Comparison · researched 26 July 2026

The GEO tool you bill per project

The awkward part of adding AI visibility to an agency's services is not the work — it is the maths. A monthly platform fee spread across a client list you turn over is a standing cost against irregular revenue. Pay-per-use inverts that: the cost lands inside the job you are already invoicing.

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 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
Why Sailiently

Why this fits agency billing

  • The cost lands inside the job you invoice. About $85 for a full client site pass, not a standing monthly fee.
  • No per-seat or per-client floor. Ten clients do not mean ten subscriptions.
  • Four client-ready deliverables: an access verdict, a per-engine audit, a gap comparison and a grounded draft.
  • A free Site Check makes a strong pitch opener — run it live on the prospect’s site.

The agency arithmetic

Take a five-client month. A platform charging an agency tier bills you the same whether all five were active or one was. Pay-per-use bills the job.

ScenarioPay-per-useNote
One client site pass~84 credits (~$85)Audit, gap analysis and rewrite across a small site.
A single page check5 credits ($5)Enough to answer “is this page citable?” for a prospect.
A quiet month$0No client work, no cost. There is no floor.

You decide the client price. The tool cost sits inside the job you are already invoicing.

What you hand the client

An access verdict

Crawler-by-crawler: whether AI engines can reach the site at all. Free.

A per-engine audit

A readability score per engine with the evidence behind every factor and a ranked fix list.

A gap comparison

Your page against the named competitor pages, gap by gap.

A grounded draft

A rewrite built strictly from the client’s own content. No invented facts, never auto-published.

How to explain it on a call

Skip the jargon. This version works better than any acronym:

‘When your buyers ask an AI assistant about your category, it names a handful of companies. We check whether you are one of them, find out why not, fix the pages, and check again.’

Set expectations honestly

Do not promise citations, rankings or traffic — nobody can deliver those reliably, and a client who has been promised them will hold you to it. Promise the diagnosis, the fix and the re-measurement, all of which you control. Clients tend to trust a service more when it is clear about what it cannot do.

Where a platform subscription still wins

Honestly, sometimes it is. Buy the subscription if:

Frequently asked questions

Is there really no monthly fee?

No monthly fee. $1 = 1 credit, and you buy credits in bundles. A quiet month costs nothing.

What does a typical job cost?

A Site Check is free. 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.

How does that compare to the category?

A 2026 benchmark of more than 30 AI search monitoring tools put the average at about $337 per month, and a July 2026 round-up found serious multi-engine tracking generally starting near $200-500 per month. Those are reported figures; verify with each vendor.

Which engines are included?

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode — all six, with no add-on tiers.

When should I buy a subscription instead?

When you need continuous daily monitoring, client-facing dashboards, or your volume is high enough that a flat fee beats per-job pricing. We would rather say that plainly than sell you the wrong shape of tool.

Start with the free check

A Site Check costs nothing and needs no card. If it is useful, a URL Audit is five credits.

Start free — 15 creditsSee how it compares
About this comparison. Everything stated here about the vendors named above 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.