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Card required to start: a census of 123 listings
9 of 123 listings answer yes for “Card required to start”. Counted from our own datasheet, with the query that reproduces every figure.
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Card required to start, across 123 settled listings
Of the 123 Published listings whose datasheet settles “Card required to start”, the largest group is “No” at 85 (69%). Measured 2026-10-14.
The tools that match
Card required to start: listings answering Yes or Qualified on . This can differ from the report, which counted on .
Show 14 matches
- AEOlens Qualified
The free audit and free crawler analytics take no card, but the three-day trial on each paid plan demands one up front.
Checked 2026-10-14
- BabyLoveGrowth Yes
The 3-day trial converts into a charge for the selected plan unless you cancel inside it.
- Citadex Qualified
Marketing pages promise no card is needed, yet the pricing FAQ says the chosen plan bills automatically when the seven days end, which implies payment details are captured up front.
Checked 2026-09-13
- Franixo Yes
The only free entry is the 14-day Starter trial and it cannot start without a valid card; the one-time report is a paid purchase.
Checked 2026-09-26
- Knowatoa Qualified
The article-generation page promises no credit card, yet the signup flow says you pick a Starter trial and add your site after checkout, so the two pages disagree.
Checked 2026-10-10
- LLM Pulse Yes
The only free way in is the 14-day trial, and the vendor states a payment method is required to start it; there is no card-free standing plan.
Checked 2026-09-27
- Peak Answer Yes
The pricing page states a card is needed for the seven-day trial, which directly contradicts two product pages on the same site that advertise the trial as requiring no card.
Checked 2026-10-07
- Prizvox Yes
The only free way into the paid product is a 14-day trial that takes a card up front, with billing starting automatically on day 15.
Checked 2026-09-29
- Rank Prompt Qualified
No card for the standing free plan and its first report, but starting the seven-day trial of a paid plan does require one.
Checked 2026-10-12
- Scrunch AI Yes
Card taken up front for the 7-day trial, which auto-converts to a paid subscription.
Checked 2026-09-02
- Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit Yes
There is no way in without card details: the seven-day Semrush trial validates a card with a refunded charge, and the toolkit itself has no trial at all.
Checked 2026-09-18
- SEOmatic Qualified
The fourteen-day trial is charged at one dollar up front, so payment details are needed, while the standing zero-dollar plan is advertised simply as start for free.
Checked 2026-10-03
- Surfer Yes
The 7-day Pro trial takes billing details at checkout and charges automatically unless cancelled
- Trakkr Yes
The fourteen-day trial takes card details up front and bills the Growth rate when it ends unless you cancel first.
Checked 2026-09-16
The population
124 listings in this index are Published. This is the population as of 2026-10-14. 123 of the 124 published listings in this index carry a settled answer for “Card required to start”. That row asks: Does the free tier or trial ask for a credit card up front? One other listing has no recognised stored answer on this row and is left out of every figure below rather than counted as a no.
Findings
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9 of the 123 settled listings answer “Yes” for “Card required to start”. That is 7% of the settled set.
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5 of the 123 settled listings answer “Qualified” for “Card required to start”. That is 4% of the settled set.
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85 of the 123 settled listings answer “No” for “Card required to start”. That is 69% of the settled set.
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12 of the 123 settled listings answer “Does not apply” for “Card required to start”. That is 10% of the settled set.
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12 of the 123 settled listings answer “Not established” for “Card required to start”. That is 10% of the settled set.
1 of those yes answers is Scrunch AI, which still answers yes for “Card required to start”. Its listing carries the stored answer and links to the source recorded for it. This is one worked example, not an independent audit of every source in the census.
What we counted, and how
Each figure above is a count over the “Card required to start” row of the listing datasheet, taken from the same stored answer the listing page renders. The denominator is the 123 listings whose answer is settled, meaning one of yes, qualified, no, does not apply, not established. It is not the 124 in the index, because a missing answer is not evidence of absence. Every number here is stored with the read-only query that reproduces it and re-run every sixty seconds against the live corpus, so a figure that stops reproducing surfaces as drift rather than as a stale sentence nobody notices. Our full method covers how a datasheet row is settled in the first place.
Limitations
This counts stored datasheet answers, not independently tested capabilities. A sourced answer can record a vendor statement or our reading of published evidence; this census does not re-fetch those sources. “Not established” means we have not established an answer. That can reflect vendor nondisclosure, blocked evidence, or unfinished research, not a no. An absent or unrecognised answer is excluded rather than treated as a researched finding. The figures are restated when the stored corpus changes; the date above is the count used for this published version, not a new verification of the vendors.
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