Alternative · researched 26 July 2026

A Conductor alternative for teams without an enterprise budget

Conductor is an enterprise SEO platform with an AI-search module attached. It is bought by organisations with a search function, a procurement process and an annual contract. If that is not you, the module is not really available to you at any sensible price.

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 Conductor 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.

AI Visibility TrackerCitation RadarGEO Optimization15 free credits, no card

What Conductor costs, and what that buys

Conductor does not publish self-serve pricing. Reported figures come from dated third-party round-ups.

PlanReported priceNotes
Modelenterprise contractAI search performance sits as a module inside the wider platform.
Reportedtypically $2,000+/moReported in a May 2026 category round-up as custom-priced.
Depthbolted-on moduleOne 2026 round-up groups the SEO suites together as having the most users but the shallowest AI features.
Best forexisting enterprise customersThe value case rests on the platform, not the module.

Nothing here is a criticism of Conductor as an enterprise SEO platform. It is a statement about who can buy it.

Where the gap usually shows up

Annual contracts do not fit project work

A freelancer or small agency cannot commit to an enterprise agreement to answer a client question about ChatGPT.

The module reports; it does not repair

Suite modules are built to surface AI data inside an existing workflow. Sailiently's output is the audit, the gap comparison and the draft.

Procurement is the real barrier

Even when budget exists, the sales and onboarding cycle is measured in weeks. A Site Check takes seconds and costs nothing.

What Sailiently does instead

Why Sailiently

No contract, no procurement, no waiting

  • Start in seconds. A Site Check is free and needs no card, no call and no onboarding cycle.
  • Per project, not per year. The cost sits inside the client job you are already invoicing.
  • Repair rather than reporting. The module tells you; the audit tells you what to change, and the rewrite drafts it.
  • Six engines included, with published prices you can read before you commit.

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  

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.

JobCostWhat you get back
Site CheckFreeCrawler-by-crawler access matrix — can AI engines reach you at all.
AI Visibility run15–45 creditsYour 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 Audit5 creditsPer-engine readability score for one page, with the evidence behind every factor and a ranked fix list.
Gap Analysis5 creditsBenchmarks your page against named competitor pages, gap by gap.
Page Rewrite10 creditsA publish-ready draft grounded strictly in your own content. Never auto-published.
Audit + Rewrite together12 creditsThe pair, priced below buying them separately.
Citation Radar5–20 creditsCitations 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 Conductor is genuinely stronger

We would rather you buy the right tool than buy ours. These are real advantages:

Who should switch, and who should stay

Switch if…

You need the AI-visibility work done now, per project, without a contract or a procurement cycle.

Stay if…

You are already a Conductor customer, or you need enterprise governance and support around the data.

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

Frequently asked questions

Is Sailiently a direct replacement for Conductor?

Not in every case, and we say so above. Conductor 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.

Try it on the page you were going to audit anyway

Run a free Site Check, then spend 5 credits on a URL Audit and compare the output to what Conductor gives you.

Start free — 15 creditsSee how it compares
About this comparison. Everything stated here about Conductor is drawn from that company’s own public pages and from dated third-party reviews and round-ups, gathered on the date shown at the top of this page. We have not purchased or independently tested every plan described. Pricing, packaging, engine coverage and features in this category change frequently, and figures are reported rather than verified by us. Always check the vendor’s own live pricing page before making a decision — the date on this page tells you when we looked, not that the information is still current. We correct errors promptly: if anything here is wrong or out of date, tell us and we will fix it. No liability is accepted for errors or omissions, or for decisions taken on the basis of this page. Details of Sailiently’s own pricing and behaviour are accurate as at the same date and can be verified on our pricing page.