AI visibility tools, head to head
ZipTie.dev vs Qwairy
Pricing, features and differences, researched August 2026.
ZipTie.dev and Qwairy both help SEO teams, agencies, and brands measure their presence in AI search results. Each tracks brand mentions and citations across tools such as Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity. That overlap makes them practical options for teams that want to see where AI search surfaces their brand and where competitors earn visibility. The comparison comes down to the AI platforms each tool monitors, the depth of its analysis, and the actions it supports after reporting. ZipTie.dev combines monitoring with query suggestions, competitor and source analysis, and content optimization guidance. Qwairy covers a wider set of AI tools, including Claude and Gemini, while adding sentiment analysis, technical site checks, content opportunities, and AI traffic measurement. Teams will also want to compare reporting needs, supported search engines, competitor research, content workflows, technical SEO checks, and how each platform connects AI visibility to site traffic.
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
Qwairy
Pick it if you bill in euros, since the entry plan tracks 100 prompts and its assistant is read-only analysis.
- Entry price
- €79/mo; €65/mo annual
- Tracked prompts
- 100 / 300 / 800; unlimited on top tier
- Free trial
- None - free plan instead
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 | Qwairy | Hi, Moose Our AEO tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing & cost model | |||
| Free plan available | No - 14-day trial | Yes - 120 credits, no card | 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 | €79/mo; €65/mo annual | $39/mo BYOK; $79/mo AI included |
| Annual billing discount | Yes - 15% | Yes - 2 months free (~17%) | Yes - BYOK 2 months free; managed plans ~10% |
| Pricing model | Monthly check allowance, 3 tiers | Tiered plans + credits | 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 - credits | Yes - AI credits, published rate card |
| In-app usage dashboard | Not published | Yes - balance + usage page | Yes - % used, reset date, pace warning |
| Agency / reseller tier | No - custom plans on request | Yes - from €99/mo | Yes - $149 BYOK Agency; $449+ AI included |
| Affiliate program | Not published | Yes - 20% for 12 months | Yes |
| Annual contract required | No | No - monthly available | No |
| Free trial length | 14 days, 75 checks | None - free plan instead | n/a - free plan, no expiry |
| Paid plans pricing range | $69–$159/mo + custom | €79–€449/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, EU hosting | 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 | Not published - CSV/API while active | CSV, PDF, DOCX exports plus full local backup |
| SOC 2 certification | No - none published | Not published | Pending |
| ISO certification | No - none published | Not published | No |
| Local backup and restore | No | No - vendor-side only | Yes - export and import a backup file |
| Visibility & prompt tracking | |||
| Engines tracked | 3 | 10 | 10; 5 of them also collected locally |
| Real consumer-surface capture | Yes - browser capture with screenshots | Partial - 7 scraped UIs, rest via API | Yes - 5 engines read from the device, no API |
| ChatGPT | Yes | Yes - UI and API | Yes |
| Claude | No | Yes - API only | Yes |
| Gemini | No | Yes - UI and API | Yes |
| Google AI Mode | No | Yes | Yes |
| Google AI Overviews | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Grok | No | Yes - UI and API | Yes |
| Bing Copilot | No | Yes - UI only | Yes |
| DeepSeek | No | Yes - API only | Yes |
| Meta AI | No | No | Yes |
| Tracked prompts included | 500–2,000 checks/mo; 1 check = all 3 engines | 100 / 300 / 800; unlimited on top tier | No hard limit on any plan |
| Samples per prompt configurable | No | Yes - up to 20 per run | Yes |
| Run cadence options | Daily or weekly | Daily, weekly, monthly, manual | Multiple times a day, weekly, monthly, and on-demand |
| On-demand run now | Yes - manual checks draw on allowance | Yes | Yes |
| Instant one-off check | No - no free public tool | Yes - free public audit tool | Yes |
| Prompt manager | Yes | Yes - bulk edit, tags, funnel | Yes |
| Branded vs non-branded classification | Not published | Not published - funnel stages instead | Yes |
| Prompt categories and topics | Yes - automatic tagging | Yes - 5 topics max, unlimited tags | Yes |
| Per-prompt model selection | No - all 3 engines per check | Partial - per-prompt cadence, models per run | Yes |
| Brand name variant support | Not published | Not published | Yes - secondary brand terms |
| Brand multi-domain support | Partial - separate project per brand | Partial - one domain per workspace | Yes - secondary owned domains |
| Suggested prompts from Google Search Console | Yes | Yes | Yes - real GSC questions |
| Suggested prompts from competitor gaps | Partial - competitor source lists | Yes | Yes |
| Perplexity | Yes | Yes - UI and API | Yes |
| Scoring & analysis | |||
| Mention detection | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Citation detection | Yes | Yes | Yes - domain and page level |
| Sentiment scoring | Yes - scored against query intent | Yes - 0–100 plus label | Yes |
| Average position / rank | No | Yes | Yes |
| Share of Voice | Partial - competitor leaderboards | Yes | Yes |
| Share of Mentions | Partial - mention leaders list | Yes - mention rate | Yes |
| Share of Citations | Partial - citation leaders list | Yes - citation rate | Yes |
| Narrative drift detection | No - sentiment trend only | Yes - monthly perception snapshots | Yes - scored against a brand truth profile |
| Feature-parity / accuracy scoring | No | Yes - private beta, Growth+ | Yes |
| Untracked brand extraction | Yes - all detected brands in export | Yes - auto competitor detection | Yes - with sentiment and average rank |
| Cited source categorization | Partial - social and directory sources called out | Yes - type, authority, social/shopping/local | 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 | Auto-detected, uncapped; 10 in compare view | 15 |
| Visibility gap analysis | Yes - content and source gaps | Yes | Yes |
| ChatGPT fan-out capture | Not published | Yes | Yes |
| AI Mode grounding queries capture | No | Not published | Yes - the live grounding searches |
| Bing Index probe | No - Google indexing only | Partial - Bing Webmaster Tools connection | Yes |
| AI crawler access check | No | Yes - 63 crawlers vs robots.txt | Yes - retrieval, live fetch and training |
| Reporting & exports | |||
| Executive dashboard | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| AI-written narrative summary | Yes - 5–100/mo by plan | Yes - weekly email and assistant | Yes |
| Data export | Yes - CSV with full answer text | Yes - CSV, API, Looker Studio | Yes - CSV |
| Branded PDF report | No | Partial - branding on Enterprise/Agency Custom | Yes |
| Scheduled email reports | Not published | Partial - weekly only, no cadence choice | Yes - paid, per-user opt-in |
| Action log with export | No | Yes - action history via API | Yes - CSV on paid managed plans |
| Historical data retention | Not published | Not published - 90-day default range | 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 | Partial - no deploy step | Yes |
| Page-level AEO audit | Partial - per-query content check | Yes | Yes |
| Scored categories | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| Retrieval-readiness scoring | No | Yes - AEO score plus crawler access | Yes - deterministic dense retrieval |
| Evidence tiers on recommendations | No | Yes - tier, score, raw signals | Yes - proven, directional, best-practice |
| Element-level rewrite suggestions | Partial - gap answers, not element edits | Partial - issue list, not rewrites | 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 | Sitemap pages, robots.txt, llms.txt | Live URL, pasted text, file, WordPress, Webflow, Grav |
| Baseline vs verification re-runs | Partial - trends over time, no compare view | Yes - 90-day re-measure after completion | Yes - compares against the baseline |
| Recommendation status tracking | Not published | Yes - accept, start, done, decline | Yes - planned, staged, completed |
| Visibility data sets page priority | Yes - per-query score | Yes | Yes - defend, recover, convert, earn |
| Search Console sets page priority | Partial - GSC imports queries only | Yes | Yes - protect, balanced or expand |
| Branded audit PDF | No | Partial - branding on Enterprise/Agency Custom | Yes |
| CMS integration & publishing | |||
| WordPress | No | Crawler log forwarding 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 | No | 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 - generates snippet to paste | Yes - FAQPage schema |
| Publish approval gate | n/a - never publishes | No | Yes - always, including scheduled runs |
| Agentic capability | |||
| Truly agentic (agent chooses its own steps) | No | No - read-only analysis assistant | Yes - plans and executes against the live web |
| Fixed-workflow automation only | No workflow builder either | Yes - scheduled runs and detectors | 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 - scheduled monitoring only | Yes - with notify on completion |
| Approval gate before real-world actions | n/a - takes no actions | No - takes no external actions | 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 | Partial - saved articles and exports | Yes - briefs, drafts, FAQs, audits |
| Evidence capture | Yes - answer text and screenshots | Yes - full answers and cited sources | Yes - screenshots and captured proof |
| Searchable job history | No | Partial - audit, export, action history | Yes |
| Chat & assistant | |||
| Agentic chat with mid-answer tool calls | No | Yes - read-only over workspace data | Yes |
| Model picker per conversation | No | No | Yes |
| LLM models available | n/a | Not published | 27 hosted + 3 local; any model on BYOK |
| Chat memory across conversations | No | Not published | Yes - semantic search over past chats |
| Live web search | No | No | Yes |
| Fetch and read URLs | Partial - reads a URL to suggest prompts | No | Yes |
| Semantic search over your own site | No | No | Yes - on-device index |
| Topic coverage check | Yes - content gap analysis | Yes - coverage metric and gap views | 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 - 36 preset prompt templates | Yes - plus 6 presets |
| Image generation | No | No | Yes |
| Content generation | |||
| Research-backed briefs | Partial - gap list per query | Yes - 50 credits each | Yes |
| Live SERP / PAA research | Partial - Google rankings compared to AI results | Partial - optional Perplexity research pass | Yes - plus related searches and AI search snapshots |
| Full draft generation | No | Yes | Yes |
| Brand voice grounding | No | Partial - audience personas only | Yes |
| Brand truth profile | No | Yes - beta, Growth+ | Yes |
| Internal linking placement | No | Not published | Yes |
| Featured image generation | No | No | Yes |
| FAQ generation with schema export | No | Partial - FAQ block plus schema stub | Yes - HTML and JSON-LD |
| Key points extraction | No | Partial - optional summary block | Yes - pushable into the live pag |
| AI-tell removal pass | No - flags AI-written text, no rewrite | No | Yes - paid, toggleable |
| Artifact library | No | Partial - article list, readable via API | Yes |
| Export formats | CSV | Markdown; CSV for data | Markdown, HTML, DOCX, PDF, TXT |
| Revise artifacts in place | No | Yes - edit outline, regenerate sections | Yes |
| Deploy directly to CMS | No | No - pull via API only | 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 | Yes - sitemap sync | Yes |
| Scheduled full-site crawl | Partial - index monitoring, not AEO | Partial - manual sync, per-page audits | Yes - weekly or on demand |
| Monitored page management | No | Yes - favorites, filters, re-audit | Yes |
| Batched change digests | No | Partial - weekly email, not page diffs | Yes |
| On-device semantic index | No | No | Yes |
| Page freshness tracking | No - index status only | Partial - freshness in content score | 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 | Not published - weekly report only | Yes - mentions or citations, all or one topic |
| Pre-built recovery recipe | No | Partial - prioritized plan, executed manually | Yes - detect, locate, audit, stage a fix |
| Conditional branching | No | No | Partial - branches on whether a matching page exists |
| Scheduled content cadence | No | No - capacity is a ranking input only | Yes - daily to monthly |
| Workflow reports | No | No | Yes - posted to the inbox |
| Alerts & inbox | |||
| Unified project inbox | No | Partial - action triage queue | Yes |
| Native OS notifications | No | No - web only | Yes - Windows and macOS |
| Customized notifications with severity thresholds | Not published | No - single on/off toggle | Yes - per project |
| Email digest | Not published | Yes - weekly, fixed cadence | 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 - credits pooled | Yes |
| Per-member usage visibility | n/a - single seat | Partial - per sub-team, not per person | Yes |
| Multi-project workspaces | Yes - separate projects per brand | Yes - from €199/mo | Yes |
| Projects included | Not published | 1 / 5 / 20 / unlimited | 1 free, 3–10 managed, 25–unlimited agency; +$10 each |
| Archive and restore projects | Not published | Yes | Yes |
| Per-project API keys | No - no API | No - team-level keys | Yes - rotatable |
| SSO / SAML | No | Enterprise only - OIDC | Roadmap |
| Agency & white-label | |||
| White-label PDF reports | No | Enterprise / Agency Custom | Yes - visibility report and audit |
| Custom logo, color and link | No | Enterprise - logo and custom domain | 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 - from €99/mo | Yes - four tiers |
| Client sub-accounts | No - 1 seat, separate projects | Yes - sub-teams and viewer roles | No - clients are projects, no client logins |
| Integrations | |||
| Google Search Console | Yes - imports queries | Yes | Yes - OAuth, credentials stay on device |
| Google Analytics | No | Yes - GA4 plus 5 others | Roadmap |
| MCP connector support | No | Yes - 46 read-only tools | Partial - Webflow connects over MCP |
| Public API | No | Yes - Growth and above | No - project keys for own plugins only |
| Slack | No | Listed as live, not documented | No |
| Zapier | No | No | No |
| Custom connection support | No - CSV export only | Partial - webhooks (Enterprise), HTTP log ingest | Yes - request a connection, paid plans |
| Platform & support | |||
| UI languages | 1 (English) | Not published - tracks 45+ languages | 6 |
| Troubleshooting and recovery tools | No | No - docs troubleshooting only | Yes |
| In-app help agent | No | Yes - assistant can search docs | Yes |
| Done-for-you service available | Yes - consulting on request | Partial - partner agencies, no in-house service | Yes |
| Team | |||
| Founders have SEO backgrounds | Yes. | Yes. | Yes. Founder Sam Morris has 15+ years in SEO and software engineering. |
Which one to pick
ZipTie.dev fits teams that only need monitoring across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity. Qwairy fits teams that need a browser-based platform, unlimited seats, or a public API and Looker Studio access. Both tools cover AI visibility tracking, competitor analysis, and content opportunities.
Hi, Moose fits buyers who want to move from tracking to approved site changes in the same tool. It tracks 10 engines, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Bing Copilot, Meta AI, Google AI Mode, and Google AI Overviews. It also captures five consumer-facing engine results locally, supports per-prompt model selection, and has no hard prompt limit. Its AEO workflow can audit a live URL, prepare element-level edits, compare verification runs against a baseline, and publish only after approval. WordPress users can preview edits, use staging, promote changes to production, and roll back a patch.
The cost model also gives small teams more choices. Hi, Moose has a free-forever plan with no card, unlimited local visibility runs, and five engines that users can run daily at no vendor AI cost. Paid access starts at $39 per month with OpenRouter BYOK, while managed plans start at $79 per month with AI included. Hi, Moose shows AI-credit usage, reset dates, and pace warnings in the app.
The desktop setup will not suit every team. ZipTie.dev and Qwairy work in a browser, while Hi, Moose runs as a Windows or macOS app. That setup gives Hi, Moose local-first storage, local backups, three local model options, and on-device AI inference. For teams that value control over stored data and want a tool that can track, audit, prepare, verify, and deploy approved changes, Hi, Moose provides the broader workflow.
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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