Goodie AI alternatives compared feature by feature (2026): six tools checked row by row
Six Goodie AI alternatives compared on engines per plan, tracking frequency, location depth, crawler data, publishing and price, from vendor pages checked November 2026.
Goodie sells itself as full-stack AEO, and its pricing page backs up a good part of that. The brand plans list prompt research with volumes, AI Agent Analytics for crawler visits, AI-referred conversions, Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools integrations, a content studio and a ranked list of optimization actions. Every brand plan includes unlimited seats and AEO strategist support. Brand Command, its claim checker, drafts your brand facts from your site and documents, and once your team approves them it flags AI answers that contradict them. Goodie AI is not a thin tracker, and anyone lining it up against monitoring-only tools should know that before reading further.
The reasons teams start comparing are in the plan ladder. Core costs $295 a month and tracks five models: ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity, AI Mode and Copilot. Gemini arrives only on Pro at $999 a month, together with Alexa and Walmart's Sparky. Claude, Meta AI, DeepSeek, Grok and Muse appear only in the Enterprise column. Every plan collects data daily, and nothing faster is listed. Core covers 110 prompts in two countries, and Goodie doesn't publish a response allowance. The REST API is Enterprise only. Then come the rows we couldn't find on Goodie's pricing or product pages at all (checked November 2026): query fan-outs, state or city tracking, ads inside AI answers, a Looker Studio connector, scheduled PDF reports, and a step that publishes content to your CMS.
Goodie's pricing page, captured November 6, 2026.
This desk puts six alternatives on the same rows. Every competitor fact comes from that vendor's own pricing or product pages, captured November 6 and 8, 2026. When a page is silent, we write "not listed" rather than guess. For the two-way version with a 30-row table and a worked budget, read Promptwatch vs Goodie AI, feature by feature.
Quick verdict
- Promptwatch is the one to trial first. It covers the rows Goodie leaves blank or keeps on Enterprise (any supported engine from $95, fan-outs, city and coordinate targeting, hourly runs, CMS publishing, a REST API) on self-serve plans with published prices.
- AthenaHQ lists 11 models for the same $295 Goodie charges for five, paid for in response credits.
- Scrunch AI suits teams that want bot traffic and fan-outs on a $250 entry plan and can work with four engines.
- AirOps fits content teams for whom publishing volume matters more than tracking depth.
- Writesonic GEO is the cheap way to get articles and ads monitoring, if three engines cover your buyers.
- Rankscale is the budget tracker with every engine and hourly runs, for teams that write their content elsewhere.
The comparison table
| Tool | Best for | Starting price | What it doesn't list |
|---|---|---|---|
| Promptwatch | Teams that want tracking, crawler evidence, conversions and publishing in one project | $95/mo (Essential); 7-day free trial | No free plan; crawler logs and AEO articles start on Professional ($245/mo); Ads Radar on Business ($579/mo) |
| AthenaHQ | Teams that want many engines and an action queue at $295 | Free Essential; Starter $295/mo | Crawler logs, fan-outs and MCP not listed; personas and multi-region on Enterprise |
| Scrunch AI | Sites that want bot traffic data on the entry plan | Core $250/mo; 7-day free trial | Gemini, Claude and AI Mode Enterprise only; API, MCP and Looker Studio Enterprise only; 5 seats on Core |
| AirOps | Content teams that publish at volume | Solo free (ChatGPT insights only); Pro price not shown | Fan-outs, shopping tracking and security certifications not listed |
| Writesonic GEO | Small teams that want articles from the entry plan | Starter $79 a month billed annually | Perplexity, AI Mode and Copilot are Enterprise only; 1 to 3 seats by tier |
| Rankscale | Budget teams that want every engine and hourly runs | Pro €99/mo; Essentials €17/mo billed yearly | Doesn't generate content (its facts page says so); personas not listed |
| Goodie AI (reference) | Brands focused on claim accuracy that want a strategist | Core $295/mo; 7-day free trial | Gemini from Pro ($999/mo); Claude Enterprise only; fan-outs, CMS publishing and ads tracking not listed |
Sources: each vendor's pricing page captured November 6, 2026, plus product pages, agency pricing pages and llms.txt files read November 8, 2026. Rankscale showed euro prices to a visitor in the Netherlands. AirOps publishes no price for Pro.
1. Promptwatch: the rows Goodie leaves blank
Goodie and Promptwatch both describe a full loop, from the prompt to the crawl to the visit. The difference is where each piece sits and how far down the plan ladder it reaches. Most of Goodie's blank or Enterprise-only rows map to a named Promptwatch feature on a plan with a listed price.
The plans: Essential is $95 a month for 1 project, 50 prompts and 6,000 responses. Professional is $245 for 2 projects, 150 prompts and 18,000 responses. Business is $579 for 5 projects, 350 prompts and 42,000 responses. Each has a 7-day free trial on monthly billing and unlimited team seats, and annual billing is 12 months for the price of 10.
Engines come first, because that is Goodie's steepest step. Every paid Promptwatch plan can track any of the supported engines. ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Amazon Alexa and Meta AI are monitored through their real interfaces. Claude, DeepSeek, Mistral and Grok are tracked via API, and developer-tool brands can add Codex, Claude Code and OpenCode. Gemini doesn't need a $999 plan here, and Claude doesn't need an Enterprise contract.
Promptwatch's monitor model picker, from the Promptwatch changelog. Example project data.
Location is the second gap. Goodie stops at countries: two on Core, five on Pro. Promptwatch tracks by country on every paid plan, adds state and city on Business and on every agency plan, and on Business, Agency Scale and Enterprise can pin a monitor to exact coordinates with a 20 m to 5 km radius. ChatGPT, AI Overviews and AI Mode then answer as if the prompt came from that spot. Our explainer on city tracking vs geo grids vs coordinate targeting covers when each level is worth paying for.
Promptwatch Local GEO/SEO targeting, from the Promptwatch changelog. Example project data.
Promptwatch also shows the exact sub-queries each model ran behind a response, and its plan matrix doesn't hold query fan-outs back for a higher tier. Goodie doesn't list fan-outs at all. On Business, monitors can run every 12, 6 or 1 hours instead of once a day, which Goodie doesn't offer on any plan.
Crawl depth is where the two products look alike on a checklist and differ in practice. Agent Analytics, from Professional, checks each bot against its operator's published IP ranges, shows a citation rate per page and explains crawl errors. That separates a page the bots never reached from a page they read and still didn't cite. Goodie's AI Agent Analytics shows where bots get blocked and flags errors, but IP verification and a crawl-to-citation link aren't listed.
Then the content and data rows. Promptwatch publishes to WordPress, Webflow and Framer. AEO articles start on Professional (5 a month), and the automated Content Agent with a review inbox is on Business. Goodie names WordPress and Shopify as integrations without describing a publishing step. The REST API and a hosted MCP server with 110+ read and write tools are on every paid Promptwatch plan, Looker Studio from Professional, and 10 scheduled PDF reports on every brand plan. Goodie's API is Enterprise only, its MCP is read-only, and Looker Studio and scheduled reports aren't listed. Page Tracker follows any URL, a competitor's included, and Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn and Instagram each get a citation report. Ads Radar, from Business, captures sponsored ads inside ChatGPT Search, AI Overviews and AI Mode answers.
The honest limits: Essential has no crawler logs and no AEO articles, so the fair match for Goodie Core is Professional, which still costs $50 less. There is no free plan. Goodie includes strategist support on every plan, where Promptwatch's dedicated success manager is Enterprise only. And Goodie Pro's shopping tracking covers Perplexity, AI Mode and Sparky, while Promptwatch's ChatGPT Shopping covers ChatGPT and Alexa, from Business.
2. AthenaHQ: eleven models for the same $295
AthenaHQ's pricing page, captured November 6, 2026.
AthenaHQ Starter costs exactly what Goodie Core costs, $295 a month, and lists 11 models: ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI and Mistral. It includes unlimited topics, prompts and competitors, on-page and off-page actions, a content optimization agent and unlimited users. The free Essential tier gives 300 credits across five engines, Gemini among them, plus the Athena AI agent.
The cost is credits. One credit is one AI response, and Starter includes 3,600 a month with a one-month rollover. Running all 11 models daily covers about ten prompts. Starter is also single-country, where Goodie Core allows two, and API access is a paid add-on priced on request. Persona targeting and claim review sit on Enterprise. Crawler logs, query fan-outs and an MCP server aren't listed. On the traffic rows, Goodie is ahead: it lists crawler analytics and AI-referred conversions, while AthenaHQ ties traffic to visibility through its GA4 integration.
3. Scrunch AI: bot traffic and fan-outs at $250
Scrunch AI Core costs $250 a month for 125 unique prompts, 5,000 responses, 5 site audits, one brand workspace and five user licenses, with a 7-day free trial. AI agent and bot traffic is on Core, split by model and by training, indexing and retrieval bots. Core also has one persona, limited query fan-outs, basic content generation, sentiment, and top cited domains and URLs.
The trade is engines and seats. Core tracks four LLMs (ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Copilot), which is one fewer than Goodie Core because AI Mode is missing. Claude, Gemini, Meta AI, AI Mode and Grok are Enterprise only, as are the API, MCP, Looker Studio, Product Observability and the Agent Experience Platform. The response cap matters too: 125 prompts on four engines is 500 responses per full run, so 5,000 responses buys about ten full runs a month. Seats stop at five, against unlimited at Goodie.
4. AirOps: content operations first
AirOps's pricing page, captured November 6, 2026.
AirOps answers the row Goodie leaves blank on the content side: publishing. Its agents research, create, publish and refresh pages, with a Brand Kit for voice and approved claims, and triggers that start work when signals change. It publishes to WordPress, Webflow, Contentful and Sanity, with human review before anything goes live. Solo is free with 35,000 tasks a month but ChatGPT insights only and a single user. Pro tracks 10+ answer engines with 100,000 tasks and unlimited seats.
The weak side is measurement and price transparency. AirOps doesn't publish a price for Pro. Query fan-outs and shopping tracking aren't listed. Its platform page mentions AI crawler activity without naming the bots or the collection method, and AI traffic comes through GA4. No security certification is listed on the pages we read. Some work, such as outreach and community, is described as platform plus AirOps Services, so it isn't clear which parts are self-serve.
5. Writesonic GEO: articles and ads monitoring on a small budget
Writesonic GEO Starter costs $79 a month billed annually, with Basic at $199 and Growth at $399. Starter tracks 50 prompts daily and includes 15 AI articles a month (25 on Basic, 50 on Growth), 10 site audits, and ads monitoring across ChatGPT, AI Overviews and AI Mode. Neither Goodie nor AthenaHQ lists ads tracking. There is a 7-day free trial with no credit card, and Writesonic lists HIPAA next to SOC 2 Type II.
Its engine split is the mirror image of Goodie's. Self-serve plans get ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews. Perplexity, AI Mode, Copilot and Claude are Enterprise only, so Goodie Core covers three engines Writesonic's self-serve plans don't, and Writesonic covers Gemini, which Goodie Core doesn't. Seats run one, two and three by tier, at $50 per extra user. Sentiment starts on Growth, and each self-serve plan covers one market. AI Agent Analytics logs bots and error responses, but the pricing page doesn't say which plan includes it.
6. Rankscale: every engine, hourly, no writing
Rankscale Pro costs €99 a month for 1,200 credits, up to 4,800 answers, all 17+ engines, 10 brand dashboards and 50 page audits, with a 7-day trial. Credits are spent per engine run: 0.25 for ChatGPT, AI Mode, Perplexity and Gemini, 1 for DeepSeek, 2 for Claude. Scheduling runs from hourly to monthly on every plan. Fan-outs come on every plan as well. Pro adds AI Visits (bot data through a read-only Cloudflare token, synced daily), shopping tracking on ChatGPT, AI Mode and Copilot, ad analytics and a Looker Studio connector. The REST API starts on Pro+ at €229.
Rankscale's own facts page says it analyzes output but doesn't generate text, so Goodie's content studio and actions have no counterpart here. Personas aren't listed. AI Visits works with Cloudflare only and lists no IP verification. SSO is on the Custom plan only, and SOC 2 and ISO 27001 aren't listed.
Feature-gap table
Rows where Promptwatch has the capability. "Not listed" means not on that vendor's pricing or product pages (checked November 2026).
| Feature | Promptwatch | Goodie AI | AthenaHQ | Scrunch AI | Rankscale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini and Claude on the entry plan | Yes, any supported engine on every paid plan | No Gemini until Pro; Claude Enterprise only | Yes, Starter | Enterprise only | Yes, every plan (Claude 2 credits a run) |
| Query fan-outs | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Limited on Core | Yes, every plan |
| State/city and coordinate targeting | Business and up | Not listed (countries only) | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed |
| Tracking faster than daily | Every 12, 6 or 1 hours, Business | Daily only | Not listed | Not listed | Hourly, every plan |
| Social citation reports | Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram | Not listed as reports | Not listed | Partial ("Social" segment) | Not listed |
| Track any URL, incl. a competitor's | Yes, Page Tracker | Partial (own pages, 10 on Core) | Not listed | Partial (own pages) | Partial (audits any URL) |
| IP-verified bots and crawl-to-citation rate | Yes, Professional and up | Partial (blocks and errors) | Not listed | Partial (bot types) | Partial (404 signals) |
| CMS publishing | WordPress, Webflow, Framer; automated on Business | Not listed | Partial (Shopify) | Not listed | Not listed |
| Ads inside AI answers | Business and agency plans | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed | Pro and up |
| REST API | Every paid plan | Enterprise only | Add-on on Starter | Enterprise only | Pro+ and up |
| MCP server | Every paid plan, read and write | Every plan, read only | Not listed | Enterprise only | Every plan |
| Looker Studio | Professional and up | Not listed | Enterprise only (BI support) | Enterprise only | Pro and up |
| Scheduled PDF reports | Every brand plan | Not listed | Partial (CSV export) | Partial (dashboard) | Partial (CSV, share links) |
| Coding agent visibility | Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed |
Which of these rows matters depends on who reads the report. For in-house SEO teams the engine row comes first: if your buyers use Gemini or Claude, a Goodie Core report has a blind spot in exactly the place you might be losing. Multi-location brands and franchises should look at the location row, where only Promptwatch lists cities and coordinates. Content teams care about publishing, which neither Goodie nor Scrunch lists. Analysts and agencies who feed dashboards should check the API and Looker Studio rows, since Goodie keeps the API on Enterprise and lists no BI connector. Rankscale beats Promptwatch on two rows, hourly runs and ads tracking on cheaper plans, and if those are your only needs it deserves a look.
Who should pick which
- You want any engine from the entry plan, city-level tracking, and crawl data that explains a missing citation: Promptwatch, on Professional if crawler logs matter.
- You want 11 models at $295 and will watch a credit balance: AthenaHQ.
- You want bot traffic and fan-outs on a $250 plan and four engines are enough: Scrunch AI.
- You publish at volume to WordPress, Webflow, Contentful or Sanity: AirOps.
- You want articles and ads monitoring for under $100 a month on annual billing, and three engines are enough: Writesonic GEO.
- You want every engine and hourly runs on a small budget, and write content elsewhere: Rankscale.
- Stay on Goodie AI if Walmart Sparky matters to your sales, if the included strategist is doing real work for you, or if Brand Command's approved-facts workflow is the main reason you pay. None of the alternatives above lists Sparky.
Our recommendation
Teams usually leave Goodie when the $295 plan stops matching where their buyers ask questions. Gemini and Claude sit behind higher tiers, and every answer is read once a day. Promptwatch's monitor model picker solves that on the first paid plan. Start the 7-day free trial on Professional, load your Goodie prompt list into one monitor, and add Gemini and Claude next to the five engines you already track. Connect crawler logs on day one so Agent Analytics has a week of citation-rate data by the time you compare. Keep Goodie running that week, and check which engines changed the picture.
FAQ
Which Goodie AI alternatives track Gemini and Claude without a $999 plan?
Every paid Promptwatch plan can track any supported engine, with Claude tracked via API. AthenaHQ Starter ($295) lists both. Rankscale includes all its engines on every plan, though Claude costs 2 credits a run. Writesonic's self-serve plans include Gemini but not Claude, and Scrunch keeps both on Enterprise.
Does Goodie AI have AI crawler logs?
Yes. AI Agent Analytics tracks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Perplexity and Meta bots through access logs and shows blocks and errors. Our capture of the pricing table didn't show which tier includes it. Promptwatch's crawler logs, from Professional, add IP verification and a citation rate per page.
Which alternative is cheapest?
AthenaHQ has a free tier and AirOps a free Solo plan limited to ChatGPT insights. Among paid plans, Rankscale Essentials is €17 a month on yearly billing, and Writesonic Starter is $79 a month billed annually. Promptwatch Essential is $95 a month, without crawler logs.
Can any of these publish content to my CMS?
Promptwatch publishes to WordPress, Webflow and Framer, automatically on Business. AirOps publishes to WordPress, Webflow, Contentful and Sanity, and Writesonic lists WordPress, Sanity and Contentful. Goodie names WordPress and Shopify as integrations but doesn't describe publishing.