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PlainQuill against the rank and AI visibility trackers

Two markets have to be bought separately almost everywhere: a rank tracker for your Google positions, and an AI visibility tracker for whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude name you. We are the cheapest way to have both, on a small number of searches, and we are not the deepest instrument for either.

Only what each vendor states publicly is listed here, read from their own pricing pages in September 2026. Where a vendor does not state something, this table says so rather than guessing. Prices carrying a marker link to the page they were read from.

Rank trackers and AI visibility trackers compared. Scroll sideways to see every column.
Product	Cheapest plan with daily positions and AI citations	What that covers	AI engines, and whether Claude is one	How often it checks	What one more costs	Does the tracking produce anything
PlainQuillA content service that reports on its own work.	From $29 per month, both included^[1]	2, 4, 6 searches by plan, plus 5 more per $4 pack. 5 to 15 of them also checked on Google Maps, on Growth and Max	ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude, on every plan	Positions daily, local map positions weekly, AI citations weekly and daily on Max	$0.80 a month, in packs of 5	Yes, it is read into the plan for the next article
SE RankingRank tracker. A full SEO suite with AI prompts alongside.	€109 per month, €87.20 billed yearly^[2]	2,000 keywords and 100 prompts, 10 projects	Five, and the page does not name Claude among them	Daily, on both	Not sold singly; the next self-serve tier is €235 a month	Separately: 25 articles a month from its content tool, on this plan
NightwatchRank tracker. Six search engines, any location or language.	€79 per month, billed yearly^[3]	500 keywords and 50 AI prompts, 1,500 AI answers a month	ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Mode and AI Overviews	Daily, on both, in any location or language	Not sold singly; the next tier is €159 a month	Separately: a content studio, and an SEO agent on monthly credits
AccuRankerRank tracker. AI visibility is a second product on a second bill.	Not on one plan; ranks are $224 a month billed yearly^[4]	2,000 keywords on the entry tier	Its AI product covers ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google surfaces; not on this plan	Daily updates on ranks	Not sold singly; the tier is the unit	No
SerpRobotRank tracker. The price floor of the whole field, and rank only.	Not on one plan; no AI visibility feature is on the page^[5]	75 keyword updates every 24 hours per bot	None	Daily, as many keywords a day as your bots cover	$4.99 a month buys another bot, so another 75 a day	No
ProfoundAI visibility tracker. The name a buyer in this segment hears first.	Not on one plan; no price is published, Enterprise is custom^[6]	50 prompts for a free week; Enterprise volume is custom	Three in the free week; up to nine on Enterprise, Claude among them	Daily	Not published; volume is agreed in a custom package	Its agents write marketing content, priced in credits
Otterly.aiAI visibility tracker. The cheapest credible one, and cheaper than us.	Not on one plan; AI answers alone are $29 a month^[7]	15 prompts on the entry plan	Four, but Claude is a $29 a month add-on on that tier	Daily, which we match only on Max	Not sold singly at that tier; 100 prompts is $189 a month	No

Competitor prices are taken from their public pricing pages as of September 2026. Prices and features change. Verify current prices with each vendor before you decide.

Read past the checkmarks

Why there are so few tracked searches

A report of two hundred positions is a haystack

Every tracker above sells volume, because volume is easy to price and easy to deliver. A one-person business does not have two thousand terms and cannot read a report with two thousand rows in it. We track the handful you are actually trying to own, and the small number is the point rather than the ceiling: another 5 cost $0.80 each per month, and you can add as many packs as you like.

The measurement writes the next article

A tracker hands you a dashboard and the work starts there. Here the position and the citation state of each tracked search are read straight into the plan for the next piece, and a search we are not ranking for is a reason to write for it rather than a reason to drop it. Nothing on that path needs you to open anything.

Four assistants, on the cheapest plan

We ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude on every plan, at no extra charge. The cheapest standalone tracker in this table charges the price of its whole entry tier again for Claude alone, and the best known name in the segment leaves Claude out of its free week and prices everything past it to order. Breadth is the one axis in this category where we are ahead, and it is worth stating exactly rather than dressing up as depth.

Honestly

When to buy one of these instead

Our tracking is a reporting and steering layer inside a content service. It is not an AI visibility product, and it should not be bought as a replacement for one.

You need to watch hundreds of terms. Plans include 2 to 6 tracked searches, and packs of 5 take that up in fives. If you need two thousand keyword positions, SE Ranking and AccuRanker sell exactly that and we do not. The small number here is a decision rather than a limitation, but a decision is still a no.
You rank outside Google, or across several places at once. We record Google positions and nothing else, in ONE country you choose, and on Growth and Max we also read the Google Maps pack for ONE place you give us. There is no language setting, no second engine, and no way to watch the same search from several towns at once. Nightwatch tracks Google, YouTube, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo and Maps, in any location or language, on 500 keywords rather than 2 to 6.
You want AI answers checked every day, on every plan. Profound, Otterly and Nightwatch all check daily, and say so on their own pages. We check weekly, and daily only on Max. If the cadence is the product, buy the product whose cadence it is.
You want sentiment and share of voice, scored over time. The AI visibility tools sell an analysis layer: how you are described, how favourably, and how your share of an answer moves over time. We record whether each assistant cited you, which domains it named instead of you, and the opening of the answer it gave, and on the search side, who is ahead of you and how far each of them has moved over the last fortnight. None of it is scored, and a score is what that layer is.
You want to track a page that is not on your own site. For each of your tracked searches we report two positions rather than one: where the article we published sits, and where the best other page on your own domain sits, so a page you wrote years ago is reported as yours rather than read as nothing. Your homepage is read as well, for your own business name. What we will not do is measure an address that is not yours, and every tracker above points at any URL you give it.

One more worth naming and impossible to price: Peec tracks 50 prompts a day across three models you pick, rising to 350, and no currency amount appears anywhere in its own pricing page, so we do not quote one.^[8] We do not promise rankings or traffic figures. Reporting a position is not promising one, and we will not pretend a number we measured is a number we control.

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PlainQuill pricingOur three plans and what each one tracks, plus the 5 search pack at $4 a month that the per-search figure above is derived from.
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SE Ranking pricingRead from their public pricing page with a browser user-agent as of September 2026, which now answers at seranking.com/subscription.html and served its prices in euros to where we read it from; in August the same page served dollars, $129 a month or $103.20 billed yearly for Core, so the currency appears to follow the reader's location. Core reads "€ 87.20 € 109.00 /mo" for "10 projects & 1 manager seat 2k keywords & 100 prompts to track daily 5 domains in GEO research", with the lower figure being annual billing. Growth is "€ 188.00 € 235.00 /mo" for "5k keywords & 250 prompts to track daily". The limits table reads "LLMs to track 5" on both plans without naming them, and Claude appears nowhere on the page as a tracked engine. The same table gives Core "Content Marketing, articles 25".
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Nightwatch pricingRead as of September 2026. Starter is "€ 79 /mo € 948 billed yearly" for "500 Keywords 50 AI prompts Tracked daily, in any location or language", with 1,500 AI answers a month; Professional is €159 and Agency €399. Its engine list is "Google YouTube Bing Yahoo DuckDuckGo Google Maps" and its AI platforms are "ChatGPT Claude Gemini Perplexity AI Mode AI Overview". Its tools, which the page says are included on every plan, now include a "Content Studio" to "Research, draft and score SEO content against page one", and Starter carries 100 "SEO Agent credits / mo". On engines, locations and volume it beats us on every axis at once, for roughly three times the money.
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AccuRanker pricingRead as of September 2026. Professional reads "$224 / month" with the yearly toggle selected, for "Keywords 2,000" and "Daily updates". AI visibility is a separate product on the same page, AccuLLM, with its own tiers, so the honest reading of the first column is that there is no single plan that does both. Its per-tier prices render from data in the page rather than as text, so none is quoted here.
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SerpRobot pricingRead as of September 2026, verbatim: "Each paid SERP Bot costs $4.99 USD per month and gives you 75 keyword updates per 24 hours." Nothing on that page offers AI visibility of any kind. It is the cheapest way in the world to watch a Google position, it is ten times cheaper per keyword than anything else here, and it does nothing with the answer.
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Profound pricingRead as of September 2026. The page no longer carries a price of any kind. It offers two things to a brand: a free first week, in which "50 prompts run daily" for seven days on "ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews", and "Enterprise", priced as "Custom" with "Up to 9 Answer Engines tracked", its table naming "Anthropic Claude" among them, and "Daily" frequency. Its agents are "priced on a credit-based model", and it says it helps with "writing content". In August this page read $99 a month billed yearly for 50 prompts on one engine, with a $399 plan above it; neither figure is on it now, so neither is quoted here.
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Otterly.ai pricingRead as of September 2026. Lite is $29 a month for "15 search prompts" with "Daily tracking frequency" and "Tracking of 4 AI Search Engines: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, MS Copilot", above the line "Claude, Google AI-Mode, Gemini as extra Add-ons". Its add-on table lists "Claude (Monthly)" at $29 a month on that tier, so the fourth engine doubles the bill. Standard is $189 for 100 prompts. It checks daily, where we check weekly and daily only on Max, and it is cheaper than our cheapest plan; what it does not do is write anything.
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Peec AI pricingRead as of September 2026. Its tiers state "50 prompts Choose 3 models Unlimited users Daily tracking frequency 1 project", then 150 and 350 prompts above that, and Enterprise offers "Up to 13 LLM models tracked". No currency amount of any kind appears in the page's HTML, so no Peec price is quoted anywhere here and it is left out of the table rather than estimated.
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