Peec AI and Otterly.AI vs. GeoHero: One-Time AI-Visibility Report vs. Monthly Subscription
If you're deciding between Peec AI, Otterly.AI, and a one-time AI-visibility report, both named competitors sell continuous monthly access; GeoHero sells the same category of measurement as two one-time reports instead, Compete at $249 and Deep Research at $499, no recurring charge on either. Peec AI publishes no dollar pricing across its four tiers; Otterly.AI's $29/month is genuinely the cheapest sticker of the three but covers fewer engines than either GeoHero tier. The honest short answer: for a single, rigorous measurement, a board update, a budget ask, a competitive review, the one-time report is cheaper and more transparent on published facts. For a team that needs a live dashboard checked daily, either subscription is doing a genuinely different job, and its recurring cost buys something a delivered report doesn't. What follows is the sourced comparison behind that answer.
What Each One Delivers
Peec AI (its own pricing page, as scanned July 2026) sells four tiers, Starter, Pro, Advanced, and Enterprise, none listing a dollar amount; current pricing requires contacting sales. All four tiers track the same six engines, ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, and Gemini, no Claude at any tier. What changes across tiers is project count, countries per project, and support level, not engine breadth. Its differentiated features: branded-versus-non-branded visibility filtering, URL-level rather than domain-level citation detail, a Citation Gap Analysis panel, segment-specific prompt tracking, and unlimited team seats at no per-seat charge. Its public pages don't state a per-prompt run count or a confidence interval.
Otterly.AI (otterly.ai/pricing, July 2026) starts at $29/month and tracks 7 engines across its full roster, among them ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, AI Overviews, and AI Mode, but the $29 entry tier includes only 4 of the 7; full coverage requires paid add-ons. Its own site emphasizes breadth of engine coverage over granular per-engine analysis, and its public pages don't state a run-count methodology or margin of error.
GeoHero sells one-time reports instead. Compete costs $249 once, 30 prompts across all 7 tracked engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Bing Copilot) at R=5, for 1,050+ verified AI answers. Deep Research costs $499 once, 60 prompts across the same 7 engines at R=7-8, for 2,940+ verified answers, labeled research-grade. Every stochastic number ships with a 95% bootstrap-percentile confidence interval and a run-count label on the public methodology page.
The Comparison, Sourced
| GeoHero Compete | GeoHero Deep Research | Peec AI | Otterly.AI (entry) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Billing | One-time | One-time | Monthly, 4 tiers | Monthly |
| Price | $249 | $499 | Not published | $29/mo ($348/yr) |
| Engines covered | 7 of 7, incl. Claude | 7 of 7 | 6, no Claude | 4 of 7 (add-ons for rest) |
| R published | Yes, R=5 | Yes, R=7-8 | Not published | Not published |
| 95% CI published | Yes | Yes | Not published | Not published |
| Methodology page | Yes | Yes | Not published | Not published |
| Answers per dollar | ~4.2 | ~5.9 | Not computable | Not computable |
| Team seats | N/A, delivered report | N/A, delivered report | Unlimited | Not itemized publicly |
Where the One-Time Report Wins on the Facts
Three sourced facts favor a one-time report for a first measurement.
Full 7-engine coverage at the stated price, no tier gate. Compete's $249 runs all 7 tracked engines with nothing held back for a higher tier. Peec AI's ceiling, even on its unpriced Enterprise tier, is 6 engines, Claude isn't on its roster at any price point. Otterly.AI's $29 entry price covers 4 of its own 7, the other 3 cost extra.
Published methodology instead of an unstated number. GeoHero's methodology page states a 95% bootstrap-percentile confidence interval and a run-count label behind every stochastic number, R=5 on Compete (1,050+ verified answers, roughly 4.2 per dollar), R=7-8 on Deep Research (2,940+ verified answers, roughly 5.9 per dollar). Neither Peec AI nor Otterly.AI publishes a comparable run count, confidence interval, or per-dollar figure as of this scan. That's a checkable gap in what you can verify before buying, not a claim about either product's underlying quality.
The 12-month math, worked. Compete costs $249 once, covering all 7 engines. Otterly.AI's entry tier costs $348 over 12 months for 4 of 7 engines, $99 more than Compete for three fewer engines, before any add-on cost is added. Peec AI publishes no dollar figure at all, so a like-for-like 12-month comparison isn't possible without a sales call, itself a data point for a buyer trying to budget without one.
Where Peec AI and Otterly.AI Actually Win
None of this makes either competitor the wrong choice, they're built for a different job, worth naming plainly where each earns its recurring cost.
Standing monthly monitoring is a real feature for teams shipping continuously. If your content or campaign cadence changes week over week and you want a dashboard checked on your own schedule rather than waiting for a delivered report, that's precisely what a subscription is for. Both Peec AI and Otterly.AI are built around that ongoing-monitoring use case, not a single audit.
Peec AI's unlimited team seats and segment-specific tracking fit a larger, distributed team better than a single document. A one-time report is one report, not a multi-seat login; a 12-person account needing standing dashboard access at no extra per-seat charge, or separate prompt sets and dashboards for enterprise versus SMB buyers, is a workflow Peec AI covers directly and a single audit pass doesn't.
Otterly.AI's $29/month is the lowest absolute monthly price compared here. For a team wanting to test AI-visibility tracking on 4 core engines at the smallest recurring commitment, Otterly.AI's entry tier is cheaper monthly than either GeoHero tier, even though the 12-month total favors Compete once full 7-engine coverage is priced in.
Who Each One Is Actually For
A team preparing for a specific decision, a board update, a market-entry review, a competitive audit before a launch, is well served by a one-time report: full 7-engine coverage, a published confidence interval, no recurring line item afterward. A larger or multi-segment team needing a live dashboard, unlimited seats, and separate tracking across buyer personas is better served by Peec AI, weighed against a direct sales call since its pricing isn't public. A smaller team mainly needing 4 core engines tracked continuously at the lowest named monthly price here is best served by Otterly.AI's entry tier. None of the three is strictly better, the honest choice depends on whether the job is answered once or watched continuously.
Related Reading
For the full breakdown of what's included in each GeoHero tier, see the GeoHero pricing page. For how one-time reports compare against the wider field of AI-visibility subscriptions, see AI visibility tools compared: one-time reports vs. monthly subscriptions. For Peec AI's full feature set and independent citation data, see Peec AI review. For a broader set of Peec AI alternatives at different price points, see Peec AI alternatives compared. For a similar one-on-one comparison against another monthly competitor, see Knowatoa vs. one-time report.
Peec AI's and Otterly.AI's pricing, engine counts, and feature claims in this piece reflect each vendor's publicly listed pricing pages as scanned by the GeoHero Research Team in July 2026; confirm current figures directly with each vendor before budgeting, since pricing in this category has moved often as the market matures. GeoHero's own figures come from its locked pricing configuration and published methodology documentation. This is not sponsored or vendor-provided content.
Frequently asked questions
Is a one-time report cheaper than Peec AI or Otterly.AI over a year?
Against Otterly.AI, yes on a straight 12-month comparison: its $29/month entry tier costs $348/year (otterly.ai/pricing, July 2026) for 4 of its 7 tracked engines, more than GeoHero's $249 Compete report, which covers all 7 engines once. Against Peec AI, a like-for-like comparison isn't possible from public information: its own pricing page lists four tiers, Starter, Pro, Advanced, and Enterprise, with no dollar amount published for any of them as of this scan (July 2026), contact its sales team for current figures. If you need the number refreshed monthly across a full year rather than once, the math changes, that's a genuinely different job than a single audit.
Do Peec AI or Otterly.AI cover the same AI engines as GeoHero?
Not fully. Peec AI tracks 6 engines on every tier, ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, and Gemini, with no Claude coverage at any price point. Otterly.AI tracks 7 engines across its full roster, but its $29 entry tier includes only 4 of them, reaching all 7 requires paid add-ons (otterly.ai/pricing, July 2026). GeoHero's $249 Compete report runs all 7 tracked engines, including Claude, at its single stated price, no add-on or higher tier required.
When is Peec AI or Otterly.AI the better choice over a one-time report?
When the job is genuinely continuous: a team shipping content or campaigns weekly that wants a live dashboard to watch response drift day over day, a larger team that needs Peec AI's unlimited seats rather than a single shared document, or a team specifically needing Peec AI's segment-separated tracking across multiple buyer personas. A one-time report answers a point-in-time question well, it isn't built to replace a standing monitoring seat for a team that genuinely needs one.