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 Semrush AI Visibility 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 Semrush AI Visibility costs, and what that buys
Semrush's AI toolkit is packaged as part of its wider platform. The relevant cost is the platform, not the module.
| Plan | Reported price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Model | suite add-on | AI visibility sits inside the Semrush platform rather than standing alone. |
| Reported range | ~$99–199/mo | Reported 2026 figures for the AI toolkit tier; the underlying suite is a separate cost. |
| Bundled advantage | real | One 2026 round-up describes the SEO platforms' AEO modules as shallower but bundled into contracts teams already hold. |
| Best for | existing subscribers | The value case is strongest if the suite is already in your stack. |
If Semrush is already in your stack, honestly: switch the toolkit on. This page is for everyone else.
Where the gap usually shows up
You should not have to buy a platform to audit a page
Sailiently is standalone. A URL audit costs 5 credits and needs no other subscription.
Bolted-on modules tend to stop at reporting
The suite modules are built to report inside an existing workflow. Our output is a fix list and a grounded draft.
Per-seat suite pricing suits teams, not solo operators
A freelancer pays the same platform floor as a ten-person team.
What Sailiently does instead
Standalone — no platform underneath it
- You do not need an SEO suite to audit a page. A URL audit is 5 credits and needs nothing else subscribed.
- Built for the AI-visibility job specifically, rather than bolted onto a platform built for the blue-links era.
- A solo operator pays for the job, not the platform floor.
- The output is a fix list and a draft grounded strictly in your existing content — never invented copy.
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 Semrush AI Visibility is genuinely stronger
We would rather you buy the right tool than buy ours. These are real advantages:
- If you already own the suite, the marginal cost of switching on AI visibility is very low and the integration with your keyword and backlink data is real.
- Its prompt database and competitor benchmarking draw on far more data than we hold.
- The wider platform does dozens of jobs we do not attempt at all.
Who should switch, and who should stay
Switch if…
You do not want an SEO platform subscription just to answer the AI-visibility question, and you want the fix as the deliverable.
Stay if…
You already pay for Semrush. Use what you have — we would tell you the same thing on a call.
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 Semrush AI Visibility?
Not in every case, and we say so above. Semrush AI Visibility 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.