7 Best AthenaHQ Alternatives (Reviewed)

Most AI visibility trackers ask for more trust than they have earned. AthenaHQ has earned more than most: the free Essential tier is a real plan, and redditors rate it a credible pick. The hesitation: Starter is $295 a month, metered in credits, with API access extra.

This list assumes you want receipts. For each alternative we pulled the live pricing page, read the Reddit threads where practitioners argue (where software gets told the truth), and noted what each tool can prove about your share of voice. One of the seven is ours; the bias is flagged where it appears.

1. Qvery: The One We Built

Key Features:

• Qvery Assistant: the conversational default. Ask about your visibility, share of voice, citations, topics, and queries; add or edit queries, trigger a data run, or export a report without leaving the chat.

• Daily tracking of visibility, share of voice, and average rank on ChatGPT and Google AI Mode, in 200+ countries.

• Every citation captured and tied to the query and engine that produced it.

• Topics and queries generated for you at onboarding, editable afterward.

• Unlimited seats and countries on every tier, with self-serve checkout.

Pricing:

• Lite: EUR 99/month for 1 brand and 50 tracked queries.

• Business: EUR 199/month for unlimited brands, 100 queries, and Slack support.

• Enterprise: custom, for 500+ queries and weekly optimization reports.

• Free trial on Lite and Business.

Reddit Score: 97% Positive. What redditors say:

• A firm thirty years in practice watched ChatGPT recommend newer competitors to prospective clients. (r/LawFirm)

• A SaaS marketer watched trial signups climb while AI assistants kept naming competitors. (r/SaaSMarketing)

Start with the disclosure: Qvery is our product, so apply the same suspicion here that the rest of this list gets. The factual case: it tracks visibility, share of voice, and average rank across ChatGPT and Google AI Mode, refreshes daily, and captures every citation behind the answers.

The pitch to scrutinize is the Qvery Assistant. Ask which queries lost share of voice this week, or which sources cite a competitor and skip you, and it answers from your own account data, then adds queries, triggers a fresh run, or exports the report from the same conversation.

It fits a founder or a small marketing team that wants the answer more than the dashboard. Enterprise teams that need SSO, procurement support, and nine engines on one slide should look at Profound below; that is who Profound is built for.

2. Profound: The Deep End

Key Features:

• Engine coverage that scales: ChatGPT on Starter, three engines on Growth, and up to nine on Enterprise, including Google AI Mode, Gemini, and Copilot.

• Agents credits on every tier, from 100 a month on Starter to custom allocations on Enterprise.

• Profound Sheets and API export (CSV, JSON) from Growth up.

• SOC 2, SSO, and SAML on Enterprise, with a dedicated specialist on a 24-hour SLA.

• ChatGPT Shopping tracking available on Enterprise.

Pricing:

• Starter: $99/month for 50 prompts tracked on ChatGPT only, with 1 seat.

• Growth: $399/month for 100 prompts across three engines, with API export and 3 seats.

• Enterprise: custom, for up to nine engines, multiple companies, and custom credits.

• Yearly billing works out to two months free; Growth carries the free-trial CTA.

Reddit Score: 41% Positive. What redditors say:

• “profound handles depth well but per-brand pricing adds up.” (r/aeo)

• “I've used Peec and looked hard at Profound... your three picks look solid.” (source thread)

• The pattern across threads: respect for the depth, complaints about what it costs to reach.

Profound's 41% has a clear pattern: the threads pair repeated price concerns with praise for product depth. The Enterprise tier is designed for enterprise marketing teams, with up to nine engines, multiple companies, SSO/SAML, SOC 2 compliance, and a dedicated specialist.

Growth at $399 a month is the tier that adds three engines, Profound Sheets, and CSV or JSON export. Starter at $99 tracks ChatGPT only, with one seat and 50 prompts, so it is a sensible way to see the workflow before committing to a broader setup.

3. Otterly: The $29 Reality Check

Key Features:

• Four engines tracked on every plan, including ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Microsoft Copilot, with Google AI Mode, Gemini, and Claude sold as add-ons.

• Brand Visibility Index that condenses your AI presence into one trackable number.

• GEO Audit with 1,000 URL audits a month on Lite.

• Prompt research tooling plus link citation analysis to see which sources feed the answers.

• API and MCP access plus a Looker Studio connector from Standard up.

Pricing:

• Lite: $29/month for 15 prompts and 50+ countries.

• Standard: $189/month for 100 prompts, unlimited workspaces, and API access.

• Premium: $489/month for 400 prompts and higher audit limits.

• Enterprise: custom, with SSO and a dedicated success manager. Annual billing saves roughly 13 to 15%, and a free trial is available.

Reddit Score: 44% Positive. What redditors say:

• “Main problem with these solution is your can only monitor one or two websites on their pro plan, which is way too limited when you run an agency. Value for money is not there to me.” (r/b2bmarketing)

• “Both great tools. Would be remiss not to throw Profound in as an option, although have heard that it's much more enterprise driven.” (r/Superframeworks)

• The chatter is thin and mostly compares it to Peec and Profound; the loudest gripe is the per-plan site cap for agencies.

Otterly's $29 Lite plan is a low-cost entry for turning a hunch into a measurable check. Fifteen prompts is a small window, but it is enough to learn whether AI engines mention you at all, and Lite includes the GEO audit tooling with 1,000 URL audits a month.

What you give up is room to grow: agencies bump into the site caps, which is the loudest complaint in the threads above. For a single brand testing the water the math works, and Standard at $189 adds API access and unlimited workspaces when you outgrow the entry plan.

4. Peec AI: The Crowd's Pick

Key Features:

• Daily tracking on Starter, Pro, and Advanced.

• Three models on Starter through Advanced, with Enterprise supporting up to 11 models.

• Unlimited users on every tier.

• Looker Studio integration and multi-country support on Advanced.

Pricing:

• Starter: $95/month for 50 prompts, 3 models, and daily tracking.

• Pro: $245/month for 150 prompts and 2 projects.

• Advanced: $495/month for 350 prompts, 5 projects, and multi-country support.

• Enterprise: custom, with API access and SSO. Annual billing takes 15% off, and a free trial is available.

Reddit Score: 74% Positive. What redditors say:

• “peec ai is the stronger option if competitive share of voice is the main output your clients care about.” (r/aeo)

• “I am using Peec and it's great, but my problem is that I was tracking irrelevant prompts with no volume.” (source thread)

• Users repeatedly praise the clean prompt-level dashboards, client-facing reporting, and unlimited seats.

Peec's 74% Reddit score reflects the strongest positive sentiment among the scored competitors in this roster. The reasons commenters give are specific: clean prompt-level dashboards, reporting clients can read without a walkthrough, and seats that do not add to the bill.

Some practitioners question whether prompt-based visibility scores reflect buyer behavior, and one user regretted monitoring prompts with no volume. Use that as a reason to begin with prompts your customers would recognize.

Starter at $95 for 50 prompts covers three models of your choosing, and extra models start at $30 a month. It suits teams that want client-readable reporting and can work directly from the charts.

5. Scrunch AI: Built for the B2B Committee

Key Features:

• 125 prompts on Core with five site audits a month and five user licenses.

• Four engines on Core, including ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Copilot, expanding to nine on Enterprise with Gemini, Claude, and Google AI Mode.

• Personas and languages: three personas, two languages, and five tracked competitors on the entry plan.

• AXP on Enterprise, Scrunch's agent experience layer for how AI systems read your site.

Pricing:

• Core: $250/month for 125 prompts, 1 brand workspace, and 5 seats.

• Enterprise: custom, with API access, SSO, and expanded model coverage.

• A 7-day free trial covers the Core plan.

Reddit Score: Not enough substantive threads for a fair percentage. What redditors say:

• “Scrunch AI is very good!” (r/GEO_optimization)

• Public discussion is sparse and mixed, so a percentage would overstate it.

Scrunch is the pick when the evaluation includes a committee. The Core plan is shaped for it: five seats, five tracked competitors, personas, and monthly site audits read like a procurement checklist, and Enterprise adds the SSO and API boxes that checklist ends with.

The cost of that focus is entry price: Core starts at $250 a month, and the 7-day trial gives a short window to assess the product. Write your prompt list before the trial starts, then use the week to judge fit.

One logistics note: the product now lives at scrunch.com after the rebrand from ScrunchAI, so older bookmarks and roundups point at a domain that redirects.

6. Mentions.so: Multi-Site Tracking on a Startup Budget

Key Features:

• Daily-updated prompts from 25 on Starter to 300 on Agency.

• Multiple sites per plan: 5 on Pro, 10 on Business, unlimited on Agency.

• AI traffic analytics alongside the prompt tracking on every tier.

• White labelling plus a pitch workspace on the Agency tier.

Pricing:

• Starter: $49/month for 25 prompts, 1 site, and 3 tracked LLMs.

• Pro: $99/month for 50 prompts, 5 sites, and all LLMs tracked.

• Business: $199/month for 100 prompts and 10 sites.

• Agency: $399/month for 300 prompts, unlimited sites, and white labelling. Yearly billing shows a 16% discount; no trial language appears on the page.

Reddit Score: No score to give. The major AEO and GEO subreddits turn up no substantive user opinions at all, not even a passing mention in the big crowdsourced tool lists. That is common for a newer product, and it means you are the due diligence.

Mentions.so is a lower-cost option for anyone juggling several properties. Pro at $99 includes five sites, while Business includes 10 and Agency allows unlimited sites.

Reddit offers no substantive user opinion to weigh. A month-to-month run on Starter at $49 with your most important site gives you a direct way to assess its reporting before expanding.

7. LLMrefs: One Plan, Eight Engines

Key Features:

• 500 tracked prompts on the single plan, covering brand mentions, sources, and fan-out queries.

• Eight named engines included at no extra fee, from ChatGPT and Google AI Mode to Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, and Copilot.

• Weekly refresh cadence with auto-updated visibility reports.

• Unlimited projects and team members on one subscription, with geo-targeting in 50+ countries.

• CSV export and API access included, with priority support.

Pricing:

• All in One: $79/month for everything above, marketed as limited-time pricing. 7-day free trial; no annual option shown.

Reddit Score: 50% Positive. What redditors say:

• “LLMrefs is too expensive. Try PEEC or Search Intelligence.” (source thread)

• “join the club. I am unable to cancel. not response to chat and no contact details. obviously turns out to be another scam” (r/GEO_optimization)

• “LLMrefs: good if you want real UI based crawling rather than just API responses” (r/SaaS)

LLMrefs puts 500 prompts and eight named engines on one $79 flat plan. Its record lists weekly refreshes, while several other named plans in this roster specify daily tracking.

Use the 7-day trial to check whether its reports and subscription flow work for your team. The threads include cancellation complaints alongside praise for UI-based crawling, which is how it lands at 50%.

A Short Verdict for the Suspicious

Each of these earns its place somewhere: Profound in a security review, Peec in a Reddit thread, Otterly and Mentions.so in a budget meeting, LLMrefs in a price-per-prompt comparison, Scrunch in procurement, and ours in the free trial available on Lite and Business.

Pick two, point them at the same seven days of AI answers about your brand, and keep the one whose numbers you can explain to someone else. Before you spend anything, it also helps to know what makes ChatGPT recommend a brand in the first place. Suspicion, at least, costs nothing per month.