AI search tracking became its own software category in 2025, and the pricing pages have not settled yet. Four platforms in this directory exist only to answer one question — does an AI assistant mention your brand, and which sources does it cite? — while the large SEO suites now fold a lighter version of the same report into plans they already sell. That split matters more than any feature checklist: if you already pay for Ahrefs or Semrush, check what their AI visibility module covers before adding a fourth subscription. We read the official pricing page of every tool on this list on 2026-11-02 and compared four things: how usage is metered, what an agency actually gets per seat, whether you can keep the data in-house, and whether citations are tied to revenue. Metering is where these products differ most. Rank Prompt, AmICited and Elmo sell credits or prompt-model pairings rather than seats, so a month with more tracked prompts costs more than a quiet one, and the sticker price is a floor rather than a bill. Sight AI prices a base plan and then charges per extra site and per extra seat. Anyone budgeting this category should model the volume they intend to track before comparing headline numbers — a $29 plan that answers twenty prompt-model pairs a day is not cheaper than a $99 plan with a larger allowance if you intend to track several brands. Agency workflow is the second divide. Rank Prompt publishes brand and seat limits up to 1,000 brands and 25 seats, and can run on your own domain with client logins; AmICited and Sight AI both sell to teams that manage clients but publish fewer seat details. Data control is the third. Elmo is MIT-licensed and self-hostable, which is the only option here that keeps every prompt and answer on your own infrastructure — at the cost of supplying model keys and running the deployment.
Revenue attribution is the fourth, and only AmICited closes that loop: it pulls orders, subscriptions and ad spend from Shopify, Stripe, GA4 and ad accounts, so a citation can be checked against a sale instead of standing alone as a vanity metric. None of the four tools on this page were hands-on tested by us; every limit quoted below comes from the vendor's own pricing page on the date stamped on each card.
All figures verbatim from each tool's verified pricing page. A dash in the price columns means the vendor publishes no such figure (a free-only tool has no entry price); a dash in Score means the tool has not been rated yet.
| # | Tool | Why it's here | Score | Free | Paid from | Trial | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rank Prompt | Best for agencies | 4.3 | Yes | $49/mo (Starter, monthly billing) | — | 2026-11-02 |
| 2 | AmICited | Best for tying citations to revenue | 4.2 | No | €50/mo (Starter) | 7-day free trial (1 domain, 3 prompts, 3 competitors; card required) | 2026-11-02 |
| 3 | Sight AI | Best all-in-one (tracking + publishing) | 4.0 | No | $99/mo (Starter) | 7-day free trial (1,500 AI credits) | 2026-11-02 |
| 4 | Elmo | Best value and the only self-hosted option | 3.9 | Yes | $29/mo (Cloud Starter) | — | 2026-11-02 |
The most transparent plan ladder in the class: 150 to 2,000 credits and 10 to 1,000 brands across four tiers, 25 seats at the top, all six engines on every plan, and Agency Plus runs the whole app on your own domain with client logins. $49/mo monthly or $39/mo equivalent on annual billing, plus a permanent free tier that runs one full report without a card.
Free tier: Yes
Paid from: $49/mo (Starter, monthly billing) (Credits metered monthly: 150 / 500 / 1,000 / 2,000 per plan; brands 10 / 100 / 500 / 1,000; team seats 1 / 2 / 10 / 25. Every tier tracks all six engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Claude, Gemini, Grok). A permanent free tier gives 10 credits for one full visibility report without a card. Checked 2026-11-02.)
Rank Prompt tracks how a brand is mentioned and cited across six AI engines, with agency-shaped plans: 10 to 1,000 brands per account, white-label share links, and the whole app runnable on your own domain.
The only tool here that reads your orders: Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, Stripe, GA4 and ad-account connectors let a citation be matched to actual revenue rather than impressions. Entry is €50/mo and every plan bills by credits (€15 per 1,000 AI answers), with a 7-day trial that requires a card.
Free tier: No — trial only · 7-day free trial (1 domain, 3 prompts, 3 competitors; card required)
Paid from: €50/mo (Starter) (Every plan runs on credits: one AI answer costs 0.015 credits, i.e. €15 per 1,000 answers, so a quiet month bills less than a busy one. Prices exclude VAT. Engines tracked: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Copilot, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek. Site ships 16 UI languages. Checked 2026-11-02.)
AmICited measures how AI engines mention and cite a brand, then ties those citations to orders and revenue from Shopify, Stripe, GA4 and ad accounts — the only tool in this class that closes the AI-citation-to-revenue loop.
Sight AI pairs the citation monitor with content-gap analysis, article generation, publishing and an MCP server, so the account's SEO data is queryable from Claude or ChatGPT. Entry is $99/mo with a 7-day trial; extra sites are $59/mo and extra seats $29/mo.
Free tier: No — trial only · 7-day free trial (1,500 AI credits)
Paid from: $99/mo (Starter) (Extra sites $59/mo each, extra seats $29/mo each, overage covered by credit top-up packs. Tracks brand citations in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Mode, then generates and publishes articles aimed at both classic and AI search. Checked 2026-11-02.)
Sight AI bundles AI visibility tracking with content gaps, article generation and one-click publishing — the SEO workflow plus an AI-answer monitor — and ships an MCP server so Claude or ChatGPT can query the account's SEO data.
Elmo is MIT-licensed: the cloud starts at $29/mo, and self-hosting costs nothing beyond your own model keys. Annual cloud plans ($290 to $6,490/yr) include two months free, and metering is by prompt-model pairing at $5/mo for each extra pairing.
Free tier: Yes
Paid from: $29/mo (Cloud Starter) (Cloud plans are metered by prompt/model pairings — each pairing is answered daily and extra pairings cost $5/mo beyond the included count. Self-hosting is free under MIT but you supply the model API keys; white-label deployments are quoted separately. Checked 2026-11-02.)
Elmo is the open-source (MIT) AEO/GEO tracker: run the cloud from $29/mo or self-host it free with your own model keys, and watch brand mentions, citations, sentiment and competitor share across AI answers.
Bottom line: Pick by how you will be billed, not by feature lists — the four tools track roughly the same engines and answer the same question. Agencies managing many brands get the widest seat and brand ladder from Rank Prompt; teams that need to prove a citation produced revenue should start with AmICited; teams that want the monitoring and the publishing in one place are the reason Sight AI's $99 entry exists; and anyone who cannot send prompts to a vendor's cloud should self-host Elmo despite the setup work. If you already pay for Ahrefs or Semrush, verify what their AI visibility module already covers before adding a fifth bill.
Software that asks AI assistants and AI answer surfaces — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Claude, Copilot and similar — a fixed set of prompts every day, then records whether your brand was mentioned, which sources were cited and how competitors compare.
Three of the four meter usage. Rank Prompt and AmICited sell credits (AmICited charges €15 per 1,000 AI answers on every plan), Elmo sells prompt-model pairings at $5/mo per extra pairing, and Sight AI charges a base plan plus $59/mo per extra site and $29/mo per extra seat.
Rank Prompt's free tier runs one full visibility report with 10 credits and no card required. Elmo can be self-hosted free under the MIT licence if you supply model keys. AmICited and Sight AI both start with a 7-day trial instead; AmICited's trial requires a card.
Usually yes. These four track AI answers and citations; keyword research, backlink data, site audits and rank tracking for classic search still come from a suite such as Ahrefs or Semrush, which now also ship lighter AI visibility reporting inside their existing plans.
Rank Prompt and Sight AI publish six-engine coverage (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode/AI Overviews, Claude, Gemini, Grok). AmICited lists nine including Copilot and DeepSeek. Elmo tracks prompts across the major assistants and includes sentiment and competitor share.
Only Elmo offers that: it is MIT-licensed and self-hostable, so prompts, answers and citations stay on infrastructure you operate. The other three are hosted SaaS and send prompts to the vendor's cloud.