The short version:
- If you are a small business or founder, a pay-per-report tool answers the question without a subscription. Adacity starts at $5.
- If you are an enterprise team that will watch AI visibility daily, a monitoring platform like Profound or AthenaHQ fits better.
- Price ranges from $5 per report to $3,000 or more per month, so match the tool to how often you will actually use it.
What is an AEO tool?
An AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) tool checks how AI assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude describe and recommend your business, then helps you improve it. Some run once and hand you a report. Others run continuously and track trends over time. New to the idea? Start with what is AEO.
The main AEO tools in 2026
Adacity, best for small businesses
From $5 per report. No subscription. Adacity finds the real questions your buyers ask, runs them across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, and hands you a plain-English report with a short list of actions in priority order. Built for founders and operators who want the answer, not a dashboard to maintain. See why Adacity.
Profound, best for enterprise monitoring
About $99 to $399+ per month. A continuous monitoring platform for marketing teams, with trends over time and Perplexity coverage. Powerful if you have an analyst to run it. See our Profound alternative page for a side-by-side.
AthenaHQ
A free tier, then about $295 per month. A monitoring platform with sentiment tracking and prioritized recommendations, aimed at teams that want depth across platforms.
Peec AI
From about €85 per month. A European AI-search visibility tool for SEO and content teams, with daily tracking across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. It does not cover Claude.
Evertune
Enterprise pricing on request. Enterprise-grade brand analysis of how AI models represent you, priced for large organizations. No public pricing; book a demo.
Scrunch, Otterly, and Videntic
A middle tier of monitoring tools. Otterly starts around $29 per month and Scrunch around $250; Videntic publishes pricing on request. Each tracks AI mentions and competitors on a subscription, with different platform coverage and depth.
How to choose an AEO tool
Match the tool to how you will use it:
- You want one clear answer. A pay-per-report tool like Adacity tells you where you stand and what to fix, without a subscription.
- You will watch it daily. A monitoring platform earns its monthly fee when a team acts on the alerts.
- You are an agency or enterprise. Look for multi-seat workspaces, SLAs, and formal reporting.
For a full feature-by-feature grid across every tool, see how Adacity compares.
Try the pay-per-report option
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