Elmo

What it does

Monitors AI answers

YesCore product: tracks brand mentions and citations across AI models.Track your brand's visibility across any AI model. Monitor mentions, analyze citations, and benchmark competitors.elmohq.com ↗

Optimises your content

PartlyOpportunities recommends pages to refresh and content to create, but the vendor states it does not optimise content for you.Turn your data into action with AI-generated recommendations — content to create, pages to refresh, and third-party sources to pitch — each ranked by…elmohq.com/features ↗

Generates content

PartlyThe tracker generates recommendations, not content; article drafting exists only in the separate managed Off-Site AEO service.After we come up with a plan, we create drafts of the guest posts using the best AI models. Then, we humanize the articleselmohq.com/off-site-aeo ↗

Publishes to your site

PartlyThe managed service places articles on third-party sites; no CMS publishing integration is documented for the product.We plan, write, humanize, and place that month's posts on high-authority sites, showing you which post maps to which prompt.elmohq.com/off-site-aeo ↗

Done-for-you service

YesOff-Site AEO is a managed monthly service: their team plans, writes, humanizes, places and reports.Every plan is a managed monthly subscription: planning, writing, humanization, placement, and reporting included.elmohq.com/off-site-aeo ↗

Not established: Technical AEO

Answer engines

ChatGPT

YesScraped ChatGPT surface is on every cloud plan, including the $29 Starter.ChatGPT onlyelmohq.com/pricing ↗

Perplexity

PartlyAvailable from the $99 Basic plan as one of four chosen platforms; Starter is ChatGPT only.Choose any 4 platformselmohq.com/pricing ↗

Gemini

PartlyScraped Gemini is one of the four selectable platforms from Basic upward, not on Starter.Choose any 4 platformselmohq.com/pricing ↗

Google AI Overviews

PartlyGoogle AI Overview is a selectable scraped surface from Basic upward; Starter is ChatGPT only.elmohq.com/pricing ↗

Google AI Mode

PartlyGoogle AI Mode is a selectable scraped surface from Basic upward; Starter is ChatGPT only.elmohq.com/pricing ↗

Claude

PartlyClaude via LLM APIs from Basic upward; the grounded web Claude surface is on Pro and Business only.Premium grounded models on Pro & Businesselmohq.com/pricing ↗

Microsoft Copilot

PartlyCopilot is a selectable scraped surface from Basic upward; absent from Starter's ChatGPT-only row.elmohq.com/pricing ↗

Grok

PartlyGrok (web) appears only in the Premium LLM APIs block of Pro and Business, sampled once daily.elmohq.com/pricing ↗

DeepSeek

PartlyDeepSeek is in the LLM APIs block from Basic upward; not on Starter.elmohq.com/pricing ↗

Meta AI

NoMeta AI is absent from the documented list of trackable surfaces.model — the AI surface being tracked (chatgpt, claude, google-ai-mode, google-ai-overview, gemini, perplexity, copilot, grok, kimi).elmohq.com/docs/user-guide/providers ↗

Coverage in the vendor’s words

YesScraped consumer surfaces plus model APIs; Starter is ChatGPT only, higher plans pick any four platforms and add premium grounded models.See exactly what ChatGPT and other AI search users see exactly with web scraping. Track LLM responses with their APIs or OpenRouter. Bring your own…elmohq.com ↗

What it reports

Names the cited sources

YesCitations view shows which domains and URLs models cite, with new/dropped sources and category breakdown.See which domains and URLs AI models cite most, track new and dropped sources over time, and break down citations by category — brand, competitor,…elmohq.com/features ↗

Competitor tracking

YesShare of voice leaderboard compares mention share against every tracked competitor.Compare your brand's mention share against every competitor. A live leaderboard ranks who AI engines name mostelmohq.com/features ↗

Brand sentiment

PartlySentiment scoring exists and needs a direct model API key; no attribute-level brand-perception view is documented.Pick one scraper, add one direct API key for onboarding analysis and sentiment scoring, and you're doneelmohq.com/docs/user-guide/providers ↗

Recommendations

YesOpportunities turns the data into ranked recommendations rather than reporting only.Turn your data into action with AI-generated recommendations — content to create, pages to refresh, and third-party sources to pitch — each ranked by…elmohq.com/features ↗

AI crawler analytics

NoThe enumerated product surfaces and API resources cover answers and citations; no AI-bot crawl log analytics.Analytics — visibility, share of voice, citations, per-model, prompt, and query fan-out metricselmohq.com/docs/api ↗

Wrong answers about you

NoResponses are inspectable per prompt, but no accuracy or false-claim flagging is offered.Drill into any prompt to see exactly what each AI model said, which brands were mentioned, what sources were cited, and how the response was…elmohq.com/features ↗

Plans and signing up

Prompt or credit allowance

YesCloud: 50 prompts on Starter and Basic, 150 on Pro, 350 on Business; self-hosting is unlimited.50 tracked promptselmohq.com/pricing ↗

Projects or brands

Yes1 brand on Starter and Basic, 2 on Pro, 5 on Business, multiple on Custom.5 brandselmohq.com/pricing ↗

Countries

NoCountry localization is not exposed in the tracking-target configuration.Country localization is intentionally not exposed in SCRAPE_TARGETS yet because support differs by DataForSEO surface and underlying model.elmohq.com/docs/user-guide/providers ↗

How often it checks

YesCloud samples scraped surfaces up to 4×/day (1×/day for premium grounded models); self-hosted default is every 24 hours.Scraped surfaces sampled up to 4× dailyelmohq.com/pricing ↗

Card required to start

PartlySelf-hosting needs no account or card; the vendor publishes nothing about a card-free cloud trial.No. Self-hosting Elmo does not require an account or a credit card. Clone the open-source repository, deploy with the CLI, and start tracking your AI…elmohq.com/pricing ↗

Self-serve signup

YesCloud plans are self-serve with monthly or annual billing; only White Label and Custom require a conversation.Self-serve cloud, billed monthly or annually.elmohq.com/pricing ↗

Access and integrations

API

YesREST API on every cloud plan, Bearer-authenticated with scoped keys; self-hosted instances serve the same API.API access on every planelmohq.com/pricing ↗

MCP server

YesMCP endpoint at /api/mcp on cloud and every self-hosted instance, with per-scope tool exposure.Elmo serves a Model Context Protocol endpoint at /api/mcp, so an AI client can read your visibility data and manage prompts without you copying…elmohq.com/docs/mcp ↗

Not established: BI export