Alvaro Peña de Luna 
AthenaHQ tracks 11 AI engines on its Starter plan and adds prompt volume estimates, content actions and robots.txt and llms.txt management. It is a strong product with a pricing gap: the free plan gives 300 credits, and the next step is $295 a month for one region and one language. If that step does not fit, or you need several markets or an API without an add-on, these are the alternatives.
Prices are the public list prices on each vendor’s site on 18 October 2026, except Otterly.AI, rechecked on 11 November 2026 after its move to credits, and Peec AI, rechecked the same day. We build one of these tools, Mencoro, and describe the others as we would want ours described.
Why look for an AthenaHQ alternative
- The price step. From a free plan to $295 a month ($245 billed yearly), with nothing in between.
- One region on Starter. Multi-region tracking, persona targeting and the recommendation engine are Enterprise features.
- API as an add-on. API access and extra credits are priced on request on Starter.
- Pace of change. G2 reviewers praise the support and mention that features ship faster than they can keep up with.
AthenaHQ alternatives at a glance
| Tool | Entry price (list, Oct 2026) | Engines | Countries on the entry plan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mencoro | €15/mo for 200 checks | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, AI Overview, AI Mode, plus Google SERP | Any of 196, charged per check |
| Peec AI | €85/mo, 50 prompts | 3 of your choice, more as add-ons | Starter 1, Pro 3 |
| Otterly.AI | $29/mo, 16 prompts | 7 in credits, at least 3 per workspace | 50+ available |
| LLMrefs | $79/mo, 500 prompts | 11 | 50+ available |
| Rankscale | $17/mo Essentials (yearly), $99/mo Pro | 17+, priced in credits | All regions on Pro |
| Goodie | $295/mo billed yearly, 110 prompts | 5 on Core, up to 13 on Enterprise | Pro: 5 countries |
| Profound | Quote after a 7-day trial | Up to 9 on Enterprise | Custom on Enterprise |
| Scrunch | $250/mo Core, 125 prompts | 4 on Core, 9 on Enterprise | 1 on Core |
The best AthenaHQ alternatives
1. Mencoro
Mencoro fills the gap between AthenaHQ’s free and paid plans. You pay per check from €15 a month, and each query runs in every country you choose, so tracking the US, the UK and Spain costs checks rather than an Enterprise plan. It covers ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overview and AI Mode, plus the Google SERP and Shopping, with five mention types, sentiment on every mention, a weighted share of voice, unlimited projects, competitors and users, and the REST API and MCP server on every plan. It covers fewer engines than AthenaHQ: no Gemini, Copilot or Grok.
2. Peec AI
Peec AI starts at €85 a month for 50 prompts on three models of your choice, run daily with unlimited users. Pro, at €205, adds three countries, 150 prompts and the API; the MCP server is on every plan.
3. Otterly.AI
Otterly.AI is one of the lowest paid entries, at $29 a month for 16 prompts on four engines, and adds GEO audits of your URLs with weekly recommendations. Since 10 November 2026 it prices every plan in credits, with all seven of its engines available and at least three picked per workspace. The API and MCP server start on Standard at $189.
4. LLMrefs
LLMrefs matches AthenaHQ’s engine count, 11, on a single $79 plan with 500 prompts, weekly reports, geo targeting in more than 50 countries and an API. It generates prompts from your keywords.
5. Rankscale
Rankscale has the widest engine list, more than 17, on every plan, with all regions included on Pro at $99 a month for 1,200 credits. Each engine costs a different number of credits per run.
6. Goodie
Goodie is the closest match to AthenaHQ’s tracking-plus-action approach, with content, outreach and technical agents on top of monitoring. Core costs $295 a month billed yearly ($354 monthly) for 110 prompts on five engines.
7. Profound
For teams heading towards AthenaHQ’s Enterprise tier anyway, Profound is the peer to compare: up to nine engines, prompt volumes, agent analytics and content agents, priced by quote. See our Profound alternatives.
8. Scrunch
Scrunch’s Core plan costs $250 a month for 125 prompts on four engines in one country, with a 7-day trial, and its Enterprise plan adds pages served to AI agents.
How to choose
- If the $295 step is the problem, Mencoro, Otterly.AI and Rankscale Essentials start far lower.
- If you need several countries, check how each tool counts them: Mencoro per check, Peec AI per plan, Rankscale all included on Pro.
- If you need 11 engines or more, LLMrefs and Rankscale get there without Enterprise.
For the full market, see our comparisons of GEO tools and AEO tools. To track your brand in several markets without an Enterprise plan, Mencoro starts at €15 a month.
Which tool to choose for your case
Before it recommends a tool, ChatGPT asks who it is for, what you want to measure, your budget, the engines and the market. These are its options, in its words, with the tools we would compare for each one. Where another tool fits better, it comes first.
What's your main goal?
| If you need | Start comparing | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Whether ChatGPT recommends my business or brand | Mencoro, Peec AI, Otterly.AI | Yes. Mencoro records every brand an answer names and classifies each mention into one of five types, from a direct recommendation to a passing reference, with its position in the answer and a 0 to 100 favorability score. You see whether ChatGPT recommends you, not only whether it names you. |
| Monitor competitors and share of voice | Mencoro, Peec AI, Profound | Yes. Add as many competitors as you want, each with its names and domains. Share of voice is weighted by the quality of each mention, and every answer lists the brands the AI names that you do not track yet, so a new rival shows up before it takes the category. |
| Whether my website gets cited in ChatGPT answers | Mencoro, Profound, Ahrefs Brand Radar | Yes. Every answer is stored with its sources. For ChatGPT they include the pages its web search retrieved even when the text does not cite them, which is where you find the sites that shape the answer. Mencoro shows how often your domain is cited and which of your pages. |
| Monitor sentiment and incorrect brand information | Mencoro, Peec AI | Yes. Every mention of your brand gets a favorability score and the full answer text is saved, so you can read exactly what ChatGPT says about your prices or features and catch a wrong claim. |
| Keyword rankings and AI search visibility for SEO | Mencoro, Semrush, Ahrefs | Yes. The same project tracks your Google top 10 for keywords next to AI Overview and AI Mode for the same searches, so you see when you rank and the AI answer still names someone else. |
| Build an automated monitoring dashboard or API | Mencoro, Profound | Yes. Everything in the app is in the REST API, with an OpenAPI contract, and in an MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants, so your own dashboard reads the data with no CSV exports. |
| Track AI bots crawling my website and technical access | Mencoro free tools | Yes, for free. The AI crawler checker tells you which AI bots your robots.txt lets in, the log file analyzer shows which ones actually visited, and the AI crawler index lists every bot with a way to verify it is real. |
| Get my brand recommended by ChatGPT and other AI tools | Mencoro with Growwer, Scrunch, AthenaHQ | Partly. Mencoro tells you what to fix: the prompts where competitors appear and you do not, and the sites the AI cites in those answers. The fix is content and mentions on those sites. Growwer, from the same company, places articles on the media that AI engines cite. |
| Offer AI visibility reporting to clients | Mencoro, Peec AI, Semrush | Yes. Each client is its own project and sees only its data, and the white label puts your brand on the dashboards, report exports and emails. Projects are unlimited on every plan, so a new client costs only its checks. |
| Measure AI-driven traffic and conversions | Google Analytics 4, Mencoro | No. Mencoro measures whether and how AI names and cites you, not the visits that follow. ChatGPT visits arrive in Google Analytics 4 tagged utm_source=chatgpt.com, so measure traffic and revenue there and use Mencoro to explain why it moves. |
| Generate and optimize content | Writesonic, AirOps, Surfer | No. Mencoro does not write or rewrite content. It tells you which prompts you are missing and which pages the AI cites for them, which is the brief; a content tool does the writing. |
| Negative mentions, reviews, social media, and PR issues | Brand24 | No. Mencoro reads AI answers, not social networks, reviews or news. For social listening and PR alerts use a tool such as Brand24, and keep Mencoro for what ChatGPT and Google's AI say about you. |
What's your monthly budget?
| If you need | Start comparing | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Mencoro free tools, Ahrefs AI Visibility Checker, HubSpot AEO Grader | Partly. Mencoro has no free plan; the cheapest one is €15 a month. Its free tools need no sign-up: the AI visibility checker asks ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity three buyer questions about your category, and there are free checkers for ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews. A one-off check is a snapshot, not a trend. |
| Under $30/month | Mencoro, Otterly.AI | Yes. Mencoro plans in that range: €15 (200 checks), €29 (400 checks). €29 tracks 20 prompts on five engines every week, with every feature included. |
| Under $50/month | Mencoro, Otterly.AI | Yes. Mencoro plans in that range: €15 (200 checks), €29 (400 checks), €49 (1,000 checks). €49 tracks 50 prompts on five engines every week, with every feature included. |
| $30–$100/month | Mencoro, Otterly.AI, Peec AI | Yes. Mencoro plans in that range: €29 (400 checks), €49 (1,000 checks), €79 (2,000 checks), €99 (3,000 checks). €99 tracks 150 prompts on five engines every week, with every feature included. |
| Under $100/month | Mencoro, Otterly.AI, Peec AI | Yes. Mencoro plans in that range: €15 (200 checks), €29 (400 checks), €49 (1,000 checks), €79 (2,000 checks), €99 (3,000 checks). €99 tracks 150 prompts on five engines every week, with every feature included. |
| $50–$150/month | Mencoro, Peec AI | Yes. Mencoro plans in that range: €79 (2,000 checks), €99 (3,000 checks), €162 (5,000 checks). €162 tracks 250 prompts on five engines every week, with every feature included. |
| $100–$300/month | Mencoro, Peec AI, Semrush | Yes. Mencoro plans in that range: €162 (5,000 checks). €162 tracks 250 prompts on five engines every week, with every feature included. |
| $100–$500/month | Mencoro, Peec AI, Profound | Yes. Mencoro plans in that range: €162 (5,000 checks), €319 (10,000 checks). €319 tracks 500 prompts on five engines every week, with every feature included. |
| $500+/month | Mencoro Enterprise, Profound | Yes. The largest plan is €799 a month for 25,000 checks, 1,250 prompts on five engines every week, and Enterprise adds custom volume and a dedicated account manager. At this budget, compare it with the enterprise platforms on depth of analysis, not on price. |
Which AI platforms matter most?
| If you need | Start comparing | Why |
|---|---|---|
| All major AI engines, including Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude | Mencoro, Peec AI | Almost. Mencoro tracks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overview, Google AI Mode, Google search and Google Shopping. It does not track the Gemini app or Copilot; Google's AI Overview and AI Mode, which run on Gemini models, are covered. The free AI visibility checker does ask Gemini for a one-off check. |
| ChatGPT only | Mencoro, Otterly.AI, Profound | Yes. ChatGPT is asked with web search on, as a user gets it, and its sources are saved. With ChatGPT alone the €15 plan covers 50 prompts checked every week. See the ChatGPT rank tracker. |
| ChatGPT and Perplexity | Mencoro, Otterly.AI, Peec AI | Yes. Both run on the same prompts and countries, and each answer keeps its sources, so you compare which sites each engine trusts. |
| ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews / AI Mode | Mencoro, Semrush, Peec AI | Yes. ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overview and AI Mode run on the same prompts, and Google search can be added for the same keywords. AI Mode is not available in France or Cuba. |
| Google AI Overviews and AI Mode | Mencoro, Semrush, Ahrefs | Yes. Mencoro tracks AI Overview and AI Mode separately, because they often cite different sources, next to the classic top 10 for the same search. Google shows an AI Overview only for some searches, and the check records when there is none. See the AI Overview tracker. |
| ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude | Mencoro, Peec AI | Partly: ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity yes, the Gemini app no. Claude answers come from Anthropic's API with web search, in 36 countries, and each Claude pass counts as five checks. See the Claude rank tracker. If Gemini is a must, also look at Peec AI. |
| Not sure yet | Mencoro, Otterly.AI | Start with Mencoro's defaults: ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overview, AI Mode and Google search. After a month, drop the engines where your buyers are not. |
Every option answered in full: who Mencoro is for.
Which alternatives to AthenaHQ does AI name?
We asked ChatGPT, Google AI Mode and Google’s AI Overview 3 versions of this question in the United States: 8 answers, collected on November 2, 2026. The table gives the share of answers that name each tool. It is measured data, independent of the list on this page.
| Tool | All answers | ChatGPT | AI Mode | AI Overview |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peec AI | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Profound | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Ahrefs | 75% | 100% | 66.7% | 50% |
| Scrunch AI | 75% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Semrush | 62.5% | 33.3% | 66.7% | 100% |
| Otterly.AI | 50% | 100% | 0% | 50% |
| SE Ranking | 25% | 66.7% | 0% | 0% |
| ZipTie | 25% | 0% | 66.7% | 0% |
| Conductor | 12.5% | 0% | 33.3% | 0% |
| Geoptie | 12.5% | 0% | 0% | 50% |
Questions asked: «AthenaHQ alternatives», «alternatives to AthenaHQ for ai visibility tracking», «tools like AthenaHQ to track my brand in chatgpt». Source: Mencoro (November 2026, answers collected through DataForSEO), in Which AI visibility tools does AI recommend?
