11 engines on the first paid plan, plus a free tier.
Diagnosis, an AEO Audit and finished articles, in one workflow.
Track the same ten prompts in each tool for a week.
Tracking tells you where you stand. These tell you why, and what to do next.
Turn Google Search Console, Bing, People Also Ask and forum questions into prompts, with search volume.
Win rate against each rival, every cited page and domain by engine, and brands AI names beside yours that you do not track yet.
Visibility Diagnosis explains each lost prompt. AEO Audit grades every page for AI answers.
Articles and page rewrites in your Brand Voice, with SME Agent drafts for technical topics. You review before anything goes live.
Pick the jobs you need done. See how many of them each tool covers.
Filter by what matters to you. The tag on each row shows which tool has the edge, including where that is AthenaHQ.
| Feature | AthenaHQ | GrackerAI | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI engines | ● ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI, Mistral11 on Starter, 5 on the free tier; more on request | ● 3 on Individual, 4 on Team, 10 on EnterpriseEnterprise adds Gemini, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek and Brave Leo | Depends on plan |
| Prompts tracked | ● Credit-metered: one credit per AI response | ● 100 on Individual, 200 on Team, 1,000+ on Enterprise | Depends on volume |
| Prompt discovery | ◐ Prompt and response analysisPrompt volume estimation is listed on Enterprise | ● Prompt Mining from Search Console, Bing, People Also Ask and forums, with volumePrompt Diagnosis flags weak prompts | GrackerAI |
| Update frequency | ○ Not found on its public pages | ● Weekly on Individual, daily on Team, hourly on Enterprise | GrackerAI |
| Competitor analysis | ● Unlimited competitor tracking and benchmarking | ● Win rate against each rival, who is named first, and the competitors found in every answer | Both strong |
| Citation sources | ● Citation intelligence, sources and competitor insights | ● Every cited URL and domain, by engine and source type, with Reddit by subreddit | Both strong |
| Discoverability | ○ Not found on its public pages | ● Discovered Entities: brands AI names beside you that you do not track yet | GrackerAI |
| Response detail | ● Prompt and response analysis | ● Each answer shows format, tone, mentions, competitors, attributes and co-occurrence | Both |
| Countries and locations | ● Country-level support on Starter, multi-region and multi-language on Enterprise | ● Visibility by country, and country by engineCountry and language set per brand | Both cover it |
| Why a prompt is lost | ◐ Recommendations and on-page and off-page actions | ● Visibility Diagnosis: matches your page, shows the competitor pages AI cited, returns a brief or gap report1, 5 or 10+ runs a month by plan | GrackerAI |
| AEO audit | ◐ Site Health: AI crawler access checks and page scores | ● AEO Audit grades every page on Page Health, AEO, Content and Technical, with fixes50 to 100,000+ pages, scaling by plan | Both |
| Content creation | ◐ Content optimization agents improve existing pagesNo finished-article quota is published | ● Articles in your Brand Voice, page rewrites and SME Agent drafts3, 10 or unlimited a month by plan | GrackerAI |
| Recommendations and tasks | ● Content recommendations, with an Athena Recommendation Engine on Enterprise | ● On Page and Off Page recommendations, plus tasks with owners and due datesTasks on Team and Enterprise | Both |
| SEO, backlinks and PPC | ○ AI search only | ○ Not included | Both |
| Reporting | ● Scheduled PDF reports to Slack, a Report Builder with PDF export, and CSV export | ● Prompts as CSV, Responses and Citations as Excel, an 8-tab Analytics dashboard and Advanced AnalyticsWhite-label on Enterprise and the Agency Partner Program. Charts by screenshot, no scheduled or PDF reports | AthenaHQ |
| Integrations and API | ● Looker Studio on all plans, BI tools on Enterprise, GA4, API keys, Slack bot on Enterprise, Shopify, Webflow, WordPress and other CMS publishing | ◐ Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster, MCP server with GraphQL API, WordPress on EnterpriseNo REST API keys, Looker Studio, Slack or Zapier yet | AthenaHQ |
| Several brands | ○ Not found on its public pages | ● Multi-brand and multi-product workspaces with a portfolio view | GrackerAI |
| Industry focus | ● All industries | ● Cybersecurity and B2B SaaS | Depends on you |
AthenaHQ meters tracking in credits. GrackerAI ties tracking to a diagnosis, an AEO Audit and finished articles. Every row below comes from the feature table above.
AthenaHQ: Prompt and response analysis
GrackerAI: Prompt Mining from Search Console, Bing, People Also Ask and forums, with volume
AthenaHQ: Recommendations and on-page and off-page actions
GrackerAI: Visibility Diagnosis: matches your page, shows the competitor pages AI cited, returns a brief or gap report
AthenaHQ: Content optimization agents improve existing pages
GrackerAI: Articles in your Brand Voice, page rewrites and SME Agent drafts
Pick the sentence that sounds most like your week.
The same problem, followed through each tool. Filled dots mark steps that happen inside the product. Hollow dots are left to your team.
Every view lives in the dashboard. Click through to see what each one answers.
Every tool has a shape. Here is where each one stops.
Both are built for AI search visibility. AthenaHQ tracks many engines, meters usage in credits and offers content optimization agents. GrackerAI is built for cybersecurity and B2B SaaS teams: it diagnoses why each prompt is lost, runs an AEO Audit on your pages and writes finished articles to fix it.
Yes. It tracks 5 engines on its free tier and 11 on Starter, with prompt and response analysis, citation intelligence, competitor benchmarking and Google Analytics 4 and Search Console connections.
Plans scale how deep you track. Individual covers 100 prompts on 3 engines, checked weekly. Team covers 200 prompts on 4 engines, checked daily, with tasks and 4 seats. Enterprise covers 1,000+ prompts on 10 engines, checked hourly, with publishing connectors. AthenaHQ instead meters usage in credits, one per AI response.
AthenaHQ lists 11 engines on Starter, with more on request, and sells extra credits and API access as paid add-ons; prices for those are not published. On GrackerAI, prompts, engines and tracking frequency scale together when you move up a plan: Individual 100 prompts on 3 engines, Team 200 on 4, Enterprise 1,000+ on 10.
AEO Audit grades each page on Page Health, AEO, Content and Technical health, lists the issues with fixes, and shows which pages AI already cites. We did not find a comparable page-level audit on AthenaHQ's public pricing page. GrackerAI audits 50 to 100,000+ pages depending on plan.
You can, but they overlap because both track AI visibility. A common approach is to start with AthenaHQ's free tier for a broad view, then use GrackerAI for diagnosis, the AEO Audit and finished articles.
No. GrackerAI does not include backlink data, rank tracking or PPC research. It replaces the manual work of checking AI answers and deciding what to fix.
GrackerAI tracks 100 prompts on 3 engines on Individual, 200 prompts on 4 engines on Team, and 1,000+ prompts on 10 engines on Enterprise. AthenaHQ lists unlimited prompts metered in credits, across 11 engines on Starter.
GrackerAI Individual covers ChatGPT, Google AI Mode and Google AI Overviews. Team covers ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode and Copilot. Enterprise covers all of them plus Gemini, Claude, Grok and DeepSeek. Use the plan finder above to check your exact list.
You choose, with help. Prompt Mining pulls real questions from Google Search Console, Bing, People Also Ask and forums, with search volume. Prompt Diagnosis then flags weak prompts so you track the ones that matter.
Yes. Competitor views show your win rate against each rival and who is named first. Citations show every page and domain AI cited, by engine and source type, plus a Reddit view by subreddit. Discovered Entities lists rivals AI mentions that you do not track yet.
Yes. Open any response in the dashboard to see its format, tone, word count, mentions, competitors with their role, extracted attributes and co-occurrence. Connect the MCP to ask questions across all responses at once.
Yes. Articles are generated in your Brand Voice from a diagnosis or a competitor source, and existing pages can be rewritten. The SME Agent drafts technical topics. Your team reviews everything before it is published. Plans include 3, 10 or unlimited articles a month.
Enterprise can publish to WordPress. On other plans you copy the reviewed article into your CMS. HubSpot and headless CMS connectors are not available yet.
Yes. GrackerAI includes a read-only MCP connection on every plan, scoped to your brands, so any MCP client can query your visibility data in plain language.
Technical buyers ask AI long, specific questions such as "best CSPM for mid-market" or "SIEM alternatives to Splunk". GrackerAI's prompts, content and review flow are tuned for those buyers.
Most teams see first visibility gains in 4 to 6 weeks and larger citation gains in 2 to 3 months. That holds for any tool because AI engines need time to pick up new content.
GrackerAI wrote it, so we made it checkable. AthenaHQ details come from AthenaHQ's own pricing page and documentation, and we show where AthenaHQ wins. If you spot an error, tell us and we will fix it.
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