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The 20 August 2026 GEO Tool Landscape: Historical Tags, Pricing and Limits
A preserved 79-tool directory edition with recovered historical engine tags, corrected trial range, and explicit pricing, API and evidence limits.
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A dated directory record, not an independently tested market census. This report retains the 79-tool edition recorded on 20 August 2026. Its structured tags describe index classifications, not executed engine support or market share. Historical collector run 100875, observed that day at 21:59 UTC, preserves the same 95 published entries and 79 non-citation-services listings. Prices, trial details and API entries below remain archived listing observations unless separately sourced; a taxonomy snapshot does not verify those commercial terms.
Executive Summary
The 20 August 2026 edition counted 79 tools in this index, grouped by recorded pricing and positioning and tagged for engines including ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. This is a directory-defined population, not every vendor in the market. Inclusion and funding do not certify product accuracy, and a cross-section cannot by itself establish that the discipline has matured or that a vendor dominates it.
Key findings:
- 49/79 (62%) were recorded with API availability. This describes the edition’s datasheet flags, not successful API calls or availability on the cheapest plan.
- ChatGPT had a tag on 76/79 tools (96%), not universal coverage; Perplexity and Gemini tags appeared on 69/79 and 65/79 respectively. Tags do not establish equivalent UI/API surfaces or identical plan coverage.
- The self-serve table includes a $3/month annual-billing equivalent and $99/month plans, but also euro prices, per-credit and per-report offers. They are not normalized comparable monthly subscriptions.
- 38/79 had a stated trial length recorded, spanning 3–30 days. The earlier summary incorrectly stopped at 14 despite the 28- and 30-day rows below. This single edition does not establish a shift away from free tiers.
- 6/79 had no paid licence tier recorded. This includes open-source/BYO-key tools and a hosted beta; it does not mean zero operating cost or free hosting indefinitely.
- Four historical editorial segments are retained: no paid tier recorded, entry-level, mid-market, and enterprise/custom. Currency, billing unit and annual discounts were not normalized, so these are rough browsing groups, not rigorous price bands or market-share rankings.
Category Overview: 79 Tools, Four Market Segments
Segment 1: No Paid Tier Recorded (Including Open Source and Beta)
Tools in this segment: 6
| Tool | Entry Price | Free Trial | Engines (tagged) | API |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archytas AISpy | Free | Not documented | 5+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✗ |
| auto-geo | Free | Not documented | 4+ (ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✗ |
| Canonry | Free | Not documented | 4+ (ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| GEOrank | Free | Not documented | Not itemized | ✓ |
| RankLens | Free | Not documented | 4+ (ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| Syntropic AI Visibility Audit | Free | Not documented | 3+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Google Gemini) | ✓ |
Positioning: Tools with no paid tier at all: the opposite pricing model from every other segment here. Most (auto-geo, Canonry, Syntropic AI Visibility Audit, GEOrank) are self-hosted or CLI-based and require the user’s own LLM/DataForSEO API keys, so ongoing API and hosting costs depend on usage, provider rates and infrastructure rather than being reliably small or zero; Archytas AISpy is a free downloadable desktop app on the same bring-your-own-key model. RankLens is the exception worth a caveat: it’s a free hosted SaaS rather than self-hosted, but “free” here means “free during an open-ended Beta with no published pricing roadmap” (a historical beta observation, not a current duration measurement), not a committed permanent tier the way an open-source license is. GEOrank’s own hosted demo is free with no account for 5 generator tools, but its interactive diagnostics/Q&A tools require a sign-up gated behind a Chinese mobile phone number. The fit is developer-led teams and solo operators comfortable with a CLI, self-hosted stack, or an unproven Beta in exchange for zero licensing cost, not marketing teams wanting a managed, permanently-priced dashboard.
Segment 2: Entry-Level Self-Serve (≤$99/month)
Tools in this segment: 53
| Tool | Entry Price | Free Trial | Engines (tagged) | API |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahrefs Brand Radar | from $46.70/month | Not documented | 5+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✗ |
| AIclicks | $59 | 3 days | 6+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| AI Sightline | $29.95 | Not documented | 6+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| AI Visibility Report Group | €19 per report (€228 total) | Not documented | Not itemized | ✗ |
| Analyze AI | $99 | Not documented | 5+ (ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✗ |
| BabyLoveGrowth | $99 | 3 days | 4+ (ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| Bloomiro | $26 | Not documented | 5+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✗ |
| CiteLens | $79/month | 14 days | 3+ (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| Dageno AI | $79/month | 7 days | 5+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| Directree GEO Monitor | $29 | Not documented | 5+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✗ |
| Distribb | $9 first month, then $97/mo | 3 days | 3+ (ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| EdenRank | $59 | Not documented | 6+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| Elmo | $29/mo | Not documented | Not itemized | ✓ |
| Frase | $39/mo | 7 days | 5+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| GeoRankers | $41 | 7 days | 3+ (ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| HubSpot AEO | $50/mo ($45/mo billed annually) | 28 days | 3+ (ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✗ |
| Indexly | $99/mo | Not documented | 5+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| Keyword.com AI Visibility | $3/mo billed annually ($4/mo monthly) | 14 days | 5+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| Knowatoa | $59 | Not documented | 5+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| LLM Pulse | €49 | 14 days | 6+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| LLMrefs | $79 | 7 days | 6+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| Local Dominator AI Tracker | $39 | 7 days | 5+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| Local Falcon | $24.99 | Not documented | 3+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Google Gemini) | ✓ |
| Mangools AI Search Watcher | $15.60/mo | Not documented | 4+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini) | ✓ |
| Mentionable | €79 | 4 days | 6+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| Morningscore | $69 | 14 days | 2+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT) | ✓ |
| Nightwatch | €79/month | 14 days | 5+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| Omnia | €79 | 14 days | 6+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| Orchly AI | $49/month ($37/month billed annually) | 14 days | 5+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| Otterly AI | $29 | 7 days | 4+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| Peec AI | €85 | 7 days | 5+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✗ |
| Profound | $99 | Not documented | 6+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✗ |
| Promptwatch | $95 | Not documented | 6+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| Qwairy | €65 | 14 days | 6+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| RadarKit | $29/month | 7 days | 5+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| Rankability | $99 | Not documented | 6+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| Rankfender | $89 ($44 for the first 3 months) | 7 days | 5+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| Rank Prompt | $49 | 7 days | 5+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| RankScale | $20 | Not documented | 6+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| Rankshift | $82 | 30 days | 6+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit | $99 | Not documented | 4+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✗ |
| SEORCE | $49 | 7 days | 5+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| SE Visible | $99 | 10 days | 3+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity) | ✗ |
| Similarweb AI Search Intelligence | $99/mo ($129/mo billed monthly) | Not documented | 4+ (ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✗ |
| Sleepwalker | €0.02 | Not documented | 3+ (ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| Surfer SEO | €49/mo | 7 days | 4+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| TrueRanker | $14.99 | 14 days | 4+ (ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| Ubersuggest | $29 | 7 days | 3+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Google Gemini) | ✗ |
| VisibAI | €29 | Not documented | 4+ (ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✗ |
| Vismore | $99 | 7 days | 3+ (ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✗ |
| WebGlazer | €59/mo | 7 days | 5+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✗ |
| Writesonic | $79/mo | 7 days | 6+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| ZipTie | $69 | 14 days | 3+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity) | ✗ |
Positioning: This historical group gathers products presented to first-time GEO buyers and small agencies. Compare plan-specific engine and prompt allowances before comparing headline prices. Sleepwalker’s recorded €0.02/credit, AI Visibility Report Group’s per-report price, and dollar monthly subscriptions do not share a unit. Euro prices were not converted to dollars. The table therefore cannot support a standardized ≤$99/month claim for every member or prove a market-wide change in pricing strategy.
Segment 3: Mid-Market Multi-Engine ($100–$300/month)
Tools in this segment: 6
| Tool | Entry Price | Free Trial | Engines (tagged) | API |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AthenaHQ | $295 | Not documented | 3+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| GEO Tool | From €299 | Not documented | 4+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity) | ✗ |
| Prizvox | $129/mo ($99/mo billed annually) | 14 days | 4+ (ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✗ |
| Scrunch AI | $250 | 7 days | 4+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| Searchable | $124.99 | Not documented | 5+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✗ |
| Trakkr | $100 | 14 days | 5+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
Positioning: The edition grouped these as multi-engine options for marketing teams and agencies. The $100–$300 label is only a rough editorial guide: annual-billing equivalents can cross its boundary (the Prizvox row itself records $129 monthly versus $99 with annual billing). Confirm billing commitment, currency, engine allowances and API entitlement instead of treating membership as a comparable-price finding.
Segment 4: Enterprise & Custom-Priced (Sales-Led)
Tools in this segment: 14
| Tool | Entry Price | Free Trial | Engines (tagged) | API |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Addlly AI | $750 | Not documented | 5+ (ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✗ |
| Adobe Brand Visibility | Custom; the prior ~$115,000/year figure lacked a cited price source and is withdrawn | Not documented | 3+ (ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity) | ✗ |
| Amplitude AI Visibility | Custom | Not documented | 2+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT) | ✗ |
| Brandlight | Custom | Not documented | 6+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✗ |
| CheckThat.ai | Custom | Not documented | 4+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity) | ✗ |
| Cision AI Visibility Dashboard | Custom | Not documented | 5+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✗ |
| CiteMentor | Custom | Not documented | 5+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| Cognizo | $499 | Not documented | 6+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| Conductor | Custom | Not documented | 6+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| Evertune | $800 | Not documented | 6+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✗ |
| Gauge | $599 | 7 days | 5+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✗ |
| geoSurge | Custom | Not documented | 3+ (ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini) | ✓ |
| Goodie AI | $399 | 7 days | 6+ (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✓ |
| Meltwater GenAI Lens | Custom | Not documented | 5+ (ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Perplexity) | ✗ |
Positioning: These recorded enterprise and custom-priced offers are starting points for procurement questions about account scale, identity management, exports and support. A custom-price label does not itself establish that any specific feature is included; require it in the proposed contract.
Data-Driven Findings
1. Recorded Engine Tags: ChatGPT on 76 of 79 Tools
Most common recorded engine:
- ChatGPT: 76/79 (96%): the table-stakes baseline.
Other widely recorded engines:
- Perplexity: 69/79 (87%)
- Google Gemini: 65/79 (82%)
High but split (31–57/79), the real differentiator:
- Google AI Overviews: 57/79 (72%)
- Claude: 52/79 (66%)
- Microsoft Copilot: 31/79 (39%)
Interpretation: Tags distinguish the recorded engine coverage, but are not execution results. Collector run 100875 preserves the 20 August taxonomy; the same engine counts are also present in run 120415 on 21 August. Confirm the engine surface (browser UI, grounded API or another mode) and the exact plan before buying. Vendors may advertise additional engines in prose or later releases; these do not belong in this frozen six-engine tag calculation.
2. Recorded API Availability: 49/79 (62%)
Tools with published API access: 49/79 tools (62%).
Not recorded as API-available: 30/79 (38%). Without the original tri-state mapping, that remainder must not be read as 30 technically confirmed absences.
Interpretation: An API or MCP flag can help identify integration candidates but does not specify read/write scope, authentication, export completeness, rate limits, pricing or successful execution. In the tables, a cross means API availability was not recorded positively in this edition; it is not proof that an undocumented API could not exist. We did not recover an immutable source-to-row mapping that independently establishes all 49 flags.
3. Recorded Free-Trial Lengths
Stated-length trials recorded in the edition (38/79):
- 30-day: 1 tool (3% of tools with a confirmed trial)
- 28-day: 1 tool (3% of tools with a confirmed trial)
- 14-day: 12 tools (32% of tools with a confirmed trial)
- 10-day: 1 tool (3% of tools with a confirmed trial)
- 7-day: 19 tools (50% of tools with a confirmed trial)
- 4-day: 1 tool (3% of tools with a confirmed trial)
- 3-day: 3 tools (8% of tools with a confirmed trial)
Unclear or undocumented trial status (41/79 tools): trial availability is not stated clearly, is marked uncertain in sources, or is a free credit rather than a recurring trial.
The edition also recorded ongoing free tiers alongside paid plans for 13 tools: AI Sightline, Amplitude AI Visibility, AthenaHQ, CheckThat.ai, CiteLens, EdenRank, Elmo, geoSurge, GEO Tool, Promptwatch, SEORCE, Ubersuggest and VisibAI. Those capped offers are different from trials and from the six no-paid-tier records in Segment 1. “Free-forever” was a vendor-plan description, not a guarantee of permanent availability; check current limits and terms.
Methodology
This edition records 79 tools on 2026-08-20. Immutable article revision 48 (20 August, 11:15 UTC) says the generator recomputed the figures in one pass. Warehouse run 100875 at 21:59 UTC corroborates the 79-tool population and engine tags, but it is a separately observed snapshot, not proof of the original generator’s execution or every commercial field. No current denominator has been substituted.
The original report drew on structured listings collected under our editorial methodology, with per-listing verification dates it reported as 2026-07-23–2026-08-20. Those historical clocks are unchanged; this correction is not a new verification of all tools. Important limits:
- Entry price and segments: the original grouping used headline paid entry offers but did not consistently normalize currencies, monthly versus annual commitments, reports or credits. The historical membership is preserved to avoid manufacturing a revised census; its segment thresholds must not be used as comparable unit-price statistics. “No paid tier recorded” is narrower than proving no paid tier existed anywhere.
- API availability is marked only where the listing’s structured datasheet records it.
- Free-trial days are counted only where the listing states a specific number; conflicting, unclear, or credit-only cases are reported as undocumented rather than assigned a figure.
- Engine coverage: historical directory tags, not vendor prose or product execution. Use the published CitedIndex listing records, category assignments and engine-tag labels from archived observation
100875, matching them by observation and listing identity. Exclude the citation-services category and count the six named engine tags. This reproduces the archived classification, not measurement accuracy.
For the full, sourced entry for each tool (including pros, cons, detailed feature breakdowns, and methodology notes), see CitedIndex’s directory.
See Also
- CitedIndex Directory: Full Listings: the current directory, which has a different observation date and may have different membership from this 79-tool edition.
- Peec vs Profound vs Scrunch vs Otterly: How to Choose: a buyer-facing head-to-head of the four tools that show up most often in this report’s own comparisons.
- How AI answer engines cite sources (and why it moves): our companion report on WHY multi-engine coverage matters: the citation mix differs per engine and keeps shifting.
- Otterly’s AI Citations Report 2026: vendor-published research, not an independent validation of Otterly or this census.
5 September 2026 editorial correction: replaced universal-coverage and market-shift claims with the recorded counts, corrected the trial range to 3–30 days, explained non-normalized price groups and API unknowns, and distinguished beta/free licensing from guaranteed zero cost. Original publication, census and per-listing verification dates are unchanged. Historical taxonomy was recovered; no new census, trial signup, API execution or full commercial-term re-verification was performed.
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