AI SEO Pricing

It depends on scope, and anyone who gives you a single number without asking about your business is guessing. The main cost drivers are how many engines, prompts and competitors are tracked, how much answer-first content is created each month, how much entity and citation work is needed, how competitive your category is, whether compliance review is involved and how many markets or languages you operate in. Our own indicative tiers are Starter at around $500 per month for a foundation and baseline in one or two engines, Growth at around $1,500 per month for ongoing content, entity and citation work with all-engine tracking and competitor share of voice, and Enterprise priced custom to scope for multi-market, multi-product or heavily regulated organisations. All figures are indicative and confirmed before publishing or signing. We do not quote market averages because we have not sourced t

Because the work is continuous by nature. AI engines update their models and sources frequently, competitors publish new content and earn new citations, and your share of voice on a given prompt can change from month to month without anything changing on your site. A one-off project can establish foundations such as schema, crawl access and a baseline audit, and that is a legitimate starting point, but the visibility gains come from repeatedly measuring, adjusting and adding content and citations over time. A retainer also keeps the measurement honest: you see the same prompt set tested every month and can judge whether the fee is earning its place. That is why our tiers run month to month rather than on long contracts; a measurement-led service should not need a lock-in to keep you.

A tool tracks: it runs prompts across engines, records mentions and citations and shows you dashboards. That is valuable, and tools are usually cheaper than services because they do not include people. A service includes the tracking and then does the work the tracking points to: writing and restructuring answer-first content, implementing schema.org markup, correcting entity information across directories and profiles, earning legitimate citations, fixing crawl access and interpreting the results each month. If you have an in-house team with time and expertise, a tool may be enough. If you want the inputs worked rather than just observed, you are paying for execution, and that is the main reason a service costs more. Our tiers include tracking at every level and add execution in proportion to the price.

Because it would require us to promise something no honest provider controls. AI answers are non-deterministic: the same prompt can produce different named businesses on different runs, for different users and in different locations, and engines change their models and sources without notice. Pricing tied to a citation or ranking outcome therefore either rewards luck, encourages manipulative tactics such as fake reviews or spammy placements that put your brand at risk, or pushes providers toward creative reporting that makes the numbers look better than they are. We prefer a fixed monthly fee for a defined scope, measured transparently with share of voice, mention rate and citation rate against named competitors, with the report saying plainly when a prompt has not moved. You judge the retainer on evidence, not on a promise.

Competition and complexity. A single-location service business has a bounded set of prompts, one profile to keep accurate and a handful of local competitors, so Starter usually fits. A business in a crowded national category has many prompts, several named competitors already cited, more content to produce and a larger third-party footprint to correct and earn, which is Growth territory. Multi-market, multi-product or multi-language organisations multiply every one of those inputs, and regulated sectors such as healthcare, legal and fintech add compliance review to every piece of content, so they tend toward Enterprise. The technical state of your site also matters: crawl blocks, missing schema and slow pages add foundation work. The audit tells you honestly where you sit, including when a lower tier or a few self-serve fixes are the right starting point.

No. The figures here, Starter around $500 per month, Growth around $1,500 per month and Enterprise custom, are indicative and are confirmed before publishing or signing. They exist so you can budget and compare before talking to anyone, which most providers do not allow. In practice the Starter and Growth fees are flat and the scope is fixed, so the confirmed figure is normally what you see here, but we state the caveat because a price published on a web page is not a contract. Enterprise is scoped individually because the inputs vary so widely. Anything outside a tier's defined scope, such as a large digital-PR push, is quoted separately or handled by moving up a tier, and we tell you before any work begins.

For the right business, yes. Starter is a foundation tier: it delivers the AI visibility audit and baseline in one or two engines, on-page optimization and core schema.org markup, a foundation set of answer-first content, llms.txt and AI-crawler access and a monthly report. For a single-location business or a single-product company that is new to AI SEO, those are exactly the inputs that most often stand between you and being named for specific, local or niche prompts. What Starter does not do is work the inputs continuously at scale, track every engine or measure competitor share of voice; if your category is competitive, you will outgrow it, and everything carries forward to Growth. If your profile and site are already excellent, the audit may tell you Starter has little to add yet, and we will say so.

Usually more time than money, and sometimes a higher tier. Healthcare, legal and fintech content must be reviewed by a clinician, a compliance partner or a financial-promotion approver before publishing, and claims are constrained by professional and advertising rules. That adds coordination and lengthens timelines, and it means some content formats that work elsewhere, such as outcome claims or comparative superlatives, are unavailable. The scope of a given tier is the same, but regulated organisations with many service lines, products or markets tend to need Enterprise because of the review layers involved. Our pages for healthcare, legal and fintech describe the compliance-first workflow in detail. We never charge for, or produce, content your compliance function cannot approve, and we plan the approval cycle into delivery openly.

No, and you should treat any provider who does with caution. AI engines decide what to recommend using models and sources outside anyone's control, rankings depend on competition and many factors beyond one site, and revenue also depends on your pricing, product and sales process, which we do not control. What we can do is define the scope you are paying for precisely, work and measure the inputs that make citation and ranking more likely, and report transparently every month, including prompts that are not moving, so you can decide on evidence whether the retainer is earning its place. Month-to-month terms exist for exactly that reason. If the audit suggests there is not enough winnable, qualified demand in your category to justify a tier, we will tell you rather than sell it.

Start from your situation rather than your budget. If you have one location or one product, are new to AI SEO and want a low-risk foundation with a baseline in one or two engines, Starter fits. If you compete against named rivals, already have a working site and some content, and want ongoing content, entity and citation work with all-engine tracking, competitor share of voice and a monthly strategy call, Growth fits. If you operate across many markets, products or languages, need large-scale citation or PR work, or carry heavy compliance review, Enterprise is scoped for you. The package recommender gives a quick answer, the comparison page shows the tiers side by side, and the free AI SEO audit gives an honest recommendation based on what your business actually needs.