Pricing for AI search audits and monitoring
Key takeaways
- One-time audit $299 for up to 500 pages; audit plus applied fix sprint $799.
- Monitor $79 a month, Pro $199, Agency $399 flat for ten sites with white-label included.
- No per-engine add-ons, no credits, no metered audits, and every price published on this page.
- The one-time audit exists because most sites need a fix, not a subscription.
- Subscription plumbing is still being built; audits today are ordered by email and run by a human.
Published prices, no credits, no meters, and no per-engine add-ons. A one-time audit is $299. Monitoring starts at $79 a month with every engine included. Everything below is the intended launch pricing and is honest about what is built today versus what is being built.
| Plan | Price | Includes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audit | $299 one-time | Full crawl to 500 pages, all 61 checks per page, nine-user-agent edge probe matrix, per-engine readiness, ranked fix plan, raw JSON, off-site action plan | Available now, human-run |
| Audit + Fix Sprint | $799 one-time | Everything above, plus the top fixes drafted as diffs, staged with backups, applied on your approval, and a re-audit showing the delta | Available now, human-run |
| Monitor | $79/month | Weekly re-audit, daily crawler-access probe, alerts only on regression, prompt-level visibility sampling, all engines included | Engine built; scheduling and alerting in build |
| Pro | $199/month | Everything in Monitor, plus daily sampling, server-log analysis with operator-IP verification, competitor page-level audits, and fix diffs with gated applies | Log analyzer v1 built; packaging in build |
| Agency | $399/month | Ten sites flat, white-label reports included, one login across the whole book | See for agencies |
No per-engine add-ons ever, no credits, no meters, publish all prices, monthly billing, cancel any time. Those five rules were written into the plan before the first price was set.
— AnswerOpen pricing rules, product plan, August 2026
Why sell a one-time audit at all?
Because the thing most sites need is not a subscription. If your edge is turning away PerplexityBot, that is a single afternoon of work and then it is fixed — you do not need to rent a dashboard for a year to learn it. Every product in this market is subscription-only, which means the honest one-time answer is the one nobody sells. If monitoring is genuinely worth it to you afterwards, the $79 tier is there.
What are the pricing rules?
- No per-engine add-ons, ever. Charging separately for Perplexity coverage is a billing tactic, not a cost.
- No credits and no metered audits. Re-running a crawl costs us HTTP requests, not tokens.
- Every price published on this page. If a plan needs a call to learn the price, it is not on this page.
- Monthly billing, cancel any time. No annual lock for a product this young.
How does that compare with the paid market?
From our own August 2026 teardown of the five leading platforms, using their published pricing. We list real entry floors, not the marketing number:
| Platform | Entry price | Structural note |
|---|---|---|
| Profound | $99 | Entry tier covers one engine; real deployments land far higher |
| Peec AI | $95/mo | Additional engines priced as add-ons |
| Otterly.ai | $29/mo | Audits are metered; per-engine add-ons above the entry tier |
| Semrush AI Toolkit | $99/mo | Priced per domain, which multiplies fast for an agency |
| Scrunch AI | $300/mo | Entry tier caps audited pages per month |
| AnswerOpen Monitor | $79/mo | All engines included; unmetered re-audits; no add-ons |
Prices are as published by each vendor at the time of our teardown and change often; check the vendor before relying on any row. We make no claim about the quality of these products, only about what they cost and how they meter.
What is not built yet?
Being specific about this is cheaper than being caught. Today an audit is ordered by email and run by a human on our infrastructure; there is no self-serve signup, no card on file, and no hosted login. Scheduled monitoring, regression alerting and white-label report generation exist as engine capability but not yet as a productized subscription. Visibility sampling currently runs through one model provider plus web search and is labelled as API-sampled everywhere it appears. If any of that is a blocker for you, it is better learned here.
Primary sources
Everything asserted above traces to one of these. Operator documentation changes often; check the current version before relying on any of it.
- OpenAI crawler documentation — the authoritative list of GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot and ChatGPT-User behavior
- Generative Engine Optimization (KDD 2024) — the only peer-reviewed causal evidence on content modifications and generative visibility
- Bing Webmaster Tools — first-party AI performance data, and the free ground truth for any prediction we make
Request an audit of your site
There is no fake "instant scan" button on this site. A real audit crawls your sitemap, fetches every page, and runs nine live user-agent probes against your edge — it takes minutes of machine time, not milliseconds, and it is run by a human who reads the result before you see it. Send the URL and you get the headline score plus your single largest blocker back, at no charge.
Frequently asked questions
What does the $299 audit include?
A full crawl of up to 500 pages, all 61 checks on every page, the nine-user-agent edge probe matrix, per-engine readiness scores, a ranked fix plan naming every affected URL, the raw JSON report, and an off-site action plan.
Is there a free trial?
There is a free sample check: send a URL and you get the headline score and your largest single blocker back within one business day. It is a real crawl, which is why it takes a day rather than a moment.
Do you charge extra for additional engines?
No. Per-engine add-ons are a billing tactic rather than a cost, and we have committed to never having them. Every plan covers every engine we support.
Why is the agency plan flat rather than per domain?
Because per-domain pricing punishes exactly the customer who gets most value from the tool. At $99 per domain a ten-client book costs $990 a month before any work is done; our Agency plan is $399 flat for ten sites with white-label reporting included.
What happens if the audit finds nothing wrong?
We tell you, and we say so before you commit where we can. A free sample check that comes back clean is a legitimate outcome and it saves you $299.