Buyer questions
Use category questions that do not name your company, then see which products the engine actually recommends.
OtterlyAI alternative
A GEO Monitor alternative to OtterlyAI
OtterlyAI tracks AI visibility daily, but Gemini and Claude are paid add-ons on every plan, including Standard at €189/mo. GEO Monitor Pro gives you all 5 engines at $79/mo with stored answers, citation gaps and Accuracy Watch included.
GEO Monitor tracks AI engines. It has zero effect on your directree listing or ranking.
Stored receipts
Open the underlying response, inspect the mention and review the citations rather than trusting an unexplained score.
Evidence gaps
Use missing sources and inconsistent facts as a concrete research list, not a promise that any one change will make you rank.
What this category means
OtterlyAI alternatives, defined plainly.
OtterlyAI is an AI-search monitoring tool. It runs your prompts every day and reports whether your brand is mentioned and which sources were cited, across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Microsoft Copilot. That daily citation monitoring is genuinely useful, and Otterly does it well. The real difference is which engines are in the box: Otterly's base engines are the cheaper four, and Gemini and Claude are sold as paid add-ons on every plan, including Standard at €189/mo (roughly $206). GEO Monitor includes Gemini and Claude in the base Pro price of $79/mo, so the five engines your buyers actually use are covered without a shopping list of extras.
This page is for teams who started on Otterly and want Gemini and Claude coverage without paying add-ons on top of a €189/mo plan; teams who would rather have weekly stored evidence they can reopen months later than daily snapshots that scroll away; and startups or SMBs who looked at Otterly Standard and decided the price did not match what they got. If you need daily cadence, a large prompt library or Microsoft Copilot specifically, Otterly is still the better buy. We would rather say that than pretend otherwise.
How it works
From buyer question to stored evidence, step by step.
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Set buyer questions once
Write up to 50 brand-free questions your buyers actually ask, in their words, without naming your company. Naming yourself in the prompt forces a mention and hides the real baseline. You set them once and the same set is reused every scan, so the comparison over time is honest.
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Five engines scanned weekly
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Claude all run with the same question set, every week. No separate add-on is required for Gemini or Claude. They are part of the Pro plan, not an upsell attached to it.
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Evidence, not scores
Every answer is stored with its citation URLs, so you can reopen the exact response behind any number. The gap list shows which pages your competitors are cited from that you are not, which turns a visibility miss into a concrete list of pages to earn or fix.
How the tools compare
GEO Monitor vs Profound, Peec AI and OtterlyAI.
Entry plans, side by side. Every competitor here is a good product; the difference is scope and price for a small team.
| Entry plan | directree GEO Monitor | Profound | Peec AI | OtterlyAI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Starter $29/mo · Pro $79/mo · Managed $149/mo · Agency $299/mo | Starter $99/mo (billed yearly) | Starter ≈ $95/mo ($80/mo yearly) | Standard €189/mo (≈ $206) |
| Buyer questions / prompts | 15 (Starter) · 50 (Pro) · 75 (Managed) · 30 per client product (Agency) | 50 | 50 | 100 |
| Add-ons | +25 questions or +1 product, $19/mo each, on any paid plan | Not listed | Not listed | Gemini and Claude engines, priced separately |
| Engines on the entry plan | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews (Pro and Managed add Gemini + Claude) | ChatGPT | 3 models of your choice | ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot (Gemini, Claude paid add-ons) |
| Tracking cadence | Weekly | Daily | Daily | Daily |
| Stored answers + citations | Full response and cited sources kept 12 months (24 on Pro and Managed) | Answer insights | Reporting and citations | Citation monitoring |
| Search vs memory split | ✓ Pro and Managed | No | No | No |
| Accuracy Watch (wrong facts about you) | ✓ Pro and Managed | No | No | No |
| Done for you: questions, competitors, monthly written summary | ✓ Managed | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed |
| Agency roster with white-label reports | ✓ Agency: 10 client products, 30 questions each | Enterprise, priced on request | Advanced and Enterprise | Not listed |
| Free check, no signup | ✓ 3 questions | Demo | Trial | Trial |
| Best for | Software companies and local businesses that want evidence, not a score | Marketing teams with a large prompt library | Marketing teams that need daily multi-country tracking | Teams that want daily tracking across four engines |
Profound from profound.com/pricing, OtterlyAI from otterly.ai/pricing, Peec AI from its public plan reviews (September 2026; Peec lists Starter, Pro, Advanced and Enterprise). Prices and limits change; check each provider before buying.
Straightforward plans
Pay for ongoing monitoring only when it is useful.
Annual is 10 months paid, 12 months used (two months free)
Which plan?
- Starter: are we visible in AI answers?
- Pro: why not, and where to fix it.
- Managed: we do it for you.
GEO Starter
Answers one question: are we visible in AI answers?
$29/mo
or $290/yr · save $58
- 15 buyer questions, scanned weekly
- One manual re-scan a month
- ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews
- Cited source domains and 12 months of history
- 3 named competitors, email alerts and reports
Cancel anytime. Prices exclude VAT.
GEO Pro
Shows why you are missing from an answer and which page to fix.
$79/mo
or $790/yr · save $158
Everything in Starter, plus:
- 50 buyer questions across 5 engines, adding Gemini and Claude
- Full citation URLs and the gap list of pages you are missing from
- Search vs model-memory split: are you known, or only found?
- 10 competitors, Accuracy Watch, Slack and white-label reports
- 24 months of history
Cancel anytime. Prices exclude VAT.
GEO Managed
We run the monitoring and tell you what to do next each month.
$149/mo
or $1,490/yr · save $298
Everything in Pro, plus:
- 75 buyer questions, written and maintained by us
- We build your question set and competitor list within 2 business days
- A written monthly summary by email with three recommended actions
- Priority email support with a same-business-day reply
- City or region targeting when you are a local business
Cancel anytime. Prices exclude VAT.
Need more? +25 questions or +1 product, $19 a month each, from your dashboard.
GEO Agency
$299/mo
or $2,990/yr, two months free
Agency, $299/mo: 10 client products, 30 questions each, all five engines, white-label reports. Everything in Pro for each client, under your own name.
Choose Agency
Cancel anytime. Prices exclude VAT.
GEO Custom
For setups the plans above do not fit: more than 75 questions on one product, several brands or regions, scans more often than weekly, or a roster larger than Agency covers. Priced on request, and we will say so if a standard plan already covers it.
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Questions, answered honestly
Common questions before you choose a monitoring tool.
- Does GEO Monitor include Gemini and Claude?
- Yes. GEO Monitor Pro includes Gemini and Claude in the base $79/mo price, alongside ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. There is no separate engine add-on to buy. On OtterlyAI, Gemini and Claude are paid add-ons on every plan, including Standard at €189/mo.
- How does daily tracking compare with weekly tracking?
- OtterlyAI scans daily; GEO Monitor scans weekly and includes a manual re-scan each month. In practice AI answers rarely change in a meaningful way from one day to the next: model weights update every few months, and pages that get newly cited usually take weeks to be re-crawled. Weekly is enough to see a real trend, and it costs less to run. If your team needs day-level alerting, Otterly's cadence is the better fit.
- Is GEO Monitor cheaper than OtterlyAI Standard?
- At currently published prices, yes. GEO Monitor Pro is $79/mo with five engines included. OtterlyAI Standard is €189/mo (roughly $206) for four engines, with Gemini and Claude priced separately. Otterly Standard does include 100 prompts against GEO Pro's 50, so compare on prompt volume as well as price, and check both providers' live pricing pages before you buy.
- What do I lose by moving from OtterlyAI to GEO Monitor?
- Daily cadence, Microsoft Copilot as a tracked engine, and Otterly's higher prompt ceiling. GEO Monitor is deliberately narrower: five engines, 50 buyer questions on Pro, and every raw answer kept with its citation URLs so you can audit a change instead of trusting a score.
- Can either tool guarantee an AI recommendation?
- No. Both products are monitors. AI answers vary with the prompt, the model version and what the engine can retrieve, so no honest provider can promise a placement in an answer.