Alvaro Peña de Luna 
Otterly.AI is one of the earliest AI search monitoring tools and still one of the cheapest paid entries, at $29 a month. On 10 November 2026 it moved every plan to credits: all seven of its engines are now available on every plan, including Google AI Mode, Gemini and Claude, which used to be add-ons. Teams look for an Otterly.AI alternative for other reasons now: Lite covers 16 prompts on four engines, every prompt runs daily until Premium, and the API and MCP server start at $189. This guide compares the alternatives on those points.
Prices are the public list prices on each vendor’s site on 11 November 2026. We build one of these tools, Mencoro, and describe the others as we would want ours described.
Otterly.AI pricing since 10 November 2026
| Plan | Price (list, Nov 2026) | Credits a month | Daily prompts on 4 engines (on 3) | API and MCP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lite | $29/mo | 2,000 | 16 (20) | No |
| Standard | $189/mo | 15,000 | 120 (160) | 2,000 requests each |
| Premium | $489/mo | 50,000 | 400 (535) | 5,000 requests each |
| Enterprise | On request | Custom | From 1,000 | Custom |
One credit is one prompt checked once on one engine, and a Claude check costs three. Each workspace picks at least three of the seven engines: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Claude. Fewer engines leave more prompts, and Claude leaves fewer. Lite has one workspace and no credit top-ups, yearly billing saves 15%, and there is a 7-day free trial. Existing customers keep their plan and price and move to credits by the end of November.
Why look for an Otterly.AI alternative
- 16 prompts on Lite, tracked daily on four engines, and the next plan is $189 for 120.
- Daily only below Premium. Lite and Standard check every prompt every day. Weekly tracking, which stretches the credits, starts on Premium at $489.
- API and MCP from Standard. Lite has no API, MCP server, agent analytics or Looker Studio connector.
- Learning curve and design. G2’s summary of reviews mentions a learning curve adapting to the metrics and a cluttered design.
Otterly.AI alternatives at a glance
| Tool | Entry price (list, Nov 2026) | Engines included | API on entry plan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mencoro | €15/mo for 200 checks | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, AI Overview, AI Mode, plus Google SERP | Yes, plus MCP |
| Peec AI | €85/mo, 50 prompts | 3 of your choice, more as add-ons | From Pro (€205) |
| LLMrefs | $79/mo, 500 prompts | All it supports, Perplexity and Claude included | Yes |
| SE Visible | €80/mo, 75 prompts | ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Copilot | Yes, plus MCP |
| Rankscale | $17/mo Essentials (yearly), $99/mo Pro | 17+, priced in credits | From Pro+ ($229) |
| Keyword.com | $9.80/mo for 100 credits | 5 platforms, more models by API | Yes, plus MCP |
| AthenaHQ | Free plan, Starter $295/mo | 5 free, 11 on Starter | Paid add-on |
| HubSpot AEO | $50/mo ($45 yearly), 25 prompts | ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity | Not stated |
The best Otterly.AI alternatives
1. Mencoro
Mencoro starts lower than Otterly’s Lite, at €15 a month, and includes the API and an MCP server on every plan, with unlimited projects, competitors and users. You pay per check, one query on one engine in one country per run, and choose a daily, weekly or monthly refresh, so 50 prompts on one engine checked weekly fit in the €15 plan. It tracks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overview and AI Mode, plus the Google SERP and Shopping, and classifies every mention into five types with a sentiment score. A Claude pass uses five checks and the other engines one. It does not track Copilot or Gemini.
2. Peec AI
Peec AI starts at €85 a month for 50 prompts on three models of your choice, with unlimited users, strong source analytics and the MCP server on every plan. Extra models cost €25 to €115 a month each, and the API starts on Pro (€205).
3. LLMrefs
LLMrefs has a single $79 plan with 500 prompts on every engine it supports, including Perplexity, Claude, Grok and Meta AI, plus an API and unlimited projects and seats. You enter keywords and it generates the prompts; reports are weekly rather than daily.
4. SE Visible
SE Visible, from SE Ranking, starts at €80 a month for 75 prompts and five projects (20% less billed yearly). Core gives 200 prompts and ten projects for €169, and Agency 1,000 prompts and 30 projects for €355. The engines are ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini and Copilot; Perplexity is not on the list, and Claude comes only with Agency. Every plan has daily tracking, the API, an MCP server and a 10-day trial.
5. Rankscale
Rankscale covers more than 17 engines on every plan, each run costing credits by engine. Essentials costs $17 a month billed yearly and Pro $99 a month for 1,200 credits, both with an MCP server; the REST API starts on Pro+ ($229).
6. Keyword.com
Keyword.com sells AI visibility in credits from $9.80 a month for 100 credits and a combined Google and AI plan from $33, with the API and an MCP server on every plan. The plans cover ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Mode, AI Overview and Gemini, and other models such as Claude are added through their APIs.
7. AthenaHQ
AthenaHQ has a free plan with 300 credits on five engines, and Starter, at $295 a month for 3,600 credits, covers 11 engines with content actions and prompt volumes. The API is a paid add-on.
8. HubSpot AEO
HubSpot AEO costs $50 a month ($45 billed yearly) for 25 prompts run daily on ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity for one brand, with sentiment, citation analysis and prioritized recommendations, and needs no other HubSpot plan. A premium engines beta adds Claude, AI Mode and AI Overviews.
How to choose
- If you want a lower entry price, Keyword.com ($9.80), Mencoro (€15) and Rankscale Essentials ($17 billed yearly) start below Otterly’s Lite.
- If you need an API below $189, Mencoro, LLMrefs, SE Visible and Keyword.com include one on their entry plan.
- If weekly checks are enough, Mencoro lets you pick the refresh on every plan and LLMrefs reports weekly; Otterly.AI offers weekly tracking from Premium.
- If you need Copilot and Gemini, Otterly.AI and SE Visible include both on every plan. Mencoro tracks neither.
For a wider view, see our comparisons of LLM rank trackers and AI visibility tools. To track AI Mode, ChatGPT and Google in one plan with the API included, 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.
Who is it for?
| If you need | Start comparing | Why |
|---|---|---|
| My own business or marketing team | Mencoro, Otterly.AI, Peec AI | Yes. A Mencoro project is one brand: its names, its domains and as many competitors as you want. You write the prompts your customers ask and Mencoro checks them on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overview, Google AI Mode and Google search. The entry plan, €15 a month, covers 10 prompts on five engines checked every week. |
| SEO agency managing clients | Mencoro, Peec AI, Semrush | Yes, it is the case Mencoro is built for. Every plan includes unlimited projects, unlimited competitors and multi-user access, so an agency keeps every client in one account and pays only for the checks it runs. Clients get white label reports, and the team can pull the data through the REST API or ask for it in Claude or ChatGPT through the MCP server. See Mencoro for agencies. |
| Freelancer or consultant | Mencoro, Otterly.AI | Yes. A consultant starts at €15 a month, opens one project per client at no extra cost and moves up a plan only when the prompt volume grows. The MCP server lets you query each client's data from Claude or ChatGPT while you write the report. |
| SaaS / technology | Mencoro, Peec AI, Profound | Yes. SaaS buyers ask AI for the best software in a category, for alternatives to a competitor and for one tool against another, and those are the prompts to track. Mencoro shows where you appear in each answer, which competitors are named instead of you (including the ones you do not track yet) and which pages the AI cites. |
| E-commerce | Mencoro, Profound, Semrush | Yes. Besides ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI answers, Mencoro tracks Google Shopping listings by seller in the same project, so a store sees its products and its brand side by side. See Mencoro for ecommerce. |
| Affiliate or content site | Mencoro, Ahrefs Brand Radar | Yes. An affiliate or media site wants to be the source the AI cites. Mencoro stores the sources of every answer, including the pages ChatGPT's search retrieved but did not quote, and shows how often your domain is among them. |
| Personal brand / creator | Mencoro, Otterly.AI | Yes. A person is tracked like any brand: your name and its spellings, your website and the people you compete with for the same questions. |
| Resell the software under my own brand | Mencoro, SE Ranking, AgencyAnalytics | Yes. With full white label your clients log in at your own domain and never see Mencoro: your logo, colors and font on the platform, the report exports and the emails. You set your own price to them, and every client project is unlimited. |
| API or data to build my own tracker | Mencoro, DataForSEO | Yes. The REST API gives you every answer, mention, citation and metric, with an OpenAPI contract, and embedded dashboards signed from your backend put them inside your own product. |
| Enterprise marketing team | Profound, Mencoro Enterprise, Semrush | Partly. Mencoro handles large prompt sets: up to 25,000 checks a month on the €799 plan, and Enterprise volume with a dedicated account manager beyond that. Large brands that want an enterprise-only platform usually also evaluate Profound. |
| Local business | Local Falcon, BrightLocal | Not for city-level local SEO. Mencoro sets the location by country, with no city or device targeting. A local business can still track prompts that name its city (“best dentist in Austin”), but for map pack and city grid rankings a local tool such as Local Falcon or BrightLocal fits better. |
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. |
Which market do you want to track?
| If you need | Start comparing | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Spain / Europe | Mencoro, Peec AI, Otterly.AI | Yes. Mencoro is built in Barcelona by Virality Media, and the site, the documentation and support are in Spanish. Each query is asked from Spain, in Spanish, and our weekly data studies already measure the Spanish market. |
| United States | Mencoro, Profound, Peec AI | Yes. The United States is covered on every engine, Claude included. |
| Multiple international markets | Mencoro, Peec AI, Profound | Yes. A query can run in any of 196 countries, separately in each one and in that country's main language, so you compare markets side by side. You write the prompt once per language. |
| Local SEO by city | Local Falcon, BrightLocal | No. Mencoro sets the location by country, with no city targeting. For rankings by city or map grid, use a local tool such as Local Falcon or BrightLocal. |
Every option answered in full: who Mencoro is for.
Which alternatives to Otterly.AI does AI name?
We asked ChatGPT, Google AI Mode and Google’s AI Overview 3 versions of this question in the United States: 7 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% |
| Semrush | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Ahrefs | 85.7% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Profound | 85.7% | 100% | 66.7% | 100% |
| AthenaHQ | 57.1% | 66.7% | 33.3% | 100% |
| Scrunch AI | 57.1% | 100% | 0% | 100% |
| RadarKit | 42.9% | 0% | 66.7% | 100% |
| Rankscale | 28.6% | 66.7% | 0% | 0% |
| AIclicks | 14.3% | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| HubSpot AEO | 14.3% | 0% | 33.3% | 0% |
Questions asked: «Otterly.AI alternatives», «alternatives to Otterly.AI for ai visibility tracking», «tools like Otterly.AI to track my brand in chatgpt». Source: Mencoro (November 2026, answers collected through DataForSEO), in Which AI visibility tools does AI recommend?
