Summary
Knowatoa is an AI search visibility platform that tracks how answer engines describe and cite a brand, its competitors and its sources. It also runs agents that research content gaps and draft articles for review before publication.
- Best for
- Marketing and SEO teams (including agencies reporting to clients
- Not for
- Teams that need traffic/revenue attribution from AI answers, a full-service SEO platform, or built-in content management, Knowatoa is monitoring-focused, with content drafting only as an add-on agent.
- From
- $59/monthbilled monthly
- Free trial
- Yes7-day trial on the Starter tier, advertised as requiring no credit card. There is no permanently free plan — the cheapest ongoing tier is $59/mo.
What it does
- Monitors AI answers
- YesCore product: tracks how the brand appears in answers across every engine it supports.
Knowatoa monitors how your brand appears across every major AI platform with automated daily tracking.
knowatoa.com/features/ai-search-monitor… - Optimises your content
- YesEvery flagged issue is returned with the specific content to update and sources to optimise.
Every accuracy issue comes with specific recommendations on how to fix it. We tell you what content to update and which sources to optimize.
knowatoa.com/features/accuracy-tracking - Generates content
- YesDrafts full articles from the tracked questions with the highest priority score; included on all plans as "AI agents".
Knowatoa drafts full articles for the highest-priority questions you're tracking. Internal links, external links, competitive context, and SEO…
knowatoa.com/features/ai-article-genera… - Publishes to your site
- YesApproved drafts are pushed to WordPress, GitHub or Payload; WordPress arrives as a draft by default.
Knowatoa can publish articles directly to your website's CMS. Once connected, approved articles are automatically sent to your CMS as posts.
docs.knowatoa.com/integrations/cms-publ… - Technical AEO
- YesCrawler directives only: robots.txt and bot-access configuration across 15+ bot types. No schema-markup or llms.txt claim is published.
Configure robots.txt and crawl permissions for AI systems. Make informed decisions about which AI bots can access your content.
knowatoa.com/features/ai-search-console - Done-for-you service
- YesA separate done-for-you engagement sold off /services: audit, prioritised plan, then execution alongside the client team. No price published; booked by call.
We help SaaS companies update their content strategy to take advantage of the new opportunities in AI search, recover lost traffic, and improve the…
knowatoa.com/services
Answer engines
- ChatGPT
- YesOne of the three engines included on the cheapest paid plan.
AI search services ChatGPT AI Overviews AI Mode
knowatoa.com - Perplexity
- PartlyPerplexity is only on Growth and Enterprise; the $59 Starter plan covers ChatGPT, AI Overviews and AI Mode only.
AI search services ChatGPT AI Overviews AI Mode Claude Gemini Meta AI Perplexity
knowatoa.com - Gemini
- PartlyGemini is only on Growth and Enterprise; the $59 Starter plan covers ChatGPT, AI Overviews and AI Mode only.
AI search services ChatGPT AI Overviews AI Mode Claude Gemini Meta AI Perplexity
knowatoa.com - Google AI Overviews
- YesIncluded on Starter alongside ChatGPT and AI Mode.
AI search services ChatGPT AI Overviews AI Mode
knowatoa.com - Google AI Mode
- YesIncluded on Starter alongside ChatGPT and AI Overviews.
AI search services ChatGPT AI Overviews AI Mode
knowatoa.com - Claude
- PartlyClaude is only on Growth and Enterprise; the $59 Starter plan covers ChatGPT, AI Overviews and AI Mode only.
AI search services ChatGPT AI Overviews AI Mode Claude Gemini Meta AI Perplexity
knowatoa.com - Microsoft Copilot
- NoAbsent from the enumerated seven supported platforms. One stale line on the API page also names Copilot and SearchGPT, which no other page repeats; see notes.
Supported AI Platforms ChatGPT OpenAI Claude Anthropic Gemini Google Perplexity AI Search Meta AI Meta AI Overviews Google Search AI Mode Google…
knowatoa.com/features/multi-model-cover… - Grok
- NoNot among the seven platforms the vendor enumerates, and named nowhere on the site.
Supported AI Platforms ChatGPT OpenAI Claude Anthropic Gemini Google Perplexity AI Search Meta AI Meta AI Overviews Google Search AI Mode Google…
knowatoa.com/features/multi-model-cover… - DeepSeek
- NoNot among the seven platforms the vendor enumerates, and named nowhere on the site.
Supported AI Platforms ChatGPT OpenAI Claude Anthropic Gemini Google Perplexity AI Search Meta AI Meta AI Overviews Google Search AI Mode Google…
knowatoa.com/features/multi-model-cover… - Meta AI
- PartlyMeta AI is only on Growth and Enterprise; the $59 Starter plan covers ChatGPT, AI Overviews and AI Mode only.
AI search services ChatGPT AI Overviews AI Mode Claude Gemini Meta AI Perplexity
knowatoa.com - Coverage in the vendor’s words
- YesSeven engines total; Starter buys three of them, Growth and Enterprise buy all seven. Default consumer model per service, not a model picker.
AI search services ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode All 7 services All 7 services
knowatoa.com/pricing
What it reports
- Names the cited sources
- YesReports both the citing domains and which of your own URLs get cited, per engine.
Knowatoa tracks which sources AI models cite when discussing your brand.
knowatoa.com/features/citation-tracking - Competitor tracking
- YesRivals are ranked in the same view as the brand, per tracked question.
Track up to 10+ competitors per monitored topic
knowatoa.com/features/competitor-analys… - Brand sentiment
- YesThree-way positive/neutral/negative classification per engine, trended over time, with competitor benchmarking.
Knowatoa monitors how AI describes your brand, not just whether you're mentioned.
knowatoa.com/features/sentiment-monitor… - Recommendations
- YesRecommendations are per-engine, not a single generic report.
Get platform-specific recommendations. We tell you exactly what to do to improve visibility on each AI model.
knowatoa.com/features/multi-model-cover… - AI crawler analytics
- PartlyIt claims to show which bots crawl you and how often, but the same page states the mechanism is active access testing rather than log analysis. This is reachability, not a crawl-log report.
Identify which AI bots are crawling your site and how frequently. See GPTBot, Claude-Web, PerplexityBot, and others in action.
knowatoa.com/features/ai-search-console - Wrong answers about you
- YesFlags fabricated features, outdated pricing and incorrect claims, and traces where the error came from.
Knowatoa verifies the factual accuracy of AI responses about your brand. Catch misinformation, outdated details, and AI hallucinations before they…
knowatoa.com/features/accuracy-tracking
Plans and signing up
- Prompt or credit allowance
- PartlyMetered in questions, pooled across all sites in the account, but no per-plan question count is published on any page; Growth is described only as having no volume worry.
All sites share the same question limit, so you can allocate your questions across your sites however you need.
knowatoa.com/pricing - Projects or brands
- YesUnlimited sites per account, each with its own competitors and brand words; the question allowance is shared across them.
Yes — you can add unlimited sites to your Knowatoa account. Each site contains it’s own set of competitors, brand words and rankings.
docs.knowatoa.com/sites-and-questions/c… - Countries
- YesAny ISO 3166-1 country, 34 languages, plus optional region and city targeting, settable per account, site or question.
In addition to the featured countries above, Knowatoa supports all countries recognized by the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard.
docs.knowatoa.com/reference/supported-l… - How often it checks
- PartlyThe marketing pages say daily; the docs say weekly. The docs are the more specific claim and are quoted here; see notes.
Knowatoa updates your data weekly.
docs.knowatoa.com/sites-and-questions/h… - Card required to start
- NoTrial is advertised as card-free, but the signup button reads "Continue to trial checkout"; see notes.
Free trial, no credit card. Drafts ready in minutes.
knowatoa.com/features/ai-article-genera… - Self-serve signup
- YesStarter and Growth are published prices with an email or Google signup; only Enterprise routes to sales.
Create your account first, then choose your Starter trial. After checkout, you'll add the site you want Knowatoa to monitor.
knowatoa.com/onboarding/trial/signup
Access and integrations
- API
- PartlyREST v2 with twelve export endpoints, but bundled into the reporting stack that Starter does not get; the docs confirm the key only appears if the plan supports it.
Reporting stack (API, MCP, Looker Studio, NinjaCat)
knowatoa.com/pricing - MCP server
- PartlyOAuth MCP server for six clients covering analytics, question management and article publish/unpublish, but in the same Growth-and-above reporting stack as the API.
Connect Knowatoa to Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, OpenCode, and Antigravity through MCP.
knowatoa.com/features/mcp - BI export
- PartlyNative Looker Studio connector and NinjaCat, plus a flat-JSON API mode for BI tools, all inside the Growth-and-above reporting stack.
BI Tool Integration : Flat JSON format optimized for Looker Studio and similar tools
docs.knowatoa.com/api/api-overview
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The pages we read22
Every fact below comes from the vendor. Nothing here is independently corroborated yet.
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Coverage elsewhere2
Answer-engine source observations0 of 4
0 of 4 collected answers have source URL/title annotations naming CitedIndex. These are the latest stored observations per engine, not current consumer-UI results. They do not measure product mentions or establish that a source supports a claim.
- ChatGPTCitedIndex domain not found in observed source annotationsModel: gpt-4o-mini · Collected on · 9 source annotationsQuery:
Knowatoa alternatives
Other source hosts (up to 6): ai-saas.org, elmohq.com, energypr.co.uk, therankmasters.com, blog.hubspot.com, citerank.co - ClaudeNot assessable — no source annotationsModel: claude-haiku-4-5 · Collected on · 0 source annotationsQuery:
Knowatoa alternatives
- GeminiCitedIndex domain not found in observed source annotationsModel: gemini-2.5-flash · Collected on · 51 source annotationsQuery:
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Other source hosts (up to 6): reddit.com, livesov.com, menra.ai, elmohq.com, piperocket.digital, slite.com - PerplexityCitedIndex domain not found in observed source annotationsModel: sonar · Collected on · 20 source annotationsQuery:
Knowatoa alternatives
Other source hosts (up to 6): knowatoa.com, menra.ai, metaflow.life, bestgeosoftware.com, rankability.com, toolvern.com
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