Searchly vs AthenaHQ

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

11 models on Starter: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI and Mistral; each response uses a credit. Source

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

You choose the models and the days each prompt runs; 3,600 credits on Starter is about 120 responses a day. Source

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

Prompt variations on Starter; prompt suggestions or volume data not stated. Source

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

Unlimited competitors on Starter. Source

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

Website count per plan not published; group dashboards documented. Source

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

Full unabridged answer text with sources, position and sentiment; export as CSV. Source

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

Citation intelligence and sources per response, including YouTube creator breakdowns. Source

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

Sentiment on Starter. Source

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

CSV export on Starter; Looker Studio, Power BI and warehouse exports documented. Source

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

Server or CDN crawler logs not documented; an AI Access probe checks robots.txt and does not verify real crawler IP ranges. Source

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

GA4 traffic, engagement and conversions, shown as AI visitors in Site Health. Source

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

Search Console queries, clicks and impressions. Source

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

Site Health: multi-page crawl with an issues board, PageSpeed for up to 200 pages and staging checks; plan gate not stated. Source

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

Insights and opportunities with on-page and off-page actions and an outreach board. Source

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

Base content agent on Starter (advanced on Enterprise); a content workspace with drafts, optimisation, calendar and approvals. Source

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

WordPress, Shopify (posts and product content), Webflow, Contentful, Sanity, Framer, Wix and Payload CMS; Shopify and Webflow ticked on Starter. Source

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

Athena AI agent from the free Essential tier, with an Ask Athena chat home. Source

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

REST API is a paid add-on to Starter (price by contact); included on Enterprise. Source

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

Remote MCP server with read and write tools under account permissions; plan gate not stated. Source

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

Group dashboards and billing, a Pitch Workspace with public share links, scheduled PDF and Slack reports; plan gates not stated; Enterprise is 'Best for Enterprises and Agencies'. Source

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

SAML or OIDC SSO, SCIM, audit log and custom roles on Enterprise; Google and Microsoft sign-in on Starter. Source

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

Shopping Insights for product carousels in ChatGPT, Google AI Mode and Gemini; plan gate not stated. Source

AI ads tracking is not built. Source

Sponsored ads in ChatGPT, Google AI Mode and Google Search including AI Overviews, with advertisers and creatives; plan gate not stated. Source

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

Starter $295 a month; 17% off annually; Essential free. Source

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

A free Essential tier with 300 credits. Source