AEO / GEO buying guide · Updated September 25, 2026
Affordable AEO & GEO tools up to $50/month
Six AI visibility tools publish a self-serve price of $50/month or less: BotView Pro ($9), Beamtrace ($20), OtterlyAI Lite ($29), Promptmonitor Starter ($29 offer), Ayzeo Starter ($39) and HubSpot AEO ($50, with a free one-time grader). The cheapest cover one engine; daily multi-engine tracking starts at $29.
Written by BotView, a product in this comparison. This is a comparison of published capabilities and prices, not an independent hands-on ranking. Sources were reviewed on .
| Tool / source | Price | Engines | Allowance |
|---|---|---|---|
| BotView | $0 Free · $9/month Pro · $39/month Agency | OpenAI API with web search | Pro: 20 individual AI answer runs/month plus 50 crawler scans. Agency: 100 answer runs. Free: 20 scans/month, up to 3 pages each. |
| Beamtrace | $20/month Starter · $40 Growth · $100 Premium | ChatGPT; other engines listed as coming soon | Prompt allowances are not published in the page markup we reviewed. |
| OtterlyAI | $29/month Lite · $189 Standard (monthly billing) | ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot | Lite: 15 tracked prompts, checked daily, 1,000 GEO URL audits/month. |
| Promptmonitor | $29/month Starter displayed offer ($49 list) | ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok, Perplexity | Starter: 25 prompts, 2,250 responses/month, one project, twice-weekly refresh. |
| Ayzeo | $39/month Starter · $149 Pro | ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews; others $29/month each | Starter: 20 monitored prompts, expandable in packs of 10. |
| HubSpot AEO | Free one-time AI Search Grader · $50/month AEO | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini | Grader: one-time brand check, no account. AEO: ongoing prompt tracking. |
USD where a dollar price is shown. Vendor billing terms, taxes, offers and add-ons can change. We do not divide subscription price by prompts: a saved prompt repeated daily and a single answer request buy different amounts of work.
Best fit for a small review
Choose BotView when you want to check a few pages, inspect selected answers and citations, and rerun questions yourself. At $9/month Pro has the lowest published paid price in this list, with a smaller allowance and one engine.
Best fit for ongoing monitoring
Choose a recurring tracker when you need the same prompts checked automatically. OtterlyAI Lite checks 15 prompts daily on four engines; Promptmonitor Starter covers six models twice a week; Beamtrace and Ayzeo start with ChatGPT.
Can I start with a free AEO tool?
Yes. HubSpot’s AI Search Grader gives a free one-time brand snapshot for ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini. BotView’s free scan covers crawler access, rendering and page scores, up to three pages. Neither is ongoing monitoring.
Is BotView the cheapest GEO analytics tool?
BotView Pro ($9/month) is the lowest published paid price among the tools we reviewed on the date above. It is narrower than the others: OpenAI only, manual runs, no share-of-voice dashboard or traffic analytics.
Choose by the job you need done
BotView: A small AEO/GEO review with crawler diagnostics and selected AI answers.
OpenAI API answers with web search, mentions, citations, manual reruns; separate page scores and human/Googlebot screenshots.
No automatic answer monitoring, multi-engine share of voice, consumer ChatGPT rankings or traffic analytics. A five-question assessment uses five checks.
Check BotView pricing and inclusions →Beamtrace: Small-business AI recommendation tracking with a written action plan.
Made by Elfsight. Lists recommendation checks, competitor comparison, visibility trends, citation analysis and a weekly digest.
The vendor FAQ lists Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, DeepSeek and Grok as coming soon. Confirm prompt limits before buying.
Check Beamtrace pricing and inclusions →OtterlyAI: Daily monitoring of a small prompt set across engines.
Lite includes four engines, citation reporting and GEO URL audits.
Claude ($29/month), Gemini ($9) and Google AI Mode ($9) are paid add-ons. Daily tracked prompts are not equivalent to BotView’s individual runs.
Check OtterlyAI pricing and inclusions →Promptmonitor: Broader answer monitoring with website and crawler analytics.
The pricing page lists six models, website analytics, AI crawler analytics and CSV export.
Daily refresh starts on Growth ($39 offer, $66 list). Confirm the displayed discount at checkout.
Check Promptmonitor pricing and inclusions →Ayzeo: AI visibility monitoring with SEO-style reporting; white-label on Pro.
The pricing page lists prompt monitoring by plan and per-model add-ons for Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Grok.
Refresh cadence is not stated on the pricing page. Extra engines raise the monthly cost.
Check Ayzeo pricing and inclusions →HubSpot AEO: A free one-time brand snapshot, or tracking inside HubSpot.
The grader scores sentiment, presence, recognition, share of voice and competition. The paid AEO product adds prompt tracking and citation analysis.
The free grader is a single snapshot, not monitoring. Check prompt limits on the AEO plan.
Check HubSpot AEO pricing and inclusions →BotView Pro includes 20 individual runs per UTC month: five questions use five checks; a rerun uses one. Failed answers are refunded. Checks do not roll over. Discovery and branded questions stay separate. See the recorded example.
Your next step · Pro
Does ChatGPT recommend your business?
We put the questions your customers ask to OpenAI with web search, then show whether you're named, who is recommended instead, and the sources the answers used.
- Your business: named or missing, and what the answer gets right or wrong.
- Your competitors: who appears instead, and the reasons the answer gives.
- Your next steps: the cited sources, so you can see which pages and listings to improve.
$9/month · 20 AI checks + 50 crawler scans · Cancel anytime
Start with a five-question analysis (5 checks). Rerun a question for 1 check. Answers come from the OpenAI API with web search, not consumer ChatGPT sessions; they are sampled answers, not measured rankings.