The comparison
What sellers charge for an AI visibility audit, side by side
The short answer
Nine kinds of sellers price the AI visibility audit in 2026: automated reports at $249, our audit at $1,500 with 750 to 1,050 real engine answers, free diagnostics that feed a sales call, agency audits at $1,500 to $4,500 for 10 to 30 prompts tested once, a $5,000 flat audit, and enterprise audits up to $40,000.
Published August 31, 2026 · updated September 20, 2026 · every column from the seller’s own pages or the 2026 pricing guides, retrieved August 25 to 31, 2026 · written by Thibault Genon-Catalot, founder
The table
Same product name, nine different products.
Read the “asks real engines?” row first. It splits this market in two, and it is the one question sellers are never asked. Scroll sideways to walk the columns; the criteria stay put.
| NextChannel Studio | BizWhiz | Bubbling | AirPulse | Instant Press | Digital Elevator | Avante Visibility | Typical agency audit | Enterprise audits | Freelancers | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Website | nextchannelstudio.com | bizwhiz.ai | getbubbling.com | airpulse.ai | instantpress.co | thedigitalelevator.com | avantevisibility.com | the $1,500 to $4,500 band, several sellers | the llmreach band | varies |
| Where they come from | Born for AI visibility, 2026 | Software tool | Born for AI visibility, 2024 | Software tool, AI-native, 2025 (an Airmeet company) | Press-placement shop, AEO retainer added 2026 | SEO agency, 2010 | Paid-search agency, audit born 2024 | SEO agencies adding GEO | SEO and consulting shops | Mostly ex-SEO |
| Price | $1,500 | $249, or $99/mo tracked | Not published | $89 to $399/mo, free instant audit | Free score, then $995 to $2,495/mo | Free, if your budget is big enough | $5,000 flat | $1,500 to $4,500 | $3,000 to $15,000, up to $40,000 | $100 to $300/hr, or $2,000 to $10,000 |
| Questions tested | 50 to 70 buyer questions (10 per territory), 5 seeded by you | 20 localized questions | Multi-LLM conversation analysis | Not published | None in the free score. 100 tracked prompts on the Pro plan | None | Every buying question in your journey | 10 to 30 prompts | Scoped by proposal | Varies |
| Engines covered | 5: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overview | 6 AI systems | 8+, including Mistral, Copilot, Grok | 6, including Copilot | None in the free score. 4 engines tracked on the Pro plan | None | 5 engines | 2 to 5 platforms | Scoped | Varies |
| Answer volume | 750 to 1,050 timestamped answers, 3 runs per question | 100+ sampled answers | Not published | Live answers, results in 3 to 5 minutes | None in the free score | None | Multiple runs, confidence ranges | Tested once | Scoped | Varies |
| Asks real engines? | Yes | Yes, automated | Yes | Yes | No. The free score grades 13 signals on your own properties, it never asks an engine anything | No. It only inspects your website; it never asks the AI engines anything | Yes | Yes | Yes | Ask for the logs |
| One-shot audit? | Yes, the audit is the product | Yes, an automated report | A free preliminary diagnostic, 7 days, then the platform | A free automated audit in minutes, then the subscription | No. The free score opens a strategy call for scores under 60 | Free. It exists to open the door to their $3,000+ programs | Yes | Yes, usually the door to a retainer | Yes, scoped per deal | Varies |
| Sales call | None, ever | None | Required | None; a demo is optional | Required under a score of 60 | Required, walkthrough | 60-min walkthrough included | Usually required | Required | Varies |
| Delivery | 48 hours | Automated | 7 days for the diagnostic | 3 to 5 minutes, automated | Instant, automated | 48 hours | Not published | 1 to 2 weeks | By proposal | Varies |
| Also in the box | A map of the sources the LLMs read in your category, a check of your competitors inside the ChatGPT App Store, the list of technical fixes for your site, and a day-90 re-measure for $200 | A visibility score and a 30/60/90-day action plan, generated automatically | A monitoring platform: scoring, sentiment, competitor benchmarks | A tracking dashboard with suggested fixes | A score out of 100 and the list of missing signals: Wikipedia, Knowledge Graph, schema, robots.txt for AI bots, press footprint, profile links | A well-made teardown, built to open a program conversation | A scorecard on 27 criteria, a list of fixes, a designed PDF report, and a re-audit at day 90 | 3 to 5 competitors compared, plus a 30/60/90-day action plan | How often you are named next to your competitors, which platforms cite you or not, which pages to fix first, and a technical check | Quality tracks the person, not the price |
| Human or software? | A human, with machines doing the measuring | Software only, no human reads your report | A software platform, with a team behind the sales call | Software only | Software for the score, humans for the retainer | Humans, an SEO agency | Humans, agency-led | Humans, agency teams | Humans, enterprise teams | One human |
| Do they implement the fixes? | Yes. The AI Visibility Program ($1,500/mo) runs the whole plan for you, month after month | No. They only sell the report and the tracking; you have to implement everything yourself | Not published. Their site shows monitoring tools, not implementation work | No. It suggests fixes; your team still has to write and publish everything | Yes, in the retainer: blogs on their own network of sites, backlinks, schema, landing pages | Yes, in their $3,000-and-up programs. The free audit is how they sell them | Not published. The audit is the product they show | Yes, but through a separate retainer at $1,500 to $9,000 a month. The audit is the door | Yes, inside programs starting at $10,000 to $15,000 a month | Sometimes, by the hour. Ask before you sign |
“Not published” means the seller does not say, not that it does not exist. 12 of the 17 GEO sellers we studied publish no prices at all, which is why this table exists. “Typical agency audit” and “Enterprise audits” are market bands documented across several sellers, not single companies, and the table says so rather than inventing a name.
The bar to hold every seller to
Five marks of a serious audit, whoever sells it.
These are the marks the most transparent sellers in this market publish themselves. BizWhiz puts it best on their own site: most cheap offers are “a screenshot and a sales call”. Score any vendor down this list, including us.
Raw, timestamped answer logs
The proof the engines were actually asked. Without the logs, a score is an opinion.
300 answers, timestamped, available on request
A published methodology
How the questions are chosen, how many runs, how the scoring works, before you pay.
Public at /methodology, step by step
A competitor comparison
Your visibility means nothing alone. The question is who owns the answers you do not.
Your 5 closest competitors, scored beside you
The list of sources behind the answers
The sites the answers are built from are the to-do list. A report without them has no next step.
Every source across 300 answers, deduplicated and ranked
A prioritized action plan
Findings without an ordered plan transfer the work of thinking back to you.
The fix list, written as developer tickets, ranked by impact
Questions
Fair questions about this comparison. Straight answers.
Why is the free audit low on your list when it costs nothing?
Because it is the only offer in the table that never asks an AI engine anything: it only inspects your website, and it delivers the results on a sales call for a $3,000-and-up program. That can still be a fine deal. It is just not a measurement, and this page compares measurements.
What makes 300 answers better than 30 prompts?
AI answers change between runs, sometimes drastically. One run per question tells you what one user saw once. Three timestamped runs per question, across five engines, tell you who reliably owns the answer and who was lucky that day. Volume is not a vanity number here; it is what makes the reading trustworthy.
Do any of these prices include actually fixing the problems?
No, including ours. Every audit on this page is a diagnosis. Execution is sold separately everywhere: our version is The AI Visibility Program, from $2,500 a month, agencies sell retainers from $1,500 to $15,000, and the full retainer map is on the pricing page.
Where do these numbers come from?
From each seller's own pages and the published 2026 pricing guides, retrieved August 25 to 31, 2026. BizWhiz, Bubbling and AirPulse were checked on August 31 and September 1. Where a seller publishes nothing, the table says so instead of guessing. If you are one of these sellers and a number is out of date, write to us and we will correct it with a visible changelog.
Free, 2 minutes
Before you buy any audit: run one free check.
5 buyer questions, 2 AI engines, and you see who gets named instead of you. The verdict shows on the page, and a copy lands in your inbox.
The obvious question
Yes, the table is ours. The numbers are checkable.
We sell the $1,500 column, and we published every other seller’s price anyway, with retrieval dates, because a buyer who compares carefully is exactly the buyer we want. The full price map, retainers included, is at /geo-pricing, and the method behind our column is public at /methodology. If a free tool has already handed you a score out of 100, here is what that number measures and what it cannot tell you.