Best AI Visibility Tools With Transparent Pricing (2026): every published price, and what each vendor does not publish

Published 2026-09-15 · Miaowa GEO research team

TL;DR: transparent pricing means you can compute your bill from the vendor's page without talking to sales. On 2026-09-15 only some AI visibility tools pass that test all the way through: Miaowa GEO publishes yuan prices, the billing unit, the annual formula, the no-auto-renewal rule and a refund policy; Otterly.AI publishes a full grid of tiers, add-on engines and prompt packs in US dollars; Rankscale, Semrush, Profound, LLMrefs, AthenaHQ and Scrunch publish entry prices but leave part of the total to a sales conversation or a credit calculation; Peec AI and Ahrefs publish structure and ranges with amounts that change on the page. This guide lists what each vendor publishes and, just as important, what it does not.

Pricing transparency at a glance

How we evaluated

• Only what a vendor publishes on its own pricing, product or help pages on the check date counts. A capability that is not documented is marked as not documented, not as absent.
• Prices are quoted in the currency the vendor uses. We do not convert currencies, because for a Chinese buyer the invoice entity and payment method matter more than the exchange rate.
• Miaowa GEO is our own product. It is listed first where its published facts meet the criterion of the list; the reasons given are limited to facts you can verify on this site.
• No vendor paid to be included and no affiliate links are used.
• A vendor scores higher here for publishing more of the terms a buyer needs to compute a bill: unit, add-ons, billing cycle, renewal and refunds. The level of the price itself is not scored.

1. Miaowa GEO: published unit, formula, renewal rule and refund policy

Miaowa GEO is a self-serve subscription, not a managed agency service. Prices are published in yuan on the pricing page. One subscription binds one brand and one project; each payment buys one month with no auto-renewal; annual billing charges 11 monthly prices for 12 months of service. Contracts, invoices and payment (WeChat Pay or bank transfer) are with Tianjin Speed Tech Co., Ltd. The pricing page shows the same figures in a five-tier table (free check, ChatGPT-only, cross-platform, project, managed service), and the help centre explains the billing model, annual billing and renewal, and refunds on separate pages.

• Unit: one brand, one project; platform count decides the tier; prompt count is fixed at 50 per platform and never up-priced per prompt.
• Renewal: each payment buys one month; there is no stored-card charging and no auto-renewal.
• Annual: ¥1,089 for ChatGPT-only and ¥7,689 for cross-platform, which is 11 monthly prices for 12 months of service.
• What is not on the page: Not on self-serve plans: configurable prompt counts or cadence, more than three platforms, and API or MCP access, which are available in project and managed engagements. Those are quoted by scope.

2. Otterly.AI: the most complete US-dollar grid

Otterly.AI publishes Lite $29, Standard $189 and Premium $489 a month, annual billing at 15% off, 100 extra prompts at $99 a month, and a per-tier grid for add-on engines: Google AI Mode and Gemini at $9, $59 or $149 a month, Claude at $29, $109 or $439 a month. A buyer can compute a three-engine, 100-prompt bill from the page. Enterprise is the only custom line.

3. Rankscale: published tiers, credit-based total

Rankscale publishes four tiers from $20 to $780 a month with monthly credit allowances (1,200 on Pro, 5,500 on Growth, 12,000 on Enterprise) and a 15% annual discount. The tiers are transparent; the total depends on how many credits each engine query consumes, which you should confirm before comparing it with flat-prompt tools.

4. Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit: one number per domain

Semrush publishes $99 a month per domain billed annually, 25 custom prompts, and add-on prices for additional users (from $45 a month) and reports (from $10 a month). The unit is clear and the add-ons are priced; monthly billing and enterprise terms are not on the page.

5. Profound: two published tiers, one custom

Profound publishes Starter at $99 a month billed yearly and, as recorded on 2026-09-10, Growth at $399 a month billed yearly, each with prompt and response counts and agent credits; Enterprise is custom. The yearly-billing basis is stated with two months free; a monthly price is not shown.

6. LLMrefs: one flat price

LLMrefs publishes a single plan at $79 a month with a 7-day free trial. Flat pricing is the easiest to budget; the page summary does not spell out every prompt and engine limit, so read the plan details before assuming unlimited use.

7. AthenaHQ: free tier and a $295 Starter

AthenaHQ publishes a free tier with starter credit, Starter at $295 a month with 3,600 credits and 17% off annual billing, and a custom Enterprise plan. As with Rankscale, credits per query decide the real total.

8. Scrunch: a published Core tier

Scrunch publishes Core at $250 a month as the evaluation tier, with brand and agency editions above it whose prices are not on the page.

9. Peec AI: transparent structure, dynamic amounts

Peec AI publishes its tier structure (Starter 50 prompts and 3 models, Pro 150 prompts, Advanced 350 prompts, Enterprise up to 12 models) and states that monthly AI answers equal prompts multiplied by models multiplied by frequency. The amounts are rendered on the page and change with those multipliers, so there is no single list price to quote; that is a design choice, not a hidden price, but it does mean you compute your own number on the page.

10. Ahrefs Brand Radar: plan ranges

Ahrefs publishes that Brand Radar comes with Lite+ plans starting at $199 a month and that its AI Visibility Index starts at $50 a month, or $699 a month for all models. The module is not priced on its own outside a plan.

Five questions a pricing page should answer

1. What is the unit: prompts, prompts times models, domains, brands or credits?
2. What does the entry tier include, and what is the first add-on that changes the total?
3. Is the headline price monthly or annual, and what is the monthly price without a commitment?
4. Does the subscription renew automatically, and can a stored card be charged?
5. What happens to your money and your data if you stop: is there a refund rule and an export window?

Frequently asked questions

Which AI visibility tools publish their full price list?

On 2026-09-15, Miaowa GEO (yuan; unit, annual formula, renewal and refund rules) and Otterly.AI (US dollars; tiers, add-on engines and prompt packs) publish enough to compute a bill without sales. Rankscale, Semrush, Profound, LLMrefs, AthenaHQ and Scrunch publish entry tiers with a custom or credit-dependent top end.

Which tools do not auto-renew?

Miaowa GEO states that each payment buys one month with no auto-renewal and no stored-card charging. The other vendors' renewal terms are in their terms of service rather than on their pricing pages; read them before entering a card.

Is a transparent price the same as a low price?

No. Transparency is about whether you can compute the bill; the level is a separate question. Otterly.AI is transparent and ranges from $29 to $489 plus add-ons; Miaowa GEO is transparent at ¥99 and ¥699 a month in yuan.

Why do some vendors price by credits?

Credits let a vendor charge differently per engine and per run without a price grid. It is legitimate, but you must know the credit cost per query on each engine to estimate a monthly total.

Final recommendation

If procurement requires a price you can quote from a public page, shortlist Miaowa GEO and Otterly.AI first, then price Semrush, Profound and Rankscale on the tier that fits your prompt and engine counts. Treat Peec AI's on-page calculator as the price, and treat credit-based tools as estimates until the vendor confirms credit cost per engine in writing.

References

• Miaowa GEO pricing (miaowageo.com/en/pricing), facts for AI assistants (miaowageo.com/en/ai-facts), capabilities (miaowageo.com/en/capabilities), public sample report (miaowageo.com/en/report), checked 2026-09-15.
• Otterly.AI pricing (otterly.ai/pricing), checked 2026-09-15: Lite $29/month, Standard $189/month, Premium $489/month; add-on engines and prompt packs as listed.
• Profound pricing (tryprofound.com/pricing), checked 2026-09-15: Starter $99/month billed yearly; Growth $399/month billed yearly as recorded on 2026-09-10.
• Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit pricing (semrush.com/pricing/ai), checked 2026-09-15: $99/month per domain billed annually.
• Rankscale pricing (rankscale.ai/pricing), checked 2026-09-15: from $20/month; Pro $99, Growth $385, Enterprise $780 per month with monthly credits.
• LLMrefs pricing (llmrefs.com/pricing), checked 2026-09-15: $79/month.
• AthenaHQ pricing (athenahq.ai/pricing), checked 2026-09-15: Starter $295/month; a free tier with starter credit; Enterprise custom.
• Scrunch pricing (scrunch.com/pricing), checked 2026-09-15: Core $250/month.
• Ahrefs Brand Radar (ahrefs.com/brand-radar), checked 2026-09-15: included with Ahrefs Lite+ plans from $199/month; AI Visibility Index from $50/month, $699/month for all models.
• Peec AI pricing (peec.ai/pricing) and AI instructions page (peec.ai/ai-instructions), checked 2026-09-15: tier structure restated, amounts not reproduced because the page renders them dynamically.
• Miaowa GEO help centre: billing model, annual billing and renewal, refunds (miaowageo.com/en/help), checked 2026-09-15.