Siftly Review 2026

Key takeaways

• Siftly bundles AI visibility tracking, GEO content generation, citation outreach, Reddit and LinkedIn actions, and AI crawler logs in one workspace, starting at $0 and running to $599/month.
• It lacks several things that Promptwatch offers: IP-verified crawler logs tied to citations, visitor analytics with conversion attribution, prompt volume and difficulty scoring, query fan-outs, AI Shopping and Ads Radar, and a deeper Content Agent with scheduled CMS publishing on lower tiers.
• Prompt caps are tight for the price (50, 100 and 150 prompts on the paid self-serve plans), and geographies are limited to 1, 2 and 3.
• Claude tracking is pitched on the homepage but is enterprise-only, not on any published self-serve plan.
• Best for startups and small teams that want a lower-cost, all-in-one tool and are comfortable with AI-generated content volume.

Siftly is an AI search optimization platform from a Y Combinator W22 company, led by founder and CEO Chalam PVS. It sits in the generative engine optimization (GEO) category: it measures how ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews describe your brand, shows which sources those engines trust, and then tries to do some of the work to fix gaps. The homepage framing is "tracks how AI describes your brand, does the work to fix it, and measures the traffic that converts."

The audience skews toward startups and small marketing teams. The customer logos on the site (ContractsAI, Appsmith, Inkle, PromptQL, Domu) are mostly early-stage B2B SaaS and fintech, plus a handful of local and services businesses such as a Tokyo agency (BROMO), a mortgage broker and a skin clinic. It carries a 4.8 rating on G2, though the review count wasn't visible, and the quotes shown on the pricing page are curated by Siftly itself.

What I like is the ambition: most tools in this space stop at a dashboard, and Siftly tries to push through to content, outreach and social. What gives me pause is how much of the value on the Starter and Growth plans depends on AI-generated article volume, which I couldn't verify for quality.

Key features

Brand visibility and ranking. The core dashboard shows visibility by platform over time, a visibility rank against named competitors, and a leaderboard. Visibility is measured daily on paid plans (weekly on Free). You can segment by AI model, location and topic, so you can compare ChatGPT against Perplexity or US against UK. The site separates brand visibility (your name is mentioned) from source visibility (your pages are cited), which is the right split to make.

Share of voice and prompt tracking. Prompts are swept daily across engines, markets and languages, and each one shows whether you were mentioned, the topic, and which brands appeared. Onboarding is light: you set up a workspace with brand and domain, then add 3-5 prompts that mirror real customer questions. The catch is the cap. Paid plans allow 50, 100 and 150 prompts, which is thin for a brand with several product lines.

Citation and source analysis. A source report lists every domain and page cited in your market, with domain authority, share of citations, and which brands appear there. It flags where you are missing. This is the same idea competitors offer, and it feeds directly into the outreach tool.

GEO content generation. Siftly drafts articles from citation data and checks them against your brand facts. The Knowledge Hub and Brand Kit, which two G2 reviewers singled out, hold brand information so output stays consistent. Templates include blog posts, comparisons, guides and listicles. Starter includes 8 posts per month, Growth 30 (with FAQ and schema), Scale 60 with multi-language support. Content publishes to your CMS directly. Integrations shown include WordPress, Webflow, Wix, Ghost, Framer, Sanity, Strapi and Duda.

Citation outreach. This is the most distinctive feature. You can ask the assistant to draft outreach to pages already cited by AI engines, for example sites that still link to a retired product page. It proposes a campaign with contacts, personas and a multi-step sequence, sent from your own mailbox (Gmail) on a schedule you approve. Starter allows 5 campaigns per month and Scale 30.

Reddit and LinkedIn actions. Growth and above include a Reddit action plan with replies drafted in your voice, tagged by subreddit and relevance. There is also a LinkedIn board to generate, schedule and track posts. Scale adds social distribution to LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and Quora. Note that Promptwatch's data shows ChatGPT cited reddit.com far less after mid-August 2026 (see Promptwatch's Reddit citation data), so Reddit effort should be weighed by engine.

AI crawler tracking. A log shows which bots hit your site (GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot), the page, the country, and whether the visit was for training, indexing or citation. It is available from Growth, alongside GA4 and Google Search Console integrations. It is useful, but it is a visit log rather than a full crawl-to-citation path.

Experiments. The FAQ describes running control versus optimized content tests across AI platforms and measuring statistical significance. Few competitors offer this, though I couldn't see how deep it goes.

Ask Siftly and MCP. An in-app chat assistant answers questions over your data ("Why did Perplexity coverage dip last week?") and a Siftly MCP server exposes 14 tools such as get_brand_metrics and get_content_recommendations to Claude or Cursor. There is also a REST API and Slack alerts when a citation moves.

Geographies and languages. Prompts run per market and language, with separate reports for each. Limits are 1 geography on Starter, 2 on Growth and 3 on Scale.

Who is it for

The sweet spot is a seed to Series A SaaS or fintech team with one marketer and no dedicated GEO specialist, tracking 50-150 prompts and wanting content and outreach handled in the same tool. Customer stories fit that profile: Domu went from no visibility to rank #9, Tidal Loans reports roughly 9x Google AI Overview visibility, and Inkle reports 5x Perplexity visibility. These are vendor-published results, so treat them as directional.

Small agencies serving local businesses are another fit, as BROMO's Japan-based use shows. Multi-language support on Scale is relevant there.

It is a weaker fit for large enterprises needing hundreds of prompts, many regions, SSO on a self-serve plan, or deep analytics. Brands that need Claude tracking should expect to go enterprise. Agencies managing 20+ clients will also find that there is no multi-client workspace structure on the published plans, so check that with sales.

Integrations and ecosystem

• CMS publishing: WordPress, Webflow, Wix, Ghost, Framer, Sanity, Strapi, Duda; custom CMS support on Scale.
• Analytics: Google Search Console and Google Analytics (GA4), from Growth.
• Communication: Slack alerts, Gmail for outreach sending.
• Social: Reddit and LinkedIn.
• Developer: REST API for visibility, citation and crawler data; MCP server with 14 tools for Claude and Cursor.

I found no browser extension or mobile app. Export options weren't described in the scraped material.

Pricing and value

Published pricing (confirm at siftly.ai/pricing). Annual billing saves 20%, and a 7-day trial is offered.

• Free, $0: 100 responses, 10 prompts, 2 engines (ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews), weekly refresh, competitor tracking, 30-day history. No content generation.
• Starter, $79/month: 4,500 responses, 50 prompts, 3 engines (adds Perplexity), daily refresh, 90-day history, 8 blog posts with CMS auto-publish, 5 outreach campaigns.
• Growth, $249/month: 30,000 responses, 100 prompts, 2 geographies, 5 engines (adds Gemini and Google AI Mode), 30 posts with FAQ and schema, Reddit engagement, AI bot crawl tracking, GA4 and GSC, 6-month history.
• Scale, $599/month: 108,000 responses, 150 prompts, 3 geographies, 8 engines (adds Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek), 60 posts with multi-language, social distribution, 30 outreach campaigns, 5 seats, 12-month history. Sales-gated.
• Enterprise: custom. Unlimited volume, SSO, Claude tracking, 2-hour SLA.

Support SLAs run from 7 days on Free to 6 hours on Scale. Siftly's own comparison page puts Profound near $499/month and mid-market tools at roughly $29-$200, which is self-published and biased. On that scale Starter and Growth sit at or above the mid-market band.

For comparison, Promptwatch's Essential plan is $95/month with 50 prompts, all AI models, site audit, content gap analysis, crawler and visitor analytics access, and MCP and API, and Professional is $245/month with 150 prompts and 5 AEO articles. Promptwatch's Business plan at $579/month adds the automated Content Agent. Siftly's per-article volume is higher, but Promptwatch includes more analytics in each tier.

Strengths and limitations

Strengths

• An end-to-end flow from tracking to content to outreach, rare at the $79 price point.
• Citation outreach drafted and sent from your own mailbox.
• Free plan and 7-day trials make testing painless.
• MCP, API and Slack hooks for teams who live in Claude or Cursor.
• Broad CMS coverage including Sanity, Strapi and Duda.

Limitations

• Small prompt and geography caps relative to price.
• Claude is enterprise-only despite appearing on the homepage.
• Content quality is unproven, and Starter and Growth value leans on article volume.
• The Scale tier requires a sales conversation.

What it lacks compared with Promptwatch

As a direct competitor to Promptwatch, Siftly is missing several capabilities:

• IP-verified crawler logs with spoofed bots filtered out and a crawl-to-citation path with citation rate per page.
• Visitor analytics attributing real traffic and conversions from AI platforms.
• Prompt volume and difficulty scoring, and query fan-outs showing the exact searches AI runs.
• Dedicated Reddit, YouTube and LinkedIn citation reports, plus offsite mentions and page-level tracking.
• AI Shopping (ChatGPT, Amazon Alexa) and Ads Radar.
• A prioritized Action Board, 360 Insights joining crawls, citations and Search Console and Bing data, and local GEO targeting at exact coordinates.
• Coverage of 15+ real-UI engines, including Meta AI, Alexa and coding agents like Codex and Claude Code, on every paid plan. Siftly gates engines by tier.
• ISO/IEC 27001 certification is not mentioned for Siftly.

Bottom line

Siftly is a reasonable pick for an early-stage team that wants tracking, content and outreach in one inexpensive tool and will spend time reviewing generated drafts. Start with the free audit and the free plan before paying.

For teams that want optimization grounded in crawler logs, traffic attribution and broader engine coverage, Promptwatch is the stronger option, with a content agent that publishes and then tracks whether each page gets crawled, cited and clicked. To compare more tools, see the GEO software directory at bestgeosoftware.com.

Best use case: a startup marketer who wants one cheap workspace to track AI answers and turn gaps into articles and outreach.