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AthenaHQ
AEO/GEO platform tracking brand visibility across 11 AI models, with content and technical actions.
From FreeWhy it's on this listThe pick for Claude coverage without an Enterprise sales call: AthenaHQ's standing free Essential plan already includes Claude alongside ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews and Gemini at $0/month, and its $295/month Starter (still cheaper than Gauge's $599 floor) adds Copilot and Grok on self-serve credits — both sit behind Gauge's custom-quoted Enterprise tier. Both are Y Combinator-backed and ship a conversational AI assistant over the visibility data ("Ask Athena" vs. Gauge's "Ask Gauge"). The trade-off: AthenaHQ has no bundled article-drafting engine.
Where it improves on Gauge
- +Technical AEO · YesManages robots.txt and llms.txt for AI crawlers and audits schema, sitemap and indexing access; available on both paid tiers.Evidence ↗
- +DeepSeek · PartialDeepSeek is in the Starter model set but explicitly disabled for free accounts, so it costs at least the entry paid subscription.Evidence ↗
- +Meta AI · PartialMeta AI is one of the eleven Starter models and is named among those switched off for Free plan users.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against Gauge
- −Google AI Mode · PartialGoogle AI Mode is real but gated: the docs state it is disabled on the Free plan and needs a paid Starter or Enterprise subscription.Evidence ↗
31/32 researched criteria · 1 not established - 02
SEOmatic
Autonomous SEO agents that diagnose, write, publish to your CMS and track visibility in AI answers.
From FreeWhy it's on this listTechnical AEO · YesStructured data is written and repaired per page type, and robots.txt is checked against AI answer crawlers, though robots.txt edits are staged for the buyer to paste.Evidence ↗
Where it improves on Gauge
- +Done-for-you service · YesA separate done-for-you line has the vendor's own team configure and run the agents, quoted at fixed prices from $1,500 and a $2,500 monthly managed option.Evidence ↗
- +Claude · YesClaude ('anthropic') is queried by default alongside ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews, and the product also publishes per-engine Claude visibility scores.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against Gauge
- −Prompt or credit allowance · PartialPlans are metered in AI credits rather than a published prompt count; the free plan states one visibility scan and the API documents a plan prompt allowance it does not quantify publicly.Evidence ↗
32/32 researched criteria - 03
Promptwatch
AI search visibility tracking with crawler logs and content agents that publish to your CMS.
From $95/monthWhy it's on this listTechnical AEO · YesA Technical Optimization row is ticked from the entry plan, and the Sitemap Health tab reports HTTP status, speed and missing SEO elements from Promptwatch's own crawl of sitemap pages.Evidence ↗
Where it improves on Gauge
- +Claude · YesAnthropic (Claude) is ticked on every published brand plan, but the docs class it as an API model that answers from training knowledge, so citations appear only when the provider returns sources.Evidence ↗
- +Grok · YesGrok has its own row in the plan table, ticked on all three brand plans, and is documented in the API-model group that answers without live web search.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against Gauge
- −Generates content · PartialContent Agents write new articles from citation data, but the entry Essential plan is sold with no article allowance at all; monthly AEO Articles start at five on Professional and ten on Business.Evidence ↗
30/32 researched criteria · 2 not established - 04
Conductor
Enterprise AEO platform: AI visibility tracking, content generation, 24/7 site monitoring and API/MCP access.
Why it's on this listTechnical AEO · YesThe crawler evaluates AEO-specific page signals including schema coverage and AI robot directives, shown beside traditional SEO health on the Pages and Issues dashboards.Evidence ↗
Where it improves on Gauge
- +Done-for-you service · YesA Professional Services team sells strategic consulting and project work, including building the personas, topics and prompts that the tracking runs on, scoped per engagement rather than as a standing retainer.Evidence ↗
- +Claude · YesClaude is tracked on its default Sonnet model, but the vendor's location tables exclude it from both granular and many country level locations.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against Gauge
- −Publishes to your site · NoDrafts leave Conductor as a downloaded .docx brief; the CMS integrations surface recommendations inside Drupal and trigger audits in WordPress rather than pushing content live.Evidence ↗
- −Self-serve signup · PartialOnly the Essentials plan carries a self-serve Try for Free path; Growth is sold through Request a Demo and Enterprise through Contact Sales, so paid access needs a conversation.Evidence ↗
32/32 researched criteria - 05
Qwairy
GEO platform that monitors brand mentions across 10 AI engines and feeds content, technical and traffic work.
From FreeWhy it's on this listTechnical AEO · YesSite Readiness analyses robots.txt, llms.txt and sitemap.xml for named crawler identities and generates llms.txt; no schema.org markup generation is claimed.Evidence ↗
Where it improves on Gauge
- +Claude · YesAnthropic API models only (Haiku 4.5 through Opus, 4-20 credits per answer); Claude has no Core row, so the public Claude experience is not sampled.Evidence ↗
- +Grok · YesCore model at 1 credit per answer, plus premium xAI API models Grok 4.3 and Grok 4.5 at 5 and 3 credits.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against Gauge
- −Publishes to your site · NoNo CMS connector exists; API v1 exposes Content Studio articles read-only for you to syndicate, and the article's finalUrl field is the published URL you set yourself.Evidence ↗
- −Done-for-you service · NoQwairy sells the tooling, not the delivery: agencies run their own GEO retainers on it, and the agency plans are white-label platform seats rather than a managed service.Evidence ↗
32/32 researched criteria - 06
Cognizo
AEO platform tracking brand visibility in AI answers, with content generation and auto-publishing.
From $499/monthWhy it's on this listTechnical AEO · YesGenerates llms.txt, schema markup and FAQ blocks and flags crawlability problems as part of the technical audit toolbox.Evidence ↗
Where it improves on Gauge
- +Grok · YesGrok is in the six-platform pick list shown on both Growth and Pro plan cards.Evidence ↗
- +DeepSeek · PartialDeepSeek appears only under the custom-quoted Enterprise tier's platform list, not in the self-serve selection.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against Gauge
- −Google AI Mode · PartialGoogle AI Mode is named in the FAQ engine list but only appears in the Enterprise column of the platform comparison.Evidence ↗
- −Self-serve signup · NoEvery plan button is a demo request and onboarding runs through an assigned customer success call, so no plan can be bought unaided.Evidence ↗
31/32 researched criteria · 1 not established
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