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VOCTOS<\/a> › The GEO Guide<\/a> › This guide<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Last updated 20 August 2026  \u00b7  Every price read from a vendor-owned page on 5 August 2026  \u00b7  Nothing on this page is an affiliate link<\/div>\n\n\n\n
26<\/div>
vendors checked at source<\/div><\/div>
9<\/div>
publish no usable price at all<\/div><\/div>
27×<\/div>
spread between comparable entry tiers<\/div><\/div>
0<\/div>
independent benchmarks of tracker accuracy<\/div><\/div>
1<\/div>
Arabic-native platform found in the entire market<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

There are now more than two dozen products selling the same promise: tell you whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google’s AI answers mention your brand. Almost every article ranking them is written by one of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So this one is built differently. We opened every vendor’s pricing page on 5 August 2026 and recorded what it actually says. Where a vendor renders its prices in JavaScript, or hides them behind a demo form, we say so rather than repeating a number from someone else’s blog. Then we did two things nobody else has done: we checked the prompt limits against the sample sizes the published statistics say you need, and we built an Arabic and Gulf support matrix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DISCLOSURE, BECAUSE THIS CATEGORY NEEDS ONE<\/div>
VOCTOS is a generative engine optimization agency. We do not sell an AI visibility tool, we are not an affiliate or reseller for any product on this page, and no vendor paid for or reviewed this article. We do compete for the work some readers will be buying, and you should weigh that. Of the eight competing “best AEO tools” articles we analyzed, six rank their own product first and none carries a conflict statement.<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Key takeaways<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
1<\/div>
Nine of 26 vendors publish no usable price<\/div>
Conductor, Bluefish, Daydream, BrandRank.AI, BrandLight and several enterprise tiers are demo-gated. One more, Geneo, renders its prices only in JavaScript, so no crawler or AI engine can read them.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
2<\/div>
“Prompts” is not a comparable unit<\/div>
Ahrefs counts one prompt on one platform in one location as a check. ZipTie bundles three engines into one. Rankscale charges 0.25 credits for most engines and 2 for Claude. Only Ahrefs publishes a per-unit rate.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
3<\/div>
Most entry tiers are statistically too small<\/div>
Detecting a five-point move in citation share needs roughly 40–50 prompts on Gemini and 150 or more on SearchGPT. Ahrefs Lite gives you five prompts for $129 a month.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
4<\/div>
Which ChatGPT they sample matters more than how often<\/div>
Brand visibility for the same prompt varied by up to 48 percentage points between logged-in ChatGPT, logged-out ChatGPT and the API. No vendor discloses which surface it uses.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
5<\/div>
Nobody has ever independently benchmarked these tools<\/div>
Every accuracy figure in circulation is vendor-published against an undisclosed reference standard. There is no ground truth.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
6<\/div>
Arabic support is far worse than the country lists suggest<\/div>
One vendor sells 140 countries including Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt, and does not list Arabic among its 33 supported languages.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

How we checked, and what we did not do<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Every price in the table below was read directly from the vendor’s own pricing page on 5 August 2026. Nothing was copied from another article. Where a figure could not be read at source, the cell says UNVERIFIED rather than carrying a guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What we did not do: we did not run a controlled accuracy test of these tools against each other. Nobody has, and we are not going to pretend otherwise, see the section on independent benchmarking below, which is the most important part of this page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TAKEAWAY<\/strong>
Nine of twenty-six AI visibility vendors publish no usable price, and two more render their pricing only in JavaScript, which means no search crawler or AI engine can read it. In a category built on being visible to machines, that is an unusual thing to get wrong.<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Verified pricing: what these tools actually cost<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Tool<\/th>Entry tier<\/th>Monthly<\/th>Annual<\/th>Prompts<\/th>Engines<\/th>Seats<\/th>API<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Profound<\/a><\/td>Starter<\/td>$99<\/td>$82.50\/mo<\/td>50 prompts, 1,500 responses<\/td>1, ChatGPT only<\/strong><\/td>1<\/td>Enterprise only<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Growth<\/td>$399<\/td>$332.50\/mo<\/td>100 prompts, 9,000 responses<\/td>3<\/td>3<\/td>Enterprise only<\/td><\/tr>
Peec AI<\/a><\/td>Starter<\/td>$95<\/td>$80\/mo<\/td>50 prompts, 1 project, 1 country<\/td>3 of 6<\/td>Unlimited<\/td>Enterprise only<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Pro<\/td>$245<\/td>$205\/mo<\/td>150 prompts, 2 projects<\/td>3 of 6<\/td>Unlimited<\/td>Enterprise only<\/td><\/tr>
Otterly.AI<\/a><\/td>Lite<\/td>$29<\/td>$25\/mo<\/td>15 prompts, 1,000 GEO audits<\/td>4<\/td>Unlimited<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Standard<\/td>$189<\/td>$160\/mo<\/td>100 prompts<\/td>4 + paid add-ons<\/td>Unlimited<\/td>2,000 req\/mo<\/td><\/tr>
SE Ranking<\/a><\/td>Core<\/td>$129<\/td>$103.20\/mo<\/td>100 AI prompts\/day<\/td>5<\/td>1<\/td>25K credits<\/td><\/tr>
Ahrefs<\/td>Lite<\/td>$129<\/td><\/td>5 prompts \/ 150 checks<\/strong><\/td>not enumerated<\/td>1 (+$40\/user)<\/td>Yes<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Brand Radar standalone<\/td>from $199<\/td><\/td>overage $0.010–0.020 per check<\/td>not enumerated<\/td><\/td>Yes<\/td><\/tr>
Semrush<\/td>Starter (SEO + AI Search)<\/td>$199<\/td>$165.17\/mo<\/td>50 AI prompts\/day<\/td>not enumerated<\/td>1 (+$45)<\/td>MCP<\/td><\/tr>
ZipTie.dev<\/a><\/td>Basic<\/td>$69<\/td>$703.80\/yr<\/td>500 AI searches\/mo<\/td>3 per search<\/td>1 at every tier<\/strong><\/td>not published<\/td><\/tr>
Scrunch AI<\/a><\/td>Core<\/td>$250<\/td>UNVERIFIED<\/td>125 prompts, 1 country<\/td>4<\/td>5<\/td>Enterprise only<\/td><\/tr>
Rankscale<\/a><\/td>Pro<\/td>$99<\/td>UNVERIFIED<\/td>1,200 credits ≈ 4,800 answers<\/td>9 named<\/td>Unlimited<\/td>Growth tier<\/td><\/tr>
Nightwatch<\/a><\/td>Starter<\/td>€79<\/td>€948\/yr<\/td>500 kw, 50 AI prompts<\/td>6<\/td>limited<\/td>Professional tier<\/td><\/tr>
Evertune<\/a><\/td>Pro<\/td>$800<\/td>none published<\/td>100,000 prompts tracked<\/td>11<\/td>not published<\/td>not published<\/td><\/tr>
Gauge<\/a><\/td>Growth<\/td>$599<\/td>none published<\/td>600 prompts daily<\/td>6 + your own API key<\/td>10<\/td>Enterprise only<\/td><\/tr>
AthenaHQ<\/a><\/td>Essential<\/td>Free<\/strong><\/td><\/td>300 credits<\/td>5<\/td>Unlimited<\/td>Paid add-on, price not published<\/td><\/tr>
Conductor<\/a><\/td><\/td>No price published anywhere on the page<\/strong><\/td><\/td>2,500 AI credits per year on Growth<\/td>not stated<\/td>not stated<\/td>not priced<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
Read from vendor pricing pages on 5 August 2026. Where a tier is not listed here, the vendor either publishes no price or renders it in JavaScript only.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
FOUR CORRECTIONS TO FIGURES CIRCULATING ELSEWHERE<\/div>
ZipTie is not $679 a month.<\/strong> Its own page shows $69, $99 and $159. Nightwatch is not $39 a month.<\/strong> It is €79, and it does track ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and AI Overviews on every tier, contrary to what several published comparisons claim. Gauge is withgauge.com, not gauge.sh.<\/strong> The widely repeated $99 starter tier does not exist; there are two tiers, $599 and Enterprise. Semrush no longer sells a standalone AI Visibility Toolkit<\/strong>; the old product URLs return 404 and AI visibility is folded into the main tiers.<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Why the prices are not comparable, and how to compare them anyway<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Every listicle puts “$99” next to “$399” as though those buy the same thing. They do not, because no two vendors define a unit the same way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n