# Alternatives to Goodie > Source: https://citedindex.com/goodie-ai/alternatives (current datasheets, evidence-ranked) Candidates share the baseline category or are previously researched peers. Requirements, preserved strengths, explicit trade-offs and research coverage decide the order; paid tier does not. ## Shortlist ### 1. AthenaHQ AEO/GEO platform that tracks brand visibility across AI answer engines and prescribes fixes. **Research coverage:** 31/32 criteria **Where it improves on Goodie:** - [Gemini: yes — Included on every plan, free tier included.](https://athenahq.ai/) - [Microsoft Copilot: yes — Included on every plan, free tier included.](https://athenahq.ai/) - [Self-serve signup: yes — Essential and Starter are self-serve signup; Enterprise requires contacting sales](https://athenahq.ai/self-serve-pricing) **Trade-offs against Goodie:** - [AI crawler analytics: partial — It diagnoses whether AI crawlers can reach your pages and manages their access, but nowhere claims a log of which AI bots actually crawled the site.](https://athenahq.ai/platform) - [Countries: partial — Starter is single-region; multi-country tracking is Enterprise only.](https://athenahq.ai/plans/) [View AthenaHQ](https://citedindex.com/athenahq) ### 2. Cognizo AEO platform tracking brand visibility in AI answers, with agents that create and publish content. **Research coverage:** 30/32 criteria **Where it improves on Goodie:** - [Gemini: yes — Named in the vendor's list of trackable platforms](https://www.cognizo.ai/pricing) - [Google AI Mode: yes — Google AI Mode named explicitly, separately from AI Overviews](https://www.cognizo.ai/pricing) - [Claude: yes — Claude named as trackable and as a measured platform on the insights page](https://www.cognizo.ai/platform/answer-engine-insights) **Trade-offs against Goodie:** - [Self-serve signup: no — Every plan, including the $499 Platform tier, routes to Book a demo, and onboarding includes a call with a customer success partner.](https://www.cognizo.ai/pricing) [View Cognizo](https://citedindex.com/cognizo) ### 3. Citadex Full-stack AEO and GEO platform: monitors AI answer engines, then scores, generates and publishes fix content. **Research coverage:** 31/32 criteria **Where it improves on Goodie:** - [Gemini: yes — One of the four engines included on Starter, so covered on every tier.](https://citadex.io/pricing) - [Projects or brands: yes — 1 project on Starter, 5 on Pro, unlimited on Business and Enterprise; each project is an isolated workspace with its own prompts, competitors and history.](https://citadex.io/pricing) - [Self-serve signup: yes — Starter, Pro and Business are bought by card through Stripe with no minimum term; only Enterprise routes to sales.](https://citadex.io/pricing) **Trade-offs against Goodie:** - [Done-for-you service: no — Software only: agencies buy a Business or Enterprise plan and deliver the service to their own clients; Citadex sells a partner program, not done-for-you work.](https://citadex.io/pricing) - [Meta AI: no — Absent from the enumerated 11 engines, which name Mistral and Qwen in the slots a Meta AI would occupy; a May 2026 comparison post still claims it, see notes.](https://citadex.io/) - [AI crawler analytics: no — The only crawler feature is a free checker for whether GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot are permitted; no module in the product or plan lists reports which AI bots actually crawled the site.](https://citadex.io/resources) [View Citadex](https://citedindex.com/citadex) ### 4. Rank Prompt AI visibility platform: prompt monitoring across six answer engines, plus content, citation outreach and site audits. **Research coverage:** 32/32 criteria **Where it improves on Goodie:** - [Done-for-you service: yes — Rank Prompt's own in-house team sells a done-for-you retainer at $1,500/mo advisory and from $2,500/mo full execution, sold through a strategy call.](https://rankprompt.com/geo-agency/) - [Google AI Mode: yes — Covered as a single Google slot the vendor writes as "Google AI Mode (AI Overviews)", bundled on every plan.](https://rankprompt.com/ai-monitoring/) - [Claude: yes — Bundled on every plan; a search-enabled "Claude Search" variant is sold as an extra engine.](https://rankprompt.com/ai-monitoring/) **Trade-offs against Goodie:** - [Microsoft Copilot: no — Absent from the closed six-platform monitoring list; Copilot appears only in GA4 referral-traffic detection, which measures human visits rather than answers.](https://rankprompt.com/ai-monitoring/) - [DeepSeek: no — Not named anywhere on the site; absent from the closed six-platform enumeration repeated on at least five pages.](https://rankprompt.com/ai-monitoring/) - [Meta AI: no — Absent from the monitored six; Meta AI is named only in the GA4 referral-detection list of surfaces visitors arrive from.](https://rankprompt.com/ai-monitoring/) [View Rank Prompt](https://citedindex.com/rankprompt) ### 5. Orchly AI agents that monitor AI search visibility and then write, fix and publish the content. **Research coverage:** 31/32 criteria **Where it improves on Goodie:** - [Self-serve signup: yes — Essential and Pro are priced and sign-up is self-service; only Enterprise needs sales.](https://orchly.ai/pricing/) - [API: yes — API listed on Essential and Pro; Enterprise gets 'Full API Access'.](https://orchly.ai/pricing/) **Trade-offs against Goodie:** - [Done-for-you service: no — Self-serve software; the work is done by AI agents, agency support is onboarding only.](https://orchly.ai/solutions/agencies/) - [Microsoft Copilot: no — Absent from the seven engines the plan tooltip enumerates.](https://orchly.ai/pricing/) - [DeepSeek: no — Absent from the seven engines the plan tooltip enumerates.](https://orchly.ai/pricing/) [View Orchly](https://citedindex.com/orchly) ### 6. Promptwatch AI search visibility platform for brand mentions, citations and AI crawler logs, with content agents. **Research coverage:** 30/32 criteria **Where it improves on Goodie:** - [Gemini: yes — Live-search platform; the vendor warns Gemini answers are usually synthesised with few or no visible source links, so mentions beat citation counts there.](https://promptwatch.com/docs/academy/choosing-your-models) - [Google AI Mode: yes — Live-search platform, listed as its own row in the pricing model table alongside AI Overviews.](https://promptwatch.com/docs/academy/choosing-your-models) - [Claude: yes — Tracked in the API-model group, so it reports what the model believes about the brand and returns citations only when the provider supplies sources.](https://promptwatch.com/docs/academy/choosing-your-models) **Trade-offs against Goodie:** - [Generates content: partial — The entry paid tier includes no article generation; Professional grants 5 AEO Articles/mo and Business 10/mo.](https://promptwatch.com/pricing) - [Technical AEO: partial — Covers crawler directives (robots.txt and bot blocks seen in Crawler Logs) and page-level technical health; llms.txt only via a standalone free generator, and no schema-markup capability is claimed.](https://promptwatch.com/docs/academy/site-health) - [AI crawler analytics: partial — Crawler log ingestion is crossed out on Essential in the pricing comparison; Professional includes 25M crawler log events a month and Business 100M.](https://promptwatch.com/docs/academy/ai-crawler-insights) [View Promptwatch](https://citedindex.com/promptwatch) ## Method Unknown data is never treated as a benefit or a trade-off. Featured placement is labelled but cannot alter recommendation order.