10 Best Rankability Alternatives in 2026 (Compared)

Rankability reworked its plans again in 2026 and now starts at $97 a month. Compare 10 Rankability alternatives. Updated November 2026.

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10 Best Rankability Alternatives in 2026 (Compared)

Rankability alternatives are worth comparing if you want a stronger content editor, cheaper rank tracking, deeper AI visibility data, or agents that do the work instead of a monthly allowance. Rankability is an agency platform that combines research, content, audits, rank tracking, AI tracking on 11 platforms and an AI agent called Serena, from $97 a month with unlimited clients and team members. Its pricing page showed six different plan lineups between March and October 2026, so check what you're signing up for.

These 10 Rankability alternatives include content editors, SEO suites, dedicated AI visibility trackers, a rank tracker and an agentic AI search platform. Prices checked in November 2026.

Editor's note

How we compared these Rankability alternatives

Rankability bundles research, content, audits, rank tracking and AI tracking for agencies, so we checked each alternative against it on three things:

  • Which AI engines it tracks on the plan you'd actually buy, and how often
  • How much of the content, SEO and reporting work it covers for clients
  • What it costs today, including seats, add-ons and trial terms

We've used Peec AI, Otterly.AI and Semrush's AI Visibility Toolkit hands-on. Rankability, Surfer, SE Ranking, Frase, Clearscope, Search Atlas and Nightwatch aren't on our tested list, so we describe them from their pricing pages, docs, changelogs, archived pricing pages and user reviews. Review quotes are condensed from Trustpilot, OMR, TrustRadius and Capterra and link to the original.

Orchly is our product. We held it to the same checks and say where it falls short. Checked November 2026.

Rankability alternatives compared

Prices from each vendor's pricing page, checked November 2026. Monthly billing unless noted. AI engines are those on the entry plan that includes AI tracking.
ToolStarting priceFree trialAI engines on entry planContentBest for
Rankability$97/month7 days, card requiredChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok, Copilot, Brave AI, DeepSeek and Meta AI, daily, on every plan+6 more20 content projects a monthAgencies
Orchly$49/month7 daysDaily on ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews, with Gemini, AI Mode, Claude, Grok and Copilot as add-ons; Meta AI and DeepSeek also tracked+5 add-onsAgents write, refresh and publishAgents that run the work
Surfer$49/month billed yearly7 days, card requiredChatGPT weekly on Standard ($99 billed yearly); Perplexity, AI Mode, AI Overviews and Gemini daily from Pro+4 from ProLive editor, AI writerContent editing
SE Ranking$103.20/month billed yearly14 days, no cardAI Overviews, AI Mode and ChatGPT, 100 daily prompts on CoreNo writerRank tracking for agencies
Semrush$139/month7 days on SEO plansAI Visibility Toolkit, $99/month per domain: ChatGPT, AI Mode, Gemini and AI Overviews daily, Perplexity weekly+1 weeklySEO Writing AssistantKeyword and backlink data
Frase$39/month billed yearly7 days, no cardChatGPT and Google AI on Starter; Perplexity from Professional; Claude and Gemini on Scale+3 on higher plansAgent writes and publishesBudget content workflow
Clearscope$129/month14 daysChatGPT, Gemini and ClaudeGrades drafts, 20 AI draftsContent grading
Peec AI€85/monthFree trialAny 3 of ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, AI Mode, AI Overviews and Naver AI; Perplexity costs extraany 3No writerAI visibility analytics
Otterly.AI$29/monthFree trial, no cardChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity and Copilot, dailyNo writerBudget AI tracking
Search Atlas$99/month7 daysNone on Starter; ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Mode from Growth ($199)from GrowthAI writer, OTTO fixesAutomated on-site fixes
Nightwatch€79/month billed yearly14 days, no cardChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Mode and AI Overviews, on every plan+1 moreContent StudioLocal rank tracking

1. Orchly: best agentic Rankability alternative for SEO and AI visibility

Orchly AI visibility overview showing AI Visibility Score, Share of Voice, sentiment, average position and a competitor leaderboard
Orchly's AI visibility overview

Orchly is an agentic AI search optimization platform. It tracks your brand every day in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, with Gemini, Google AI Mode, Claude, Grok and Microsoft Copilot as paid add-ons, and also tracks Meta AI and DeepSeek. It reads answers from each engine's real interface rather than an API, and its agents run on their own, on a schedule.

They analyze your AI visibility, your competitors, your SEO and your Search Console and GA4 data, decide what to write and which pages to refresh, and write and refresh them in your brand voice. They keep Brand Brain up to date, find the sites, people and Reddit threads worth reaching, run the outreach and draft the replies, and audit your site for technical SEO and AI search issues with the fixes ranked. You decide how each agent works, fully on its own or waiting for your approval.

Rankability gives your team a toolkit and monthly allowances to work through. Orchly's agents run the work end to end, from the gaps in your data to published pages, outreach and site fixes, from $49 a month.

AI visibility with context

  • Daily tracking. ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews from varied locations, with Gemini, AI Mode, Claude, Grok and Copilot as add-ons, and Meta AI and DeepSeek also tracked. Answers come from each engine's real interface.
  • Prompts by brand and intent. Branded vs non-branded, and commercial, informational or transactional.
Orchly prompt and topic analytics with branded and non-branded prompts and commercial, informational and transactional intent labels
Prompts by topic, brand type and intent
  • Perception, fact check and Mention Gap. How AI describes you, which claims are wrong, and the cited sources that skip you.
Orchly brand perception view showing attributes AI associates with the brand, competitor comparison and objections
Brand perception
Orchly Mention Gap report listing top cited sources where competitors are mentioned but the brand is not
Mention Gap

SEO data agencies rely on

Orchly organic traffic dashboard combining Google Search Console clicks and impressions with GA4 conversions and revenue
Organic traffic and revenue
  • Page 360. Each URL's organic and AI data together.
Orchly Page 360 view with per-page organic, Search Console and AI visibility data
Page 360
  • White-label reports. Live links or PDF decks with your agency's branding, on Pro.

Agents that run the work

  • Content, Activation and Site Health agents. The Content Agent picks what to write and refresh from Search Console decay and AI citation gaps, drafts in your brand voice, and publishes to WordPress, Webflow, Framer, Wix, Sanity or Ghost, on its own or after your approval. The Activation Agent finds the publishers, people and Reddit threads AI cites and runs the outreach, and the Site Health Agent audits technical SEO and AI search issues and ranks the fixes. Essential includes 20 articles created or refreshed a month and Pro 50.
Orchly Content Agent task board suggesting new articles and page refreshes based on AI visibility and organic data
Content Agent tasks
Orchly Activation Agent listing backlink and citation opportunities with outreach through connected email
Activation Agent outreach
Orchly Site Health Agent audit showing technical SEO and AI search issues by page with priority
Site Health Agent

Where Orchly falls short

  • No live content editor score. Rankability's Optimize module grades drafts term by term, like Surfer.
  • Fewer seats and sites at entry. Rankability includes unlimited client workspaces and team members on every plan. Orchly Essential covers 1 site and 1 user, and Pro 3 sites and 5 users.
  • Fewer engines in the base price. Rankability includes 11 AI platforms on every plan. On Orchly, Gemini, AI Mode, Claude, Grok and Copilot are paid add-ons.

Orchly pricing

  • Essential: $49/month for 25 prompts, 20 articles, 1 site and 1 user
  • Pro: $125/month for 100 prompts, 50 articles, 3 sites and 5 users, with AI traffic analytics, custom agents and white-label reports
  • Enterprise: custom, with a customer success manager
  • There's a 7-day free trial, and yearly billing saves 25%.

See Orchly pricing or start a free trial.

2. Surfer: best content optimizer

Surfer content editor

Surfer is a content optimization platform with a live Content Editor, an AI writer and AI search tracking from its Standard plan, which suits content teams that used Rankability mainly for its Create and Optimize tools and want a long-running editor with a bigger user base. We haven't used Surfer ourselves, so this section is based on its pricing page, changelog, archived pricing pages and Trustpilot reviews.

The editor is the reason people pick it. You write in Surfer, Google Docs or WordPress, and the Content Score moves as you cover the terms, headings and questions the top pages share.

Surfer has added a lot for AI search this year. The AI SEO Content Score arrived in May 2026, Gemini joined the AI Tracker in January, and its MCP server went generally available in October.

AI tracking is thinner than Rankability's at the low end. Standard checks 25 ChatGPT prompts once a week, and daily tracking on five engines starts on Pro. Rankability includes 11 AI platforms on every plan.

Key features

  • Content Editor and Content Score. Live scoring against ranking pages, in Surfer, Google Docs and WordPress.
  • AI SEO Content Score. Grades drafts for Google and AI search, added May 2026.
  • AI Tracker. 25 weekly ChatGPT prompts on Standard, 50 daily prompts on ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Mode, AI Overviews and Gemini on Pro.
  • Content audit and internal links. Fixes for published pages and rank drop alerts from Search Console.
  • MCP server. Generally available since October 2026, on Pro and above.

Where it falls short

  • No Claude, Grok or Copilot tracking.
  • Discovery has no AI tracking, and Standard checks ChatGPT only, weekly.
  • Seats, documents and prompts are capped by plan, while Rankability includes unlimited team members.

User reviews

“I've used Surfer for four years on my own blogs and for clients, and they keep adding features to stay current with ranking factors.” (Source)

“The software is fine, but navigation is still a challenge at times, my onboarding call never came, and I get several emails a day from them.” (Source)

“They promise 30 articles and you get 2 because of how the credits burn.” (Source)

Pricing

  • Discovery: $49/month billed yearly ($59 monthly), with no AI tracking
  • Standard: $99/month billed yearly ($119 monthly), with 25 weekly ChatGPT prompts
  • Pro: $182/month billed yearly ($219 monthly), with 50 daily prompts on five AI engines
  • AI Search Analytics on its own is $82/month billed yearly. The 7-day Pro trial needs a card.

3. SE Ranking: best all-in-one SEO suite

SE Ranking AI search visibility report

SE Ranking is an all-in-one SEO platform with rank tracking, site audits, backlinks, keyword research and an AI Results Tracker from $103.20 a month billed yearly, which suits SEO agencies that want Rankability's tracking and audit side with a bigger keyword allowance and a free trial without a card. We haven't used SE Ranking's SEO suite ourselves, so this section draws on its pricing page, release notes, archived pricing pages and Trustpilot reviews.

Rank tracking is the core. Core tracks 2,000 keywords and 100 AI prompts a day across 10 projects, against Rankability Starter's 50 weekly Google keywords and 100 AI queries.

It reworked its plans in February 2026, moving from Essential, Pro and Business to Core and Growth. Since then it has added a remote MCP server in April, API credits on every plan in June, and ChatGPT and AI Mode ad detection.

The AI side is narrower than Rankability's. The AI Results Tracker covers Google AI Overviews, AI Mode and ChatGPT, there's no content writer like Rankability's Create, and Core includes just one manager seat.

Key features

  • Rank tracking. 2,000 keywords on Core and 5,000 on Growth, updated daily.
  • AI Results Tracker. 100 daily prompts on Core across AI Overviews, AI Mode and ChatGPT, with an AI Search add-on for more.
  • Website Audit. 250,000 audit pages on Core.
  • Backlinks and keyword research. Competitive research with ad detection for ChatGPT and AI Mode.
  • API and MCP. 25,000 API credits on Core and a remote MCP server.

Where it falls short

  • No Claude, Perplexity, Gemini or Copilot in the AI Results Tracker.
  • 1 manager seat on Core, where Rankability includes unlimited team members.
  • Payments are non-refundable, and Trustpilot reviews from 2026 report rank tracking outages.

User reviews

“I moved from Semrush a year ago and I'm still glad I did. Fair pricing, reliable rank tracking, a flexible report builder, and the new AI tracking area looks promising.” (Source)

“It was always the cost-effective rank tracker, but tracking became unreliable on September 16 and nine days later I still had no ETA, so I canceled.” (Source)

“They moved me to a new plan five times more expensive for the same features, and rank tracking stopped working after Google's March update.” (Source)

Pricing

  • Core: $129/month ($103.20 billed yearly) for 10 projects, 2,000 keywords and 100 daily AI prompts
  • Growth: $279/month ($223.20 billed yearly) for 30 projects, 3 seats, 5,000 keywords and 250 prompts
  • AI Search add-on: from $89/month for 200 more AI checks
  • There's a 14-day free trial with no card.
Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit report

Semrush is the largest SEO suite on this list, with keyword, backlink and competitor databases plus an AI Visibility Toolkit and the SEO Writing Assistant, which suits SEO teams that want deeper research data than Rankability's Research module and can pay per domain for AI tracking. Semrush has been part of Adobe since April 28, 2026.

We've tested the AI Visibility Toolkit, not the full SEO suite, so the SEO side here comes from Semrush's pricing page and help center. You click AI in the left menu, enter a domain, and get an AI Visibility Score out of 100 against up to four competitors.

Prompt Research was the report we kept going back to. It works like Keyword Magic for AI questions, with volume and intent estimates from a database of 317 million+ prompts.

The cost adds up fast for agencies. $99 a month covers 25 prompts for one domain, every extra domain is another $99, and extra users need their own licenses. Rankability Starter includes 100 tracked queries and unlimited client workspaces for $97.

Key features

  • Keyword and backlink databases. Keyword Magic, Backlink Analytics and Domain Overview.
  • AI Visibility Score. One score out of 100 against up to 4 competitors.
  • Prompt Tracking. Daily on ChatGPT, AI Mode, Gemini and AI Overviews, with Perplexity in the weekly Brand Performance report.
  • SEO Writing Assistant. Readability, SEO and tone checks in Google Docs and WordPress.
  • Semrush MCP. Semrush data inside Claude and other AI assistants.

Where it falls short

  • AI tracking is priced per domain, 25 prompts each.
  • Claude, Grok and DeepSeek need Enterprise AIO.
  • Each extra user is an extra license, where Rankability includes unlimited team members.

User reviews

Most AI Visibility Toolkit reviews we could find are about per-domain billing, and we've already quoted all of them in other comparisons, so we haven't repeated them here.

Pricing

  • SEO plan: $139/month, or $117.33 billed yearly
  • Semrush One Starter: $199/month with 50 AI prompts; Pro+: $299/month with 100
  • AI Visibility Toolkit: $99/month per domain for 25 prompts, billed yearly
  • There's a free plan with limited data, and paid SEO plans come with a 7-day trial.

5. Frase: best budget content workflow

Frase is an SEO and GEO content platform whose agent researches, writes, optimizes and publishes from $39 a month billed yearly, which suits small teams that want Rankability's research-to-draft workflow plus AI prompt tracking at a lower price. We haven't used Frase ourselves, so this section draws on its pricing page, changelog, archived pricing pages and reviews.

Rankability counts one new page or refresh as a content project, with research, brief, draft and optimization in it. Frase covers the same steps, and since its early 2026 rebuild one agent runs them from a plain-language request, then publishes to WordPress, Webflow, Wix, Sanity or FraseCMS.

Drafts get an SEO score and a GEO score, and Content Guard watches published pages and drafts a fix when one slips. Frase rebuilt its AI Visibility reports on October 21, 2026.

The engine list is short on Starter. It tracks 20 prompts in ChatGPT and Google's AI results, Perplexity comes with Professional, and Claude and Gemini only arrive on the $239 Scale plan.

Key features

  • Frase agent. Research, writing, optimization and publishing from plain-language requests.
  • SEO and GEO scores. Every draft is scored for Google and for AI citation.
  • Content Guard. Watches live pages and drafts fixes when rankings slip.
  • AI Visibility. 20, 50 or 75 tracked prompts, rebuilt in October 2026.
  • API, MCP server and CLI on every plan, plus a ChatGPT app since October 2026.

Where it falls short

  • 1 seat on Starter.
  • Claude and Gemini tracking only on Scale.
  • No rank tracker, backlink research or local scans like Rankability's.

User reviews

Both reviews below predate Frase's 2026 rebuild.

“I love the NLP term checker and audit reports. The AI writer and keyword features were extra add-ons, another $35 a month.” (Source)

“They took a card for a $1 trial, then kept charging $44 without any email or confirmation.” (Source)

Pricing

  • Starter: $39/month billed yearly ($49 monthly) for 1 seat, 10 articles and 20 tracked prompts
  • Professional: $103/month billed yearly ($129 monthly) for 3 seats, 40 articles, 50 prompts and Perplexity
  • Scale: $239/month billed yearly ($299 monthly) for 5 seats, 100 articles, 75 prompts, Claude and Gemini
  • Every plan has a 7-day free trial with no card.

6. Clearscope: best for clean content grading

Clearscope content grading

Clearscope is a content grading and AI search tracking tool from $129 a month with unlimited users, which suits editorial teams that want something simpler than Rankability for grading drafts before they publish. We haven't used Clearscope ourselves, so this section is based on its pricing page, product pages, archived pricing pages and TrustRadius reviews.

Writers get a letter grade and a list of terms in Clearscope, Google Docs or WordPress. There's far less to learn than in Rankability, which also means no rank tracking, audits or backlink research.

Clearscope cut Essentials from $189 to $129 in October 2025. Its tracked prompts grew to 50 on Essentials and 300 on Business in mid-2026, a 14-day free trial arrived that summer, and its product pages now list Claude next to ChatGPT and Gemini.

Writing is limited. Essentials includes 20 AI drafts a month, and Clearscope doesn't publish to your CMS.

Key features

  • Content grading. Letter grades and term suggestions in its editor, Google Docs and WordPress.
  • Query Tracking. 50 tracked prompts on Essentials across ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, with up to 5 competitor domains.
  • Discoveries. Topic and question research for new content.
  • Content Inventory. Search Console data with decay and striking-distance views.
  • Unlimited users and projects on every plan.

Where it falls short

  • 20 AI drafts a month, and no publishing.
  • The pricing page lists only ChatGPT and Gemini, while product pages add Claude.
  • No Perplexity, AI Overviews or Copilot tracking.

User reviews

“Every article over 1,000 words gets a Clearscope report once we've picked the keyword. We use Frase and MarketMuse earlier in the process, but nothing beats Clearscope for optimizing a finished draft.” (Source)

“We moved from Semrush because Clearscope suited our admin and user management, but the report analysis section is a bit complicated, and it's a little expensive.” (Source)

Pricing

  • Essentials: $129/month for 50 tracked prompts, 20 Discoveries and 20 drafts
  • Business: $399/month for 300 tracked prompts and 50 Discoveries, with an account manager
  • Enterprise: custom, with SSO
  • There's a 14-day free trial and no contract.

7. Peec AI: best dedicated AI tracker

Peec AI dashboard

Peec AI is a dedicated AI search analytics platform with daily prompt tracking, unlimited seats and plans from €85 a month, which suits teams that care most about AI visibility data and can live without Rankability's content and SEO tools.

We signed up and had data within a few minutes. Peec read our site, suggested prompts, and visibility, position and sentiment against competitors filled in day by day for each engine.

The sources view was what we kept opening, with every cited domain labelled owned, editorial, reference or UGC. Peec added Actions in February 2026, and on October 22 it launched Peec Agent, which drafts briefs and page edits from that data.

It's a narrower tool than Rankability. You pick 3 engines per plan, Claude, Grok and DeepSeek are Enterprise only, and there's no rank tracker, writer or site audit.

Key features

  • Model choice. Any 3 of ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, AI Mode, AI Overviews and Naver AI, with Perplexity and other extra models from €25 a month.
  • Unlimited seats on every plan.
  • Source analytics. Cited domains and URLs grouped into owned, editorial, reference and UGC.
  • Actions and Peec Agent. Ranked fixes since February 2026, and drafted briefs and page edits since October 22.
  • Brand Perception and GA4 AI referrals. How AI describes you, and the sessions, conversions and revenue AI sends.

Where it falls short

  • No SEO or content writing tools.
  • 3 engines per plan unless you pay for more, where Rankability includes 11.
  • Claude, Grok and DeepSeek need Enterprise.

User reviews

“It feels like a complete suite from day one, and new features ship fast. I'd like an easier onboarding with a few more best-practice examples.” (Source)

“We saw results within days of acting on its data, and the pricing is fair.” (Source)

“With 30 keywords and 4 competitors tracked there's almost too much data, and the pricing is hard to read if you're a smaller company.” (Source)

Pricing

  • Starter: €85/month (about $95) for 50 prompts and 3 models
  • Pro: €205/month for 150 prompts and 2 projects
  • Advanced: €425/month for 350 prompts, 5 projects and GSC, GA4 and Looker integrations
  • Enterprise is custom, with Claude, Grok and DeepSeek. There's a free trial.

8. Otterly.AI: best budget AI tracker

Otterly.AI dashboard

Otterly.AI is a low-cost AI search monitoring tool that checks ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Copilot daily from $29 a month, with unlimited seats, which suits small teams that want AI tracking for far less than Rankability's $97 Starter.

Our first report was ready about 15 minutes after we added our brand. Otterly built the competitor list and suggested prompts by itself, and opening a prompt to read each answer the way the engine wrote it was the part we liked.

The cheap plan is small. Lite covers 15 prompts and caps GEO recommendations at 3 a week, and AI Mode, Gemini and Claude are paid add-ons, so all seven engines on Standard come to about $416 a month.

It's a tracker, not a content platform. There's no writer, rank tracker or keyword research, though GEO URL audits and Agent Analytics for AI crawler visits cover part of Rankability's audit side.

Key features

  • Four engines included. ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity and Copilot, checked daily.
  • Brand Visibility Index. Sorts brands into Leaders, Niche or Low Performance.
  • GEO URL audits. 1,000, 5,000 or 10,000 depending on plan.
  • Agent Analytics. AI crawler visits from your logs, via Cloudflare, WordPress, Netlify or a log upload.
  • Unlimited seats on every plan, with API and MCP access from Standard.

Where it falls short

  • AI Mode, Gemini and Claude cost extra on every plan.
  • No content writing or SEO tools.
  • The jump from Lite to Standard is steep.

User reviews

“I like the task board. It shows exactly what to tweak on the site and then checks that the fix was done right.” (Source)

“You spot trends and shifts early, but you have to draw the conclusions yourself, and deeper comparisons are still missing.” (Source)

“Not every report explains itself.” (Source)

Pricing

  • Lite: $29/month for 15 prompts
  • Standard: $189/month for 100 prompts
  • Premium: $489/month for 400 prompts
  • Yearly billing saves 15%, and the free trial needs no card.

9. Search Atlas: best for automated on-page fixes

Search Atlas is an SEO platform that combines a content editor and AI writer, OTTO automated on-site fixes, rank tracking and, from its Growth plan, AI visibility tracking, which suits agencies that want Rankability's all-in-one scope plus automation that changes client sites for them. We haven't used Search Atlas ourselves, so this section is based on its pricing page, product pages and Trustpilot reviews.

OTTO is the big difference. You add a pixel, and it deploys on-page and technical fixes on its own, or waits for approval if you turn approval mode on.

Content Genius covers briefs, drafts and optimization, and the Atlas Agent handles more of that work since Content Genius V5 in September 2026. Every plan publishes to any CMS.

Everything draws from one pool of Universal Credits, which is the model Rankability dropped in October. AI tracking isn't on the $99 Starter plan; Growth adds ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Mode, and Pro adds Copilot, Perplexity and Claude.

Key features

  • OTTO SEO. Automated on-site fixes through a pixel, with an optional approval mode.
  • Content Genius and Atlas Agent. Briefs, drafts and optimization, about 50 premium AI articles a month on Starter.
  • LLM Visibility. 100 queries on ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Mode from Growth, six platforms on Pro.
  • Rank tracking and site audits. 2,000 tracked keywords and 50,000 audit pages on Starter.
  • White-label dashboards from Pro, and client portals on Agency.

Where it falls short

  • No AI visibility tracking on Starter.
  • One shared credit pool for articles, audits, rank checks and AI queries.
  • Seats are capped by plan, from 1 on Starter to 10 on Agency.

User reviews

“We're moving over from Semrush and BrightLocal, and it's built to work agentically rather than bolting AI onto an old tool.” (Source)

“Six months in, it saves my agency a lot of time on SEO, GBP, content and technical fixes for many clients. With this many features issues do come up, and some take support longer to fix.” (Source)

“After two years and a lot of money, the software is still buggy, support knew little about the product, and I never saw a real traffic increase.” (Source)

Pricing

  • Starter: $99/month for 1 project, 1 seat and 50,000 Universal Credits, with no AI visibility tracking
  • Growth: $199/month for 2 projects, 3 seats, 120,000 credits and 100 AI queries on ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Mode
  • Pro: $399/month for 4 projects, 5 seats, six AI platforms and white-label reports
  • Agency starts at $999/month. Every plan has a 7-day trial and free onboarding.

10. Nightwatch: best rank tracker with AI checks

Nightwatch rank tracking with AI visibility

Nightwatch is a rank tracker with daily Google tracking in 107,000+ locations and AI visibility tracking on six AI platforms on every plan, from €79 a month billed yearly, which suits agencies that mostly used Rankability to report rankings and AI mentions to clients. We haven't used Nightwatch ourselves, so this section is based on its pricing page and product pages.

Rank tracking is where it's strongest. Keywords update daily in any location or language, it also tracks YouTube, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo and Google Maps, and SERP history is kept for 3 years. Rankability updates Google rankings weekly.

Every plan includes the same six AI platforms: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Mode and AI Overviews. Starter covers 50 prompts and 1,500 AI answers a month.

It has picked up more than tracking. Content Studio drafts and scores content, an SEO Agent runs tasks on credits, and the SEO MCP server is on every plan. White-label reports and the API start on Professional.

Key features

  • Daily rank tracking. 500 keywords on Starter, in 107,000+ locations across 190+ countries.
  • AI visibility. 50 prompts on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Mode and AI Overviews on Starter, with sentiment and citation analysis.
  • Content Studio and SEO Agent. Draft and score content, with 100 agent credits a month on Starter.
  • Site Audit and Search Simulator. 1,000 audit pages on Starter, and unbiased results from any location or device.
  • SEO MCP server on every plan.

Where it falls short

  • No Grok, Copilot or DeepSeek tracking.
  • White-label reports, Looker Studio and the API need Professional (€159).
  • Fewer AI prompts than Rankability on the two lower plans (50 and 150, against 100 and 300).

User reviews

We couldn't find individual Nightwatch reviews on Trustpilot, Product Hunt or TrustRadius that we could link to, so we haven't quoted any.

Pricing

  • Starter: €79/month billed yearly (€99 monthly) for 500 keywords, 50 AI prompts and 5 websites
  • Professional: €159/month billed yearly for 2,500 keywords, 150 prompts, white-label reports and API access
  • Agency: €399/month billed yearly for 7,500 keywords, 500 prompts and a dedicated account manager
  • Every plan has a 14-day free trial with no card.

Rankability pricing in 2026

Rankability's pricing page lists three self-serve plans. Since October 2026 each comes with unlimited client workspaces, unlimited team members, API and MCP access, agency-branded reports and the same 11 AI platforms: ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok, Microsoft Copilot, Brave AI, DeepSeek and Meta AI.

  • Starter: $97/month for 20 content projects, 100 tracked AI queries, 50 Google keywords and 10 Local Pack scans
  • Agency: $297/month for 80 content projects, 300 AI queries, 150 Google keywords and one onboarding session
  • Agency Pro: $497/month for 160 content projects, 500 AI queries, 250 Google keywords, campaign planning and, on annual plans, Nathan Gotch's Inner Circle coaching
  • Annual billing is $970, $2,970 or $4,970 a year, two months free. Monthly plans have a 7-day free trial that needs a card and limits usage.

A content project is one new page or one refresh, including research, a brief, an outline, an AI-assisted draft with two revisions, optimization guidance and export. AI tracking runs daily, while Google rankings update weekly. Existing customers keep their legacy price.

What changed with Rankability in 2026

Rankability's pricing page has changed several times since late 2025. Here's what archived copies of it show.

  • November 2025: SEO Specialist, SEO Expert and SEO Master plans, priced by seats, Content Optimizers and AI-written articles, with a free trial button.
  • March 2026: the page announced "Rankability 2" for agencies. Core, Team and Agency cost $199, $399 and $799 a month, with 25,000 to 200,000 credits, capped seats and clients, and paid credit packs.
  • May 2026: Solo, Core and Team plans, shown at $79, $199 and $399 a month billed annually.
  • June and July 2026: Starter, Growth and Scale at $99, $199 and $399 a month billed annually, now with unlimited clients and users, plus an Agency plan at $799. Serena, its AI search agent, appears in the menu by late July.
  • September 2026: Starter, Core and Team at $99, $199 and $399 a month, priced by daily prompts (60, 125 and 250), with more AI platforms on higher tiers and a 7-day free trial.
  • October 2026: the current Starter, Agency and Agency Pro plans at $97, $297 and $497, with credits replaced by fixed allowances and all 11 AI platforms on every plan.

If you signed up on an older plan, Rankability says you keep that price while your subscription stays active.

When to stay with Rankability

  • You run an agency and want unlimited client workspaces and team members on every plan.
  • You want all 11 AI platforms, including Grok, Copilot, Brave AI, DeepSeek and Meta AI, from the $97 plan.
  • Your team relies on its content projects, Serena and branded client reports in one place.
  • You're on Agency Pro annual and use Nathan Gotch's weekly coaching, or you're on a legacy price you want to keep.

Which Rankability alternative should you choose?

  • You want agents that track AI answers across engines and run the content, outreach and site fixes end to end: Orchly.
  • You want the most popular live content editor: Surfer.
  • You want cheaper daily rank tracking for many projects, with AI results tracking: SE Ranking.
  • You want the deepest keyword and backlink data: Semrush.
  • You want research, writing and publishing on a small budget: Frase.
  • You want a simple content grade with unlimited users: Clearscope.
  • You want dedicated AI visibility analytics: Peec AI.
  • You want the cheapest daily AI tracking: Otterly.AI.
  • You want automated on-site fixes for clients: Search Atlas.
  • You want daily local rank tracking with AI checks: Nightwatch.

Frequently Asked Questions

Isla Bennett
Written by
Isla Bennett
Head of Growth, Orchly

Growth and marketing professional with experience in SEO, content strategy, and organic growth. Started my career as a freelance marketer helping businesses improve their online presence through SEO and content marketing. Currently Head of Growth at Orchly.ai, focusing on helping brands improve their visibility across search engines and AI-driven discovery platforms.

Shivam Kumar
Reviewed by
Shivam Kumar
Founder, Orchly

Shivam Kumar is the founder of Orchly.ai, a platform that helps brands understand and improve their visibility across search engines and AI-powered discovery platforms. He has over a decade of experience in SEO, product marketing, and growth, and writes about AI search, generative engine optimization (GEO), and organic growth strategies.