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Otterly.AI vs Rankscale

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 17 October 2026.

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Otterly.AI

Free trial · from $25/mo

Rankscale

Free trial · from $17/mo

What it isAI search monitoring for brand mentions and website citationsCredit-based AI visibility tracking across more than 17 AI engines
Free planNoNo
Cheapest paid plan$25/mo billed annually (Lite)Otterly.AI pricing$17/mo billed annually (Essentials)Rankscale pricing
What it coversCovers 15 search prompts tracked daily on four AI engines.Sold yearly only, at $204 a year; includes 120 credits a month and 2 brand dashboards, and credits can be topped up.
Free trialFree trial for new users (length not stated on the pricing page)7-day free trial of the Pro plan, with a limited credit allowance; it becomes a paid Pro plan only if you choose to continue
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, API
Integrations (vendor's figure)Not statedNot stated
Open sourceNoNo
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
  • Tracking many client brands, with white-label dashboards and an agency programme
  • Tracking engines that many tools skip, such as DeepSeek, Mistral and Grok
  • Controlling cost by choosing the engines and check frequency for each prompt
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)
  • Credits make costs harder to predict: a Claude check uses 2 credits and DeepSeek 1, against 0.25 for ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and AI Mode
  • Essentials is sold yearly only, with no credit rollover and only 2 brand dashboards
  • The REST API starts on Pro+ ($229/month billed monthly) and white-label dashboards on Growth ($385/month)
Made byOtterlyAI GmbHRankscale GmbH

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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