Gauge review: pricing, features & alternatives

Gauge's Growth plan runs your 600 prompts every day across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, and Copilot — roughly 108,000 recorded answers a month, with citation intelligence, ChatGPT Ads tracking, an MCP server, and GA4/GSC/Slack integrations. Bolted to that is a content engine producing 18 publish-ready articles a month with nightly content-health audits — a tracking-plus-execution combination that most rivals split across two products.

Daily cadence at this prompt volume is genuinely rare below four figures, and a one-week free trial makes the claims checkable.

The diligence picture is the thinnest of any funded tool in this list: no reviews on G2, Capterra, TrustRadius, or Trustpilot — zero. The '3–5x visibility improvement' case studies are company-published, and the growth narrative (40x customers, 70x revenue in 2025) is self-reported. Methodology draws criticism too: visibility is scored against prompts Gauge generates rather than real user queries, so improvements may not translate to how actual buyers ask.

The pricing history reads like revenue pressure: the $99 Starter tier (ChatGPT-only, 100 prompts) was removed by July 2026, making $599 the entry price. Claude and Grok need Enterprise, as do API access and BI integrations, and there's no SOC 2 — which rules out regulated buyers entirely. With ~$500K raised against Profound's $58M and Peec's $29M, an annual contract here carries real counterparty risk.

Growth-stage teams that want the most daily answer data per dollar plus content output, and who can validate the numbers against their own GA4/GSC during the trial week.

Regulated industries (no SOC 2), teams needing Claude coverage without Enterprise pricing, and anyone uncomfortable with a review-less vendor should pick an established tracker — and nobody should prepay annually here.

Every row below is a capability we already listed for Gauge. It is the published feature set for this page, not a guess at an unpublished demo. Compare it with the Promptwatch checklist that follows.

On this listing, Gauge is a AI visibility tracker for Teams that want maximum daily answer volume plus content production in one tool — and accept betting on a lightly-funded startup with zero review footprint.. What we sourced here: 600 prompts run daily across 6 engines (ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot); 18 publish-ready articles/mo plus nightly content Health Score audits; Citation intelligence, ChatGPT Ads tracking, MCP server; GA4, Search Console, and Slack integrations; unlimited domains and competitors.

If you buy Gauge for the job above, plan a second tool (or Promptwatch) for the layers this listing does not document. Still missing here: AI crawler logs (Agent Analytics), crawl-to-citation path, bot errors; Visitor analytics: AI-referred sessions and conversions; Content Agents that plan, write, and publish GEO pages to a CMS with a review inbox; Citation analytics at page, domain, Reddit, YouTube, and offsite level; Prompt volumes, difficulty, query fan-outs, personas, city-level geo; Prompt and citation trends (what changed between checks); ChatGPT Shopping tracking and Ads Radar; Agent Chat, Unified Actions, MCP server / REST API on paid plans. Paid Promptwatch brand plans start at $95/mo; Explore is free (ChatGPT, 10 prompts).

Gauge's public pages (and this listing) describe a narrower job than Promptwatch. Most rivals answer whether you were mentioned. Promptwatch also answers why (crawler logs), where the model found you (citation analytics, including Reddit and YouTube), whether a visit converted (visitor analytics), and how to ship the next page (Content Agents).

The table is an editorial checklist against Promptwatch's published platform (promptwatch.com/llms.txt, 2026-08-23). It is not a hidden feature list for this vendor. 'Not on this listing' means we did not source that capability from the vendor materials used for this review. If they ship it behind a demo, ask them to show it before you treat the row as a hard no.