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AthenaHQ pricing and review

By Advik Jain, Co-founder & CEO · 15 Oct 2026

Credit-based tracking across 11+ models with sentiment, hallucination detection and a recommendation engine, free to start.

AthenaHQ homepage
AthenaHQ homepage, 29 September 2026
AthenaHQ pricing page with its plans and prices
AthenaHQ pricing page, 29 September 2026

AthenaHQ pricing

  • Essential
    $25 free credit; ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Gemini, Copilot
    Free
  • Starter
    $300 free credit a month; 11 models
    $295/mo
  • Enterprise
    Custom

Trial: Free Essential plan. Prices as published on AthenaHQ’s pricing page, checked 29 September 2026.

The verdict

Choose AthenaHQ if you are

Teams that want to start free, track many models, and pay per AI response as tracking grows.

Look elsewhere if you are

Teams that want predictable flat pricing or SEO tooling in the same product.

AI tracking from
Free plan, Essential
AI engines on that plan
5 of 7
Refresh
Not published

AthenaHQ

AI visibility platform

AthenaHQ tracks brand visibility across 11+ AI models with sentiment analysis, real-time brand mention alerts and hallucination detection, and pairs it with a recommendation engine that suggests on-page and off-page actions.

What AthenaHQ adds to the tracking

Most of AthenaHQ’s extra work is turning findings into tasks. Its recommendations cover changes to your own pages as well as work elsewhere on the web, the Athena Citation Engine breaks down which sources AI cites so they can be targeted for links, and a content optimisation agent with AI-friendly templates helps produce the pages. Shopify stores can tie AEO content to revenue, and it integrates with GA4, Search Console, Webflow, Framer, Tableau, Power BI and Looker.

Classic SEO is absent: keyword research, backlink monitoring and technical site audits are not described on its product pages. Pricing is metered rather than flat. The free Essential plan comes with a $25 free credit and Starter at $295 a month with a $300 monthly credit, and usage is metered per AI response, so tracking more prompts or models spends the credit faster. API access is a paid add-on on Starter.

AI answer tracking

Tracking can start at no cost: the free Essential plan covers ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Gemini and Copilot. Starter, at $295 a month, widens that to 11 models, adding AI Mode, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI and Mistral. Besides counting mentions it scores sentiment, sends real-time alerts and flags hallucinations in how AI describes the brand. No refresh rate is published, and because credits count responses rather than prompts, its plans cannot be priced against a set number of prompts.

Pros

  • A free plan, so tracking can start before a budget conversation.
  • Eleven models on the first paid plan, including Claude, Grok and DeepSeek.
  • Hallucination detection, which few trackers describe.

Cons

  • Usage is metered in credits, where one credit is one AI response.
  • The jump from free to paid is $295 a month.
  • API access is a paid add-on on Starter.
  • Keyword research, backlink monitoring and technical site audits are not described on its product pages.

Recent changes

  • Named a G2 High Performer for Spring 2026, according to its homepage.

Not the right fit for: Teams that want predictable flat pricing or SEO tooling in the same product.

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Engine by engine, and what tracking costs a yearWhich engines AthenaHQ covers on its tracking plan, and the yearly cost for four team sizes

Which AI engines AthenaHQ tracks

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.

Tool and planChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityAI OverviewsAI ModeCopilot
AthenaHQ
Essential (free)
IncludedNot on this planIncludedIncludedIncludedNot 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.

What each plan includesThe plan behind each row, and what changes on higher plans
  • AthenaHQ, Essential (free). Starter at $295 adds AI Mode, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI and Mistral.

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
AthenaHQNo published plan fits any of these setups1
  1. 1Metered in credits, where one credit is one AI response, so prompt counts are not directly comparable.
How each figure was worked outPlan, seats and add-ons behind every number

Getting started

  • AthenaHQ: Metered in credits, where one credit is one AI response, so prompt counts are not directly comparable.

One marketer, one brand

  • AthenaHQ: Metered in credits, where one credit is one AI response, so prompt counts are not directly comparable.

Team of five, one brand

  • AthenaHQ: Metered in credits, where one credit is one AI response, so prompt counts are not directly comparable.

Agency, three brands

  • AthenaHQ: Metered in credits, where one credit is one AI response, so prompt counts are not directly comparable.

Standard monthly rates, without annual discounts unless a vendor publishes only a yearly price. Taxes, overage and negotiated terms are excluded.

AthenaHQ, compared

Every page where we set AthenaHQ against other tools, each written for that decision.

Questions people ask about AthenaHQ

Does AthenaHQ have a free trial?

Free Essential plan, according to its pricing page.

Which AI engines does AthenaHQ track?

ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Gemini and Copilot on Essential; 11 models including Claude, Grok, DeepSeek and Mistral on Starter.

How much does AthenaHQ cost?

On its pricing page, read 29 September 2026: Essential Free ($25 free credit; ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Gemini, Copilot); Starter $295/mo ($300 free credit a month; 11 models); Enterprise Custom. The cheapest plan that tracks AI answers is Essential, which is free.

How we researched this reviewMethod, what the vendor does not publish, and the update log

What each vendor does not publish

Where a figure below is missing, the charts say so rather than estimate it.

AthenaHQ
  • AthenaHQ bills in credits, one per AI response, so its plans cannot be costed for a set number of prompts.
  • AthenaHQ does not publish how often it refreshes results.

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 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.

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Update log

  1. 15 October 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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