AI visibility tools, head to head
ZipTie.dev vs Peec AI
Pricing, features and differences, researched August 2026.
ZipTie.dev and Peec AI both help teams measure how their brands appear in AI search results, but they put different parts of the workflow first. ZipTie.dev combines monitoring with query ideas, source and competitor analysis, and content optimization guidance. Peec AI focuses on brand analytics across more AI search tools, including mentions, citations, sentiment, position, and competitor share of voice. SEO teams, agencies, and brands may compare them when they need to decide whether they want a platform centered on improving specific content or one centered on measuring brand presence across AI answers. The main differences fall under platform coverage, visibility metrics, competitor and source analysis, query research, content optimization guidance, and how each tool prioritizes next steps.
At a glance
ZipTie.dev
Pick it if three engines cover the surfaces you care about, because that is all it tracks.
- Entry price
- $69/mo
- Tracked prompts
- 500–2,000 checks/mo; 1 check = all 3 engines
- Free trial
- 14 days, 75 checks
Peec AI
Pick it if monitoring is the whole job and you want agency seats, though any one plan covers 3 of its 11 engines.
- Entry price
- $95/mo
- Tracked prompts
- 50–350
- 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 | ZipTie.dev | Peec AI | Hi, Moose Our AEO tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing & cost model | |||
| Free plan available | No - 14-day trial | No | 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 | 5 |
| Entry paid price | $69/mo | $95/mo | $39/mo BYOK; $79/mo AI included |
| Annual billing discount | Yes - 15% | Yes (~15%) | Yes - BYOK 2 months free; managed plans ~10% |
| Pricing model | Monthly check allowance, 3 tiers | Per prompt (brands) / credits (agency) | Flat plan with monthly AI credit balance, or BYOK |
| Bring your own API key | No | No | Yes - OpenRouter |
| Can run with $0 AI cost to vendor | No | No | Yes |
| Usage metered in one transparent unit | No - separate check, summary, optimization caps | Yes - credit = 1 prompt × 1 model × 1 day | Yes - AI credits, published rate card |
| In-app usage dashboard | Not published | Partial - credit allocation per project | Yes - % used, reset date, pace warning |
| Agency / reseller tier | No - custom plans on request | Yes | Yes - $149 BYOK Agency; $449+ AI included |
| Affiliate program | Not published | Yes - Refer & Earn, up to $1,000 | Yes |
| Annual contract required | No | No | No |
| Free trial length | 14 days, 75 checks | 7 days | n/a - free plan, no expiry |
| Paid plans pricing range | $69–$159/mo + custom | $95–$795/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 | CSV anytime; post-cancel terms not published | CSV export anytime | CSV, PDF, DOCX exports plus full local backup |
| SOC 2 certification | No - none published | Pursuing, not certified | Pending |
| ISO certification | No - none published | Not published | No |
| Local backup and restore | No | No | Yes - export and import a backup file |
| Visibility & prompt tracking | |||
| Engines tracked | 3 | 11 available, 3 per plan | 10; 5 of them also collected locally |
| Real consumer-surface capture | Yes - browser capture with screenshots | Yes - cloud UI scraping | Yes - 5 engines read from the device, no API |
| ChatGPT | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Claude | No | Enterprise only | Yes |
| Gemini | No | Yes | Yes |
| Google AI Mode | No | Yes | Yes |
| Google AI Overviews | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Grok | No | Paid add-on | Yes |
| Bing Copilot | No | Yes | Yes |
| DeepSeek | No | Enterprise only | Yes |
| Meta AI | No | No | Yes |
| Tracked prompts included | 500–2,000 checks/mo; 1 check = all 3 engines | 50–350 | No hard limit on any plan |
| Samples per prompt configurable | No | No - 1 run/day | Yes |
| Run cadence options | Daily or weekly | Daily; weekly on top tiers | Multiple times a day, weekly, monthly, and on-demand |
| On-demand run now | Yes - manual checks draw on allowance | No | Yes |
| Instant one-off check | No - no free public tool | No | Yes |
| Prompt manager | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Branded vs non-branded classification | Not published | Yes - automatic | Yes |
| Prompt categories and topics | Yes - automatic tagging | Yes - topics + tags | Yes |
| Per-prompt model selection | No - all 3 engines per check | No - set per project | Yes |
| Brand name variant support | Not published | Yes - aliases + regex | Yes - secondary brand terms |
| Brand multi-domain support | Partial - separate project per brand | Yes | Yes - secondary owned domains |
| Suggested prompts from Google Search Console | Yes | No | Yes - real GSC questions |
| Suggested prompts from competitor gaps | Partial - competitor source lists | No - from brand profile + search volume | Yes |
| Perplexity | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Scoring & analysis | |||
| Mention detection | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Citation detection | Yes | Yes - sources and citations tracked separately | Yes - domain and page level |
| Sentiment scoring | Yes - scored against query intent | Yes - 0–100 | Yes |
| Average position / rank | No | Yes | Yes |
| Share of Voice | Partial - competitor leaderboards | Yes | Yes |
| Share of Mentions | Partial - mention leaders list | Yes - "Visibility" | Yes |
| Share of Citations | Partial - citation leaders list | Yes | Yes |
| Narrative drift detection | No - sentiment trend only | Partial - Brand Perception attributes | Yes - scored against a brand truth profile |
| Feature-parity / accuracy scoring | No | Partial - AI Shopping attributes only | Yes |
| Untracked brand extraction | Yes - all detected brands in export | Yes | Yes - with sentiment and average rank |
| Cited source categorization | Partial - social and directory sources called out | Yes - 5 types + custom | Yes - 8 source types |
| Topic-level breakdown | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Engine-level breakdown | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Competitor tracking | Yes | Yes | Yes - or promote any brand seen in results |
| Competitors included | Not published | Uncapped | 15 |
| Visibility gap analysis | Yes - content and source gaps | Yes - Gap Score | Yes |
| ChatGPT fan-out capture | Not published | Yes | Yes |
| AI Mode grounding queries capture | No | No - fanouts on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot | Yes - the live grounding searches |
| Bing Index probe | No - Google indexing only | No | Yes |
| AI crawler access check | No | Yes - 40+ bots | Yes - retrieval, live fetch and training |
| Reporting & exports | |||
| Executive dashboard | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| AI-written narrative summary | Yes - 5–100/mo by plan | Partial - Brand Perception summary | Yes |
| Data export | Yes - CSV with full answer text | Yes - CSV, Data Studio, API | Yes - CSV |
| Branded PDF report | No | No | Yes |
| Scheduled email reports | Not published | No | Yes - paid, per-user opt-in |
| Action log with export | No | Chat archive CSV only | Yes - CSV on paid managed plans |
| Historical data retention | Not published | 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 - no deploy step | No - track + recommend only | Yes |
| Page-level AEO audit | Partial - per-query content check | No | Yes |
| Scored categories | 5 | 0 | 9 |
| Retrieval-readiness scoring | No | No | Yes - deterministic dense retrieval |
| Evidence tiers on recommendations | No | No - 1–3 opportunity score | Yes - proven, directional, best-practice |
| Element-level rewrite suggestions | Partial - gap answers, not element edits | No | Yes - element, character budget, before and after |
| Second-model QA pass | No | No | Yes - pass, revised or needs human review |
| Static crawler-view snapshot | No | No | Yes - full-page screenshot, JavaScript off |
| Audit input sources | Pasted text only, not a URL | n/a | Live URL, pasted text, file, WordPress, Webflow, Grav |
| Baseline vs verification re-runs | Partial - trends over time, no compare view | Partial - Actions "Impact" view | Yes - compares against the baseline |
| Recommendation status tracking | Not published | Partial | Yes - planned, staged, completed |
| Visibility data sets page priority | Yes - per-query score | Yes - Relative Opportunity Score | Yes - defend, recover, convert, earn |
| Search Console sets page priority | Partial - GSC imports queries only | No | Yes - protect, balanced or expand |
| Branded audit PDF | No | No | Yes |
| CMS integration & publishing | |||
| WordPress | No | Log plugin only, no publishing | Yes - official plugin, production and staging |
| Webflow | No | No | Yes - OAuth MCP, pages and collection items |
| Framer | No | No | On roadmap |
| Grav | No | No | Yes - official plugin |
| Shopify | No | Catalog import only | On roadmap |
| Surgical element-level edits to live page | No | No | Yes |
| Preview before applying | No | No | Yes |
| Staging environment support | No | No | Yes - WordPress, with promote to production |
| One-click rollback | No | No | Yes - WordPress |
| Patch history per site | No | No | Yes - WordPress |
| Visual placement picker | No | No | Yes - pick the spot on the rendered page |
| Push Schema JSON-LD into page | No | No | Yes - FAQPage schema |
| Publish approval gate | n/a - never publishes | n/a - never publishes | Yes - always, including scheduled runs |
| Agentic capability | |||
| Truly agentic (agent chooses its own steps) | No | No | Yes - plans and executes against the live web |
| Fixed-workflow automation only | No workflow builder either | No automation either | No - workflows exist alongside the agent |
| Agents can run on local model at zero cost | No | No | Yes |
| Multi-agent panel | No | No | Yes - two extra agents, paid plans |
| Live browser view | No - browser runs server-side, unseen | No | Yes |
| Take control mid-run | No | No | Yes |
| Steer agent while running | No | No | Yes - talk to any agent mid-job |
| Background execution | No | No | Yes - with notify on completion |
| Approval gate before real-world actions | n/a - takes no actions | MCP writes only | Yes |
| Long-running deep work jobs | No | No | Yes |
| Scheduled agent jobs | No - scheduled checks only | No | Yes - daily, weekdays, weekly, monthly |
| Agent produces saved artifacts | No | No | Yes - briefs, drafts, FAQs, audits |
| Evidence capture | Yes - answer text and screenshots | No | Yes - screenshots and captured proof |
| Searchable job history | No | No | Yes |
| Chat & assistant | |||
| Agentic chat with mid-answer tool calls | No | Partial - in-app data agent + MCP | Yes |
| Model picker per conversation | No | No | Yes |
| LLM models available | n/a | n/a | 27 hosted + 3 local; any model on BYOK |
| Chat memory across conversations | No | No | Yes - semantic search over past chats |
| Live web search | No | No | Yes |
| Fetch and read URLs | Partial - reads a URL to suggest prompts | Cited source URLs only, via MCP | Yes |
| Semantic search over your own site | No | No | Yes - on-device index |
| Topic coverage check | Yes - content gap analysis | No | Yes - covered, partial or not covered |
| File attachments | No | No | Yes - txt, md, doc, docx, pdf, images |
| In-app screenshot capture | Partial - screenshots of AI answers | No | Yes - screen or window, with crop |
| Custom specialists with own tool access | No | No | Yes - plus 6 presets |
| Image generation | No | No | Yes |
| Content generation | |||
| Research-backed briefs | Partial - gap list per query | No | Yes |
| Live SERP / PAA research | Partial - Google rankings compared to AI results | No - fanout queries only | Yes - plus related searches and AI search snapshots |
| Full draft generation | No | No | Yes |
| Brand voice grounding | No | No | Yes |
| Brand truth profile | No | Partial - Brand Profile | Yes |
| Internal linking placement | No | No | Yes |
| Featured image generation | No | No | Yes |
| FAQ generation with schema export | No | No | Yes - HTML and JSON-LD |
| Key points extraction | No | No | Yes - pushable into the live pag |
| AI-tell removal pass | No - flags AI-written text, no rewrite | No | Yes - paid, toggleable |
| Artifact library | No | No | Yes |
| Export formats | CSV | CSV | Markdown, HTML, DOCX, PDF, TXT |
| Revise artifacts in place | No | No | Yes |
| Deploy directly to CMS | No | No | 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 | Partial - carried-over indexing module | No | Yes |
| Scheduled full-site crawl | Partial - index monitoring, not AEO | No - reads AI bot logs, not your site | Yes - weekly or on demand |
| Monitored page management | No | No | Yes |
| Batched change digests | No | No | Yes |
| On-device semantic index | No | No | Yes |
| Page freshness tracking | No - index status only | No | Yes |
| Entity & knowledge graph | |||
| Site-wide entity graph | No | 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 | No | 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 | No | No | Yes - daily to monthly |
| Workflow reports | No | MCP slash-commands only | Yes - posted to the inbox |
| Alerts & inbox | |||
| Unified project inbox | No | No | Yes |
| Native OS notifications | No | No | Yes - Windows and macOS |
| Customized notifications with severity thresholds | Not published | No | Yes - per project |
| Email digest | Not published | No - product newsletter only | Yes |
| Teams & workspaces | |||
| Seats included | 1 | Unlimited | Unlimited on paid managed; 10 BYOK Premium, 25 BYOK Agency |
| Cost per additional seat | Not published - no seat add-on offered | $0 | $0 on paid managed plans, +$7 per seat for BYOK plans |
| Shared allowance across team | n/a - single seat | Yes - shared prompt/credit pool | Yes |
| Per-member usage visibility | n/a - single seat | No | Yes |
| Multi-project workspaces | Yes - separate projects per brand | Yes | Yes |
| Projects included | Not published | 1–5 brands; 3–25 agency | 1 free, 3–10 managed, 25–unlimited agency; +$10 each |
| Archive and restore projects | Not published | Prompts only | Yes |
| Per-project API keys | No - no API | No - company-level, Enterprise | Yes - rotatable |
| SSO / SAML | No | Enterprise only | Roadmap |
| Agency & white-label | |||
| White-label PDF reports | No | No | Yes - visibility report and audit |
| Custom logo, color and link | No | No | Yes |
| White-label audio player | No | No | Yes - custom attribution text and link |
| Client-facing backlink | No | No | Yes |
| Dedicated agency tier | No - custom plans on request | Yes - 4 tiers | Yes - four tiers |
| Client sub-accounts | No - 1 seat, separate projects | Yes - client seats + pitch projects | No - clients are projects, no client logins |
| Integrations | |||
| Google Search Console | Yes - imports queries | No | Yes - OAuth, credentials stay on device |
| Google Analytics | No | Yes - AI Referrals | Roadmap |
| MCP connector support | No | Yes | Partial - Webflow connects over MCP |
| Public API | No | Enterprise only | No - project keys for own plugins only |
| Slack | No | No - community only | No |
| Zapier | No | No | No |
| Custom connection support | No - CSV export only | Generic log webhook | Yes - request a connection, paid plans |
| Platform & support | |||
| UI languages | 1 (English) | 1 (English) | 6 |
| Troubleshooting and recovery tools | No | No | Yes |
| In-app help agent | No | Yes | Yes |
| Done-for-you service available | Yes - consulting on request | No - partner agency directory | Yes |
| Team | |||
| Founders have SEO backgrounds | Yes. | No. Marius Meiners, Daniel Drabo and Tobias Siwonia, who met in Antler's Berlin accelerator cohort; Meiners came from PwC's venture deals team rather than search. | Yes. Founder Sam Morris has 15+ years in SEO and software engineering. |
Which one to pick
ZipTie.dev and Peec AI both suit teams that mainly need cloud-based AI visibility tracking. ZipTie.dev covers ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity, with browser-captured results and screenshots. Peec AI tracks 11 available engines, measures share of voice and citations, and offers agency tiers with unlimited seats and client sub-accounts.
Hi, Moose fits teams that need to take work beyond tracking. It tracks 10 engines, including Claude, Gemini, Grok, Bing Copilot, DeepSeek, Meta AI, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, and AI Overviews. It also captures Google AI Mode grounding queries, runs page-level AEO audits across nine scored categories, prepares element-level changes, compares verification runs to a baseline, and supports approved publishing to WordPress, Webflow, and Grav.
Cost and data control also separate Hi, Moose. It offers a free-forever plan with no card, five engines that users can run daily for free, and unlimited local visibility runs on every plan. Paid access starts at $39 per month with BYOK through OpenRouter, or $79 per month with AI included. Hi, Moose stores data in a local database on the user’s device, supports local models, and lets users export a full local backup. ZipTie.dev and Peec AI do not offer a free plan, BYOK, or local-first storage.
Peec AI remains a better pick for agencies that need client sub-accounts, unlimited seats, Google Analytics AI referral data, or an Enterprise API. ZipTie.dev may suit a single user who wants a browser-based tool focused on three AI search surfaces. For SMBs and agencies that want broad engine coverage, local control, transparent AI credit usage, and a track-to-fix-to-verify workflow, Hi, Moose provides 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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