Searchly vs LLM Pulse
Searchly puts AI crawler logs, GA4 AI visits, Search Console, sentiment, AI shopping, the REST API and Agent on its $99 Starter plan. With daily tracking on LLM Pulse, that set takes Scale at EUR 449 a month; even GA4 AI visits and its agent start on Growth at EUR 149.
Compared from LLM Pulse'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 puts AI crawler logs, GA4 AI visits and Search Console together beside the answers for each page, a combination no other platform compared here documents on its entry plan. On LLM Pulse, all of that with the REST API and AI shopping takes Scale at EUR 449 a month with daily tracking, against $99 for Searchly Starter.
| Searchly | LLM Pulse | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $99 a month (Starter) | EUR 49 weekly or EUR 79 daily (Starter) |
| 50 prompts, 3 engines, daily | $99 a month | EUR 79 a month |
| Engines on the entry plan | ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Mode and Google AI Overviews |
| Site data on the entry plan | AI crawler logs once you connect a source, GA4 AI visits and Search Console | No site data feeds on Starter: analytics and a persistent Search Console connection from Growth, crawler logs from Scale |
| Free trial | 14 days on Pro | 14 days, weekly plans |
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
- AI crawler logs and the REST API on the $99 Starter plan; LLM Pulse starts both at Scale, EUR 449 a month with daily tracking or EUR 299 with weekly tracking. Source
- AI shopping on every plan, Starter included: the products ChatGPT shows for your prompts, whose they are, their price, rating and retailer and where they rank. LLM Pulse keeps ChatGPT Shopping for Scale, from EUR 299 a month. Source
- AI referral visits read from Google Analytics 4 and a persistent Search Console connection on every plan; LLM Pulse puts both on Growth, EUR 149 a month with daily tracking or EUR 99 with weekly tracking. Source
- Agent on every paid plan, Starter included: ask about your AI visibility in plain language, and it opens the right page and proposes new prompts or competitors for you to confirm. Sentiment is on Starter too; LLM Pulse starts its agent and sentiment on Growth, EUR 149 a month with daily tracking. Source
Where LLM Pulse focuses
- Five engines on every plan, Gemini and Google AI Mode included. Daily runs start at EUR 79 a month before VAT; the EUR 49 plan checks weekly and the 14-day trial covers the weekly plans only. Source
- A GEO writer with 3 tasks a month on Starter (15 on Scale) and technical GEO audits on any URL, 25 of them recurring on Starter. 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 LLM Pulse's public pages.
| Capability |  Searchly |  LLM Pulse |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Included5 included, more add-ons All plans: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews; Claude, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek and more from EUR 8/model. 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 | IncludedDaily from EUR 79 Weekly from EUR 49; daily from EUR 79; monthly through support. 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 | Included All plans: AI prompt research. Source |
| Competitor benchmarkingCompetitors measured on the same answers. | Included Benchmark the competitors you choose on visibility, share of voice, position and citations. Source | Included All plans: 10 per project on Starter. 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 | IncludedGrowth and up Growth and up (2 projects); extra project EUR 50/mo. 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 All plans: full answers with sources; answers API on Scale and up. 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 All plans. Source |
| SentimentHow answers describe the brand, per answer or per brand. | Included How AI answers describe you, positive, neutral or negative, and why. Source | IncludedGrowth and up Growth and up (EUR 99 weekly / 149 daily). 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, Excel, PDF All plans: CSV, Excel, branded PDF, Google Sheets. 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 | IncludedScale and up Scale and up; Cloudflare, Vercel, Fastly, Netlify, CloudFront, Akamai, log upload. 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 | IncludedGrowth and up Growth and up; GA4, Piano, Adobe, Plausible, PostHog, Matomo. 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 | IncludedGrowth and up Persistent connection Growth and up; one-time read also offered. 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 | IncludedAny URL All plans: technical GEO reports on any URL or domain; 25 recurring on Starter. 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 All plans, up to 100 a project a week; Sentiment and Reputation category needs Scale. 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 | Included3 tasks a month All plans: GEO Writer, 3 tasks a month on Starter (5 Growth, 15 Scale). 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 | Not documented Not documented; GEO Writer exports Markdown, HTML or PDF. 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 | IncludedGrowth and up Growth and up; asks for confirmation before creating or editing. 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 | IncludedScale and up Scale and up (EUR 299 weekly / 449 daily); SDKs, CLI, webhooks. 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 All plans via OAuth, including trials; API-key MCP needs Scale. 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 | IncludedBranded PDF Branded PDF on all plans; Partner plans add white label or embedded dashboards. 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 onlyThrough sales Through sales only; 'not included in any plan' (Entra ID, Okta). 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 | IncludedScale and up Scale and up; ChatGPT and Alexa for Shopping. Source |
| AI ads trackingIncluded means ads inside AI answers captured on two or more surfaces. | Not offered AI ads tracking is not built. Source | LimitedChatGPT, Scale and up Scale and up; ChatGPT Ads advertisers, creatives, position. 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 | IncludedIn euros EUR before VAT, weekly and daily grids. 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 | Included14 days, weekly plans 14 days on weekly Starter, Growth and Scale; daily plans start paid. 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 LLM Pulse counts or includes engines differently, the note says so.
| Item | Searchly | LLM Pulse |
|---|---|---|
| Covers the workload | Covers it | Covers it |
| Plan | Starter | Starter with daily tracking |
| Monthly price | $99 | EUR 79 |
| Billed yearly | $990 a year ($82.50 a month) | EUR 790 a year |
| The three engines | All three included | Included: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Mode and Google AI Overviews |
| Extra cost | None | None |
| Free trial | None on Starter; a 14-day trial of Pro ($239 a month after) | 14 days on the weekly plans only; daily plans start paid |
| What the plan counts | 50 prompts on 3 engines once a day: up to 4,500 runs in 30 days, the whole Starter allowance | 50 prompts, 1 project |
Prices in EUR before VAT. Weekly tracking costs EUR 49 a month.
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; LLM Pulse: LLM Pulse pricing, Billing and plans
fit
Which one to choose.
Choose Searchly if…
you want AI crawler logs, GA4 AI visits and Search Console beside the answers for each page from the first plan, with AI shopping, the REST API, MCP server and Agent included for $99 a month.
LLM Pulse may suit you if…
you mainly want Gemini and Google AI Mode tracked on a euro budget and can move up to Growth or Scale for site data, the API and shopping.
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.
LLM Pulse sources
- LLM Pulse pricing
- Billing and plans
- AI model add-ons
- Daily, weekly or monthly
- Agent Analytics (crawler logs)
- AI traffic analytics integrations
- REST API overview
- Connect your AI (MCP)
- ChatGPT Shopping
- ChatGPT Ads
- GEO optimization suite (audits)
- LLM Pulse Agent
- Recommendations
- Content intelligence and GEO Writer
- Adding prompts, markets, GSC
- Exporting your data
- Enterprise SSO
- How LLM Pulse works
Searchly sources
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