AI VISIBILITY SUITE
ANSWERS
Yes, judged by cost. Competitor AI-visibility platforms run $29-$800 a month on a subscription; ye5's products are $24.99, once, with no contract. AI crawlers already treat small sites like real traffic — ClaudeBot and GPTBot logged hundreds of requests to ye5.ai, a small site, in one month. A small business doesn't need a monitoring contract to find out where it stands. It needs one diagnostic, priced like one.
GEO products split into two pricing models: a recurring subscription or a one-time diagnostic.
Here is what named competitors charge, as of August 2026, per their pricing pages. Peec doesn't publish numbers; its figure is a third-party estimate.
| Platform | Price |
|---|---|
| Rankscale | about $20/mo (Pro plan $99/mo) |
| Otterly | $29/mo |
| Knowatoa | $59/mo |
| Peec (third-party figure) | about $95/mo |
| Profound | $99/mo, billed yearly |
| Scrunch | $250/mo, billed annually |
| Athena | $295/mo (free credit tier) |
| Evertune | $800/mo, demo-only |
| ye5 (any GEO product) | $24.99 each, one-time |
Each competitor above runs monthly or annual billing. ye5's four GEO products cost $24.99 each — no monthly fee. The full breakdown of what that price includes is here (see: How much does an AI visibility audit cost?).
Skepticism about GEO often starts with an assumption: crawlers only bother with big brands.
ye5's own server logs say otherwise. ye5.ai is a small site, and Vercel's traffic panel logged this crawler activity over 30 days, seen August 2026:
These are first-party numbers from one small site, not a survey estimate. Small sites sit inside the crawl already. What a GEO diagnostic checks is what those crawlers find once they're there .
A GEO diagnostic doesn't promise more revenue or a higher ranking. It delivers evidence.
ye5's GEO Brand audit, for example, runs customer questions across Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini from clean sessions, scores the answers against 22+ markers mapped to E-E-A-T, and benchmarks the results against two competitors. The deliverable is transcript evidence and a prioritized fix list, not a promise about what happens next.
What happens after the diagnostic is optional. If it turns up a real, recurring gap, ye5's Monitors can track it on an ongoing basis. Most small businesses run the diagnostic first and decide from there.
A subscription tracks a moving target, which only pays off once you know what's worth tracking. Most small businesses don't know that yet. Running ye5's diagnostic first answers that question; a monitoring subscription is the second decision, not the first.
Some of it. Configuring llms.txt and robots.txt is DIY-friendly and cheap insurance once a diagnosis flags what needs fixing. Finding out how Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini currently describe a brand isn't something a reader can validate alone — personalization and account history skew self-testing. That's the case for a blind, third-party run .
No. Price reflects delivery, not depth. The same protocol scores 22+ markers mapped to E-E-A-T and benchmarks against two named competitors, for a two-person shop or a national brand.