Searchly vs Rankshift
Searchly's $99 Starter plan ties the AI evidence for each page to AI crawler logs, GA4 AI visits and Search Console; no other platform in our comparison guide documents all three on its entry plan. Rankshift spreads one credit pool across nine engines, and its public pages document no GA4 AI visits or Search Console.
Compared from Rankshift'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 GA4 AI visits and Search Console beside the AI evidence for each page and adds AI shopping for ChatGPT and the Agent; Rankshift's public pages document none of the four. Searchly also suggests buyer prompts from your site and topics and exports its answers as CSV, where Rankshift's public pages document neither prompt suggestions nor a full-text answer export.
| Searchly | Rankshift | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $99 a month (Starter) | EUR 77 a month (Starter) |
| 50 prompts, 3 engines, daily | $99 a month | EUR 77 a month |
| Engines on the entry plan | ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity | 9 engines, paid in credits |
| Site data on the entry plan | AI crawler logs once you connect a source, GA4 AI visits and Search Console | Crawler logs per its pricing page (an older post says Professional); AI referrals and Search Console not documented |
| Free trial | 14 days on Pro | 30 days |
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
- GA4 AI referral visits and Search Console clicks, impressions and position beside crawler logs for each page, on the $99 Starter plan; Rankshift's public pages document neither GA4 AI visits nor Search Console. 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. Rankshift's public pages do not document AI shopping. Source
- The Agent, on every paid plan, answers questions about your AI visibility in plain language and proposes new prompts or competitors that you confirm. Rankshift's public pages document no in-app agent. Source
- Buyer prompts suggested from your site and topics on the $99 Starter plan, tracked only after you accept them, or typed, pasted or uploaded as CSV. Rankshift's public pages document no prompt suggestions; its personas and tags organise the prompts you track. Source
Where Rankshift focuses
- Nine engines on every plan, including Claude, Copilot, Gemini and Google AI Mode, all paid from one credit pool: Claude and Copilot cost 5 credits a run against 2 on most engines, and 50 prompts on three engines every day already use about 9,000 of Starter's 9,500 credits. Source
- Unlimited projects and seats on every plan, all drawing on the same credit pool, so each project you add spends from one monthly allowance. 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 Rankshift's public pages.
| Capability |  Searchly |  Rankshift |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Included9 engines, credits All plans: ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Mistral, Meta AI, Claude, Copilot. 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 or weekly Weekly to daily, set per prompt. 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 | Not documented Prompt suggestions not documented; personas and tags organise prompts. Source |
| Competitor benchmarkingCompetitors measured on the same answers. | Included Benchmark the competitors you choose on visibility, share of voice, position and citations. Source | Included Share of voice and citation gaps against 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 | Included All plans: unlimited projects. 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 | LimitedExport not documented Full answer stored with its sources; full-text export not documented. 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 Views by domain and page, exportable. 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 tracked per prompt; Brand perception module. 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, Looker Studio CSV; Looker Studio and BI connectors. 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 | IncludedPer pricing page All plans incl. Starter: Cloudflare, API endpoint, log upload (older blog says Professional). 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 | Not documented Not documented. 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 | Not documented Not documented. 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 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 | IncludedPlan not stated Action Center: kanban of on-page and off-page tasks with measurement after shipping. 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 | Included All plans: brief generator and AI writer; quota not published. 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. 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 | Not documented Not documented. 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 | IncludedPer pricing page All plans per pricing page: BI REST API (an older blog post says Professional). 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 | IncludedRead-only Any plan; read-only, OAuth. 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 | IncludedPartner program Agency Partner Program: client-only access, pitch projects; Looker Studio, API or CSV reports. 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 Enterprise. 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 Not documented. 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, plan not stated ChatGPT ads tracking; plan not stated. 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 | IncludedEuros, dollars, pounds EUR, USD and GBP, excl. VAT. 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 | Included30 days 30 days. 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 Rankshift counts or includes engines differently, the note says so.
| Item | Searchly | Rankshift |
|---|---|---|
| Covers the workload | Covers it | Covers it |
| Plan | Starter | Starter |
| Monthly price | $99 | EUR 77 (USD 92, GBP 67) |
| Billed yearly | $990 a year ($82.50 a month) | EUR 69 a month billed annually |
| The three engines | All three included | Included: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity at 2 credits a run (Claude and Copilot cost 5) |
| Extra cost | None | None |
| Free trial | None on Starter; a 14-day trial of Pro ($239 a month after) | 30 days |
| What the plan counts | 50 prompts on 3 engines once a day: up to 4,500 runs in 30 days, the whole Starter allowance | 9,500 credits a month; this workload uses about 9,000 (4,500 runs at 2 credits, est.) |
Rankshift's "150 prompts a day" on Starter assumes one engine. Prices exclude VAT.
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; Rankshift: Rankshift pricing, Manage your credits
fit
Which one to choose.
Choose Searchly if…
you want AI crawler logs, GA4 AI visits and Search Console beside the AI evidence for each page, plus AI shopping for ChatGPT, prompt suggestions and an Agent that works on your data, all from the first plan.
Rankshift may suit you if…
you track a short list of prompts across all nine of its engines for many client projects and can share one credit pool between them.
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.
Rankshift sources
- Rankshift pricing
- Rankshift page for AI assistants (October 2026)
- Agent Analytics
- Integrations
- Recommendations (Action Center)
- Agency Partner Program
- Manage your credits
- MCP server overview
- REST API for BI
- Prompt tracking
- Content brief generator
Searchly sources
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