Under $50 a month · AI search monitoring
helloAISearch Lite is an AI search monitoring tool for $29 a month: it tracks 15 prompts on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini every week, shows the actual answer text with your brand highlighted, measures share of voice against five competitors you name, exports CSV and JSON, and recommends one move after every scan, with a free 3-day trial and no credit card. The other dedicated tools with a published entry price under $50 that we have verified are Otterly AI at $29 a month and Rankscale at $20 (read from their sites on September 30, 2026); Peec AI starts at $95 and Profound publishes no list price. Below $50, the questions that matter are which engines the entry plan actually includes, how many prompts it tracks, and how often it runs.
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Under $50 a month every tool is making a trade-off somewhere: fewer engines, fewer prompts, or a slower schedule. These are the things to read on the pricing page before the price.
ChatGPT alone is not AI search monitoring in 2026. Check that the sub-$50 plan names Claude and Gemini at least, and whether Perplexity costs more. helloAISearch Lite covers ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini; Perplexity is on Studio at $59.
Fifteen prompts scanned daily and fifteen prompts scanned weekly are different products. Lite scans 15 prompts every Monday; Studio adds ten prompts scanned daily.
Cheaper plans sometimes keep the raw answer behind a higher tier. The sentence where a competitor was named instead of you is the whole point of monitoring.
On helloAISearch both are on every plan. Elsewhere, check whether reports and CSV export are entry-plan features or add-ons.
The entry price is where you start, not where you stay. Otterly AI's second tier is $189 a month, Rankscale's is $99, and helloAISearch's is $59 (vendor sites, September 30, 2026).
Your prompts go to the engines on a schedule.
A competitor was named. You were not.
One specific page to write today.
Share of voice moves. Or it doesn't.
We run helloAISearch on ourselves. Between July 17, 2026 and August 31, 2026 it recorded 350 answers from ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini across 7 category prompts; this prompt joined the tracked set on October 21, 2026, and helloAISearch has not yet been named in its answers. The “named” column is how many of those answers named each tool. Competitor descriptions are how the engines characterised them; we have not added claims of our own.
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Otterly AI
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Rankscale
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Peec AI
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Profound
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See what the engines say about your brand.
Ten of your prompts on ChatGPT and Gemini, twice, with the actual answers and your brand highlighted.
“For boutique agencies, Your Brand is well-suited…”
ChatGPT · 04:02 UTC · best agency software
“Popular options include Competitor A and Your Brand.”
Gemini · 04:02 UTC · best agency software
“Competitor B is the usual pick; Competitor A for teams…”
Claude · 04:03 UTC · best tool for boutique agencies
4.1% → 7.2% in 28 days
Write a comparison page for “alternatives to Competitor A”
This prompt came up 4× this week and Competitor A took every mention. A direct comparison page closes a 9-point Share of Voice gap. About an hour.
Lite is $29 a month (15 prompts, ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, weekly), Studio is $59 (50 prompts, all four engines, ten scanned daily), Pro is $179 (150 prompts, daily), and Agency is $449 (500 prompts, daily). Every price is published and there is a free 3-day trial with no credit card.
Of the prices we have verified from vendor sites (September 30, 2026), Rankscale's $20 Essentials plan is the lowest, with Otterly AI and helloAISearch at $29. The engines also name ZipTie, Geneo, and Nightwatch as under-$50 options and general brand-monitoring tools such as Brand24; we have not verified those prices from their sites, so check them there.
No. There is a free 3-day trial with no credit card: 10 prompts on ChatGPT and Gemini, scanned once right after onboarding and again on day 3. After that the cheapest plan is Lite at $29 a month.
Perplexity, daily scans, and alerts. Lite scans 15 prompts weekly on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini and tracks 5 competitors. Studio scans 50 prompts weekly on all four engines, scans ten of them daily, tracks 10 competitors, and adds the email digest and alerts.
Both start at $29 a month. The engines describe Otterly AI as the lighter-weight monitor; helloAISearch adds Claude on the entry plan, a feed of the actual answers, share of voice against named competitors, and one recommended move after every scan. The next tier up is $189 at Otterly and $59 at helloAISearch (otterly.ai/pricing, September 30, 2026).
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10 of your prompts on ChatGPT and Gemini, twice, with the actual answers and your brand highlighted. Plans from $29 a month after.
hello, AI search.