# OtterlyAI — AI search visibility monitoring across seven engines, with citation tracking and GEO content audits. > Source: CitedIndex — https://citedindex.com/otterly-ai (structured, researched, re-verified) > Facts last verified: 2026-09-29 OtterlyAI is an AI search monitoring platform that runs a library of search prompts against AI answer engines and records where a brand is mentioned and which URLs are cited. It pairs that tracking with crawlability checks, content audits and prioritised GEO recommendations. | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Website | https://otterly.ai | | Price | from $29/month billed monthly, $25/month billed annually | | Free trial | Partly | Free trial only, no standing $0 plan. The FAQ states a 7-day trial with no credit card needed; a site-wide sign-up modal advertises a 14-day trial, also without a card. ## What it does **Monitors AI answers** · Yes — Its core job is running a library of prompts against AI search engines daily and recording where the brand is mentioned and cited. > Monitor how your brand & website appears (or disappears) across every major AI search engine. No more blind spots. > — https://otterly.ai/ · Platform section, 'AI Search Analytics' card **Optimises your content** · Yes — It audits pages you already have for AI readiness and structured data and returns specific fixes rather than only a score. > Run a Content Audit and understand how to improve any web page and its content. The Content Audit looks at various structured data and AI readiness factors and gives you specific improvements. > — https://otterly.ai/features · Feature grid, 'Content Audit' card **Generates content** · Partly — It produces content briefs telling you what to write, but the vendor describes no drafting of finished article copy inside the paid platform. > Crawlability checks, Content Audit & Prediction, and Content Briefs that turn invisible pages into AI sources. > — https://otterly.ai/ · Platform section, 'Content Audit' card **Publishes to your site** · No — No CMS or publishing integration appears anywhere in the feature inventory; output leaves the tool as CSV exports and Looker dashboards only. > Analyze and export all prompt and citation data. With .CSV exports you can create custom reports for your key stakeholders or process the data further. > — https://otterly.ai/features · Feature grid, 'Detailed Reports & Exports' card **Technical AEO** · Partly — It audits robots.txt and bot access and scores AI readiness, so it diagnoses technical AEO problems, but the vendor does not claim it writes schema or llms.txt for you. > Is your website even accessible and crawlable by AI bots and crawlers? With the Crawlability Checker you can audit any website - be it your own, those of your clients or competitors. > — https://otterly.ai/features · Feature grid, 'Crawlability Checker' card **Done-for-you service** · Partly — People-delivered work exists only as onboarding and a quarterly GEO health check on the custom-quoted Enterprise plan; self-serve tiers are software alone. > Quarterly GEO Health Check > — https://otterly.ai/pricing/ · Enterprise plan card, 'Everything in Premium, plus:' list ## Answer engines **ChatGPT** · Yes — ChatGPT is one of the four engines included in the base tracking on every paid tier, including the cheapest Lite plan. > Tracking of 4 AI Search Engines: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, MS Copilot > — https://otterly.ai/pricing/ · Lite plan card, engine coverage line **Perplexity** · Yes — Perplexity is one of the four engines included in the base tracking on every paid tier, including the cheapest Lite plan. > Tracking of 4 AI Search Engines: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, MS Copilot > — https://otterly.ai/pricing/ · Lite plan card, engine coverage line **Gemini** · Partly — Gemini is real and supported but is sold as a paid extra on top of every published plan, not included in the four base engines. > Claude, Google AI-Mode, Gemini as extra Add-ons > — https://otterly.ai/pricing/ · Plan cards (Lite, Standard, Premium), add-on engine line **Google AI Overviews** · Yes — Google AI Overviews is part of the four base engines tracked on every paid tier with no add-on needed. > Tracking of 4 AI Search Engines: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, MS Copilot > — https://otterly.ai/pricing/ · Lite plan card, engine coverage line **Google AI Mode** · Partly — Google AI Mode is real and supported but is sold as a paid extra on top of every published plan, not included in the four base engines. > Claude, Google AI-Mode, Gemini as extra Add-ons > — https://otterly.ai/pricing/ · Plan cards (Lite, Standard, Premium), add-on engine line **Claude** · Partly — Claude is real and supported but is sold as a paid extra on top of every published plan, not included in the four base engines. > Claude, Google AI-Mode, Gemini as extra Add-ons > — https://otterly.ai/pricing/ · Plan cards (Lite, Standard, Premium), add-on engine line **Microsoft Copilot** · Yes — Microsoft Copilot is in the base engine set on all three self-serve plans rather than behind the add-on paywall. > Tracking of 4 AI Search Engines: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, MS Copilot > — https://otterly.ai/pricing/ · Lite plan card, engine coverage line **Grok** · No — Grok is absent from the API's closed engine enumeration, which lists all seven engines the platform can query on any tier. > enum: - chatgpt - google - perplexity - copilot - google_ai_mode - gemini - claude > — https://docs.otterly.ai/api-reference/engines/list-ai-engines-and-supported-countries · OpenAPI spec, GET /v1/engines, 'engine' query parameter enum **DeepSeek** · No — DeepSeek is absent from the API's closed engine enumeration, which lists all seven engines the platform can query on any tier. > enum: - chatgpt - google - perplexity - copilot - google_ai_mode - gemini - claude > — https://docs.otterly.ai/api-reference/engines/list-ai-engines-and-supported-countries · OpenAPI spec, GET /v1/engines, 'engine' query parameter enum **Meta AI** · No — Meta AI is absent from the API's closed engine enumeration, which lists all seven engines the platform can query on any tier. > enum: - chatgpt - google - perplexity - copilot - google_ai_mode - gemini - claude > — https://docs.otterly.ai/api-reference/engines/list-ai-engines-and-supported-countries · OpenAPI spec, GET /v1/engines, 'engine' query parameter enum **Coverage in the vendor’s words** · Partly — Seven engines total, but only four come with the plan: Claude, Gemini and AI Mode are priced as add-ons on every self-serve tier. > Tracks all 7 major AI search engines. ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, and Claude. > — https://otterly.ai/features · 'What OtterlyAI does' section, 'Great AI Engine Coverage' card ## What it reports **Names the cited sources** · Yes — It records every domain and URL cited in AI answers, checks them daily and tracks link-position movement over time. > Every domain and URL cited in AI answers, checked daily, with link-position changes over time. Plus: Brand Mention & Visibility tracking. > — https://otterly.ai/features · 'What OtterlyAI does' section, 'Citation & Brand Tracking' card **Competitor tracking** · Yes — Competitors sit in the same Brand Report as your own brand, benchmarked on mentions, coverage and domain citations. > Automatically benchmark your brand with Brand Report. Keep track of key KPIs - such as brand mentions, brand coverage or domain citations. See who performs best: You or your competitors. > — https://otterly.ai/features · Feature grid, 'Competitive Benchmarking' card **Brand sentiment** · Yes — A sentiment analysis grades how the engines speak about the brand, and sentiment is returned per prompt and per brand rank through the API. > Are you recommended enthusiastically, mentioned with caveats, or dismissed outright? Find out with the brand sentiment analysis by OtterlyAI. > — https://otterly.ai/features · Feature grid, 'Brand Sentiment Analysis' card **Recommendations** · Yes — Recommendations read your own report data and return prioritised next actions, so it prescribes rather than only reporting. > Recommendations analyzes your brand report data - your cited websites, successful competitors, mentioned brands - and gives you specific, actionable suggestions for what to do next. > — https://otterly.ai/features · Feature grid, 'Recommendations' card **AI crawler analytics** · Partly — Agent Analytics reports which AI bots hit your pages, but it needs a log connector and starts from the Standard plan, not Lite. > No logs connector is set up for this report. Metrics are **`null`, not zero** — nothing is being measured. Connect a log source in the app first. > — https://docs.otterly.ai/mcp-server · Agent analytics section, 'availability' table, not_connected row ## Plans and signing up **Prompt or credit allowance** · Yes — Prompts are the metering unit and every tier names a figure: 15 on Lite, 100 on Standard, 400 on Premium, from 1,000 on Enterprise. > Our Lite Plan starts at $29/month and comes with 15 search prompts. The Standard Plan includes 100 search prompts at $189/month and the Premium plan comes with 400 search prompts at $489/month. > — https://otterly.ai/pricing/ · Page meta description, echoed by the three plan cards **Projects or brands** · Partly — Brand reports are unlimited on every tier, but the workspace container that separates clients is capped at one on Lite and unlimited above it. > 1 Workspace > — https://otterly.ai/pricing/ · 'Lite Includes:' feature list **Countries** · Yes — Markets other than your own are a headline capability, with per-market reporting rather than one blended global score. > Monitors 65+ countries and languages > — https://otterly.ai/features · 'What OtterlyAI does' section, 'Optimization per Market' card **How often it checks** · Yes — Daily is the stated frequency on every self-serve plan including the cheapest, and citations are re-checked on the same daily cycle. > Daily tracking frequency > — https://otterly.ai/pricing/ · Lite plan card, feature list **Card required to start** · No — The vendor states twice that the trial needs no card, in the FAQ and on the sign-up prompt that appears across the site. > Yes, OtterlyAI provides a 7-day free trial for new users. This allows you to explore our platform and its features without any commitment. No credit card needed. > — https://otterly.ai/ · FAQ, 'Is there a free OtterlyAI trial?' **Self-serve signup** · Yes — Lite, Standard and Premium all carry a direct sign-up link and a published rate; only Enterprise routes through sales. > Pick your plan. Start tracking AI search visibility today. > — https://otterly.ai/pricing/ · Page header above the plan cards ## Access and integrations **API** · Partly — A documented REST API with API-key auth exists, but it starts on the Standard plan and is capped at 2,000 requests a month there. > 2,000 API Requests per month > — https://otterly.ai/pricing/ · 'Standard Includes:' feature list **MCP server** · Partly — A hosted OAuth-authenticated MCP server exposes reports, citations and audits as tools, but it is absent from Lite and metered on the tiers that have it. > The OtterlyAI MCP server exposes your brand reports, prompts, citations, recommendations, and audit checks as MCP tools so your assistant can answer questions about your AI search visibility directly. > — https://docs.otterly.ai/mcp-server · Introduction paragraph **BI export** · Partly — A Looker Studio connector feeds dashboards directly, plus CSV export, but the connector appears only from the Standard plan upward. > The OtterlyAI Looker Studio connector lets you pull your AI search visibility data directly into Google Looker Studio. Build custom dashboards, and create automated reports. > — https://otterly.ai/features · Feature grid, 'Google Looker Studio Connector' card ## Coverage elsewhere | Source | Kind | Read | | --- | --- | --- | | en.wikipedia.org | Repository | 2026-08-23 | ## CitedIndex in AI answers 0 of 4 answers cite CitedIndex. | Engine | Result | Question | Asked on | Other sources | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ChatGPT | Does not cite CitedIndex | OtterlyAI alternatives | 2026-10-12 | feedthebot.org, rankability.com, llmpulse.ai, saffronedge.com, getlatka.com, xseek.io | | Claude | Does not cite CitedIndex | OtterlyAI alternatives | 2026-09-04 | g2.com, rankshift.ai, ziptie.dev, llmpulse.ai, layer3labs.io | | Gemini | Does not cite CitedIndex | OtterlyAI alternatives | 2026-09-04 | lindy.ai, read.ai, metaview.ai, fellow.ai, voicedash.ai, zapier.com | | Perplexity | Does not cite CitedIndex | OtterlyAI alternatives | 2026-10-12 | otterly.ai, g2.com, crowdreply.io, aichief.com, rankability.com, dageno.ai | ## What changed - 2026-09-29 — Capabilities · Free tier - 2026-09-02 — Capabilities · Free tier - 2026-09-01 — Capabilities · Free tier - 2026-08-31 — Capabilities · Free tier · Price - 2026-08-22 — Alternatives · Summary · Tagline - 2026-07-11 — Summary · Tagline ## Corrections If you represent OtterlyAI, or anything here is wrong or out of date, send a correction with a source. 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