The price map
How much does GEO cost in 2026?
The short answer
In 2026, a standalone AI visibility audit sells between $249 and $5,000, with enterprise audits reaching $40,000. GEO retainers run $500 to $2,000 a month for monitoring only, $1,500 to $9,000 for agency programs, and $10,000 or more for enterprise. Our audit is $1,500 flat; our monthly Program is $1,500.
Published August 31, 2026 · updated September 20, 2026 · vendor prices retrieved August 25 to 31, 2026, from the sellers’ own pages and the published 2026 pricing guides · written by Thibault Genon-Catalot, founder
Our prices, in full
Everything we sell, priced on the page.
12 of the 17 GEO sellers we studied hide their prices behind a call. Here are ours, ungated.
The AI Visibility Audit
$1,500 one-time
50 to 70 buyer questions (10 per territory) x 5 engines x 3 runs = 750 to 1,050 timestamped answers, a map of the sources the LLMs read, a check of your competitors inside the ChatGPT App Store, and the list of technical fixes for your site. Delivered in 48 hours, no call. Day-90 re-measure, $200.
The AI Visibility Program
$2,500 or $4,500 a month
Get Found: 6 new pages on your website, 4 pages rewritten, 3 placements on the sources the AIs read, 4 community mentions and a territory re-measure, every month. Win Back Your Territories: twice the pages and placements, digital PR, reviews and a monthly re-measure.
The Interactive Lead Magnet
$990 one-time, optional $1,500/mo engine
A playable interactive asset on your landing page in 7 days, with an optional monthly optimization program.
The ChatGPT App
$3,000 build + $2,000/mo
Your brand live inside ChatGPT as a native app, built and operated for you.
One-shot audits
What an AI visibility audit costs, seller by seller.
One column per seller, our column highlighted. Scroll sideways to walk them; the full head-to-head with engines, delivery and origins is on the comparison page.
| BizWhiz | NextChannel Studio | Bubbling | AirPulse | Digital Elevator | Avante Visibility | Agency audits, the $1,500 to $4,500 band | Mentionable | Enterprise audits (llmreach band) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $249, or $99/mo tracked | $1,500 one-time | Not published | Free instant audit; $89 to $399/mo tracked | Free, if your budget is big enough | $5,000 flat | $1,500 to $4,500 | €79 to €299/mo | $3,000 to $15,000, up to $40,000 |
| What you get | An automated report: 20 questions across 6 AI systems, 100+ sampled answers, a visibility score, a 30/60/90-day action plan. | 750 to 1,050 real engine answers to your buyers' questions, a map of the sources the LLMs read, a check of your ChatGPT App Store competitors, and the list of technical fixes for your site. Day-90 re-measure, $200. | A free preliminary AI diagnostic in 7 days across 8+ LLMs, then a monitoring platform with scoring and competitor benchmarks. | An automated audit in 3 to 5 minutes from live engine answers across 6 engines including Copilot, then a tracking dashboard with suggested fixes. | A 48-hour teardown of your site's AI readiness, well made, delivered on a walkthrough call. | Buying questions tested multiple times across 5 engines, a scorecard on 27 criteria, a list of fixes, a 60-minute call to walk you through it, and a re-audit at day 90. | 10 to 30 prompts tested once on 2 to 5 platforms, 3 to 5 competitors, a 30/60/90-day plan. | 115 to 385 prompts tracked across 7 engines including Copilot and AI Overviews, competitor and source tracking, page audits and AI-written pages on credits, white-label reports on the top 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. |
| Worth knowing | No human analysis. | A human checks every audit, no call required. We are new, and priced to win our first ten case studies. The Program (from $2,500 a month) then implements the plan for you. | Price behind a sales call. | Software only. Nobody analyzes your case or implements the fixes for you. | Never asks the AI engines anything; it only inspects your website. The free audit is how they sell their $3,000+ programs. | Ten times our price for a comparable deliverable. | Tested once, delivered on a call, usually the door to a retainer. This band churns fast: two of the sellers we named here in August have since left it, one becoming a self-serve tool and one changing category altogether. | Software only: no audit, no analysis, no production. It was sold as an agency service until 2026 and is now a self-serve subscription. | Priced by proposal, built for big companies with purchasing departments. |
BizWhiz and Bubbling checked on their own sites on August 31, 2026. BizWhiz’s own warning is a fair bar for the whole market: most cheap offers are “a screenshot and a sales call”, so ask any seller for raw timestamped answers before you pay. The band columns are documented across several sellers rather than single companies. Re-checked on September 9, 2026: Mentionable is now a self-serve tool with public euro prices, Soar has left the category, and First Page Sage no longer publishes its tiers.
Monthly retainers
What a GEO retainer delivers at every tier.
Below $3,000 a month, we are the only ones on this map actually doing the implementation. Everyone else at that price sells monitoring and recommendations; the work itself starts in their $3,000-and-up tiers.
| Monitoring only | Agency entry tier | Get Found | Win Back Your Territories | Instant Press | Mid tier | High tier | Enterprise programs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $500 to $2,000/mo | $1,500 to $3,000/mo | $2,500 a month | $4,500 a month | $995 to $2,495/mo | $3,000 to $5,500/mo | $5,500 to $9,000/mo | from $10,000 to $15,000/mo |
| What lands each month | A dashboard, a monthly report, quarterly recommendations. No content produced, no placements made. | 20 to 30 prompts tracked on 3 engines, a monthly report, 3 to 5 recommendations. Still no content produced. | 6 new pages on your website, 4 pages rewritten, 3 placements on the sources the AIs read, 4 community mentions and a territory re-measure, every month. Implementation, not monitoring. | Twice the pages and placements of Get Found (12 new pages, 6 placements, 6 community mentions), a monthly re-measure with your Share of Answer dashboard, a digital PR campaign and GEO mentoring every month, reviews and an interactive lead magnet every quarter. | 30 to 90 blog posts a month, backlinks, on-site fixes like schema and robots.txt, up to 2 lead magnets, 100 prompts tracked on 4 engines, plus Reddit and Quora seeding on the top plan. Month to month, no setup fee. | 40 to 80 prompts on 5 engines, a report every two weeks, a competitor analysis every quarter, 1 to 2 articles a month, and calls with a strategist. | 80 to 200 prompts on 7 engines, weekly analysis, 2 to 4 articles a month, PR and partnerships, a dedicated strategist. | Omniscient Digital from $10,000, iPullRank from $15,000. Proposal-scoped, built for brands with procurement. |
The number nobody puts in the pricing table: 37% of the agencies that raised their prices across 2025 and 2026 named GEO and AEO as the reason, and most incumbents sell it as a 20 to 30 percent surcharge on an existing SEO retainer rather than a product. If you are quoted “from $3,000 a month”, ask whether that is a GEO program or an SEO retainer with a new line on the invoice.
Questions
Fair questions about GEO pricing. Straight answers.
Why is your audit $1,500 when others charge up to $7,500?
Because ours is a product with a fixed scope, not a proposal. The measurement is largely automated (750 to 1,050 timestamped engine answers), the analysis is human, and there is no sales call to pay for. We are also new and priced to win our first cohort of case studies, and we say so out loud.
Is anything under $1,000 a month just rebranded SEO?
Sometimes, and the published buying guides are right to warn about it. The test is not the price, it is the deliverable: ask any vendor how many real engine answers they collect, whether you get the raw timestamped logs, and what physically ships each month. A $5,000 retainer that ships one article is thinner than it sounds.
What does the 20 to 30 percent GEO surcharge on SEO retainers mean?
Most incumbent agencies sell AI visibility as a surcharge on an existing SEO retainer rather than a standalone product. On a $4,000 retainer that is roughly $1,000 a month of marginal cost, and it usually buys monitoring and reporting. If you already have an SEO agency, ask exactly what the surcharge ships.
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.
Start with the measurement
Before you buy any retainer, buy the baseline.
Every price on this page buys work on a problem you have not measured yet. The $1,500 audit measures it: 750 to 1,050 real engine answers on your buyers’ questions, who owns them, and what to fix first. Then you can shop this whole page with numbers in hand, including with us. The method 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.