Reviewed November 2, 2026
AirOps alternatives split by job, because AirOps now does several. To measure what AI answers say for a fixed fee: Placton from $59 a month. To build content workflows: Gumloop from $37 or n8n. For tracking and content in one tool: Slate from $499 or Frase from $39 billed yearly.
7 days free. No card required.
AirOps measures AI answers, runs content production and offers its own strategists. Almost nothing else does all three, so a useful list of AirOps alternatives starts with the part you actually use. Monthly prices, read on .
You open Insights to see who AI names and which pages it cites, and you want that view on a bill you can predict.
Five AIs on every plan, a flat fee, and first drafts written from the questions you track.
The lowest paid entry with daily data, at 15 prompts.
For large brands, bought through sales.
You run Playbooks and Grids to research, write and refresh pages in bulk, and you want a builder that costs less.
You want tracking and content from one vendor, without assembling the pipeline yourself.
The closest match, with workflows and 10,000 AI answers.
Articles plus tracking, on three AIs below Enterprise.
billed yearly
Writes and publishes for less, on two AIs at entry.
Most AirOps alternatives pages still describe a tool for building content workflows. Its site now sells something wider, under a pricing page titled “AI Search for Enterprise”: a platform with two halves, plus a team you can hire.
Mention rate, share of voice, position, citations and sentiment by theme. Accepted prompts run daily on each AI, region and persona, with up to 10 competitors, weekly prompt suggestions and query fan-outs. Agent Analytics shows crawlers and assistants on your site, and Search Console and GA4 tie it to your pages.
Playbooks, Workflows and Grids (a sheet that runs a job per row), coordinated by an agent called Quill. Brand Kits and Knowledge Bases feed the context, a review inbox holds drafts for people, Content Scores grade each piece, and approved work publishes to your CMS. Triggers can start any of it on their own.
Strategists who build the plan and do the work on the same platform, across your own content, third-party placements, AI ads, creators and communities. AirOps says you no longer have to choose between software and an agency. A software subscription does not replace this part.
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| Feature | Solo | Pro | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| How you start | “Start for free” | “Start for free” | “Work with us” |
| Dollar price shown | None | None | None |
| Tasks a month | 35,000 | 100,000 | Custom |
| Extra tasks | $0.025 each | Charged, rate not stated | Not stated |
| AIs tracked | ChatGPT only | ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Grok, Muse Spark, Claude Code and Codex | The same as Pro |
| Prompts and pages | Not stated | Not stated | Custom |
| Brand Kits | 1 | 1 | Unlimited |
| Knowledge Bases | 3 | 5 | Unlimited |
| Users | 1 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| CMS publishing | Webflow | Webflow, WordPress, Contentful, Strapi, Sanity, Framer, HubSpot, Contentstack, Storyblok and Builder.io | The same, plus custom |
| SEO data | DataForSEO and Moz | Adds Semrush and Ahrefs | The same as Pro |
| AI ads insights | No | Yes | Yes |
| Custom dashboards and SSO | No | No | Yes |
| Support | Community and live chat | Community and live chat | Dedicated account manager |
The AI and CMS lists come from the tooltips in its plan table, which also labels the tasks “for Content Production”. All three plans list Playbooks, Grids, content scores, human review, version history, Quill, and AirOps’ MCP and API. Its AirOps Answers page gives seven CMS, Ghost among them, where the table gives ten without it. Source: AirOps’ pricing page, read .
We read 18 AirOps alternatives pages on . One carries the current task counts, three still quote 20,000, and none mentions the multipliers or the Answer Credits below.
Bigger task allowances. Per PricingSaaS, Solo went from 20,000 to 35,000 tasks and Pro from 75,000 to 100,000, and the comparison table stopped listing tracked prompts for those two plans.
Personas and regions reach Solo. PricingSaaS logs the new line on the plan. Solo still covers ChatGPT only, so the filters apply to one AI.
Muse Spark tracking. AirOps’ changelog added Meta’s model to Insights. It costs four units per answer, the same as Claude.
Pro now says 10+ answer engines. PricingSaaS logs the move from 7+ on this date. Two of the names in that count, Claude Code and Codex, are coding agents, and AirOps’ docs list nine answer engines. Its Insights docs also say that outside Enterprise you contact your account team to turn Claude on.
Even its rivals rarely call AirOps a bad product. These are the reasons that keep coming up, and the last two pull in opposite directions.
AirOps does not publish dollar prices on its pricing page (checked ). Third-party reviews from earlier in 2026 report about $200 for Solo and about $2,000 for Pro, but AirOps does not confirm those figures and its plans changed in September. Ask AirOps for a quote. Here is everything we found, and how much weight each piece can carry.
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| What is said | Who says so | How far to trust it |
|---|---|---|
| No dollar price on any plan. The one figure is $0.025 per extra task on Solo | AirOps’ pricing page | Solid. Its FAQ adds that the package is built around your task volume |
| Solo is free | AirOps Answers, and the markup of its pricing page, which lists Solo and Pro at $0 | AirOps’ own words, but see the next rows |
| New free-tier workspaces receive 1 included task | AirOps’ billing docs | We cannot square this with 35,000 tasks without an account |
| A 14-day trial of “Scale”, no payment details until the end | AirOps’ pricing FAQ | Scale is no longer in its plan table, so this looks like old text |
| A Pro trial that can turn into a paid subscription with a payment method on file | AirOps’ billing docs | Current docs, length not stated |
| No free tier; Solo, Pro and Enterprise all “Contact” | PricingSaaS (opens in a new tab) | Captured November 2, 2026, and it disagrees with the first rows |
| About $200 for Solo and about $2,000 for Pro | Slate’s blog (April 30, 2026) and several other vendors | Not confirmed by AirOps, from sellers of rival tools, and older than the September change |
| $99 to start, on plans called Scale and Team | Rankability’s review (June 23, 2026) | Plan names that are no longer in AirOps’ table |
Be wary of any page that states a Solo or Pro price as fact, or that tells you flatly that AirOps is free or is not. On the evidence available today, neither can be proved from the outside. What you can work out from the outside is how fast tracking uses up an allowance, and that comes next.
This is the sum none of the AirOps alternatives pages we read works out. AirOps’ billing docs give the formula, so you can do it for your own setup before you talk to anyone.
Every tracked prompt is asked daily, once per AI, per region and per persona. For each prompt, each month, AirOps counts:
platforms × regions × (1 + named personas) × 30 days
Claude and Muse Spark debit 4 units per answer and everything else 1. Google AI Overview ignores personas and runs once per region. What those units are depends on your workspace: on combined task billing they come out of the same monthly balance as your Workflows and Playbooks, and on the legacy model out of a separate Answer Credit balance. A workspace stays on its model until its plan changes, commonly at renewal.
Tasks a month, on a combined-task workspace
18,000
240 tasks per prompt, for about 11,250 answers. Each prompt runs daily, counted as 30 days.
Placton’s fee counts prompts only, on its five AIs: two daily and three weekly, one country per workspace.
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| Setup | Tasks per prompt, per month | 75 prompts | 250 prompts | 250 prompts, share of Pro |
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| ChatGPT only, which is all Solo covers | 30 | 2,250 | 7,500 | 8% |
| The five AIs Placton tracks | 240 | 18,000 | 60,000 | 60% |
| All nine answer engines in its docs | 450 | 33,750 | 112,500 | 113%, over the plan |
| The same five, in 2 regions with 1 named persona | 900 | 67,500 | 225,000 | 225%, over the plan |
What it means. On a combined-task workspace, tracking 250 prompts on five AIs takes 60,000 of Pro’s 100,000 tasks before you write a word. Slate, which sells a rival tool, estimates 500 to 800 tasks for a basic article and 2,500 to 3,500 for a full workflow. If that holds, the 40,000 left buy 50 to 80 basic articles or 11 to 16 full ones. AirOps lets you reserve tasks for tracking with Protect Answers Tracking, and gives 50,000 separate testing tasks a month for runs from the editor.
Two limits on this math. AirOps labels its allowance “for Content Production”, and without an account we cannot tell which billing model a new plan starts on, so check Usage. And it is not the same measurement as Placton’s: AirOps asks every AI daily, about 150 answers per prompt a month on those five, where Placton asks two daily and three weekly, about 72. Placton’s 250 prompts cost $299 flat. If you need daily data on every AI, that difference is real and AirOps may be worth it.
These counts are our math, using the formula and multipliers in AirOps’ billing docs, read . The only dollar rate AirOps publishes for a task is $0.025 on Solo, which would make one ChatGPT prompt $0.75 a month once your 35,000 tasks are gone. We do not know what a task costs on Pro.
If you came for Insights, a dedicated tracker gets you there with no pipeline to build. Five options, from the flat fee to the enterprise contract. Prices come from each maker’s page, read .
AI answer tracking, plus a writer
$59/ month
$602 billed yearly ($50.17 a month). Growth is $129 and Scale $299, flat.
Best for: Teams that use AirOps Insights, or were about to, and mostly want the numbers: what five AIs say, who they name and which pages they cite, without building anything and without a balance to watch.
Weak point: It measures and drafts. It does not run workflows, publish or connect to your CMS, and three of its five AIs refresh weekly.
AI tracker and agents for large teams
Custom
Enterprise is quoted. The page also mentions a self-serve Agency Growth plan, with no price in the text we read.
Best for: Large brands that want deep tracking with prompt demand data and their own agents, and that already buy software through procurement. AirOps itself names it as a close rival.
Weak point: Brands cannot buy it on their own, and the trial runs 50 preset prompts on three AIs, so expect a product tour rather than a reading of your own questions.
Per its pricing page, read November 2, 2026How Profound compares, plan by plan
AI tracker only
$95/ month
Then $245 and $495.
Best for: Anyone who wants daily tracking on a published plan, with a seat for the whole team.
Weak point: You choose three models at this price, more cost extra, and there is nothing on the content side.
Per its pricing page, read November 2, 2026Peec AI measured against Placton
AI tracker only
$29/ month
$25 billed yearly. The next plans are $189 and $489.
Best for: The smallest budgets that still want daily data: it has the lowest paid entry of the trackers on this page.
Weak point: Fifteen prompts run out fast, Gemini, AI Mode and Claude are paid extras, and it does not cover Grok at all.
Per its pricing page, read November 2, 2026Otterly.AI, feature by feature
AI tracker with agents
Free
A free plan with 300 credits. Starter is $295 a month, 17% less billed yearly. Enterprise is custom.
Best for: A free first look, then wide coverage: 11 models and unlimited users on Starter, with on-page and off-page actions.
Weak point: It meters too. One credit is one AI response, so 3,600 credits is about 120 prompt and model pairs a day, and there is nothing between free and $295.
Per its pricing page, read November 2, 2026AthenaHQ and its credits, explained
* On paid plans. ChatGPT is read on chatgpt.com in every country Placton tracks except Venezuela and Puerto Rico, where it is asked weekly through its API.
AirOps’ case against prompt lists. Its Platform page argues that prompt tracking counts how often you appear for any buyer, not your target customer, and gives an example of a card company at 55% overall and 1% with its real audience. That is a fair warning about any average. Placton’s answer is that you choose the questions, written the way your buyer would ask, and read the whole answer behind each number. It does not filter by audience. If that filter is what you need, AirOps and Profound fit better.
Also on this side. Scrunch starts at $250 a month for 4 AIs, read October 24, 2026, and we compare it here. For more trackers at this level, see plans under $100 a month or what to look for in an AI visibility tool.
If Playbooks and Grids are why you pay, you want a builder. Placton is not one, so it is not on this list. All three publish a price, and all three ask you to bring your own process.
Agent and workflow builder
$37/ month
Pro “starts at” this price, with an 8% orchestration fee. Enterprise is custom.
Best for: Marketing teams that want to build their own automations with no charge per seat. Google’s AI Overview named it first when we asked.
Weak point: The price is a starting point: credits run out and the 8% orchestration fee sits on top. Its pricing page lists no AI answer tracking.
Per its pricing page, read November 2, 2026
Workflow automation you can self-host
€20/ month
Billed yearly, in euros as the page showed us. Pro is €50. The Community Edition is self-hosted, from GitHub.
Best for: A team with a technical owner. It charges per workflow execution rather than per step, and a self-hosted edition is on GitHub.
Weak point: You build every step and own the upkeep. There are no brand kits, content scores or AI answer data waiting for you.
Per its pricing page, read November 2, 2026
Content workflow builder
$20/ month
Then $75 and $200. A free Starter plan gives 300 credits a month.
Best for: Content teams that liked the AirOps way of working and want it at $20 to $200 a month. Bulk runs and a knowledge base are on the plan.
Weak point: By its own comparison page, AirOps has the wider CMS list (Moonlit offers WordPress and Webflow), SQL connections and a broader API. No AI tracking on its pricing page.
Per its pricing page, read November 2, 2026
What you lose in any of them. AirOps’ workflows can read your stored AI answers directly, through a step called AEO Prompt Data, and its Brand Kits follow the work around. A general builder starts empty: you connect your own data and write your own guardrails. For some teams that is the point. For others it is the work they were paying AirOps to skip.
General automation. Zapier has a free plan with 100 tasks a month and paid plans from $19.99, and it is the safe pick when one rare integration is the blocker. Make came up in two of the AI answers below, but its pricing page blocked us, so no price here. Neither is made for content work, so expect to build more.
One login and one invoice, with some depth given up on each side. Of all the alternatives to AirOps, these four come closest to replacing it with a single product.
Tracking, workflows and outreach
$499/ month
Then $999 and $2,000. Annual billing saves 20%.
Best for: Teams that want the same shape of product with a price on the page. It is the most direct like-for-like on this list, and it says so.
Weak point: The entry plan is one user and one workspace, and Claude and Gemini are paid add-ons. Credits and answers are metered separately.
Per its pricing page, read November 2, 2026
SEO, tracking and articles in one
$99/ month
$79 billed yearly. Basic is $249 and Growth $499 ($199 and $399 billed yearly).
Best for: Teams that want SEO, tracking and articles in one login with nothing to build.
Weak point: Self-serve plans track three AIs, the other six need Enterprise, and Starter lists 50 answers a day, which does not fit 50 prompts on three AIs.
Per its pricing page, read November 2, 2026
Editor and AI tracking
$39/ month
Billed yearly. $49 appears struck through, which looks like the monthly price. Larger plans: $103 and $239 billed yearly.
Best for: The low-cost route from brief to published page. Drafts go straight to WordPress, Webflow, Sanity or Wix, and the monthly price is $49.
Weak point: Two AIs at entry. Claude and Gemini wait for Scale ($299, or $239 billed yearly), and Grok for Enterprise.
Per its pricing page, read November 2, 2026
Content and AI tracking for agencies
$97/ month
Then $297 and $497. Yearly billing is $970, $2,970 and $4,970.
Best for: Agencies: unlimited clients and seats, with 11 AIs daily on every plan, where AirOps gives one Brand Kit below Enterprise.
Weak point: A hundred AI queries on the entry plan go quickly, and the trial needs a card and a monthly plan.
Per its pricing page, read November 2, 2026
Others you will see named. Jasper starts at $69 per seat and is about brand voice, with its GEO agents only on Business. Surfer is an editor first, from $59 with no AI tracking at that price, and its own alternatives are a different list. Semrush customers can start with how its AI toolkit stacks up. Quattr sells live-site execution to enterprises on custom quotes, and it is the one to read if your problem has moved past content.
All 12 AirOps competitors on this page in one table, with the entry price each maker shows. Read on , before tax.
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| Tool | Replaces | From, a month | What you get | AI tracked | Free trial |
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| Placton | Measuring | $59 | 20, 75 or 250 prompts, 5 to 40 texts a month | ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Claude, Perplexity and Grok, on every plan | 7 days, no card |
| Profound | Measuring | Custom | A tailored prompt plan, AI Marketer credits, unlimited seats, SSO and SOC 2 | Up to 9 answer engines on Enterprise; ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews on the trial | 7 days, 50 preset prompts run daily |
| Peec AI | Measuring | $95 | 50, 150 or 350 prompts, daily, unlimited users | 3 models you pick from ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Copilot, Gemini and Naver; more models cost extra | A “Start free trial” button; terms not stated |
| Otterly.AI | Measuring | $29 | 15, 100 or 400 prompts, daily, unlimited team members | ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Copilot; Gemini and AI Mode at $9 each and Claude at $29 on Lite; no Grok | 7 days, no card |
| AthenaHQ | Measuring | Free | 3,600 credits a month on Starter (1 credit is 1 AI response), unlimited prompts, competitors and users, CSV export | 5 models on the free plan; 11 on Starter, among them ChatGPT, AI Mode, Gemini, Claude and Grok | No trial listed; the free plan has no end date stated |
| Gumloop | Making | $37 | 20,000 credits a month, unlimited agents and seats, 35+ models, your own API keys | None on its pricing page | 14 days; whether it needs a card is not stated |
| n8n | Making | €20 | 2,500 or 10,000 workflow executions, unlimited users and workflows, every integration | None | A cloud trial with no card: 1,000 executions |
| Moonlit | Making | $20 | 5,000, 30,000 or 100,000 credits, 1, 5 or 12 seats, bulk runs, a knowledge base | None on its pricing page | A free plan; no end date stated |
| Slate | Both | $499 | 15,000, 50,000 or 100,000 credits, 10,000, 20,000 or 50,000 AI answers | ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews and AI Mode; Claude and Gemini as add-on packs of 1,000 answers | 14 days, no card |
| Writesonic | Both | $99 | 50, 100 or 200 prompts, 15, 25 or 50 articles, 1 to 3 users | ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews on self-serve plans; 9 AIs on Enterprise | Start free with no card, its pricing page says; length not stated there |
| Frase | Both | $39 | 10, 40 or 100 articles, 20, 50 or 75 prompts; publishes to WordPress, Webflow, Sanity and Wix | By plan: ChatGPT and Google AI, then Perplexity, then Claude and Gemini on Scale; Grok on Enterprise | 7 days, no card, 5 articles |
| Rankability | Both | $97 | 20, 80 or 160 content projects, 100, 300 or 500 AI queries, unlimited clients and seats, API and MCP | 11 on every plan, daily: ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok, Copilot, Brave AI, DeepSeek and Meta AI | 7 days, card required, monthly plans only |
Splitting the jobs is the obvious move, and the arithmetic often works. These are real pairings at published prices, monthly billing, before tax.
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| Pair | A month | What you get | Watch out for |
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| Placton Starter + Gumloop Pro | $96 and up | 20 prompts on five AIs, plus a builder with 20,000 credits and unlimited seats | Gumloop’s credits and its 8% fee can push the second half up |
| Placton Growth + Frase Professional | $258 | 75 prompts on five AIs, plus 40 articles a month that publish to your CMS | Frase also tracks three AIs, so some of that tracking overlaps |
| Placton Scale + Moonlit Team | $374 | 250 prompts on five AIs, plus 30,000 workflow credits and 5 seats | Bulk runs need someone to build and maintain them |
| Placton Growth + n8n Starter | $129 + €20 | 75 prompts on five AIs, plus 2,500 executions with unlimited steps | Technical upkeep, and n8n showed us its prices in euros |
What the sum leaves out. Someone has to carry findings from one tab to the other. Placton has no API, so the question list and the gaps move by hand, and that time is the real cost of this route. For comparison, Slate keeps it all in one place from $499, and Writesonic Growth is $499 for 200 prompts and 50 articles on three AIs. If one person owns both jobs and publishes a few pieces a week, two tools usually win. If several people pass work back and forth daily, one tool usually does.
Lists tell you what their authors sell. On we put one plain question to ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Grok through Placton’s engine, then sorted every tool they named by the job it does.
23
different tools came up across 4 answers, from workflow builders to an interior design app.
1
tool was named by all four: Profound. Nothing else got past three.
4 of 4
answers mixed trackers, workflow builders and writing tools, because the AIs read this search as several jobs too.
3 of 4
AIs cited G2, more than any other site. Only 6 sites turned up in two or more answers.
Asked once on each AI, . A number is the place that AI gave the tool in its answer; a dot means it left the tool out.
| Tool |  ChatGPT |  Google AI Overviews |  Perplexity |  Grok |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Track what AI says | ||||
| Profound | ChatGPT placed it 3 | Google placed it 5 | Perplexity placed it 3 | Grok placed it 10 |
| Peec AI | ChatGPT placed it 8 | Google placed it 7 | Left out by Perplexity | Left out by Grok |
| AthenaHQ | Left out by ChatGPT | Left out by Google | Perplexity placed it 4 | Left out by Grok |
| Rankability | Left out by ChatGPT | Google placed it 4 | Left out by Perplexity | Left out by Grok |
| Otterly.AI | Left out by ChatGPT | Google placed it 6 | Left out by Perplexity | Left out by Grok |
| ContentMonk | Left out by ChatGPT | Left out by Google | Left out by Perplexity | Grok placed it 9 |
| Build workflows | ||||
| n8n | ChatGPT placed it 4 | Google placed it 3 | Perplexity placed it 5 | Left out by Grok |
| Make | Left out by ChatGPT | Google placed it 2 | Perplexity placed it 6 | Left out by Grok |
| Gumloop | Left out by ChatGPT | Google placed it 1 | Perplexity placed it 9 | Left out by Grok |
| Relevance AI | Left out by ChatGPT | Left out by Google | Left out by Perplexity | Grok placed it 7 |
| Zapier | Left out by ChatGPT | Left out by Google | Perplexity placed it 7 | Left out by Grok |
| Moonlit | Left out by ChatGPT | Google placed it 9 | Left out by Perplexity | Left out by Grok |
| Write and optimize content | ||||
| Writesonic | ChatGPT placed it 1 | Google placed it 8 | Perplexity placed it 1 | Left out by Grok |
| Jasper | ChatGPT placed it 2 | Left out by Google | Perplexity placed it 10 | Grok placed it 3 |
| Surfer | ChatGPT placed it 7 | Google placed it 11 | Left out by Perplexity | Grok placed it 4 |
| Frase | ChatGPT placed it 5 | Left out by Google | Perplexity placed it 2 | Left out by Grok |
| Clearscope | Left out by ChatGPT | Google placed it 10 | Left out by Perplexity | Grok placed it 5 |
| Slate | Left out by ChatGPT | Left out by Google | Left out by Perplexity | Grok placed it 2 |
| Copy.ai | ChatGPT placed it 6 | Left out by Google | Left out by Perplexity | Left out by Grok |
| Scalenut | Left out by ChatGPT | Left out by Google | Left out by Perplexity | Grok placed it 6 |
| Semrush | Left out by ChatGPT | Left out by Google | Perplexity placed it 8 | Left out by Grok |
| Something else | ||||
| TypingMind | Left out by ChatGPT | Left out by Google | Left out by Perplexity | Grok placed it 1 |
| Home Designs AI | Left out by ChatGPT | Left out by Google | Left out by Perplexity | Grok placed it 8 |
The lists barely agree. Google and Grok share 3 of their names (Profound, Clearscope and Surfer). Grok and Perplexity lean on review directories and vendor blog posts, and Google’s answer on vendor comparison pages and Reddit.
Directory lists leak into answers. Grok put TypingMind first and included Relevance AI and Home Designs AI, all three taken from a Capterra alternatives page it linked. Home Designs AI is an app for redesigning rooms and gardens. Grok also gave “custom” as the starting price for Slate and Jasper, whose pricing pages show $499 and $69.
Vendors write the sources. Most of the cited pages are alternatives lists published by tools that sell in this market, and they usually put themselves first. That is worth knowing whenever an AI hands you a confident shortlist, and it is the mechanism behind which sources ChatGPT uses.
Read it as one day. This is one answer per AI, from the United States, in English. A rerun could come out differently, so Placton keeps asking and explains how it handles that margin. We did not ask Claude this time, to keep this reading inside a fixed budget: with live search it is the costliest of the five to query.
ChatGPT
Its search also returned, without citing them: Cituna, Eli, MentionAgent, Strivelabs, RankControl, Rankability, Wonda, TrendlyAI, marketraa.com.
Google AI Overviews
Perplexity
Grok
In bold, sites cited by more than one AI for that question.
ChatGPT: read on chatgpt.com, logged out, with web search on, with gpt-6.Google AI Overviews: the AI Overview Google shows above its results.Perplexity: asked through its API, which always searches, with sonar.Grok: asked through its API with live web search, with grok-4.3.We sent the words in quotes and nothing else. Names came out of the same parser the dashboard uses; a person then compared them with each answer, left one per vendor in answer order and removed AirOps itself. The job groups are ours. Google AI Overviews wrote “Moonlit Platform” and “Otterly AI”, and three answers wrote “Surfer SEO”, which we show as Moonlit, Otterly.AI and Surfer.
AirOps takes 14 of these rows, Placton 9, and 3 go either way. That split says what each one is for: AirOps is a production system with measurement attached, and Placton is measurement with a first draft attached.
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| Row | AirOps | Placton | Better |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published price | None in dollars | $59, $129 and $299 a month, 15% less billed yearly | Placton |
| Buying it | A sign-up button on Solo and Pro, sales on Enterprise; its FAQ says the package is put together with you | Sign up on your own; agencies price it on a calculator | Placton |
| Trial | Unclear: 14 days in a FAQ naming an old plan, and a Pro trial in its docs | 7 days, no card, 10 prompts, 1 text | Placton |
| AIs on the entry plan | ChatGPT only | All five | Placton |
| AIs at the top | ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Grok, Muse Spark, Claude Code and Codex | The same five. No Gemini, AI Mode or Copilot | AirOps |
| Refresh | Every AI, every day; Enterprise can collect several answers a day | Two daily* (ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews), three weekly | AirOps |
| How you pay for tracking | In tasks or Answer Credits, by AI, region and persona, with Claude and Muse Spark at 4 units | A flat fee by prompts. Nothing moves with your setup | Placton |
| Prompt limits | Not published for Solo or Pro | 20, 75 and 250; Agency up to 5,000 | PlactonOn openness. |
| Audience view | Named personas on each prompt, and a market view it calls territories | None. Your questions, sent as written | AirOps |
| Countries | Several regions on each prompt | 1 country and 1 language per workspace, from 40 countries and 7 languages | AirOps |
| Competitors | Up to 10 | Up to 25 | Placton |
| Inside each answer | Mentions, citations, sentiment by theme, query fan-outs | Mentions, position, tone, citations, the full answer and the searches the AI ran | It dependsClose. Different views of the same answers. |
| Traffic and revenue | GA4, Search Console, conversion tracking and Agent Analytics | Not measured | AirOps |
| Reacting to a change | Triggers start Playbooks on a schedule, a webhook, a monitor or an AEO signal | Alerts on paid plans, shown in Improvements and sent by email after our checks confirm the change | AirOps |
| Producing content | Playbooks, Workflows, Grids and Quill, at any volume your tasks allow | The Writer: one article or ranking per question, 5, 15 or 40 a month | It dependsAirOps on power. Placton on having nothing to build. |
| Your own knowledge | Brand Kits, Knowledge Bases and memory between runs | Gaps marked in the draft, which you complete | AirOps |
| Scoring content | Content Scores: readability, claim support, information gain, SEO and AEO | A coverage score out of 100, measured on cited pages. It will not predict citations | AirOps |
| Publishing | Directly to your CMS, 1 on Solo and 10 on Pro | Manual: paste the text, or take it as HTML, Markdown or Word | AirOps |
| SEO data | DataForSEO and Moz; Semrush and Ahrefs on Pro | None | AirOps |
| API and MCP | On every plan | None | AirOps |
| Getting data out | Grids to CSV | Only the Writer’s texts | AirOps |
| Several brands | 1 Brand Kit on Solo and Pro; more means Enterprise | Agency from $77 a month, up to 100 clients, no sales call | Placton |
| Seats | 1 on Solo, unlimited on Pro | 2, 10 or unlimited | It dependsIt depends on the plan. |
| Time to a first result | First production content in one to two weeks, by its own count | First measurement the day you sign up. That is not the same as publishing | PlactonOn measuring. |
| People who do the work | AirOps Services: strategists, placements, AI ads, creators | None. Placton never sends or publishes anything for you | AirOps |
| Track record | Hundreds of brands by its own count, 4.7 on G2, SOC 2 | New: on the market since October 2026 and not yet reviewed in public | AirOps |
* On paid plans. ChatGPT is read on chatgpt.com in every country Placton tracks except Venezuela and Puerto Rico, where it is asked weekly through its API. AirOps: its pricing page and docs, read . Placton: pricing page and methodology.
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AirOps turns a gap into a Playbook. Placton turns it into a short list of work for you to do, and a draft to start from. Here are those screens, filled with the question from this page.
Where you are missing
The dashboard opens with the questions no AI answers with your name. A count per AI tells you how often you came up, and red, orange and green show it at a glance.
Open a count to read the actual answers and see which rivals appear instead. From the same row you can start a text for that question, or look at the pages each AI cited.
Improvements
You get 3 tasks a week on Starter, 5 on Growth and 8 on Scale. Each task comes from a fixed catalog of 17 actions, chosen by code, with the pages that decide that question and a rating of the advice: strong evidence, medium evidence or a bet.
Every week the same pages are read again to see whether anything moved. A realistic gain is a few points across 8 weeks where answers search the web, and close to nothing in closed lists. Placton sends nothing on your behalf.
Writer
Pick a question, choose an article or a ranking, and in 1 or 2 minutes you have a draft built from what the AIs answered and cited, what ranks on Google and what your site says. Anything only you know stays as a marked gap, since it will not make up numbers, clients or views.
You get 5, 15 or 40 texts a month by plan. That suits a team writing a few careful pieces, not one refreshing hundreds of pages, and no text from any tool comes with a promise that an AI will name you.
Mostly yes, with two recurring complaints: time to learn and cost to predict. Few of the voices here are disinterested, so we say who each one is.
The rating. AirOps’ comparison page shows 4.7 on G2, and Google’s result for its G2 listing (opens in a new tab) shows 134 reviews. We could read the overview on G2 but not the reviews, so we cannot tell you what is in them first-hand.
The praise. The two reviews on OMR (opens in a new tab), both 5.0 and both from one agency, Radyant, like the range of automation and how Grids handle programmatic projects. Marketer Milk (opens in a new tab), in a July 2025 hands-on review with affiliate links, likes the human review checkpoints and pushing finished rows to a CMS. Rivals concede the same point: Grids are what people rate most.
The complaints. The learning curve comes up in nearly everything we read, friendly or not: Marketer Milk says it is there, and rivals quote two to three weeks to get productive, against AirOps’ own one to two weeks to first content. Slate, citing G2, reports a month to implement and eight to see a return, which we could not verify. Hard-to-predict usage is the second theme, and the section above shows where that comes from.
The results it reports. AirOps cites a 40% traffic lift at Webflow, 37% more conversions at Lightspeed and $750,000 a year saved at LegalZoom. These are its own case studies and we have not seen them audited. Its data figures, such as 6 billion citations and 70 million prompts, are its own count as well.
The vendor. PricingSaaS lists it as founded in 2021 in San Francisco and privately held, and AirOps says it is SOC 2 compliant with SSO on Enterprise. Its changelog shows new releases most weeks, which is also why descriptions of it go out of date so quickly.
Most of the risk is in what runs on a schedule and what you forget to copy. In this order, it takes an afternoon of preparation and two weeks of overlap.
Billing and Usage show whether your workspace is on combined tasks or legacy Answer Credits, and that changes what you are really paying for. A workspace usually moves at renewal, so that date is your window.
Grids export to CSV from the button at the top of each Grid. Copy your Brand Kit and Knowledge Base content by hand too: we did not confirm an export for those, so check before you assume there is one.
If a workspace drops from a paid plan to Free, AirOps deactivates scheduled Workflows, Playbooks, Grid actions and syncs. Upgrading later does not switch them back on, so list them first.
Copy your prompts and competitors into the new tool by hand and read both side by side. Placton has no history import, so your trend line starts again on day one. Single days swing, so compare weeks.
If any of these describes you, the best of the AirOps alternatives may be keeping AirOps and asking for a better contract.
Hundreds of pages through Grids, reviewed in one inbox and pushed to your CMS is what AirOps is built for. Nothing else on this page matches that without building it yourself.
Reviewers keep saying AirOps pays off once a team has working processes. If your builders are past the learning curve, leaving throws that investment away.
Named personas and several regions on one prompt are real features here. Placton sends your questions as written, one country per workspace.
Gemini, Google AI Mode and Copilot on Pro, all refreshed daily, is more than most trackers give on their entry plans.
GA4, Search Console and Agent Analytics sit next to the AI data. If your budget depends on proving pipeline, that link matters.
AirOps Services runs placements, AI ads and creator programs for you. For that, compare it with agencies and not with the tools on this page.
Answer these five questions in order. The first one you can answer clearly usually settles it.
The short version: none of these AirOps alternatives wins for everyone. For a team that mostly wants to see what AI says, the best AirOps alternative is a tracker, and that is what Placton is, at $59 to $299 a month. For a team that wants the machine, Gumloop, n8n or Moonlit. For a team that wants one vendor, Slate or Writesonic. For a team with processes that already work, staying put is often the right answer. Try the one that fits on two or three real questions before you cancel anything.
Each claim about AirOps and its rivals traces back to a page below. We have not used AirOps’ app, and G2’s reviews, Capterra, Product Hunt and Reddit would not open for us.
About Placton itself? Read the full FAQs or see every plan and price.
It depends on the job. For measuring AI answers at a fixed fee, Placton from $59 a month or Profound for large enterprises. For building workflows, Gumloop from $37, n8n or Moonlit from $20. For tracking and content in one tool, Slate from $499, Writesonic from $99 or Frase from $39 billed yearly. Prices read on November 2, 2026.
It measures how a brand appears in AI answers (Insights), produces and refreshes content with Playbooks, Workflows and Grids (Actions), and sells strategists who run the work with you (Services). Older pages describe only the workflow builder, and its own site now presents it as a partner for AI search.
AirOps says its Solo plan is free, with 35,000 tasks, ChatGPT only and one user. Its billing docs say new free-tier workspaces get 1 included task, and PricingSaaS shows no free tier. We did not open an account, so we cannot tell you which holds for you. Check the balance in Usage after you sign up.
AirOps does not publish dollar prices on its pricing page (checked November 2, 2026). Reviews from earlier in 2026, mostly by sellers of rival tools, report about $200 for Solo and about $2,000 for Pro, but AirOps does not confirm those figures and its plans changed in September. The one published figure is $0.025 per extra task on Solo. Ask AirOps for a quote.
For workflows, n8n’s self-hosted Community Edition on GitHub, Moonlit’s free plan with 300 credits a month, or Zapier’s free plan with 100 tasks. For tracking, AthenaHQ’s free plan with 300 credits. None of them does what AirOps does at this price. For a one-off look, Placton’s free checker and audit need no account.
Its comparison page shows 4.7 on G2, and Google’s result for that listing shows 134 reviews, though we could not open the reviews themselves. The repeated complaints we could read are about the learning curve and hard-to-predict costs, not poor output. Its customer results, such as Webflow’s and Carta’s, come from AirOps and are not audited.
For tracking, Profound, Peec AI and Scrunch. For content, Writesonic, Jasper, Frase and Surfer. For workflows, n8n, Gumloop, Make and Zapier. The closest like-for-like is Slate. When we asked four AIs, Profound was the only tool all of them named.
Both now. Many pages still describe it as a workflow builder, but it also tracks AI answers, and on combined-task workspaces it charges for both out of the same task balance. That is why replacing it usually means choosing which half you really use.
No. Solo covers ChatGPT only. Pro’s list includes Claude, Gemini, Grok, Copilot, Google AI Mode and Muse Spark, and Claude and Muse Spark cost 4 units an answer. Its Insights docs also say that outside Enterprise you contact your account team to enable Claude tracking.
Each prompt runs daily on every AI, region and persona you assign. AirOps’ formula is platforms times regions times (1 + named personas) times 30 days. On a combined-task workspace those answers come out of the same balance as your content work. One prompt on five AIs, Claude included, costs 240 tasks a month, so 250 prompts is 60% of Pro’s 100,000 tasks.
For one question on one day, yes: ask it and read the answer. What you do not get is a daily record, other AIs, your competitors counted side by side, or anything that runs in bulk. Answers also vary between runs, which is why one reading tells you little on its own.
AirOps gives one Brand Kit below Enterprise, so most agencies look elsewhere. Placton’s Agency plan costs $15 a client plus prompts, so 5 clients sharing 50 prompts come to $155 a month; it has no white label or combined client view. Rankability starts at $97 with unlimited clients, and Slate’s agency plan is $2,000.
Profound is the usual comparison for tracking, with up to 9 engines, SSO and SOC 2, bought through sales. Quattr sells content optimization, internal linking and live-site changes on custom quotes, per its own page. Both need a sales conversation, as AirOps Enterprise does.
No. It covers the measuring and hands over a first draft per question. It does not run workflows or Grids, publish to a CMS, pull in GA4 or Search Console data, or come with strategists. If you only open Insights and write the pages yourself, it is usually enough.
No. The Writer hands you the text to edit in place, then you paste it or take it as HTML, Markdown or Word. It never goes live by itself. And no text, from Placton or anyone else, comes with a promise that an AI will name you.
No. This page comes from reading: each maker’s pricing page and AirOps’ documentation on November 2, 2026, plus four AIs asked through Placton’s engine. G2’s reviews, Capterra, Product Hunt and Reddit, where buyers talk most openly, would not open for us. Prices shift, so look at each official page before you buy.
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