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Affordable AI visibility tools, compared

Tracking what AI assistants say about your brand needn't take an enterprise budget. Every tool here starts at $50 a month or less, and its line says what that buys.

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Each tool checked against its vendor's own pages between October 7, 2026 and October 14, 2026. Sources at the foot of the page.

What's on the list

Six tools, by one rule.

A tool is here when its starting price, the lowest monthly rate its own pricing page shows for a plan that tracks a brand, is $50 or less in US dollars. Some of those rates are billed yearly, and each line says so; GEOFast counts at its yearly rate too. A price in another currency isn't counted, since nothing here converts money.

At a glance

Affordable AI visibility tools, side by side.

Affordable AI visibility tools compared
ToolStarting priceEnginesHow oftenAPI and MCP
RankscaleStarting price$17 a month, billed yearly only[1]Engines17+ on every plan[1, 2]How oftenA schedule you set for each search term, from hourly to monthly, on every plan; each run spends credits[1, 3]API and MCPMCP on every plan: reads, and creates search terms or runs them when you allow; a REST API from Pro+ ($229)[1, 4, 5]
GEOFastStarting price$29 a monthEngines6 on every planHow oftenWeekly on Watch, daily on Growth and Agency; Perplexity and Claude weeklyAPI and MCPAn MCP on every plan: reads, and edits or runs when you allow
Otterly.AIStarting price$25 a month billed yearly ($29 monthly)[6]Engines4, plus 3 as add-ons[6]How oftenDaily, with no manual runs[7]API and MCPAPI and MCP from Standard ($189)[6]
GeoptieStarting price$41 a month billed yearly ($49 monthly)[8, 9, 10]Engines7 (any 4 per brand)[8, 11]How oftenDaily on every plan[8]API and MCPREST API and MCP on Professional ($99) and Enterprise, on one key; 24 of the MCP's 48 tools change data. Neither on Starter[8, 10, 12]
HubSpot AEOStarting price$45 a month billed yearly ($50 monthly)[13, 14]Engines3[15, 16]How oftenEach tracked prompt once a day; the grader is a one-time check[16, 17]API and MCPA connector for ChatGPT and Claude reads AEO results and creates or changes tracked prompts; the beta read-only AEO API and the HubSpot MCP server need Marketing Hub Professional or Enterprise[18, 19, 20]
Ahrefs Brand RadarStarting price$50 a month[21, 22]Engines6, plus Claude[22, 23]How oftenChatbot indexes monthly over a 90-day window; custom prompts daily, weekly or monthly[24, 25]API and MCPAPI and MCP from the Lite plan[26]
One by one

Why each one is on the list.

  • Rankscale

    $17 a month billed yearly, for Essentials.[1]

    • 120 credits a month, up to 480 answers; no rollover
    • 2 brand dashboards and 10 page audits a month
    • 17+ AI engines, on schedules from hourly to monthly
    • Unlimited search terms; each run spends credits
    Rankscale pricing

  • GEOFast

    $24.17 a month billed yearly ($29 month to month), for Watch.

    • One project, 50 prompts asked weekly of ChatGPT, Gemini, Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode, and Perplexity
    • Claude weekly on 5 prompts
    • About 1,100 answers a month
    • Unlimited seats
    GEOFast pricing

  • Otterly.AI

    $25 a month billed yearly ($29 month to month), for Lite.[6]

    • 15 search prompts
    • ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot
    • 1 workspace; unlimited team members
    • Daily tracking
    Otterly.AI pricing

  • Geoptie

    $41 a month billed yearly ($49 month to month), for Starter.[8]

    • 15 monitoring prompts and 2 brands
    • Any 4 of 7 AI engines per brand, tracked daily
    • Unlimited team members
    • Country level tracking in 123 markets
    Geoptie pricing

  • HubSpot AEO

    $45 a month billed yearly ($50 month to month), for HubSpot AEO.[13, 14, 15]

    • 25 prompts, each run daily; 2,500 answers a month
    • 3 engines: ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity
    • One brand per subscription
    • Brand visibility, competitor and citation analysis, and recommendations
    HubSpot pricing

  • Ahrefs Brand Radar

    $50 a month, for Custom prompts: Basic.[25, 27, 28]

    • 2,500 checks a month for your own prompts
    • For example, 80 prompts daily on 1 platform
    • A check is one prompt on one platform in one location
    • Updates daily, weekly or monthly, set per platform
    Ahrefs pricing
FAQ

Questions about Affordable AI visibility tools.

  • Which Affordable AI visibility tools are on this list, and why?

    Rankscale, GEOFast, Otterly.AI, Geoptie, HubSpot AEO and Ahrefs Brand Radar. A tool is here when its starting price, the lowest monthly rate its own pricing page shows for a plan that tracks a brand, is $50 or less in US dollars. Some of those rates are billed yearly, and each line says so; GEOFast counts at its yearly rate too. A price in another currency isn't counted, since nothing here converts money.

  • Which one costs least?

    Rankscale from $17 a month billed yearly, GEOFast from $24.17 a month billed yearly ($29 month to month) and Otterly.AI from $25 a month billed yearly ($29 month to month).

  • Which one shows how sure its numbers are?

    GEOFast puts a 90% range on how often you're mentioned and picked first, and counts a change only when it beats the usual swing. The table's sources say what each of the others publishes.

  • How were these tools checked?

    Each claim comes from that vendor's own pricing, product or help page, linked at the foot of the page with the day it was read. Nothing comes from review sites or another vendor's comparison.

Sources

Where each fact comes from.

Every claim about another tool links to that vendor's own page, read between October 7, 2026 and October 14, 2026. Prices are as each vendor lists them, in US dollars unless marked; vendors change them, so check before you buy.

  1. 1Rankscale: Pricingrankscale.ai/pricing
  2. 2Rankscale: AI Visibility Trackerrankscale.ai/features/ai-rank-tracker
  3. 3Rankscale: Which AI engines to track and how oftenrankscale.ai/resources/modules/setting-up-prompt-groups/which-ai-engines-and-frequency
  4. 4Rankscale: Rankscale MCP serverrankscale.ai/docs/mcp
  5. 5Rankscale: Rankscale APIrankscale.ai/api
  6. 6Otterly.AI: Pricingotterly.ai/pricing
  7. 7Otterly.AI: Monitoring intervalhelp.otterly.ai/monitoring-interval
  8. 8Geoptie: Pricinggeoptie.com/pricing
  9. 9Geoptie: 9 Best AI Visibility Tools Under $100 a Month (2026)geoptie.com/blog/best-ai-visibility-tools-under-100
  10. 10Geoptie: AI visibility APIgeoptie.com/ai-visibility-api
  11. 11Geoptie: API introductiongeoptie.com/docs
  12. 12Geoptie: AI visibility MCP servergeoptie.com/ai-visibility-mcp
  13. 13HubSpot AEO: HubSpot AEOhubspot.com/products/aeo
  14. 14HubSpot AEO: HubSpot Product & Services Cataloglegal.hubspot.com/hubspot-product-and-services-catalog
  15. 15HubSpot AEO: Set up and analyze AEOknowledge.hubspot.com/seo/set-up-and-analyze-ai-visibility
  16. 16HubSpot AEO: AI Search Graderhubspot.com/ai-search-grader
  17. 17HubSpot AEO: Prompt Tracking Toolshubspot.com/products/aeo/prompt-tracking
  18. 18HubSpot AEO: Use AEO with the HubSpot connectorknowledge.hubspot.com/seo/use-aeo-with-the-hubspot-connector
  19. 19HubSpot AEO: AEO API (BETA)developers.hubspot.com/docs/api-reference/2027-03-beta/marketing/aeo/guide
  20. 20HubSpot AEO: Integrate AI tools with the HubSpot MCP serverdevelopers.hubspot.com/docs/apps/developer-platform/build-apps/integrate-with-the-remote-hubspot-mcp-server
  21. 21Ahrefs Brand Radar: AI prompt trackingahrefs.com/ai-prompt-tracking
  22. 22Ahrefs Brand Radar: What is Brand Radar and how to use ithelp.ahrefs.com/en/articles/11064852-what-is-brand-radar-and-how-to-use-it
  23. 23Ahrefs Brand Radar: AI Visibility Indexahrefs.com/ai-visibility-index
  24. 24Ahrefs Brand Radar: Brand Radar methodology (February 26, 2026)ahrefs.com/blog/brand-radar-methodology/
  25. 25Ahrefs Brand Radar: How to set up custom promptshelp.ahrefs.com/en/articles/13192745-how-to-set-up-custom-prompts-to-track-brand-visibility-in-ai-assistants
  26. 26Ahrefs Brand Radar: Ahrefs MCPdocs.ahrefs.com/en/mcp/docs/introduction
  27. 27Ahrefs Brand Radar: Plans & pricingahrefs.com/pricing
  28. 28Ahrefs Brand Radar: Brand Radarahrefs.com/brand-radar

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