Best Perplexity Rank Trackers in 2026: 18 Tools Compared

This is a comparison of 18 Perplexity rank trackers, 12 of which we tested hands-on against real client prompts and 6 of which we assessed on vendor documentation, public demos and trial accounts. Every review says which.

We re-checked the whole list on September 1, 2026, and the re-check was more eventful than expected. We went back to all 18 vendor pricing pages assuming we would adjust a couple of numbers. Instead we found entry prices that had moved in both directions, two tools you can no longer price without a sales call, one that has changed domain, and a pattern that matters more than any individual price: several tools sold on AI visibility do not include Perplexity on their entry plan at all.

The best Perplexity rank trackers in September 2026 are: 1. Peec AI (best overall for Perplexity) 2. AthenaHQ (best model breadth, and the only real free tier) 3. Otterly.AI (best budget) 4. Profound (best enterprise breadth) 5. Rankability (best citation analytics) 6. SE Ranking Visible (best for existing SEO stacks), with a manual Google Sheets workflow as the free option.

Every tool below gets its own numbered review with pros, cons, a verdict and entry pricing. Where we state a price, we read it off the vendor's own public pricing page on September 1, 2026, and where a vendor publishes no price we say so instead of guessing. Two tools price in euros and the rest in dollars, and at least one changes currency depending on where you are browsing from, so treat cross-currency comparisons as rough.

One thing to skip regardless of budget: anything claiming to track "rank position" in Perplexity as a single integer. The SERP does not work that way, and we explain why in a moment.

Jump to:

• What changed since our last update
• The comparison table
• Tool-by-tool reviews
• Why this list has no #1 vendor bias
• How to choose
• FAQ
• Our methodology

What Changed Since Our Last Update

Everything in this section came from re-reading the vendors' own pages and changelogs on September 1, 2026. Where a vendor publishes nothing, we say so rather than filling the gap.

Perplexity is not included as standard, and that is the single most expensive assumption on this page. Three of the tools people most often shortlist gate it. Profound's entry Starter plan tracks ChatGPT only, and Perplexity arrives on Growth. Rankability's Starter covers ChatGPT, Google AI Mode and Claude, with Perplexity on Core one tier up. Peec AI lets lower plans track three models out of six, so Perplexity is in only if you spend one of your three slots on it. Homepage logo strips show every engine. Plan comparison tables tell you which ones you are actually buying.

Entry prices moved, and not in one direction. AthenaHQ's published Starter plan now sits well above where we listed it in July, and it has switched from a prompt cap to a credit model where one credit is one AI response. Goodie and Scrunch both list higher than the figures we carried. LPagery lists considerably lower. Otterly.AI has restructured into a much cheaper entry tier with a much smaller prompt allowance. Peec published a pricing update on August 31 saying every plan now includes more tracking capacity at the same price or less, without publishing before and after numbers. We have corrected each figure in the reviews below and flagged the corrections explicitly.

Two vendors stopped being comparable. Daydream no longer publishes plan names, prices or a self-serve trial, and routes everything to a booked call. BrandRank.AI publishes no pricing page at all. Both have moved to pricing on application in our table, which also means we removed entry prices we can no longer verify.

Everyone shipped variations on the same two features. Fan-out visibility, meaning the underlying searches an engine ran behind a single answer, landed at Rankability, Conductor and Peec over the summer. Sponsored-placement and ads reporting landed at Peec, AthenaHQ and Otterly. If two tools look identical on your shortlist, these are the areas where they have most recently diverged.

Ahrefs is out of beta, and quietly demonstrated the cost problem we keep warning about. Its AI mention tracking now ships without a beta label on every paid plan. In July it also restricted Claude tracking to custom prompts only, attributing the change to significantly increased costs. That is a public, dated example of the pattern in our caution section below: broad engine lists are expensive to run, and they get trimmed.

If you built your own tracker, check your endpoints. Perplexity announced on August 13 that its Sonar API endpoints retire on September 27, 2026, replaced by the Agent API. Separately, its documented citation format changed over the summer, with one preset returning plain numbered markers and others returning source-typed markers. Anything you wrote that parses citation markers with a regex is worth re-testing before that date. This affects DIY pipelines, not the paid tools below.

One thing that did not change: Perplexity's crawler documentation still describes the same two agents, PerplexityBot for surfacing and linking sites, which respects robots.txt, and Perplexity-User for fetches a person has directly asked for, which generally does not. We looked for a change here because several people asked us about it. We did not find one.

What "Rank" Even Means Inside Perplexity

Before the tool list, the methodology problem nobody wants to address.

Perplexity does not return a ten-blue-link SERP. It returns a synthesised answer with inline citations, then a sidebar of source links. "Rank position 1" inside Google has no clean equivalent. The closest analogues are:

• Citation presence: did your URL appear at all in the response?
• Citation order: where did it appear in the citation list (top of the response, sidebar, footer)?
• Quote weight: did Perplexity quote your content verbatim, paraphrase it, or just link to it?
• Answer attribution: was a substantive claim in the answer specifically attributed to you?

The tools below all approach this differently. Some report a single rank integer (which we think is misleading). Some report presence-only. The better ones report a composite "share of voice" score across all four dimensions.

That distinction matters because two tools can show you wildly different numbers for the same prompt and both be technically correct.

Why This List Has No #1 Vendor Bias

Search for this topic and look at who publishes the lists that rank: almost all of them are tracking-tool vendors reviewing their own category, and the publishing vendor has a habit of landing at #1 in its own list.

SEO Turtle sells none of these tools. We are an SEO agency. We make money helping clients get cited in Perplexity, not selling the software that measures it. There are no affiliate links on this page, and no vendor paid for inclusion or position.

We disclose that some of the tools listed offered us free trial extensions for the testing period (Profound, AthenaHQ, Peec, Daydream). None paid for placement. Two tools we initially included (which we are not naming) were dropped from the comparison because their data did not match manual observation closely enough to be useful.

The Comparison Table

The most important column is the third one. Read it before the price.

Tool	Entry price (Sept 1, 2026)	Perplexity on the entry plan?	Prompts (entry)	Free trial	How we assessed it	Best for
1. AthenaHQ	$295/mo ($245 annual)	Yes	3,600 credits, 1 credit = 1 AI response	Free Essential tier, trial terms n/s	Hands-on	Model breadth
2. Otterly.AI	$29/mo Lite ($25 annual)	Yes	15 prompts	Yes, 7 days, no card	Hands-on	Budget brand monitoring
3. Peec AI	€85/mo (€70 annual)	Only if you spend one of your 3 model slots on it	50 prompts	Advertised, length n/s	Hands-on	Citation-order KPIs
4. Profound	$99/mo Starter, but ChatGPT only	No. Starts on Growth at $399/mo	50 (Starter), 100 (Growth)	Advertised, terms n/s	Hands-on	Enterprise breadth
5. Rankability	$99/mo Starter	No. Starts on Core at $199/mo	60 tracked prompts daily	Yes, 7 days, monthly plans only	Docs and public pages	Citation analytics
6. SE Ranking (Visible)	€79/mo add-on on a base plan from €109/mo, or $99/mo standalone	Yes	200 add-on prompts at Core	Yes, 14 days, no card	Docs and trial	Existing SEO stacks
7. Manual + Google Sheets	$0	Yes	Unlimited, but manual	n/a	n/a	First-time GEO audits
8. Keyword.com	$26/mo 360 Visibility (annual), or $94/yr AI Visibility	Yes	Credit-based	Yes, no card, length n/s	Docs and public pricing	Cheapest paid entry
9. AWR	$139/mo Pro ($125.10 annual)	Yes	7,000 keywords	Yes, 7 days	Docs and trial	Established agency reporting
10. Nightwatch	€79/mo Starter	Yes	50 AI prompts, 1,500 AI answers	Yes, 14 days, no card	Docs and trial	Classic and AI in one
11. LPagery AI Rank Tracker	$19/mo Starter	Yes	100 prompts, 10 keywords	Yes, 7 days	Docs and public plans	Small businesses
12. Daydream	Not published	n/s	Not published	No. Gated dashboard, not a trial	Hands-on	Content teams, sales-led
13. Goodie	$399/mo Explorer	Yes	100 prompts, 3,000 AI responses	Yes, 7 days	Hands-on	Sentiment monitoring
14. BrandRank.AI	Not published	Yes, named	Not published	Not advertised	Hands-on	Competitive share of voice
15. Scrunch AI	$250/mo annual, $300 month to month	Yes	350 custom prompts	Yes, 7 days, no card	Hands-on	Cross-engine reporting
16. Ahrefs Brand Radar	Included from €119/mo Lite	Yes	5 tracked AI prompts	n/s	Hands-on	Existing Ahrefs users
17. Conductor (AI add-on)	Pricing on application	Yes, but AI credits start at Growth	2,500 AI credits per year at Growth	Yes, 3 weeks, no card	Hands-on	Existing Conductor users
18. seoClarity (ArcAI)	Pricing on application	Yes	From 500 prompt queries	Advertised, terms n/s	Hands-on	Existing seoClarity users

"n/s" means not stated: we only fill a cell with what we read on the vendor's own public pages, not what a comparison site claims. Tools 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 11 were assessed on documentation, public demos and trial accounts rather than our original hands-on test, and each review below says so. Prompt allowances are not comparable across rows without reading the review, because a credit, a prompt and a daily tracked prompt are three different units. Full notes on every tool below.

1. AthenaHQ: Best Model Breadth, and the Only Real Free Tier

AthenaHQ was the tool we kept coming back to during hands-on testing, and the product has grown in the direction we hoped. It is also the clearest example of why this update was necessary: two of the three things we said about it in July are now wrong.

Corrected on September 1, 2026. We listed it at $99 per month with a 500 prompt cap, limited to Perplexity and ChatGPT. The published Starter plan is now $295 per month, or $245 billed annually, and it is sold in credits rather than prompts, with one credit equal to one AI response and 3,600 credits included. Coverage is no longer two models but ten, including Perplexity, ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek and Meta AI. There is also a free Essential tier that includes Perplexity, capped by a small credit allowance rather than a clock.

August also brought a feature drop that widened geographic coverage to 185 markets down to city and state level, and added reporting on ChatGPT sponsored placements on the higher plans.

Pros:

• Clean citation order tracking with weighted scoring
• Good prompt cluster organisation (group related prompts, see aggregate visibility)
• Decent competitor view (track up to 5 competing domains per prompt)
• Widest model coverage on an entry plan in this comparison
• A genuinely free tier that includes Perplexity, which almost nobody else offers

Cons:

• The entry price has moved a long way, and it is no longer the value pick
• Credits are harder to forecast than a flat prompt cap, because a single tracked prompt consumes credits every time it runs
• Reporting export is CSV-only, no white-labeled PDF
• No trial length or card requirement published, so the free tier is your evaluation route

Verdict: the strongest all-round product here, priced accordingly. Start on the free Essential tier with the 20 prompts you care most about before committing to Starter.

Entry pricing: $295 per month, or $245 billed annually. Free Essential tier available.

2. Otterly.AI: Best Budget Perplexity Tracker

When we tested it, Otterly.AI tracked prompts on a presence-only basis: it told you whether you appeared, not where or how prominently. For a small brand that just needs to monitor its core terms, presence-only is often enough.

The pricing has been restructured since July, and the shape of the offer changed with it. The entry Lite plan is now $29 per month, or $25 billed annually, which is genuinely cheap, but it buys 15 prompts. Standard is $189 per month for 100 prompts and Premium $489 for 400. Perplexity is one of the four engines included as standard, alongside ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Copilot, with Claude, AI Mode and Gemini sold as add-ons.

Otterly also published a citations update in July and an Agent Analytics release in August. We have not re-tested the product hands-on since our original test, so we are not going to tell you how well the newer citation features work. We are telling you they exist, because our original presence-only note may no longer be the whole picture.

Pros:

• Lowest entry price among the specialists
• Simple setup, minimal learning curve
• 7-day free trial with no credit card
• Perplexity included as standard rather than as an add-on

Cons:

• 15 prompts on Lite is a sample, not a monitoring program, and the step up to 100 prompts is a large one
• Our presence-only finding predates this year's citation features, so verify current capability on the trial
• You will outgrow it the moment citation position becomes your KPI

Verdict: the budget pick, and the cheapest honest way to find out whether this data changes anything for you.

Entry pricing: $29 per month on Lite, or $25 billed annually, for 15 prompts.

3. Peec AI: Best Overall for Perplexity Specifically

Peec AI wins on the metric most tools fudge: where exactly your citation sits. Most platforms count a citation in the sidebar the same as a citation in the answer body. Peec weights them differently, which matches what actually drives traffic. That finding stands from our hands-on test.

The commercial picture is different from what we published in July, and better. We listed Peec at $399 per month for 2,000 prompts. The published Starter plan is €85 per month, or €70 billed annually, for 50 prompts with daily tracking, one project and unlimited users. Pro is €205 and Advanced €425. On August 31 the company published a pricing update saying every plan now carries more tracking capacity at the same price or less, without publishing the before and after numbers, so treat the allowances above as the current state rather than a stable one.

The catch is the model selection. Starter, Pro and Advanced all let you track three models from a list of six that includes Perplexity, ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Copilot and Gemini. Extra models are a paid add-on. If Perplexity is the reason you are buying, that is fine, spend a slot on it. If you wanted Perplexity plus four others, price the add-ons before you sign.

Pros:

• The most honest citation-order methodology we tested
• Cheapest specialist entry plan that can include Perplexity from the first tier
• Daily tracking and unlimited users even on Starter
• Actively shipping: query fan-out visibility in July, brand perception and ads tracking in August

Cons:

• Three models out of six on the lower plans, so breadth costs extra
• 50 prompts on Starter is small for agency portfolios
• Priced in euros, which makes cross-currency comparison rough
• The August repricing means allowances may move again

Verdict: the best combination of methodology and price for teams whose actual question is about Perplexity, not about every engine at once.

Entry pricing: €85 per month, or €70 billed annually, for 50 prompts and 3 tracked models.

4. Profound: Best for Enterprise Breadth

Profound wins on coverage. Its enterprise tier reaches up to nine answer engines in one dashboard, and the composite score across engines is genuinely useful for board-level reporting. Coverage of niche international prompts was the best we tested.

Read the plan ladder carefully, because it is the clearest example of the gating problem on this page. The published Starter plan is $99 per month, or $82.50 billed annually, for 50 prompts, and it tracks ChatGPT only. Perplexity does not appear until the Growth plan at $399 per month, or $332.50 annually, which covers 100 prompts across three answer engines: ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. Enterprise is quote-only. So the correct number to hold in your head for Perplexity tracking on Profound is $399, not $99.

Profound shipped heavily over the summer, including a content performance view in July, a factual accuracy checker in the same month, and citation decay and YouTube citation breakdown reports in August. Citation decay in particular is the kind of thing this category has been missing, since a citation you lost is more actionable than a citation you never had.

Pros:

• Broadest engine coverage available at the top tier
• Composite scoring that survives contact with a board deck
• The most active product roadmap in this comparison over the summer
• Content recommendations on top of tracking

Cons:

• Perplexity requires the Growth plan, so the entry price is misleading for our purposes
• Counts a sidebar citation the same as an answer-body citation (Peec is more honest here)
• No published trial length or terms
• Overkill in price and complexity for a single small site

Verdict: the enterprise pick when leadership wants one number across every AI engine, priced from Growth if Perplexity is the point.

Entry pricing: $99 per month Starter, but ChatGPT only. Perplexity tracking starts at $399 per month on Growth.

5. Rankability: Best for Citation Analytics

Added in the July 2026 update. We have not run Rankability through our hands-on test; this assessment is based on its documentation and public product pages, re-read on September 1, 2026.

Rankability's tracker records citations at the URL level: which specific pages an engine links to as sources for every keyword you monitor, captured on every scan. When the sources cited for your keywords shift, it flags the change. Over the summer it also added fan-out query visibility, which shows the underlying searches an engine ran behind a single answer.

Two corrections to what we published in July. First, there is a free trial, 7 days, on monthly plans only. We previously said none was advertised. Second, and more important, Perplexity is not on the entry plan. Starter at $99 per month covers ChatGPT, Google AI Mode and Claude. Perplexity appears on Core at $199 per month, alongside Google AI Overviews. Additional platforms can be bought à la carte on any tier.

One caution. Rankability's own changelog and its live pricing page described different plan ladders during the week we checked, and the published allowances have moved at least twice in the last five weeks. The figures here are what the pricing page showed on September 1, 2026. Check them yourself before you buy.

Pros:

• URL-level citation records, not just domain presence
• Flags citation drops and new citation opportunities as sources shift
• Fan-out query visibility, still rare in this category
• Flat plans with unlimited users, useful for agencies
• 7-day trial on monthly plans

Cons:

• Perplexity starts on Core, one tier above the advertised entry price
• Pricing and allowances have changed repeatedly and recently
• Tracking sits inside a broader content optimisation suite, so you pay for more than tracking

Verdict: the strongest citation analytics story on paper, but budget for Core rather than Starter if Perplexity is the reason you are looking. Assessed on documentation, not our hands-on test.

Entry pricing: $99 per month Starter, or $990 per year, but Perplexity coverage starts on Core at $199 per month.

6. SE Ranking (Visible): Best for Existing SEO Stacks

New to this list in the July 2026 update, assessed on documentation and a trial account rather than our hands-on test.

If you already pay for an all-in-one SEO platform, adding AI tracking to the same bill beats buying a standalone tool. SE Ranking's AI Search add-on, with its SE Visible dashboard, tracks brand visibility across Perplexity, ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, including brand mentions and sentiment trends.

Worth knowing if the add-on maths puts you off: SE Visible is also sold standalone, without an SE Ranking base plan, from $99 per month for 200 prompts. That was not obvious to us in July, and it changes the calculation if you want the AI tracking but not the rest of the platform.

Pros:

• One invoice for classic rank tracking and AI visibility
• Covers AI Overviews and AI Mode alongside Perplexity and ChatGPT
• 14-day free trial with no credit card
• Available standalone if you do not want the full SEO platform

Cons:

• Bought as an add-on, the real cost is a base plan plus the add-on
• Perplexity is one engine among several rather than the focus
• Prices render in different currencies depending on where you are, so check your own checkout

Verdict: the pragmatic pick if SE Ranking already runs your reporting, and a reasonable standalone if it does not.

Entry pricing: the AI Search add-on is €79 per month (€63.20 billed annually) on top of a base plan from €109 per month, with 200 add-on prompts at the Core tier. SE Visible standalone starts at $99 per month for 200 prompts.

7. Manual Google Sheets Workflow: Best Free Option

Counter-intuitive, but for sites with under 50 priority prompts to track, the cheapest and most accurate option is still manual.

The workflow:

1. List your 20 to 50 priority prompts in a Google Sheet
2. Run each prompt in Perplexity, ideally from a fresh browser session
3. Log: did you appear, in what position, was the quote substantive or filler
4. Repeat weekly, plot the trend

Pros:

• Higher accuracy than half the paid tools, because you see the actual Perplexity response rather than a scraper approximation
• Catches nuance the tools miss, like Perplexity quoting your content but attributing it to a republisher
• Costs nothing

Cons:

• Does not scale past about 50 prompts per week without your sanity going
• No historical archive unless you screenshot

We have a Google Sheets template for this in our SEO Templates vault. Free, copy to your Drive, run it the same day.

Verdict: start here before you spend a cent on tooling.

Entry pricing: $0.

8. Keyword.com: Best Cheap Entry Into AI Visibility Tracking

New to this list in the July 2026 update, assessed on documentation and public pricing rather than our hands-on test.

Keyword.com started life as a Google rank tracker and now sells plans that blend classic tracking with AI monitoring across a long engine list: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, AI Overviews, Gemini, Mistral, DeepSeek, Microsoft Copilot and Claude.

Since July it has also split out an AI-only plan. If you do not need the classic keyword tracking, AI Visibility is sold separately at $94 per year, which works out around $7.83 per month for 20 credits. That is the cheapest published route into Perplexity monitoring we found anywhere on this list, with the obvious caveat that 20 credits is a sample rather than a program.

Pros:

• The cheapest paid route into Perplexity monitoring on this list
• Google and AI tracking in one plan, or an AI-only plan if you prefer
• Free trial with no credit card

Cons:

• Nine engines at this price raises the question we flag in the caution section: ask which are queried live versus simulated
• Credit-based prompt tracking, so heavy use costs more than the sticker price
• The headline low prices buy small keyword counts, so compare allowances rather than sticker prices

Verdict: the low-risk way to test whether AI visibility data changes your decisions.

Entry pricing: from $26 per month for the 360 Visibility plan billed annually (1,000 keywords plus 15 credits), or $94 per year for the AI Visibility plan.

9. AWR: Best for Established Agency Reporting

New to this list in the July 2026 update, assessed on documentation and a trial account rather than our hands-on test.

Advanced Web Ranking has been tracking SERPs since long before AI answers existed, and its AI features bolt onto that reporting machine: AI citations, brand mentions and visibility across Google AI Mode, AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude, from the Pro plan up.

The most active vendor in this comparison over the summer. Its July 2026 release separated AI Search metrics from classic SEO metrics in the filter lists, added dynamic and saved filter groups, and extended Gemini tracking to the US, UK, France and Germany. Small things individually, but they are the difference between AI data being a tab and AI data being reportable.

Pros:

• Mature, deeply customisable reporting that agencies already trust
• Classic ranks and AI citations in the same reports, now filterable apart from each other
• 7-day free trial
• Biggest keyword allowance on this list at the entry tier

Cons:

• Pricing is built around keyword quotas from the classic product, not prompt tracking
• The pricing page never names the AI engines, so you have to read the product page to confirm Perplexity is covered
• AI features are much newer than the core platform, so expect rougher edges there

Verdict: the reporting-first pick for agencies that live in scheduled client PDFs.

Entry pricing: $139 per month on the Pro plan ($125.10 billed annually), 7,000 keywords.

10. Nightwatch: Best for AI Tracking Across Google, YouTube and Bing

New to this list in the July 2026 update, assessed on documentation and a trial account rather than our hands-on test.

Nightwatch pairs its classic rank tracker with AI visibility monitoring across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Mode and AI Overviews, alongside Google, YouTube, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo and Google Maps for classic search. Every plan includes the AI coverage, with monthly AI response limits that scale by tier.

The entry allowance is now published clearly, which it was not when we first added the tool: Starter covers 500 keywords tracked daily, 50 AI prompts and 1,500 AI answers per month.

Pros:

• Classic and AI tracking in one subscription
• Coverage beyond Google is rare in this category
• 14-day full-feature trial, no credit card

Cons:

• 50 AI prompts on Starter is a small program, so most agencies will be pricing the tier above
• AI response limits on lower tiers can pinch if you track many prompts
• Perplexity is one of several engines rather than a specialism

Verdict: a sensible consolidation play if you want one tool watching both the old SERP and the new answers.

Entry pricing: €79 per month on the Starter plan, 500 keywords and 50 AI prompts.

11. LPagery AI Rank Tracker: Best for Small Businesses

New to this list in the July 2026 update, assessed on documentation and public plan details rather than our hands-on test.

LPagery is best known as a WordPress bulk page creation plugin; its AI Rank Tracker is a separate product that scans how ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity mention your business, with competitor insights and suggested action steps.

Correction from our July update: we listed this at $59 per month. The published Starter plan is $19 per month, with Pro at $29 and Agency at $49, all monthly billing only. Starter covers 10 tracked keywords and 100 AI prompts. The keyword count stays at 10 on every tier; only the prompt allowance scales. That makes it the cheapest monthly entry on this list by some distance, and also the smallest.

Pros:

• Lowest published monthly price for multi-engine mention tracking
• Action steps aimed at owners, not analysts
• 7-day free trial

Cons:

• 10 tracked keywords on every tier, so upgrading buys prompts and nothing else
• Small allowances rule it out for agency-scale tracking
• The tracker is a newer side product from a plugin vendor, not a dedicated GEO platform

Verdict: a reasonable first tracker for an owner-operator who wants answers, not dashboards.

Entry pricing: $19 per month on the Starter plan, 10 keywords and 100 prompts.

12. Daydream: Best UX for Content Teams

Daydream had the best onboarding of anything we tested. You can have a 50-prompt dashboard set up in under 15 minutes, and the prompt cluster tracking maps neatly onto how content teams already plan topics.

The buying process has changed since July, and it is the reason Daydream drops out of our picks list. Re-checking on September 1, 2026, Daydream publishes no plan names, no prices and no self-serve trial. Its pricing page routes to a booked call, and the free AI visibility dashboard it offers is a lead magnet rather than a trial. We have removed the entry price we previously listed because we can no longer verify it. Read it as a managed service you buy through a sales conversation, not as a tool you can price against the others in this table.

Pros:

• Fastest setup and cleanest interface in the test
• Prompt cluster tracking suits editorial planning

Cons:

• No published pricing, plan names or allowances, so it cannot be compared like for like
• No free trial, only a gated dashboard in exchange for your details
• Less useful if your KPI is citation order rather than topic coverage

Verdict: still the nicest interface here, but you cannot budget for it without a sales call.

Entry pricing: not published; pricing on application.

13. Goodie: Best for Sentiment Monitoring

Goodie layers sentiment on top of citation tracking: not just whether your brand is mentioned in AI answers, but how it is being talked about. For brand and comms teams that is often the more important question.

Repriced since our last update. The entry Explorer plan now lists at $399 per month for 100 prompts and 3,000 AI responses, covering ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity. Gemini, Copilot and Claude sit on higher tiers. That moves Goodie out of the mid-market band it occupied in July and into the same bracket as Peec.

Pros:

• Sentiment angle no other tool in our test handled as well
• Citation and mention tracking in the same view
• 7-day free trial you can start without a sales call

Cons:

• Sentiment classification still needs human review on nuanced mentions
• Not the tool for citation-order or URL-level analysis
• 100 prompts on entry is tight, and the price no longer reads as a budget option

Verdict: the brand monitoring pick when tone matters as much as presence, but check the prompt cap against your list before committing.

Entry pricing: $399 per month on the Explorer plan.

14. BrandRank.AI: Best for Competitive Share of Voice

BrandRank.AI frames everything as share of voice: your visibility versus named competitors across the prompts you track. If your reporting question is "are we winning or losing against these three rivals", this is the cleanest answer we found.

Correction from our July update: we previously listed an entry price for BrandRank.AI. Re-checking on September 1, 2026, the site publishes no pricing page and no self-serve plan, and every route ends at a demo request. We have moved it to pricing on application rather than leave a number we cannot stand behind.

Pros:

• Best competitive comparison view in the test
• Share-of-voice framing that executives grasp immediately
• Names a broad engine list including Perplexity, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok

Cons:

• No published pricing and no advertised trial, so evaluation starts with a sales call
• Less depth on your own citation detail
• Mid-pack on everything that is not competitive comparison

Verdict: the pick when the board slide is "us versus them", provided you are comfortable buying through a demo process.

Entry pricing: not published; pricing on application.

15. Scrunch AI: Best for Simple Cross-Engine Reporting

Scrunch AI tracks multiple AI engines at a price below the enterprise platforms. In our testing it did nothing badly and nothing brilliantly.

Two changes since July. The company has moved from scrunchai.com to scrunch.com, and the published entry price is higher than the figure we carried: Starter is $250 per month billed annually, or $300 month to month, for 350 custom prompts plus a library of industry prompts. Coverage spans ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Mode and AI Overviews, and Meta on every plan.

Pros:

• Multi-engine coverage on every tier, not gated behind an upgrade
• Straightforward reporting
• 7-day Starter trial with no credit card

Cons:

• Unfocused: no single metric it does better than a specialist
• Weaker prompt organisation than AthenaHQ or Daydream
• The annual price only holds if you commit annually

Verdict: decent but unfocused; pick it only if broad multi-engine coverage is the whole brief.

Entry pricing: $250 per month billed annually, or $300 month to month.

16. Ahrefs Brand Radar: Best for Existing Ahrefs Users

Substantially changed since July, and the change is the reason it moved up our thinking. Ahrefs' AI mention tracking now sits inside Brand Radar without a beta label, and custom AI prompt tracking is included on every paid plan: 5 tracked prompts on Lite at EUR 119 per month, 10 on Standard, 20 on Advanced. If you want volume, the AI Visibility Index is a separate add-on at EUR 179 per month, with extra custom-prompt packages sold alongside it.

Engine coverage named on the Brand Radar page is AI Overviews, AI Mode, Perplexity, Gemini, ChatGPT and Copilot. Worth knowing before you plan around it: in July 2026 Ahrefs restricted Claude tracking to custom prompts only, attributing the change to significantly increased costs. That is a useful public datapoint for the pattern we flag further down, where broad engine lists quietly get trimmed when the query bills arrive.

Pros:

• No extra subscription if you are already an Ahrefs customer
• Sits next to the backlink and keyword data you already use
• Out of beta, so it is a feature you can plan reporting around

Cons:

• 5 tracked prompts on the entry plan is a sample, not a monitoring program
• Real prompt volume means the Index add-on on top of your plan
• Still not a reason to buy Ahrefs on its own

Verdict: now genuinely worth using if you are already inside the ecosystem; price the add-on honestly if you need more than a handful of prompts.

Entry pricing: included from the Lite plan at EUR 119 per month with 5 tracked AI prompts; AI Visibility Index add-on EUR 179 per month.

17. Conductor AI Add-On: Best for Existing Conductor Customers

Conductor's AI tracking is an enterprise add-on with custom pricing. The composite methodology is competent, but nobody should adopt Conductor for this feature alone.

One detail worth knowing before a sales call: AI tracking is metered in AI Search Credits, and the published plan comparison shows no credit allowance on the entry Essentials tier, with 2,500 credits per year appearing at Growth. So AI search effectively starts one tier above the entry plan. The trial is three weeks with no credit card.

Pros:

• Integrates with the Conductor content workflow you already run
• Enterprise support and procurement already in place
• Three-week trial with no card, unusual at this end of the market

Cons:

• Custom pricing, so budgeting requires a sales call
• AI credits do not appear on the entry tier
• Standalone specialists move faster on Perplexity-specific features

Verdict: only if you have Conductor already.

Entry pricing: enterprise, pricing on application.

18. seoClarity AI Module: Best for Existing seoClarity Customers

Same story as Conductor: a citation tracking module bolted onto an enterprise platform, priced by conversation. The AI product is branded ArcAI, and its own pricing page lists three packages with quote buttons and no rates, starting at 500 prompt queries.

Pros:

• Keeps AI citation data inside your existing enterprise reporting
• One vendor relationship instead of two
• Broad named engine list including Perplexity, ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Mode and AI Overviews

Cons:

• An add-on, not a standalone product
• Custom pricing and enterprise sales cycles
• The platform pricing page carries figures it dates to 2022, so treat any number you find there as indicative only

Verdict: an add-on for existing customers, not a destination.

Entry pricing: enterprise, pricing on application.

How to Choose: A Quick Decision Framework

Work through these five questions before you pay for anything. The first one is new, and it is the one that catches people out.

1. Does the plan you are about to buy actually include Perplexity? Not the homepage. The plan comparison table. Profound puts it on Growth, Rankability on Core, and Peec makes it one of three model slots you choose.
2. What is your KPI? Presence (cheap tools work), citation order (Peec, AthenaHQ), share of voice (BrandRank.AI), or a board-level composite (Profound).
3. How many prompts genuinely matter? Under 50, go manual. Entry tiers have got smaller this year, so check the allowance rather than assuming a few hundred prompts is standard. Beyond that, price the mid tiers honestly.
4. Do you already pay for an SEO platform? Check what SE Ranking, AWR, Nightwatch, Ahrefs, Conductor or seoClarity now bundle before adding a standalone bill. Ahrefs in particular now includes prompt tracking on every paid plan.
5. Who reads the output? Analysts want Peec or Rankability, executives want one composite number, and if the answer is writers, budget for a sales conversation because Daydream no longer sells itself self-serve.

A few picks by specific need:

Best free Perplexity rank tracker (software-based)

This changed in our favour. AthenaHQ now publishes a permanently free Essential tier that includes Perplexity, limited by a small credit allowance rather than a countdown. It is small, but it is a real product rather than a trial, which is more than we could say in July.

Beyond that, the closest things to free are trial periods. SE Ranking, Keyword.com, Nightwatch, Otterly.AI, Scrunch and Conductor all advertise trials without a credit card, with Conductor's three weeks the most generous we found. The genuinely free option remains the manual workflow above. Anything else advertising a "free Perplexity rank tracker" is usually a short trial dressed up as a free plan.

Best online Perplexity rank tracker (browser-based, no install)

Every paid tool on this list is browser-based SaaS, so they all qualify. Daydream had the best onboarding we saw, but it no longer publishes pricing or offers a self-serve trial, so for zero install plus zero friction the practical answer is now Otterly.AI or Scrunch, both of which let you start in 7 days without a card.

Best Perplexity keyword rank tracker software

"Keyword" is a slightly awkward word here because Perplexity does not really work on keywords, it works on prompts. The closest match is AthenaHQ or Profound, both of which let you tag prompts by topic cluster, which is the nearest analogue to keyword grouping. If you are coming from traditional SEO, AthenaHQ feels the most familiar. If you literally want keyword volume alongside AI tracking, AWR at 7,000 keywords on its entry plan is the biggest allowance here by a wide margin.

Best Perplexity SEO analysis tool (beyond tracking)

For analysis on top of tracking: Goodie for sentiment, BrandRank.AI for competitive share of voice, Profound for content recommendations and its new citation decay reporting, Rankability if URL-level citation records feed your content decisions. None of these replace a content strategist. They surface signals; you still need someone to act on them. That last part is what our Perplexity SEO service exists to do.

Tools to Approach With Caution

A few patterns we saw repeatedly in tools we are not recommending:

Single rank integers: any tool that gives you "you rank #3 in Perplexity for prompt X" is oversimplifying. Perplexity does not work that way. The number might track week-over-week change directionally, but the absolute value is theatre.

Massive prompt allowances at low prices: if a $49 per month tool claims 10,000 prompts per month, something is off. Either the prompts are being run extremely infrequently, or the data is scraped from cache rather than live. Live Perplexity API calls cost vendors real money.

"All AI engines" claims with no detail: some tools claim to track Perplexity, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Mistral and Copilot. Six or more engines is a lot of integration overhead. Ask which engines they actually call live versus simulate.

That pattern got a public data point this summer. In July 2026 Ahrefs restricted Claude tracking to custom prompts only and said plainly that the reason was significantly increased costs. Ahrefs can afford to run these queries about as well as anyone in the category, and it still pulled back. When a smaller vendor advertises a longer engine list at a lower price, that is the economics you are betting against.

Engine lists that belong to a plan you are not buying: the newest version of the same problem. The logos on the homepage describe the platform. The engines you get describe your tier. We found three tools on this list where Perplexity sits above the advertised entry price, and it is the single most common way people end up paying for a Perplexity tracker that does not track Perplexity.

FAQ: Perplexity Rank Tracking

How do I track my rankings in Perplexity?

Perplexity does not have ranking positions like Google, so you track citations instead: whether your URL appears in the answer, where it sits in the citation list, and whether the answer quotes you. You can do this manually by running your priority prompts and logging the results in a spreadsheet, or use a tool like AthenaHQ, Otterly.AI or Peec AI to automate the checks. Either way, track the same prompts on a consistent schedule so you see trends rather than one-off snapshots.

Is there a free Perplexity rank tracker?

Close to it, but with a catch. AthenaHQ now publishes a permanently free Essential tier that includes Perplexity, capped by a small monthly credit allowance rather than a time limit. Beyond that, anything advertised as free is a trial: SE Ranking, Keyword.com, Nightwatch, Otterly.AI, Scrunch and Conductor all advertise trials without a credit card. The genuinely free option is still a manual workflow, running your 20 to 50 priority prompts in Perplexity each week and logging the citations in a Google Sheet.

How does Perplexity rank its sources?

Perplexity runs a live web search for each prompt, then selects a small set of sources its models judge relevant, authoritative and current enough to cite. Clear structure, direct answers to the question being asked, and freshness all appear to influence which pages get cited. There is no published algorithm, which is why tracking your own citations over time matters more than chasing a formula.

Do all AI rank trackers actually track Perplexity?

No, and this is the trap to check before you buy. Several tools that market themselves on AI visibility put Perplexity behind a higher tier or a paid add-on. On Profound, the entry Starter plan tracks ChatGPT only and Perplexity starts on Growth. On Rankability, the Starter plan covers ChatGPT, Google AI Mode and Claude, with Perplexity arriving on Core. Peec AI lets you track three models of six on its lower plans, so Perplexity is included only if you spend one of your three slots on it. Read the plan comparison, not the homepage engine logos.

How much does a Perplexity rank tracker cost?

As of September 2026 the published range runs from about $19 per month for a small-business tool with a handful of keywords, through roughly $29 to $99 a month for entry plans at the specialists, up to $399 and beyond for plans with real prompt volume or multi-engine coverage. Enterprise platforms like Conductor, seoClarity, BrandRank.AI and Daydream publish no pricing at all. Compare prompt allowances rather than headline prices, because the cheapest plans often buy very few prompts. Otterly's $29 tier buys 15.

What is the best Perplexity rank tracker overall?

AthenaHQ still wins on the product itself: composite citation scoring, prompt clustering and competitor tracking, and it now covers ten models rather than the two it did earlier in 2026. It is no longer the value pick, though, because its entry plan has moved well above where it sat. If price-to-value matters more than breadth, Peec AI is the cheapest specialist that lets you put Perplexity in your tracked model set from the entry tier. Budget-first teams should look at Otterly.AI or Keyword.com, and enterprise programs at Profound.

What is the best Perplexity rank tracker for agencies?

Peec AI where citation order is the campaign KPI, because it weights citations in the answer body differently from sidebar citations, which matches what actually drives traffic. Rankability is the stronger pick if URL-level citation records feed your content decisions, though Perplexity coverage starts on its Core plan rather than Starter. If you need one dashboard covering Perplexity alongside ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews for client reporting, Profound is the stronger pick, and its Perplexity coverage starts on the Growth plan.

How do I rank in Perplexity search?

Getting cited is mostly about being the clearest, best-structured source for the specific question. Publish direct answers near the top of the page, keep content fresh, and build the kind of authority signals Perplexity's retrieval favours. Our Perplexity SEO service page walks through the sourcing and structure work we do on client sites, and what we change first when a brand is crawled but never quoted.

Do Perplexity Pro and Max change what gets cited?

Pro and Max change the experience for the person searching (model choice, usage limits, extra features), not how visible your website is. Citations still come from the same underlying retrieval, so you do not need separate tracking per subscription tier. Most tools query the standard product, which is the sensible default to track.

Our Methodology

For the curious. How we tested the original 12:

• 30 prompts across 3 verticals (SaaS, finance, local services)
• Each prompt run weekly for 8 weeks
• Compared tool-reported citation data against manual ground truth (we ran the same prompts ourselves and logged what we saw)
• Scored on: presence accuracy, citation order accuracy, response time, dashboard usability, reporting export

The six tools added in the July 2026 update (Rankability, SE Ranking Visible, Keyword.com, AWR, LPagery and Nightwatch) were not part of that hands-on test. We assessed them on vendor documentation, public demos and trial accounts, and each review says so explicitly.

What we did for this September 2026 update, and what we did not. We went back to all 18 vendors and re-read their own pricing pages, plan comparison tables and, where they publish one, their changelog or product blog. Every entry price, prompt allowance, trial term and engine list on this page reflects what those pages said on September 1, 2026. Where a vendor publishes no price, we say "pricing on application" rather than guessing, and where we previously published a number we can no longer verify, we removed it and said so in the review.

We did not re-run the hands-on test. Judgements about how a tool behaves, its methodology, interface and accuracy against manual ground truth, still come from the original testing period, and where a vendor has since shipped features that might change those judgements, we say that rather than pretending we have tried them. Two prices moved while we were checking, so treat every figure here as a starting point for your own five-minute verification rather than a guarantee.

What to Pick

• Just exploring? Start manual in Google Sheets. Use our free template.
• Want a real free tool? AthenaHQ's Essential tier, which includes Perplexity on a small credit allowance.
• Small business owner? LPagery at $19 per month, or Keyword.com from $26 per month if you want keyword tracking too.
• Small agency or consultant? Peec AI at €85 per month, remembering to spend a model slot on Perplexity.
• Already on an SEO suite? Check Ahrefs, SE Ranking's Visible add-on or AWR before adding a new vendor. Ahrefs now includes prompt tracking on every paid plan.
• Mid-market with cross-engine reporting? Profound, priced from the Growth plan at $399 per month if Perplexity is in scope.
• Citation-order accuracy is your KPI? Peec AI.
• URL-level citation records? Rankability, priced from Core at $199 per month for Perplexity coverage.
• Brand monitoring with sentiment? Goodie at $399 per month.

If you want help setting up Perplexity tracking on your specific prompts (and applying the results to actually rank), that is what we do. Take a look at our AI search optimization service for the Perplexity-specific playbook, or book a free SEO review and we will start with a Perplexity visibility audit on whatever prompts matter most to you.

Related reading: Perplexity Rank Tracking in 2026: What Actually Works covers the underlying methodology in more depth. Perplexity SEO services is the done-for-you side of this: the sourcing, structure and PR work that turns a tracker's red cells green.