Every tool on this list measures where AI answers mention you. What separates them is the next step, and who takes it: drafting pages, earning citations on other sites, changing how AI crawlers read your site, or handing the whole job to an agency. Decide which of those your team lacks before comparing engines.
If the gap is content, look at what each tool writes from. Veritas, ours, writes only from material you give it and drops any claim it cannot trace back. GEOforge’s $350 Create plan produces 50 pages a month for one brand and draws on knowledge you upload. Frase starts at $49 and writes with brand context, but its Starter plan stops at 10 articles a month.
If the gap is authority, you need citations on the pages AI already trusts. GEOforge’s Dominate plan, at $695 a month, adds CiteForge for citation building, Writesonic drafts outreach to the threads, videos and listicles citing competitors from $99 a month, or $79 billed yearly, and AthenaHQ’s citation engine analyses sources for link building.
If the gap is technical, look at crawl data. Writesonic audits robots.txt, schema and indexing from AI bot visits, Scrunch shows a live feed of AI crawlers and, on Enterprise, serves agent-readable pages through AXP, and Profound’s Agent Analytics tracks crawls across several engines.
If nobody has time to do the work, Passionfruit runs SEO and AEO as a managed service, and Profound’s Agents draft and refresh pages behind an approval step, both at prices quoted individually.
On cost, check the unit. GEOforge prices per brand, so a second brand doubles the bill, and Scrunch’s $250 Core plan also covers one brand. Writesonic, Profound and Passionfruit publish too little to compare a year in advance.
