Qwairy Alternatives in 2026: Platforms That Keep Working After the Meter
Qwairy packs Monitor, Act and Optimize into one French GEO suite, then pauses when credits hit zero. Here are the alternatives that close the loop without that cliff.
Qwairy is a French GEO suite built around six modules: Cockpit, Monitor, Act, Analyze, Optimize and Measure. The marketing site lists a long engine roster (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini, AI Overviews, Grok, Claude, Mistral, AI Mode, DeepSeek), an Action Center, Content Studio, MCP on paid plans, and a free audit without an account. On paper that is closer to an agentic platform than a bare mention tracker.
The reason teams still shop around is how the product meters work. Paid Starter is €79 a month for 100 prompts and 1,300 credits. One monitoring query costs one credit per model. A content brief costs 50 credits. When the balance hits zero, new analyses pause until you buy more. Crawler analytics, Looker and alerts sit on Business at €449 a month. Claude, Mistral and DeepSeek are API samples rather than live UI captures. The homepage and pricing FAQ also disagree on the free trial: 120 credits on one page, 100 on the other.
Qwairy facts below come from this directory's catalog entry (pricing page read on 2026-08-16). Promptwatch facts come from the published fact sheet. Everything else is from the same catalog.
What "act" should mean on this shortlist
This site ranks tools by how much of the loop they close. Monitoring answers whether you were mentioned. Optimizing turns that into a task. Publishing ships the fix to a CMS or a repo. A module named Act is not enough on its own if the product still pauses mid-month, or if crawler logs and visitor attribution only appear on the most expensive tier.
Ask each alternative the same three questions. Does it keep running on a published plan without a prepaid credit cliff? Can you see why an engine cited you (crawler path, citation sources)? And when it writes something, where does the draft go?
1. Promptwatch
Promptwatch is the place we would start. Agent Analytics reads real AI crawler logs (ChatGPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, GoogleOther, the Meta AI crawler) and maps a crawl-to-citation path. Visitor analytics attribute AI-referred sessions and conversions through a script or GTM template. Citation analytics go to the page and the domain, including Reddit and YouTube.
The acting side is Content Agents: they plan, write and publish GEO content to Webflow or Framer (WordPress listed as coming soon), with a review inbox. Agent Chat and Unified Actions sit on the same live data. MCP, a Claude connector, a ChatGPT plugin and REST API v2 cover the "talk to it from your own tools" path.
Pricing is flat and published. Explore is free with 10 prompts on ChatGPT. Essential is $95 a month with a 7-day trial. Professional is $245 and Business is $579. Agencies get Kick-off at $199, Growth at $399 and Scale at $799, all with unlimited projects and prompts. What you give up against Qwairy's Starter sticker is the €79 euro entry and the free no-account audit. What you gain is crawler logs, conversion attribution and CMS publishing without waiting for a €449 Business gate, and without analyses pausing when a credit meter empties.
2. AthenaHQ
AthenaHQ is the closest action-queue rival. Its Action Center turns visibility data into assignable tasks such as schema generation and content reformatting. It tracks a wide engine set on Starter and starts at $295 a month with a free Essential tier.
Watch the credit-based billing. G2 reviewers report burning a month's credits in the first week when too many prompts and engines are enabled. Starter is single-country. The features reviewers praise most (ACE Citation Engine, personas, multi-region) sit on Enterprise. AthenaHQ is strong if you will work an action queue daily and can forecast credit burn. It is not a quieter meter than Qwairy; it is a different meter.
3. Scrunch AI
Scrunch AI starts at $250 a month on annual billing. Its Agent Experience Platform serves AI-optimized page variants to LLM crawlers without changing the human-facing site. That is a real acting lever: you shape what bots read, then watch crawl patterns.
Reporting is the common complaint in the catalog, so budget time for exports. Data refreshes weekly rather than daily on the monitoring side. Scrunch ranks below Promptwatch and AthenaHQ here because the measurement half of the product is weaker than the serving half, but it still does more than report.
4. Okara
Okara is an AI CMO whose Coding Agent ships technical SEO and GEO fixes as GitHub pull requests. Nothing merges without your approval. Plans run from a free analysis tier to Lite at $129 a month and Pro at $249. It is strongest on on-site fixes in a repository and weakest on published crawler logs and citation analytics. It sits below Promptwatch and AthenaHQ on this list for that reason.
5. Seology
Seology runs 200+ checks and sorts findings into auto-fixable items and flags for a human. Pro is $49 a month for five sites. Autopilot can open PRs. It is the cheapest way to get an agent that touches your repo, and it does not replace a full AI visibility platform.
Profound, then Otterly and Peec
Profound sells marketing agents for AEO, content, demand and PR, with a Prompt Volumes dataset behind the Enterprise product. Public Starter is $99 a month billed yearly and ChatGPT-only. Growth is $399 yearly for three engines. Enterprise contracts start around $40k a year. On an agentic ranking it sits below Promptwatch, AthenaHQ and Scrunch: AI search is one channel inside a broader marketing-agent sale, not a dedicated self-serve visibility stack you turn on this week.
Otterly.AI and Peec AI belong at the end of any shortlist like this. Otterly is the cheap on-ramp (from $29 a month) with a fast setup and weekly-ish freshness. Peec is the polished prompt-level tracker (from $95 a month) with screenshot evidence, modular model add-ons, and an explicit monitoring-only scope. Neither publishes Content Agents to a CMS, crawler-log Agent Analytics, or visitor-to-conversion analytics on this directory's listings. Useful for measurement experiments. Not substitutes for a platform that acts.
Which one fits
Stay on Qwairy if you want a free poke at a long engine list, you will watch the credit balance carefully, and you are fine parking crawler analytics until Business. Pick AthenaHQ if an assignable action queue is the daily habit and you can live with credit forecasting. Pick Okara or Seology when the work is mostly code fixes in GitHub. Pick Scrunch when serving optimized pages to crawlers is the lever you care about.
For most teams the deciding factor is whether the loop keeps running after the first thousand queries, and whether you can prove an agent's work moved crawls, citations or conversions. That is why Promptwatch is the one to trial first: the free Explore plan is enough to see prompts and citations before you commit, and the paid plans put crawler logs, visitor attribution and CMS publishing in the same workspace.