Rank.ai review: pricing, features & alternatives

rank.ai/pricing (read 24 October 2026). Free is $0 with 3 published articles, 3 Google keywords and 500 credits. Starter is $49/mo or $39 billed yearly: 5 AI questions, 30 articles, 25 keywords, 1 site, map scans for 1 location, 5,000 credits. Growth is $129/mo or $99 yearly: 25 questions, 80 articles, 100 keywords, 3 sites, 3 locations, 12,000 credits and the MCP server. Agency is $399/mo or $319 yearly: 100 questions, 300 pooled articles, 500 keywords, 15 client sites then $19 each, 25 locations, 40,000 credits.

A credit is $0.005. A Google keyword uses 1 credit a day and an AI engine answer uses 8, so one question asked of three engines daily uses 24 credits a day. New accounts get 14 days of Growth with up to 10 articles and no card.

The homepage leads with local examples and a published Rank.ai Index of 544 rankings with dates and methods. Map scans check a keyword at each point of a grid around a location. Done-for-you runs Rank.ai for you: $2,000/mo for Core, $5,000 for Scale and $10,000 for Enterprise, with the vendor picking questions, writing and publishing articles and reporting what moved.

Every row below is a capability we already listed for Rank.ai. It is the published feature set for this page, not a guess at an unpublished demo.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, Rank.ai is a AI visibility platform for Local businesses and small agencies that want AI answer tracking, map rank and article publishing in one low-cost tool. What we sourced here: Daily tracking of your own questions on ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, with Perplexity, Grok or DeepSeek switchable; Every answer saved with named brands, your share of mentions and cited pages; Google Maps grid scans for 1, 3 or 25 locations by plan; Daily Google keyword rank with an AI Overview flag; Articles written from live ranking pages and published to WordPress, Webflow, Shopify or Next.js, with an optional review step.

If you buy Rank.ai for the job above, plan a second tool (or Promptwatch) for the layers this listing does not document. Still missing here: 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).

Rank.ai'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.