# Alternatives to Directive

> Source: https://citedindex.com/directive/alternatives/ (re-verified)
> Updated: 19 October 2026

## At a glance

| Name | Best for | Starts at | Better than Directive at | Checked |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Directive](https://citedindex.com/directive.md) | B2B technology and industrial marketing teams who need AI answers to name their brand | On quote | — | 18 October 2026 |
| [Conductor](https://citedindex.com/conductor.md) | Enterprise SEO and content teams that want AI visibility, classic SEO, content generation and technical monitoring in one platform, with budget for a five-to-six-figure annual contract. | On quote | Coverage in the vendor’s words, How often it checks | 6 October 2026 |
| [Citeme](https://citedindex.com/citeme.md) | marketing teams that want AI-answer measurement and the content work from one supplier | From about $33/month | Coverage in the vendor’s words, How often it checks | 19 October 2026 |
| [EdenRank](https://citedindex.com/edenrank.md) | A brand or growth team that wants a source-verifiable answer-visibility score, with buying-intent diagnosis and an approval-gated execution agent they can switch on. | Free, then $59/month | Coverage in the vendor’s words, How often it checks | 13 September 2026 |

“About” figures are converted at the European Central Bank rate of 22 October 2026.

## What to watch for

- **Conductor**: Conductor does not publish a rate card for Essentials, Growth, or Enterprise. The $26,800 to $500,000+ per year range and $48,950 median cited here come from Vendr's aggregated real-world contract data as reported by an independent reviewer (tryanalyze.ai), not from Conductor's own site. Treat it as a reported range rather than an official price.
- **EdenRank**: The /proof page's controlled-measurement section reports no detectable effect from 8 controlled before/after samples on EdenRank's own hub pages, and the vendor has frozen hub growth pending a pre-registered readout on 2026-09-06. The product is not currently shipping on the public evidence it produces for its own brand.

Best match first.

## Shortlist

### 1. SEOmatic

Autonomous SEO agents that diagnose, write, publish to your CMS and track visibility in AI answers.

**Where it improves on Directive:**
- [Coverage in the vendor’s words: yes — Eight engines are selectable with three scanned by default; the paid cards state weekly scanning on Launch and daily on Scale and above.](https://seomatic.ai/developers/rest-api)
- [How often it checks: yes — Scans run weekly by default with daily or manual as alternatives; the plan cards put weekly on Launch and daily from Scale upward, and daily is plan-gated.](https://seomatic.ai/developers/rest-api)
- [Self-serve signup: yes — Free and all three published tiers start from signup buttons with no sales contact; only the custom Enterprise workspace routes to a demo booking.](https://seomatic.ai/pricing)

**Trade-offs against Directive:**
- None found.

[View SEOmatic](https://citedindex.com/seomatic)

### 2. Conductor

Enterprise AEO platform: AI visibility tracking, content generation, 24/7 site monitoring and API/MCP access.

**Where it improves on Directive:**
- [Coverage in the vendor’s words: yes — Nine engine surfaces are supported and chosen per topic, each consuming a different credit rate per response, so engine breadth is a budget decision rather than a plan limit.](https://www.conductor.com/platform/features/ai-search-performance/ai-tracking-customization/)
- [How often it checks: yes — Cadence is set per topic as daily, weekly or monthly, and the vendor warns that daily collection substantially increases credit consumption for those prompts.](https://www.conductor.com/docs/intelligence/ai-search-faqs)

**Trade-offs against Directive:**
- None found.

[View Conductor](https://citedindex.com/conductor)

### 3. Citeme

GEO/SEO agency and self-serve platform that tracks brand citations across ten AI engines.

**Where it improves on Directive:**
- [Coverage in the vendor’s words: yes — Ten engines are stated as the full coverage, and the self-serve plan row confirms all ten AI models are included rather than tiered.](https://www.citeme.io/pricing)
- [How often it checks: yes — The entry plan includes one automatic audit plus five manual ones each week, and scheduled audits can be set to run weekly or daily.](https://www.citeme.io/pricing)

**Trade-offs against Directive:**
- [Microsoft Copilot: no — Microsoft Copilot appears nowhere in the vendor's stated complete set of ten audited surfaces, so it is not tracked on any plan.](https://www.citeme.io/pricing)

[View Citeme](https://citedindex.com/citeme)

### 4. Qwairy

GEO platform that monitors brand mentions across AI engines and recommends content and technical fixes.

**Where it improves on Directive:**
- [Coverage in the vendor’s words: yes — The vendor enumerates eighteen engines and model families available on every plan, marking each as collected through the consumer interface, the API, or both, with no per-tier engine gating in the comparison table.](https://www.qwairy.co/pricing)
- [How often it checks: yes — Monitoring frequency is selectable per configuration and the same three options appear on every tier, so cadence is not a reason to upgrade.](https://www.qwairy.co/pricing)

**Trade-offs against Directive:**
- [Done-for-you service: no — Qwairy sells software to agencies rather than doing the work: the agency programme is tooling to pitch, deliver and white-label GEO services for their own clients.](https://www.qwairy.co/agency)

[View Qwairy](https://citedindex.com/qwairy)

### 5. EdenRank

AI citation monitoring with an approval-first execution and verification loop across eight answer engines.

**Where it improves on Directive:**
- [Coverage in the vendor’s words: yes — Coverage is tiered: Free monitors three named engines, Starter six, Growth and above all supported engines, reaching ten including Grok and Mistral.](https://edenrank.com/)
- [How often it checks: yes — Paid tracking is weekly with a daily rerun of the top prompts - ten on Growth, twenty on Pro, forty on Agency; Free gets a monthly digest by default.](https://edenrank.com/pricing)
- [Self-serve signup: yes — Sign-up, plan choice and upgrades all run through in-app checkout; the free multi-engine checker even works without an account.](https://edenrank.com/pricing)

**Trade-offs against Directive:**
- [Done-for-you service: no — The delegated tier is run by a bounded software agent inside the workspace, not by EdenRank staff; human contact is email support and onboarding.](https://edenrank.com/pricing)

[View EdenRank](https://citedindex.com/edenrank)

### 6. Rankshift

Credit-metered AI visibility, citation and crawler tracking with unlimited projects and seats.

**Where it improves on Directive:**
- [Coverage in the vendor’s words: yes — Nine engines are published, with no per-tier engine restriction: every plan says 'Track all LLMs', and the limit is credits rather than coverage, with Claude and Copilot costing five credits a run instead of two.](https://www.rankshift.ai/prompt-tracking/)
- [How often it checks: yes — Cadence is set per prompt and drives credit burn: the plan rows promise daily or weekly refresh, while the calculator sells frequencies from once weekly up to daily.](https://www.rankshift.ai/ai-visibility-tracking/)
- [Self-serve signup: yes — All three published tiers register and pay in the dashboard with no sales contact, and the trial starts without a card; only Enterprise routes through 'Talk to Sales'.](https://www.rankshift.ai/prompt-tracking/)

**Trade-offs against Directive:**
- [Done-for-you service: no — The agency offering is a partner programme for agencies that run the tool themselves on client workspaces, with pitch projects and training, not a done-for-you service delivered by Rankshift staff.](https://www.rankshift.ai/agency/)

[View Rankshift](https://citedindex.com/rankshift)