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 AthenaHQ 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 AthenaHQ costs, and what that buys
Figures below are as published and reported in mid-2026. Confirm current packaging on AthenaHQ's own pricing page before you buy.
| Plan | Reported price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Self-Serve | $295/mo | Reported as the published self-serve entry point (multiple sources, June–July 2026). |
| Enterprise | custom | Anything beyond the self-serve package runs through their sales team. |
| Trial | 10-day, on paid plans | Reviewers note there is no free trial — the trial sits behind a paid plan. |
| Usage model | credit-based | One 2026 review describes each AI response consuming credits, which can make the effective cost hard to predict. |
We have no quarrel with credit-based billing — ours is credit-based too. The difference is that ours has no monthly floor underneath it.
Where the gap usually shows up
You commit before you test
A trial that requires a paid plan first is a real barrier for a freelancer evaluating a new service line. Sailiently gives you 15 credits on signup with no card.
Monitoring first, action second
AthenaHQ pairs monitoring with recommendations. Sailiently's output is the work itself — an evidence-backed audit, a gap comparison against named rivals, and a grounded draft.
Per-brand pricing versus per-job pricing
If you carry ten client brands, a per-brand subscription multiplies. A job costs the same whoever it is for.
What Sailiently does instead
Test it before you commit anything
- 15 free credits on signup, no card. No paid plan required before you can find out whether this is a service worth selling.
- No monthly floor underneath the credits. A quiet month costs nothing at all.
- Priced per job, not per brand. Carry ten client brands without ten subscriptions.
- You get the fix, not a recommendation. The audit ends in a ranked list; the rewrite ends in a draft.
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 AthenaHQ is genuinely stronger
We would rather you buy the right tool than buy ours. These are real advantages:
- Prompt-volume estimation for discovering trending queries is a genuinely useful feature we do not have.
- It advertises revenue attribution through direct Shopify and GA4 integrations — if you are ecommerce and want visibility tied to orders, that is a real advantage.
- Its base plans cover more AI models than ours do.
Who should switch, and who should stay
Switch if…
You want to try AI visibility work without committing a few hundred dollars a month first, or you bill clients per project and need the cost to sit inside the job.
Stay if…
You are running ecommerce and want AI visibility tied to Shopify revenue attribution, or prompt-volume discovery is central to how you plan content.
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 AthenaHQ?
Not in every case, and we say so above. AthenaHQ 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.