AI visibility tools, head to head
Visby AI vs RankPrompt
Pricing, features and differences, researched August 2026.
Visby AI and Rank Prompt both help teams track how AI search tools mention, recommend, and cite their brands. Buyers often compare them when they need prompt-level visibility data across tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI results. The main differences fall into platform coverage, workflow depth, and the type of action each tool supports after reporting. Visby AI centers on cross-platform visibility tracking, gap analysis, and personalized GEO tasks for teams that want clear next steps. Rank Prompt combines visibility and competitor tracking with a broader set of tools for content, citations, outreach, SEO audits, and reporting. The right choice depends on whether your team wants a focused GEO workflow or a wider AI visibility and SEO toolkit in one platform.
At a glance
Visby AI
Pick it if a Shopify store and a roughly monthly check fit your needs, since the entry plan tracks 15 prompts across 3 engines.
- Entry price
- $79/mo
- Tracked prompts
- 15 / 90 / 250+
- Free trial
- Not published - 3rd party says 14 days
RankPrompt
Pick it if you want an in-app agent at a low price, though it covers 6 engines and meters everything as credits.
- Entry price
- $49/mo
- Tracked prompts
- 150–2,000 credits/mo
- Free trial
- 7 days
Hi, MooseOur AEO tool
Pick it if you want the fix shipped rather than scored: an agent that publishes the change, audio repurposing no other tool here offers at any price, and a built-in model so the AI can cost you nothing.
- Entry price
- $39/mo BYOK; $79/mo AI included
- Tracked prompts
- No hard limit on any plan
- Free trial
- n/a - free plan, no expiry
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Full comparison
202 rows across 20 categories. Values are quoted as published; where a vendor does not publish a number, the cell says so.
| Feature | Visby AI | RankPrompt | Hi, Moose Our AEO tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing & cost model | |||
| Free plan available | No - trial + free audit tool | No - 7-day trial, card required | Yes - free forever, no card |
| Free daily visibility runs, no cap | No | No | Yes - local runs unlimited on every plan |
| Engines free to run daily | 0 | 0 - free web tools are one-off | 5 |
| Entry paid price | $79/mo | $49/mo | $39/mo BYOK; $79/mo AI included |
| Annual billing discount | No - monthly only | Yes - 20% | Yes - BYOK 2 months free; managed plans ~10% |
| Pricing model | Tiered: prompts + domains + seats | Monthly credits, 4 tiers | Flat plan with monthly AI credit balance, or BYOK |
| Bring your own API key | No - on roadmap | Yes - OpenAI key, agent only | Yes - OpenRouter |
| Can run with $0 AI cost to vendor | No | No - tracking still spends credits | Yes |
| Usage metered in one transparent unit | No - prompt, answer, article caps | Partial - credits plus separate $ agent budget | Yes - AI credits, published rate card |
| In-app usage dashboard | Yes - limits/usage in Settings | Yes - credit and agent-spend meters | Yes - % used, reset date, pace warning |
| Agency / reseller tier | No - no named agency tier | Yes - $149 and $299 tiers | Yes - $149 BYOK Agency; $449+ AI included |
| Affiliate program | Yes - referral program | Yes - 30% lifetime recurring | Yes |
| Annual contract required | No | No | No |
| Free trial length | Not published - 3rd party says 14 days | 7 days | n/a - free plan, no expiry |
| Paid plans pricing range | $79–$199/mo + custom Enterprise | $49–$299/mo + custom | $39–$1,999/mo |
| Deployment, privacy & data ownership | |||
| Native desktop app | No | No | Yes - Windows and macOS |
| Browser-based app | Yes | Yes | No |
| Local-first data storage | No - cloud SaaS | No - cloud SaaS | Yes - local database on the device |
| Works offline | No | No | Partial - local models and stored data; engine checks need the web |
| On-device AI Inference | No | No | Yes |
| Local model sizes offered | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Data export on cancellation | Not published - CSV/PDF while active | Partial - exports while subscribed | CSV, PDF, DOCX exports plus full local backup |
| SOC 2 certification | Not published | Not published | Pending |
| ISO certification | Not published | Not published | No |
| Local backup and restore | No | No | Yes - export and import a backup file |
| Visibility & prompt tracking | |||
| Engines tracked | 3 - pick 3 of 4 on pricing page | 6 | 10; 5 of them also collected locally |
| Real consumer-surface capture | Not published | Not published - API models named in brand audit | Yes - 5 engines read from the device, no API |
| ChatGPT | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Claude | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Gemini | Yes | Yes - +1 credit per prompt | Yes |
| Google AI Mode | No - roadmap, under review | Yes | Yes |
| Google AI Overviews | Disputed - priced, roadmap says planned | Yes - counted with AI Mode | Yes |
| Grok | No | Yes - +1 credit per prompt | Yes |
| Bing Copilot | No - referral traffic only | No | Yes |
| DeepSeek | No | No | Yes |
| Meta AI | No | No | Yes |
| Tracked prompts included | 15 / 90 / 250+ | 150–2,000 credits/mo | No hard limit on any plan |
| Samples per prompt configurable | No - 1 per engine per month | Not published | Yes |
| Run cadence options | ~30 days, not adjustable | Daily, weekly, monthly | Multiple times a day, weekly, monthly, and on-demand |
| On-demand run now | Not published | Yes | Yes |
| Instant one-off check | Partial - free audit is site, not prompt | Yes - free web tools | Yes |
| Prompt manager | Yes - tags, archive, CSV import | Yes | Yes |
| Branded vs non-branded classification | Partial - funnel stage + intent | Not published | Yes |
| Prompt categories and topics | Yes - tags + funnel stage | Partial - grouped by report and location | Yes |
| Per-prompt model selection | Not published | No - set per report | Yes |
| Brand name variant support | Not published | Partial - alias detection, no variant config | Yes - secondary brand terms |
| Brand multi-domain support | No - 1 domain per project | Not published | Yes - secondary owned domains |
| Suggested prompts from Google Search Console | No - suggested from site scan | Yes - from GSC and GA4 data | Yes - real GSC questions |
| Suggested prompts from competitor gaps | Partial - gap analysis module | Yes | Yes |
| Perplexity | No - roadmap, under review | Yes | Yes |
| Scoring & analysis | |||
| Mention detection | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Citation detection | Yes - domain, page, competitor | Yes | Yes - domain and page level |
| Sentiment scoring | Yes - prompts + reviews | Yes | Yes |
| Average position / rank | No - roadmap, under review | Yes - per prompt, per engine | Yes |
| Share of Voice | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Share of Mentions | Partial - visibility score | Yes - mention counts vs competitors | Yes |
| Share of Citations | Partial - citations by domain | Yes | Yes |
| Narrative drift detection | No | Partial - perception scores over time | Yes - scored against a brand truth profile |
| Feature-parity / accuracy scoring | No | Yes - answers checked against your brand facts | Yes |
| Untracked brand extraction | Yes - detected brands, promotable | Yes - detected brands auto-categorized | Yes - with sentiment and average rank |
| Cited source categorization | Partial - domain and page only | Yes - competitor, publisher, alias, platform | Yes - 8 source types |
| Topic-level breakdown | Partial - funnel stage + tags | Partial - per prompt, not per topic | Yes |
| Engine-level breakdown | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Competitor tracking | Yes - direct, indirect, companion | Yes | Yes - or promote any brand seen in results |
| Competitors included | Not published | Not published | 15 |
| Visibility gap analysis | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ChatGPT fan-out capture | No | Not published | Yes |
| AI Mode grounding queries capture | No | Not published | Yes - the live grounding searches |
| Bing Index probe | No - Bing Webmaster traffic only | No | Yes |
| AI crawler access check | No - roadmap, under review | Yes - robots.txt and AI bot access | Yes - retrieval, live fetch and training |
| Reporting & exports | |||
| Executive dashboard | Yes | Yes - drag-and-drop widgets | Yes |
| AI-written narrative summary | Not published | Yes | Yes |
| Data export | Yes - CSV, PDF | Yes - PDF, CSV, PPTX | Yes - CSV |
| Branded PDF report | Beta since Mar 2026 | Yes - $149+ | Yes |
| Scheduled email reports | Yes - weekly + monthly | Yes | Yes - paid, per-user opt-in |
| Action log with export | Partial - Kanban board, no export | Partial - task board; agent audit trail | Yes - CSV on paid managed plans |
| Historical data retention | Not published - monthly data points | Not published | No cap - stored on device,. Paid plans offer 400 day backup on-cloud; audio analytics 180–365 days |
| Taking action (the AEO loop) | |||
| Covers full loop: track → fix → verify → deploy | Partial - deploy on Shopify only | Partial - deploy is WordPress or hosted blog only | Yes |
| Page-level AEO audit | Yes - site scan + free tool | Yes | Yes |
| Scored categories | 5 - SEO, GEO, content, review, speed | 5 | 9 |
| Retrieval-readiness scoring | No | Partial - AI-readiness score in page audit | Yes - deterministic dense retrieval |
| Evidence tiers on recommendations | No - impact priority only | No - impact and effort labels | Yes - proven, directional, best-practice |
| Element-level rewrite suggestions | Partial - Shopify product copy | Partial - inline rewrites in own drafts | Yes - element, character budget, before and after |
| Second-model QA pass | No | Not published | Yes - pass, revised or needs human review |
| Static crawler-view snapshot | No | No | Yes - full-page screenshot, JavaScript off |
| Audit input sources | Sitemap crawl; GA, GSC, Bing, Ahrefs | Live URL, robots.txt, sitemap | Live URL, pasted text, file, WordPress, Webflow, Grav |
| Baseline vs verification re-runs | Partial - task validation, re-scans | Yes - run history with comparisons | Yes - compares against the baseline |
| Recommendation status tracking | Yes - Kanban + assignees | Yes - task board with statuses | Yes - planned, staged, completed |
| Visibility data sets page priority | Yes | Partial - sets content topics, not page order | Yes - defend, recover, convert, earn |
| Search Console sets page priority | Partial - GSC data on dashboard | Partial - GSC feeds prompts, not page priority | Yes - protect, balanced or expand |
| Branded audit PDF | Beta - white-label reporting | Yes - $149+ | Yes |
| CMS integration & publishing | |||
| WordPress | No - roadmap, under review | Yes - one-click publish | Yes - official plugin, production and staging |
| Webflow | No | No - listed as coming soon | Yes - OAuth MCP, pages and collection items |
| Framer | No | No | On roadmap |
| Grav | No | No | Yes - official plugin |
| Shopify | Yes - product content only | No | On roadmap |
| Surgical element-level edits to live page | Partial - Shopify products only | No - publishes whole articles | Yes |
| Preview before applying | Yes - Shopify pending review | Partial - editor preview before publish | Yes |
| Staging environment support | No | No | Yes - WordPress, with promote to production |
| One-click rollback | Not published | No | Yes - WordPress |
| Patch history per site | Not published | No - draft versions only | Yes - WordPress |
| Visual placement picker | No | No | Yes - pick the spot on the rendered page |
| Push Schema JSON-LD into page | No - recommends only | Yes - with published article | Yes - FAQPage schema |
| Publish approval gate | Yes - Shopify only | Yes - $299 | Yes - always, including scheduled runs |
| Agentic capability | |||
| Truly agentic (agent chooses its own steps) | No - two agentic items on roadmap | Yes - 50+ tools, chains steps | Yes - plans and executes against the live web |
| Fixed-workflow automation only | Yes - scheduled scans, auto tasks | No - agent picks its own path | No - workflows exist alongside the agent |
| Agents can run on local model at zero cost | No | No - BYOK bills your OpenAI account | Yes |
| Multi-agent panel | No | No | Yes - two extra agents, paid plans |
| Live browser view | No | No | Yes |
| Take control mid-run | No | Partial - confirmation stops before writes | Yes |
| Steer agent while running | No | Not published | Yes - talk to any agent mid-job |
| Background execution | Partial - scheduled scans only | Not published | Yes - with notify on completion |
| Approval gate before real-world actions | Yes - Shopify only | Yes | Yes |
| Long-running deep work jobs | No | Not published | Yes |
| Scheduled agent jobs | No - scheduled refresh, not jobs | Partial - agent sets report schedules | Yes - daily, weekdays, weekly, monthly |
| Agent produces saved artifacts | Partial - briefs and articles | Yes - articles, reports, tasks | Yes - briefs, drafts, FAQs, audits |
| Evidence capture | Partial - stores AI answers | Partial - tool-run audit trail | Yes - screenshots and captured proof |
| Searchable job history | No | Partial - audit trail; search not published | Yes |
| Chat & assistant | |||
| Agentic chat with mid-answer tool calls | No - MCP for outside clients | Yes | Yes |
| Model picker per conversation | No | Partial - model choice only with own key | Yes |
| LLM models available | n/a - no in-app chat | Not published - OpenAI only | 27 hosted + 3 local; any model on BYOK |
| Chat memory across conversations | No | Yes - account or per brand | Yes - semantic search over past chats |
| Live web search | No | Yes | Yes |
| Fetch and read URLs | Partial - audits URL or sitemap | Partial - audits a URL you enter | Yes |
| Semantic search over your own site | No | No | Yes - on-device index |
| Topic coverage check | Yes - gap analysis | Yes - knowledge and prompt gaps | Yes - covered, partial or not covered |
| File attachments | No | Not published | Yes - txt, md, doc, docx, pdf, images |
| In-app screenshot capture | No | No | Yes - screen or window, with crop |
| Custom specialists with own tool access | No | No | Yes - plus 6 presets |
| Image generation | Not published | Yes - article images | Yes |
| Content generation | |||
| Research-backed briefs | Yes - from gaps + SERP analysis | Yes - live web research before drafting | Yes |
| Live SERP / PAA research | Yes - SERP analysis module | Partial - top-ranking pages, no PAA | Yes - plus related searches and AI search snapshots |
| Full draft generation | Yes - 2–25 articles/mo by tier | Yes - 1,500–3,000 words | Yes |
| Brand voice grounding | Yes - brand book | Partial - tone stored as agent memory | Yes |
| Brand truth profile | Yes - brand book | Yes - configured brand facts | Yes |
| Internal linking placement | Yes - from sitemap | Yes | Yes |
| Featured image generation | Not published | Yes | Yes |
| FAQ generation with schema export | Partial - FAQ yes, schema not stated | Yes | Yes - HTML and JSON-LD |
| Key points extraction | Not published | Not published | Yes - pushable into the live pag |
| AI-tell removal pass | No | No | Yes - paid, toggleable |
| Artifact library | Yes - Contents page, tags + status | Yes - content list and calendar | Yes |
| Export formats | PDF, CSV | PDF, CSV, PPTX | Markdown, HTML, DOCX, PDF, TXT |
| Revise artifacts in place | Yes - editor + optimization | Yes - inline edits with undo | Yes |
| Deploy directly to CMS | Partial - Shopify products only | Yes - WordPress or hosted blog | Yes |
| Content repurposing / audio | |||
| Turn any page into audio | No | No | Yes - URL, pasted text or file |
| Two-voice conversation format | No | No | Yes |
| Voices | 0 | 0 | 30 |
| Languages | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| Length options | n/a | n/a | Short, standard, deep dive |
| Embeddable audio player | No | No | Yes |
| Player theming and layout | No | No | Yes - theme, layout, accent, title, transcript |
| White-label audio attribution | No | No | Yes - agency plans |
| Attribution backlink to agency | No | No | Yes - real link in page HTML |
| Listening analytics | No | No | Yes - plays, completion, listen time |
| BYOK audio generation | No | No | Yes |
| Site crawl & monitoring | |||
| Automatic site discovery | Yes - sitemap detection | Partial - sitemap and robots checks only | Yes |
| Scheduled full-site crawl | Partial - periodic re-scans | No - page-by-page audits | Yes - weekly or on demand |
| Monitored page management | Partial - Pages tables, not managed | Partial - own published articles only | Yes |
| Batched change digests | Yes - weekly + monthly email | No | Yes |
| On-device semantic index | No | No | Yes |
| Page freshness tracking | Not published | Partial - refresh reminders on own articles | Yes |
| Entity & knowledge graph | |||
| Site-wide entity graph | No - brand book is a profile | No | Yes |
| Inferred relationships | No | No | Yes |
| Salience scoring | No | No | Yes |
| Graph readable by AI agent | No | No | Yes |
| Graph export | No | No | Yes - CSV and PDF |
| Automation & workflows | |||
| Visibility-threshold triggers | No - notifications only | Partial - alerts on shifts, no actions | Yes - mentions or citations, all or one topic |
| Pre-built recovery recipe | No | No | Yes - detect, locate, audit, stage a fix |
| Conditional branching | No | No | Partial - branches on whether a matching page exists |
| Scheduled content cadence | Partial - weekly brief emails | Yes - schedule-to-publish | Yes - daily to monthly |
| Workflow reports | No | No | Yes - posted to the inbox |
| Alerts & inbox | |||
| Unified project inbox | No | Partial - cross-brand reviews inbox, $299 | Yes |
| Native OS notifications | No | No | Yes - Windows and macOS |
| Customized notifications with severity thresholds | Not published | Partial - priorities, no custom thresholds | Yes - per project |
| Email digest | Yes - weekly + monthly | Yes - scheduled report emails | Yes |
| Teams & workspaces | |||
| Seats included | 1 / 3 / 10+ | 0 on $49; 2 / 10 / 25 above | Unlimited on paid managed; 10 BYOK Premium, 25 BYOK Agency |
| Cost per additional seat | Not published | Not published | $0 on paid managed plans, +$7 per seat for BYOK plans |
| Shared allowance across team | Yes - pooled per team | Yes - account credit pool | Yes |
| Per-member usage visibility | Not published | Not published | Yes |
| Multi-project workspaces | Yes - teams + projects | Yes - separate brands | Yes |
| Projects included | 1 / 3 / 5+ domains | 10–1,000 brands by tier | 1 free, 3–10 managed, 25–unlimited agency; +$10 each |
| Archive and restore projects | Partial - prompts archive, not projects | Not published | Yes |
| Per-project API keys | Not published | Yes - scoped per-brand keys | Yes - rotatable |
| SSO / SAML | Not published | Not published | Roadmap |
| Agency & white-label | |||
| White-label PDF reports | Beta since Mar 2026 | Yes - $149+ | Yes - visibility report and audit |
| Custom logo, color and link | Partial - beta, theme control | Yes - logo, colors, sender, footer | Yes |
| White-label audio player | No | No | Yes - custom attribution text and link |
| Client-facing backlink | No | No | Yes |
| Dedicated agency tier | No | Yes - $149 and $299 | Yes - four tiers |
| Client sub-accounts | Partial - projects, no client portal | Yes - magic-link portal, $299 | No - clients are projects, no client logins |
| Integrations | |||
| Google Search Console | Yes | Yes | Yes - OAuth, credentials stay on device |
| Google Analytics | Yes - GA4 | Yes - GA4 | Roadmap |
| MCP connector support | Yes - own MCP + Ahrefs MCP | Yes - hosted server, OAuth | Partial - Webflow connects over MCP |
| Public API | Not published | Yes - all paid plans | No - project keys for own plugins only |
| Slack | No | No | No |
| Zapier | No | No - via API and webhooks | No |
| Custom connection support | No - feature request form | Partial - webhooks plus request by email | Yes - request a connection, paid plans |
| Platform & support | |||
| UI languages | 4 - EN, DE, ES, TR | 1 (English); 50+ prompt languages | 6 |
| Troubleshooting and recovery tools | Partial - reconnect + crash screens | No | Yes |
| In-app help agent | No - docs + support tickets | Yes - agent dock | Yes |
| Done-for-you service available | Yes - Enterprise audit + consult | Yes - managed service, book a call | Yes |
| Team | |||
| Founders have SEO backgrounds | Partial. Heavier performance marketing background. | Yes. | Yes. Founder Sam Morris has 15+ years in SEO and software engineering. |
Which one to pick
Visby AI and RankPrompt both cover core AI visibility tracking. Visby AI suits teams that want a browser-based tool with Shopify product content support. RankPrompt suits agencies that need client portals, a public API, or WordPress publishing from a hosted platform.
Hi, Moose fits buyers who need tracking, analysis, and implementation in one tool. It tracks 10 engines, including Bing Copilot, DeepSeek, and Meta AI. Five engines can run locally from the device. Users can track prompts multiple times a day, run checks on demand, and configure samples per prompt. The platform also captures ChatGPT fan-out queries and live Google AI Mode grounding queries.
Its desktop design gives teams more control over data and AI costs. Hi, Moose stores its database on the device, supports local AI models, and offers a free-forever plan with no card required. Every plan includes unlimited local daily visibility runs. Teams can also use an OpenRouter key or run supported work with $0 AI cost to Hi, Moose.
Hi, Moose also carries work beyond reporting. It scores nine AEO audit categories, labels recommendation evidence as proven, directional, or best-practice, and compares verification runs against a baseline. Teams can stage element-level WordPress edits, preview them, promote changes from staging to production, and roll them back. Approval gates remain in place before publishing.
For small teams and agencies that want transparent AI credit pricing, local data storage, broader engine coverage, and a track-to-fix workflow, Hi, Moose offers the more complete option.
Sources and research date
Researched August 2026
Every value comes from vendor pricing pages, public docs or a live account. Where a vendor does not publish a number, the cell says not published instead of an estimate. Plans change often. If a row is wrong, tell us and we will date the correction.
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