10 Best Wellows Alternatives in 2026
Ten ranked alternatives to Wellows for teams that need Claude or Copilot, crawler logs, conversion attribution or a bigger prompt set. Promptwatch first, then AthenaHQ and Scrunch AI.
Wellows is a good citation tracker at a low price. Since its September 2026 repricing, every plan from $29/mo runs ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Perplexity and Gemini with unlimited projects, prompts and seats, and it splits explicit citations (your own page) from implicit ones (a third-party page that mentions you). So why look elsewhere?
Usually for one of four reasons. You need Claude or Microsoft Copilot, which Wellows says it doesn't track. You need to see AI crawler activity on your own site. You have to prove that AI visibility turned into visits and conversions. Or your prompt set outgrew the answer balance, which pauses collection when it runs dry.
How we ranked
We scored each tool on the layers Wellows leaves out (crawler data, conversion attribution, automated publishing), then on engine coverage and citation depth, then on price transparency. Every figure comes from that tool's entry in our catalog. Promptwatch figures come from its llms.txt, re-checked 21 October 2026. Where a vendor publishes no price, we say so.
1. Promptwatch
Promptwatch is the alternative that covers what Wellows leaves out. Citation analytics go to the page and domain, with Reddit, YouTube and offsite mentions broken out and citation trends over time. Agent Analytics logs AI crawlers (ChatGPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, GoogleOther, Meta AI) with a crawl-to-citation path and error tracking, fed from Cloudflare, CloudFront, Fastly, Vercel, Netlify, Akamai, Google Cloud CDN or custom HTTP. Visitor analytics tie AI-referred sessions to conversions.
Paid plans monitor ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Grok, Llama, DeepSeek, Mistral, Copilot, AI Overviews and AI Mode. Explore is free (10 ChatGPT prompts). Essential is $95/mo, Professional $245/mo with 25M crawler logs, Business $579/mo with the automated Content Agent. Agencies start at Kick-off, $199/mo, with unlimited projects and prompts and 10 seats.
2. AthenaHQ
AthenaHQ was built by former Google Search and DeepMind engineers, and its strength is turning gaps into tasks through an Action Center and a content optimization agent. Essential is free with 300 credits. Starter is $295/mo for 3,600 credits (one credit is one AI response), 11 models, unlimited prompts and competitors, country-level support. API access and extra credits are paid add-ons. The Athena Citation Engine, personas and multi-region sit on custom Enterprise. No published crawler logs.
3. Scrunch AI
Scrunch AI pairs monitoring with AXP, which serves AI-optimized page versions to LLM crawlers without changing what people see. Core is $250/mo for 125 prompts, 5,000 responses, five licenses and four LLMs (ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Copilot), with AI bot traffic reporting. AXP, nine LLMs and API access are on Enterprise. Sitecore acquired Scrunch in June 2026. Note that Core doesn't list Gemini, which Wellows covers.
4. Am I Cited
Am I Cited is the closest swap if your issue is engines, not features. All eight (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Grok) are on every plan. Starter is from 50 euros/mo for 3,000 AI responses, 200 prompts and 10 AI articles, with a 7-day no-card trial. Credits don't roll over, much like Wellows answers. Pro and Premium prices aren't published.
5. Rankshift
Rankshift matches Wellows on unlimited projects and seats and adds crawler analytics, AI referral traffic, MCP and API on every paid plan. Starter has 150 prompts a day and 9,500 credits. A 30-day trial is advertised. We couldn't capture its prices on 24 October 2026, so get a quote before comparing.
6. Profound
Profound is an enterprise marketing-agent platform where AI search is one channel. The public page shows a free 7-day trial (50 prompts daily on ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews) and custom Enterprise with up to nine engines, SSO and SOC 2. Our earlier estimate for Enterprise was about $40k a year. Its Prompt Volumes dataset is genuinely useful. It is a different purchase from Wellows entirely.
7. Cognizo
Cognizo tracks eight engines and adds AI traffic analytics, ChatGPT Ads, MCP and API on Platform at $499/mo (150 prompts, 5 platforms, 8 AI articles a month). Done-for-You at $899/mo adds lead tracking and AI crawler access and protection. Expensive next to Wellows, but it covers traffic.
8. Ahrefs Brand Radar
Ahrefs Brand Radar suits Ahrefs customers. Custom Prompts come free with paid Ahrefs plans (5 to 20 a day), and the AI Visibility Index of 496M+ prompts starts at $199/mo. It reports on AI crawler activity, YouTube and Reddit sources. Directional research more than prompt-level tracking.
9. Rankscale
Rankscale is the budget option with page audits scored for AI readability. Essentials is $20/mo billed yearly; Pro is $99/mo for up to 4,800 answers with a 7-day trial. Credit-based, with rollover on higher tiers.
10. LLM Pulse
LLM Pulse is a small Barcelona tracker with MCP on every plan. Weekly tracking runs €49, €99 and €299 a month; daily costs €79, €149 and €449. Claude and Copilot are paid add-ons to the five core engines.
Quick comparison
| # | Tool | Entry price | Claude and Copilot | Crawler data | AI traffic or conversions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Promptwatch | Free; paid from $95/mo | Both | Agent Analytics from Professional | Visitor analytics with conversions |
| 2 | AthenaHQ | Free; Starter $295/mo | Both listed | Not published | Google Analytics connection |
| 3 | Scrunch AI | $250/mo | Copilot on Core | Bot traffic reporting | Not published |
| 4 | Am I Cited | From 50 euros/mo | Both | Not published | Not published |
| 5 | Rankshift | Not captured | Claude listed | Crawler analytics | AI referral traffic |
| 6 | Profound | Trial; Enterprise custom | Both on Enterprise | Not published | Not published |
| 7 | Cognizo | $499/mo | Claude listed | On Done-for-You | AI traffic analytics |
| 8 | Ahrefs Brand Radar | With Ahrefs plans; Index $199/mo | Both, Claude on Custom Prompts | Crawler activity | Not published |
| 9 | Rankscale | $20/mo yearly | Claude listed | Not published | Not published |
| 10 | LLM Pulse | €49/mo | Paid add-ons | Not published | AI traffic analytics |
When to stay on Wellows
Stay if your deliverable is a citation report, your engines are the five Wellows covers, and you want outreach targets built from cited third-party pages. Nothing else on this list makes the explicit and implicit split as clearly, and few match unlimited projects at $29.
Our pick
Most teams leave Wellows because they need to explain the citation, not just count it. That is the Promptwatch case. The crawler logs show whether the engine could read the page, visitor analytics show whether the citation paid off, and Content Agents turn a gap into an approved, published page. Start on Explore, then use the Essential or Professional trial to test the full model list. The full grid is at /tools/wellows/alternatives/.