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Alternatives to Limy
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| Tool | Best for | Starts at | Better than Limy at | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Limy | From $149/month | Sep 26, 2026 | ||
| Promptwatch | Marketing teams and brands that already run traditional SEO | From $95/month | Technical AEO, Google AI Overviews | Sep 30, 2026 |
| Conductor | 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 | Generates content, Technical AEO | Oct 6, 2026 |
| Rank Prompt | A solo marketer or developer who wants one dashboard across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Claude, Gemini and Grok, with API access and a hosted MCP server available from the $49/month Starter tier rather than gated behind a custom enterprise plan. | Free, then $49/month | Generates content, Technical AEO | Oct 12, 2026 |
| Trakkr | marketing teams, founders, and SEO/GEO specialists who want a fast, no-code way | From $100/month | Generates content, Technical AEO | Sep 26, 2026 |
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Indexly
AI search visibility platform: track brand mentions and citations across AI engines, then generate and publish content.
From $99/monthWhy it's on this listGenerates content · YesA metered Content Writer ships on every paid tier, starting at ten articles a month on Starter and rising to sixty on Scale.Source ↗
Where it improves on Limy
- +Technical AEO · YesThe platform generates llms.txt files, injects validated JSON-LD schema on publish and audits crawlability and AI bot accessibility.Source ↗
- +Done-for-you service · YesIndexly also sells a managed service where its own strategists and AI agents run the work, including AI visibility, alongside the self-serve software.Source ↗
Trade-offs against Limy
- −Optimises your content · PartlyContent opportunities and recommendations appear on every tier, but the metered Content Optimization feature for existing articles is crossed out on the entry Starter plan.Source ↗
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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.Source ↗
Where it improves on Limy
- +Google AI Overviews · YesGoogle AI Overviews is a separate tracked surface in the comparison table rather than folded into Gemini, and the FAQ names it among the engines scraped from real user interfaces.Source ↗
- +Google AI Mode · YesGoogle AI Mode is listed as its own model row alongside AI Overviews in the plan table and appears in the documented live-search group, so it is tracked separately from classic Gemini.Source ↗
Trade-offs against Limy
- −AI crawler analytics · PartlyCrawler log ingestion and Agent Analytics are real but gated: the Crawler Logs row is crossed out on the entry Essential plan and starts at 25M log lines on Professional.Source ↗
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Rankshift
Credit-metered AI visibility, citation and crawler tracking with unlimited projects and seats.
From €77/month (about $86)Why it's on this listGenerates content · YesAn AI content writer is listed as included on every self-serve plan, drafting new articles from the vendor's own analysis of LLM responses and citations.Source ↗
Where it improves on Limy
- +Google AI Overviews · YesGoogle AI Overviews is tracked as its own engine, listed separately from Gemini and AI Mode, and the credit calculator prices a run on it at two credits.Source ↗
- +Google AI Mode · YesGoogle AI Mode is named as a distinct tracked platform alongside AI Overviews, and the credit calculator offers it as a selectable engine at two credits per run.Source ↗
Trade-offs against Limy
- −Done-for-you service · NoThe 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.Source ↗
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Conductor
Enterprise AEO platform: AI visibility tracking, content generation, 24/7 site monitoring and API/MCP access.
Why it's on this listGenerates content · YesWriting Assistant drafts outlines and full content from a guided brief, and drafts are metered per plan at 60, 180 or custom per year.Source ↗
Where it improves on Limy
- +Technical 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.Source ↗
- +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.Source ↗
Trade-offs against Limy
- −AI crawler analytics · PartlyAI bot crawl reporting requires ingesting your server or CDN logs, and the plan table marks Log File Analysis merely Available on Essentials and Growth while only Enterprise has it included.Source ↗
- −Self-serve signup · PartlyOnly 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.Source ↗
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Rank Prompt
AI visibility platform that tracks brand mentions and citations across six answer engines, with content and audits.
From FreeWhy it's on this listGenerates content · YesContent Studio drafts full long-form articles in ten formats with schema and images, metered at ten credits each.Source ↗
Where it improves on Limy
- +Technical AEO · YesThe audit validates schema, checks robots.txt against named AI crawler agents, and a free generator builds the llms.txt file it looks for.Source ↗
- +Google AI Overviews · YesGoogle AI Mode and AI Overviews are treated as one tracked surface, included on every plan including the free one.Source ↗
Trade-offs against Limy
- −Microsoft Copilot · NoMicrosoft Copilot is absent from the vendor's complete six-engine inventory, which it states as the full set it tracks on every plan.Source ↗
- −AI crawler analytics · NoTraffic analytics classify AI referral sessions, not bot visits; the vendor states it does not read user agents, and the crawler work is a robots.txt directive check.Source ↗
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Trakkr
AI visibility tracking with citation, perception and crawler data, plus article generation and site fixes.
From $100/monthWhy it's on this listGenerates content · YesIt drafts full articles from the visibility backlog through a five-pass pipeline, metered in article credits: 25 a month on Growth and 100 on Scale, with paid top-ups.Source ↗
Where it improves on Limy
- +Technical AEO · YesAI Pages serves crawler-specific versions of pages via Cloudflare Workers, and the crawler Access tab reports robots.txt and llms.txt findings alongside schema recommendations.Source ↗
- +Google AI Overviews · YesGoogle AI Overviews counts as one of the eight included surfaces, so Google's answer panel is measured alongside the chat assistants on every paid plan.Source ↗
Trade-offs against Limy
- −Done-for-you service · NoAgencies are customers rather than clients of a service: they rebrand the software and run it themselves, and no done-for-you retainer is sold anywhere on the site.Source ↗
- −Microsoft Copilot · NoMicrosoft Copilot does not appear in the enumerated eight engines on any tier, and no plan row, FAQ or doc page offers it as an extra.Source ↗
What to watch for
- PromptwatchEssential plan is capped at 50 tracked prompts and 1 website, which is thin for brands with multiple product lines.
- ConductorConductor 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.
- Rank PromptReviewers describe a steep initial learning curve, with the dashboard and prompt-level mapping described as overwhelming at first.
- TrakkrPricing defaults to GBP display on the vendor page even though billing is in USD, which makes the headline numbers (Growth £79 (about $105), Scale £395 (about $523)) appear lower than the dollar values actually charged to non-UK cards once converted.
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