The AI visibility pricing grid,
annotated honestly.
Free today on Rampify. Here’s what the rest of the category charges — and what that gets you.
AI visibility tools in 2026 range from $29/mo to $5,000+/mo for what is fundamentally the same shape of work: polling LLMs with prompts, counting brand mentions, showing a dashboard. The price variance comes from who pays the LLM API bill and how the dashboard is packaged — not from the underlying signal quality. Rampify is free because our architecture moves the LLM bill to your Claude subscription.
The public pricing grid
Every number below is from the vendor’s own pricing page, a third-party review, or the Semrush / Gauge / Rankability roundups. Current as of early 2026. Click the source icon to verify.
| Tool | Entry | Mid | Top | Free tier? | LLM engines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rampify Runs sub-agents on your own Claude. Zero per-prompt cost. Ships gap → spec, not just dashboard. | Free | Paid tiers coming | Contact us | Yes | Claude (Phase 1); more on roadmap |
Otterly AI Entry-tier polling across ChatGPT / Perplexity / Google AIO / others. 25-factor audit. | $29/mo | ~$99/mo | — | Free checker | 6 AI platforms |
HubSpot AEO Good fit if already in HubSpot CRM. Free AEO Grader available standalone. | Free Grader | $50/mo | — | Yes | ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity |
Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit Bolted to Semrush SEO subscription. 9-competitor benchmarking. Free AI Brand Visibility checker. | $99/mo | $99/mo | Enterprise AIO contract | Free checker | ChatGPT, AIO, AI Mode, Perplexity, Gemini |
Ahrefs Brand Radar 253M+ prompt database. Only covers Google AIO today per Semrush’s own roundup. Free snapshot tool available. | $199/mo | $199/mo | Enterprise | Free checker | Google AI Overviews (currently) |
Peec AI European / Germany-based. Daily prompt polling. Packaged optimization recommendations. | €89/mo | €199/mo | ~€499/mo | No | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini |
AthenaHQ Action Center generates content tied to gaps. Unlimited seats on self-serve. | $295/mo | $595/mo | Enterprise | No | Multi-engine |
Profound Enterprise incumbent. Proprietary Prompt Volumes dataset. $58.5M+ raised. 3-seat cap on self-serve. | $99/mo | $399/mo | $2,000–$5,000+/mo | No | 10+ (incl. ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, AIO, Gemini, Copilot, Meta AI, Grok, DeepSeek, AI Mode) |
Where Rampify sits on the grid
Simple answer: free today, paid tiers coming as Phase 2 ships. The free tier isn’t a trial or a gated teaser — it’s the full Phase 1 product on a usage cap. The diagnostic grid, the share-of-voice measurement, the audit trace, the shareable results link — all of it is included.
Free tier
- 2 Discovery research sessions per month
- Both training-only + with-search research modes
- Full diagnostic grid + share-of-voice
- Per-domain citation panel with URL drill-down
- Full audit trace (every query, response, tool call visible)
- System personas (The Skeptic, The Comparison Shopper)
- Shareable public result page with OG image
- Runs on your Claude subscription — zero per-research cost
Paid tiers
- Everything in free, higher limits
- Custom project-defined personas
- Canonical narrative + drift tracking
- Full gap-to-spec pipeline (content, technical, distribution, narrative)
- Scheduled / recurring research runs
- Cross-session drift analysis
- Long-term session history retention
- API access for programmatic integration
Need these today? Get in touch for early-access pricing.
The real cost is what you pay after the dashboard.
A standalone visibility tool tells you you’re not cited for a query. It does not write the comparison page. It does not get you listed on G2. It does not fix the indexation issue. If you buy one of the tools above, here’s what you typically still need to buy separately:
Typical stack, visibility tool alone
- Visibility tool (Peec mid-tier)€199/mo
- Keyword / rank SEO tool (Ahrefs)$129/mo
- Writer / content contractor (2 pages/mo)~$1,500/mo
- Gap / spec tracking (PM + tools)~$200/mo
- Distribution ops (G2 / PR / outreach)variable
- Subtotal~$2,000+/mo
Typical stack, with Rampify
- Rampify (free tier)$0/mo
- Keyword / rank SEO tool (Ahrefs)$129/mo
- Writer / content contractor (2 pages/mo)~$1,500/mo
- Gap / spec tracking (in Rampify)included
- Distribution ops (G2 / PR / outreach)variable
- Subtotal~$1,630/mo
Not arguing Rampify is the only place to save money — Ahrefs and your writer are probably fine where they are. The point is that a $199 visibility tool is never the full stack, and pricing a “cheap” visibility tool without the other line items is misleading. A visibility tool that closes the loop into specs your existing team can ship cuts one subscription and one toolchain handoff out of the picture.
Frequently asked questions
Why is Rampify free when the rest of the category starts at $29–$500+ per month?
Because our free tier runs sub-agents on your own Claude subscription, not ours. We don’t pay LLM costs for your research, so we don’t have to charge per prompt to cover them. Every other tool in this category bills per prompt, per engine, or per month against their own LLM API budget — which creates an incentive to drive prompt volume up. We don’t have that conflict.
What’s the catch with the free tier?
Two sessions per month, system-owned personas only (The Skeptic, The Comparison Shopper), no scheduled runs, 30-day history retention. The diagnostic grid, share-of-voice, citation panel, and audit trace are all included. Shareable results links with your own OG image are included. If you outgrow the limits, paid tiers unlock project-defined personas, scheduled runs, the full gap-to-spec pipeline, and long-term history.
When are paid tiers coming?
Paid tiers are being finalized as Phase 2 ships (gap taxonomy + spec generation + canonical narrative). If you need those features sooner, get in touch and we’ll sort early-access pricing that works for your team.
Why are the other tools so expensive?
Two reasons. First, most of them operate their own LLM API budgets — they pay OpenAI / Anthropic / Perplexity for every prompt they run against your brand, and that cost gets passed to you. Second, the category is new enough that enterprise pricing is where the revenue lives; a lot of these tools are priced for CMOs who need the dashboard for executive reporting, not for marketers who want to actually fix gaps.
Is a visibility dashboard alone enough to move the needle?
Not on its own, no. A dashboard tells you you’re not cited for a query; it doesn’t write the comparison page, get you listed on G2, or fix the indexation issue. If you buy a standalone visibility tool, you still need a writer, a traditional SEO tool for keyword data and rank tracking, and usually a separate spec or project-management surface to track the fix work. Rampify bundles the gap-to-spec step into the research so your existing content + SEO stack can handle execution.
Does Rampify replace my Ahrefs or Semrush subscription?
No. Rampify adds the LLM / AI-visibility layer on top of the traditional SEO workflow you already have. Ahrefs and Semrush are still the right tools for deep backlink analysis and keyword rank tracking at scale. Rampify reads from your Google Ads keyword data and Google Search Console queries to inform Discovery research, and writes gap specs back to your existing spec / ticket system.