Best-fit starting points by agency workflow
The right shortlist depends on what the agency must deliver. Use these as documented starting points, not a universal ranking: compare the same client prompts, markets, answer surfaces, competitors, reporting requirements, and operating cost before selecting a platform.
This guide is publisher-affiliated because Digraph is included. The distinctions below summarize the public scopes documented in the comparison; they are not claims of hands-on testing or guaranteed performance.
- Answer evidence and citation investigation: Digraph, when the report must preserve the prompt, answer, cited source, competitor framing, and next action together.
- Broad SEO plus AI visibility: Semrush AI Visibility or SE Visible, when an agency wants AI monitoring connected to a wider search toolkit; verify add-ons and client reporting separately.
- White-label delivery and client workspaces: Praised, Rank Prompt, or agency-focused platforms, when branded reports, workspace separation, and delivery permissions are central to the service.
- Multi-client research and prospecting: Gumshoe, Scope, Centium, or similar agency workflows, when portfolio management and client-specific audits matter more than a single-brand dashboard.
- Budget-conscious monitoring: compare Scope, OtterlyAI, and other lower-entry options by actual prompt, engine, history, and reporting limits—not the headline subscription alone.
Start with the agency workflow, not the vendor score
AI answers are not stable search-result positions. The same question can produce different answers across platforms, locations, dates, and runs. A useful agency report records the prompt, platform or surface, language, market, date, run count, answer, and source links so a client can understand exactly what was measured.
Separate monitoring from optimization. A tracker can reveal whether a brand appears and which sources are cited; it cannot guarantee that a provider will mention the brand, nor does a visibility score by itself prove traffic, leads, or revenue. The agency still needs a process for checking the evidence and deciding what work is justified.
- Keep brand, category, problem-aware, and comparison prompts distinct; they represent different client needs.
- Record the platform, market, language, prompt wording, date, and whether web search or citations were available.
- Show answer-level examples and source URLs beside any summary metric.
- Connect observed gaps to a real action—such as fixing inaccurate product facts, improving a useful page, earning a relevant expert mention, or resolving a crawl/indexing issue.
Seven checks to run before buying
Ask vendors to demonstrate your agency's actual client workflow, not only a polished sample dashboard. Test onboarding, access control, exports, and reporting with representative accounts, prompts, and markets. Capture what is included in writing because platform coverage, history, seats, and client limits can depend on the plan.
A platform that looks inexpensive for one workspace may have a different cost profile once you add clients, prompts, locations, answer engines, users, and reporting. Compare the total operating cost with your delivery model and the hours needed to interpret the data.
- Client separation: Can staff access only the clients they serve? Can a client see only its own workspace and history?
- Prompt management: Can you organize reusable prompt sets by client, intent, market, language, and funnel stage?
- Surface coverage: Which specific AI products and search-enabled surfaces are tracked, and how are changes in coverage documented?
- Evidence and history: Can you inspect dated answers, mentions, citations, cited URLs, and prior runs rather than only a composite score?
- Client reporting: Are branded exports, dashboards, scheduled reports, or APIs available? Which are native, and which require another product?
- Cost at scale: Model the monthly cost for a realistic number of clients, prompts, markets, users, and historical runs.
- Operational fit: Check permissions, data retention, exports, support, onboarding, and whether the findings can become a prioritized work queue.
What current agency comparisons emphasize
Current public agency roundups emphasize cost at scale, separated client workspaces, white-label reporting, platform coverage, source evidence, and the ability to turn findings into client-ready actions. Those criteria match the practical buying checks above and are more useful than a single vendor score.
We reviewed the public agency comparisons from Semrush, About Martech, Masters of Search, Rank Prompt, Toolradar, AI Visibility Software, RecoProof, and OpenLens as market context. Their descriptions and rankings are publisher claims, not independent proof or a substitute for a hands-on evaluation. Digraph is included in this guide, so readers should verify current plan limits and apply the same scope to every vendor.
A fresh public search sample also shows agencies comparing per-client project economics, flat versus per-domain billing, multi-client share-of-voice reporting, prospect audits, white-label or client-facing delivery, exports and APIs, and whether the platform helps close a citation or content gap. These are useful evaluation dimensions, not proof that any listed vendor wins every workflow.
Public agency-plan prices checked on September 15, 2026
These are vendor-advertised list prices, not a hands-on value ranking. Billing terms, currencies, and charging units differ: some vendors charge per domain or client workspace, while others use shared prompts or credits. Treat prompt counts as comparable only when the tracked models, collection frequency, and number of projects match. Confirm the current quote and plan eligibility before buying.
- Digraph — Pro is listed at $249/month for up to 300 prompts, 3 brands, and 10 users; Enterprise is custom-priced for unlimited prompts, brands, and users.
- Rank Prompt — its agency pages list Agency at $149/month for up to 500 brands and Agency Plus at $299/month for up to 1,000 brands. The pages describe white-label reports, agency collaboration, prospecting, and a client portal on Agency Plus; confirm billing terms and current plan scope.
- Gumshoe — its agency page lists Starter at $99/month and Pro at $299/month per client account, with agency discounts available. It describes 11 tracked AI model families, multi-client organizations, and scheduled reports; confirm roster pricing and plan scope.
- Praised — its agency page lists an Agency plan at $599/month for a shared roster, 250 products, and 80,000 pooled credits. It describes six answer surfaces and white-label reports; confirm current credit consumption and included usage.
- Ask Hercules — its agency page lists $997/month for up to 30 workspaces and up to 100 tracked questions per workspace, with a 7-day no-card trial. Confirm current plan eligibility and workspace terms.
- AI Peekaboo — public pricing lists Grow at $200/month for 5 brands; its agency page describes five AI surfaces, Looker Studio reports, and white-label delivery as separately scoped. Confirm current agency terms and included reporting.
- Citaim — Agency is listed at $299/month, or $249/month effective when billed $2,990 annually. It includes 5 client projects, 100 shared prompts, 5 AI channels sampled weekly, and 10 team seats.
- OtterlyAI — Agency Partner Standard is $189/month for 150 prompts; Premium is $489/month for 500 prompts. Partner status is required, and add-on engines can increase the total.
- Peec AI — the agency page currently displays €205/month for Essential (10,000 credits; about 111 daily prompts in its three-model example), €425/month for Growth (25,000 credits; about 277 prompts), and €675/month for Scale (65,000 credits; about 722 prompts). Included project counts are 3, 5, and 7 respectively; actual prompt capacity changes with model and frequency choices. Prices are displayed in euros on the page.
- Profound — its published Agency Growth offer is $399/month per client workspace; the agency documentation describes 400 monthly credits per workspace. Verify current eligibility, workspace terms, and pitch-workspace charges.
- Semrush — AI Visibility Base is listed at $99/month per domain when billed annually, with 25 custom prompts. Additional users start at $45/month; white-label Pro Reports are a separate $20/month add-on.
- SE Visible — monthly list prices are $99 for Basic (200 prompts, 3 projects), $189 for Core (450 prompts, 5 projects), and $355 for Plus (1,000 prompts, 10 projects); the page advertises up to 20% off annual billing.
- Scope — its agency page lists Starter at $25/month for one business and Growth from $79/month with unlimited businesses and shared check pools. It states that white-labeling is not currently offered.
- ViceRank — no public agency list price was found on the reviewed agency page. It advertises a free prospect scan and agency workflows; request a quote and confirm workspace, prompt, surface, and reporting limits.
- Centium — no public agency list price was found. Its agency page advertises volume pricing, multi-brand portfolio reporting, isolated brand dashboards, encrypted share links, exports, and no per-seat fees; request a quote.
Calculate the full cost per client
Vendor starting prices rarely capture the full agency delivery cost. First calculate monthly software cost per active billable client: (base subscription + client or brand charges + prompt, engine, market, and reporting-seat add-ons + usage overages) divided by active billable clients.
Then calculate direct delivery cost per client: allocated software cost + (monthly analyst and report hours × fully loaded hourly labor rate) + onboarding cost allocated across the expected client term. If you charge a recurring service fee, estimate contribution margin as (client fee − direct delivery cost) divided by client fee. Keep shared overhead, taxes, and one-time setup separate so every tool is modeled consistently.
Illustrative arithmetic only: $900 in monthly platform fees across 20 active clients is $45 per client. If each account takes two hours of reporting at a $60 fully loaded hourly rate, direct delivery cost becomes $165 per client before shared overhead. Replace every input with your own contract, labor, and client-fee data; these example figures are not a vendor price or industry benchmark.
Build scenarios for 5, 20, and 50 active clients only as roster-size examples, not industry benchmarks. For each vendor, use its actual quote or current public price and model the same client count, prompt volume, engines, markets, seats, reporting features, retention period, and billing term. Label quote-based amounts and annual discounts instead of treating them as universal prices.
- Check whether cost scales by client, brand, project, prompt, tracked run, engine, market, seat, report, or retained history.
- Add tools required for client access or white-label delivery; a branded export and a white-label workspace are not the same capability.
- Record annual prepayment, minimum-contract length, add-ons, taxes, currency, setup fees, and overages separately.
- Compare gross contribution only after labor is included; low software cost can still mean high manual reporting cost.
Measure visibility in a way a client can audit
Define each metric and denominator before comparing periods. For example, mention rate can mean the share of eligible answer runs that mentioned the brand; citation rate can mean the share that included at least one citation to the brand's domain. State whether repeated runs, multiple brand mentions, and different platforms count once or multiple times.
Keep mention, recommendation, citation, and referral traffic separate. A brand can be mentioned without a citation; a citation does not prove that the source caused the answer; and referral sessions are only one observable path from an AI answer to a business outcome. Sentiment and answer quality should be checked against examples because automated labels can miss context.
Avoid presenting one cross-platform score as a universal rank. If you create a client index, disclose its inputs and weights, keep the underlying counts visible, and compare like with like: same prompt set, market, platform scope, run method, and reporting window.
- Mention rate: eligible runs in which the brand is named, divided by all eligible runs.
- Citation rate: eligible runs with a citation to a defined brand-owned domain, divided by all eligible runs.
- Share of voice: the brand's share of observed brand mentions within a named competitor set and measurement scope—not total market share.
- Accuracy: a human-reviewed check of important facts, product descriptions, and attributed sources.
- Business outcomes: qualified visits, assisted conversions, or leads where attribution is available, reported separately from answer visibility.
Run a small pilot before rolling it out
A two-week pilot can test whether a tool fits the agency workflow; it is not long enough to prove an SEO lift or promise more AI citations. Use one or two clients with permission, select a modest set of real buyer questions, and agree on platforms, language, market, competitor set, and run schedule before the first measurement.
Have two team members independently review a sample of answers and citations. Compare the vendor's labels with the underlying evidence, export a client report, and estimate the staff time needed to turn findings into work. At the end, decide whether the tool improves coverage, trust, or delivery efficiency enough to justify its cost.
- Days 1–2: agree on success criteria, access rules, a fixed prompt set, and the surfaces to measure.
- Days 3–5: establish a baseline and review answer-level evidence for a sample of prompts.
- Days 6–10: repeat the same scope, compare changes, validate anomalies, and draft a client-ready report.
- Days 11–14: assess data quality, client separation, export/reporting fit, staff time, plan limits, and total cost.
Treat visibility as one part of a broader growth system
Monitoring is an instrument, not the strategy. Agencies should first make sure a client's important pages can be crawled and indexed, product and company facts are consistent, and the site answers real customer questions with useful, verifiable material. Then use answer and citation evidence to decide where original research, expert contributions, partnerships, digital PR, or page improvements could add genuine value.
Durable authority comes from relevant, earned references and useful work—not bulk link schemes, fabricated studies, fake reviews, or undisclosed endorsements. Avoid shortcuts that distort measurement or put a client's search visibility and reputation at risk. Keep a record of the hypothesis, change, affected URLs, and follow-up measurement so the team can learn what actually helped.
Fifteen platforms: publicly documented agency fit
These 15 platforms represent different agency operating models: focused trackers, agency-first products, portfolio platforms, an enterprise agency platform, and broader search toolkits. The rows are not a ranking or a hands-on product test. Feature signals were checked against the linked vendor pages and help documentation on September 15, 2026. Digraph publishes this guide and appears first for disclosure; the remaining vendors are grouped in the existing guide order. Treat capabilities as provider-described, confirm plan eligibility, and re-check details before buying.
Compare the approaches
| Platform | Publicly documented agency signal | Verify before purchase |
|---|---|---|
| Digraph | The agency page positions Digraph around client-specific prompt portfolios, answer and citation evidence, competitor context, and repeatable follow-up. Digraph publishes this guide. | Confirm current account separation, collaboration roles, supported surfaces, reporting, and plan entitlements directly with Digraph. |
| Rank Prompt | Its agency pages describe an Agency plan for up to 500 brands and Agency Plus for up to 1,000 brands, with white-label reports, agency collaboration, prospecting, API access, and a client portal on the higher tier. | Confirm the current billing selector, model and surface coverage, prompt or credit limits, API request caps, client permissions, report delivery, and which features require Agency Plus. |
| Gumshoe | Its agency page describes multi-client organizations, competitive benchmarks, pitch-ready audits, API access, scheduled reports, role-based client assignment, and persona-driven analysis across 11 tracked AI model families. | Confirm whether pricing is per client account or portfolio-wide, agency discounts, audit cadence, model mix, export/API scope, and client-access permissions. |
| Praised | Its agency page describes one subscription with client sub-workspaces, pooled credits, six answer surfaces, confidence intervals, white-label reports, source evidence, and a tracked fix queue. | Confirm current product, credit, cadence, surface, export, API, and white-label limits; normalize credit consumption across engines before comparing cost. |
| Ask Hercules | Its agency page describes up to 30 client workspaces, scans across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, client-specific audits, citation and competitor evidence, scheduled rescans, and exportable reporting. | Confirm current workspace, question, user, history, export, and client-access limits; the public page's agency terms should be treated as the source of truth. |
| AI Peekaboo | Its agency pages describe self-serve monitoring for up to five client brands across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, and AI Overviews, with Looker Studio reporting; white-label delivery is separately scoped. | Confirm current brand, prompt, surface, history, connector, and white-label limits, and whether the client workflow requires a separate contract. |
| Citaim | Its agency page describes one project per client, white-label PDF reports, and public limits for prompts, engines, projects, and team seats. Its FAQ says the dashboard remains Citaim-branded and clients receive reports rather than logins. | Confirm current project and prompt caps, what white-label removes, collection cadence, and included engines. |
| OtterlyAI | Agency Partners get 150 prompts on Standard or 500 on Premium, unlimited workspace management, prospect pitch workspaces, and branded reporting through Google Looker Studio. Partner status is required; the underlying dashboard is not a native white-label workspace. | Check current partner eligibility, add-on engine charges, prompt limits, connector fields, and client access requirements. |
| ViceRank | Its agency page focuses on prospect scans, client benchmarking, prompt-level opportunities, multi-client workspaces, reusable prompt templates, competitor sets, and client-branded deliverables across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. | Request current pricing and verify workspace, prompt, surface, history, reporting, user, and white-label terms before comparing total client cost. |
| Peec AI | Its agency pages document isolated client projects, unlimited client seats, shareable and branded dashboards, Data Studio templates, and scheduled reporting through its MCP or Agent workflows. | Confirm current project, credit, prompt, and pitch-project limits; supported channels; dashboard access; history; and plan-specific API or SSO availability. |
| Profound | Its Agency Mode documentation describes separate short-term pitch and ongoing client workspaces, each with its own prompt set, data, competitors, and configuration. | Confirm plan eligibility, workspace credits, data-start times, access roles, and which enterprise features are organization-wide rather than isolated. |
| Semrush | Its AI Visibility Base is priced per domain; client strategy and white-label reporting are separate Semrush capabilities and add-ons, not automatically included in the AI Visibility price. | Verify the current toolkit scope and domain price, then add the required user seats and reporting features to the same client-cost estimate. |
| SE Visible (SE Ranking) | Its agency page markets multi-brand AI visibility tracking, competitor insights, regular updates, and client-ready dashboards. | Confirm current engine, country/language, brand, prompt, and reporting limits; distinguish SE Visible from other SE Ranking add-ons. |
| Scope | Its agency page describes a multi-client dashboard for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, unlimited businesses on Growth, unlimited team seats, daily updates, and client-ready reports. It states that white-labeling is not currently offered. | Confirm shared check-pool capacity, exact platform coverage, reporting/export fields, launch pricing, and whether the current product limits match the agency page. |
| Centium | Its agency page describes a portfolio view, per-brand prompts/categories/competitors, cross-client reporting, isolated dashboards, encrypted share links, XLSX/CSV exports, archiving, custom cadences, and no per-seat fees. | Request current volume pricing and verify brand, prompt, cadence, model, user, client-share, archive, and data-portability terms. |
Common questions
What should an AI visibility tool track for an agency?
At minimum, it should preserve the prompt, answer platform or surface, market, language, date, answer text, brand mentions, and cited source URLs. Look for repeatable runs, client separation, and exports that let a reviewer audit the headline metrics.
How many prompts should we track per client?
Start with a small, representative set of real buyer questions across brand, category, problem-aware, and comparison intent. Expand only when the added prompts answer a distinct client question; a large prompt count is not useful if scope and interpretation are unclear.
Do agencies need white-label reporting?
It depends on the service model. Compare native branded reports, dashboard integrations, exports, and API options separately, and test the full client workflow. A connector-based workaround may be adequate for one agency and too labor-intensive for another.
Can an AI visibility platform guarantee that a brand appears in ChatGPT or Google AI Overviews?
No responsible tracker can guarantee a third-party answer or a Google feature citation. AI outputs and search surfaces change. Tools can measure a defined sample and help investigate evidence, but rankings, mentions, citations, and business results are not guaranteed.
Does AI visibility tracking replace traditional SEO reporting?
No. It complements search performance, crawl and indexation checks, referral analytics, and conversion measurement. Keep the data sources and outcomes distinct so clients can see what each report does and does not establish.
Sources and methodology
Digraph publishes this guidance and provides AI visibility software. Worked examples are illustrative unless explicitly identified as measured results. A research sample does not establish total market coverage or guarantee future recommendations.
- Digraph: AI search visibility for agencies (publisher disclosure)
- Digraph pricing
- Ask Hercules for agencies
- Gumshoe for agencies
- Praised for agencies
- AI Peekaboo for agencies
- AI Peekaboo pricing
- Citaim agency plans and reporting
- Peec AI for agencies
- Peec AI agency pricing and credit calculator
- OtterlyAI pricing and Agency Partner plans
- OtterlyAI white-label documentation
- Profound Agency Mode overview
- Profound pricing and Agency Growth plan
- Semrush client strategy and AI visibility
- Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit guide
- SE Visible for agency owners
- ViceRank for agencies
- Scope for agencies
- Centium for agencies
- Rank Prompt pricing and agency plans
- Rank Prompt for agencies
- Rank Prompt API, MCP, and webhooks
- About Martech: AI visibility tools for agencies
- Masters of Search: AI visibility tools for agencies
- Rank Prompt: best AI visibility tools for agencies
- Toolradar: AI visibility tools for agencies
- AI Visibility Software: best AI visibility tools for agencies
- RecoProof: AI visibility tools for agencies
- OpenLens: best AI visibility tools for agencies
- Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit pricing
- Semrush: AI visibility tracking tools for agencies
- Google Search Central: Spam policies for Google web search
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