Promptwatch vs LLM Pulse: feature-by-feature comparison, plan by plan (2026)
Promptwatch and LLM Pulse compared on 30 sourced rows, from tracking cadence and crawler logs to publishing and API access, with a priced example for 100 prompts.
On paper Promptwatch and LLM Pulse look closer than most pairs we compare. Both publish their prices and give every plan unlimited seats. Each ships an MCP server, so Claude or ChatGPT can query your visibility data directly, and LLM Pulse now lists AI crawler logs, AI traffic analytics, ChatGPT Shopping and ads tracking as well. The differences are in how often the data refreshes, which plan each feature sits on, and how deep the diagnostic features go once you have them.
LLM Pulse's listed prices are for weekly tracking. Daily tracking is a separate set of plans. Most of its diagnostic layer (crawler logs, API, Looker Studio, shopping and ads) starts on Scale at €299 a month. Promptwatch tracks daily on every plan, puts visitor analytics, the API and MCP on every paid plan, and adds crawler logs from Professional at $245. This comparison uses LLM Pulse's pricing page and homepage as captured on November 6, 2026, its llms.txt, model add-on page and feature pages as read on November 8, and Promptwatch's own documentation as re-checked on November 4. Where LLM Pulse's pages don't mention a feature, we say "Not listed" rather than "no". For the wider field, see our LLM Pulse alternatives compared feature by feature.
Quick verdict
Pick LLM Pulse if weekly data on five engines covers your reporting, you want the lowest published entry price, you need Korean or Chinese engines such as Naver or Baidu, or you want shopping and ads tracking for €299. Pick Promptwatch if you need daily or faster data without buying a second plan, personas and city or coordinate targeting, crawler logs that tell an access problem from a content problem, and a way to publish the fix to your CMS. For a team past the pilot stage, the second list usually decides it.
At a glance
| Promptwatch | LLM Pulse | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Essential $95/mo (€85), Professional $245 (€205), Business $579 (€499), Enterprise custom; agency plans $199, $399, $799 | Starter €49/mo, Growth €99, Scale €299, Scale+ €599, Scale++ €1,199, Enterprise custom (weekly tracking prices) |
| Entry allowance | Essential: 1 project, 50 prompts, 6,000 responses a month | Starter: 1 project, 50 prompts, 50 responses per model per week; extra prompts €1/mo each |
| Engines | Every paid plan can track any supported engine, with no per-engine fee | 5 included (ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Gemini); others are add-ons from €8/mo |
| Default cadence | Daily on every plan | Weekly; daily on separate plans |
| Trial | 7-day free trial on all six self-serve plans | 14-day free trial on weekly Starter, Growth and Scale; payment method needed |
| Seats | Unlimited on every paid plan | Unlimited on every plan |
Full feature comparison
| Feature | Promptwatch | LLM Pulse |
|---|---|---|
| Tracking | ||
| Fastest tracking | Every 12, 6 or 1 hours on Business, Agency Scale, Enterprise | Daily, on separate daily plans with no trial; hourly not listed |
| Engine add-ons | None | From €8/mo per model; Claude €25, Grok €15, Meta AI €12 on weekly Starter |
| Prompt research | Prompt Volumes: volume, difficulty, citation rate | Partial: AI prompt research suggests prompts; volumes and difficulty not listed |
| Query fan-outs | Exact sub-queries per model | Yes, from ChatGPT responses; plan not stated |
| Personas | Yes, with stacking and Persona Insights | Not listed |
| Location | Country on every paid plan; state/city and coordinates on Business | Countries and locales; Local Business Tracking; state, city and coordinates not described |
| Citations and brand | ||
| Page-level citations | All Citations, URL Positions, Citation Trends | Yes, every plan |
| Social citation reports | Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram | From Growth (YouTube, Reddit, social, apps); LinkedIn and Instagram not named |
| Offsite mentions | Unlinked mentions ranked as opportunities | Partial: recommendations suggest third-party sources |
| Track a specific URL | Page Tracker, incl. competitor URLs | Partial: technical GEO report for any URL |
| Sentiment and narrative | Brand Narrative on every plan | Sentiment from Growth; Reputation (0 to 100, seven dimensions) from Scale |
| Fact checking against your pages | Fact Check, Business and up | Not listed |
| Crawlers and traffic | ||
| AI crawler logs | Agent Analytics from Professional; every agency plan | Agent Analytics from Scale (€299) |
| IP verification, crawl-to-citation, errors | All three | Partial: per-URL bot traffic to correlate with citations |
| AI-referred visits and conversions | Every plan, own script, GTM or WordPress plugin | From Growth, incl. revenue; GA4, Plausible, Piano |
| Search Console and Bing | Both, in Search Insights | Search Console; Bing not listed |
| Content and action | ||
| Action queue | Action Board with a weekly Discovery agent | Recommendations on every plan |
| Conversational agent | Agent Chat on every paid plan | LLM Pulse Agent from Growth (not described) |
| Content generation | AEO articles from Professional (5/mo; Business 10) | GEO Writer: 3, 5, 15 tasks a month on Starter, Growth, Scale |
| CMS publishing | WordPress, Webflow, Framer; automated Content Agent on Business | Not listed |
| Site audit | Weekly audits, 21 checks, 1,500 to 75,000 pages | Technical GEO reports for any URL, every plan |
| Commerce, integrations and admin | ||
| Shopping tracking | ChatGPT Shopping and Alexa, Business | ChatGPT Shopping from Scale; Alexa as add-on |
| Ads in AI answers | Ads Radar, Business and every agency plan | ChatGPT ads tracking from Scale |
| MCP server | Every paid plan, 110+ tools | Every plan, about 140 tools |
| REST API | Every paid plan | From Scale |
| BI connector | Looker Studio from Professional | Looker Studio from Scale; Power BI, Zapier, Make, n8n named |
| PDF and scheduled reports | PDF of any dashboard; 10 scheduled reports on brand plans | CSV, Excel, PDF exports; custom reports from Scale; scheduling not listed |
| Security | ISO/IEC 27001, GDPR; SSO on Enterprise | SSO on Enterprise via sales; ISO 27001 and SOC 2 not listed |
| Agency structure | Agency plans with unlimited projects; white-label on Enterprise | 1, 2, 5 projects (+€50/mo each); white label on Enterprise and Partner plans |
| Coding agent visibility | Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode | Not listed |
Sources: LLM Pulse pricing page and homepage captured November 6, 2026; LLM Pulse llms.txt, llms-full.txt, AI model pricing page, Agent Analytics and Query Fan Out pages read November 8, 2026; Promptwatch llms.txt, ai-agent-instructions and pricing page checked November 4, 2026.
Pricing side by side
LLM Pulse's pricing page, captured November 6, 2026. Prices shown in euros for a visitor in the Netherlands.
Take one realistic team: 100 prompts, four engines (ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Gemini), one brand, one country. All four engines are in LLM Pulse's included five, so no add-ons yet.
On weekly LLM Pulse, Starter plus 50 extra prompts at €1 each comes to €99, the same as Growth. Growth is the better buy, since it has 150 prompts and 2 projects and adds sentiment, the YouTube and Reddit views, AI traffic analytics and the LLM Pulse Agent. Each prompt runs on all five included models, so AI Mode comes along at no cost. That is roughly 2,000 responses a month: 100 prompts, five engines, about four weekly runs. Annual billing brings Growth to €82.50 a month. What Growth doesn't include is crawler logs, the API or Looker Studio. Those need Scale at €299 (€249.17 a month billed annually), which also brings ChatGPT Shopping, ads tracking, Reputation and custom reports.
If the team wants the same panel daily on LLM Pulse, it needs a daily plan. Our capture of the pricing page didn't include daily prices, so we don't quote them here. Daily plans also start paid, without the 14-day trial.
Promptwatch's pricing page, captured November 6, 2026.
On Promptwatch, Essential stops at 50 prompts, so this team lands on Professional at $245 a month (€205), or 10 months' price for a year on annual billing. 100 prompts on four engines, checked daily for 30 days, is 12,000 responses against Professional's 18,000. Professional includes 25M crawler logs, 1M visitor events, 5 AEO articles a month, the Knowledge Base, custom reports and Looker Studio.
So the comparison depends on what you need. For weekly mention tracking, LLM Pulse Growth at €99 is clearly cheaper. Add crawler logs and the API and you compare LLM Pulse Scale at €299 with weekly runs against Promptwatch Professional at €205 with daily runs, which for this panel means about 12,000 responses a month instead of 2,000. Add shopping and ads tracking, and LLM Pulse Scale (€299) undercuts Promptwatch Business ($579, or €499). If you also want Claude, LLM Pulse charges €25 a month on weekly Starter, and add-on prices rise with the plan. On Promptwatch, Claude is tracked via API at no extra cost. If cadence is still an open question, our explainer on daily vs 6-hour vs hourly AI tracking runs the cost maths.
Where LLM Pulse wins
LLM Pulse is cheaper to start and slower to commit to. Starter costs €49 a month, or €40.83 billed annually, for the same 50 prompts as Promptwatch Essential at $95. The 14-day trial is twice as long as Promptwatch's 7 days. Starter also includes recommendations and 3 GEO Writer drafts a month, while Promptwatch Essential has no AEO articles at all.
It also covers markets Promptwatch doesn't. Naver AI Briefing, Naver AI Tab, Baidu AI, Qwen and Doubao are self-serve add-ons with public prices. None of them is on Promptwatch's tracked-model list, which settles the question for a brand that sells mainly in Korea or China.
Shopping and ads tracking come cheaper. ChatGPT Shopping and ChatGPT ads tracking are on Scale at €299, while Promptwatch's ChatGPT Shopping and Ads Radar start on Business at $579. Agencies are the exception, because Promptwatch puts Ads Radar on every agency plan from $199.
LLM Pulse's Agent Analytics page, captured November 8, 2026.
Its crawler log intake is broad. Agent Analytics reads server logs from Cloudflare, Bunny CDN, Vercel, Fastly, Netlify, Akamai, GCP and CloudFront, and accepts raw Apache or nginx log uploads. That matches Promptwatch's integration range and adds Bunny and file uploads.
Several rows are a draw. Seats are unlimited on both, and both include MCP on every plan; LLM Pulse's server has about 140 tools against Promptwatch's 110+. LLM Pulse's Reputation score, 0 to 100 across seven dimensions per model, is comparable to Promptwatch's Brand Narrative theme scores, though Reputation needs Scale and Brand Narrative is on every plan.
What LLM Pulse is missing
Daily data without a second price list
Weekly runs mean four or five data points per prompt per model each month. A citation that drops on a Tuesday stays out of view until the next run, and one odd answer carries a lot of weight in a monthly average. LLM Pulse sells daily tracking as separate plans without a trial, and hourly runs aren't listed on its pricing or product pages (checked November 2026). Promptwatch runs every prompt daily on every plan. Business ($579), Agency Scale and Enterprise add 12, 6 and 1-hour runs, and Promptwatch shows the response cost before you switch a monitor's frequency.
Personas and location below country level
LLM Pulse runs prompts across models and locales and has a Local Business Tracking feature. Personas aren't listed, and its pages don't describe state, city or coordinate targeting. For a multi-location brand, that means one country-wide answer standing in for very different local ones. Promptwatch has personas with stacking and Persona Insights, state and city tracking on Business and every agency plan, and Local GEO/SEO targeting that pins a monitor to coordinates (20 m to 5 km) on Business, Agency Scale and Enterprise. ChatGPT, AI Overviews and AI Mode then answer as if the question came from that spot.
Promptwatch Local GEO/SEO targeting, from the Promptwatch changelog. Example project data.
Crawler logs that diagnose, on a cheaper plan
LLM Pulse's Agent Analytics shows which bots read which URLs and suggests correlating that with citations. IP verification of bots and crawl error tracking aren't listed. Without IP checks, a scraper calling itself GPTBot counts as GPTBot. Without a citation rate per page, you still have to work out by hand whether a page that isn't cited was never crawled or was crawled and passed over. Promptwatch's Agent Analytics verifies bots against each operator's published IP ranges, explains failed fetches, and shows a citation rate per page. It starts on Professional at $245, below LLM Pulse's €299 Scale.
Publishing the fix
GEO Writer drafts content that is ready to edit, but a CMS integration isn't listed, so every draft still has to be pasted into your CMS by hand. Promptwatch publishes to WordPress through its official plugin, to Webflow and to Framer, as draft or live, and then follows each published page through crawls, citations and AI traffic. On Business, the automated Content Agent plans, writes and publishes against visibility gaps on a schedule, with a review inbox if you want a person to approve each piece.
Checking claims against your own pages
LLM Pulse's Reputation feature catches inaccurate or negative claims. Checking those claims against your own site isn't described. Promptwatch's Brand Narrative (every plan) groups the claims AI makes about you by theme, and Fact Check (Business and up) looks for pages on your crawled site that confirm or contradict a claim, with quotes and a suggested next step. That turns "ChatGPT has our pricing wrong" into a specific page to fix.
Prompt demand, and engines without surcharges
LLM Pulse suggests prompts from keyword ideas and project context, but search volumes and difficulty aren't listed. Promptwatch's Prompt Volumes gives monthly volume, difficulty and citation rate across AI search, Google and Bing, which helps you decide which 100 prompts deserve a slot. On engines, every LLM Pulse model beyond the base five costs extra per month, and coding agents aren't listed. Promptwatch has no per-engine fee and tracks what Codex, Claude Code and OpenCode recommend. That matters if you sell a developer tool or an API.
Promptwatch Create Monitor model picker, from the Promptwatch changelog. Example project data.
Who should pick which
- Pick LLM Pulse if weekly data on five engines is enough and budget is the deciding factor, or if you want the longer trial.
- Pick LLM Pulse if you need Naver, Baidu, Qwen or Doubao, or want ChatGPT Shopping and ads tracking for €299.
- Pick Promptwatch if you report daily or faster and don't want to buy a separate daily plan.
- Pick Promptwatch if you need personas, city tracking or coordinate targeting.
- Pick Promptwatch if you need crawler logs, the API and Looker Studio below €299, or want published pages tracked from the CMS through to conversions.
Our verdict
LLM Pulse is an honest, well-priced tracker, and its 14-day trial, regional engines and €299 shopping tier are real advantages. Promptwatch wins the row count because it fills the rows LLM Pulse leaves blank or puts on Scale: daily runs on every plan, personas and coordinate targeting, IP-verified crawler logs with a citation rate per page, Fact Check, Prompt Volumes and CMS publishing. For most teams the deciding row is the crawl-to-citation rate, because it tells you whether to fix access or fix content. Start the 7-day free trial on Professional, connect crawler logs on day one, and run your LLM Pulse prompt list in both tools for the week.
FAQ
Is LLM Pulse cheaper than Promptwatch?
At entry level, yes. LLM Pulse Starter is €49 a month with weekly tracking, while Promptwatch Essential is $95 (€85) with daily tracking. Once you need crawler logs and API access, LLM Pulse Scale (€299) costs more than Promptwatch Professional ($245, or €205).
Does LLM Pulse have AI crawler logs?
Yes. Agent Analytics is on Scale and up and reads server logs from most major CDNs, plus Apache and nginx uploads. IP verification and crawl error tracking aren't listed on its pages (checked November 2026). Promptwatch's crawler logs start on Professional and include both.
Can LLM Pulse track Claude?
Yes, as a paid add-on. Claude is €25 a month on weekly Starter, and add-on prices rise with the plan. Promptwatch tracks Claude via API on every paid plan with no extra fee.