Do you see the raw answers, or only a score?

A score you can't check is a verdict, not a measurement.

How many buyer questions, and do they name you?

Branded questions prove the assistant has heard of you — the easy half.

Is there a re-measure?

Without one, nothing can ever be shown to have moved. If you need one, a second run is a separate purchase.

Is the counting rule published?

If you can't read how a mention was decided, every percentage is an opinion.

2026-09-21

AI visibility audit tools compared by real price (free to $10,000, checked)

Seven published price points in the AI visibility market — free checkers, one-time reports, and monthly tools — and what each tier actually delivers.

The short version: this market has no settled price. Published offers in September 2026 ran from $0 to $10,000 one-time, plus $29–$399/month subscriptions (dashboard tier re-checked on 28 October 2026) — for work that overlaps more than the pricing suggests. Five checkpoints decide what's worth paying for, whichever tier you pick. Vendor prices were checked in September 2026, and the subscription-dashboard tier was re-checked on 28 October 2026; our price is current as of 21 October 2026.

The seven price points, side by side

What you buy	Published price	Evidence you receive
Free automated checker	$0	usually a verdict, no raw answers
One-time report, self-serve	$29 – $99	full answers, graded, yours to keep
One-time snapshot (agency-grade tooling)	~$499	answers + implementation files
One-off human audit	$99 – $4,500	measurement + a person's read
Deep / multi-market audit	$2,500 – $10,000	multi-entity program
Subscription dashboard	$29 – $399 / month	time series, no deliverable to keep
Agency retainer	$1,000 – $5,000 / month	monitoring + implementation

Treat this page as the side-by-side appendix — the table, the five checkpoints, and where our $4.99 sits among them. The tier-by-tier walkthrough of what each band of spend actually buys is on how much an AI visibility audit costs, which is the page to read first. The four different products sold as "a brand mention in AI" — placement, PR and syndication, monitoring, a one-off measurement — are separated on what a brand mention in AI costs.

The five checkpoints

Do you see the raw answers, or only a score? A score you can't check is a verdict, not a measurement.
How many buyer questions, and do they name you? Branded questions prove the assistant has heard of you — the easy half.
How many AI surfaces? One assistant is one opinion.
Is there a re-measure? Without one, nothing can ever be shown to have moved. If you need one, a second run is a separate purchase.
Is the counting rule published? If you can't read how a mention was decided, every percentage is an opinion.

Where a one-time $4.99 report sits

Priced below every other paid tier, with the evidence you would expect from the most expensive option: 30 buyer questions across five AI surfaces, 176 answers graded against a published rule, every claim fact-checked, full transcript public. The table above lists competitor prices only; our $4.99 is not one of its rows. A second measurement is a separate $4.99 purchase.

Check before you compare

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The free check reads your site and shows you the exact questions we would ask — before you enter any card details. The full report is $4.99 once.

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