8 Best Visby AI Alternatives for AI Search Visibility (2026)

A quick scope note first. Visby AI (visby.ai) is an AI-visibility tracker: it checks whether ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini mention your brand, tags each tracked prompt by funnel stage, and hands you side-by-side answers plus auto-generated optimization tasks. This guide is for people who want that AI-visibility job and are weighing Visby against the alternatives.

Visby is a tidy, focused tool. The reason most people go looking for an alternative is coverage and price. It tracks three engines, its data refreshes on roughly a 30-day cycle, and the entry plan is $79/mo with fairly low prompt and answer volumes. If you want more engines, faster data, or a free way to start, you end up comparing. I've lined up eight alternatives, with pricing checked against each vendor's page in July 2026.

Disclosure up front: I build FixAEO, and I've ranked it #1. Read that with the appropriate skepticism — I name exactly where Visby and the others beat us. Most vendor-written "alternatives" posts quietly rank themselves #1 with no disclosure. I'd rather just tell you.

Quick verdict: for most teams, FixAEO is the pick — 6 engines on its $29 Lite plan (9 total, all on Enterprise) where Visby tracks 3, paid plans from $29/mo versus Visby's $79 Starter, a real recurring free tier where Visby is trial-only, more frequent data than Visby's ~30-day refresh, and a paid MCP server. But Visby genuinely wins for a few buyers: its AppSumo lifetime deal can be cheaper over the long run for a solo user, its Shopify app and funnel-stage prompt tagging are real, and it's a fine fit for SaaS/B2B teams focused on the big three chat assistants. The full, honest comparison is below.

Visby AI at a glance

Visby runs your tracked prompts across ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, then does a couple of things well. It lets you tag each prompt with a funnel stage, so you can see where you show up across awareness, consideration, and decision questions. It shows the three engines' answers side by side. And it generates optimization tasks off the gaps it finds. There's a report builder (in beta), a Shopify app for e-commerce, and an AppSumo lifetime deal alongside the monthly plans.

The catch is the shape of it. Three engines — ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini — with no Perplexity, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, or Google AI Overviews. Data refreshes on a reported ~30-day cycle, which is slow if you're iterating. Pricing is Starter $79/mo (15 tracked prompts, 45 AI answers analyzed a month), Growth $199/mo (90 prompts, 270 answers), and Enterprise custom (250+ prompts). There's a free trial but no permanent free tier.¹

The 8 Visby AI alternatives at a glance

Tool	AI engines	Entry price / mo	Free tier	Best for
Visby AI (baseline)	3	$79 (trial only)	No — trial	SaaS/B2B on the big three chat assistants
FixAEO	6 (9 on Enterprise)	$29 ($25 annual)	Yes — real free tier	Cheapest with more engines + a free start
Otterly.ai	4 core + add-ons	$29	No — trial	Pre-publish content scoring
Peec AI	3 + add-ons	€89 ($95)	No — 7-day trial	European BI-style analytics
RankScale	17+ advertised	~$20 (credit-based)	No — card trial	Widest engine count
LLMrefs	11	$79 flat	No — 7-day trial	Flat price, unlimited seats
AthenaHQ	8–9	$295	Limited Essential	Enterprise governance
Profound	1–10 by tier	$99 (real depth $399+)	No	Enterprise demand data

Prices are entry-tier and rounded; detail and sources are in each section and under How I researched this.

Quick pick — which one for you

• You want more engines and a free way to start → FixAEO. 6 engines on the $29 Lite plan (9 total), real free tier.
• You only care about ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini and want funnel-stage tagging or a Shopify app → keep Visby, especially if the AppSumo lifetime deal fits.
• You care most about improving content before publishing → Otterly.ai.
• You feed AI-visibility data into a BI dashboard → Peec AI.
• You want the most engines for the least money → RankScale (17+, credit-based).
• You're an agency wanting flat price + unlimited seats → LLMrefs.
• You need enterprise governance (SOC 2, SSO) → AthenaHQ.
• You need real AI-conversation demand data → Profound.

Why teams look past Visby AI

Visby does its focused job well, so the reasons to switch are specific:¹

• Only 3 engines. ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. If your buyers use Perplexity, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, or Google AI Overviews, Visby doesn't see those surfaces.
• ~30-day data refresh. The reported monthly cycle means you wait a while to see whether a content change actually helped. Faster refresh helps when you're actively iterating.
• No permanent free tier. There's a trial, but nothing free that runs on. You commit to a paid plan or the AppSumo deal to keep using it.
• Low volumes at Starter. $79/mo buys 15 tracked prompts and 45 analyzed answers a month. That's a small window if you have a broad prompt set.
• Report builder is still in beta. The reporting side is being built out, so it's less mature than the trackers that have shipped this for a while.

The eight below map to those needs.

The 8 alternatives, ranked by fit

1. FixAEO — more engines, a lower price, and a free start

FixAEO's homepage, 2026.

Best for: teams that want broader engine coverage than Visby's three, a lower entry price, and a free way to try it first.

Spec	FixAEO
AI engines	6 on paid plans (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, AI Overviews, AI Mode); all 9 on Enterprise (adds Claude, Grok, DeepSeek)
Entry price	$29/mo Lite ($25/mo annually); $79/mo Growth (daily scans, 5 brands, 50 prompts)
Free tier	Yes — 1 anonymous Gemini scan/day, no signup, plus 22 free tools
Standout	6-engine visibility from $29/mo (9 engines on Enterprise), a real free tier, AI-crawler tracking, and a paid MCP server
Watch out	No funnel-stage prompt tagging or Shopify app to match Visby; no full SEO suite; no in-product content generation; no built-in GSC; Lite tracks 15 prompts; free tier is Gemini-only

Disclosure: FixAEO is our product, ranked first. Here's the honest case. Visby tracks 3 engines — ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. FixAEO tracks 9 — those three plus Perplexity, Copilot, DeepSeek, Grok, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode (its $29 Lite and $79 Growth plans cover 6 of the 9; all 9 are on Enterprise). So if your buyers ask AI questions anywhere beyond the big three chat assistants, FixAEO sees where Visby is blind. On price, Visby's Starter is $79/mo; FixAEO's paid plans start at $29/mo ($25 annually) for Lite, with a $79/mo Growth tier for daily scans.

Two more differences that matter. Visby is trial-only — FixAEO has a real free tier: one anonymous Gemini scan a day, no signup or card, plus 22 standalone tools (schema generators, llms.txt and robots.txt builders, validators). And Visby refreshes on a ~30-day cycle; FixAEO refreshes every 72 hours on its Lite plan and daily on Growth, so you see changes sooner. FixAEO also tracks AI-bot/crawler traffic (how often GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot hit your site) and ships an MCP server on paid plans: connect Claude, Cursor, or ChatGPT and pull your visibility into the chat.

Now the honest part, because I won't pretend FixAEO wins on everything. On tracked prompts at entry, it's a tie: FixAEO's Lite plan tracks 15 prompts (shared across your brands) — the same count as Visby's Starter. So FixAEO isn't buying you more prompts there, just more engines and a lower price for the same 15. Visby also has features FixAEO doesn't: funnel-stage prompt tagging (assign each prompt an awareness/consideration/decision stage), side-by-side engine answers, auto-generated optimization tasks, and a Shopify app for e-commerce. FixAEO does none of those. It's also not a full SEO suite (no rank tracking, backlinks, or site audit), has no in-product content generation, no built-in Google Search Console integration, and its free tier is single-engine (Gemini). And if you're a solo user who'll run this for years, Visby's AppSumo lifetime deal can beat FixAEO's monthly total over a long horizon — that's real math worth doing.

Who it's for: teams that want broader engine coverage than Visby's three, an affordable price, faster data than a monthly cycle, and a free entry point. Run a free scan, see the best AEO tools guide, or check pricing.

2. Visby AI — funnel-stage tagging for the big three (the baseline)

Best for: SaaS and B2B teams that focus on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini and want funnel-stage prompt tagging or a Shopify app.

Spec	Visby AI
AI engines	3 — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini
Entry price	$79/mo Starter (15 prompts, 45 answers/mo); $199 Growth (90 prompts, 270 answers); Enterprise custom (250+)
Free tier	No — free trial
Standout	Funnel-stage prompt tagging, side-by-side engine answers, auto-generated tasks, AppSumo lifetime deal, Shopify app
Watch out	Only 3 engines; ~30-day refresh; report builder in beta; no permanent free tier; low volumes at Starter

Visby's wedge is workflow, not breadth. The funnel-stage tagging is genuinely useful — you can see whether you show up on top-of-funnel "what is X" questions versus bottom-of-funnel "best X for Y" questions, which most trackers don't split out. Side-by-side answers from ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini make it easy to compare, and the auto-generated optimization tasks give you a to-do list off the gaps. The Shopify app is a real plus for e-commerce, and the AppSumo lifetime deal can make the long-run cost attractive for a solo operator.¹ The honest limits: three engines only, a ~30-day refresh that's slow for active iteration, a report builder still in beta, no permanent free tier, and small prompt/answer volumes at Starter.

Who it's for: SaaS/B2B teams optimizing for the big three chat assistants, especially if funnel-stage tagging, the Shopify app, or the lifetime deal fit how you work.

3. Otterly.ai — the pre-publish content scorer

Otterly's homepage, July 2026.

Best for: content teams that want to predict citation potential before they publish.

Spec	Otterly.ai
AI engines	4 core — ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot; Claude/Gemini/AI Mode are add-ons
Entry price	$29/mo (then $189, $489)
Free tier	No — trial only
Standout	Pre-publish content scorer plus strong published GEO research
Watch out	Core tiers skip Claude and Gemini; no permanent free tier

Otterly's wedge is the fix side. Where Visby's tasks tell you what to work on, Otterly scores a page for citation potential before you publish it. It covers 4 core engines from $29/mo, with Claude, Gemini, and AI Mode as add-ons — a different core set from Visby's, so check which engines matter to you.²

Who it's for: content-led teams that care about pre-publish scoring. See FixAEO vs Otterly.

4. Peec AI — the European analytics dashboard

Peec AI's homepage, July 2026.

Best for: European teams piping AI-visibility data into their own BI stack.

Spec	Peec AI
AI engines	3 on base tiers; Claude, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek are ~€35/mo add-ons each
Entry price	From €89/mo (~$95); full coverage runs $200–$585/mo-equivalent
Free tier	No — 7-day trial
Standout	BI-grade analytics: CSV export, Looker Studio, API, sentiment over time
Watch out	Monitoring-only; add-on math adds up fast

Peec is the analytics-first pick — CSV export, Looker Studio, an API, and sentiment over time. Like Visby it starts at 3 engines, but the rest come as ~€35/mo add-ons each, so matching broad coverage climbs the bill fast.³ No free tier, and it's monitoring-only.

Who it's for: funded European teams that value analytics depth. See FixAEO vs Peec AI.

5. RankScale — the widest engine count

RankScale's homepage, July 2026.

Best for: teams that want the most engines for the least money and can manage a credit model.

Spec	RankScale
AI engines	17+ surfaces advertised (the widest count here)
Entry price	~$20/mo, credit-based
Free tier	No — card-required trial
Standout	Broadest engine coverage at the lowest sticker, plus Looker Studio integration
Watch out	Credit model is hard to budget; no free tier

If Visby's 3 engines are the limit you hit, RankScale is the opposite extreme: 17+ engines advertised from ~$20/mo. The trade-off is a credit model where engines cost different amounts, so the bill swings with usage.⁴ See our RankScale alternatives guide.

Who it's for: agencies that want maximum engine breadth and will watch their credit usage.

6. LLMrefs — flat price, unlimited seats

LLMrefs's homepage, July 2026.

Best for: agencies that want one predictable flat price across many brands.

Spec	LLMrefs
AI engines	11 (homepage-named)
Entry price	$79/mo flat
Free tier	No — 7-day trial
Standout	Flat price with unlimited seats and domains
Watch out	No free tier; 500 prompts; weekly refresh; no funnel-stage tagging

LLMrefs matches Visby's $79 sticker but spends it differently: 11 engines and unlimited seats and domains at one flat rate, with a weekly refresh that beats Visby's monthly cycle. More engines and more frequent data, but no free tier and no funnel-stage workflow.⁵ See our LLMrefs review and LLMrefs alternatives.

Who it's for: agencies running many client brands who want one flat bill.

7. AthenaHQ — the broad-coverage enterprise pick

AthenaHQ's homepage, July 2026.

Best for: enterprise teams that need SOC 2, SSO, and broad engine coverage.

Spec	AthenaHQ
AI engines	8 named (ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Grok); vendor advertises up to 9
Entry price	$295/mo (limited free Essential tier below it)
Free tier	Yes — Essential (300 credits/mo, 5 models)
Standout	Enterprise depth: SOC 2 Type 2, SSO, BI connectors, hallucination detection
Watch out	$295/mo floor; no DeepSeek; an enterprise buy

If you're moving upmarket and need governance, AthenaHQ is the enterprise pick: SOC 2 Type 2, SSO, BI connectors, and hallucination detection across 8–9 engines, at a $295/mo floor — far more engines than Visby, at a far higher price.⁶ See FixAEO vs AthenaHQ.

Who it's for: funded companies that want enterprise depth with published pricing.

8. Profound — the enterprise benchmark

Profound's homepage, July 2026.

Best for: enterprises that want the category's deepest real-conversation demand data.

Spec	Profound
AI engines	1 (Starter) to up to 10 (Enterprise) by tier
Entry price	$99/mo Starter; $399/mo Growth; Enterprise unpublished ($2,000–$5,000+ est.)
Free tier	No
Standout	Prompt Volume — real AI-conversation demand data — plus autonomous Agents
Watch out	Published tiers gate engines hard; famous features are Enterprise-only

Profound measures real AI-conversation demand, not just mentions. Where Visby tells you where you show up, Profound tells you what people are actually asking the AI — the deepest data in the category, at the highest price. Its published tiers gate engines hard, and its known features sit in an Enterprise tier estimated at $2,000–$5,000+/mo.⁷ See FixAEO vs Profound.

Who it's for: enterprises whose whole reason to buy is demand data.

How to choose a Visby AI alternative

Five questions narrow it fast:

1. Do you need more than 3 engines? → FixAEO (up to 9) or RankScale (17+) over Visby's ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini.
2. Do you want to test for free first? → FixAEO has a real free tier; Visby, Peec, LLMrefs, and RankScale are trial-only.
3. Is a monthly refresh too slow? → FixAEO refreshes every 72 hours (daily on its Growth plan); LLMrefs is weekly. Both beat Visby's ~30-day cycle.
4. Do you want funnel-stage tagging or a Shopify app? → keep Visby — that's its wedge.
5. Do you need enterprise governance or demand data? → AthenaHQ or Profound.

Before you drop Visby, export your prompt lists, funnel tags, and history — no tool imports another's data, so keep your own copy.

When Visby AI is still the right call

To be fair to it: Visby's funnel-stage tagging is a smart, uncommon feature, and if you live inside ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini it may be all the engine coverage you need. The Shopify app is a genuine advantage for e-commerce, and the side-by-side answers plus auto-generated tasks are a clean workflow. The AppSumo lifetime deal is the strongest reason to stay: for a solo operator who'll use it for years, a one-time cost can undercut any monthly subscription, including FixAEO's. If three engines, a monthly refresh, and that workflow fit how you work, there's no urgent reason to move. Switch when the missing engines, the ~30-day cycle, or the lack of a free tier actually bite.

How I researched this

Pricing, tiers, and engine counts were checked against each vendor's own page where published (and third-party reviews where a figure isn't, flagged below) in July 2026. Visby's details — the 3-engine list, Starter/Growth/Enterprise tiers, prompt and answer caps, the ~30-day refresh, the beta report builder, the Shopify app, and the AppSumo deal — come from visby.ai and 2026 listings, and I've flagged where a figure is approximate. Where a number is a third-party estimate — Profound's Enterprise tier, for instance — I've labeled it. AEO pricing changes constantly, so confirm before you buy. And I build FixAEO, which is disclosed above and ranked #1.

Bottom line

If you want broader coverage, a lower price, and a free way to start, the pick for most buyers is FixAEO: 6 engines on its $29 Lite plan versus Visby's 3 (all 9 on Enterprise), paid plans from $29/mo versus $79, a real free tier versus trial-only, and faster data than a monthly refresh, plus a paid MCP server. But the prompt count at entry is a tie (15 each), and Visby wins for specific buyers: its AppSumo lifetime deal can be cheaper long-run for a solo user, and its funnel-stage tagging and Shopify app are real reasons to stay if you focus on the big three chat assistants. Everyone else here wins on one specific angle, which is what the Quick Pick is for.

For the wider category, our best AEO tools of 2026 guide ranks everything.

FAQ

What are the best Visby AI alternatives?

For broader coverage and a lower price: FixAEO (6 engines from $29, 9 total, real free tier). For content workflows, Otterly; for BI analytics, Peec AI; for maximum engines, RankScale (17+) or LLMrefs (11). For enterprise governance or demand data, AthenaHQ and Profound. Which one wins depends on whether engine count, price, refresh speed, or a free tier matters most to you.

Is there a cheaper Visby AI alternative?

Yes. Visby's Starter is $79/mo and trial-only. FixAEO's Lite plan is $29/mo with a real free tier — one anonymous Gemini scan a day, no card. RankScale is even lower on sticker (~$20, credit-based) but harder to budget. Visby's AppSumo lifetime deal can still win over a long horizon for a solo user, so do that math if you plan to keep it for years.

Does FixAEO track more AI engines than Visby AI?

Yes. Visby tracks 3 — ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. FixAEO tracks up to 9 — those three plus Perplexity, Copilot, DeepSeek, Grok, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode (its $29 Lite and $79 Growth plans cover 6; all 9 are on Enterprise). If your buyers use AI beyond the big three chat assistants, FixAEO sees surfaces Visby doesn't.

How many prompts does each track at entry?

It's a tie at the entry tier: Visby's $79 Starter tracks 15 prompts (and analyzes 45 answers a month), and FixAEO's $29 Lite plan also tracks 15 prompts (shared across your brands). FixAEO's advantage there isn't more prompts — it's more engines and a lower price for the same 15. Visby's Growth tier ($199) steps up to 90 prompts; FixAEO's own $79 Growth tier tracks 50 prompts, and its 500-prompt tier is Enterprise.

What does Visby AI do that FixAEO doesn't?

A few things. Visby has funnel-stage prompt tagging (label each prompt awareness/consideration/decision), side-by-side answers from ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, auto-generated optimization tasks, and a Shopify app for e-commerce. FixAEO doesn't offer those. Visby's AppSumo lifetime deal is also a real cost advantage for long-term solo users.

How much does Visby AI cost?

Starter is $79/mo (15 tracked prompts, 45 AI answers analyzed a month), Growth is $199/mo (90 prompts, 270 answers), and Enterprise is custom (250+ prompts). There's a free trial but no permanent free tier, plus an AppSumo lifetime deal and a Shopify app. Confirm current pricing on visby.ai.¹

Can I query these tools from Claude or Cursor (MCP)?

Confirmed MCP servers among these: FixAEO, Peec, Profound, and Otterly — connect an AI client (Claude, Cursor, and others) and ask about your AI visibility without opening a dashboard. I couldn't confirm one either way for some others, including Visby. FixAEO's MCP is included on its paid plans (from $29/mo) with read-only tools across the six engines on those plans.

Footnotes

1. Visby AI pricing, engine list, prompt/answer caps, the ~30-day refresh, the beta report builder, the Shopify app, and the AppSumo lifetime deal verified against visby.ai and 2026 listings in July 2026. Per-tier caps are approximate — confirm on the live page. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

2. Otterly's core tiers list 4 engines with Claude/Gemini/AI Mode as add-ons; pricing from otterly.ai, July 2026. ↩

3. Peec AI full-coverage cost range from third-party reviews (geoptie.com, workduo.ai), cross-checked against peec.ai/pricing, July 2026. ↩

4. RankScale pricing and engine count from rankscale.ai, July 2026; credit costs vary by engine — treat specific figures as approximate. ↩

5. LLMrefs pricing and engine count verified against llmrefs.com, July 2026; the "All in One" $79/mo rate is labeled limited-time. ↩

6. AthenaHQ pricing and engine list from athenahq.ai, July 2026; vendor advertises up to 9 engines. ↩

7. Profound published tiers from tryprofound.com, July 2026; Enterprise price is unpublished — the $2,000–$5,000+/mo figure is a third-party estimate (thatmarketingbuddy.com, trakkr.ai), not a vendor figure. ↩