# AthenaHQ — AEO/GEO platform tracking brand visibility across 11 AI models, with content and technical actions. > Source: CitedIndex — https://citedindex.com/athenahq (structured, researched, re-verified) > Facts last verified: 2026-09-20 AthenaHQ is an answer-engine optimisation platform that tracks how AI models mention and cite a brand across its prompts. It pairs that monitoring with content generation, CMS publishing, site-health auditing and citation outreach in one workspace. | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Website | https://athenahq.ai | | Price | free, then from $295/month billed monthly, $245/month billed annually | | Free tier | Yes | Essential plan: $0, 300 credits (1 credit = 1 AI response), five models only (ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Gemini, Copilot); Grok, Claude, DeepSeek, Meta AI, Mistral and AI Mode are disabled. ## What it does **Monitors AI answers** · Yes — Tracks brand mentions, citations, share of voice and position in AI answers to a set of prompts the customer configures per website. > Visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Grok, and more > — https://athenahq.ai/plans · Feature comparison table, Monitoring section, first row **Optimises your content** · Yes — Audits existing pages, explains what is wrong and how to fix it, and drafts in-place replacements for titles, summaries and structured data. > Fix (in-place): Inside an issue/page review for titles, summaries, or structured data. Click Fix [field] to generate AI text. > — https://docs.athenahq.ai/guides/site-health · Site Health docs, What you can do here **Generates content** · Yes — Writes new articles from tracked prompts through a four-mode content pipeline, with briefs, revisions and version history. > Start the content pipeline in one of four modes - draft (write new content from promptIds), snipe (outrank a competitor url), optimize (improve an existing url for AI search), slice > — https://docs.athenahq.ai/api-reference/content/start-content-pipeline · API reference, Start Content Pipeline description **Publishes to your site** · Yes — Pushes finished articles into eight named CMS and commerce platforms, with per-provider support for drafts versus direct publishing. > Yes. Connect Shopify, WordPress, Webflow, Wix, Framer, Payload CMS, Sanity, or Contentful in Settings > Integrations. > — https://athenahq.ai/integrations · FAQ, 'Can AthenaHQ publish to my CMS?' **Technical AEO** · Yes — Manages robots.txt and llms.txt for AI crawlers and audits schema, sitemap and indexing access; available on both paid tiers. > Dynamically manage AI crawler access with a smart robots.txt and llms.txt > — https://athenahq.ai/plans · Feature comparison table, Action section **Done-for-you service** · Partly — Human help exists but only in the custom-quoted tier: Enterprise buyers get a named specialist and white-glove onboarding, not a delivery agency. > Certified GEO/SEO Specialist > — https://athenahq.ai/plans · Feature comparison table, Organization section, Enterprise column ## Answer engines **ChatGPT** · Yes — Queried on every tier including the free Essential plan, and also one of the shopping surfaces the product reads carousels from. > ChatGPT > — https://athenahq.ai/plans · Essential plan card, model list **Perplexity** · Yes — Listed in the model set of the free Essential plan, so it is available without paying and on both paid tiers above it. > perplexity > — https://athenahq.ai/plans · Essential plan card, model list **Gemini** · Yes — Included in the free Essential plan model list alongside ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews and Copilot. > gemini > — https://athenahq.ai/plans · Essential plan card, model list **Google AI Overviews** · Yes — Google AI Overviews is covered from the free tier upward and is one of the surfaces sponsored ads are captured on. > AI Overviews > — https://athenahq.ai/plans · Essential plan card, model list **Google AI Mode** · Partly — Google AI Mode is real but gated: the docs state it is disabled on the Free plan and needs a paid Starter or Enterprise subscription. > Certain advanced models (like Grok, Claude, DeepSeek, Meta AI, Mistral, or AI Mode) require a paid Starter or Enterprise plan. On a Free plan, these models are disabled > — https://docs.athenahq.ai/guides/add-website · Common support questions, 'Why are some models locked with a padlock icon?' **Claude** · Partly — Claude is queried from the Starter plan up; the vendor documents it as locked behind a paid plan and absent from the free tier. > Certain advanced models (like Grok, Claude, DeepSeek, Meta AI, Mistral, or AI Mode) require a paid Starter or Enterprise plan. On a Free plan, these models are disabled > — https://docs.athenahq.ai/guides/add-website · Common support questions, 'Why are some models locked with a padlock icon?' **Microsoft Copilot** · Yes — Copilot appears in the free Essential plan's model list, so no paid plan is required to track it. > copilot > — https://athenahq.ai/plans · Essential plan card, model list **Grok** · Partly — Grok is supported only once you pay: it is one of the models the docs name as disabled on the Free plan and requiring Starter or Enterprise. > Certain advanced models (like Grok, Claude, DeepSeek, Meta AI, Mistral, or AI Mode) require a paid Starter or Enterprise plan. On a Free plan, these models are disabled > — https://docs.athenahq.ai/guides/add-website · Common support questions, 'Why are some models locked with a padlock icon?' **DeepSeek** · Partly — DeepSeek is in the Starter model set but explicitly disabled for free accounts, so it costs at least the entry paid subscription. > Certain advanced models (like Grok, Claude, DeepSeek, Meta AI, Mistral, or AI Mode) require a paid Starter or Enterprise plan. On a Free plan, these models are disabled > — https://docs.athenahq.ai/guides/add-website · Common support questions, 'Why are some models locked with a padlock icon?' **Meta AI** · Partly — Meta AI is one of the eleven Starter models and is named among those switched off for Free plan users. > Certain advanced models (like Grok, Claude, DeepSeek, Meta AI, Mistral, or AI Mode) require a paid Starter or Enterprise plan. On a Free plan, these models are disabled > — https://docs.athenahq.ai/guides/add-website · Common support questions, 'Why are some models locked with a padlock icon?' **Coverage in the vendor’s words** · Yes — The vendor states eleven models on Starter and prints the list on the plan card; the free tier carries five of them and more models are offered on request. > Visibility across 11 models > — https://athenahq.ai/plans · Starter plan card, feature bullets ## What it reports **Names the cited sources** · Yes — Reports cited domains and individual URLs with citation, mention and impression metrics, plus a Sankey view of which sources feed which answers. > Shows which domains/pages/social platforms are being cited by AI models as sources, letting customers analyze, tag, and export citation data. > — https://docs.athenahq.ai/guides/sources · Sources guide, page description **Competitor tracking** · Yes — Rival brands sit in the same dashboards as your own, with no cap on how many you track, plus a topic-by-competitor heatmap. > Unlimited competitor tracking, impersonation, and benchmarking > — https://athenahq.ai/plans · Feature comparison table, Monitoring section **Brand sentiment** · Yes — Tracks direction-neutral brand attributes and their prevalence over time, for your brand and each tracked competitor separately. > Returns the direction-neutral brand-perception attributes tracked for a website. > — https://docs.athenahq.ai/api-reference/attributes/list-attributes · API reference, List Attributes description **Recommendations** · Yes — Goes past reporting: prioritised opportunities route into drafted content, developer tickets and outreach pitches with owners attached. > Turn prioritized opportunities into governed content, outreach, and commerce workflows, with ownership and measurement built in. > — https://athenahq.ai/platform · Action Center section, intro paragraph **AI crawler analytics** · Partly — You see whether each AI crawler is allowed or blocked, tested live, but this is access verification rather than a log of actual bot visits. > robots.txt: Verdict (Allowed/Disallowed/Allowed by */Not listed/Unknown) and a link to disallowed pages. Live check: The result of fetching as that crawler. > — https://docs.athenahq.ai/guides/site-health · Tables, AI crawler access **Wrong answers about you** · Partly — Oracle flags false claims against your verified facts, but it needs at least 25 verified Knowledge Base facts and is sold as an Enterprise capability. > Oracle checks what AI models say about your brand against your verified Knowledge Base facts. It groups confirmed inaccuracies, possible Knowledge Base issues, and disagreements between models > — https://docs.athenahq.ai/oracle · Oracle docs, opening paragraph ## Plans and signing up **Prompt or credit allowance** · Yes — Metered in credits rather than prompts: 3,600 a month on Starter against 300 on the free plan, with topics uncapped. > Credits /month 3,600 1 credit = 1 AI response > — https://athenahq.ai/plans · Feature comparison table, Plan Essentials, Credits /month row **Projects or brands** · Yes — Several brands per organisation: websites are separate objects with their own credits, members and integrations, and can be pooled into groups. > A list of every website and billing-enabled group in your organization. > — https://docs.athenahq.ai/guides/settings-billing · Billing Settings, Websites & groups tab, Entities table **Countries** · Partly — Onboarding sets one country and language per site, and multi-region tracking is withheld from Starter and sold only on Enterprise. > Multi-language and multi-region support | Single | Multiple > — https://athenahq.ai/plans · Feature comparison table, Monitoring section, multi-language row **How often it checks** · Yes — You pick which days of the week each model runs, and can also trigger a run on demand; skipping the schedule spends no credits. > Schedule: Shows toggles for Models (ChatGPT, AI Overview, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, AI Mode, Grok, Claude, DeepSeek, Meta AI, Mistral) and Which days do you want your data reviewed? > — https://docs.athenahq.ai/guides/add-website · Add Website wizard, Form Steps, Schedule **Self-serve signup** · Yes — Both the free and the Starter plan are bought from the page itself through sign-up and Stripe checkout; only Enterprise routes to sales. > Choose Starter > — https://athenahq.ai/plans · Starter plan card, call-to-action button linking to app.athenahq.ai/signup ## Access and integrations **API** · Partly — A documented REST API exists and is included on Enterprise, but on the entry paid plan it is a separately billed add-on with unpublished pricing. > API access and additional credits are optional add-ons billed on top of the Starter plan price, not included in it. > — https://athenahq.ai/plans · Footnote beneath the three plan cards **MCP server** · Yes — A hosted MCP server lets ChatGPT, Claude or any compatible client read visibility data and run tools within the account's permissions. > Connect a compatible MCP client to read AthenaHQ data and run the tools your account can access. > — https://athenahq.ai/integrations · Integrations directory, 'MCP Any MCP client' card **BI export** · Partly — Looker Studio is documented as a general integration, yet the plan table puts BI-tool dashboards in the Enterprise column only; Starter gets CSV export. > Executive dashboard with BI tool support (Tableau, Power BI, Looker, etc.) > — https://athenahq.ai/plans · Feature comparison table, Monitoring section, Enterprise column ## CitedIndex in AI answers 0 of 4 answers cite CitedIndex. | Engine | Result | Question | Asked on | Other sources | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ChatGPT | Does not cite CitedIndex | AthenaHQ alternatives | 2026-10-12 | paralect.com, aisearchtoolrank.com, feedthebot.org, rankability.com, metehan.ai, xseek.io | | Claude | Does not cite CitedIndex | AthenaHQ alternatives | 2026-09-04 | g2.com, sourceforge.net, airops.com, aiclicks.io | | Gemini | Does not cite CitedIndex | AthenaHQ alternatives | 2026-09-04 | tenpointlabs.com, airops.com, strideftw.com, industry-lens.com, getmint.ai, arobis.ai | | Perplexity | Does not cite CitedIndex | AthenaHQ alternatives | 2026-10-12 | g2.com, rankability.com, airops.com, getmint.ai, menra.ai, okara.ai | ## What changed - 2026-10-06 — Terms - 2026-09-20 — Capabilities · Free tier - 2026-09-02 — Capabilities · Free tier - 2026-09-01 — Capabilities · Free tier - 2026-08-31 — Capabilities · Free tier · Plans · Price · Terms - 2026-08-30 — Capabilities · Terms ## Corrections If you represent AthenaHQ, or anything here is wrong or out of date, send a correction with a source. 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