Sailiently in one minute
Sailiently answers one question — does AI recommend you? — and then helps you change the answer. The AI Visibility Tracker measures your buyers’ real questions across six engines and tells you where you are cited, mentioned, absent, or where nobody owns the answer yet. Citation Radar shows the open web those answers are drawn from. The GEO Optimization tools then audit the competitor pages that won, and draft the page that beats them. Re-run and see what moved.
What sets it apart against Ahrefs Brand Radar and the rest of the category: it is pay-per-use — $1 = 1 credit, no subscription, a quiet month costs nothing — and it ends in a fix, not a dashboard. Every score is reproducible: paste any URL, including a rival’s, and check it yourself.
What Ahrefs Brand Radar costs, and what that buys
Reported pricing, 2026. Ahrefs publishes its plans, so these are firmer than most in this category — but check the current page before you budget.
| Plan | Reported price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Ahrefs base (Lite) | from $129/mo | Brand Radar is an add-on and requires an active base subscription. |
| One AI index | $199/mo | Priced per platform index. |
| All six AI indexes | $699/mo | Bundled across the six AI surfaces. |
| Realistic all-in | $828-$1,148/mo | Independent 2026 reviews put typical configurations in this band. |
For context, a 2026 market survey put the average price of a dedicated AI-visibility tool at about $337 per month. A full Brand Radar deployment lands near 2.5 times that, before you count the value of the wider Ahrefs suite.
Where the gap usually shows up
You are buying an SEO suite to get an AI feature
If you already run Ahrefs, the marginal cost is smaller and the integration is real. If you do not, you are buying a platform to reach an add-on. A URL audit here costs 5 credits and needs nothing underneath it.
Per-index pricing means engine coverage is a budget decision
Sailiently measures all six engines in one job, with no per-index line.
Independent testing has flagged accuracy gaps
Reviewers in 2026 documented discrepancies in its AI-mention counts, and noted Claude is not among the tracked surfaces. We measure Claude, and every signal we report is one you can reproduce yourself.
What Sailiently does instead
One job, six engines, no stack underneath
- No base subscription required. Brand Radar needs an Ahrefs plan beneath it; this needs nothing.
- No per-index pricing. All six engines are measured in the same job — engine coverage is not a budget decision.
- About $85 for a full site pass, against a reported $828–$1,148 a month all-in.
- Claude is included, and every signal we report is one you can reproduce yourself by pasting the URL.
Start with the Tracker
Every question the AI Visibility Tracker measures comes back as one of four states: It runs across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode, over multiple passes, because a single query is noisy.
CITED MENTIONED ABSENT OPEN
- CITED — Your domain appeared in the answer's source list.
- MENTIONED — Your brand was named in the answer text, without a link.
- ABSENT — Neither named nor cited — a competitor took the answer.
- OPEN — Nobody owns this answer yet — an opportunity to build the page.
A ten-prompt, six-engine run is 15 credits; thirty prompts is 35, or 45 with the LLM Mentions add-on, which shows the domains AI keeps drawing on across your whole category — including sites you would never have thought to check. That is what turns outreach into something targeted rather than guesswork.
Then fix what it found
Sailiently is pay-per-use. There is no monthly fee and nothing to cancel. You run a job, it costs credits, and the output is work you can hand to a client — measured across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode.
| Job | Cost | What you get back |
|---|---|---|
| Site Check | Free | Crawler-by-crawler access matrix — can AI engines reach you at all. |
| AI Visibility run | 15–45 credits | Your buyers' questions across six engines, multi-pass. 10 prompts × 6 engines is 15; 30 prompts is 35, or 45 with the LLM Mentions add-on. |
| URL Audit | 5 credits | Per-engine readability score for one page, with the evidence behind every factor and a ranked fix list. |
| Gap Analysis | 5 credits | Benchmarks your page against named competitor pages, gap by gap. |
| Page Rewrite | 10 credits | A publish-ready draft grounded strictly in your own content. Never auto-published. |
| Audit + Rewrite together | 12 credits | The pair, priced below buying them separately. |
| Citation Radar | 5–20 credits | Citations or Mentions 5 each; Rankings or AI Overviews 10 each; Citations + Rankings 15; All-in-One 20. |
$1 = 1 credit. Volume bundles: 100 credits for $85 · 250 credits for $175 · 500 credits for $350 · 1,000 credits for $700. A seven-page site pass is 7 × 12 = 84 credits ($84 at list), so the 100-credit bundle at $85 covers it with credits to spare. Every account starts with 15 free credits and no card.
Where Ahrefs Brand Radar is genuinely stronger
We would rather you buy the right tool than buy ours. These are real advantages:
- The prompt database is enormous - reported at 240-271 million search-backed prompts - which gives retroactive data with no setup at all. We have nothing comparable.
- It breaks AI referrals out as separate channels in Web Analytics rather than lumping them into referral traffic.
- If you already pay for Ahrefs, the whole backlink and keyword picture sits beside the AI data.
Who should switch, and who should stay
Switch if…
You wanted the AI-visibility job, not an SEO platform subscription plus per-index add-ons, and you want the audit to end in a fix list and a draft.
Stay if…
Ahrefs is already your platform, or the scale of the historical prompt database is the specific thing you are buying.
Don’t take our word for it — reproduce it
Every signal we measure is a checkable fact: crawler access, structured data, server-rendered content, sitemap declaration. Paste any URL — ours, theirs, or a client’s — and reproduce the result. A Site Check is free and needs no card.
What we do not claim
- Per-engine scores are directional estimates, not a guarantee of placement.
- We measure what is on your page and what engines return. We do not measure off-domain authority, and we never promise citations, rankings or traffic.
- A rewrite is a draft grounded in your existing content. It invents no facts and it never publishes itself.
Frequently asked questions
Is Sailiently a direct replacement for Ahrefs Brand Radar?
Not in every case, and we say so above. Ahrefs Brand Radar is stronger on the points listed in the section above. Sailiently replaces it well if you want per-project economics and a fix list rather than a monitoring dashboard.
How much does Sailiently cost?
There is no subscription. $1 = 1 credit. A URL audit is 5 credits, a gap analysis 5, a page rewrite 10. A seven-page site pass is 7 × 12 = 84 credits ($84 at list), so the 100-credit bundle at $85 covers it with credits to spare. Every account starts with 15 free credits and no card.
Which AI engines do you measure?
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode. All six are included; there are no per-engine add-ons.
Do you guarantee I will get cited?
No, and you should be wary of any tool that does. Citation depends on factors beyond your page, including off-domain authority we do not measure. We report what is measurable and hand you the highest-impact fixes.
Do credits expire?
Credits are bought as bundles and drawn down as you run jobs. There is no monthly fee underneath them, so there is nothing to cancel if you go a month without a project.