Is GEOFast cheaper than Rankscale?

Not at the entry price: Rankscale's Essentials plan is $17 a month, billed yearly only, for 120 credits and 2 brand dashboards, and GEOFast's Watch plan is $29 a month for 50 prompts asked weekly on five engines. Rankscale's Pro is $99 a month for 1,200 credits, up to 4,800 answers, on 10 brand dashboards; GEOFast's Growth is $99 for 100 prompts asked daily on 5 projects.

Which engines do Rankscale and GEOFast track?

Rankscale lists 17+ engines on every plan, among them ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Claude, DeepSeek, Mistral, Grok and Meta Muse Spark. GEOFast tracks ChatGPT, Gemini, Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode, Perplexity weekly, and Claude weekly on 5 to 25 prompts, by plan, on every plan.

How do Rankscale and GEOFast collect answers?

Rankscale reads ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Copilot and Grok from their interfaces, which it lists as GUI engines, and calls Claude, DeepSeek, Mistral and other models through APIs. GEOFast captures ChatGPT and Gemini from the apps, signed out, reads Google's AI answers from its results pages, and asks Perplexity and Claude through their APIs with web search.

How often do Rankscale and GEOFast refresh answers?

Rankscale lets you schedule each search term from hourly to monthly on every plan, and each run spends credits. GEOFast asks weekly on Watch and daily on Growth and Agency, with Perplexity weekly.

Can I try Rankscale or GEOFast for free?

Rankscale has a 7-day trial of Pro with a limited credit allowance and no free plan. GEOFast's X-ray is free with no account, and its 14-day trial has Growth's features.

GEOFast vs Rankscale

Rankscale tracks 17+ engines on every plan on schedules from hourly to monthly, paid in credits: $17 a month billed yearly for 120 credits, or $99 for 1,200, which is up to 4,800 answers. GEOFast's $29 plan asks 50 prompts weekly on five engines at a flat price, its free X-ray reads up to 300 pages with no account, and it puts a 90% range on how often you're mentioned and picked first.

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Checked against rankscale.ai's own pages between October 13, 2026 and October 14, 2026. Sources at the foot of the page.

At a glance

How GEOFast and Rankscale compare.

GEOFast vs Rankscale, fact by fact
What you get	GEOFast	Rankscale
Starting price	GEOFast$29 a month for one site; Growth $99, Agency $249	RankscaleEssentials $17 a month, billed yearly only; Pro $99, Pro+ $229, Growth $385 and Enterprise $780 a month, 15% off yearly; custom plans by quote. Visitors in Europe see the same numbers in euros^[1]
Free to try	GEOFastThe X-ray, free with no account; a 14-day trial of Growth's features	RankscaleA 7-day trial of Pro with a limited credit allowance; no free plan, and sign-up is required^{[1, 2]}
Engines	GEOFastChatGPT, Gemini, Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode, Perplexity weekly, and Claude weekly on 5 to 25 prompts, by plan, on every plan	Rankscale17+ on every plan, among them ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Claude, DeepSeek, Mistral, Grok and Meta Muse Spark^{[1, 3]}
How answers are collected	GEOFastChatGPT and Gemini captured from the apps, signed out; Google's AI answers from its results pages; Perplexity and Claude through their APIs with web search	RankscaleChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Copilot and Grok from their interfaces, which it lists as GUI engines; Claude, DeepSeek, Mistral and other models through APIs^{[1, 4, 5]}
Prompts	GEOFastYour own: 50 on Watch, 100 on Growth, up to 1,500 on Agency	RankscaleYour own, unlimited in number, run on credits: 0.25 a run on ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and AI Mode, 1 on DeepSeek, 2 on Claude; 120 credits a month on Essentials, and 1,200 on Pro, up to 4,800 answers^[1]
How often	GEOFastWeekly on Watch, daily on Growth and Agency; Perplexity and Claude weekly	RankscaleA schedule you set for each search term, from hourly to monthly, on every plan; each run spends credits^{[1, 6]}
How sure the numbers are	GEOFastA 90% range on mention and first-pick rates; a change shows only when it beats the usual swing	RankscalePoint values: a Visibility Score from 0 to 100 and a detection rate, the share of runs where the brand appears^{[7, 8]}
AI crawler checks	GEOFastThe free X-ray checks 13 AI crawlers against robots.txt, fetches the homepage as 4 of them, compares pages with and without JavaScript, and reads up to 300 pages	RankscalePage audits check one URL for blocked AI bots, schema and, as an option, rendering: 10 a month on Essentials, 50 on Pro. No AI bot traffic from logs: the tracker page says its GA4 and Search Console data is not crawler logs^{[1, 3, 9, 10]}
API and MCP	GEOFastAn MCP on every plan: reads, and edits or runs when you allow	RankscaleMCP on every plan: reads, and creates search terms or runs them when you allow; a REST API from Pro+ ($229)^{[1, 11, 12]}
Agencies and white-label	GEOFastAgency plan: unlimited client projects, with your name and logo on reports and share links	RankscaleGrowth, $385 a month, for agencies: 50 brand dashboards, white-labeled dashboards and reports, a partner directory entry and affiliate commissions; shareable dashboard links on every plan^[1]

Strengths

Where each one is stronger.

Where Rankscale is stronger

A lower entry price: Essentials is $17 a month billed yearly; GEOFast's first plan is $29.^[1]
Copilot, DeepSeek, Mistral and Meta Muse Spark among its 17+ engines, on every plan; GEOFast tracks none of them.^{[1, 3]}
Schedules from hourly to monthly on every plan; GEOFast's $29 plan runs weekly, and it asks Perplexity weekly on every plan.^{[1, 6]}
10 brand dashboards on Pro at $99 a month; GEOFast's Growth plan, $99, has 5 projects.^[1]
Shopping analysis and ad analytics for ChatGPT, AI Mode and Copilot, from Pro.^[1]
A REST API from Pro+ and a Google Data Studio connector from Pro.^{[1, 12, 13]}

Where GEOFast is stronger

A 90% range on mention and first-pick rates; Rankscale reports point values.^{[7, 8]}
The X-ray is free with no account and reads up to 300 pages; Rankscale needs a sign-up, has no free plan, and its page audit checks one URL at a time.^{[1, 2, 10]}
A flat monthly price: 50 prompts on five engines for $29; on Rankscale every answer spends credits, and monitoring pauses when they run out unless you top up.^[1]
Monthly billing from $29; Rankscale's Essentials is billed yearly only, and its first monthly plan is $99.^[1]
Unlimited seats on every plan; Rankscale's team workspaces start on Pro.^[1]
White-label reports on the Agency plan at $249 a month; Rankscale's white-labeled dashboards and reports start on Growth at $385.^[1]

Which to choose

Who each one is for.

Choose Rankscale if

You want many engines, your own schedule for each prompt and a budget in credits you can top up.

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Choose GEOFast if

You want a flat price, a free X-ray before you pay and numbers that say how sure they are.

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FAQ

Questions about GEOFast and Rankscale.

Is GEOFast cheaper than Rankscale?
Not at the entry price: Rankscale's Essentials plan is $17 a month, billed yearly only, for 120 credits and 2 brand dashboards, and GEOFast's Watch plan is $29 a month for 50 prompts asked weekly on five engines. Rankscale's Pro is $99 a month for 1,200 credits, up to 4,800 answers, on 10 brand dashboards; GEOFast's Growth is $99 for 100 prompts asked daily on 5 projects.
Which engines do Rankscale and GEOFast track?
Rankscale lists 17+ engines on every plan, among them ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Claude, DeepSeek, Mistral, Grok and Meta Muse Spark. GEOFast tracks ChatGPT, Gemini, Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode, Perplexity weekly, and Claude weekly on 5 to 25 prompts, by plan, on every plan.
How do Rankscale and GEOFast collect answers?
Rankscale reads ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Copilot and Grok from their interfaces, which it lists as GUI engines, and calls Claude, DeepSeek, Mistral and other models through APIs. GEOFast captures ChatGPT and Gemini from the apps, signed out, reads Google's AI answers from its results pages, and asks Perplexity and Claude through their APIs with web search.
How often do Rankscale and GEOFast refresh answers?
Rankscale lets you schedule each search term from hourly to monthly on every plan, and each run spends credits. GEOFast asks weekly on Watch and daily on Growth and Agency, with Perplexity weekly.
Can I try Rankscale or GEOFast for free?
Rankscale has a 7-day trial of Pro with a limited credit allowance and no free plan. GEOFast's X-ray is free with no account, and its 14-day trial has Growth's features.

Sources

Where each fact comes from.

Every claim about another tool links to that vendor's own page, read between October 13, 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.

1Rankscale: Pricingrankscale.ai/pricing
2Rankscale: Rankscalerankscale.ai/
3Rankscale: AI Visibility Trackerrankscale.ai/features/ai-rank-tracker
4Rankscale: Facts and entity definitionrankscale.ai/facts
5Rankscale: Enterprise AI visibility platformrankscale.ai/enterprise-ai-visibility-platform
6Rankscale: Which AI engines to track and how oftenrankscale.ai/resources/modules/setting-up-prompt-groups/which-ai-engines-and-frequency
7Rankscale: Visibility Scorerankscale.ai/resources/glossary/visibility-score
8Rankscale: Detection Raterankscale.ai/resources/glossary/detection-rate
9Rankscale: Page Auditrankscale.ai/features/page-audit
10Rankscale: Page Audit V2rankscale.ai/resources/glossary/page-audit-v2
11Rankscale: Rankscale MCP serverrankscale.ai/docs/mcp
12Rankscale: Rankscale APIrankscale.ai/api
13Rankscale: Google Data Studio Connectorrankscale.ai/integrations/google-looker-studio

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