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6 AirOps alternatives (2026)
The closest alternatives to AirOps in October 2026 are Rankshift, Citeme and Conductor.
6 tools compared · entry plans $33.05 to $95 a month · 1 with a free plan · prices checked 28 September–19 October 2026
Reviewed by the CitedIndex editorial team.
AirOps and its alternatives at a glance
| Tool | Best for | Starts at | Better than AirOps at | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AirOps | enterprise marketing teams pairing AI search measurement with content production | Free source | 18 October 2026 | |
| Citeme | marketing teams that want AI-answer measurement and the content work from one supplier | From about $33/month source | Technical AEO, Claude | 19 October 2026 |
| Conductor | Enterprise SEO and content teams that want AI visibility, classic SEO, content generation and technical monitoring in one platform, with budget for a five-to-six-figure annual contract. | On quote source | Technical AEO, Claude | 6 October 2026 |
| Promptwatch | Marketing teams and brands that already run traditional SEO | From $95/month source | Technical AEO, Claude | 30 September 2026 |
| Rank Prompt | A solo marketer or developer who wants one dashboard across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Claude, Gemini and Grok, with API access and a hosted MCP server available from the $49/month Starter tier rather than gated behind a custom enterprise plan. | Free, then $49/month source | Technical AEO, Claude | 12 October 2026 |
“About” figures are converted at the European Central Bank rate of 22 October 2026.
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Rankshift
Credit-metered AI visibility, citation and crawler tracking with unlimited projects and seats.
From €77/month (about $86)Why it's on this listClaude · YesClaude is tracked on every plan, but the published calculator charges five credits per run against two for most engines, so it drains a credit pool faster.Source ↗
Where it improves on AirOps
- +Coverage in the vendor’s words · YesNine engines are published, with no per-tier engine restriction: every plan says 'Track all LLMs', and the limit is credits rather than coverage, with Claude and Copilot costing five credits a run instead of two.Source ↗
- +AI crawler analytics · YesCrawler analytics is listed on all three self-serve plans and reports which AI bots hit which pages, how often, and with what errors, in real time.Source ↗
Trade-offs against AirOps
- −Publishes to your site · NoThe enumerated integrations are reporting destinations only, and the content flow ends with the user publishing.Source ↗
- −Done-for-you service · NoThe agency offering is a partner programme for agencies that run the tool themselves on client workspaces, with pitch projects and training, not a done-for-you service delivered by Rankshift staff.Source ↗
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Citeme
GEO/SEO agency and self-serve platform that tracks brand citations across ten AI engines.
From €29.50/month (about $33)Why it's on this listTechnical AEO · YesEvery audit grades robots.txt crawler access, JSON-LD, metadata and heading structure, and a technician agent patches schema, titles and alt text.Source ↗
Where it improves on AirOps
- +Claude · YesClaude is in the ten-engine inventory, queried through Anthropic's official API, and the vendor publishes its own citation rate on it.Source ↗
- +Coverage in the vendor’s words · YesTen engines are stated as the full coverage, and the self-serve plan row confirms all ten AI models are included rather than tiered.Source ↗
Trade-offs against AirOps
- −Google AI Mode · NoThe vendor's complete inventory of the ten surfaces it audits names Google AI Overviews but not Google AI Mode, which is therefore absent on every tier.Source ↗
- −Card required to start · YesThe only way in is a seven-day trial charged at one euro, and the vendor states plainly that it requires a payment method up front.Source ↗
- −BI export · PartlyReports are exportable and the REST API can feed your own reporting, but no Looker, Power BI or warehouse destination is documented anywhere on the site.Source ↗
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Conductor
Enterprise AEO platform: AI visibility tracking, content generation, 24/7 site monitoring and API/MCP access.
Why it's on this listTechnical AEO · YesThe crawler evaluates AEO-specific page signals including schema coverage and AI robot directives, shown beside traditional SEO health on the Pages and Issues dashboards.Source ↗
Where it improves on AirOps
- +Claude · YesClaude is tracked on its default Sonnet model, but the vendor's location tables exclude it from both granular and many country level locations.Source ↗
- +Coverage in the vendor’s words · YesNine engine surfaces are supported and chosen per topic, each consuming a different credit rate per response, so engine breadth is a budget decision rather than a plan limit.Source ↗
Trade-offs against AirOps
- −Publishes to your site · NoDrafts leave Conductor as a downloaded .docx brief; the CMS integrations surface recommendations inside Drupal and trigger audits in WordPress rather than pushing content live.Source ↗
- −API · PartlyA documented Data API exists with a public playground, but the plan table marks it only Available on Essentials and Growth and Included on Enterprise alone.Source ↗
- −BI export · PartlyNamed BI destinations are supported through the Data API, which is only Included on Enterprise; Monitoring separately offers CSV and Excel exports and a Looker Studio connector on any plan.Source ↗
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Promptwatch
AI search visibility tracking with crawler logs and content agents that publish to your CMS.
From $95/monthWhy it's on this listTechnical AEO · YesA Technical Optimization row is ticked from the entry plan, and the Sitemap Health tab reports HTTP status, speed and missing SEO elements from Promptwatch's own crawl of sitemap pages.Source ↗
Where it improves on AirOps
- +Claude · YesAnthropic (Claude) is ticked on every published brand plan, but the docs class it as an API model that answers from training knowledge, so citations appear only when the provider returns sources.Source ↗
- +Coverage in the vendor’s words · YesPlan cards promise four simultaneously tracked models while the model registry is larger, and the documented gate is that only the non-paid Explore entry tier is restricted to ChatGPT.Source ↗
Trade-offs against AirOps
- −Generates content · PartlyContent Agents write new articles from citation data, but the entry Essential plan is sold with no article allowance at all; monthly AEO Articles start at five on Professional and ten on Business.Source ↗
- −Done-for-you service · PartlySelf-serve tiers are software only; the quote-only Custom tier adds managed content workflows plus a dedicated success manager, which is the closest the vendor comes to doing the work for you.Source ↗
- −BI export · PartlyA Looker Studio connector reads through the API with a read-only project key, one data source per project, but the Data Studio Integration row is crossed out on the entry Essential plan.Source ↗
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Omnia
AI visibility tracking with an agent that drafts, publishes and pitches the fixes.
From €79/month (about $89)Why it's on this listTechnical AEO · YesThrough its GitHub connector the agent opens pull requests carrying llms.txt, robots.txt and schema changes, so technical AEO fixes are shipped rather than only advised.Source ↗
Where it improves on AirOps
- +Projects or brands · YesBrands to Manage reads Unlimited in all three columns of the comparison table, and the tracking page markets one account for multiple brands and clients.Source ↗
Trade-offs against AirOps
- −Done-for-you service · NoOmnia sells software and an in-product agent instead of staffed delivery; its agency page lists independent partner firms rather than an Omnia service team.Source ↗
- −Gemini · PartlyGemini is not in the default four engines; the plan cards mark it "available on request" within the ceiling of seven unlockable engines, on every tier.Source ↗
- −BI export · PartlyData Exports is blank in the Growth column and ticked only from Pro upward, though the API docs advertise exporting into BI pipelines programmatically.Source ↗
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Rank Prompt
AI visibility platform that tracks brand mentions and citations across six answer engines, with content and audits.
From FreeWhy it's on this listTechnical AEO · YesThe audit validates schema, checks robots.txt against named AI crawler agents, and a free generator builds the llms.txt file it looks for.Source ↗
Where it improves on AirOps
Trade-offs against AirOps
- −Done-for-you service · PartlyBeyond the software the vendor sells a separate done-for-you GEO engagement, quoted from $2,500 a month, where its people write and place the content.Source ↗
- −AI crawler analytics · NoTraffic analytics classify AI referral sessions, not bot visits; the vendor states it does not read user agents, and the crawler work is a robots.txt directive check.Source ↗
- −Card required to start · PartlyNo card for the standing free plan and its first report, but starting the seven-day trial of a paid plan does require one.Source ↗
What to watch for
- ConductorConductor does not publish a rate card for Essentials, Growth, or Enterprise. The $26,800 to $500,000+ per year range and $48,950 median cited here come from Vendr's aggregated real-world contract data as reported by an independent reviewer (tryanalyze.ai), not from Conductor's own site. Treat it as a reported range rather than an official price.
- PromptwatchEssential plan is capped at 50 tracked prompts and 1 website, which is thin for brands with multiple product lines.
- Rank PromptReviewers describe a steep initial learning curve, with the dashboard and prompt-level mapping described as overwhelming at first.
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What are the best alternatives to AirOps?
Rankshift, Citeme and Conductor are the closest. They share the most of AirOps's features.
What is the cheapest alternative to AirOps?
Rank Prompt has a free plan. The lowest paid plan is Citeme, from about $33/month. Price checked on 19 October 2026.
Which tools here have a free plan?
1 of the 6: Rank Prompt.
How much do AirOps alternatives cost?
Entry plans run from $33.05 to $95 a month, and half cost $86.28 or less.
When were these prices checked?
We read these prices between 28 September 2026 and 19 October 2026, each on the tool's own pricing page.
Sources and method
Closest first: most of AirOps's features, then the fewest gaps. How we rank
We read every price on the tool's own pricing page.
- AirOps: airops.com/pricing, checked 18 October 2026
- Rankshift: rankshift.ai/pricing, checked 30 September 2026
- Citeme: citeme.io/pricing, checked 19 October 2026
- Conductor: conductor.com/pricing, checked 6 October 2026
- Promptwatch: promptwatch.com/pricing, checked 30 September 2026
- Omnia: useomnia.com/pricing, checked 28 September 2026
- Rank Prompt: rankprompt.com/pricing, checked 12 October 2026
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