Peec AI alternatives: 10 tools, with the numbers from their own pages

By Michael Nefedov, noetio · Updated 21 October 2026

Peec AI alternatives start at $0 (AthenaHQ Essential, 300 credits), against Peec AI Starter at €85 a month for 50 prompts. Rankscale is $17 a month (yearly billing only) and Otterly Lite is €29.

Which one to pick

Pick by what you need first: a low bill, a free plan, a trial, or many prompts.

• You want the lowest monthly billOtterly.AI Lite is €29 for 15 prompts. Rankscale Essentials is $17, but only with yearly billing.
• You want a free planAthenaHQ Essential lists 300 credits. One credit is one AI response.
• You want a trial firstSearchable and SE Ranking both give 14 days. SE Ranking's trial covers the Core plan, not the AI add-on.
• You want many promptsLLMrefs lists 500 for 79 a month (shown as 79€ in a German view), refreshed weekly. It tracks keywords, and its page also mentions 50 keywords without saying how that fits the 500.
• You already pay for AhrefsAhrefs Brand Radar custom prompts start at €47 a month.
• 50 prompts and daily tracking are enoughStay with Peec AI with unlimited users at €85 a month.

Peec AI vs the alternatives

Ten tools, three counting units (prompts, credits, keywords), so read billing and limits before you compare prices.

Entry plan is the first plan on each vendor's page (AthenaHQ also has a free one). The billing column says whether the number is for monthly or yearly billing.

Read from a German IP, Peec AI, SE Ranking, Ahrefs and LLMrefs showed euros. Otterly.AI and Rankscale showed euro signs with the same numbers they list in USD (Otterly's add-on note says its displayed prices are US dollars; Rankscale's structured data lists both currencies).

Prices: each vendor's pricing page or terms (linked in the Tool column), read 21 October 2026. Billing bases, currencies and usage units differ, so this is not a price ranking.

Peec AI pricing and terms

Peec AI prices by prompts and projects: €85, €205 or €425 a month on the Monthly toggle.

• All plans show unlimited users and daily tracking.
• Enterprise is custom, labelled Annual, and lists API access, SSO and up to 13 LLM models.
• The Annual toggle shows €70, €180 and €360 a month for Starter, Pro and Advanced (about 17.6%, 12.2% and 15.3% off). Only the FAQ says "15% discount"; the plan cards do not print 15%.
• Extra models on Starter cost €25 a month with the annual toggle on.
• Peec AI counts prompts times models times frequency. Its example: 25 prompts on 3 models for 30 days is 25 x 3 x 30 = 2,250 AI answers.
• Starter, at 50 prompts on 3 models, is 4,500 answers a month on its comparison table.
• Peec AI's terms of use (section 7.1) set the trial length as "a limited period as determined by Peec AI". Section 10.2 says a monthly subscription can end at any time, effective at the end of the current payment cycle.

Where Peec AI wins

Peec AI wins on region-free pricing, unlimited users and crawler data.

• The pricing page says you can track any supported country or language at no extra cost, because price depends on prompts, not regions.
• Every plan has unlimited users.
• It lists crawl insights (which AI bots hit which pages), AI referrals, a crawlability check across 40+ bots, a Peec agent, and CDN and log connections such as Vercel, Cloudflare and AWS CloudFront.
• Its page says 3,500+ brands and agencies use it (Peec AI's own claim).

Where Peec AI falls short

Starter tracks three models, the trial length is not stated, and a fixed term has no automatic refund.

• These points come from its own pricing page. Starter tracks three models; more cost extra.
• The plan cards list the Looker Studio integration under Advanced; its comparison matrix lists a separate Data Studio connector row.
• The pricing page does not give the trial length.
• On a fixed term, its terms say there is no automatic refund for early termination, unless Peec AI is at fault or in uncured breach.

The 10 alternatives

Each tool below is described from its own pricing page, read 21 October 2026.

Otterly.AI

A tracker.

• Plans: Lite (15 prompts), Standard (100 prompts), Premium (400 prompts), Enterprise (from 1,000 prompts).
• The page has a Monthly / Annually switch ("15% off"): monthly €29 / €189 / €489, annual €25 / €160 / €422 (13.7% to 15.3% lower).
• Four engines are included (ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot); Claude, Gemini and Google AI Mode are add-ons.
• Lite has one workspace, 3 recommendations a week and no API or MCP. Standard adds API, MCP and Looker Studio.
• The FAQ says you can cancel anytime in account settings, with no hidden fees. The page says a free trial exists for new users and gives no length.
• Limit visible on its page: an extra 100 prompts costs €99 a month, and Claude as an add-on costs €29 on Lite and €109 on Standard.

Rankscale

Credit based.

• The compare table shows Essentials at $17 a month, yearly only ($20 struck through), with 120 credits, up to 480 answers, 2 brand dashboards and 10 page audits.
• Cards show Pro $99 a month (1,200 credits, up to 4,800 answers, 10 brand dashboards, 50 page audits), Pro+ $229 (3,000 credits), Growth $385 (5,500 credits) and Enterprise $780 (12,000 credits).
• The pricing page says a credit is typically 0.25 per engine per prompt. Its FAQ says it monitors 17+ AI engines, all available on every plan.
• Yearly toggle: Pro $84, Pro+ $195, Growth $327, Enterprise $663 a month.
• Pro has a 7-day free trial with a limited credit allowance. The page shows euro signs from a German IP; its structured data lists the same numbers in USD and EUR.
• The FAQ says there are no long-term contracts and you can cancel at any time, with access until the end of the billing period.

LLMrefs

One plan.

• All in One, at 79 a month (shown as 79€ from a German IP), marked "Limited time only" with no end date.
• It lists 500 prompts, weekly report refreshes, 50+ countries and a 7-day free trial.
• The page says "Cancel anytime. No questions asked!" and states no refund terms.
• It tracks keywords and refreshes at least weekly, not daily.
• Its page gives two limits: 500 prompts in the plan box, and a FAQ about adding keywords beyond 50. It does not say how the two relate.

Searchable

Tracks, audits and writes.

• Default view (Annual switch off): Pro $125 a month, Scale $400 and Enterprise $999 (its compare table says "$999+/mo"). With the Annual switch on the page shows $100, $320 and $799 a month and "Billed annually".
• Pro: 100 prompts per model, 200 audits, 20 articles a month, daily tracking, 12-month data retention, MCP and API access included.
• Scale: 500 prompts per model, 80 articles, Looker Studio and API.
• ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity are included; Copilot, DeepSeek, AI Mode, Gemini, Grok and Claude are paid add-ons. The price shows once you select a model: ticking Copilot moved Pro from $100 to $125, Scale from $320 to $445 and Enterprise from $799 to $1,112 a month (Annual toggle on); on the default view Pro went from $125 to $150.
• 14-day trial on Pro and Scale ("Try it free, 14 days"). The pricing page has no refund or cancel terms.

SE Ranking AI Search

An add-on inside the SE Ranking suite.

• €63.20 a month billed yearly or €79 billed monthly for 200 prompts (tiers of 450 and 1,000 prompts also listed), covering AI Overviews, AI Mode and ChatGPT.
• The base Core plan is €87.20 a month yearly or €109 monthly.
• 14-day trial of the Core plan, no card. Its FAQ gives 20 AI prompts per day and up to 3 domains, so the 200 prompts of the add-on are not part of it.
• Its pricing FAQ says you can cancel anytime and payments are non-refundable, except where the service was not delivered as promised or a promotion says otherwise.

Ahrefs Brand Radar

• Brand Radar page: Custom prompts "Starts at €47/mo" and AI Visibility Index "Starts at €179/mo".
• Custom prompts: 83 prompts a day, +2,500 checks a month, overage €0.0187 per check, all platforms (Claude available). On ahrefs.com/pricing the same package is Basic, €46.7/mo, "e.g. 80 prompts daily on 1 platform". Growth is €93/mo (+7,000 checks) and Scale €234/mo (+25,000 checks).
• The page also says Custom Prompts are free for every paid Ahrefs Lite plan and above, with a daily quota of 5 (Lite), 10 (Standard) or 20 (Advanced) prompts, which is 150, 300 and 600 checks a month on 1 platform. Claude uses 8 checks per update.
• AI Visibility Index: €179/mo with AI Overviews and AI Mode ticked, €654/mo with all five platforms ticked (labelled "€654/mo for all models"), across 495 million prompts.

AthenaHQ

Credit based, where 1 credit is 1 AI response.

• Essential is free with a $25 free credit and 300 credits, five engines, unlimited users and content recommendations.
• Starter is $295 a month with 3,600 credits, 11 models, unlimited topics, prompts and competitors, a content optimization agent and Shopify and Webflow integration. The Starter card also says "$300/month free credit" and does not explain it.
• The Annual toggle shows Starter at $245 a month billed annually (17% off). Enterprise is custom, with SSO, an audit log and a 2-hour SLA.
• API access and extra credits are paid add-ons with no public price.
• Limit: credits run down by use, so the free plan covers 300 AI responses.

Profound

• Brands tab: Trial (free) and Enterprise (custom). No list price.
• The free trial runs 50 prompts daily for 7 days on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, with a recommended prompt set you cannot customize, one language and one region, and unlimited seats.
• Enterprise is custom, up to 9 engines, daily frequency, API and exports, SSO/SAML and SOC 2, with a dedicated specialist on a 24-hour SLA as an option.
• Agencies tab: Agency Growth is $99/month + add-ons, with 400 credits a month per client workspace. A client workspace add-on is $399/month.

Scrunch

• Core $250 a month with 125 unique prompts, 5,000 responses a month, 5 site audits, 1 brand workspace, 5 user licenses, 4 LLMs (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AIO, Copilot) and a "Start 7-day free trial" button.
• The page does not say if $250 is billed monthly or annually, and its annual-pricing FAQ answer is empty.
• Enterprise is custom, with 9 LLMs, SSO, API access and a dedicated account team.

Writesonic

A writing tool with AI visibility tracking.

• Starter $79 a month billed annually (50 prompts, 3 engines: ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, 1 user, 15 AI articles).
• Basic $199 (100 prompts, 25 articles), Growth $399 (200 prompts, 50 articles). Enterprise covers all 9 engines.
• Monthly prices are Starter $99, Basic $249 and Growth $499. The Starter card also says "Save $240/year", which is $79 x 12 against $99 x 12.
• The page says "Start free. No credit card needed." Its FAQ says refunds are 7 days with no questions asked, and downgrades and cancellations take effect at the next billing cycle.

How to choose

Decide the unit you need first, then check engines, then read trial and cancel terms.

• Unit: prompts (Peec AI, Otterly.AI, Searchable, Scrunch), credits (Rankscale, AthenaHQ) or keywords (LLMrefs).
• Engines on the entry plan: Writesonic Starter and Searchable cover three and Scrunch Core four, while AthenaHQ Starter lists eleven and Rankscale says 17+.
• Trial and cancel terms: Writesonic states a 7-day refund, SE Ranking says payments are generally non-refundable, Rankscale says you can cancel at any time, Otterly.AI and LLMrefs say cancel anytime, and the pricing pages of Searchable and AthenaHQ state no cancel or refund terms.

Where Compass fits

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Sources

All read on 21 October 2026 from a German IP. Prices appear in the currency each page showed.

1. Peec AI, "Pricing" (Monthly and Annual toggles, FAQ). peec.ai/pricing
2. Peec AI, "Terms of Use", sections 7 and 10. peec.ai/legal/terms-of-use
3. Otterly.AI, "Pricing" (both toggles, FAQ). otterly.ai/pricing
4. Rankscale, "Plans that scale with your ambition" (both toggles, compare table, FAQ, structured data). rankscale.ai/pricing
5. LLMrefs, "Pricing". llmrefs.com/pricing
6. Searchable, "Pricing" (default, Annual and add-on selections). searchable.com/pricing
7. SE Ranking, "Pricing" (Core, AI Search add-on, FAQ). seranking.com/pricing.html
8. Ahrefs, "Brand Radar". ahrefs.com/brand-radar
9. Ahrefs, "Pricing" (Custom prompt packages). ahrefs.com/pricing
10. AthenaHQ, "Plans & Pricing" (both toggles). athenahq.ai/pricing
11. Profound, "Pricing" (brands and agencies tabs). tryprofound.com/pricing
12. Scrunch, "Pricing that scales with you". scrunch.com/pricing
13. Writesonic, "Plans & Pricing" (both toggles, FAQ). writesonic.com/pricing

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Written by Michael Nefedov, founder of noetio. Updated 21 October 2026.