AEO / GEO buying guide · Updated September 25, 2026
Best AI visibility tools (2026): choose by budget and evidence
The best AEO/GEO tool depends on the question: can crawlers read your website, what do selected AI answers say, or how do mentions change across engines? Compare six tools by evidence, allowance and published price.
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. |
| 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. |
| Wellows | $29/month Basic · $97 Standard · $249 Growth · $497 Scale | ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode | Basic: 1,800 AI answers/month from one shared balance (one prompt on one engine for one day is one answer), e.g. 12 prompts on all five engines daily. Unlimited projects and seats. |
| Profound | Free 7-day trial · Enterprise custom pricing | Trial: ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews. Enterprise: 9 engines | Trial: 50 prompts run daily for 7 days. Enterprise: custom prompts, daily. |
| Peec AI | Not published in the page markup we reviewed | Selectable models; Starter includes a set of models, more as add-ons | Starter, Pro and Advanced tiers with daily tracking; Enterprise up to 13 models. |
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.
Small business or first assessment
BotView combines a free website evaluation with Pro answer reviews at $9/month. Start here for a bounded set of questions and technical findings you can inspect.
Daily trends and competitor analytics
OtterlyAI, Promptmonitor, Wellows, Profound and Peec AI offer recurring tracking with different engine and prompt allowances. Use their current pricing pages to select the coverage you need.
Crawler evidence and answer evidence
An HTTP response or rendering issue is a diagnostic observation. An answer mention is a separate observation. Neither alone establishes why a model selected a business.
How we selected this shortlist
This is a deliberately small shortlist spanning a low-cost manual assessment and recurring tracking. We reviewed vendor pages; we did not independently test every product or measure their accuracy. BotView is our own product.
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 →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 →Wellows: Daily multi-engine tracking with content and outreach suggestions.
The pricing page lists citation tracking, sourced sentiment, Quick Wins, an AI writing agent and outreach targets on every plan; plans differ by answer balance.
7-day free trial, no free plan. A daily answer balance is not equivalent to BotView’s individual runs. Wellows also lists BotView in its own roundup. Pricing reviewed October 13, 2026.
Check Wellows pricing and inclusions →Profound: Enterprise brand and source analysis with a sales-led contract.
Enterprise adds Perplexity, AI Mode, Copilot, DeepSeek, Claude and Exa, plus agent analytics, exports and SSO.
No self-serve monthly price is published for brands. The earlier $99 Starter plan is no longer listed.
Check Profound pricing and inclusions →Peec AI: Recurring multi-model brand, competitor and source analytics.
The vendor lists visibility and source analytics, agent analytics, Looker Studio and API access by plan.
We could verify tiers but not a numeric price, so it is excluded from budget ranking.
Check Peec AI 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.