LLM Pulse is a European AI visibility tracker that prices in euros and lets you choose weekly or daily checks. It is also unusually direct about what it believes rivals lack: its alternatives article, last updated September 7, 2026, lists the feature areas it calls hardest to replace. This page takes that list at face value and checks which of seven alternatives offers each feature, on which plan, and where Cituna, the tool we make, falls short. The short answer: for daily data on seven engines at a flat $39, Cituna is the direct swap. For fan-out and white-label dashboard links on a credit budget, Rankscale. For agent analytics with unlimited users, Peec AI or Otterly.ai.
Fair-comparison note:
Why teams look for an LLM Pulse alternative
The reasons are rarely about the tracking itself. They are about which plan a feature lives on and what the headline price covers:
- The headline price is the weekly plan. €49 a month buys 50 prompts checked once a week in one project. Checked daily, the same 50 prompts cost €79, and daily plans start billing right away, without the trial.
- Five models come with every plan; the rest cost extra. ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Mode and AI Overviews are included. Claude, Grok, Copilot and DeepSeek are add-ons from €8 a model per month.
- The hard-to-replace features sit on upper plans. AI traffic analytics start on Growth (€99 weekly, €149 daily). GEO testing, the API, the Looker Studio connector and aggregated agent analytics start on Scale (€299 weekly, €449 daily). White label, embedded dashboards and your own domain are Enterprise features, or part of partner plans from €1,499 a month.
- Euro prices before tax. Payments in other currencies are converted by Stripe at the live rate plus a conversion fee, so a US invoice can differ from the figure on the page.
In fairness, LLM Pulse is cheap per prompt: €79 a month buys 50 prompts checked daily on five models, five times the prompt count on our $39 Starter. If volume on those five models is all you need, that is a good reason to stay.
The seven LLM Pulse alternatives at a glance
| Tool | Best for | Lowest listed paid price | Engines on the entry plan | How often it checks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cituna | Seven engines daily at a flat price, with fixes | $39/mo | 7 | Daily |
| Rankscale | Fan-out and white-label links on credits | $20/mo Essentials, $99 Pro | Per-credit, Claude and Grok included | Hourly to monthly, your choice |
| Otterly.ai | Agent analytics and Looker Studio, unlimited users | $29/mo Lite, $189 Standard | 4, plus 3 add-ons | Daily |
| LLMrefs | Ten engines on one flat fee | $79/mo | 10 | Weekly |
| Peec AI | Fan-out and agent analytics from the entry plan | $95/mo | 3 you choose from 6 | Daily |
| Promptwatch | API and MCP on the entry plan | $95/mo | 4 you choose from 8 | 6,000 responses a month |
| AthenaHQ | A free tier, then eleven models | Free, then $295/mo | 5 free, 11 paid | Credit-based |
LLM Pulse for reference: €49 a month weekly or €79 daily for 50 prompts on five models.
Feature by feature: what replaces what
The left column takes the features LLM Pulse's article calls hardest to replace, plus the unlimited seats on its pricing page, with the plan where each starts. The middle column names the alternatives whose pricing pages list the same feature, and on which plan.
| LLM Pulse feature (its plan) | Alternatives that list it | Cituna |
|---|---|---|
| Query fan-out (in its feature set) | Rankscale (every plan), Peec AI (fan-out overview from Starter), LLMrefs (fan-out prompts built from your keywords) | No fan-out report |
| Agent analytics, meaning AI crawler visits (aggregated on Scale, per URL on Enterprise) | Peec AI (from Starter), Otterly.ai (Standard), Promptwatch (Professional) | Checks whether AI crawlers are allowed in; no visit logs |
| AI traffic analytics (Growth) | Peec AI (AI referral data), AthenaHQ (GA4 and Search Console link) | No in-app referral report; Search Console built in |
| GEO testing, meaning A/B tests of page changes (Scale) | None of the seven lists it in its plans | Not offered |
| API (Scale) | LLMrefs ($79 plan), Promptwatch (Essential), Otterly.ai (Standard), Rankscale (Growth), AthenaHQ (paid add-on), Peec AI (Enterprise) | From $39 for reads, Pro for writes |
| MCP (every plan) | Rankscale (every plan), Peec AI (Starter), Promptwatch (Essential), Otterly.ai (Standard) | From $39 for reads, Pro for writes |
| Looker Studio (Scale) | Rankscale (Pro), Otterly.ai (Standard), Peec AI (Advanced) | Community connector on paid plans |
| White label (Enterprise, partner plans) | Rankscale (white-labeled dashboard links on Growth) | Pricing page lists white-label reports; no embedded dashboards or own domain listed |
| Unlimited seats (every plan) | Otterly.ai, Peec AI and LLMrefs (every plan), AthenaHQ (free and Starter), Rankscale (Pro and up) | Seats capped by plan: 1, 5 or 15 |
Read the table as a map rather than a scoreboard. Most teams lean on two or three of these features, so find your rows and start with the tools that list them on the lowest plan. If AI traffic is the row that matters, the referrals already reach GA4: our walkthrough on tracking AI traffic in Google Analytics shows where to find them without a dedicated tool.
What LLM Pulse does well
LLM Pulse earns its place on this list. LLM Pulse's daily tracking runs €79 a month for 50 prompts, €149 for 150 and €449 for 450, weekly plans cost less again, and a year costs ten times the monthly price. Unlimited team members log in at no extra cost on every plan, and MCP ships from the first plan, alongside recommendations and LLM Pulse's own GEO Writer. The optional model list runs long: Claude, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, Alexa for Shopping, Naver and Baidu are all sold as LLM Pulse add-ons. Scale, LLM Pulse's top plan, is where the depth sits: GEO testing, reputation tracking, custom reports, ChatGPT Shopping and AI paid-ads tracking, the API, a Looker Studio connector and a CLI. LLM Pulse is also built for agencies, with partner plans that bundle client capacity with partial or full white label, embedded dashboards and per-client access.
The 7 best LLM Pulse alternatives in detail
How this list works: every entry tracks how AI engines mention and cite a brand. Cituna comes first because we make it. After that the numbers help you find your way; they are not a ranking.
1. Cituna (best for seven engines checked daily, with API and MCP from $39)
Cituna tracks how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode answer your buyers' questions, which brands they name and which pages they cite, then writes the fixes. Plans are flat, with no credits or add-on models: Starter at $39 a month covers one brand and 10 prompts with daily scans; Pro at $119 covers three brands and 30 prompts and adds alerts, auto-generated fixes and competitor tracking; Max at $399 covers ten brands and 90 prompts.
Against LLM Pulse's list, Cituna matches the integration row at a lower price. The MCP server and the REST API come with Starter for reads, with write actions from Pro; our explainer on MCP for SEO tools covers what the protocol is good for. For Looker Studio, a community connector works on any paid plan, and the setup guide takes one Apps Script deployment and an API key. Google Search Console is built into every plan.
Where it falls short against LLM Pulse:
- No fan-out, no crawler visit logs, no GEO testing. Cituna checks whether AI crawlers can reach your site but does not record their visits.
- Fewer prompts per dollar. Ten prompts on Starter against 50 on LLM Pulse's Starter, although Cituna runs each one daily on seven engines, Claude and Grok included.
- Capped seats. One seat on Starter, five on Pro and fifteen on Max.
- No embedded or own-domain white label, and no Copilot tracking.
- A three-day trial with a card, and monthly billing on self-serve plans.
2. Rankscale (best for fan-out and white-label links on a credit budget)
Rankscale is built by Rankscale GmbH, and its site says it is made in Vienna. Rankscale's credit-based plans run from Essentials at $20 a month to Pro at $99 (1,200 credits, up to 4,800 AI answers, 7-day free trial), Growth at $385 (5,500 credits) and Enterprise at $780 (12,000). The engine list covers ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, AI Overviews, Gemini, DeepSeek, Mistral, Claude, Grok and Copilot, and checks can run hourly, daily, weekly or monthly.
Against LLM Pulse's list, Rankscale does well: query fan-out and MCP are on every plan, Data Studio and unlimited seats start on Pro, and the REST API and white-labeled dashboard links start on Growth.
Where Rankscale falls short: its own calculator charges 0.25 credits for a ChatGPT run and 2 for a Claude run, so every Claude check costs eight times as much. Essentials leaves out Data Studio, exports and unlimited seats, and Rankscale's pricing page lists no agent analytics or GEO testing.
3. Otterly.ai (best for agent analytics and Looker Studio with unlimited users)
Otterly.ai keeps its entry plan simple and puts the integrations one step up. Otterly.ai's Lite costs $29 a month for 15 prompts, checked daily on ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity and Copilot, with Gemini, AI Mode and Claude as add-ons. Otterly.ai's Standard, at $189, answers most of LLM Pulse's list: 100 prompts, 2,000 API and 2,000 MCP requests a month, 200,000 agent analytics events and a Looker Studio connector. Premium at $489 raises that to 400 prompts, 5,000 requests each and a million agent events, still on the Otterly.ai plan ladder. Every Otterly.ai plan includes unlimited team members, and agency partners can run Looker Studio reports under their own branding.
Where Otterly.ai falls short: Grok is not tracked on any plan, and the jump from $29 to $189 is steep if you only need the API. Otterly.ai's pricing page lists no fan-out report or GEO testing in the plans.
4. LLMrefs (best for ten engines on one flat fee)
LLMrefs has a single $79 plan with a 7-day free trial, tracking 500 prompts across ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok, Copilot, Meta AI and DeepSeek with no charge per engine. LLMrefs starts from your keywords and builds the fan-out prompts behind them, which answers LLM Pulse's fan-out row in its own way. Unlimited team members and projects, CSV export and API access are included.
Where LLMrefs falls short: reports refresh weekly, so it cannot replace daily tracking, and LLMrefs' pricing page lists no MCP server, Looker Studio connector, agent analytics or white label.
5. Peec AI (best for fan-out and agent analytics from the entry plan)
Peec AI, a Berlin company, puts more of LLM Pulse's list on its entry plan than any other tool here. Peec AI's Starter is $95 a month for 50 prompts on three models you choose from ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Copilot, Gemini and Naver AI, tracked daily, with unlimited users and languages in one project and one country. Peec AI's Starter already includes a fan-out overview, MCP, a crawlability audit, AI referral data and agent analytics covering up to 4 million bot visits. Peec AI's Pro ($245) moves to 150 prompts and 10 million bot visits, Advanced ($495) to 350 prompts, 25 million bot visits and a Looker Studio connector, and Peec AI's Enterprise adds the API, SSO and up to 13 models.
Where Peec AI falls short: three models per plan, with each extra model at $30 a month on Starter, and Claude and Grok appear only in Peec AI's Enterprise model list. The API is listed on Enterprise (Peec AI's plan table and its Enterprise card disagree about Pro, so ask), and Peec AI's pricing page lists no GEO testing or white label.
6. Promptwatch (best for API and MCP on the entry plan)
Promptwatch puts MCP and API access on its first plan. Promptwatch's Essential is $95 a month for 50 prompts and 6,000 responses on four models you choose from OpenAI, Perplexity, Google, Claude, Gemini, Meta, DeepSeek and Grok, with country-level tracking and a 7-day free trial; by our arithmetic, that covers all 50 prompts on four models every day. Promptwatch's Professional ($245) adds agent analytics, a knowledge base, 150 prompts and five AEO articles a month, and its Business tier ($579) adds state and city tracking and shopping insights for 350 prompts.
Where Promptwatch falls short: with four models per plan, picking Claude and Grok leaves room for two more. Promptwatch's crawler logs, a Data Studio integration and team seats appear in its feature list without saying which plans include them, and Promptwatch lists no GEO testing or white label.
7. AthenaHQ (best for a free tier, then eleven models on one plan)
AthenaHQ starts free: 300 credits on ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Gemini and Copilot, with unlimited members. AthenaHQ's Starter is $295 a month for 3,600 credits, one per AI response, across eleven models including Claude, Grok, AI Mode, DeepSeek, Meta AI and Mistral, with unlimited seats and a GA4 and Google Search Console link so visibility sits beside site traffic. AthenaHQ's yearly billing saves 17%.
Where AthenaHQ falls short: the API and extra credits are paid add-ons, Starter covers one region and one language, and AthenaHQ's pricing page lists no fan-out report, MCP server, agent analytics or GEO testing.
Which LLM Pulse alternative fits you
- Daily data on seven engines for a flat fee, API and MCP included: Cituna.
- Fan-out plus white-label dashboard links for clients: Rankscale.
- Crawler visit analytics: Peec AI from Starter, Otterly.ai from Standard, or Promptwatch from Professional.
- The most engines for one fee, with weekly data: LLMrefs.
- GEO testing: stay on LLM Pulse Scale, since none of the seven lists it in its plans.
- A free start: AthenaHQ.
How to switch from LLM Pulse
- Export your prompts, tags and history first. LLM Pulse offers CSV, Excel and PDF exports.
- Mark the rows of the feature table you use every week, and shortlist only the tools that cover them on a plan you can afford.
- Recreate your prompts with identical wording and the same models, including any add-ons such as Claude or Grok, and decide whether you need daily or weekly checks.
- Repoint your integrations: MCP clients, API scripts and Looker Studio reports need the new tool's keys and connector.
- Run both side by side for two to four weeks, then cancel once the new numbers make sense.
To compare the two on your own brand, pick a plan and start the free Cituna trial, and see which engines name you before you decide.
Drafted with AI assistance from our own research and Search Console data, and reviewed by Rahul A before publishing. Rules and prices change; check the linked official source before you act.