysis beyond raw mention counts
• Actionability — does the tool tell you what to do next?
• Pricing and value — what you get for the entry-level paid tier

Disclosure: Geoptie is included in this comparison. Two categories where competitors beat us: Ahrefs Brand Radar has a far larger prompt database (470M+ monthly prompts derived from real search behavior), and Semrush integrates AEO data more deeply with traditional SEO if you already own that stack. We name those trade-offs in the relevant sections below.

1. Geoptie (best overall for multi-brand tracking with reporting and content built in)

Geoptie is an answer engine optimization platform built around brand workspaces. The $99/mo Professional plan carries 10 of them, each with its own prompt set, competitor set, and engine selection, plus white-label reporting for client-facing deliverables; Enterprise removes the workspace limit. Inside each workspace, the platform tracks seven engines, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, and Microsoft Copilot, with any four selectable on every plan including the $49/mo entry tier and no per-engine surcharge. Tracked prompts feed a recommendations engine and content generation in the same place, so findings turn into briefs and drafts without a second tool. A separate suite of free GEO tools handles one-off diagnostics. Used by AKQA, Decathlon, Capgemini, Verizon, and Dentsu.

Key features

• Seven engines available: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, and Microsoft Copilot
• Any four engines on every plan, including Starter, with no per-engine add-on pricing
• Per-brand engine selection, so each workspace tracks its own four
• Per-prompt mention and citation tracking with daily refresh
• Competitor visibility benchmarking with share of voice
• Sentiment scoring on every tracked prompt
• Multi-brand workspaces: 2 on Starter, 10 on Professional, unlimited on Enterprise
• Recommendations engine that turns tracked prompts into prioritized actions
• Content generation pipelines for briefs and drafts, plus a content checker for existing pages
• White-label client reporting on Professional and Enterprise
• Flexible data exports (CSV, PDF) on every paid plan
• Free GEO audit, content checker, keyword finder, and backlink finder
• Dedicated ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity rank trackers

Pricing

• Starter — $49/mo monthly ($41/mo billed annually, $490/year). 15 monitoring prompts, 2 brands, any 4 engines.
• Professional — $99/mo monthly ($83/mo billed annually, $990/year). 100 prompts, 10 brands, white-label reporting.
• Enterprise — $399/mo monthly ($333/mo billed annually, $3,990/year). 400 prompts, unlimited brands. Additional 100 prompts at $99/mo.
• Annual billing is 2 months free. No free trial on the platform; the standalone GEO audit and content checker run without a subscription or credit card.

Pros

• 10 brand workspaces with white-label reporting at $99/mo, where most platforms cap self-serve plans at one to five projects
• Per-brand engine selection, so clients in different categories can track different engines on the same account
• Tracking runs through to recommendations and generated drafts in one workspace
• Affordable scaling: Professional lifts the prompt limit almost 7x for roughly 2x the price
• Four engines of your choice on the $49/mo entry plan, with no per-engine surcharge at any tier
• Free standalone tools for diagnostics before paying

Cons

• Four engines at a time rather than all seven at once
• No Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI, or Mistral in the engine lineup
• No free trial on the platform itself, only the standalone free tools
• Younger platform than long-established SEO incumbents like Semrush and Ahrefs

2. AirOps (best for enterprise teams that need tracking and execution in one closed loop)

AirOps is an enterprise AEO platform built around a closed loop of insight, action, and measurement. Insights track how a brand appears across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and other engines, surfacing citation rate, mention rate, sentiment, and competitive positioning. Page360 ties that signal back to GSC and GA4 at the URL level. Quill, the platform’s AI agent, then runs Playbooks for content creation, refresh, brand monitoring, and offsite mention building against the specific gaps Insights flags, so on-site and third-party surfaces both move inside one system.

Key features

• Multi-engine visibility tracking across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini
• Page360 for URL-level performance tied to GSC and GA4
• Quill AI agent running Playbooks for content creation, refresh, and AI search optimization
• Offsite mention building on third-party sources AI engines weigh for consensus
• Content Engineering workflows for enterprise SEO and content teams
• Closed-loop measurement: every campaign reports back against the visibility metrics it targeted

Pricing

• Custom enterprise pricing. Contact sales for a scoped plan.

Pros

• Pairs tracking with an execution system in the same workspace
• Covers both on-site content work and offsite mention building
• Quill scales content operations without adding headcount
• Built for enterprise marketing teams operating at multi-brand or multi-market scale

Cons

• Enterprise-only; no self-serve tier for small teams
• Public pricing is not listed
• Broader scope than teams that only need a visibility dashboard

3. HubSpot AEO Grader & AEO (best free one-shot diagnostic)

HubSpot’s free AEO Grader scores any brand across five weighted dimensions, sentiment results, presence quality, brand recognition, share of voice, and market competition, based on how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini describe it. The scan itself needs no account, and it accepts any brand name, so it doubles as a competitor probe. The paid product, HubSpot AEO, extends the grader into continuous monitoring at $50 per month and does not require a HubSpot subscription, which makes it one of the cheapest ways to keep an eye on AI answers month to month.

Key features

• Free one-time brand scoring across 5 weighted dimensions, no account required
• Composite score out of 100 with written interpretation
• Market Competition dimension classifies category role and innovation perception
• Continuous monitoring across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini (paid tier)
• Week-over-week tracking, competitor comparison, and prioritized recommendations on the paid tier
• Free “Implementing AEO” certification via HubSpot Academy

Pricing

• AEO Grader — Free. One-time diagnostic, no account required.
• HubSpot AEO — $50/mo standalone with no HubSpot subscription required, free trial available, or bundled with Marketing Hub Pro and Enterprise.

Pros

• Low monthly cost for continuous monitoring ($50/mo) with no HubSpot subscription required
• Free grader gives a real diagnostic with no account and no credit card
• Runs in under two minutes and works on any brand, including competitors
• Native integration with HubSpot CRM and Marketing Hub

Cons

• Only 3 answer engines tracked (no Claude, Copilot, Grok, or Google AI Mode)
• Best value if you already use HubSpot; less compelling standalone
• Narrower prompt customization than dedicated AEO platforms

4. Profound (best for enterprise multi-engine AEO programs)

Profound is an enterprise-leaning platform that monitors AI visibility across up to nine answer engines on its Enterprise tier, including Claude. The self-serve plans are much narrower: Starter tracks ChatGPT only, and multi-engine coverage begins at Growth. What Growth adds beyond engines is the part worth paying for, namely Agent Analytics crawler data and the Conversation Explorer prompt dataset. If you are weighing Profound against alternatives, see our deeper Profound alternatives comparison.

Key features

• Up to nine answer engines on Enterprise, including Claude
• Agent Analytics for AI-crawler visibility, with Cloudflare integration
• Conversation Explorer built on a large real-prompt dataset
• Prompt Volumes: relevant keywords on Growth, full search data on Enterprise
• Profound Agents for content and optimization work, metered in credits
• SSO/SAML and SOC 2 compliance on Enterprise

Pricing

• Starter — $99/mo. 50 prompts, ChatGPT only, 1 seat, 100 Agent credits/mo.
• Growth — $399/mo. 100 prompts across three answer engines, 3 seats, 400 Agent credits/mo, 4 opportunities per week. Self-serve “Try for free” signup.
• Enterprise — custom. Up to nine engines, multiple workspaces, dedicated Slack support, SSO/SAML and SOC 2.
• Annual billing is 2 months free on Starter and Growth.

Pros

• Widest answer-engine coverage on this list at the Enterprise tier
• Agent Analytics shows how AI crawlers interact with your site
• Conversation Explorer and Prompt Volumes add demand data most competitors lack
• Strong fit for global enterprise brands tracking multiple markets

Cons

• Starter tracks ChatGPT only; multi-engine coverage starts at $399/mo Growth
• Claude requires Enterprise, so there is no self-serve path to it
• The content layer is credit-metered, which makes output per month harder to predict

5. Airefs (best for turning AI visibility data into published content and earned mentions)

Airefs is an AEO platform built around a single argument: to be in the answer, you need to be in the sources the answer is built from. It tracks brand mentions in ChatGPT and Google AI Overview, then works backwards, showing which articles, Reddit threads, and third-party pages AI actually cited when it left you out, and producing the work needed to get you into them. The platform writes publish-ready AEO articles, drafts comments for the discussions AI cites, and prepares outreach emails for the domains that keep showing up as sources.

Key features

• Prompt tracking across ChatGPT and Google AI Overview, with daily refresh on Pro and above
• Citation-source analysis: every URL AI cited on your tracked prompts, not just whether you were mentioned
• AI crawler analytics showing which AI bots (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, and others) hit your site and how often
• AI traffic analytics for real visitor clicks arriving from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overview, and other AI surfaces
• AEO and SEO articles written and delivered on a schedule, chosen from citation-backed content gaps
• Discussions queue combining AI-cited threads with Reddit keyword alerts, each with a draft comment
• Backlink opportunities on AI-cited domains, with contact details and a drafted outreach email
• Competitor benchmarking, sentiment, and segmentation by country, language, and prompt category
• MCP server (Pro and above) for querying your visibility data from Claude, ChatGPT, or any AI assistant
• Done-for-you options: Airefs Done-For-You from $300/mo, Brand Mentions placements from $100 each

Pricing

• Lite — $29/mo ($288/year, or $24/mo billed annually). 1 domain, 1 seat, 25 prompts, 1 article/mo, 3 Reddit alerts.
• Pro — $59/mo ($588/year, or $49/mo billed annually). 3 domains, 2 seats, 60 prompts, daily refresh, 3 articles/mo, 10 Reddit alerts, MCP server.
• Expert — $99/mo ($996/year, or $83/mo billed annually). Unlimited domains, 20 seats, 150 prompts, 6 articles/mo, 30 Reddit alerts, dedicated AEO strategist.
• Google AI Overview tracking is an add-on at +$10/$20/$30 per month depending on tier. Additional articles are $7 each on Pro and Expert. Agency plans are custom-quoted, the managed service starts at $300/mo, and Brand Mentions is $250/mo flat or $100 per placement. A 7-day free trial is available.

Pros

• Ships the work, not just the report: articles, comment drafts, and outreach emails come out of the same citation data used for tracking
• Cheapest entry point of any tracking platform in this list at $29/mo, or $24/mo billed annually
• Unlimited opportunities on every plan, so discussions, backlinks, and article recommendations aren’t metered
• Combines AI-cited threads and Reddit keyword alerts in one queue rather than requiring two subscriptions
• Crawler and traffic analytics cover all major LLMs, so you see AI-driven visits even for engines not in prompt tracking
• MCP server on the $59 plan puts your visibility data inside your own AI assistant
• Clean upgrade path from self-serve to fully managed without switching vendors

Cons

• Prompt tracking covers ChatGPT and Google AI Overview only, with no Claude, Gemini, or Perplexity prompt coverage on self-serve
• Google AI Overview tracking is a paid add-on rather than included in the base price
• 25 prompts on the entry plan is tighter than some competitors at similar pricing
• Younger platform than the established SEO suites

6. Ahrefs Brand Radar (best for the largest real-search prompt database)

Brand Radar is an add-on to the Ahrefs SEO platform that tracks brand visibility across AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, and Gemini, with Grok on the top tier. Its differentiator is the prompt database: 470 million monthly prompts derived from real search behavior rather than synthetic prompt sets. For AEO that distinction matters, because the prompts tracked reflect what people actually ask. Ahrefs also publishes per-engine prompt volumes, and a free AI Visibility Checker handles a single lookup with no paid plan. Worth knowing before you price it: tracking your own custom prompts now comes bundled with any paid Ahrefs plan, and the $398/mo Brand Radar add-on is what buys access to the real-search prompt index on top of that.

Key features

• 470M+ monthly organic prompts indexed, the only dataset in this category derived from real search queries
• Brand mention, citation, and share-of-voice tracking with 90-day history
• Citation source analysis across the web, YouTube, TikTok, and Reddit
• Sentiment analysis across multiple brand variations
• Custom prompt tracking included in every paid Ahrefs plan, from 150 checks/mo on Lite to 2,500 on Enterprise
• Integrated with Ahrefs’ keyword, traffic, and backlink data

Pricing

• Select platforms — $398/mo. Six engines: AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini.
• All platforms — $699/mo. Adds Grok for seven total, plus 2,500 custom prompt checks per month and YouTube, TikTok, and Reddit visibility (free during beta).
• Custom prompts — included in every paid Ahrefs plan: 150 checks/mo on Lite ($129/mo), 300 on Standard ($249/mo), 600 on Advanced ($449/mo), 2,500 on Enterprise ($1,499/mo). Extra check packs run $50/mo for 2,500, $100/mo for 7,000, or $250/mo for 25,000.
• No free trial. Brand Radar sits on top of an Ahrefs subscription.

Pros

• Largest prompt database in the category, and the only one built on real search queries
• Visibility tracking on YouTube, TikTok, and Reddit, sources answer engines cite heavily
• Free AI Visibility Checker for a single lookup before paying
• Strong fit for teams already paying for Ahrefs

Cons

• $398/mo for the prompt index is the steepest add-on price on this list, on top of an existing Ahrefs subscription
• No Claude tracking on any tier
• The 470M+ prompt index is a $398/mo add-on, separate from the custom-prompt tracking bundled into the SEO plans

7. Semrush (best for brands already running SEO on Semrush)

Semrush no longer sells AI visibility as a bolt-on. It now ships inside the main subscription tiers: the $139/mo SEO plan carries AI search performance, sentiment monitoring and custom prompts, and the plans branded SEO + AI Search add dedicated daily prompt quotas on top. Brand tracking covers ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, SearchGPT, Google AI Mode and AI Overviews in the same dashboard used for keywords and backlinks, which is the whole argument for it: one subscription, both jobs, no second login.

Key features

• AI Visibility Score across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI, benchmarked against a competitor median and updated daily
• Daily prompt tracking on ChatGPT, Google AI Mode and Gemini, with 50 prompts on Starter, 100 on Pro+ and 200 on Advanced
• Brand sentiment and narrative tracking across 68,000+ location and language combinations, refreshed weekly
• Competitor Research for the prompts where rivals get cited and you do not
• AI Search Site Audit that checks whether major AI bot crawlers can reach your content
• AI Search Optimizer for prioritized content recommendations tied to your visibility data
• White-label reporting, scheduled email reports and shareable exports
• MCP access for piping Semrush data into AI assistants

Pricing

• SEO — $139/mo monthly ($117.33/mo billed annually). 5 sites, 500 keywords, plus AI search performance, AI sentiment and custom prompt monitoring.
• Starter (SEO + AI Search) — $199/mo monthly ($165.17/mo annually). 50 prompts tracked daily, 1 domain for AI brand performance, 300 AI visibility reports per day, AI-ready site audit, MCP access.
• Pro+ — $299/mo monthly ($248.17/mo annually). 15 sites, 1,500 keywords, 100 daily prompts, content optimization, multi-location tracking.
• Advanced — $549/mo monthly ($455.67/mo annually). 40 sites, 5,000 keywords, 200 daily prompts, SEO share of voice, API access.
• Enterprise — custom, with large-scale prompt tracking and multi-brand AI visibility.
• Annual billing saves up to 17%. Extra users are an add-on from $45/mo. 7-day free trial.

Pros

• Strong fit for teams already paying for Semrush, since AI visibility is now in the plan rather than a separate line item
• AI tracking sits next to existing keyword and backlink data
• AI Search Site Audit identifies pages that answer engines cannot crawl or easily parse
• Sentiment and narrative data at a location and language granularity nothing else on this list matches
• 7-day free trial on the self-serve plans

Cons

• No Claude anywhere in the engine list
• Prompt quotas are modest next to dedicated platforms at similar money: 50 daily prompts at $199, 100 at $299
• Extra seats cost from $45/mo each on top of the plan
• Significant overlap if you only need AEO and not full SEO

8. SE Ranking AI Search (best for combining traditional SEO and AEO in one platform)

SE Ranking is a full SEO platform with an AI Search add-on that tracks AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. Covering both Google surfaces is the notable part: for local and service businesses, AI Overviews and AI Mode matter more than the chat interfaces, and few tools at this price track both. The combined plans pair rank tracking, keyword research, and site audits with AI visibility monitoring, so one subscription covers both jobs. Data is collected by UI-based monitoring rather than APIs, capturing responses as a real user would see them.

Key features

• Full SEO suite: rank tracking, keyword research, backlinks, site audit
• AI Results Tracker across 5 answer engines, including both Google AI surfaces
• Unlimited AI competitor research across the tracked engines
• Coverage across 7 markets, filterable across 5 languages
• GA4 and Google Search Console integration, plus Looker Studio, AgencyAnalytics, and Whatagraph reporting
• API and MCP access for pulling AI visibility data
• Free public AI visibility checker: your domain plus 5 competitors, all 5 engines, 5 checks per day

Pricing

• Core (SEO) — $129/mo monthly ($103.20/mo annual). 10 projects, 100 prompts per day for GEO research.
• Growth (SEO) — $279/mo monthly ($223.20/mo annual). 30 projects, 250 prompts per day.
• AI Search add-on — $89/mo monthly ($71.20/mo annual). 200 prompts, includes the SE Visible dashboard.
• Realistic SEO + AEO floor — $218/mo monthly ($174.40/mo annual) for Core plus the AI Search add-on.
• Agency Pack add-on — from $69/mo on annual billing, adds white-label reporting.
• 14-day free trial on Core, no credit card.

Pros

• Combined SEO and AEO in one platform reduces tool sprawl
• Both Google AI surfaces (AI Overviews and AI Mode) tracked, which matters for local and service categories
• Free public AI visibility checker before you buy
• 14-day free trial with no credit card

Cons

• The $89 add-on is not the real entry price; the practical floor is $218/mo with Core
• No Claude, Copilot, or Grok in the engine list
• Learning curve is steep if all you want is AEO

9. Scrunch AI (best for enterprise AEO with named AI-crawler analytics)

Scrunch AI sits at the enterprise end of the market, combining brand visibility tracking with AI-crawler analytics that name the bots individually: ClaudeBot, GPTBot, PerplexityBot, which pages they crawl, how often, and what they extract. That technical-SEO angle is its real differentiator. Core covers four answer engines and Enterprise expands to nine, adding Claude along with the Agent Experience Platform, API access, and SSO. There is a separate agency flow with its own tier. For a side-by-side look against other AEO platforms, see our Scrunch AI alternatives roundup.

Key features

• Named AI-crawler analytics (ClaudeBot, GPTBot, PerplexityBot) with page-level crawl detail
• Brand monitoring across 4 answer engines on Core, 9 on Enterprise
• Persona-based prompt sets and page-level audits
• Citation, mention, and sentiment tracking with share-of-voice reporting
• llms.txt and crawler segmentation guidance
• Agent Experience Platform (AXP), API, Looker Studio, MCP, and SSO on Enterprise

Pricing

• Core — $250/mo. 125 unique prompts, 4 engines, 5 site audits/mo, 1 brand workspace, 5 user licenses. 7-day free trial.
• Agency Core — $500/mo. 250 unique prompts, 4 engines, unlimited seats, 3 brand workspaces, 3 pitch workspaces. 7-day free trial.
• Enterprise — custom. 9 engines including Claude, AXP, full site audit, API and Looker Studio, SSO, dedicated account team.

Pros

• Named AI-crawler analytics that most competitors do not offer
• 5 user licenses on Core and unlimited seats on Agency Core
• Pitch workspaces on the agency tier for running a prospect’s brand before they sign
• 7-day free trial on both Core flows

Cons

• $250/mo Core is steep for smaller teams, and Agency Core doubles that
• Claude and AXP both require Enterprise
• Core covers four engines, the same count as platforms costing a fifth as much

10. Peec AI (best for multilingual tracking and agency credit pooling)

Peec AI is a Berlin-built monitoring platform that tracks visibility, position, and sentiment across ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Copilot, Perplexity, Gemini, and Grok. It scrapes the engines’ web interfaces rather than calling APIs, so the data reflects what a real user sees, and its multilingual and country-level breakdowns are among the strongest in the category. Two structural details matter before you buy: self-serve plans cap engine selection at three of the seven, and Claude is Enterprise-only via API. Peec is also the rare competitor with a dedicated agency price page built on a shared credit pool. If Peec is on your shortlist, also see our Peec AI alternatives breakdown.

Key features

• Seven self-serve engines, choose 3 per project on Starter, Pro, and Advanced
• Claude Sonnet 4 and GPT-5 Search on Enterprise via API
• Daily prompt updates and sentiment analysis on every tier
• Multilingual analytics across 14+ languages with country-level citation share
• Separate agency plans with a shared credit pool, white-label reporting, client seats, and pitch projects
• Looker Studio integration and API access on higher tiers

Pricing

• Starter — $95/mo (€89). 50 prompts, choose 3 of 7 engines, 1 project, 1 country.
• Pro — $245/mo. 150 prompts, 2 projects, 3 countries.
• Advanced — $495/mo. 350 prompts, 5 projects, 3 countries.
• Enterprise — custom. All engines including Claude Sonnet 4 and GPT-5 Search via API.
• Extra engine add-ons — $35/mo (Starter), $85/mo (Pro), $165/mo (Advanced) per additional engine. These draw from the same seven-engine self-serve pool, so they do not unlock Claude.
• Agency plans — Essential $245/mo, Growth $495/mo, Scale $795/mo, credit-based.
• 15% discount on annual billing. 7-day free trial, no credit card.

Pros

• Strongest multilingual and country-level breakdown in this list
• UI scraping captures what real users see rather than API output
• Unlimited user seats on every paid plan
• Agency page adds white-label reporting, client seats, and pitch projects on a shared credit pool

Cons

• Three of seven engines on every self-serve tier, so selection trade-offs persist even at $495/mo
• Extra engines cost $35 to $165/mo each and still do not unlock Claude
• Claude requires an Enterprise conversation
• Two parallel pricing structures make like-for-like comparison harder

How to choose the right AEO tool

The right tool depends on your stack, budget, and which of the four jobs from earlier matters most. Use this scenario list to narrow your shortlist:

• For tracking more than one brand: Geoptie. 10 brand workspaces with white-label reporting at $99/mo, each picking its own four engines, with recommendations and content generation in the same workspace. Start with the free GEO audit.
• For enterprise teams that want tracking and execution in one closed loop: AirOps. Page360 ties AI citations to GSC and GA4 at the URL level, and Quill runs the content work against the gaps Insights flags.
• For a free one-shot diagnostic before committing: HubSpot AEO Grader. Real score across five dimensions, no account needed.
• For enterprise multi-engine AEO programs: Profound. Up to nine answer engines on Enterprise, plus crawler analytics and prompt demand data.
• For turning tracking data into actual work: Airefs. It writes the AEO articles, drafts the Reddit and forum replies, and prepares the outreach for the domains AI already cites, from $29/mo, with a managed option from $300/mo if you would rather hand it over.
• For brands already paying for Ahrefs or Semrush: their own AI visibility features. Saves a tool even if the standalone AEO value isn’t best-in-class.
• For combined SEO and AEO in one platform: SE Ranking AI Search. One subscription, both jobs, and both Google AI surfaces covered.
• For agencies managing multiple brands: Geoptie Professional or Peec AI’s agency plans. Geoptie’s Professional plan covers 10 brand workspaces with white-label reporting at $99/mo; Peec’s agency tiers pool credits across clients from $245/mo.
• For AI crawler and bot traffic visibility on top of AEO: Scrunch AI.

Frequently asked questions

What to do next

Mapping how your brand shows up across answer engines is the first step in any AEO program. The fastest way to see where you stand is to run a free GEO audit: it scans your site, scores your AI readiness, and shows you which prompts you appear for in about 60 seconds.

From there, the right tool depends on which of the four jobs you need most: tracking, content optimization, grading, or full-suite integration. Use the table above and the decision list to narrow down to a shortlist, then trial one or two before committing.

For deeper reading, our guides on AEO vs GEO vs SEO and generative engine optimization cover the underlying disciplines, and our sister roundup of the best LLM tracking tools focuses specifically on the brand-visibility tracking job if that’s the only AEO problem you need to solve.

More than 700 million people now use ChatGPT every week (OpenAI, 2026), and AI Overviews appear in roughly half of all Google searches (BrightEdge, 2026). Brand discovery is shifting away from blue links toward synthesized AI answers — and traditional rank trackers cannot see any of it.

A new category of tool now exists: LLM tracking platforms that monitor whether your brand shows up in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google’s AI Overviews. We tested the leading options and compiled them below, with real pricing and what each is actually for.

TL;DR — best LLM tracking tools by use case

• Geoptie — best overall for GEO-focused brand tracking with affordable scaling
• Profound — best for enterprise teams tracking up to 10 answer engines globally
• SE Ranking — best for combining traditional SEO and GEO tracking in one platform

If you want the short answer, those three cover 90% of buyers. The full comparison and methodology are below.

Quick comparison table

Tool	Best for	AI Platforms Covered	Starting Price
Geoptie	GEO-focused brand tracking with affordable scaling	ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini	$49/mo
Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit	Brands already running SEO on Semrush	ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity (Claude Enterprise-only)	$99/mo per domain per user
Ahrefs Brand Radar	Largest organic prompt database (400M+)	AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini, Grok	$398/mo
HubSpot AEO Grader & AEO	Cheapest paid entry; HubSpot users	ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini	$50/mo (free grader)
Profound	Enterprise teams across 10 answer engines	ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, AIO, AI Mode, Copilot, Meta AI, Grok, DeepSeek (Enterprise)	$99/mo Starter (ChatGPT only)
Scrunch AI	Enterprise + AI crawler tracking	ChatGPT, Perplexity, AIO, Copilot (Core); 9 LLMs (Enterprise)	$250/mo
Peec AI	Agencies managing multiple brands	ChatGPT, Perplexity, AIO, AI Mode, Gemini, Copilot, Grok — choose 3 of 7 on self-serve; Claude Enterprise-only via API	$95/mo
SE Ranking	Combined SEO + GEO in one platform	AIO, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity	$89/mo (add-on)
Google Search Console	Free baseline for AI Overviews	Google AIO (partial)	Free

What does “LLM tracking” actually mean? Three different jobs

The phrase “LLM tracking tool” covers at least three distinct jobs. Picking the wrong category is the most common mistake we see buyers make.

What you want to know	The metric to track	Tools that focus here
Does an AI mention my brand when asked about my category?	Brand mention rate, share of voice	Geoptie, Peec, HubSpot AEO
Are my pages being cited as sources inside AI answers?	Citation count, citation rate	Geoptie, Profound, Scrunch
What tone does the AI use when describing my brand?	Sentiment score	Peec, Scrunch, Geoptie, HubSpot AEO

Brand mention tracking answers questions like “when someone asks ChatGPT for the best CRM, does our name come up?” This is the most common need and where most tools concentrate.

Citation tracking answers a different question: “Of all the websites ChatGPT pulled from to write its answer, was our page one of them?” Citations matter because they are how AI traffic actually reaches your site.

Sentiment tracking answers a third: “Even when our brand is mentioned, what does the AI say about us?” Some tools surface this; many do not.

Before you compare features, decide which of these three jobs you need most. Then read the relevant sections below.

How we evaluated these tools

Tested in May 2026. We evaluated each tool against six criteria:

• AI platform coverage — how many LLMs and answer engines the tool actually tracks
• Tracking accuracy — whether data is pulled from the AI’s user interface or its API, and how often
• Competitive intelligence — ability to benchmark your brand against competitors
• Sentiment and citation analysis — depth of analysis beyond raw mention counts
• Actionability — does the tool tell you what to do next, or just hand you data?
• Pricing and value — what you get for the entry-level paid tier

1. Geoptie (best overall for GEO-focused brand tracking with affordable scaling)

Geoptie is a generative engine optimization platform built specifically for tracking how brands appear across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini. It is the only tool in this comparison that includes all four leading LLMs — including Claude — at the entry-tier plan; every other platform either omits Claude or gates it behind an enterprise contract. The platform combines prompt tracking, citation analysis, competitor benchmarking, and content optimization in one workspace, with a separate suite of free GEO tools for diagnostics. Used by AKQA, Decathlon, Capgemini, Verizon, Dentsu, and more than a thousand other brands.

Key features

• Tracks the four leading LLMs: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini
• Per-prompt mention and citation tracking with daily refresh
• Competitor visibility benchmarking with share of voice
• Sentiment scoring on every tracked prompt
• Multi-brand workspaces — track up to 10 brands on Professional, unlimited on Enterprise
• Flexible data exports (CSV, PDF) for client reporting and agency workflows
• Free GEO audit, content checker, keyword finder, and backlink finder
• Dedicated ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity rank trackers

Pricing

• Starter — $49/mo monthly ($41/mo billed annually, $490/year). 15 monitoring prompts, 2 brands, unlimited audits and content analyses.
• Professional — $99/mo monthly ($83/mo billed annually, $990/year). 100 prompts, 10 brands.
• Enterprise — $199/mo monthly ($166/mo billed annually, $1,990/year). 400 prompts, unlimited brands. Additional 100 prompts at $99/mo.

Pros

• Lowest entry price of any full-featured GEO platform ($49/mo)
• Only tool in this comparison that includes Claude at the starter tier — every competitor gates Claude behind an enterprise plan or omits it entirely
• Agency-friendly: 10 brand workspaces on the $99/mo Professional plan, unlimited on Enterprise
• Flexible exports (CSV, PDF) for client deliverables
• Unlimited audits and content analyses on every plan
• Free standalone tools for diagnostics before paying

Cons

• Younger platform than long-established SEO incumbents like Semrush and Ahrefs
• Prompt volumes above 400 require Enterprise or add-on credits

2. Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit (best for brands already running their full SEO stack on Semrush)

Semrush bolted an AI Visibility Toolkit onto its existing SEO platform, letting customers track ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, and Perplexity mentions inside the same dashboard they already use for traditional SEO. It is a natural fit for teams already on Semrush, less so for everyone else.

Key features

• AI brand performance tracking across five platforms
• Up to 200 prompts daily on the Advanced tier
• Sentiment monitoring and AI-ready site audit
• AI visibility reports for any domain
• MCP access for piping data into AI assistants
• Integrated with the rest of the Semrush SEO suite

Pricing

• AI Toolkit add-on — $99/mo per domain per user. The structural catch: $99 is per domain per user, so three teammates with access on one domain runs $297/mo for the add-on alone.
• Semrush One — Starter — $199/mo. Bundles the AI Toolkit with broader Semrush tools.
• Semrush One — Pro+ — $299/mo.
• Semrush One — Advanced — $549/mo.
• Enterprise — custom pricing. Claude available only on Enterprise.

Pros

• Strong fit for teams already paying for Semrush
• AI tracking sits next to existing keyword and backlink data
• AI-ready site audit identifies pages that LLMs cannot easily parse

Cons

• Per-seat multiplication makes the headline $99 understate team cost
• Claude is Enterprise-only with no public price
• Significant overlap if you only need LLM tracking and not full SEO

3. Ahrefs Brand Radar (best for accessing the largest organic prompt database — 400M+)

Brand Radar is an add-on to the Ahrefs SEO platform that tracks brand visibility across AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini, and Grok. Its main differentiator is the size of its prompt database: 400 million monthly prompts pulled from real search behavior, not synthetic prompt sets.

Key features

• 400M+ monthly organic prompts indexed across 7 platforms
• Brand visibility tracking and competitor benchmarking
• Citation source analysis across the web, YouTube, TikTok, and Reddit
• Custom prompt tracking via add-on credits
• Integrated with the Ahrefs backlink and keyword data ecosystem

Pricing

• Single platform — $398/mo. Track one of: AI Overviews + AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini, or Grok. Organic prompts only.
• All platforms — $699/mo. All 6 platforms plus 2,500 custom prompt checks. Includes YouTube, TikTok, and Reddit visibility (free during beta).
• Custom prompts add-on — from $50/mo for 2,500 additional credits.

Pros

• Largest organic prompt database in the category
• Includes visibility tracking on YouTube, TikTok, and Reddit (sources LLMs heavily cite)
• Strong fit for teams already paying for Ahrefs

Cons

• Add-on pricing sits on top of existing Ahrefs subscription cost
• $398/mo for a single platform is the steepest entry tier on this list
• Custom prompts require purchasing additional credit packages

4. HubSpot AEO Grader & AEO (best for the cheapest paid entry point at $50/mo and HubSpot users)

HubSpot launched a free AEO Grader that scores any brand across five dimensions (sentiment, presence quality, brand recognition, share of voice, market competition) based on how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini describe it. The paid product, HubSpot AEO, extends the grader into continuous monitoring at $50 per month — the cheapest paid LLM tracking subscription in this list.

Key features

• Free one-time brand scoring across 5 dimensions
• Composite score out of 100 with written interpretation
• Continuous monitoring across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini (paid tier)
• Competitor analysis and prioritized recommendations
• Included with Marketing Hub Pro and Enterprise

Pricing

• AEO Grader — Free. One-time diagnostic.
• HubSpot AEO — $50/mo standalone, or included in Marketing Hub Pro/Enterprise.

Pros

• Cheapest paid plan in the entire list ($50/mo)
• Free grader gives a real diagnostic before committing
• Native integration with HubSpot CRM and Marketing Hub

Cons

• Only 3 LLMs tracked (no Claude, Copilot, Grok, or Gemini AI Mode)
• Best value if you already use HubSpot; less compelling standalone
• Narrower prompt customization than dedicated GEO platforms

5. Profound (best for enterprise teams tracking up to 10 answer engines globally)

Profound is an enterprise-leaning platform that monitors AI visibility across up to 10 answer engines — including Claude, Grok, Meta AI, and DeepSeek — on its custom tier. The self-serve plans are narrower, but the Enterprise tier offers the widest LLM coverage of any tool on this list. If you are weighing Profound against alternatives, see our deeper Profound alternatives comparison.

Key features

• Up to 10 answer engines on Enterprise (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, AIO, AI Mode, Copilot, Meta AI, Grok, DeepSeek)
• Prompt volume estimates and agent crawling analytics
• AEO-optimized content generation via Profound Agents
• Multi-language and multi-region support on Enterprise
• SSO/SAML and SOC2 compliance

Pricing

• Starter — $99/mo. 50 prompts, ChatGPT only. 1 seat.
• Growth — $399/mo. 100 prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews. Includes 6 AEO-optimized articles per month. 3 seats.
• Enterprise — custom. Up to 10 engines, multi-company, dedicated Slack support, SSO/SAML + SOC2.

Pros

• Widest LLM coverage available on the Enterprise tier
• Agent crawling analytics show how AI bots interact with your site
• Strong fit for global enterprise brands tracking multiple markets

Cons

• Best features gated behind Enterprise pricing
• Starter tier only tracks ChatGPT
• Self-serve pricing is opaque on the public pricing page

6. Scrunch AI (best for enterprise monitoring with AI crawler and agent traffic tracking)

Scrunch AI sits at the enterprise end of the market, combining brand visibility tracking with AI crawler analytics — visibility into how AI bots and agents interact with your site. The Core plan covers four LLMs; Enterprise expands to nine and adds Query Fan-out, multi-domain agent tracking, and API access. For a side-by-side look against other GEO platforms, see our Scrunch AI alternatives roundup.

Key features

• Brand monitoring across 4 LLMs (Core) or 9 (Enterprise)
• AI agent and bot traffic analytics
• Sentiment analysis and citation source tracking
• Site audits with 25-page maps (Core) or full site coverage (Enterprise)
• Looker Studio integration and Query API on Enterprise

Pricing

• Core — $250/mo. 125 unique prompts, 5 site audits/mo, 1 brand workspace, 5 user licenses. 7-day free trial.
• Enterprise — custom. 9 LLMs, expanded prompt limits, SSO, dedicated account team.

Pros

• AI crawler analytics not offered by most competitors
• 5 user licenses included at the Core tier
• Strong sentiment and citation analysis

Cons

• Most advanced LLM coverage requires Enterprise
• $250/mo Core tier is steep compared to smaller-team alternatives
• API and Looker Studio access only on Enterprise

7. Peec AI (best for agencies managing multiple brands with sentiment analysis)

Peec AI is a monitoring-focused platform that tracks visibility, position, and sentiment across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Copilot, and Grok. Its standout feature is strategic recommendations on top of the tracking data — for example, surfacing subreddits where you should be participating. The structural catch: Peec’s self-serve plans cap engine selection at 3 of 7 (choose any three of the seven), and Claude Sonnet 4 is Enterprise-only via API. If Peec is on your shortlist, also see our Peec AI alternatives breakdown.

Key features

• 7 self-serve engines, choose 3 per project on Starter/Pro/Advanced
• Claude Sonnet 4 and GPT-5 Search available on Enterprise via API
• Daily prompt updates
• Sentiment analysis on tracked responses
• AI-based strategy and prompt suggestions
• Looker Studio integration

Pricing

• Starter — $95/mo (€89/mo). 50 prompts, choose 3 of 7 models, 1 project.
• Pro — $245/mo. 150 prompts.
• Advanced — $495/mo. 350 prompts.
• Enterprise — custom. Adds Claude Sonnet 4 and GPT-5 Search via API.
• 15% discount on annual billing.

Pros

• Strategy recommendations alongside raw data
• Unlimited user seats on every paid plan
• Sentiment analysis included at all tiers

Cons

• 3-of-7 engine cap means selection trade-offs even at higher tiers
• Claude requires Enterprise — never appears on self-serve tiers
• Pricing structure is layered and harder to compare than flat-plan competitors

8. SE Ranking (best for combining traditional SEO and GEO tracking in one platform)

SE Ranking is a full SEO platform that has added robust GEO and AI tracking features. The combined plans pair rank tracking, keyword research, and site audits with AI visibility monitoring across AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity — making it a one-platform option for teams that want both jobs covered.

Key features

• Full SEO suite: rank tracking, keyword research, backlinks, site audit
• AI Results Tracker across 5 LLMs with daily prompt tracking
• AI Competitor Research at the domain level
• GA4 and Google Search Console integration
• MCP server for piping data to AI assistants

Pricing

• Core — $129/mo monthly ($103.20/mo annual). 2k keywords, 100 prompts daily, 5 domains in GEO research.
• Growth — $279/mo monthly ($223.20/mo annual). 5k keywords, 250 prompts daily, 15 domains.
• Enterprise — custom.
• AI Search add-on — $89/mo monthly ($71.20/mo annual). 200 prompts. Standalone option for SEO customers.

Pros

• Combined SEO and GEO in one platform reduces tool sprawl
• Full SEO suite included at the Core tier
• 14-day free trial available

Cons

• Learning curve can be steep if you only want LLM tracking
• 5 LLMs covered (no Claude, Copilot, or Grok)
• AI Search add-on cost stacks on top of the main subscription

9. Google Search Console (best free baseline for AI Overviews visibility)

Google Search Console remains a valuable free baseline, especially for tracking AI Overviews appearances within Google search. It does not track ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or Gemini — but for measuring how your site shows up in Google’s own AI-driven results, it costs nothing.

Key features

• Free, with no subscription required
• Tracks impressions, clicks, and average position
• Surfaces queries that triggered AI Overviews (partial)
• API access for custom reporting

Pricing

• Free.

Pros

• Costs nothing
• Direct data from Google
• Useful baseline before paying for a tracker

Cons

• Only covers Google search (no ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini)
• AI Overviews data is limited and not broken out cleanly
• No competitor benchmarking, sentiment, or citation analysis

How to choose the right LLM tracking tool

The right tool depends on your stack, budget, and which of the three jobs from earlier matters most. Use this scenario list to narrow your shortlist:

• For GEO-focused tracking tied to SERP impact: Geoptie. Best balance of coverage, depth, and affordability. Start with the free GEO audit.
• For enterprise multi-engine monitoring: Profound. Up to 10 answer engines on the Enterprise tier, including DeepSeek, Meta AI, and Amazon Rufus.
• For brands already on Semrush or Ahrefs: their AI add-ons. Consolidates billing and dashboards, but adds cost on top of your existing subscription.
• For solo teams or tight budgets: Geoptie Starter or HubSpot AEO Grader (free). Geoptie’s Starter at $49/mo covers the four leading LLMs; HubSpot’s free grader gives a one-time score before you commit.
• For agencies managing multiple brands: Geoptie Professional or Peec AI. Geoptie’s Professional plan covers 10 brand workspaces at $99/mo with flexible CSV and PDF exports; Peec’s Agency tier adds dedicated strategy recommendations from $245/mo.
• For combined SEO and GEO: SE Ranking. One platform, one bill, both jobs.
• For free baseline checking: Google Search Console. Necessary but insufficient on its own.

Frequently asked questions

What to do next

Mapping how your brand shows up across LLMs is the first step in a generative engine optimization program. The fastest way to see where you stand is to run a free GEO audit — it scans your site, scores your AI readiness, and shows you which prompts you appear for across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini in about 60 seconds.

From there, the right tracker depends on which of the three jobs you need most: brand mentions, citations, or sentiment. Use the table above and the decision list to narrow down to a shortlist, then start a free trial with one or two before committing.

For deeper reading on the underlying discipline, our guide to generative engine optimization covers the practices that move the needle once you can measure visibility — and our roundup of free GEO tools is a good place to start without a budget.

The gap between a vendor’s headline engine count and what the entry tier actually tracks is often the first surprise an AEO buyer gets, and few tools illustrate it more sharply than Profound. Profound is among the most recognized names in the category, and the depth of its Enterprise plan, up to nine engines with SOC2, SSO and dedicated support, is genuinely hard to match. What sends buyers searching for alternatives is the shape of the ladder underneath: Starter at $99/mo tracks ChatGPT only, Growth at $399/mo adds Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, and Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Meta AI, Grok, and DeepSeek all sit behind a custom-priced Enterprise contract that requires a sales conversation.

For a marketing team that needs multi-engine coverage today on a public price, that gap between $99 and “let’s talk” is where the comparison starts. The nine alternatives below all show their pricing on the page, most include three or more engines below $200/mo, and several put Claude on a real non-Enterprise tier. The free AI rank tracker covers ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini if a no-credit-card starting point is useful before reading further.

TL;DR — best Profound alternatives by use case

• Geoptie — multi-engine on the entry tier without a Growth-plan upgrade. Seven engines with any four selectable per brand on the $49 Starter, Claude among them, and no Enterprise-custom gate.
• AthenaHQ — best for brands that want 8 engines on a single self-serve plan and can absorb the higher floor
• Otterly AI — best for solo SEOs and small teams that want to start tracking AI visibility for under $30 a month

Those three cover most buyers. The full comparison, the engine-tier-gating framework, and the budget options are below.

Quick comparison table

Tool	Best for	AI engines covered	Engines on entry tier	Starting price
Geoptie	Marketing teams that want multi-engine AI visibility on a flat entry-tier plan	ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Microsoft Copilot	4 of 7, selectable per brand	$49/mo
AthenaHQ	Brands that want eight engines on one self-serve plan with agentic analysis	ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Copilot, Grok	8 (all included)	$295/mo
Peec AI	Global brands tracking multilingual AI visibility across multiple projects	Choose 3 models from ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Copilot, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok (Starter/Pro/Advanced); Claude and GPT-5 Search on Enterprise only	3 of 7, user-selected, no Claude	$95/mo
ZeroRank AI	Marketing teams that want every platform on the entry tier with recommendations attached	17 platforms including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek	17 (all included)	$89/mo
Scrunch AI	Technical teams that want AI-crawler diagnostics alongside visibility tracking	ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AIO, Copilot (Core); + Claude, Gemini, Meta AI, AI Mode, Grok (Enterprise — 9 total)	4 (no Claude on Core)	$250/mo
Otterly AI	Solo SEOs and small teams tracking AI visibility for under $30/mo	ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot (all tiers); Gemini, AI Mode and Claude as paid add-ons	4 base, Claude is a paid add-on	$29/mo
AirOps	Content + SEO teams that want execution workflows alongside visibility tracking	ChatGPT (Solo); ChatGPT, Google, Perplexity, Google AI Studio (Pro)	1 on Solo; 4 on Pro	Free to start
Ahrefs Brand Radar	Established SEO teams already in the Ahrefs ecosystem	AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini (Select platforms); Grok added on All platforms	6 (no Claude)	$398/mo
Semrush	SEO teams that want AI visibility inside their existing Semrush workflow	ChatGPT, ChatGPT Search, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews	4 on the $99 AI Visibility plan (no Claude on any tier)	$99/mo per domain

All pricing is the monthly-billed rate. Annual discounts apply on most plans. Engine coverage often changes by tier — the engine you care about may not be unlocked on the entry plan.

How we evaluated

Each tool below was tested in May 2026 and re-verified first-party in September 2026 against the same criteria: how many engines unlock on the entry tier (vs across all tiers), the multi-engine ceiling on the top tier, whether multi-engine is reachable without a sales call, what the cheapest paid plan delivers, whether a free trial or free tier exists, single-country vs multi-region defaults, brand-mention vs URL-citation tracking, and refresh frequency. Geoptie is on the list and at the top; AthenaHQ is the pick when single-tier breadth matters more than entry price; Ahrefs Brand Radar carries the largest real-search-backed prompt dataset; Scrunch has the best AI-crawler analytics. If one of those fits the scenario better than the flat-priced multi-engine entry below, pick accordingly.

1. Geoptie (best for marketing teams that want multi-engine AI visibility on a flat entry-tier plan)

Engines on entry tier: 4 of 7, selectable per brand, from ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, and Microsoft Copilot.

Geoptie is an AI search visibility platform built for marketing teams that want multi-engine answers without buying enterprise software to do it. It covers seven engines, with any four selectable per brand on every paid tier including the $49 per month Starter and no per-engine surcharge at any level. Selection is per brand, so two brands on one account can run different engine mixes. Compared with Profound’s $99/mo Starter (ChatGPT only) or $399/mo Growth (three engines, no Claude), the entry tier already shows a real multi-engine picture at a lower price, and Claude is one of the four you can pick on it.

Key features

• Any four of seven engines per brand on every paid tier, with daily tracking and no engine add-ons
• Citation tracking (your URL surfaced in an AI answer) and brand-mention tracking (your brand named in the answer text) in one dashboard
• Competitor share-of-voice across the same prompt set, plus sentiment scoring on every tracked answer
• Recommendations engine, content generation, and a content optimizer in the same subscription as the tracking
• Free AI rank tracker, ChatGPT rank tracker, Claude rank tracker, and Perplexity rank tracker, with no credit card and no time limit

Pricing

• Starter — $49/mo. 15 prompts, 2 brands, any four engines, daily tracking, citation + brand-mention, competitor comparison.
• Professional — $99/mo. 100 prompts, 10 brands, white-label client reporting.
• Enterprise — $399/mo. 400 prompts, unlimited brands.
• Unlimited seats on every plan, and annual billing is two months free.

Pros

• Cheapest way on this list to get Claude on a paid plan, with no upgrade and no sales call
• Predictable per-plan pricing with no credit pool to forecast
• Recommendations, content generation, and content optimization in the same subscription as the tracking

Cons

• Four engines per brand at a time out of the seven covered, so brands needing all seven at once will look elsewhere
• Meta AI, Grok, and DeepSeek are not tracked at all
• No free trial on the platform itself, though the standalone free tools run without an account
• Smaller historical dataset than Profound’s all-time archive

2. AthenaHQ (best for brands that want eight engines on one self-serve plan with agentic analysis)

Engines on entry tier: 8 — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Copilot, Grok.

AthenaHQ is the alternative for buyers who want everything Profound covers across its Growth and Enterprise tiers, on a single self-serve plan, without a sales conversation. See best AthenaHQ alternatives for the deep comparison. The Self-Serve plan at $295 a month tracks all eight major engines and uses a credit-based model (3,600 credits per month, where one credit equals one AI response, plus $300 a month of included credit). The trade-off is the price floor and the credit-forecasting cost.

Key features

• 8 engines on a single self-serve plan (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Copilot, Grok)
• Citation tracking, brand-mention monitoring, sentiment analysis, competitor benchmarking
• “Ask Athena” agentic copilot for interactive analysis
• GA4, GSC, and Shopify integrations

Pricing

• Self-Serve — $295/mo (17% off annual). 3,600 credits/mo plus $300/mo of included credit, unlimited seats with role-based access.
• Enterprise — custom pricing, custom credit allocation, dedicated support.

Pros

• Eight engines including Claude on a single self-serve plan, with no engine-gating ladder
• Unlimited seats with role-based access control
• Strong competitor and sentiment analytics

Cons

• $295/mo is the highest published entry price in this list after Ahrefs Brand Radar
• Credit-based billing, so usage spikes push spend up unpredictably
• No free trial, though a 67% first-month promo brings month one to $95

3. Peec AI (best for marketing teams that want multi-engine flexibility on a single flat plan)

Engines on entry tier: 3, user-selected from a pool of seven, from ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, Gemini, and Grok. Claude and GPT-5 Search require Enterprise.

Peec AI takes a pick-your-own approach: every paid tier lets you choose any 3 models from the supported list, at the same flat monthly rate. See best Peec AI alternatives for the deep comparison. The Starter plan at $95 a month covers 50 prompts and one project. Peec includes unlimited user seats on all plans (a meaningful contrast with Profound’s per-tier seat caps), tracks up to three countries per project from the $245 Pro tier, and adds Looker Studio integration on the $495 Advanced tier.

Key features

• Choose any 3 models from the seven-model self-serve pool on every flat plan (Starter, Pro, Advanced)
• 50 prompts on Starter, scaling to 350 on Advanced
• Unlimited user seats on all paid plans
• Looker Studio integration and multi-country support on Advanced
• Customer base includes Breitling, Attio, Squarespace, Hugo Boss, ElevenLabs, and TUI Group

Pricing

• Starter — $95/mo. 50 prompts, choose 3 models, 1 project, unlimited users, daily tracking.
• Pro — $245/mo. 150 prompts, choose 3 models, 2 projects.
• Advanced — $495/mo. 350 prompts, choose 3 models, 5 projects, multi-country, Looker Studio integration.
• Enterprise — custom. Fully customisable prompts, choose from all models, API access, SSO.

Pros

• Pick-3-models flexibility, so you can swap which three you track without changing plan
• Unlimited user seats on every tier, which is agency-friendly
• Predictable flat monthly pricing, no credit pool, and extra models available as a per-model add-on
• 7-day free trial with no credit card, and multi-country tracking below Enterprise

Cons

• Claude is not in the self-serve pool at all, so Claude coverage needs Enterprise, the same gate as Profound
• Capped at 3 models per plan below Enterprise, and a fourth model costs $35 to $165/mo depending on tier
• $95 Starter only gets you 50 prompts, which is tight for larger teams

4. ZeroRank AI (best for marketing teams that want to turn AI visibility data into action)

Engines on entry tier: Up to 17 — including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Copilot, Grok, and DeepSeek.

ZeroRank is the Profound alternative for teams that want to improve AI visibility, not just monitor it. Every plan supports up to 17 AI platforms, without reserving engines such as Claude, Gemini, or Copilot for Enterprise. Beyond tracking mentions, rankings, citations, sentiment, and competitors, ZeroRank turns visibility gaps into prioritized on-page, off-page, technical, and content recommendations. Built-in content creation, optimization, and automated workflows then help teams implement those recommendations within the same platform.

Key features

• Visibility tracking across up to 17 AI platforms on every plan
• Brand mentions, average rank, citations, sentiment, AI Visibility Score, and competitor benchmarking
• Prioritized on-page, off-page, technical, and content recommendations
• AI-assisted content creation and optimization based on prompt and citation gaps
• Automated workflows and a native MCP integration for analyzing ZeroRank data through Claude or Cursor
• Google Analytics and Search Console integrations for connecting AI visibility with referral traffic and search performance

Pricing

• Starter — $89/mo ($76/mo billed annually). 50 prompts and up to 4,500 AI answers per month.
• Pro — $199/mo ($169/mo billed annually). 150 prompts and up to 13,500 AI answers per month.
• Enterprise — custom. Starts from 350 prompts and 31,500 AI answers per month.
• Free trial — 7 days.

Pros

• Up to 17 AI platforms are available on every plan — no Profound-style Enterprise gate for Claude, Gemini, Copilot, or Grok
• Goes beyond reporting with prioritized recommendations, content workflows, and automation
• Lower starting price than Profound while including broader engine access
• Unlimited seats make it practical for growing marketing teams and agencies

Cons

• Usage is based on AI answer runs, so teams tracking many prompts across many platforms need to manage their allowance
• Claude Sonnet 4.6 consumes 20 answer runs per response, making frequent Claude tracking more expensive

5. Scrunch AI (best for technical teams that want AI-crawler diagnostics alongside visibility tracking)

Engines on entry tier: 4 — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AIO, Copilot. Claude, Gemini, Meta AI, Google AI Mode, and Grok require Enterprise (9 LLMs total).

Scrunch is the AI-crawler-analytics pick. See best Scrunch AI alternatives for the deeper comparison. The Core plan at $250 a month covers four major AI platforms — the same four Otterly covers, at a higher price — and adds something Profound doesn’t expose: when you upgrade to Enterprise, Scrunch’s Agent Experience Platform (AXP) layer ships a structured version of your site to AI crawlers. Like Profound, Scrunch keeps Claude on the Enterprise tier — so if Claude visibility is the reason you’re shopping Profound, Scrunch isn’t the direct swap.

Key features

• 4 LLMs on Core (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AIO, Copilot); 9 LLMs on Enterprise (adds Claude, Gemini, Meta AI, AI Mode, Grok)
• 125 unique prompts and 5 site audits per month on Core
• 1 brand workspace, 5 user licenses on Core
• AXP (Agent Experience Platform) for crawler delivery — Enterprise only
• 7-day free trial on Core

Pricing

• Core — $250/mo. 125 unique prompts, 5 site audits/mo, 1 brand workspace, 5 user licenses, 4 LLMs.
• Enterprise — custom. Expanded model coverage (9 LLMs), AXP, API access, SSO, dedicated account team.

Pros

• 7-day free trial — direct contrast with Profound’s sales-gate
• Unique Agent Experience Platform layer (Enterprise) — not in Profound
• 5 user licenses on Core is generous for the entry tier

Cons

• Core covers 4 LLMs (same as Otterly), not the 6+ some competing posts claim — Claude, Gemini, Meta AI, AI Mode, and Grok are Enterprise-only
• Same Claude-Enterprise gate as Profound
• $250 Core is higher than alternatives with the same 4-engine list (Otterly at $29)

6. Otterly AI (best for solo SEOs and small teams that want to start tracking AI visibility for under $30/mo)

Engines on entry tier: 4 — ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot. Claude is a paid add-on, not base coverage on any tier.

Otterly is the budget entry. The Lite plan at $29/mo covers four engines with 15 search prompts (see best Otterly alternatives for the deeper comparison) — roughly $370/mo cheaper than Profound Growth, and it shows four engines on the entry tier instead of Profound Starter’s one. Otterly’s Gartner Cool Vendor 2025 nod adds credibility for SMB buyers. The trade-off is engine breadth: Claude, Gemini and AI Mode are all paid add-ons rather than base coverage, and the Claude add-on runs from $29/mo on Lite to $439/mo on Premium.

Key features

• $29 entry tier — the cheapest paid AEO tracker in the category
• Four engines on all plans (ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot)
• Public API on Standard and Premium
• Google Looker Studio connector for reporting

Pricing

• Lite — $29/mo ($25/mo billed annually). 15 prompts.
• Standard — $189/mo ($160/mo annual). 100 prompts, public API.
• Premium — $489/mo ($422/mo annual). 400 prompts.
• Enterprise — from $1,000/mo. SSO, custom prompt tracking, dedicated CSM.
• AI Mode and Gemini add-ons $9 to $149/mo; Claude add-on $29 to $439/mo, depending on tier.

Pros

• Cheapest paid entry on the list — $370/mo cheaper than Profound Growth
• Gartner Cool Vendor 2025 credibility for SMBs
• Public API on the mid-tier — rare at this price band

Cons

• Claude is a paid add-on rather than base coverage, reaching $439/mo on Premium
• Gemini and AI Mode also cost extra
• 15 prompts on Lite is small for a real evaluation, and Lite has one workspace with no API, MCP or Looker connector

7. AirOps (best for content + SEO teams that want execution workflows alongside visibility tracking)

Engines on entry tier: 1 (ChatGPT) on Solo; multi-engine (ChatGPT, Google, Perplexity, Google AI Studio) on Pro.

AirOps positions itself as the tool that closes the gap between insight and action. Profound shows where your visibility drops; AirOps adds content-production workflows to actually fix them. Both Solo and Pro tiers start free per the pricing page, with paid limits on tracked prompts and tasks. The Solo plan covers ChatGPT only with 100 tracked prompts; Pro unlocks Multi-Engine Insights with 250 tracked prompts and unlimited team seats.

Key features

• Start-for-free on both Solo and Pro tiers (paid limits scale with usage)
• Solo: 100 tracked prompts, ChatGPT Insights only, 1 Brand Kit + 3 Knowledge Bases, 20,000 content-production tasks
• Pro: 250 tracked prompts, Multi-Engine Insights, 1 Brand Kit + 5 Knowledge Bases, 75,000 tasks, CMS/SEO/AEO/Social/PM integrations, unlimited team seats
• Bulk-execution Grids for refreshing hundreds of pages at once
• Enterprise: custom prompts, multi-region/persona/language tracking, custom agent builds

Pricing

• Solo — start for free. 100 tracked prompts, ChatGPT only, single-user access.
• Pro — start for free. 250 tracked prompts, multi-engine, unlimited team seats.
• Enterprise — custom. Unlimited knowledge bases, dedicated account manager.

Pros

• Genuine start-for-free on both Solo and Pro — no Profound-style sales-call gate
• Action layer (content production) on top of measurement
• Unlimited team seats on Pro

Cons

• Engine coverage on Pro is narrower than Profound Enterprise (no Claude, no Gemini, no Meta AI, no Grok)
• Pro paid limits aren’t published on the public pricing page
• Less specialized as a pure visibility tracker

8. Ahrefs Brand Radar (best for established SEO teams already in the Ahrefs ecosystem)

Engines on entry tier: 6 — AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini. Grok is added on the $699 All platforms tier. No Claude on either tier.

Ahrefs Brand Radar is the alternative for teams already running Ahrefs for traditional SEO. Brand Radar tracks six AI platforms on its entry tier and pairs them with a 470 million-plus monthly organic prompt database, the largest in the category. Pricing is high but flat: $398/mo for Select platforms or $699/mo for All platforms with full prompt access. Claude isn’t on the engine list — the same gap as Profound’s self-serve product, so this isn’t the swap for teams whose Profound complaint was Claude access.

Key features

• 470M+ monthly organic prompts, the largest real-search-backed dataset in the category
• Tight integration with the rest of the Ahrefs SEO suite
• Six AI platforms covered
• YouTube, TikTok, Reddit tracking (beta) on the All-platforms tier

Pricing

• Select platforms — $398/mo.
• All platforms — $699/mo. Adds Grok, 2,500/mo custom-prompt checks, beta YouTube/TikTok/Reddit tracking.
• Custom-prompt tracking is now bundled into every paid Ahrefs plan, from 150 checks/mo on Lite at $129. The $398 and $699 tiers buy the 470M+ prompt index.

Pros

• Largest real-search prompt dataset of any tool here
• Flat per-plan, no engine ladder once you’re on the tier
• Strongest fit for teams already standardized on Ahrefs

Cons

• No Claude coverage at any tier, a wider gap than Profound, which at least sells it on Enterprise
• $398 is the highest entry price in this list
• $398 buys the prompt index rather than prompt tracking, which now comes with any paid Ahrefs plan

9. Semrush (best for SEO teams that want AI visibility inside their existing Semrush workflow)

Engines on entry tier: 4 on the $99 AI Visibility plan — ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini, and Perplexity. No Claude on any tier.

Semrush is the most natural fit for teams already on Semrush, and it sells AI visibility two ways. The standalone AI Visibility plan is $99 a month per domain and covers 25 custom prompts with daily rankings across ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini and Perplexity. Bundling it with the SEO suite starts at $199, where the prompt quota rises to 50 a day and climbs to 200 on the $549 Advanced plan.

Key features

• AI Visibility Score benchmarked daily against a competitor median, worldwide and by region
• Brand sentiment and narrative intelligence across 68,000+ location-language combinations, refreshed weekly

Pricing

• AI Visibility — Base — $99/mo per domain. 25 custom prompts with daily AI rankings, 1 domain for Brand Performance, AI competitor analysis and prompt research, site audit for AI readiness.
• SEO — $139.95/mo. SEO only. AI search tracking, AI sentiment and custom prompt monitoring are all excluded on this plan.
• Starter (SEO + AI Search) — $199/mo. 50 prompts tracked daily, AI brand performance for 1 domain, 300 AI visibility reports per day, AI-ready Site Audit, MCP access.
• Seats are a $45/mo add-on rather than a multiplier on the plan price. Annual billing saves up to 17%. Free trial on the SEO, Starter and Pro+ plans.

Pros

• AI visibility in the same subscription as the SEO suite, so there is no second vendor to onboard
• Sentiment and narrative granularity nothing else here matches, across 68,000+ location-language combinations
• A $99 per-domain AI Visibility plan for teams that want the tracking without the SEO suite, plus a free trial on the bundled plans

Cons

• No Claude at any price, a wider gap than Profound’s Enterprise gate
• 25 prompts on the $99 plan, and 50 a day at $199, is modest next to purpose-built trackers at a third of the price
• The $99 plan is per domain, so a second brand doubles the bill

How to choose the right Profound alternative

• Multi-engine coverage at the lowest flat entry price: Geoptie — any four of seven engines per brand on the $49/mo Starter, Claude included, no upgrade required.
• Eight engines on one self-serve plan: AthenaHQ ($295 Self-Serve, credit-metered).
• Pick-3-models flexibility on a single flat plan: Peec AI ($95 Starter, seven-model pool, Claude not in it).
• AI-crawler diagnostics (AXP): Scrunch AI — Claude still requires Enterprise, like Profound.
• Cheapest paid entry under $30/mo: Otterly AI — Claude is a paid add-on rather than base coverage.
• Execution workflows alongside tracking: AirOps (free start on Solo and Pro).
• Largest real-search-backed prompt dataset: Ahrefs Brand Radar.
• SEO teams already standardized on Semrush: Semrush — from $99/mo per domain, with eyes open on the total absence of Claude.
• Free AI visibility tracking with no credit card and no time limit: geoptie.com/geo-rank-tracker.
• Overall best value: Geoptie.

FAQ

What to do next

If Profound’s Enterprise tier is in the budget, the engine breadth and compliance posture make it a credible top-end pick. The teams whose Profound complaint is the ladder underneath — the $99 Starter that only tracks ChatGPT, or the $399 Growth that still doesn’t include Claude — are better served seeing what a multi-engine view actually surfaces before committing to a tier shape. The free AI rank tracker covers ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini at no cost.

For broader category context, see our best LLM tracking tools listicle and the best AEO tools breakdown.

Anyone evaluating Peec AI runs into the same structural question early in the demo: which three engines do you pick? Peec is one of the stronger brand-mention trackers in the AEO category — its sentiment scoring is widely cited as a strength, unlimited user seats come standard on every paid plan, and its multilingual coverage spans 14+ languages — but each self-serve tier (Starter at €89/mo, Pro at €205/mo, Advanced at €425/mo) caps engine tracking at three of the seven on offer. A fourth engine costs €70/mo extra on Pro or €140/mo on Advanced, and Claude Sonnet 4 plus GPT-5 Search aren’t on the menu at all on self-serve — both sit behind Enterprise via API access.

That’s where this comparison starts. The eight alternatives below either uncap engine coverage on the entry tier, price in USD, or open Claude tracking without a sales conversation — and most do at least two of the three. The free AI rank tracker covers ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini with no credit card if a starting point helps before reading the full list.

TL;DR — best Peec AI alternatives by use case

• Geoptie — the four-engine entry pick when Peec’s choose-3 cap is the blocker. All four major answer engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini) on a flat $49/mo plan, no engine add-ons.
• Profound — best for enterprise brands that need the deepest engine breadth across ten or more engines with compliance and historical data
• Otterly AI — best for solo SEOs and small teams that want to start tracking AI visibility for under $30 a month

Those three cover most buyers. The full comparison, the “3 of 6” lens, and the budget and ecosystem options are below.

Quick comparison table

Tool	Best for	AI engines covered	Pricing model	Starting price
Geoptie	Marketing teams that want all four major answer engines on the entry tier without a “choose 3” cap	ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini	Flat per-plan	$49/mo
ZeroRank AI	Teams that want visibility tracking plus built-in recommendations and content workflows	ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Grok, Bing Copilot, and more	Flat per-plan	$89/mo Starter
Profound	Enterprise brands needing the deepest engine coverage with compliance and historical data	ChatGPT (Starter); ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok, Copilot, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Meta AI, DeepSeek (Enterprise)	Flat per-plan (enterprise custom)	$99/mo Starter
Scrunch	Technical SEO teams that need AI-crawler analytics alongside citation tracking	ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Copilot (Core); Claude, Gemini, Meta AI, AI Mode, Grok (Enterprise)	Flat per-plan	$250/mo Core
Otterly AI	Solo SEOs and small teams tracking AI visibility for under $30/mo	ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot (4 on all tiers); AI Mode + Gemini as add-ons	Flat per-plan	$29/mo Lite
SE Ranking AI Search Toolkit	SEO teams that want AI visibility folded into a full SEO suite	AI Overviews, AI Mode, Perplexity, ChatGPT	Flat plan + flat add-on	$218/mo (Core + AI add-on)
Ahrefs Brand Radar	Established SEO teams that want a search-backed AI prompt database, not just custom prompts	AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini, Grok	Flat per-plan	$398/mo
Semrush AI Toolkit	SEO teams that want AI visibility inside their existing Semrush workflow	ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini, Perplexity (Claude Enterprise-only)	Flat per-domain add-on (per-seat multiplied)	$99/mo per domain

All pricing is the monthly-billed rate. Annual discounts apply on most plans. Engine coverage often changes by tier — the engine you care about may not be unlocked on the entry plan.

The “3 of 6” engine lock — and what Peec’s add-on math really means

Peec covers six engines: ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, and Gemini. The pricing tiers tell a tighter story.

Starter (€85/mo), Pro (€205/mo), and Advanced (€425/mo) each include three of those six engines, chosen at onboarding. The other three are paid add-ons. Claude Sonnet 4 and GPT-5 Search aren’t on any of those tiers — both sit on Enterprise via API, with no public price.

The add-on math is what surprises buyers after they sign up. On Pro, each additional engine costs €70/mo, so a Pro buyer wanting five of the six engines pays €205 + (2 × €70) = €345/mo — a 68% premium over the headline. On Advanced, each additional engine is €140/mo; a five-engine Advanced subscription is €705/mo. The 3-of-6 cap doesn’t go away when you scale up. Claude is a separate story: tracking it means an Enterprise sales call, which is a two-week procurement loop most mid-market buyers haven’t budgeted for.

The question a buyer should actually price against is how many engines are included in the line item they’ll pay. Tools that bundle every major engine into a single flat plan settle that in advance — you hit a tier limit and you upgrade, without a choose-3 prompt at checkout or a sales-call gate on Claude.

How we evaluated

Each tool below was tested in May 2026 against the same criteria: engine coverage on the entry tier, whether Claude is self-serve or gated to Enterprise, pricing-model predictability (flat over credit-based), self-serve checkout vs sales-call gates, free trial or free tier, multi-brand support, and how quickly the dashboard surfaces useful data after signup. Geoptie is on the list and at the top; Profound is the better pick for enterprise breadth across ten or more engines with SOC2; Scrunch has the best AI-crawler analytics; Ahrefs Brand Radar carries the largest real-search-backed prompt dataset. If one of those fits the scenario better than flat-priced multi-engine coverage, pick accordingly.

1. Geoptie (best for marketing teams that want all four major answer engines on the entry tier without a “choose 3” cap)

Pricing model: flat per-plan.

Geoptie tracks brand visibility across the four engines that matter — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini — on a flat $49/mo Starter, with daily refreshes, citation and brand-mention tracking, and competitor share-of-voice. The comparison to Peec is straightforward: where Peec asks for a 3-of-6 pick and €70/mo per additional engine, Geoptie includes all four in one line item.

Key features

• Daily tracking across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini on every paid tier
• Citation tracking (URL surfaced in an AI answer) and brand-mention tracking (brand named in the answer text) in one dashboard
• Competitor share-of-voice across the same prompt set
• Multi-brand support — 10 brands on Professional, unlimited on Enterprise
• Free AI rank tracker, ChatGPT rank tracker, Claude rank tracker, and Perplexity rank tracker

Pricing

• Free — geoptie.com/geo-rank-tracker. No credit card, no time limit.
• Starter — $49/mo ($41/mo annually). 15 prompts, 2 brands.
• Professional — $99/mo ($83/mo annually). 100 prompts, 10 brands.
• Enterprise — $199/mo ($166/mo annually). 400 prompts, unlimited brands.

Pros

• Four major answer engines on the $49 entry tier — no choose-3 cap, no add-on stack
• Claude available on Starter, no Enterprise contract required
• USD-denominated pricing, no FX conversion for US buyers
• Strong multi-brand support for agencies

Cons

• Four engines, not six — Microsoft Copilot, AI Mode, and AI Overviews are not yet tracked
• Smaller historical dataset than Profound or Ahrefs
• Brand-mention sentiment scoring is less granular than Peec’s

2. ZeroRank AI (best for turning AI visibility insights into action)

Pricing model: Flat per-plan + AI model tracking add ons.

ZeroRank goes beyond AI visibility monitoring by connecting the full process from data collection to prioritized recommendations and execution workflows.

The platform first gives marketing teams a complete view of how their brand performs across 17 AI platforms, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Grok, Bing Copilot, and more.

ZeroRank then turns that data into prioritized on-page, off-page, and technical recommendations. The final layer is execution. AI-assisted content creation and automated workflows allow teams to act on those recommendations inside the platform, reducing the need to move between separate monitoring, optimization, and content tools.

Key features

• Visibility tracking across 17 AI platforms
• Competitor benchmarking, citation analysis, and sentiment tracking
• Prioritized on-page, off-page, and technical recommendations
• AI-assisted content creation and optimization
• Automated execution workflows
• Native Claude MCP
• Unlimited seats

Pricing

Starts at $89/month with a 7-day free trial.

Pros

• Covers monitoring, recommendations, and execution in one platform
• Prioritizes changes based on actual visibility gaps
• Broad AI platform coverage
• Built-in content creation and automated workflows
• Unlimited seats on every plan

Cons

• Does not replace traditional SEO tools for keyword research or backlink analysis

3. Profound (best for enterprise brands needing the deepest engine coverage with compliance and historical data)

Pricing model: flat per-plan; enterprise tiers are custom-priced. See best Profound alternatives for the full breakdown.

Profound is the enterprise-positioned alternative to Peec. The Starter Lite plan at $99 a month tracks ChatGPT only, Growth at $399 a month covers three engines, and Enterprise covers ten or more (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok, Copilot, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Meta AI, DeepSeek) with SOC2, SSO, and the deepest historical-data archive of any tool on this list. Where Peec gates Claude to a sales-call Enterprise tier with no public price, Profound publishes Starter and Growth pricing and reserves the sales call for actual enterprise contracts.

Key features

• Up to 10+ engines on Enterprise tier
• Strongest historical data retention in the category
• Enterprise compliance — SOC2, SSO, audit logs
• Agent Analytics tracks how AI crawlers interact with your site
• Boardroom-ready reporting and citation source breakdowns

Pricing

• Starter (Lite) — $99/mo. ChatGPT only.
• Growth — $399/mo. 3 engines.
• Enterprise — custom pricing. 10+ engines, advanced reporting, compliance features.

Pros

• Broadest engine coverage of any flat-priced tool here
• Enterprise compliance posture for regulated industries
• Public Starter and Growth pricing — only Enterprise is sales-call

Cons

• Starter tier is single-engine; multi-engine starts at Growth
• USD-denominated and SOC2-ready, but no Claude until Enterprise (same gate as Peec)
• Higher all-in cost than Peec Pro once you need multi-engine coverage

4. Scrunch (best for technical SEO teams that need AI-crawler analytics alongside citation tracking)

Pricing model: flat per-plan. See best Scrunch AI alternatives for the deeper comparison.

Scrunch is the technical SEO pick. The Core plan at $250 a month covers four AI platforms — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Microsoft Copilot — plus a feature Peec doesn’t expose at all: AI-crawler analytics. Scrunch shows which AI bots (ClaudeBot, GPTBot, PerplexityBot) are actually accessing your site, how often, and which pages they fetch. That’s the foundational layer beneath citation and mention tracking — if the crawler can’t read you, the citations don’t happen. Note: Claude, Gemini, Meta AI, AI Mode, and Grok are Enterprise-only on Scrunch, similar to Peec’s pattern.

Key features

• AI-crawler access tracking (ClaudeBot, GPTBot, PerplexityBot and others)
• Agent Experience Platform — serves AI-optimized site version to bots
• Citation and brand-mention tracking across four platforms on Core
• Persona-based prompt sets
• Page-level audits
• Flat per-plan — no add-on stack

Pricing

• Core — $250/mo. 350 custom prompts, 1,000 industry prompts, 4 engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Copilot).
• Enterprise — custom. Claude, Gemini, Meta AI, AI Mode, Grok unlocked; Enterprise Data API; dedicated GTM team.

Pros

• Unique AI-crawler analytics layer — not in Peec
• Agent Experience Platform is a real differentiator
• Flat per-plan pricing with no engine add-ons

Cons

• Core entry price ($250) is higher than Peec Starter (€85)
• Claude on Enterprise only — same gate as Peec
• 350 custom prompts is mid-range for the price

5. Otterly AI (best for solo SEOs and small teams that want to start tracking AI visibility for under $30/mo)

Pricing model: flat per-plan. See best Otterly alternatives for the deeper comparison.

Otterly is the budget entry. The Lite plan at $29/mo covers four engines — ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and Microsoft Copilot — with 15 search prompts, bundled rather than chosen from a 3-of-6 list. That’s roughly $65/mo cheaper than Peec Starter in USD-equivalent, and Otterly picked up a Gartner Cool Vendor 2025 nod on the way. The trade-off is engine breadth: Claude isn’t tracked on any tier, and Gemini and AI Mode are paid add-ons.

Key features

• $29 entry tier — the cheapest paid AEO tracker in the category
• Four engines on all plans (ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot)
• Public API on Standard and Premium
• Google Looker Studio connector for reporting
• Multi-client workspace for agencies

Pricing

• Lite — $29/mo ($25/mo billed annually). 15 prompts.
• Standard — $189/mo ($160/mo annual). 100 prompts, public API.
• Premium — $489/mo ($422/mo annual). 400 prompts, public API.
• AI Mode and Gemini add-ons $9–$149/mo depending on tier.

Pros

• Cheapest paid entry on the list, USD-denominated
• Gartner Cool Vendor 2025 credibility for SMBs
• Public API on the mid-tier — rare at this price band

Cons

• No Claude on any tier — direct miss if Claude visibility matters
• Gemini and AI Mode cost extra
• 15 prompts on Lite is small for a real evaluation

6. SE Ranking AI Search Toolkit (best for SEO teams that want AI visibility folded into a full SEO suite)

Pricing model: flat plan + flat AI Search add-on.

SE Ranking is the suite-consolidation pick. The Core SEO plan starts at $129 a month (monthly billing) or $103.20 a month annual, and the AI Search add-on is $89 a month (or $71.20 a month annual). All-in, that’s roughly $218 a month to get SEO and AI visibility in one workspace. The AI Search add-on tracks ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Perplexity — four engines with no Claude. Standalone SE Visible plans are also available: Core $189 a month, Plus $355 a month, Max $519 a month, with unlimited user seats on every plan.

Key features

• SEO + AI visibility in one suite — keyword tracking, backlinks, audits alongside AI brand monitoring
• “SE Visible” dashboard for brand mentions, citations, and sentiment trends (200 prompts on the entry add-on)
• 14-day free trial on the SEO suite with no credit card; 10-day on SE Visible standalone
• Unlimited user seats on every plan

Pricing

• Core (SEO) — $129/mo ($103.20/mo billed annually). 10 projects.
• AI Search add-on — $89/mo ($71.20/mo annual). 200 prompts, 4 engines.
• SE Visible standalone — $189/mo Core / $355/mo Plus / $519/mo Max.
• Growth (SEO) — $279/mo ($223.20/mo annual). 30 projects.

Pros

• Best fit if you already use SE Ranking for keyword and backlink work
• Predictable flat pricing across both layers — no choose-3 cap, no engine add-ons
• 14-day free trial is more generous than Peec’s

Cons

• Claude is not in the AI Search add-on engine list
• Four-engine ceiling on the AI Search add-on — no Claude, Copilot, Grok, or Gemini
• Two line items (Core + AI Search) instead of one all-in plan

7. Ahrefs Brand Radar (best for established SEO teams that want a search-backed AI prompt database, not just custom prompts)

Pricing model: flat per-plan.

Ahrefs Brand Radar takes a different approach than every other tool on this list. Instead of asking you to set up custom prompts (Peec’s “Choose 3 models” workflow), Brand Radar indexes 395 million-plus monthly prompts across six AI platforms — AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, and Gemini — derived from real search behavior rather than synthetic test prompts. You can query any brand, topic, or vertical instantly without setup. Custom prompts are still available on the All-platforms tier (2,500 checks/mo included). Pricing is high but flat: $398/mo for Select platforms or $699/mo for All platforms, the latter adding the full prompt database, custom prompts, and YouTube, TikTok, and Reddit visibility (free while in beta). Claude isn’t in the engine list — a notable miss for teams shopping Peec specifically for Claude coverage.

Key features

• 395M+ monthly prompts — largest real-search-backed dataset in the category
• Tight integration with the rest of the Ahrefs SEO suite
• Six AI platforms covered (including Grok)
• YouTube, TikTok, Reddit visibility (free while in beta) on the All-platforms tier
• Search demand history going back years

Pricing

• Select platforms — $398/mo. Individual platform selection.
• All platforms — $699/mo. Full access to 395M+ prompts across 6 platforms + 2,500 custom-prompt checks/mo + YouTube/TikTok/Reddit beta + search demand history.

Pros

• Largest real-search-backed prompt dataset of any tool here — Peec uses custom prompts only
• Free AI Visibility Checker at ahrefs.com/ai-visibility-checker with no signup
• Strongest fit for teams already standardized on Ahrefs
• YouTube, TikTok, and Reddit visibility — sources Peec doesn’t touch

Cons

• No Claude coverage
• Higher entry price than Peec Starter
• Less specialized as a pure AEO tool than Profound or Scrunch

8. Semrush AI Toolkit (best for SEO teams that want AI visibility inside their existing Semrush workflow)

Pricing model: flat per-domain add-on, multiplied by seats.

Semrush AI Toolkit is the most natural fit for teams already on Semrush. The Toolkit is a $99/mo per-domain add-on on top of a Semrush plan, or bundled into Semrush One starting at $199/mo. It tracks ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini, and Perplexity, with Claude available only on Enterprise. Access is per-seat, so three teammates wanting access means $297/mo for the add-on alone — the headline $99 understates the team cost, the same way Peec’s headline €85 Starter understates a buyer who needs four or five engines.

Key features

• AI visibility data inside the Semrush dashboard alongside traditional SEO
• 25 custom prompts with daily rankings
• ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini, Perplexity coverage
• Bundled options via Semrush One

Pricing

• AI Toolkit add-on — $99/mo per domain, per user.
• Semrush One — Starter — $199/mo.
• Semrush One — Pro+ — $299/mo.
• Semrush One — Advanced — $549/mo.
• Claude available on Enterprise only.

Pros

• Tight integration with existing Semrush SEO workflows
• Flat pricing — no choose-3 cap, no per-engine add-ons
• Bundled Semrush One option for teams that need both SEO and AEO

Cons

• Per-seat multiplication makes the team cost much higher than the headline
• Claude is Enterprise-only — same gate as Peec
• Adds cost on top of an existing Semrush bill rather than replacing it

How to choose the right Peec AI alternative

• Broadest answer-engine coverage at the lowest flat entry price: Geoptie — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini on the $49/mo Starter, no choose-3 cap, no Enterprise wall for Claude.
• Visibility tracking with built-in recommendations and content workflows: ZeroRank AI.
• Enterprise programs across 10+ engines: Profound.
• AI-crawler analytics plus citation tracking: Scrunch.
• Cheapest paid entry under $30/mo: Otterly AI.
• SEO + GEO in one suite: SE Ranking AI Search Toolkit.
• Largest real-search-backed prompt dataset: Ahrefs Brand Radar.
• SEO teams already standardized on Semrush: Semrush AI Toolkit — with eyes open on per-seat costs.
• Free AI visibility tracking with no credit card and no time limit: geoptie.com/geo-rank-tracker.
• Overall best value: Geoptie.

FAQ

What to do next

The simplest first move when shopping Peec is to stop picking which three engines you can afford to track. The free AI rank tracker covers all four major answer engines — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini — at no cost. If the data is useful, a paid plan that bundles those four into a flat line item costs less than Peec Starter plus a single engine add-on.

For broader category context, see our best LLM tracking tools listicle, the best AEO tools roundup, and the AEO vs GEO vs SEO breakdown. For other branded comparisons, see best Profound alternatives, best Scrunch AI alternatives, best AthenaHQ alternatives, and best Rankscale AI alternatives.

AEO buying gets harder when none of the vendor’s prices are public — the comparison can’t begin until a sales call ends. Goodie sits firmly in that camp: an enterprise AEO platform with a credible enterprise story (eleven engines at the top tier, Agentic Commerce coverage of Amazon Rufus and Walmart Sparky that no one else in this list matches, and customer case studies citing real conversion lift from Dermalogica, NoGood, and SteelSeries) but every one of its three tiers — Explorer, Pro, and Enterprise — is gated behind a “Get a Demo” form. Engine coverage at each tier sits behind that same demo, and Claude tracking is fully unlocked only on the custom-priced Enterprise contract.

For a marketing team comparing options against a fixed monthly budget, that’s a week of sales discovery before the real comparison work even starts. The eight alternatives below all publish their prices on the page; the free AI rank tracker covers ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini at no cost if a starting point is helpful before reading further.

TL;DR — best Goodie alternatives by use case

• Geoptie — published prices and a free starting tier, the opposite of Goodie’s demo-only model. Four engines on a $49/mo Starter, no sales call to see the number.
• Otterly AI — best for solo SEOs and small teams that want to start tracking AI visibility for under $30 a month with no sales call
• Profound — best for enterprise teams that need the deepest engine breadth with SOC2 compliance

The full comparison is below.

Quick comparison table

Tool	Best for	AI engines covered	Pricing model	Starting price
Geoptie	Marketing teams that want flat-priced multi-engine AI visibility on every tier	ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini	Flat per-plan	$49/mo
Otterly AI	Solo SEOs and small teams testing AI visibility for under $30/mo	ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot (4 included); AI Mode and Gemini as paid add-ons	Flat per-plan	$29/mo Lite
Profound	Enterprise teams needing the deepest engine coverage with compliance	ChatGPT (Starter); + Perplexity + AI Overviews (Growth); 10 engines incl. Claude (Enterprise)	Flat per-plan; Enterprise custom	$99/mo Starter
Peec AI	Brand teams focused on how AI describes their brand, with sentiment scoring	ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Copilot, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok — choose 3 of 7 on self-serve; Claude Enterprise-only via API	Flat per-plan + engine add-ons	$95/mo Starter
Scrunch	Technical SEO teams that need AI-crawler analytics alongside citation tracking	ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AIO, Copilot (Core); Claude, Gemini, Meta AI, AI Mode, Grok (Enterprise)	Flat per-plan	$300/mo Core ($250 annual)
SE Ranking AI Search	SEO teams that want AI visibility folded into a full SEO suite	AI Overviews, AI Mode, Perplexity, ChatGPT (AI Search add-on)	Flat plan + flat add-on	$218/mo combined
Ahrefs Brand Radar	Established SEO teams already in the Ahrefs ecosystem	AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini, Grok	Flat per-plan	$398/mo Select
Semrush AI Toolkit	SEO teams that want AI visibility inside their existing Semrush workflow	ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini, Perplexity (Claude Enterprise-only)	Per-domain add-on, multiplied per seat	$99/mo per domain per user

All pricing is monthly-billed. Engine coverage often changes by tier — the engine that matters most may not be unlocked on the entry plan.

1. Geoptie

Best for marketing teams that want flat-priced multi-engine AI visibility with a published number on every tier.

Geoptie tracks brand visibility across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini — all four engines included on every paid plan from $49/mo. Three published prices, no demo gate, no engine gating across tiers. The four engines are the platforms where most measurable AI search citations land today; Goodie’s engine list runs longer, but seven of the eleven engines (including Claude) require an Enterprise contract.

Key features

• Four engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini) on every paid tier including the $49 Starter
• Citation and brand-mention tracking with daily refresh
• Competitor share-of-voice across the same prompt set
• Multi-brand workspaces — 10 on Professional, unlimited on Enterprise
• Free single-engine rank trackers (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity) plus a free GEO audit
• CSV and PDF exports on every plan

Pricing

• Starter — $49/mo ($41/mo billed annually). 15 prompts, 2 brands.
• Professional — $99/mo ($83/mo annually). 100 prompts, 10 brands.
• Enterprise — $199/mo ($166/mo annually). 400 prompts, unlimited brands.
• Add-on prompt pack: +100 prompts at $99/mo.

Pros

• Published price on every tier — no demo gate
• Claude included at $49 Starter, not gated to a higher tier
• Free single-engine trackers with no credit card and no time limit

Cons

• Four engines, not the eleven Goodie’s marketing implies
• No Agentic Commerce coverage (Amazon Rufus, Walmart Sparky) — Goodie’s genuine differentiator for retail
• No dedicated AI-crawler analytics — Scrunch covers that dimension

2. Otterly AI

Best for solo SEOs and small teams that want to start tracking AI visibility for under $30 a month with no sales call.

Otterly is the cheapest paid entry on this list. The $29/mo Lite tier covers four engines (ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot) with 15 prompts and daily tracking. Gartner Cool Vendor 2025. For a Goodie prospect who balked at the demo gate, Otterly is the fastest possible answer — sign up, see data the same day, decide later. See the Otterly alternatives breakdown for context.

Key features

• 4 engines on every tier (ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot)
• AI Mode and Gemini available as add-ons ($9–$149/mo by tier)
• Real-time visibility alerts and sentiment analysis
• Public API on Standard and Premium tiers
• Google Looker Studio connector

Pricing

• Lite — $29/mo ($25/mo billed annually). 15 prompts.
• Standard — $189/mo ($160/mo annually). 100 prompts, public API.
• Premium — $489/mo ($422/mo annually). 400 prompts.

Pros

• Cheapest paid entry on this list, fully self-serve
• Gartner Cool Vendor 2025 credibility for SMBs
• Strong real-time alerting

Cons

• No Claude on any tier — a meaningful gap for AI-search programs
• Gemini and AI Mode are add-ons rather than included
• No AI-crawler analytics or content-optimization actions

3. Profound

Best for enterprise brands that need the deepest engine breadth with SOC2 compliance.

Profound is the closest direct competitor to Goodie’s enterprise positioning. Ten engines on the top tier (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Copilot, Meta AI, Grok, DeepSeek), SOC2 Type II compliance, and a full Agent Analytics layer for AI crawlers. The key difference for a Goodie shopper: Profound publishes Starter Lite at $99 (ChatGPT-only) and Growth at $399 with three engines + 6 AEO-optimized articles per month. Enterprise is custom, but the floor is visible before any sales call. See the Profound alternatives comparison for the wider context.

Key features

• 10 engines on Enterprise — broadest in this list
• Growth includes 6 AEO-optimized articles per month alongside monitoring
• SOC2 Type II compliance, SSO/SAML, dedicated Slack support on Enterprise
• Agent Analytics — full AI-crawler visibility (Anthropic, OpenAI, Perplexity bots) with Cloudflare integration
• Conversation Explorer with a large real-prompt dataset

Pricing

• Starter — $99/mo. 50 prompts, ChatGPT only.
• Growth — $399/mo. 100 prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews. 6 articles/mo.
• Enterprise — custom. 10 engines including Claude, multi-company, SSO/SAML + SOC2.

Pros

• Deepest engine coverage in this list for enterprise buyers
• Strongest compliance posture for regulated industries
• Strong Agent Analytics for technical teams

Cons

• Starter is ChatGPT-only — multi-engine starts at $399
• Enterprise pricing is custom — Claude tracking is sales-led
• No public Enterprise ceiling

4. Peec AI

Best for brand teams focused on how AI describes their brand, with sentiment scoring.

Peec is European-built (Berlin-headquartered) and specializes in brand-mention sentiment — the dimension that matters when an AI names a brand without linking it. Self-serve tiers cap engine selection at 3 of 7 (ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Copilot, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok), and Claude Sonnet 4 is available only on Enterprise via API. Strong multilingual and country-level analytics. See the Peec AI alternatives breakdown.

Key features

• 7 self-serve engines, choose 3 per project
• Claude Sonnet 4 and GPT-5 Search on Enterprise via API
• Best-in-class brand-mention sentiment scoring
• Multilingual brand-mention analytics across 14+ languages
• Country-level breakdown of citation share
• 7-day free trial; unlimited user seats on every plan

Pricing

• Starter — $95/mo (€89/mo). 50 prompts, choose 3 of 7 engines.
• Pro — $245/mo. 150 prompts.
• Advanced — ~$495/mo. 350 prompts.
• Enterprise — custom. Adds Claude Sonnet 4 + GPT-5 Search via API.
• 15% discount on annual billing.

Pros

• Strong multilingual and regional brand-mention analytics
• 7-day free trial — easy self-serve evaluation
• Best-in-class sentiment depth on AI brand framing

Cons

• 3-of-7 engine cap means selection trade-offs even at higher tiers
• Claude requires Enterprise — same gating shape as Goodie, just visibly priced
• Engine add-ons stack quickly past the $95 headline

5. Scrunch

Best for technical SEO teams that need AI-crawler analytics alongside citation tracking.

Scrunch is the AI-crawler analytics specialist of this list. It exposes named coverage of ClaudeBot, GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, and PerplexityBot — which pages they crawl, how often, what they extract — alongside citation and mention tracking. Core covers four engines on the publicly-priced tier; Claude, Gemini, Meta AI, AI Mode, and Grok are Enterprise-only. See the Scrunch AI alternatives comparison.

Key features

• Named-crawler analytics for ClaudeBot, GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot
• 4 engines on Core (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AIO, Copilot)
• Citation, mention, and sentiment tracking
• Persona-based prompt sets and page-level audits
• Strong technical SEO orientation (llms.txt, crawler segmentation)

Pricing

• Core — $300/mo monthly ($250/mo billed annually). 4 engines, 350 custom prompts, 3 seats.
• Growth — $500/mo ($417/mo annually). 5 seats, 700 custom prompts.
• Enterprise — custom. Adds Claude, Gemini, Meta AI, AI Mode, Grok.

Pros

• Best AI-crawler analytics in the category at a published price
• Strong technical SEO orientation
• Clean published pricing on Core and Growth

Cons

• 4-engine Core ceiling — Claude and Gemini require Enterprise
• $300 entry is higher than Geoptie, Otterly, or Peec
• No free trial; demo-only at Enterprise

6. SE Ranking AI Search

Best for SEO teams that want AI visibility folded into a full SEO suite.

SE Ranking is a traditional SEO suite with an AI Search add-on layered on top. The combined entry is $218/mo (Core $129 + AI Search $89) — slightly above Geoptie Professional, but with a full SEO suite alongside. The AI Search add-on covers ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Perplexity. 14-day free trial on Core with no credit card.

Key features

• Full SE Ranking SEO suite (rank tracking, backlinks, audits, competitive research)
• AI Search add-on with “SE Visible” dashboard for brand mentions, citations, and sentiment
• 4 AI engines tracked (AI Overviews, AI Mode, Perplexity, ChatGPT)
• 14-day free trial on Core, no credit card

Pricing

• Core (SEO) — $129/mo ($103.20/mo billed annually).
• AI Search add-on — $89/mo ($71.20/mo annually). 200 prompts.
• Combined entry — $218/mo ($174.40/mo annually).
• Growth (SEO) — $279/mo ($223.20/mo annually).

Pros

• SEO and AEO in one platform, published pricing on every plan
• 14-day free trial with no credit card
• Strong fit for teams already running SE Ranking

Cons

• No Claude in the AI Search add-on
• Four-engine ceiling — no Claude, Copilot, Grok, or Gemini
• True entry is $218/mo combined — Core alone does not include AI Search

7. Ahrefs Brand Radar

Best for established SEO teams already in the Ahrefs ecosystem.

Brand Radar layers AI visibility tracking onto Ahrefs’ 395M+ monthly organic prompt dataset — the largest real-search-backed prompt source in the category. Seven engines tracked (AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini, Grok). No Claude on the Brand Radar feature page. The entry tier (Select platforms) is $398/mo and the All platforms tier is $699/mo with 2,500 custom prompt checks. Higher price floor than the dedicated AEO tools, but the prompt dataset and existing Ahrefs ecosystem come bundled.

Key features

• 395M+ monthly organic prompts — largest real-search dataset in the category
• Brand mentions, citations, and share-of-voice tracking
• Beta tracking on Reddit, YouTube, and TikTok — surfaces AI engines cite heavily
• Integration with the full Ahrefs SEO suite
• 7 AI engines tracked (no Claude)

Pricing

• Select platforms — $398/mo. Six engines.
• All platforms — $699/mo. Adds Grok and 2,500/mo custom-prompt checks.

Pros

• Largest real-search prompt dataset of any tool here
• Published flat pricing on every tier
• Tight integration with Ahrefs’ existing SEO data

Cons

• No Claude on the Brand Radar feature page
• $398/mo entry is high for AI-visibility-only use
• Bundled-suite model — effectively paying for Ahrefs too

8. Semrush AI Toolkit

Best for SEO teams that want AI visibility inside their existing Semrush workflow.

The Semrush AI Toolkit is a $99/mo per-domain add-on layered onto a Semrush plan (Semrush One bundles start at $199/mo). It tracks ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini, and Perplexity — four engines, with Claude Enterprise-only and no public Enterprise price. For Goodie prospects already on Semrush, this is the lowest-friction option. The pricing footnote: the $99 add-on is per domain per user, so three teammates needing access on one domain runs $297/mo for the add-on alone, before the base Semrush plan.

Key features

• 4 AI engines tracked (ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini, Perplexity)
• Brand mentions and competitive AI visibility benchmarking
• Integration with Semrush’s existing keyword, traffic, and SEO data
• Position tracking across both traditional SERPs and AI surfaces
• AI competitor analysis and AI readiness site audit

Pricing

• AI Toolkit add-on — $99/mo per domain per user.
• Semrush One — Starter — $199/mo.
• Semrush One — Pro+ — $299/mo.
• Semrush One — Advanced — $549/mo.
• Claude — Enterprise-only, custom quote.

Pros

• Bolts onto a tool many SEO teams already pay for
• All entry-tier prices published
• Strong prompt-research depth from the Semrush data layer

Cons

• Per-seat multiplication makes team rollouts expensive fast
• No Claude on any publicly-priced tier
• Bundled-suite model — paying for Semrush too

How to choose the right Goodie alternative

• Broadest answer-engine coverage at the lowest published flat entry price: Geoptie at $49/mo — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini with no demo required.
• Cheapest paid entry under $30: Otterly AI Lite at $29/mo — no Claude included.
• Enterprise programs across 10 engines with SOC2: Profound Enterprise.
• Sentiment depth on how AI describes a brand: Peec AI Starter ($95) with the 3-of-7 cap.
• AI-crawler analytics on a publicly-priced tier: Scrunch Core.
• SEO and AEO in one suite: SE Ranking combined Core + AI Search.
• Largest real-search prompt dataset: Ahrefs Brand Radar.
• Teams already on Semrush: Semrush AI Toolkit (watch per-seat multiplication).
• Free AI visibility tracking with no credit card and no time limit: the AI rank tracker.

If the AEO program is retail or commerce and the engine list specifically needs Amazon Rufus or Walmart Sparky for SKU-level visibility, Goodie’s Agentic Commerce Suite is a genuine fit and the demo gate is worth clearing. For every other use case, the eight tools above publish a price that can be acted on today.

Frequently asked questions

What to do next

If the AEO program is enterprise-scale and the engine priority list includes Amazon Rufus or Walmart Sparky, the Goodie demo is worth the calendar time. For most marketing teams shopping in 2026 — flat budget, mid-market team, four engines that drive most measurable AI search citations — a tracking workflow can be live today on a tool that publishes its price.

The free AI rank tracker tracks brand visibility across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini with no credit card, no time limit, no demo call. For broader category context, see the best LLM tracking tools and best AEO tools roundups. The sister Tier 2b alternatives posts for AthenaHQ and Rankscale AI cover adjacent shortlists.

Most teams shopping AEO tools assume the entry tier will land somewhere in the $30–$100 range. Scrunch Core starts at $250/mo for a single brand workspace, 125 prompts, and four engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Microsoft Copilot. Scrunch is one of the few platforms in the category that pairs citation tracking with an Agent Experience Platform layer (named-crawler analytics for ClaudeBot, GPTBot, and PerplexityBot), and that depth is the strongest reason a technical-SEO team would pick it. The friction for everyone else lands in two places: Claude, Gemini, Meta AI, Google AI Mode, and Grok all sit behind a custom-priced Enterprise contract, and the Core dashboard is monitoring-led — recommendations come out, but content optimization and creation happen outside the platform.

The seven alternatives below either price below Scrunch’s Core, open Claude on a self-serve plan, or bundle execution alongside the monitoring layer. If a no-commitment starting point helps before working through the comparison, the free AI rank tracker covers ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini with no credit card.

TL;DR — best Scrunch AI alternatives by use case

• Geoptie — the four-engine pick at roughly a fifth of Scrunch’s Core price, with Claude included on the $49/mo entry tier.
• Profound — for enterprise teams that want Scrunch-style depth across ten or more engines, plus SOC2 and historical data.
• Otterly AI — the budget entry for solo SEOs and small teams who can start under $30/mo.

Three picks cover most buyers. The full table, the rest of the list, and the per-tool tradeoffs follow.

Quick comparison table

Tool	Best for	AI engines covered	Pricing model	Starting price
Geoptie	Marketing teams that want all four major answer engines on the entry tier, including Claude	ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini	Flat per-plan	$49/mo
Profound	Enterprise brands needing the deepest engine breadth with compliance and historical data	ChatGPT (Starter); ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews (Growth); ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok, Copilot, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Meta AI, DeepSeek (Enterprise)	Flat per-plan (enterprise custom)	$99/mo Starter
Peec AI	European teams that want multilingual brand-mention tracking with granular sentiment scoring	ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Copilot, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok (choose 3 per tier); Claude/GPT-5 on Enterprise	Flat per-plan (3-of-7 engine cap)	$95/mo (€89) Starter
Otterly AI	Solo SEOs and small teams tracking AI visibility for under $30/mo	ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot (4 on all tiers); AI Mode + Gemini as add-ons	Flat per-plan	$29/mo Lite
SE Ranking AI Search Toolkit	SEO teams that want AI visibility folded into a full SEO suite	ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Perplexity	Flat plan + flat add-on	$218/mo (Core + AI add-on)
Ahrefs Brand Radar	Established SEO teams that want a search-backed AI prompt database, not just custom prompts	AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini, Grok	Flat per-plan	$398/mo
Semrush AI Toolkit	SEO teams that want AI visibility inside their existing Semrush workflow	ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini, Perplexity (Claude Enterprise-only)	Flat per-domain add-on (per-seat multiplied)	$99/mo per domain

All pricing is the monthly-billed rate. Annual discounts apply on most plans. Engine coverage varies by tier on most of these tools — the engine you care about may not be unlocked at the entry price.

How we evaluated

Each tool below was tested in May 2026 against the same criteria: engine coverage on the entry tier, whether Claude is self-serve or gated to Enterprise, pricing-model predictability, self-serve checkout vs sales-call gates, free trial or free tier, multi-brand support, and how quickly the dashboard surfaces useful data after signup. Geoptie is on the list and at the top; Profound is the better pick for enterprise breadth across ten or more engines with SOC2 and HIPAA; Scrunch itself remains the strongest fit for technical-SEO teams that genuinely need ClaudeBot/GPTBot/PerplexityBot access logging alongside citation tracking; Ahrefs Brand Radar carries the largest real-search-backed prompt dataset. If one of those criteria fits the buying scenario better than flat-priced multi-engine coverage with Claude on entry, choose accordingly.

1. Geoptie (best for marketing teams that want all four major answer engines on the entry tier, including Claude)

Pricing model: flat per-plan.

Geoptie tracks brand visibility across the four engines most AEO buyers track — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini — on a $49/mo Starter, with daily refreshes, citation tracking, brand-mention tracking, and competitor share-of-voice in one dashboard. The contrast with Scrunch is mainly about which four engines are included at the entry price and what they cost: Scrunch Core ($250/mo) covers ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, and Copilot but routes Claude tracking to Enterprise; Geoptie Starter covers ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini at roughly a fifth of the price.

Key features

• Daily tracking across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini on every paid tier
• Citation tracking (URL surfaced in an AI answer) and brand-mention tracking (brand named in the answer text) in one dashboard
• Competitor share-of-voice on the same prompt set
• Multi-brand workspaces — 10 brands on Professional, unlimited on Enterprise
• Free AI rank tracker, ChatGPT rank tracker, Claude rank tracker, and Perplexity rank tracker

Pricing

• Free — geoptie.com/geo-rank-tracker. No credit card, no time limit.
• Starter — $49/mo ($41/mo annually). 15 prompts, 2 brands.
• Professional — $99/mo ($83/mo annually). 100 prompts, 10 brands.
• Enterprise — $199/mo ($166/mo annually). 400 prompts, unlimited brands.

Pros

• Claude included on the $49 entry tier — no Enterprise sales call required
• All four major answer engines on every paid plan, flat per-plan pricing
• Strong multi-brand support for agencies at the Professional tier
• A genuinely free tier with no time limit

Cons

• No named-crawler access analytics — if ClaudeBot/GPTBot log inspection is core to the workflow, Scrunch’s Agent Experience Platform still wins on that layer
• Microsoft Copilot, AI Mode, and AI Overviews aren’t tracked — relevant for teams whose buyers lean on those surfaces
• Smaller historical dataset than Profound or Ahrefs Brand Radar

2. Profound (best for enterprise brands needing the deepest engine breadth with compliance and historical data)

Pricing model: flat per-plan; enterprise tiers are custom-priced. The deeper comparison lives in best Profound alternatives.

Profound is the enterprise-positioned alternative when Scrunch’s Enterprise tier is what a team would have ended up buying anyway. Starter at $99/mo tracks ChatGPT only; Growth at $399/mo opens three engines plus six AI-optimized articles a month; Enterprise (custom) covers ten engines including Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, and Meta AI with SSO/SAML, SOC2, and HIPAA on the table. Where Scrunch hides every engine beyond four behind an Enterprise contract, Profound publishes its Starter and Growth prices and reserves the sales call for the contract that genuinely needs it. Both tools converge at the high end — Profound just shows more of its work in the middle.

Key features

• Up to 10 engines on Enterprise
• Agent Analytics — AI-crawler visibility (Anthropic, OpenAI, Perplexity bots) with Cloudflare integration
• Conversation Explorer with a large real-prompt dataset
• SSO/SAML, SOC2, HIPAA on Enterprise
• Six optimized articles per month included on Growth

Pricing

• Starter — $99/mo. ChatGPT only.
• Growth — $399/mo. Three engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews) + 6 articles/mo.
• Enterprise — custom. Up to 10 engines, multi-company workspaces, SSO/SAML + SOC2.

Pros

• Broadest engine coverage of any flat-priced tool in the category
• Agent Analytics overlaps Scrunch’s crawler layer with broader engine support
• Published Starter and Growth prices — only Enterprise is sales-led

Cons

• Starter is single-engine — multi-engine starts at $399 Growth
• Claude only on Enterprise, same gate as Scrunch
• G2 reviews note occasional dashboard slowdowns and a steep learning curve

3. Peec AI (best for European teams that want multilingual brand-mention tracking with granular sentiment scoring)

Pricing model: flat per-plan with per-engine add-ons. The Peec-specific breakdown is in best Peec AI alternatives.

Peec is the Berlin-built brand-mention specialist most often compared with Scrunch on sentiment depth. Starter at $95/mo (€89) gets a buyer in for a third of Scrunch Core’s price, with sentiment scoring G2 reviewers commonly cite as the most granular in the category and brand-mention analytics across 14+ languages. Every Peec tier — Starter, Pro at $245/mo (€205), and Advanced at $495/mo (€425) — caps engine coverage at three of seven, with each additional engine costing €70/mo on Pro or €140/mo on Advanced. Claude Sonnet 4 and GPT-5 Search aren’t on any self-serve plan, mirroring Scrunch’s Claude wall.

Key features

• Multilingual brand-mention analytics across 14+ languages
• Country-level citation breakdown
• Granular sentiment scoring on brand mentions
• Unlimited user seats on every paid plan
• Looker Studio connector and API on higher tiers

Pricing

• Starter — $95/mo (€89). 50 prompts, 3 of 7 engines, 1 project.
• Pro — $245/mo (€205). 150 prompts, 3 of 7 engines, 2 projects. Additional engines €70/mo each.
• Advanced — $495/mo (€425). 350 prompts, 3 of 7 engines, 5 projects. Additional engines €140/mo each.
• Enterprise — custom. Adds Claude Sonnet 4 + GPT-5 Search via API.
• 7-day free trial; annual billing discount around 15%.

Pros

• Lower entry than Scrunch Core, and a free trial exists
• Strong multilingual and country-level reporting
• Sentiment depth is widely cited as best-in-category

Cons

• 3-of-7 engine cap holds on every self-serve tier
• Claude Enterprise-only — same gate as Scrunch
• EUR-denominated checkout adds friction for USD budgets

4. Otterly AI (best for solo SEOs and small teams that want to start tracking AI visibility for under $30/mo)

Pricing model: flat per-plan. See best Otterly alternatives for the broader comparison.

Otterly is the budget entry on this list. Lite at $29/mo covers four engines — ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and Microsoft Copilot — with 15 prompts and a 14-day free trial, and the brand picked up a Gartner Cool Vendor 2025 nod for AI Marketing along the way. That’s roughly a tenth of Scrunch Core’s monthly cost, with a comparable entry-engine set (Scrunch Core covers the same four). Engine depth is the tradeoff: Claude isn’t tracked on any Otterly tier, and Gemini and Google AI Mode sit behind paid add-ons rather than bundled into the plan.

Key features

• $29 entry tier — cheapest paid AEO tracker on this list
• Four base engines on every paid plan
• Public API on Standard and Premium
• Looker Studio connector
• Workspaces for multi-client agencies

Pricing

• Lite — $29/mo ($25/mo annually). 15 prompts.
• Standard — $189/mo ($160/mo annually). 100 prompts, public API.
• Premium — $489/mo ($422/mo annually). 400 prompts, public API.
• AI Mode and Gemini add-ons $9–$149/mo depending on plan.

Pros

• Cheapest paid entry on this list, USD-denominated
• 14-day free trial vs Scrunch’s 7-day
• Gartner Cool Vendor 2025 credibility for SMB buyers

Cons

• No Claude on any tier — direct miss for Claude-visibility shoppers
• Gemini and AI Mode cost extra
• 15 prompts on Lite is small for a real evaluation

5. SE Ranking AI Search Toolkit (best for SEO teams that want AI visibility folded into a full SEO suite)

Pricing model: flat plan + flat AI Search add-on.

SE Ranking is the suite-consolidation option. The Core SEO plan is $129/mo ($103.20/mo annually) and the AI Search add-on is $89/mo ($71.20/mo annually), landing the realistic floor at $218/mo combined — well under Scrunch Core’s $250/mo, with traditional rank tracking, backlink analysis, and site audits included alongside the AI visibility layer. The AI Search add-on (branded “SE Visible”) tracks ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, and Perplexity — four engines, no Claude. Standalone SE Visible plans are also available at $189/mo Core, $355/mo Plus, and $519/mo Max for teams that don’t need the broader SEO suite.

Key features

• SEO + AI visibility in one workspace
• “SE Visible” dashboard for brand mentions, citations, and sentiment
• 200 prompts on the entry AI Search add-on
• 14-day free trial on Core with no credit card
• Unlimited user seats on every plan

Pricing

• Core (SEO) — $129/mo ($103.20/mo annually). 10 projects.
• AI Search add-on — $89/mo ($71.20/mo annually). 200 prompts, 4 engines.
• Combined Core + AI Search — $218/mo ($174.40/mo annually).
• SE Visible standalone — $189/mo Core / $355/mo Plus / $519/mo Max.
• Growth (SEO) — $279/mo ($223.20/mo annually). 30 projects.

Pros

• Best fit if SE Ranking is already in the SEO stack
• 14-day no-card free trial vs Scrunch’s 7-day Core trial
• Flat pricing across both layers — no add-on stacking, no choose-N cap

Cons

• No Claude in the AI Search add-on engine list
• Four-engine ceiling on the add-on — no Copilot or Grok
• Two line items to manage instead of one all-in plan

6. Ahrefs Brand Radar (best for established SEO teams that want a search-backed AI prompt database, not just custom prompts)

Pricing model: flat per-plan.

Brand Radar takes a different shape than Scrunch. Instead of building visibility tracking around a user’s custom prompt set, it indexes 395 million-plus monthly prompts across six AI platforms — AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, and Gemini — derived from real search behavior rather than synthetic test prompts. Any brand, topic, or vertical can be queried instantly with no setup. Select platforms is $398/mo; All platforms is $699/mo and adds Grok, 2,500 custom-prompt checks per month, and YouTube/TikTok/Reddit visibility (free while in beta). Claude isn’t in the engine list at any tier, and there’s no free trial — a blind-spot pair worth weighing against Scrunch Core’s 7-day trial.

Key features

• 395M+ monthly prompts — the largest real-search-derived dataset in the category
• Integration with the broader Ahrefs SEO suite
• Up to seven AI platforms (Grok unlocks at All platforms)
• YouTube, TikTok, Reddit visibility on All platforms (beta)
• 90-day historical reporting

Pricing

• Select platforms — $398/mo. Individual platform selection across 6 engines.
• All platforms — $699/mo. 7 engines, 2,500 custom-prompt checks/mo, plus beta social tracking.

Pros

• Real-search-backed prompt dataset is unique in the category
• Bundled with Ahrefs’ keyword, traffic, and backlink data
• YouTube/TikTok/Reddit visibility on the upper tier — sources Scrunch doesn’t track

Cons

• No Claude coverage at any tier
• $398 entry is higher than Scrunch Core ($250/mo)
• Less specialized as a pure AEO tool than Scrunch or Profound

7. Semrush AI Toolkit (best for SEO teams that want AI visibility inside their existing Semrush workflow)

Pricing model: flat per-domain add-on, multiplied by seats.

Semrush AI Toolkit is the closest thing to a “we’re already on Semrush” answer. The Toolkit is a $99/mo per-domain add-on layered on top of a Semrush plan, or bundled into Semrush One starting at $199/mo. It tracks ChatGPT, Google AI (AI Overviews + AI Mode), Gemini, and Perplexity, with Claude reserved for Enterprise. The cost lever to model is per-seat billing: $99 is per domain per user, so three teammates with access on one domain costs $297/mo for the add-on alone — the headline understates team cost the same way Scrunch’s $250 Core understates a buyer who’ll need Claude or Gemini.

Key features

• AI visibility data inside the Semrush dashboard alongside traditional SEO
• 25 custom prompts with daily rankings
• Sentiment analysis on brand mentions
• “People Also Ask” prompt discovery
• Bundled options via Semrush One

Pricing

• AI Toolkit add-on — $99/mo per domain, per user.
• Semrush One — Starter — $199/mo.
• Semrush One — Pro+ — $299/mo.
• Semrush One — Advanced — $549/mo.
• Claude tracking available on Enterprise only.

Pros

• Tight integration with existing Semrush SEO workflows
• Bundled Semrush One option for teams that need both layers
• Flat per-domain pricing — no choose-N caps inside the engine list

Cons

• Per-seat multiplication makes team cost much higher than the headline
• Claude Enterprise-only — same gate as Scrunch
• Sits on top of an existing Semrush bill rather than replacing it

How to choose the right Scrunch AI alternative

• Claude on the entry tier at the lowest flat price: Geoptie — $49/mo for ChatGPT + Claude + Perplexity + Gemini.
• Enterprise programs across 10+ engines with SOC2 and HIPAA: Profound.
• Multilingual brand-mention tracking with granular sentiment: Peec AI (mind the 3-of-7 cap).
• Cheapest paid entry under $30/mo: Otterly AI.
• SEO + GEO in one suite: SE Ranking AI Search Toolkit.
• Largest real-search-backed prompt dataset: Ahrefs Brand Radar.
• SEO teams already on Semrush: Semrush AI Toolkit (watch per-seat multiplication).
• Free AI visibility tracking with no credit card and no time limit: geoptie.com/geo-rank-tracker.
• Overall best value: Geoptie.

FAQ

What to do next

Scrunch buyers usually face a single choice: whether the Agent Experience Platform (Enterprise-only) is what the workflow actually needs, or whether the real ask is multi-engine citation tracking that includes Claude. If it’s the second, the upgrade path from a $250/mo Core that ships without Claude rarely pays back. The free AI rank tracker covers ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini at no cost, which is enough to validate the citation-tracking layer before committing to a paid plan in either direction.

For broader category context, see the best LLM tracking tools listicle, the best AEO tools roundup, and the AEO vs GEO vs SEO breakdown. For other branded comparisons, see best Profound alternatives, best Peec AI alternatives, best AthenaHQ alternatives, and best Rankscale AI alternatives.

AI visibility tools built for technical SEOs and the ones built for marketing teams aren’t quite the same product, and most buyers don’t realize which side of that line they’re on until after they’ve signed up. ZipTie sits firmly on the technical-SEO side — a credit-based tracker built by the team behind Onely, with an AI Success Score, real-browser query collection, GSC integration, and the most disciplined indexation-audit story in the category. The friction shows up when a marketing team starts using it: tracking is limited to Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity (no Claude, no Gemini, no Copilot), every paid plan ships with a single user seat, and the AI Search check budget caps refresh volume at 500 to 2,000 per month depending on tier.

The seven alternatives below either open Claude and Gemini on a self-serve plan, drop the single-seat ceiling, or both. If a no-commitment starting point helps before working through the list, the free AI rank tracker covers ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini with no credit card.

TL;DR — best ZipTie alternatives by use case

• Geoptie — four engines including Claude, multi-brand workspaces, no per-seat ceiling, $49/mo.
• Profound — for enterprise teams that need ten engines and SOC2 alongside AI-crawler analytics.
• Otterly AI — the budget pick, $29/mo for four engines without a credit-based limit.

The three picks cover most buyers. Full comparison and per-tool tradeoffs below.

Quick comparison table

Tool	Best for	AI engines covered	Pricing model	Starting price
Geoptie	Marketing teams that want all four major answer engines on the entry tier, including Claude	ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini	Flat per-plan	$49/mo
Profound	Enterprise brands needing the deepest engine breadth with compliance and historical data	ChatGPT (Starter); ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews (Growth); ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok, Copilot, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Meta AI, DeepSeek (Enterprise)	Flat per-plan (enterprise custom)	$99/mo Starter
Scrunch	Technical SEO teams that need named AI-crawler analytics alongside citation tracking	ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Copilot (Core); Claude, Gemini, Meta AI, AI Mode, Grok (Enterprise)	Flat per-plan	$250/mo Core
Peec AI	European teams that want multilingual brand-mention tracking with granular sentiment scoring	ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Copilot, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok (choose 3 per tier); Claude/GPT-5 on Enterprise	Flat per-plan (3-of-7 engine cap)	$95/mo (€89) Starter
Otterly AI	Solo SEOs and small teams tracking AI visibility for under $30/mo	ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot (4 on all tiers); AI Mode + Gemini as add-ons	Flat per-plan	$29/mo Lite
SE Ranking AI Search Toolkit	SEO teams that want AI visibility folded into a full SEO suite	ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Perplexity	Flat plan + flat add-on	$218/mo (Core + AI add-on)
Ahrefs Brand Radar	Established SEO teams that want a search-backed AI prompt database, not just custom prompts	AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini, Grok	Flat per-plan	$398/mo

All pricing is the monthly-billed rate. Annual discounts apply on most plans. Engine coverage varies by tier on several of these tools — the engine you care about may not be unlocked at the entry price.

How we evaluated

Each tool below was tested in May 2026 against the same criteria: engine coverage on the entry tier (specifically whether Claude and Gemini are tracked at all), seat policy and team-access cost, refresh-volume model (flat prompt allowance vs credit-based checks), self-serve checkout vs sales-call gates, free trial or free tier, multi-brand support, and how quickly the dashboard surfaces useful data after signup. Geoptie is on the list and at the top; Profound is the better pick for enterprise breadth across ten engines with SOC2 and HIPAA; Scrunch ships the closest direct replacement for ZipTie’s named-crawler analytics through its Agent Experience Platform; ZipTie itself remains the strongest fit for teams whose primary workflow lives in AI Overviews monitoring with GSC-integrated query import and per-page indexation depth. If one of those criteria fits the buying scenario better than flat-priced multi-engine coverage with Claude on entry, choose accordingly.

1. Geoptie (best for marketing teams that want all four major answer engines on the entry tier, including Claude)

Pricing model: flat per-plan.

Geoptie tracks brand visibility across the four answer engines most AEO buyers track — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini — on a $49/mo Starter, with daily refreshes, citation tracking, brand-mention tracking, and competitor share-of-voice in one dashboard. The contrast with ZipTie sits in three places: engine coverage (4 vs 3, with Claude and Gemini both included), refresh model (a flat per-tier prompt allowance instead of a credit-based AI Search check budget), and team access (multi-brand workspaces from Professional up, without a single-seat ceiling on every paid plan).

Key features

• Daily tracking across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini on every paid tier
• Citation tracking (URL surfaced in an AI answer) and brand-mention tracking (brand named in the answer text) in one dashboard
• Competitor share-of-voice on the same prompt set
• Multi-brand workspaces — 10 brands on Professional, unlimited on Enterprise
• Free AI rank tracker, ChatGPT rank tracker, Claude rank tracker, and Perplexity rank tracker

Pricing

• Free — geoptie.com/geo-rank-tracker. No credit card, no time limit.
• Starter — $49/mo ($41/mo annually). 15 prompts, 2 brands.
• Professional — $99/mo ($83/mo annually). 100 prompts, 10 brands.
• Enterprise — $199/mo ($166/mo annually). 400 prompts, unlimited brands.

Pros

• Claude and Gemini both included on the $49 Starter — neither is available on any ZipTie tier
• Flat prompt allowance instead of credit-based AI Search checks
• Multi-brand workspaces fit agency and in-house multi-property workflows without per-seat math
• A genuinely free tier with no time limit

Cons

• No equivalent to ZipTie’s composite AI Success Score — reporting built around that metric has to be reshaped
• No per-page indexation audit — for crawler-accessibility diagnostics, Scrunch’s AXP layer is the closer match
• Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Copilot aren’t tracked

2. Profound (best for enterprise brands needing the deepest engine breadth with compliance and historical data)

Pricing model: flat per-plan; enterprise tiers are custom-priced. See best Profound alternatives for the deeper comparison.

Profound is the enterprise step-up when a ZipTie user has grown out of the three-engine cap and the single-seat ceiling at the same time. Starter at $99/mo tracks ChatGPT only; Growth at $399/mo opens three engines plus six AI-optimized articles a month; Enterprise (custom) covers ten engines including Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, and Meta AI with SSO/SAML, SOC2, and HIPAA on the table. Profound’s Agent Analytics layer also overlaps the part of ZipTie that technical SEOs care about most — AI crawler activity at the page level, with Cloudflare integration — though it’s gated to Enterprise rather than included from the entry tier.

Key features

• Up to 10 engines on Enterprise
• Agent Analytics — AI-crawler visibility (Anthropic, OpenAI, Perplexity bots) with Cloudflare integration
• Conversation Explorer with a large real-prompt dataset
• SSO/SAML, SOC2, HIPAA on Enterprise
• Six optimized articles per month included on Growth

Pricing

• Starter — $99/mo. ChatGPT only.
• Growth — $399/mo. Three engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews) + 6 articles/mo.
• Enterprise — custom. Up to 10 engines, multi-company workspaces, SSO/SAML + SOC2.

Pros

• Broadest engine coverage of any flat-priced tool here
• Agent Analytics is the closest published alternative to ZipTie’s indexation focus
• Multi-company workspaces — no single-seat ceiling

Cons

• Starter is single-engine (ChatGPT) — narrower than ZipTie Basic on engine count alone
• Claude and Gemini live on Enterprise — same upgrade-to-talk gate ZipTie avoids by not offering those engines at any tier
• G2 reviews note occasional dashboard slowdowns and a steep learning curve

3. Scrunch (best for technical SEO teams that need named AI-crawler analytics alongside citation tracking)

Pricing model: flat per-plan. The deeper Scrunch breakdown lives in best Scrunch AI alternatives.

Scrunch is the closest like-for-like step up from ZipTie on the technical-SEO axis. Core at $250/mo covers four engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Copilot — one engine more than ZipTie, with Copilot added) and ships with 125 unique prompts, 5 user seats, and a 7-day free trial. The Enterprise tier adds Claude, Gemini, Meta AI, AI Mode, and Grok along with the Agent Experience Platform — named AI-crawler analytics for ClaudeBot, GPTBot, and PerplexityBot at the page level, which is the layer ZipTie’s indexation audits sit closest to. Scrunch is roughly 3.6x ZipTie Basic and 2.5x ZipTie Standard at the entry tier, but the seat count alone (5 vs 1) closes most of the per-user cost gap for small teams.

Key features

• 4 engines on Core, 9 engines on Enterprise
• Agent Experience Platform — named AI-crawler analytics (Enterprise-only)
• 125 unique prompts on Core, 5 user seats on Core, 1 brand workspace
• Citation, mention, and sentiment tracking
• 7-day free trial on Core

Pricing

• Core — $250/mo. 125 prompts, 4 engines, 5 seats, 1 brand workspace, 5 site audits/mo.
• Agency Core — $500/mo. 250 prompts, 4 engines, unlimited seats, 3 brand workspaces.
• Enterprise — custom. 9 engines, AXP, API, SSO.

Pros

• 5 user seats on Core vs ZipTie’s 1 — the structural fix for the seat-cap problem
• Agent Experience Platform is the published feature closest to ZipTie’s indexation depth
• Free trial exists at both tiers (7 days)

Cons

• Entry price is 3.6x ZipTie Basic
• Claude and Gemini still Enterprise-only, same gate ZipTie has
• AXP is gated to Enterprise — Core buyers don’t get the named-crawler layer

4. Peec AI (best for European teams that want multilingual brand-mention tracking with granular sentiment scoring)

Pricing model: flat per-plan with per-engine add-ons. See best Peec AI alternatives for the broader comparison.

Peec is the Berlin-built brand-mention specialist with what G2 reviewers commonly cite as the most granular sentiment scoring in the category and brand-mention analytics across 14+ languages. Starter at $95/mo (€89) lands close to ZipTie Standard on price ($99/mo) but tracks 3 of 7 available engines instead of ZipTie’s locked 3, with the upgrade path to Claude and Gemini self-serve via Pro ($245/mo) or Advanced ($495/mo) — each additional engine adds €70/mo on Pro or €140/mo on Advanced. Claude Sonnet 4 itself remains Enterprise-only via API, mirroring the Claude wall ZipTie also has.

Key features

• Multilingual brand-mention analytics across 14+ languages
• Country-level citation breakdown
• Granular sentiment scoring on brand mentions
• Unlimited user seats on every paid plan — the structural fix for ZipTie’s 1-seat cap
• Looker Studio connector and API on higher tiers

Pricing

• Starter — $95/mo (€89). 50 prompts, 3 of 7 engines, 1 project.
• Pro — $245/mo (€205). 150 prompts, 3 of 7 engines, 2 projects. Additional engines €70/mo each.
• Advanced — $495/mo (€425). 350 prompts, 3 of 7 engines, 5 projects. Additional engines €140/mo each.
• Enterprise — custom. Adds Claude Sonnet 4 + GPT-5 Search via API.
• 7-day free trial; annual billing discount around 15%.

Pros

• Unlimited seats on every tier
• Sentiment depth is widely cited as best-in-category
• Multilingual coverage Otterly and ZipTie don’t match

Cons

• 3-of-7 cap holds on every self-serve tier — Gemini comes at an add-on cost
• Claude Enterprise-only via API
• EUR-denominated checkout adds friction for USD budgets

5. Otterly AI (best for solo SEOs and small teams that want to start tracking AI visibility for under $30/mo)

Pricing model: flat per-plan. See best Otterly alternatives for the broader comparison.

Otterly is the budget pick. Lite at $29/mo covers four engines — ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and Microsoft Copilot — with 15 prompts and a 14-day free trial, and the brand picked up a Gartner Cool Vendor 2025 nod for AI Marketing along the way. That’s roughly $40/mo below ZipTie Basic, with the same three engines plus Copilot, and a refresh model based on a flat prompt allowance rather than credit-based AI Search checks. Engine depth is the tradeoff: Claude isn’t tracked on any Otterly tier, and Gemini and Google AI Mode sit behind paid add-ons rather than bundled engines.

Key features

• $29 entry tier — cheapest paid AEO tracker on this list
• Four base engines on every paid plan
• Public API on Standard and Premium
• Looker Studio connector
• Workspaces for multi-client agencies

Pricing

• Lite — $29/mo ($25/mo annually). 15 prompts.
• Standard — $189/mo ($160/mo annually). 100 prompts, public API.
• Premium — $489/mo ($422/mo annually). 400 prompts, public API.
• AI Mode and Gemini add-ons $9–$149/mo depending on plan.

Pros

• Cheapest paid entry on this list, USD-denominated
• 14-day free trial vs ZipTie’s 14-day trial — equivalent, but Otterly trial includes 4 engines vs ZipTie’s 3
• One more engine than ZipTie on the entry tier (Copilot)

Cons

• No Claude on any tier — same Claude gap ZipTie has, not solved
• Gemini and AI Mode cost extra
• No AI Success Score or composite metric equivalent

6. SE Ranking AI Search Toolkit (best for SEO teams that want AI visibility folded into a full SEO suite)

Pricing model: flat plan + flat AI Search add-on.

SE Ranking is the suite-consolidation option for teams whose AI tracking ought to live next to their traditional rank tracking, backlink monitoring, and site audits. The Core SEO plan is $129/mo ($103.20/mo annually) and the AI Search add-on is $89/mo ($71.20/mo annually), landing the realistic floor at $218/mo combined — well above ZipTie Basic in price, but with the full SEO toolkit included rather than monitored separately. The AI Search add-on (branded “SE Visible”) tracks ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Perplexity — four engines, no Claude. Standalone SE Visible plans are also available at $189/mo Core, $355/mo Plus, and $519/mo Max.

Key features

• SEO + AI visibility in one workspace
• “SE Visible” dashboard for brand mentions, citations, and sentiment
• 200 prompts on the entry AI Search add-on
• 14-day free trial on Core with no credit card
• Unlimited user seats on every plan — direct fix for ZipTie’s single-seat ceiling

Pricing

• Core (SEO) — $129/mo ($103.20/mo annually). 10 projects.
• AI Search add-on — $89/mo ($71.20/mo annually). 200 prompts, 4 engines.
• Combined Core + AI Search — $218/mo ($174.40/mo annually).
• SE Visible standalone — $189/mo Core / $355/mo Plus / $519/mo Max.

Pros

• Best fit when SE Ranking is already in the SEO stack
• Unlimited seats — every ZipTie buyer evaluating a team rollout benefits from this
• 14-day no-card free trial on the SEO suite

Cons

• No Claude in the AI Search add-on engine list
• Combined cost is 3.2x ZipTie Basic
• Two line items to manage instead of one all-in plan

7. Ahrefs Brand Radar (best for established SEO teams that want a search-backed AI prompt database, not just custom prompts)

Pricing model: flat per-plan.

Brand Radar takes a different shape than ZipTie. Instead of building visibility tracking around a user’s custom prompt set (ZipTie’s GSC-import workflow plus AI Prompt Generation Assistant), Brand Radar indexes 395 million-plus monthly prompts across six AI platforms — AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, and Gemini — derived from real search behavior rather than synthetic test prompts. Any brand, topic, or vertical can be queried instantly with no setup. Select platforms is $398/mo; All platforms is $699/mo and adds Grok, 2,500 custom-prompt checks per month, and YouTube/TikTok/Reddit visibility (free while in beta). Claude isn’t in the engine list at any tier — the same Claude gap ZipTie has, on a much wider platform spread.

Key features

• 395M+ monthly prompts — the largest real-search-derived dataset in the category
• Integration with the broader Ahrefs SEO suite
• Up to seven AI platforms (Grok unlocks at All platforms)
• YouTube, TikTok, Reddit visibility on All platforms (beta)
• 90-day historical reporting

Pricing

• Select platforms — $398/mo. Individual platform selection across 6 engines.
• All platforms — $699/mo. 7 engines, 2,500 custom-prompt checks/mo, plus beta social tracking.

Pros

• Real-search-backed prompt dataset is unique in the category — ZipTie’s GSC import is closer to a custom-prompt workflow
• Bundled with Ahrefs’ keyword, traffic, and backlink data
• YouTube, TikTok, Reddit visibility — sources ZipTie doesn’t track

Cons

• No Claude coverage at any tier
• $398 entry is roughly 5.8x ZipTie Basic
• No AI Success Score equivalent; positioning is dataset-first, not score-first

How to choose the right ZipTie alternative

• Claude and Gemini on the entry tier at the lowest flat price: Geoptie — $49/mo for ChatGPT + Claude + Perplexity + Gemini.
• Enterprise programs across 10+ engines with SOC2 and HIPAA: Profound.
• Named AI-crawler analytics for technical SEO teams: Scrunch (AXP on Enterprise).
• Multilingual brand-mention tracking with granular sentiment: Peec AI (mind the 3-of-7 cap).
• Cheapest paid entry under $30/mo: Otterly AI.
• SEO + GEO in one suite: SE Ranking AI Search Toolkit.
• Largest real-search-backed prompt dataset: Ahrefs Brand Radar.
• Free AI visibility tracking with no credit card and no time limit: geoptie.com/geo-rank-tracker.
• Overall best value: Geoptie.

FAQ

What to do next

ZipTie buyers typically face two questions before paying: whether the three covered engines (AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity) match the engines their own buyers actually use, and whether a one-seat plan works for the team at the $69–$159 price band. If the answer to either is no, the rest of this list is the productive place to spend an hour. The free AI rank tracker covers ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini at no cost — useful for baselining how much of the picture the three-engine list is missing.

For broader category context, see the best LLM tracking tools listicle, the best AEO tools roundup, and the AEO vs GEO vs SEO breakdown. For other branded comparisons, see best Scrunch AI alternatives, best Peec AI alternatives, best Profound alternatives, best AthenaHQ alternatives, and best Rankscale AI alternatives.