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By Advik Jain, Co-founder & CEO · Updated 5 Oct 2026

Otterly.AI is the low-cost daily tracker to beat, so teams that leave usually want more engines included or help acting on what it finds. We list the alternatives in the order our published scoring rules put them, with Veritas, our product, scored by the same rules.

Scrunch homepage
Scrunch homepage, 29 September 2026
AthenaHQ homepage
AthenaHQ homepage, 29 September 2026
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Semrush homepage, 29 September 2026

The short answer

If daily monitoring for everyone is the whole job, stay with Otterly.AI. Move when you need Claude, Gemini or AI Mode without add-ons, or want the tracker to help write the fix.

  • ScrunchFor persona benchmarks and AI bot crawl insight from $250 on Core; Claude, Gemini and AI Mode need Enterprise.$250/mo
  • AthenaHQFor starting free, then eleven models on Starter at $295.Free plan
  • SemrushFor AI tracking beside a full SEO suite, with 50 prompts a day from $199.$199/mo
  • VeritasOursFor a tracker that opens each gap into a draft cited to your own documents, with Gemini included.$16/mo

How to choose an Otterly.AI alternative

Otterly.AI is the cheapest daily tracker on this page, at $29 a month with unlimited team members, and it does monitoring well. Leaving it almost always costs more, so be precise about the gap you are paying to close: missing engines, the writing that follows a report, SEO data, or deeper analytics.

Engines first. Adding Claude to Lite, Standard or Premium costs a further $29, $109 or $439 a month, and Gemini and AI Mode are extra too. Semrush Starter includes Claude and Gemini at $199 with 50 prompts a day, AthenaHQ tracks 11 models on its $295 Starter, and its free plan includes Gemini. Scrunch does not solve this one: Core tracks Otterly’s four engines and keeps Claude and Gemini for Enterprise.

If the gap is writing, Otterly.AI stops at audits, briefs and recommendations. Frase drafts and publishes from $49, with 50 prompts tracked daily but only ChatGPT and Google AI confirmed on Starter. Veritas, our product, turns each gap into a draft sourced from your own documents, with numbered citations, from $16 on Starter. Profound’s Agents write and publish, on Enterprise.

If the gap is data, Semrush is the only tool here with a market-wide keyword database, over 27.3 billion keywords, and backlink analysis. Scrunch adds persona and geography benchmarks and a real-time feed of AI bot crawls, and Profound adds Prompt Volumes, at a price it quotes on request.

Check the API before you move. Otterly.AI gives API and MCP access from Standard; Veritas has neither, AthenaHQ charges for API access, and Scrunch and Profound keep theirs for Enterprise. Rebuild any reporting that depends on it first, and confirm the new plan includes every engine you were buying as an add-on.

Otterly.AI and 6 alternatives at a glance

Otterly.AI’s $29 Lite is the lowest paid tracking entry on this page; only AthenaHQ, with a free plan, starts lower, while Semrush and Scrunch start at $199 and $250.

ToolBest forFromAI search score
FraseWriters who want tracking inside a drafting tool$49/mo76
ProfoundEnterprises that outgrow monitoringCustom73
SemrushTeams that want AI tracking beside a full SEO suite$199/mo73
VeritasOursTeams that want the tracker to open straight into a cited draft$16/mo66
Otterly.AI
The tool you are comparing against
Teams that want daily, low-cost AI answer monitoring for everyone on the team, and do the content work elsewhere.$29/mo62
AthenaHQTeams that want to start free, with 11 models on the first paid planFree plan57
ScrunchPersona benchmarks and AI bot traffic insight$250/mo51

From is the cheapest published plan that tracks AI answers. The AI search score rates AI visibility and content features by our published rules; it is not a verdict on SEO depth.

Want the tracker to help write the fix?

Veritas opens each gap into an editor that drafts from your own documents, with every knowledge-based claim cited, and tracks Gemini on the same plan.

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Why teams look past Otterly.AI

  • Claude tracking costs $29, $109 or $439 a month on top of Lite, Standard or Premium, and AI Mode and Gemini are add-ons too.
  • The $29 Lite plan tracks 15 prompts.
  • Its product pages describe audits, briefs and recommendations rather than drafting full articles.
  • Keyword research and backlink tools are not described on its product pages.

For everything Otterly.AI does well, read our Otterly.AI review.

AI answer tracking

Otterly.AI sets the benchmark for refresh: every plan re-checks daily, as do Frase, Semrush and Profound’s trial. Scrunch and AthenaHQ do not publish a cadence, and Veritas re-checks every two weeks with on-demand checks in between. On engines, the four Otterly.AI includes match Scrunch Core’s, AthenaHQ’s free plan adds Gemini for five, and Semrush Starter reaches Claude without an add-on.

Cost depends heavily on scale. A single user starting with 10 prompts pays $348 a year on Otterly.AI, against $588 on Frase and $936 on Veritas. An agency running three brands with ten seats and 300 prompts pays $5,868 a year on Otterly.AI Premium and $5,328 on Frase Scale with five extra seats, while Semrush, Scrunch and Veritas publish no plan for that volume.

Which engines each tool covers

On the cheapest plan that tracks AI answers. Most vendors list more engines than that plan includes, so this is what you get at the price shown, not the brochure maximum.

Otterly.AI charges extra for Claude, Gemini and AI Mode, and Semrush Starter is the only cheapest plan here that includes Claude. AthenaHQ’s free plan and every Veritas plan include Gemini.

Tool and planChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityAI OverviewsAI ModeCopilot
Frase
Starter
IncludedNot on this planNot on this planNot on this planunclearunclearNot on this plan
Profound
Trial
IncludedNot on this planIncludedNot on this planIncludedNot on this planNot on this plan
Semrush
Starter
IncludedIncludedIncludedIncludedIncludedunclearunclear
VeritasOurs
Starter
IncludedNot on this planIncludedIncludedIncludedNot on this planNot on this plan
Otterly.AI
Lite
Includedadd-onadd-onIncludedIncludedadd-onIncluded
AthenaHQ
Essential (free)
IncludedNot on this planIncludedIncludedIncludedNot on this planIncluded
Scrunch
Core
IncludedNot on this planNot on this planIncludedIncludedNot on this planIncluded

A tick is included. Add-on means an extra monthly fee. You choose means the plan lets you pick a limited number of platforms from this list. Unclear means the vendor’s wording does not say.

The plan behind each row, and what changes on higher plans, are on each tool’s review: Frase, Profound, Semrush, Otterly.AI and Veritas.

Veritas costs more than Otterly.AI for tracking alone; the price also covers keyword research, site audits and cited drafting.Start a 7-day trialSee pricing

What tracking costs a yearThe yearly cost of each tool for four team sizes, from published plans

What a year costs

The cheapest published plan that fits each team, over twelve months, with seat fees and required add-ons. Where no published plan fits, the note says why instead of guessing.

ToolGetting started1 seat, 10 tracked prompts, 1 brandOne marketer, one brand1 seat, 50 tracked prompts, 1 brandTeam of five, one brand5 seats, 100 tracked prompts, 1 brandAgency, three brands10 seats, 300 tracked prompts, 3 brands
Otterly.AI$348lowest$2,268$2,268$5,868
Frase$588$588lowest$2,244lowest$5,328lowest
VeritasOurs$936No published fit1No published fit1No published fit1
Semrush$2,388$2,388$7,428No published fit1
Scrunch$3,000$3,000$3,000No published fit1
AthenaHQNo published plan fits any of these setups2
ProfoundNo published plan fits any of these setups3
  1. 1No published plan tracks the prompts this setup needs; larger volumes are arranged with the vendor.
  2. 2Metered in credits, where one credit is one AI response, so prompt counts are not directly comparable.
  3. 3Brands get a free trial of 7 days, then custom Enterprise pricing, so there is no published price to compare.

Bars share one scale across the whole table, so cost growth shows as well as rank. A figure far above the rest is marked off scale.

The plan, seats and add-ons behind every figure are worked through on each tool’s review: Otterly.AI, Frase, Semrush, Profound and Veritas.

Each alternative against Otterly.AI

What you gain and what you give up with each, against Otterly.AI. Each tool’s full, sourced review is on its own page.

Frase

Best for writers who want tracking inside a drafting tool.

Frase homepage
Full Frase review

Frase is the cheapest way to add writing to what Otterly.AI does. Starter is $49 a month with 50 prompts tracked daily, more than Lite’s 15, and the platform also drafts with an AI agent that keeps your brand in context, optimises pages for Google and for AI citation, runs a site audit, finds link gaps with drafted outreach and publishes to several CMSs. At the agency end, Scale with five extra seats costs $5,328 a year, less than Otterly.AI Premium.

What you give up: engines. Starter confirms only ChatGPT and Google AI, without the Perplexity and Copilot that every Otterly plan tracks; Perplexity arrives at $129 and Claude and Gemini at $299. Seats beyond those included cost $29 each, and article generation is capped at 10, 40 or 100 a month.

Profound

Best for enterprises that outgrow monitoring.

Profound homepage
Full Profound review

Profound is where an Otterly.AI user goes when monitoring is no longer enough and the budget has grown with it. Its Prompt Volumes module reports what people actually ask AI systems rather than prompts generated from keywords, Agent Analytics follows AI crawlers, and Agents create, refresh and publish content through a CMS once a person approves. Enterprise tracks up to nine engines, including Claude and AI Mode, which Otterly.AI sells as add-ons.

What you give up: the published price. Brands get a free trial of 7 days on three engines with 50 prompts they cannot edit, then a custom quote, so the jump from Otterly.AI’s $29 or $189 plans is unknown until a sales call. Agents run on credits sold in custom packages. It only makes sense for a brand with an enterprise budget and a use for the agent layer.

Semrush

Best for teams that want AI tracking beside a full SEO suite.

Semrush homepage
Full Semrush review

Semrush makes sense for an Otterly.AI user who is also paying for a separate SEO tool. Starter, at $199 a month, tracks 50 prompts a day across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and AI Overviews, so Claude and Gemini come included rather than as Otterly add-ons, and the same account carries the Keyword Magic Tool, backlink analysis, a technical site audit, daily position tracking and Content Creation.

What you give up: Otterly.AI Standard tracks twice as many prompts, 100, for $189 and includes unlimited team members, while Semrush charges for each extra user; a team of five on Pro+ costs $7,428 a year. Copilot, which every Otterly plan tracks, is unclear on Semrush Starter. Move if one bill for SEO and AI search matters more than prompt count.

VeritasOurs

Best for teams that want the tracker to open straight into a cited draft.

Veritas homepage
Our write-up of Veritas

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Veritas is for Otterly.AI users who are tired of carrying each finding into another tool to write the fix. Growth, at $78 a month, tracks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, with Gemini included rather than sold as an add-on, and each gap opens into an editor that drafts from your own documents and cites every knowledge-based claim. The same plan adds keyword research, keyword gap, a site audit graded for Google and AI crawlers, and local SEO.

What you give up: Veritas is ours, and for tracking alone it is the worse buy. Otterly.AI Lite tracks 15 prompts daily for $29, while Veritas tracks 10 every two weeks for $78. Veritas does not track Copilot or Claude, has no API or MCP server, and includes three users on Growth against Otterly’s unlimited members. It makes sense only if the drafting is the point.

AthenaHQ

Best for teams that want to start free, with 11 models on the first paid plan.

AthenaHQ homepage

AthenaHQ is the one alternative that tracks AI answers for less than Otterly.AI. Its Essential plan is free, with a $25 free credit, and covers ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Gemini and Copilot, so Gemini is included where Otterly charges for it. The $295 Starter adds Claude, AI Mode, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI and Mistral for 11 models, and the product brings sentiment analysis, hallucination detection and real-time mention alerts.

What you give up: credits count AI responses, not prompts, so there is no like-for-like with Otterly.AI’s 15 or 100 prompts, and the bill moves with volume. AthenaHQ publishes no refresh rate against Otterly’s daily one, API access is a paid add-on rather than part of a middle plan, and the step from free to paid is $295 a month.

Scrunch

Best for persona benchmarks and AI bot traffic insight.

Scrunch homepage

Scrunch Core covers the same four engines as Otterly.AI Lite, so moving is less about coverage than about depth on each prompt. Core includes 125 prompts for $250 a month, benchmarks them by persona, topic and geography, and pairs them with a real-time feed of AI bot crawls that flags the pages bots cannot read, plus five site audits a month and five seats.

What you give up: at $250, Scrunch costs more than Otterly.AI Standard, which tracks 100 prompts daily for $189 with unlimited members, and Scrunch publishes no refresh rate. Claude and Gemini are Enterprise-only there, not add-ons you can buy on a self-serve plan, extra seats are $25 each, and the trial needs a card. Choose it for persona benchmarks, not for price.

Switching from Otterly.AI

  1. 01Export prompt lists and brand coverage history before cancelling.
  2. 02Keep prompt wording identical so trends survive the switch.
  3. 03Check which engines you were paying add-ons for, and confirm the new plan includes them.
  4. 04Rebuild any API or MCP reporting against the new tool before switching Otterly.AI off.
  5. 05Compare trends rather than absolute numbers for the first month.

What would change our verdict

  • Otterly adding drafting, which would remove the main reason teams pair it with something else.
  • Otterly obtaining SOC 2 in its own name rather than through the data centres it runs on.

Questions people ask

Which Otterly.AI alternative includes Claude without an add-on?

Scrunch on Enterprise, AthenaHQ on Starter, Semrush on its AI search plans, and Frase on Scale, on pages read in September 2026.

Is there anything cheaper than Otterly.AI?

AthenaHQ has a free Essential plan with a $25 free credit. Among paid tracking plans, Otterly.AI’s $29 Lite is the lowest entry point we found.

Which alternatives write the content?

Veritas drafts cited content from your documents, Frase drafts with an AI agent, and Profound Agents create and publish content. Scrunch and AthenaHQ focus on monitoring and recommendations.

Head to head

Veritas vs SemrushVeritas vs FraseVeritas vs ProfoundVeritas vs Otterly.AIProfound vs Otterly.AI
How we chose4 tests every alternative had to pass
  • Engines included. Which engines come with the plan rather than as add-ons.
  • Prompts per dollar. How many prompts you can track at the price you would pay.
  • Content execution. Whether the tool stops at briefs or drafts and publishes.
  • Data access. Seats, API and MCP.
How we researched this pageMethod and the update log

How we researched this page

Every fact about another tool comes from that vendor’s own pages, or from a press report where we say so, listed under Sources with the date we read them. Where a vendor does not describe something, we say so rather than guess.

The scores and cost figures on this page are calculated, not assigned. Our full methodology sets out every rule, what each criterion is worth, and where our evidence runs out.

Disclosure. Veritas is our product. It appears on this page because it competes in this category, and we have tried to state its limits as plainly as anyone else’s. If anything here is wrong or out of date, write to support@getveritas.io and we will correct it and note the change in the log.

Update log

  1. 5 October 2026Updated: Veritas Starter now includes AI visibility, tracking 5 prompts across the same four engines, so AI visibility is on every Veritas plan. Earlier versions said it started on Growth.
  2. 29 September 2026Updated the Scrunch figures on this page after re-reading Scrunch’s own pages.
  3. 29 September 2026Updated the Profound figures on this page after re-reading Profound’s own pages.
  4. 29 September 2026Updated the Semrush figures on this page after re-reading Semrush’s own pages.
  5. 29 September 2026Updated: Scrunch Core now tracks the same four engines as Otterly.AI, with Claude on Enterprise, and Profound has no self-serve plan for brands, so both picks were rewritten.
  6. 25 September 2026Veritas pricing updated: Starter added at the entry, and the plans above it renamed Growth and Business and repriced. Marketing Suite was retired on 25 September 2026; its LinkedIn and scheduled publishing moved into Business, and its Local SEO into Growth and Business. Competitor figures were not re-checked.
  7. 22 September 2026Updated: Veritas no longer tracks Claude, so it tracks four AI engines: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. Its engine count, coverage and score changed to match, which can move its place in a ranked list.
  8. 15 September 2026Updated the Semrush figures on this page after re-reading Semrush’s own pages.
  9. 15 September 2026Updated the Frase figures on this page after re-reading Frase’s own pages.
  10. 15 September 2026Rebuilt verdict first: a short verdict with calculated figures, an engine-by-engine coverage grid and yearly cost charts, with full reviews, specs and method folded below. The intro was shortened; no facts were removed.
  11. 12 September 2026Published.

Sources

The pages behind this comparison, most recently read 29 September 2026. Each tool’s review dates its own sources.

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