By John, founder of Peak Answer.
TL;DR: Writesonic is a content writing product with an AI visibility add-on. If you want articles and tracking from one vendor, it fits. If you want tracking that goes further, or you want to start from the questions you lose in AI answers, the tools below cover that in different ways.
What Writesonic includes
Prices and features checked 11 and 12 October 2026 on each vendor's site.
Writesonic writes AI articles and tracks AI visibility in the same product. WordPress publishing is listed. On its pricing page, tracking is daily and covers ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews.
- Starter: $79/month billed annually. 50 prompts, 50 answers tracked daily; 15 AI articles/month; Action Center: not available.
- Basic: $199/month billed annually. 100 prompts, 300 answers tracked daily; 25 AI articles/month; Action Center: not available.
- Growth: $399/month billed annually. 200 prompts, 600 answers tracked daily; 50 AI articles/month; Action Center: trial (5 off-page + 5 on-page actions/mo).
- Enterprise: Custom.
Third-party sites report different plan names and prices for Writesonic. These figures come from third parties, not from the vendor, and some of them conflict with the vendor's page:
- Annual billing per month: Lite $39 and Standard $79 have no GEO; Professional $199 (100 GEO prompts/month); Advanced $399 (200 GEO prompts, sentiment); Enterprise custom, unlimited GEO (eesel AI (competitor guide), no date shown)
- Professional $199/month annual ($249 monthly) is first GEO tier, 100 prompts; Advanced $399 adds 200 prompts and sentiment; Lite $39 and Standard $79 have none (Analyze AI (competitor), 2026-05-16)
More on the plans in Writesonic pricing. Writesonic is not the only content-first tool in this space, and Outrank alternatives covers another one.
Why look at an alternative
The tools below fall into three groups. Some track only and leave the writing to you. Some cover more engines than the 3 on Writesonic's paid plans. One starts from the buying questions you lose and works outward from there. A broader roundup is in best AI visibility tools in 2026.
Price comparison
| Tool | Plan | Price | Billing | Allowance | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Writesonic | Starter | $79/month billed annually | Monthly price billed annually (monthly-billing price not listed on page) | 50 prompts, 50 answers tracked daily; 15 AI articles/month; Action Center: not available | writesonic.com |
| Peak Answer | Starter | $49/month | Monthly, 7 day trial | 50 prompts, 15 articles a month | pricing page |
| Profound | Trial | Free | Free trial | 50 unique prompts (recommended set, not customizable), daily for 7 days; limited AI Marketer credits; no data history, exports or API; 1 language/region; unlimited seats | tryprofound.com |
| Peec AI | Starter | Not stated | Monthly | Not stated | peec.ai |
| Otterly | Standard | Not stated | Monthly or annual | 100 search prompts; extra in batches of 100 | help.otterly.ai |
| AthenaHQ | Starter | $295/month | Monthly (17% off annual, annual price not shown); credits | 3,600 credits per month; $300/month free credit; extra credits paid add-on | athenahq.ai |
| Scrunch | Starter | $250/month billed annually; $300 month-to-month | Monthly or annual (17% annual discount) | 350 custom prompts, 1,000 industry prompts, 3 personas, 5 page audits, 3 users | scrunch.com |
| Semrush (SEO + AI Search) | Starter | $165.17/month billed annually, $199 monthly | Monthly or annual | 50 prompts to track daily; 300 AI visibility reports/day | semrush.com |
"Not stated" means the vendor's page did not say. Full cost math for every plan is in AI visibility tools by price.
Features compared
| Tool | Engines | Refresh | Writes content | Publishes to CMS | Multi-brand |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Writesonic | ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews | Daily | Yes. AI articles. | Yes. WordPress listed. | 1 market; 1 user, 1 project |
| Peak Answer | ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Copilot | Weekly, top questions daily | Yes | Yes | 1 brand on this plan |
| Profound | ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews | Daily for 7 days | Not stated | Not stated | Projects: No |
| Peec AI | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini (named in description; per-plan list not stated) | Not stated per plan (visibility described as tracked daily) | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated |
| Otterly | ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot (add-on: Google AI Mode, Gemini, Claude) | Daily | Not stated | Not stated | Unlimited workspaces |
| AthenaHQ | 11 models including Claude, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI, Mistral (full list not on page) | Not stated. Homepage says 'real-time' monitoring, no cadence. | Not stated. Has Content optimization agent. | Yes. Homepage: Shopify integration lets you 'publish AEO-optimized content'; Webflow and Framer also named. | Single region/language; multi-brand not stated |
| Scrunch | ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Meta | Not stated | Not stated. AXP generates AI-friendly site version. | Not stated | Not stated |
| Semrush (SEO + AI Search) | Google Search, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini | Daily | Not stated | Not stated | 5 websites |
Peak Answer also separates retrieved answers from memory answers, scores sentiment, drafts outreach, monitors social threads, runs a technical audit, connects to Search Console and has an MCP server.
Peak Answer
Peak Answer measures which buying questions you lose across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Copilot and reads every source the engines cited. Content is drafted for the questions you lose and can be sent to your CMS as a draft. It also finds the third-party sites the engines already quote and helps you get placed on them through outreach and submissions. It finds Reddit, Quora and LinkedIn threads worth commenting on, and flags technical problems that stop crawlers reading your site.
Pick this if you aren't sure which questions you're losing and want content, placements, social and technical fixes lined up behind that.
Skip this if you only want measurement, or you already have a content team and a plan.
Starter: $49/month.
Profound
Profound has a free trial with 50 prompts for 7 days, checked daily on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. Enterprise is a custom package covering up to 9 answer engines. Its FAQ mentions a self-serve Agency Growth plan, but no price is given. Third-party articles report that paid self-serve tiers were removed in mid-September 2026, though Profound's own page does not say so. See Profound vs Peak Answer.
Pick this if you want to try it free first, or you buy through a sales process anyway.
Skip this if you want to see a self-serve price before talking to anyone.
Trial: Free. Enterprise: Custom (Tailored packages, no dollar amounts).
Peec AI
Peec AI is a tracking tool. Its pricing page names ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini and describes visibility as tracked daily. Content writing is not stated. Its Advanced plan is described as being for teams managing multiple projects.
Pick this if you want a tracker and plan to handle content separately.
Skip this if you want pricing you can read before talking to anyone.
Starter price: Not stated.
Otterly
Otterly's Lite plan covers 15 search prompts, refreshed daily, on ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot. Google AI Mode, Gemini and Claude are add-ons. Standard and Premium plans have unlimited workspaces. More in Otterly vs Peak Answer.
Pick this if you want a small tracker to check whether you show up.
Skip this if you need Claude or Gemini without paying for add-ons.
Lite price: Not stated.
AthenaHQ
AthenaHQ has a free Essential plan with 300 credits. Starter includes 3,600 credits a month and covers 11 models, including Claude, Grok and DeepSeek. Its homepage mentions publishing content through Shopify, Webflow and Framer, and describes tracking across multiple brands on Enterprise. See AthenaHQ vs Peak Answer.
Pick this if you want credit-based tracking across a wide set of models, or you run several brands and are looking at Enterprise.
Skip this if you want a flat monthly allowance of prompts.
Starter: $295/month.
Scrunch
Scrunch Starter includes 350 custom prompts, 5 page audits and 3 users, across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews and Meta. Its pricing page also mentions AXP, which generates an AI-friendly version of your site. Multi-brand deployment is listed under Enterprise.
Pick this if you want wide engine coverage plus page audits.
Skip this if you want a tool that writes your articles.
Starter: $250/month billed annually; $300 month-to-month.
Semrush AI Visibility
Semrush's AI search tracking sits inside its SEO plans. Starter tracks 50 prompts daily across Google Search, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, with 5 websites.
Pick this if your team already works in Semrush and wants AI numbers next to its search data.
Skip this if you don't already use Semrush.
Starter: $165.17/month billed annually, $199 monthly.
Writesonic vs Peak Answer
Choose Writesonic if you want AI articles and daily tracking from one vendor.
Choose Peak Answer if you want the questions you lose measured first, with content, placements, social and technical work based on that.
The full comparison covers the other tools too.
Next step
Start 7 day trial with Peak Answer, or run the free audit to see which buying questions AI engines answer without you.
FAQs
It depends on the job. Peak Answer if you want measurement plus the work that follows it. Peec AI or Otterly if you only want tracking. Semrush if your team is already in it. AthenaHQ, Scrunch and Profound if you want broader engine coverage or an enterprise package.
Writesonic Starter is $79/month billed annually. Peak Answer starts at $49/month. Peec AI, Otterly and Profound did not state a price on the pages checked on 11 and 12 October 2026.
Yes. Its paid plans track prompts daily across ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews.
WordPress publishing is listed on its pricing page.