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Cognizo
AEO platform tracking brand visibility in AI answers, with content generation and auto-publishing.
From $499/monthWhy it's on this listOptimises your content · YesAudits existing pages for crawlability, schema and internal-linking gaps and issues prioritised fixes, included on every published plan.Evidence ↗
Where it improves on Writesonic
- +Technical AEO · YesGenerates llms.txt, schema markup and FAQ blocks and flags crawlability problems as part of the technical audit toolbox.Evidence ↗
- +Perplexity · YesPerplexity is listed among the selectable platforms for Growth and Pro and is included on Enterprise.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against Writesonic
- −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 - 02
AthenaHQ
AEO/GEO platform tracking brand visibility across 11 AI models, with content and technical actions.
From FreeWhy it's on this listOptimises your content · YesAudits existing pages, explains what is wrong and how to fix it, and drafts in-place replacements for titles, summaries and structured data.Evidence ↗
Where it improves on Writesonic
- +Technical AEO · YesManages robots.txt and llms.txt for AI crawlers and audits schema, sitemap and indexing access; available on both paid tiers.Evidence ↗
- +Perplexity · YesListed in the model set of the free Essential plan, so it is available without paying and on both paid tiers above it.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against Writesonic
- −AI crawler analytics · PartialYou see whether each AI crawler is allowed or blocked, tested live, but this is access verification rather than a log of actual bot visits.Evidence ↗
- −API · PartialA documented REST API exists and is included on Enterprise, but on the entry paid plan it is a separately billed add-on with unpublished pricing.Evidence ↗
31/32 researched criteria · 1 not established - 03
Promptwatch
AI search visibility tracking with crawler logs and content agents that publish to your CMS.
From $95/monthWhy it's on this listOptimises your content · YesContent gap analysis maps existing pages against tracked AI answers and the refresh flow returns diff-style edit suggestions for pages you already have; Content Gap Analysis is ticked on the entry Essential plan.Evidence ↗
Where it improves on Writesonic
- +Technical 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 ↗
- +Perplexity · YesPerplexity appears as a supported AI model in the plan comparison table with a tick on Essential, Professional and Business, and is grouped with the live-search platforms that return citations.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against Writesonic
- −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 ↗
- −AI crawler analytics · PartialCrawler 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.Evidence ↗
30/32 researched criteria · 2 not established - 04
Searchable
AI visibility monitoring, site audits and content generation for answer engine optimisation.
From $125/monthWhy it's on this listOptimises your content · YesAudits existing pages and scores them for AI readiness with grouped fixes.Evidence ↗
Where it improves on Writesonic
- +Technical AEO · YesAudits schema, crawlability and AI-readability of pages.Evidence ↗
- +Perplexity · YesOne of the three engines the pricing page presents as standard coverage.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against Writesonic
- −Publishes to your site · PartialVendor states direct exports to CMSes but describes it as export, not scheduled publishing.Evidence ↗
- −Done-for-you service · NoSelf-serve software; agency features are tooling the customer's own team operates, not delivery by Searchable.Evidence ↗
- −Meta AI · NoAbsent from every engine list the vendor publishes, including the nine-engine plan comparison row.Evidence ↗
32/32 researched criteria - 05
Dageno
AI answer monitoring and market intelligence across seven AI platforms, with citation and competitor evidence.
From FreeWhy it's on this listOptimises your content · YesContent Actions turns measured visibility and citation gaps into prioritised content tasks and briefs for existing pages, and a free single-page audit flags title, structure and readability issues on any URL you paste.Evidence ↗
Where it improves on Writesonic
- +Technical AEO · YesFree public tools generate an llms.txt draft, audit a single page for AI crawl and parse readiness, and preview platform fit; the managed service additionally covers crawling, indexing and structured data checks.Evidence ↗
- +Done-for-you service · YesA separate managed GEO/AEO service puts Dageno staff on diagnosis, content and source work as a delivered project, and a partner programme adds agency white-label and referral arrangements.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against Writesonic
- −Publishes to your site · NoDageno states its own data connections change nothing on your site, and no CMS connector is documented anywhere; only the human managed-service team publishes, and then to Reddit, media and directories rather than your CMS.Evidence ↗
- −Meta AI · NoMeta AI appears nowhere on Dageno's site: not in the seven platforms the pricing page says standard plans include, and not among the ten entries in its model directory, so no plan covers it today.Evidence ↗
- −AI crawler analytics · PartialBotSight is a named Visibility capability for reviewing connected crawl logs, user agents, page paths, visit records and status codes, but Dageno publishes it only as an analysis structure explicitly marked as not customer data and lists it in no plan row.Evidence ↗
32/32 researched criteria - 06
Gauge
AI visibility tracking with an agent and content engine that writes and publishes the fixes.
From $599/monthWhy it's on this listOptimises your content · YesExisting pages are scored against a nine-criteria health score and the Action Center raises structural fixes on the ones scoring poorly.Evidence ↗
Where it improves on Writesonic
- +Perplexity · YesPerplexity is one of the six core platforms on Growth and the vendor treats it as its strongest citation signal.Evidence ↗
- +Google AI Mode · YesGoogle AI Mode is tracked separately from AI Overviews and is named in the six core platforms on Growth.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against Writesonic
- −DeepSeek · NoThe documentation page that enumerates the engines Gauge monitors lists eight and DeepSeek is not among them, on any plan.Evidence ↗
- −Meta AI · NoMeta AI appears in neither the per-engine documentation inventory nor the plan comparison table, so it is not a tracked answer engine.Evidence ↗
- −AI crawler analytics · PartialAI bot and coding-agent hits are reported per page, but only after you connect your own Cloudflare, Vercel or forwarded server logs.Evidence ↗
32/32 researched criteria
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