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Searchly vs AirOps

Searchly tracks ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity from $99 a month, with AI crawler logs, GA4 AI visits and Search Console on the same plan. AirOps is a content operations platform with AI search insights: it quotes every plan, bills in tasks and tracks only ChatGPT on Solo.

Compared from AirOps's own pricing and documentation, checked Oct 21, 2026. How we compare

Our verdict

Our pick: Searchly

Searchly is the better choice for most teams. Its $99 Starter plan tracks ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity at a published price, where AirOps quotes every plan and tracks ChatGPT only on Solo. Starter also adds AI shopping, which AirOps does not document, and puts AI crawler logs, GA4 AI visits and Search Console together, a set no other platform compared here documents on its entry plan.

Key facts
SearchlyAirOps
Entry price$99 a month (Starter)Quote (Solo)
50 prompts, 3 engines, daily$99 a monthQuote (Pro)
Engines on the entry planChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and PerplexityChatGPT only on Solo; 7 on Pro
Site data on the entry planAI crawler logs once you connect a source, GA4 AI visits and Search ConsoleGA4 AI referrals; crawler logs and Search Console, plan not stated
Free trial14 days on Pro"Start for free", terms not stated

strengths

Where Searchly comes out ahead.

From each company's own pricing pages and documentation, checked Oct 21, 2026. Each point links to its source.

Where Searchly is stronger

  • Published prices: Starter $99, Pro $239 and Business $499 a month. AirOps prices every plan on request, "based on your task volume and specific needs". Source
  • ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity on every plan, Starter included. AirOps Solo tracks ChatGPT only; its other engines start on Pro, which is also quoted. Source
  • AI crawler logs, GA4 AI visits and Search Console together on the $99 Starter plan, with crawler logs once you connect Cloudflare, Vercel, Netlify, WordPress, Next.js or the HTTP API. AirOps names no plan for its crawler logs or its Search Console connection. Source
  • AI shopping on every plan, Starter included: the products ChatGPT shows for your prompts, whose they are, what they cost, which retailer sells them and where they rank. AirOps does not document product visibility tracking. Source
  • 50 prompts on Starter, each run on all three engines: up to 4,500 runs in 30 days, counted in prompts you can plan around. AirOps names no prompt allowance; answers and content steps share one pool of tasks on a quoted plan, and tasks beyond Solo's task allowance cost $0.025 each. Source

Where AirOps focuses

  • Content workflows in Playbooks, Workflows and Grids with human review, every step billed in tasks. Source
  • Publishing to 10 CMSs on Pro, a quoted plan whose 100,000 tasks are shared by content steps and answers. Source

capabilities

Feature by feature, with sources.

The same capabilities, in the same words, for both tools. A tag beside the status names the plan or the limit, and each note links to the page it came from. Not documented means we could not find it in AirOps's public pages.

Searchly and AirOps: 25 capabilities, sources checked Oct 21, 2026
CapabilitySearchlyAirOpsQuote only
TrackingWhat is tracked, how often and for how many brands.
AI enginesIncluded means five or more named engines on a published plan, counting paid add-ons.Included3 included, 2 add-ons

ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity on every plan; Gemini and Claude as paid add-ons (Starter +$50 and +$100 a month, Pro +$150 and +$300, Business +$250 and +$500, Custom included); Copilot, DeepSeek, Google AI Mode and Grok coming soon. Source

IncludedPro plan, Solo ChatGPT

Pro: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Studio, Claude, Copilot and Grok per the pricing table (docs name Google AI Mode and AI Overviews); Solo is ChatGPT only; Claude answers cost 4 tasks. Source

Tracking cadenceIncluded means a daily run is available on a published plan.Included

Each tracked prompt runs once a day on every engine in the plan. Source

Included

Each prompt runs daily, one answer per prompt, platform and day; multi-answer collection on Enterprise. Source

Prompt suggestions and researchSuggested prompts or a prompt database; the note says whether volume data is shown.IncludedNo volume data

Buyer prompts suggested from your site and topics, tracked only after you accept them, or typed, pasted or uploaded as CSV and tracked at once; no search volume or difficulty. Source

IncludedVolume tiers

Relative prompt volume tiers and AEO research, with DataForSEO and Moz data. Source

Competitor benchmarkingCompetitors measured on the same answers.Included

Benchmark the competitors you choose on visibility, share of voice, position and citations. Source

IncludedUp to 10

Competitor insights, up to 10 competitors. Source

Several projects or brandsTwo or more projects, brands or workspaces on one published plan.Included2 on Pro, 3 on Business

1 project on Starter, up to 2 on Pro and up to 3 on Business, sharing one prompt budget; more on Custom. Source

Not documented

1 Brand Kit on Solo and Pro, unlimited on Enterprise; tracked brand or project limits not published. Source

Answer evidenceWhat you can open and take away from each answer.
Full answer textThe full answer behind each result, exportable or available through an API.IncludedAPI fallbacks labelled

Open the answer behind every score with its date and citations; API fallback answers are labelled and kept out of headline metrics, and Claude is collected through Anthropic's API; answers export as CSV. Source

Included

Answer history with the full answer, mentions and citations per answer. Source

Citations and sourcesCited pages and domains for each answer, with source analysis.Included

Cited domains and pages per answer, the sources that cite competitors but not you and content types including Reddit threads and YouTube videos. Source

Included

Citation analytics per answer and page. Source

SentimentHow answers describe the brand, per answer or per brand.Included

How AI answers describe you, positive, neutral or negative, and why. Source

Included

Sentiment and themes on every plan. Source

Data exportsCSV or spreadsheet exports of answers, prompts or citations.IncludedCSV

CSV exports of answers, prompts, page evidence and crawler logs on every plan; articles export as Markdown, HTML or text on Pro and up. Source

IncludedCSV

CSV export from Grids; data through the API. Source

Site evidenceWhat your own site data adds.
AI crawler logsAI crawler requests read from server, CDN or edge logs.Included

Requests from AI crawlers, verified or declared, after you connect Cloudflare (Logpush or Worker), Vercel, Next.js, Netlify, WordPress or the HTTP API; 90-day retention; CSV export. Source

IncludedPlan not stated

Agent Analytics from CDN logs with no script: Cloudflare (Logpush or Worker), CloudFront, Netlify and Vercel; plan gate not shown. Source

AI referral visitsHuman visits from AI assistants, from GA4 or the vendor's own script.IncludedVia GA4

Visits from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and other AI assistants, read from Google Analytics 4 through a read-only connection, with no extra script. Source

IncludedVia GA4

GA4 AI referral traffic, engagement and selected conversions; Amplitude conversions. Source

Google Search ConsoleSearch Console data inside the product.Included

Search Console clicks, impressions, CTR and position by query, page, country and device beside the AI evidence for each page; no indexing data. Source

IncludedPlan not stated

Search Console connection; plan gate not stated. Source

Site auditIncluded means a multi-page technical or AI-readiness audit.LimitedHomepage only

Site Health checks your homepage and selected root files, including AI crawler access in robots.txt, llms.txt and structured data, with a fix for each; not a whole-site crawl. Source

Not documented

A site audit is not documented. Source

Taking actionWhat happens after a finding.
Recommendations or action queueA ranked list of next steps or tasks.Included

Opportunities: a ranked list of next steps tied to the evidence, from setup and on-page fixes to sites worth pitching; outreach is drafted, nothing is sent. Source

Included

Opportunities for creation, refresh, outreach and Reddit communities. Source

Content generationIncluded means article generation that is generally available.IncludedPro and up

Content Studio on Pro, Business and the Pro trial: full articles or writer briefs in 8 formats from verified sources, readiness checks and accept or reject revisions; English only, hourly generation caps, no monthly article quota. Source

IncludedBilled in tasks

Playbooks, Workflows and Grids with human review, quality scores and version history, billed in tasks. Source

CMS publishingIncluded means content sent to two or more CMSs, as drafts or live.LimitedWebflow drafts, Pro and up

Approved articles go to your Webflow CMS as drafts on Pro and up; WordPress, Framer and Shopify publishing are not built. Source

IncludedWebflow on Solo, more on Pro

Solo publishes to Webflow; Pro adds WordPress, Contentful, Strapi, Sanity, Framer, HubSpot, Contentstack, Storyblok and Builder.io. Source

AI agent or assistantAn in-app agent that works on the product's own data.Included

Agent on every paid plan and the Pro trial: ask about your AI visibility in plain language; it reads your Searchly data, opens the right page and proposes changes such as new prompts or competitors that you confirm; it does not write or publish articles. Source

Included

Quill, the AirOps agent; custom agents on Enterprise. Source

Access and teamsHow data leaves the tool and who can sign in.
REST APIA documented API for the visibility data.Included

REST API with an OpenAPI spec and scoped, expiring keys on every plan; operations that generate content need an active subscription or the Pro trial. Source

Included

Insights API (mention rate, share of voice, citations, pages with GSC and GA4 data) on every plan. Source

MCP serverA documented MCP server for the visibility data.Included

MCP server on every plan for AI tools that support Streamable HTTP and a custom Authorization header (bearer key, no OAuth). Source

Included

MCP server with OAuth on every plan. Source

Agency plans and client reportingAn agency plan, client workspaces or branded or shareable client reports.Not offered

No agency plan, white label, scheduled or PDF reports or share links; client data leaves as CSV or through the API. Source

Not documented

No agency plan on the pricing page (the FAQ mentions an older Agency plan); custom dashboards on Enterprise. Source

SSO (SAML or OIDC)Company identity-provider sign-in; Google sign-in does not count.Not offered

No SSO, SAML, SCIM or audit log; customers sign in with email and password or Google. Source

Sales plan onlyEnterprise

SSO on Enterprise; Okta SSO and SCIM documented. Source

Shopping and adsProducts and ads inside AI answers.
AI shopping visibilityIncluded means the products AI answers show are captured and tracked; the tag names the engines.IncludedChatGPT

AI shopping on every plan: the products ChatGPT shows for your prompts, whose they are, their price, rating and retailer and where they rank. Source

Not documented

Product visibility tracking was not found in the docs index. Source

AI ads trackingIncluded means ads inside AI answers captured on two or more surfaces.Not offered

AI ads tracking is not built. Source

IncludedPro plan

AI Ads Insights from Pro: ads observed in ChatGPT and Google AI Mode, plus ChatGPT Ads performance with a connected account. Source

BuyingPublic prices and free trials.
Published priceA public price for a paid plan that tracks AI answers, listed on the vendor's pricing page.Included

Starter $99, Pro $239 and Business $499 a month; yearly billing is 10 times monthly; Custom is quoted. Source

Not offeredPriced on request

No public price: 'based on your task volume and specific needs'. Source

Free trial or free tierA documented free trial or free tier that includes AI-answer tracking.IncludedOn Pro, 14 days

14-day trial on Pro ('Start for free'); Starter and Business have no trial; the free AI visibility report is a one-off sample, not a trial. Source

LimitedTerms not stated

'Start for free' on Solo and Pro; the FAQ's 14-day trial names an older plan. Source

pricing

The same workload, priced on both.

One brand, 50 buyer prompts on ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity, checked once a day in one country: a common base for AI visibility tracking. Every Searchly plan includes all three engines; where AirOps counts or includes engines differently, the note says so.

50 prompts on ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity for one brand in one country, priced on Searchly and AirOps
ItemSearchlyAirOps
Covers the workloadCovers itQuote required
PlanStarterPro (Solo tracks ChatGPT only)
Monthly price$99Quote
Billed yearly$990 a year ($82.50 a month)Quote
The three enginesAll three includedPro lists ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Studio, Claude, Copilot and Grok; its docs also name Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode
Extra costNoneTasks beyond the plan ($0.025 a task over Solo's allowance)
Free trialNone on Starter; a 14-day trial of Pro ($239 a month after)"Start for free" on Solo and Pro; terms not stated
What the plan counts50 prompts on 3 engines once a day: up to 4,500 runs in 30 days, the whole Starter allowance100,000 tasks on Pro, shared by answers and content steps; prompt allowance not published

AirOps prices plans on your task volume and needs.

Prices before tax, in each company's own currency, as published on Oct 21, 2026. est. marks our arithmetic from published units. Units differ: Searchly counts runs, up to 4,500 in 30 days on 50 prompts.

Sources: Searchly: Searchly pricing; AirOps: AirOps pricing

fit

Which one to choose.

Choose Searchly if…

you want ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity tracked at a published price, with AI crawler logs, GA4 AI visits, Search Console and AI shopping on the $99 Starter plan.

AirOps may suit you if…

content production at volume is the main job and you want Playbooks, human review and publishing to many CMSs in one workflow tool, priced on a quote.

switching

Moving from AirOps, or running both.

  1. Your prompts.AirOps exports CSV from Grids, and its Insights API returns your visibility data. Source In Searchly, paste or upload your prompts as CSV. Prompts you add are tracked at once; the ones Searchly suggests wait until you accept them.
  2. Competitors.Add the competitors you follow in AirOps. Searchly benchmarks the ones you choose.
  3. History.Past results stay in AirOps. Scores are not comparable between tools, because engines, collection methods and formulas differ, so compare trends from the same start date.
  4. Site data.Connect Google Analytics 4 and Search Console read-only, and send AI crawler logs from Cloudflare, Vercel, Netlify, WordPress, Next.js or the HTTP API by following a setup guide. Searchly installs nothing on your site.
  5. Run both.Track the same prompts in both tools during the 14-day Pro trial before you decide.

evaluation

Put both tools to the test.

Use your own brand, the same buyer prompts and the same dates in both tools. Ask the other vendor these three questions.

  • Which plan tracks Google AI Overviews and Perplexity as well as ChatGPT, and what does that plan cost?
  • How many tasks does one answer use on each engine, and do content steps draw from the same allowance?
  • Which plan includes crawler logs and Search Console, and do you track the products ChatGPT shows for your prompts?

Frequently asked
questions

Everything you need to get started.

Talk to our team

sources

Sources and scope.

How we compare. We read each company's own pricing page, documentation and changelog, noting the day we checked each one. A capability we could not find is marked Not documented; Not offered means the company's own pages say it is not part of the product. Both columns follow the same rules. We do not compare visibility scores between tools: engines, collection methods and formulas differ.

AirOps sources

  1. AirOps pricingwww.airops.comChecked Oct 21, 2026
  2. Docs indexdocs.airops.comChecked Oct 21, 2026
  3. Insights settingsdocs.airops.comChecked Oct 21, 2026
  4. AI adsdocs.airops.comChecked Oct 21, 2026
  5. Agent Analytics (traffic)docs.airops.comChecked Oct 21, 2026
  6. Your promptsdocs.airops.comChecked Oct 21, 2026
  7. APIdocs.airops.comChecked Oct 21, 2026
  8. MCP serverdocs.airops.comChecked Oct 21, 2026
  9. Opportunitiesdocs.airops.comChecked Oct 21, 2026

Searchly sources

  1. Searchly pricingwww.trysearchly.comChecked Oct 21, 2026
  2. AI Visibility product pagewww.trysearchly.comChecked Oct 21, 2026
  3. Agent Analytics product pagewww.trysearchly.comChecked Oct 21, 2026
  4. Content Studio product pagewww.trysearchly.comChecked Oct 21, 2026
  5. Technical optimization (Site Health) pagewww.trysearchly.comChecked Oct 21, 2026
  6. Production OpenAPI documentapp.trysearchly.comChecked Oct 21, 2026
  7. MCP documentationdocs.trysearchly.comChecked Oct 21, 2026

Spotted an out-of-date detail about AirOps? Email piotr@trysearchly.com and we will check it against AirOps's pages.

The positioning map and its method

Changes

  • Rewritten with a feature table, pricing for the same workload and dated sources.

get started

Make the comparison with your own brand.

Start a 14-day free trial of Pro. Track your own buyer prompts, open the answers and sources behind them and decide with evidence.