Rank Prompt vs Rankshift (2026)

Rankshift and Rank Prompt are both AI-visibility trackers that launched into a crowded field, but the first thing a buyer notices is how each prices access. Rank Prompt's Starter plan costs $49/month ($39.17/month billed annually) and includes 150 monthly credits shared across prompt scans (1 credit each), AI-written articles (10 credits) and Lighthouse-style audits (5-10 credits). A reviewer notes that scanning just 10 prompts a day burns roughly 300 credits a month, already double the Starter allotment. Rankshift's Starter plan costs more to start, $82/month, but grants 150 prompts per day (up to 9,500 monthly credits) from a pool not shared with article or audit generation, a materially larger raw prompt-tracking volume at the entry tier, for a higher entry price.

Engine coverage splits differently than a simple more-versus-fewer count suggests. Rankshift tracks nine engines, the broadest list in this index: ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Mistral and Meta AI. Rank Prompt tracks six: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Claude, Gemini and Grok. The lists aren't a subset of each other: Rank Prompt is the one that names Grok, which Rankshift doesn't track at all, while Rankshift adds Copilot, Mistral and Meta AI that Rank Prompt doesn't cover.

Both list MCP access on their pricing pages, but document it differently. Rank Prompt runs a dedicated, OAuth-secured hosted MCP server, with its own docs page, that lets Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client read an account's visibility reports and citations and trigger new scans: one URL, browser sign-in, no API key to copy or rotate. Rankshift bundles "MCP & API access" as a feature line on every self-serve tier without a dedicated MCP integration page, but pairs it with Agent Analytics, a feature Rank Prompt doesn't offer: it logs real AI-crawler bot traffic against your own site: bot name, page path and HTTP status, evidence a pure prompt-sampling tracker can't show.

Both are young companies with thin independent review coverage. Neither has the multi-year track record of a Peec AI or a Profound. Rank Prompt launched publicly in June 2025, built by a four-person team of former marketing-agency operators based in Miami; it carries just 2 published reviews on G2 (4.3/5 average), a volume G2 itself flags as too thin for a confident buying decision. Rankshift, registered as Rankshift BV in Deerlijk, Belgium, has no reviews yet on Slashdot or SourceForge at all, and independent reviewers note its bundled Content Brief Generator and AI Content Writer are newer and rougher than its tracking core. The same "young vendor, tracking core more mature than the content add-ons" pattern shows up on both tools.