Otterly.AI vs AthenaHQ

Pick up to 4 tools and see their free plans, entry prices, platforms and limits in one table. Every fact comes from each vendor's own pages, checked 24 September 2026.

Compared on	Otterly.AI Free trial · from $25/mo Visit Remove	AthenaHQ Free plan · from $245/mo Visit Remove
What it is	AI search monitoring for brand mentions and website citations	AEO and GEO platform that tracks AI search visibility and recommends content actions
Free plan	No	$25 of free credit (300 credits; 1 credit = 1 AI response) on ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Gemini and Copilot; the page does not say whether the credits renew
Cheapest paid plan	$25/mo billed annually (Lite)Otterly.AI pricing	$245/mo billed annually (Starter)AthenaHQ pricing
What it covers	Covers 15 search prompts tracked daily on four AI engines.	Includes 3,600 credits a month (1 credit = 1 AI response) across 11 AI models; API access and extra credits cost extra.
Free trial	Free trial for new users (length not stated on the pricing page)	None stated
Platforms	Web, API	Web, API
Integrations (vendor's figure)	Not stated	Not stated
Open source	No	No
Good for	Tracking a handful of prompts for a small team Reporting AI search visibility for several clients from separate workspaces Checking which websites AI engines cite for your topics	Trying AI visibility tracking on a free plan before paying Getting AI visibility tracking and content recommendations in one tool Tracking a wide set of AI models, including Grok, DeepSeek and Meta AI
Watch out for	No free plan; the cheapest plan tracks 15 prompts Google AI Mode, Gemini and Claude cost extra on every plan API, MCP and Agent Analytics start on Standard ($189/month billed monthly)	The only paid self-serve plan costs $295 a month ($245 billed annually) API access and extra credits are paid add-ons on Starter, priced on request Tracking in multiple regions and languages is an Enterprise feature
Made by	OtterlyAI GmbH	AthenaHQ

Entry prices are the cheapest paid plan, as each vendor publishes it; “What it covers” says what that price is per (a user, a channel, a brand, a number of contacts). The sources are listed on each tool's page.

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