An AthenaHQ Alternative for Teams Without Hours to Spare

AthenaHQ is software your team runs: you pick the prompts, spend credits to have them answered, and work through the recommendations and the content agent inside their workspace. We run the tracking for you. We write 25 questions from what your site says you sell, ask them of Claude every day, and send a monthly report. When you want pages changed, Page Optimization does it inside your WordPress install.

Their free plan obviously is, and it is a good way to find out whether AI answers mention you at all. Starter is $295 a month billed monthly (October 2026), about double our $149, and it covers far more ground: eleven models and 3,600 responses a month. If you want breadth and someone on your team will use it, that is fair value. If you want a short, steady record and a person to act on it, we cost less.

One AthenaHQ credit is one AI response. Our 25 questions asked of Claude every day come to roughly 750 responses a month, all inside the $149, and each engine you add costs a flat $49 a month instead of drawing down a balance. Their 3,600 credits go further if you want many questions across many engines. Ours is simpler to budget.

Their Starter plan lists a content optimization agent and on-page and off-page actions, and for a team with a writer and a site login that is genuinely useful. Ask in their demo who presses publish. Page Optimization is a person who opens your existing pages, rewrites the answer into the first hundred words, adds the markup, and ships it with your approval, four pages a month for $1,100.

AI Visibility tracks 25 prompts on Claude as standard, and each additional engine, such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google AI Overviews, is $49 a month per website. AthenaHQ covers more engines out of the box, eleven on Starter. We report each engine separately rather than as one blended number, because the engines often disagree about who to name.

Yes. AI Visibility runs its own daily checks, so nothing clashes with their workspace. Some teams keep the free plan for a wide view and use us for the steady monthly record and the page work. If the paid plan stops earning its keep, we will say so.

No. AI Visibility touches nothing on your site. With Page Optimization, pages are edited one at a time on the install you already own, and anything carrying real risk is staged and discussed before it goes near production.

Your website address and up to three competitors. If you do not name any, we pick them from the businesses you compete with in search. We write the 25 questions from your site, so there is no questionnaire. Page Optimization also needs admin access to the site and about an hour to talk through what you sell.

No, and be wary of anybody who does. The same prompt can name two different companies inside one day, and models retrain without notice. What we commit to is the tracking run every day, the work done and shipped, and a report that shows the months a number moved the wrong way beside the months it did not.

Tracking starts within days, so you see where you stand almost at once. A rewritten page usually takes six to twelve weeks to start appearing in answers, and longer where a model leans on sources it has trusted for years. We report the month’s average of daily checks rather than one snapshot.

AI Visibility is $149 a month per website, with each additional AI engine at $49 a month. Page Optimization is $1,100 a month for four pages, and Visibility Pro bundles AI Visibility, Search Reporting, and Page Optimization for $1,200 a month. It is month to month with no setup fee. Cancel any time and the service runs to the last business day of that month.