Best Affordable AI Visibility Tools Under $100 (2026)

Last updated: November 2026

You can track whether ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews mention your brand for under $100 a month. The cheapest paid options we verified are TrendlyAI Solo ($19), Otterly.AI Lite ($29) and Rank Prompt Starter ($49, or $39 billed yearly). LLMrefs ($79) gives the most prompts and engines for the money.

Key takeaways🔗

• Seven tools have a public plan under $100 a month as of October 2026. Profound and Scrunch do not, so they are left out.

• The cheapest plans differ in what they limit: prompts, brands, engines or how often they scan. Pick the limit you can live with.

• A small business usually needs 15 to 25 good buyer prompts, one brand and two or three competitors. You do not need an enterprise plan for that.

• Free options exist: Rank Prompt has a free plan with 10 credits, and TrendlyAI has a free check with no signup.

• We build TrendlyAI, so weigh that. Every other price below comes from the vendor's own pricing page.

What does an affordable AI visibility tool need to do?🔗

An affordable AI visibility tool needs to show, on a schedule, whether AI assistants name your business when a buyer asks a question, and which competitors they name instead. That is the core job. Everything else (dashboards, sentiment, APIs, Looker Studio connectors) is nice to have.

For a small business or a solo marketer, three limits matter most:

1. Prompts. Each prompt is a question a buyer might ask, like "best accountant for freelancers in Austin." You need enough to cover your main services, usually 15 to 25.

2. Engines. ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews are the usual starting set. Gemini, Claude, Copilot and Google AI Mode are extras that some plans charge for.

3. Frequency. Daily, weekly or on demand. Weekly is enough to see trends for most small businesses.

If you are not sure what to measure, start with our guide to what AI search visibility is and then how the score works.

Which AI visibility tools cost under $100 a month?🔗

These are the tools with a public plan under $100 a month that we checked on each vendor's pricing page in October 2026. Prices are monthly in USD.

Sources: Otterly.AI pricing, Rank Prompt pricing, SE Visible pricing, LLMrefs pricing, Peec AI pricing, Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit help page.

Left out: Profound shows a free trial and a custom Enterprise price, with no public paid plan. Scrunch starts at $250/mo (its one self-serve plan, Core). Hall was acquired by Tracksuit in July 2026 and no longer takes new signups; see Hall AI alternatives. Content tools such as Frase ($49/mo, $39 billed yearly) also include some AI tracking; see Frase alternatives. Our Profound vs Peec vs Otterly comparison shows what those three cost at 25 and 100 prompts.

Which cheap tool is right for you?🔗

TrendlyAI Solo ($19/mo): for one business that wants fixes, not just charts🔗

We build TrendlyAI, so weigh that. Solo is $19/mo ($16/mo billed yearly) for 1 brand, 25 prompts, 2 competitors, 10 fix drafts a month, white-label PDF reports and 5 pitch audits a month. It tracks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews, shows where a competitor is named and you are not, and drafts the fix: a comparison page, an FAQ page with schema, a Reddit answer, an llms.txt file, a best-of list or a product page rewrite. Pro at $49/mo covers 3 brands with unlimited fix drafts.

The weak points are real. It tracks only 4 engines (no Gemini, Grok, Copilot or Google AI Mode). It scans weekly with 1 sample per prompt, so it will not catch day-to-day swings. It has no prompt-volume data, few public reviews yet and a small team. TrendlyAI tracks its own domain, and I publish our own score, which is low. There is a 7-day free trial with no credit card, and no free plan.

Otterly.AI Lite ($29/mo): for daily checks on a short prompt list🔗

Otterly's Lite plan is $29/mo ($25 yearly) for 15 prompts with daily tracking and unlimited team members. It covers ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Copilot. Google AI Mode and Gemini cost $9/mo extra on Lite, and Claude costs $29/mo extra. Fifteen prompts is tight, so choose them carefully. Our Otterly alternative post compares it in more depth.

Rank Prompt Starter ($49/mo) and Pro ($89/mo): for the widest engine list at a low price🔗

Rank Prompt covers six engines on every plan: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode/AI Overviews, Claude, Gemini and Grok. Starter is $49/mo ($39/mo billed yearly) for 150 credits and 1 brand; Pro is $89/mo ($71/mo billed yearly) for 500 credits, 10 brands and 2 seats. Agency allows 50 brands and Agency Plus 500. One prompt on 1 to 3 engines costs 1 credit, and on 4 to 6 engines costs 2. Credits reset monthly and do not roll over. There is also a free plan with 10 credits, enough for one report. Work out your monthly credit use before you buy: 25 prompts on all six engines, run weekly, uses about 200 to 220 credits a month, which is more than Starter includes. Our TrendlyAI vs Rank Prompt comparison works through the credit math.

SE Visible Basic ($89/mo): for daily data from an SEO suite vendor🔗

SE Visible, from SE Ranking, has a Basic plan at $89/mo ($71/mo billed yearly) for 75 prompts and 5 projects, with daily tracking on ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini and Copilot. It does not list Perplexity on Basic.

LLMrefs ($79/mo): for the most prompts and engines per dollar🔗

LLMrefs has a single plan at $79/mo: 500 prompts, unlimited projects, unlimited team members and many engines, including ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok, Copilot and Meta AI. Its FAQ says each keyword updates at least once a week. If you need breadth and do not mind building your own fixes, it is hard to beat on price.

Peec AI Starter ($95/mo): for marketing teams near the $100 line🔗

Peec AI's Starter plan is $95/mo for 50 prompts and 1 project, with 3 active models at a time. It is aimed at marketing teams and is close to the $100 line. See our Peec AI alternative post.

Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit ($99/mo): if you already use Semrush🔗

Semrush's help page lists the AI Visibility Toolkit at $99/mo for 1 domain and 25 prompts, with 50 more prompts for $60/mo. It names ChatGPT and Google AI Mode for prompt tracking. It makes sense if your team already works in Semrush every day.

How do you get the most from a cheap plan?🔗

You get the most from a cheap plan by spending your prompt budget on the questions that lead to sales, not on vanity terms. A few rules help:

• Write prompts the way buyers talk. "Best HVAC company in Phoenix for older homes" beats "HVAC Phoenix."

• Track two or three real competitors. The useful signal is not your score, it is the prompts where a competitor shows up and you do not.

• Fix one gap a month. A new comparison page, an FAQ with schema, or a helpful Reddit answer. Our guide on how to get cited by ChatGPT lists what tends to work.

• Check results by hand once in a while. Ask ChatGPT the same prompt yourself. The tool should match what you see most of the time. Our guide to ChatGPT rank tracking tools explains why answers vary between runs.

For local businesses, our GEO audit checklist covers the basics to fix before you pay for any tracking, and our guide to AI search optimization for small businesses helps you decide between doing it yourself, a tool or an agency. If you want more than the cheapest plans, see how AI search monitoring providers compare across every price tier. All our guides live on the GEO hub.

Can you track AI visibility for free?🔗

You can check AI visibility for free by hand or with a free tool, but ongoing tracking almost always costs money. Asking ChatGPT and Perplexity your buyer questions yourself every week is free and teaches you a lot. Rank Prompt's free plan gives 10 credits for one report. TrendlyAI's free AI visibility check needs no signup, takes about 30 seconds and runs 5 prompts on ChatGPT and Perplexity. Start there, then pay only once you know which prompts matter.

Frequently asked questions🔗

What is the cheapest AI visibility tool in 2026?🔗

The cheapest paid plan we verified in October 2026 is TrendlyAI Solo at $19/mo ($16/mo billed yearly), followed by Otterly.AI Lite at $29/mo and Rank Prompt Starter at $49/mo ($39/mo billed yearly). Rank Prompt also has a free plan with 10 credits.

Is $19 a month enough to track AI visibility?🔗

For one small business, yes. TrendlyAI Solo covers 1 brand, 25 prompts and 2 competitors on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews with weekly scans. It does not cover Gemini, Grok, Copilot or AI Mode, and it takes 1 sample per prompt per engine, so it shows trends rather than daily swings.

Which cheap tool tracks the most AI engines?🔗

LLMrefs lists many engines on its $79/mo plan as of October 2026, including ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok and Copilot. Rank Prompt covers six on every plan, including its $49 Starter plan. Rankscale lists 17+ engines from $17/mo billed yearly, paid in credits; see TrendlyAI vs Rankscale.

Do I need daily tracking as a small business?🔗

Usually not. AI answers change between runs, and most small businesses make one or two content changes a month. Weekly data is enough to see whether a fix worked.

Why are Profound and Scrunch not on this list?🔗

Profound does not publish a paid price on its pricing page (it shows a free trial and a custom Enterprise plan), and Scrunch's one self-serve plan, Core, is $250/mo. Neither has a public plan under $100.

Related reading🔗

• Best AI search visibility tools

• How to track brand mentions in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google

• Best AI visibility tools for agencies