VisiScan vs Rankscale 2026
Rankscale tracks 17+ engines on credits. VisiScan pastes schema after 144 answers. Neither is a CMS agent. Promptwatch is the publish column.
Rankscale acts as a standing tracker: credits in, visibility and audit scores out. VisiScan acts as a scan: questions in, score and paste files out. Promptwatch acts as a loop: measure, then Content Agents can publish. Credits are not a review inbox. A generated llms.txt is not a Webflow push.
Rankscale $20 / $99 / $385. 17+ engines, ~8x credit swing, no PDF, API at Growth. Audits fluctuate; docs say 30-day averages.
VisiScan $0 / $49 / $29. Four engines. Monitor API for weekly jobs. Schema paste on the report. L1-L5 ladder is a readiness grade, not a ship action.
Actors
| Actor | VisiScan | Rankscale | Promptwatch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recurring check | Weekly Monitor | Credit tracker | Prompts |
| Audit | 30+ signals on $49 | GEO audits | Content gap; crawler errors on Pro |
| Emit files | Schema, llms.txt | No PDF | AEO articles |
| Publish CMS | No | No | Webflow, Framer |
| Logs | No | No | Agent Analytics |
Pick Rankscale if the actor you needed was wide sampling on a budget and you will live in the UI. Pick VisiScan if the actor was a local PDF plus JSON-LD. Pick Promptwatch if the actor was supposed to close crawl-to-citation and publish.
$385 Rankscale Growth unlocks API. That still does not ingest ChatGPTBot from a CDN. VisiScan's Monitor API re-runs 12 questions. Different scripts.