# AI-Visibility Tools With API Access at Entry-Level Pricing

> Source: https://citedindex.com/collections/ai-visibility-tools-with-entry-tier-api-access (curated, re-verified)

We checked how all 122 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.

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 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.

| Name | What it is | Why it's here | Pricing | API |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Sleepwalker AI](https://citedindex.com/sleepwalker.md) | Pay-as-you-go AI visibility and content intelligence runs via Console, API, MCP and CLI. | MCP, a REST API and a CLI are the native interface from first signup on pay-as-you-go credits (€0.02/credit, €5 minimum), not a paid add-on gated behind a tier. | — | Yes |
| [Bloomiro](https://citedindex.com/bloomiro.md) | SEO and AI answer visibility in one project, with scans, competitor gaps and prioritized tasks. | MCP access ships on all three published tiers, including the cheapest ($44/month Starter billed yearly, or $49/month billed monthly), with nothing held back for a pricier plan. | — | Yes |
| [Canonry](https://citedindex.com/canonry.md) | AI search visibility tracking plus AEO delivery, as an open-source platform, agency products and managed service. | The free, self-hosted open-source tier (FSL-1.1-ALv2 licensed) ships the full CLI, dashboard and API together. There is no paid tier gating it, since the self-hosted product is the whole offering. | — | Yes |
| [Rankshift](https://citedindex.com/rankshift.md) | Credit-metered AI visibility, citation and crawler tracking with unlimited projects and seats. | MCP and API access is already on the entry $82/month Starter tier, not held back for Enterprise, though the free 30-day trial's own feature list doesn't explicitly repeat it. | — | Yes |
| [LLMrefs](https://citedindex.com/llmrefs.md) | Keyword-based AI search visibility tracker for brand mentions, rankings and citations. | The single $79/month All in One plan, the only paid tier LLMrefs sells, includes API access plus CSV export. Its 7-day trial is described as "full plan features." | — | Yes |
| [Rank Prompt](https://citedindex.com/rankprompt.md) | AI visibility platform that tracks brand mentions and citations across six answer engines, with content and audits. | API access scales with every tier instead of appearing only on upgrade: 10k requests/month on the $49 Starter plan, up to 100k/month on Agency Plus ($299). | — | Yes |
| [Qwairy](https://citedindex.com/qwairy.md) | GEO platform that monitors brand mentions across AI engines and recommends content and technical fixes. | MCP server access is already on the €65/month Starter tier; the fuller REST API is one tier up, on Growth (€165/month). | — | Yes |
| [Trakkr](https://citedindex.com/trakkr.md) | AI visibility tracking with citation, perception and crawler data, plus article generation and site fixes. | MCP access is on Trakkr's cheapest paid tier (Growth, $100/month); its own listing names REST API access explicitly at the next tier, Scale ($500/month). | — | Yes |
| [Morningscore](https://citedindex.com/morningscore.md) | All-in-one SEO tool with ChatGPT prompt tracking, Google AI Overviews tracking and a GEO visibility score. | Morningscore's own pricing page and FAQ state a full REST API ships on every paid plan, "even the cheapest" Lite tier ($69/month), which is unusual for an SEO tool at that price. | — | Yes |
| [LLM Pulse](https://citedindex.com/llm-pulse.md) | Tracks brand mentions, citations and sentiment in AI answers, and drafts content to win more of them. | Every account gets a documented REST API and CLI sharing one API key; the one gap in LLM Pulse's own published pricing is that it doesn't state whether rate limits differ by tier. | — | Yes |
| [AI Search Watcher](https://citedindex.com/mangools-ai-search-watcher.md) | LLM rank tracker from Mangools that monitors brand mentions and citations across eight AI search engines. | AI Search Watcher data is reachable through Mangools' single unified REST API alongside the rest of its keyword and SERP suite, not walled off as a separate paid add-on. | — | Yes |
| [RankLens](https://citedindex.com/ranklens.md) | AI brand visibility and LLM rank tracking from SEO Vendor, with repeated-sampling entity reports. | RankLens is free while still in Beta (no paid tier published yet), and its own listing states programmatic API access is already part of that free tier. | — | Yes |
| [GEORankHub](https://citedindex.com/georank.md) | Free GEO workbench: page diagnostics, JSON-LD and llms.txt generators, keyword expansion and 30/60/90-day plans. | The free, self-hosted open-source tier ships a documented HTTP API plus a Claude Agent Skill, so an AI agent can run diagnostics and admin tasks directly, not just a human dashboard. | — | Yes |
| [AthenaHQ](https://citedindex.com/athenahq.md) | AEO/GEO platform tracking brand visibility across 11 AI models, with content and technical actions. | API access is on AthenaHQ's cheapest paid self-serve tier (Starter, $295/month), though it draws from the same credit pool as everything else, so heavy API use costs more credits rather than a separate fee. The $0 Essential tier itself has no API. | — | Yes |
| [Frase](https://citedindex.com/frase.md) | Content platform that researches, drafts, optimises and publishes pages, then tracks AI citations. | The entry Starter tier ($39/month) already includes 250 API requests/month, scaling to 3,000/month on Scale ($239/month). Frase's own tier copy doesn't restate a quota for the middle Professional plan, but nothing suggests it's excluded. | — | Yes |
| [geoSurge](https://citedindex.com/geosurge.md) | Tracks how ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini describe your brand, free on your own AI subscriptions. | The entire $0/month BYOK plan ships a full REST API, CSV/JSON export and MCP access; only the separate "Corpus Engineering" toolkit, not API access itself, requires the custom-quoted Enterprise tier. | — | Yes |
| [AI Sightline](https://citedindex.com/ai-sightline.md) | AI visibility monitoring and AI traffic analytics across six answer engines, with ranked fix recommendations. | 100 API calls/month and a read-only MCP connection are already on the $0 Free tier, per its own listing. Full MCP (30-37 tools) unlocks from the $29.95/month Starter tier up. | — | Yes |
| [Keyword.com AI Visibility](https://citedindex.com/keyword-com-ai-visibility.md) | AI visibility tracking from a rank tracker: brand mentions, citations, sentiment and competitors in AI answers. | Two REST APIs (SERP Tracker and AI Visibility, covering 10 engines) plus a 67-tool MCP server ship on every plan with no per-call charge or monthly cap, including the $3/month Search Visibility entry tier. | — | Yes |
| [Omnia](https://citedindex.com/omnia.md) | AI visibility tracking with an agent that drafts, publishes and pitches the fixes. | "API and MCP read+write access" is one of Omnia's own named key features, live from the entry Growth tier (€63/month billed yearly), not held back for Pro or Enterprise. | — | Yes |
| [Rankability](https://citedindex.com/rankability.md) | AI search visibility tracking, site auditing and content optimisation for marketing agencies. | An "Agent API and MCP" is bundled into every paid plan per Rankability's own listing, including the cheapest Growth tier ($199/month). Rate limits scale from 30 to 120 requests/minute by tier, but nothing is fully gated. | — | Yes |
| [TrueRanker](https://citedindex.com/trueranker.md) | SEO suite pairing Google rank tracking with brand-citation monitoring across six AI answer engines. | API access is named explicitly in every tier's own feature list, down to the $14.99/month Starter tier, scaling to multiple API keys on pricier plans. | — | Yes |
| [Dageno](https://citedindex.com/dageno-ai.md) | AI answer monitoring and market intelligence across seven AI platforms, with citation and competitor evidence. | A published REST API is on every paid tier (Starter $79/month upward), with API-key auth at api.dageno.ai/business. The Starter tier is capped to 3 platforms at a time, but the API itself ships from the bottom of the published price list. | — | Yes |

## 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.