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AI-Visibility Tools With API Access at Entry-Level Pricing (2026)

We track 22 AI-visibility tools with API access at entry-level pricing. Our October AI answer check named CitedIndex as a source for 9 of them.

Updated 24 October 2026

Entry plans $4 to $100 a month · 9 with a free plan · prices checked 10 September–24 October 2026

Reviewed by the CitedIndex editorial team.

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The 22 AI-visibility and GEO tools in our index that put API or MCP access on their cheapest self-serve tier, not walled off behind a custom Enterprise quote, the way it is on Otterly AI, Scrunch AI, Surfer SEO, RankScale and several others in the same set.

We checked how all 142 tools currently published in our index price API and MCP access, and found a split most vendors don't advertise: a raw "has an API" claim, carried by 49 of those 94 listings, says little about whether a buyer can actually reach it without an Enterprise sales call. Only 22 clear a stricter, buyer-relevant bar, with API or MCP access available on the tool's cheapest self-serve tier (or its one real tier, for the pay-as-you-go, free-tier and self-hosted products in this set), not reserved for a custom-quoted plan.

At a glance

tools: 22
Free to start: 9 of 22; free plan or freemium
Public API: 14 of 22; 8 more only on a paid tier
Public pricing: 22 of 22; price on their own site

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Some of the clearest examples: Sleepwalker, Bloomiro and Canonry never gate it at all. API or MCP access is the native interface from the first signup or the only tier that exists. Rank Prompt's API request quota scales with the tier (10k/month on its $49 Starter plan up to 100k/month on Agency Plus), rather than appearing only once you upgrade. Morningscore's own pricing page states plainly that a full REST API ships on every plan, "even the cheapest", which is unusual for a tool in its price range. geoSurge goes furthest of all. Its entire $0/month BYOK tier already ships a full REST API, CSV/JSON export and MCP access, and only its separate "Corpus Engineering" toolkit, not API access itself, sits behind the custom Enterprise quote. Rankability and Keyword.com AI Visibility bundle API and MCP into every paid plan at no separate charge: Keyword.com from its $3/month Search Visibility entry tier, and Rankability from its $199/month Growth tier. Dageno AI is the newest addition: its published REST API ships on every paid tier, including the $79/month Starter tier, with API-key auth at api.dageno.ai/business.

The excluded majority is the more common story. Otterly AI, Scrunch AI, Surfer SEO, RankScale, Nightwatch, Knowatoa, AIclicks, GeoRankers, Local Dominator AI Tracker, Goodie AI and Local Falcon all publish a real API or MCP feature somewhere in their lineup, but every one of them reserves it for a pricier self-serve tier, a custom Enterprise quote, or (Local Falcon) a tier one step above the very cheapest. Indexly, published since this page was last checked, takes that pattern furthest: its own FAQ states plainly that API access "is included only on the Scale plan" ($499/month), gated behind both of its cheaper self-serve tiers, Starter ($99/month) and Growth ($299/month), not just one. Mentionable is the same shape in reverse: its MCP integration is published as a Pro-and-Agency feature only, so a buyer paying €79/month (about $88) for Growth has no programmatic access. EdenRank is more stark: its Read-only REST API is named as Concierge ($299) and Agency ($449) only, with no API on Starter, Growth or Pro. Three near-misses didn't make the cut for a different reason. Writesonic and Promptwatch both document a working API, but neither ties it to a specific published pricing tier, so we couldn't confirm where the gate sits. BabyLoveGrowth's "API" is a content-publishing integration (pushing generated articles to WordPress or Webflow), not a way to pull AI-visibility data, so it answers a different buyer question than this list.

What it takes to be on this list

A tool earns a place here only if its own CitedIndex listing's sourced pricing or feature copy confirms API and/or MCP access to its AI-visibility data is available on a tier that does not require a custom Enterprise quote or a sales call. For most tools, that means the cheapest published self-serve paid tier; for the pay-as-you-go, free-Beta and self-hosted open-source products in this set, their one real tier. An API mentioned only in general marketing copy with no tier attached, or an API that serves a different purpose (such as publishing content rather than reading visibility data), is not counted. Re-verified 2026-08-23.