An AI visibility tracker shows where your brand is missing in AI answers. Rank Monthly books spots in lists from publishers in its network and reports AI mentions for those placements. One measures, the other acts. They work well together.
An AI visibility tracker shows where your brand appears, and where it is missing, in answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and other assistants. Rank Monthly does a different job: it books spots in list articles from publishers in its network, where the publisher accepts, and reports AI mentions for those placements. A tracker measures. Rank Monthly acts. The two can work together.
We read the pricing pages of six trackers on 1 November 2026 and link every fact to its source.
A tracker runs a fixed set of prompts (questions a buyer might ask) through AI assistants on a schedule, often daily. It records whether your brand is named, how it is described, which competitors are named, and which pages the assistant cited as sources. Over time you see a trend line for your share of answers.
The cited sources are often the most useful part. If assistants keep citing the same "best X" articles for your category and you are not in them, you know where the gap is. That matters: in a Prefer study of 188 AI answers (July 2026), 40% of the sources cited for buyer questions were independent lists. Vendors' own sites got 34%.
Rank Monthly books businesses into the listicles ("best X" articles), newsletters and LinkedIn creator posts that buyers read and AI assistants quote, and keeps them there. Today that means positions in existing list articles, new sponsored articles and LinkedIn posts. Newsletter placements follow.
The sponsored label and rel="sponsored" are on by default; each publisher decides whether to keep them. Rank Monthly cannot promise that a list ranks in Google or that an assistant names you. Google and the assistants decide.
Prices run from free plans and $29 a month to enterprise contracts with no public price.
| Tool | Type | Public price | Engines on the base plan | Beyond tracking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otterly.AI | Low-cost monitoring | Lite $29 a month (15 prompts), Standard $189 (100), Premium $489 (400); Enterprise custom | ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, checked daily; Claude, AI Mode and Gemini as add-ons | Extra prompt packs |
| HubSpot AEO | Low-cost monitoring | $50 a month, or $45 a month billed annually (25 prompts) | ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity | Brand visibility and sentiment analysis, prioritized AEO recommendations; included in Marketing Hub Pro and Enterprise |
| Peec AI | Daily tracker | Starter $95 a month (50 prompts), Pro $245 (150), Advanced $495 (350); Enterprise custom | 3 active models out of ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Copilot, Gemini and Naver AI; Claude on Enterprise, Perplexity a paid add-on | Fact-checked prompts, countries and projects by plan |
| AthenaHQ | Tracker with content agents | Essential free (300 credits), Starter $295 a month (3,600 credits); Enterprise custom | Free: 5 engines; Starter: 11 models including Claude, Grok and Meta AI | Content optimization agent, on-page and off-page actions, citation intelligence |
| Scrunch | Tracker with content agents | Core $250 a month; Enterprise custom | Core: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Copilot; Claude, Gemini and AI Mode on Enterprise | Page audits, agent traffic monitoring, AXP (an AI-friendly version of your site) |
| Profound | Enterprise platform | Free 7-day trial (50 prompts, run daily); Enterprise custom, no public price | Trial: ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews; Enterprise: up to 9 engines | Agents and agent analytics on both; API, exports and full history on Enterprise |
Read on each vendor's own pricing page on 1 November 2026. Otterly.AI's page shows a second price set ($25, $160, $422) and does not say which is current. AthenaHQ shows a 17% annual discount but no annual figure. Rank Monthly: pricing on request during early access.
For a full ranking of these tools, see the best AI visibility tools. If you already use one and want to switch, see the Profound alternatives, Peec AI alternatives and Otterly.AI alternatives pages.
In measurement. That is their job, and Rank Monthly is not a tracker.
A tracker can tell you that a list is cited often and you are not in it. It cannot put you in it. Getting into third-party lists is where most of the work sits: in a Foundation and AirOps study of 5.1 million AI responses for 50 B2B brands, only 2.24% of citations on category questions went to the brand's own pages.
The limits are real too. Rank Monthly can only book publishers who joined its network, and a publisher can say no. A spot in a list does not mean that list will be cited, or that an assistant will name you.
| Your situation | Start with | Why |
|---|---|---|
| You don't know how AI assistants describe you today | A tracker | You need a baseline before you spend on anything else |
| You need to report AI share of voice to leadership | A tracker | Trend lines and competitor data are what trackers are built for |
| Your own site has gaps the assistants misread | A tracker with recommendations, or your own SEO work | Page audits and fixes on your site are free to act on |
| You know which kind of lists get cited and you are not in them | Rank Monthly | It books spots in lists from publishers in its network, where they accept |
| You paid for list spots before and never checked if they stayed live | Rank Monthly | Monthly payment only while the spot is verified live |
| You want a managed program end to end | Both, or an agency | A tracker to measure the category, placements to act on it |
Free routes exist for every step: running prompts by hand in each assistant, and pitching list authors yourself. They cost time instead of money.
Neither tells you why an assistant chose a source, so treat both as signals, not proof. For the full method, read the LLM SEO guide.
No. If you need a tracker, pick one of the tools above. If you need to get into the lists a tracker shows you are missing, that is what Rank Monthly does. Pricing on request during early access. See the businesses page.
Part of the guide LLM SEO: how B2B SaaS brands get named in AI answers.