Key takeaways
- Promptwatch is the strongest all-round pick if you want more than a mention counter: crawler logs, Reddit/YouTube citation tracking, ChatGPT Shopping monitoring, and Content Agents that actually publish to your CMS. Starts at $95/mo (Essential).
- Otterly.AI is the closest budget match to LLMBoost's price point, starting at $29/mo (Lite), and covers more engines out of the box (ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot).
- Peec AI is a clean, well-designed dashboard for teams that just want visibility, position, and sentiment metrics without a lot of extra noise, from $95/mo.
- AthenaHQ has an actual free tier (Essential, 300 credits) and is a reasonable step up when you outgrow a 10-prompt plan, from $295/mo.
- Profound, Scrunch AI, and Brandlight sit at the enterprise end, useful once you have a real budget and need governance, remediation agents, or multi-brand programs, not a starter replacement for LLMBoost.
LLMBoost is a fine entry point if you just want a cheap way to check whether ChatGPT or Claude mention your brand. But at 10-15 prompts and five lower-tier models (GPT-4.1 Mini, Claude 3 Haiku, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 3 Mini rather than the flagship versions), it's a narrow slice of what's actually happening in AI search. Once you're past the