Key takeaways
- Geneo is the cheaper entry point at $39.90/month for 1,000 credits, versus Promptwatch's $95/month Essential plan, but Geneo's paid tier only tracks ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.
- Promptwatch tracks eight model families (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta Llama, Google AI surfaces) plus coding assistants, making it the broader monitoring tool if you care about Claude or Gemini visibility specifically.
- Promptwatch goes further into fixing the problem: AEO article generation, CMS publishing, content gap analysis against your own site, crawler log analytics, and an Ads Radar for AI search ads. Geneo stops at monitoring, scoring, and recommendations.
- Geneo's strongest card is agency tooling: white-label dashboards, custom domains, and client portals baked into a dedicated Agency Starter tier. Promptwatch also serves agencies but leans more on brand-side enterprise customers like Yelp, Duolingo, and BNP Paribas.
- Geneo has almost no independent reviews on G2, Capterra, or Product Hunt. Promptwatch has a thicker (if still small) review base at 4.5/5 on G2 across 17 reviews.
- If you just want a visibility score and a competitor benchmark on a budget, Geneo is the simpler buy. If you want the tracking plus the content and technical work to actually move the score, Promptwatch is built for that.
Overview
Promptwatch is an AI search visibility and GEO platform that tracks how brands show up across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta Llama, and Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode. It's used by over 1,840 brands and agencies, including Yelp, Duolingo, Typeform, and BNP Paribas, and it's rated 4.7/5 on G2 in its own marketing (third-party G2 pages currently show 4.5/5 across 17 reviews). What separates it from a plain prompt tracker is the second half of the product: content gap analysis, AEO article generation with CMS publishing to Webflow, Framer, and WordPress, AI crawler log analytics, and an Agent Chat interface for asking questions about your own visibility data.
Geneo is a credit-based AI brand visibility tool aimed at SMBs and agencies. It monitors ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews (Gemini gets mentioned in marketing copy but isn't listed on the pricing/feature table), and boils that down into a 0-100 Brand Visibility Score plus sentiment analysis and competitor benchmarking. Its pricing model is unusual for this category: you buy credits rather than a flat seat, starting with a free 50-credit trial and scaling to a $39.90/month Pro plan or a custom Agency Starter tier with white-label reporting.
Side-by-side comparison
| Feature | Promptwatch | Geneo |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | $95/mo (Essential) | $39.90/mo (Pro) |
| Free tier | No (7-day trial only) | Yes, 50 credits, 1 workspace |
| AI platforms tracked | 8 (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta Llama, Google AI Overviews/Mode) | 3 on paid plans (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews) |
| Prompt tracking | Yes, with volume and difficulty scoring | Yes, credit-metered |
| Content generation | AEO articles with CMS publishing (Webflow, Framer, WordPress) | Content and topic recommendations only, no publishing |
| Content gap analysis | Yes, against an own-site index | Yes, competitor-based content gap suggestions |
| Crawler log / technical analytics | Yes (Agent Analytics, technical optimization) | Not offered |
| White-label / agency portal | Available on agency tiers | Native, with custom domain and client portal |
| Sentiment / hallucination tracking | Yes | Yes, marketed as a headline feature |
| API / MCP access | Included from Essential tier up | Not prominently marketed |
| Pricing model | Flat monthly subscription by project/prompt tier | Credit-based, pay-as-you-go top-ups available |
| Third-party reviews | 4.5/5 G2 (17 reviews), 5.0/5 Capterra (1 review) | Minimal public reviews on G2/Capterra/Product Hunt |
Head-to-head deep dive
Model and platform coverage
Promptwatch covers eight model families and treats Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, and Meta Llama as first-class citizens, not afterthoughts. Geneo's pricing and feature tables only commit to ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews on paid plans, even though its homepage copy name-drops Gemini elsewhere. If your customers are asking Claude or Grok about your category, Geneo simply won't tell you.
Verdict: Promptwatch wins on breadth. Geneo is fine if your buyers live almost entirely in ChatGPT and Google.
Pricing structure and predictability
Geneo's credit system is genuinely different from most GEO tools. You buy a pool of credits (1,000/month on Pro) that get consumed by prompts, refreshes, and analyses, and unused credits carry a 12-month validity window. That's flexible for teams with lumpy usage, but it also means your actual coverage shrinks as your prompt list grows, unless you top up. Promptwatch charges by prompt count and project count instead: 50 prompts and 1 project at $95/mo, scaling to 350 prompts and 5 projects at $579/mo. It's less flexible but easier to forecast.
| Plan tier | Promptwatch | Geneo |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 7-day trial, no forever-free | Free trial, 50 credits, 1 workspace |
| Entry paid | $95/mo, 1 project, 50 prompts, 6,000 responses | $39.90/mo, 1,000 credits, unlimited workspaces |
| Mid tier | $245/mo, 2 projects, 150 prompts, 5 AEO articles | Not a distinct tier, scale via credit top-ups |
| Top tier | $579/mo, 5 projects, 350 prompts, 10 AEO articles | Agency Starter, custom pricing, 2,500+ credits |
| Pay-as-you-go | Not offered | $50/1,000 credits, down to $0.03/credit at 30k |
Verdict: Geneo is cheaper to start. Promptwatch's per-prompt economics get more competitive as you scale into Professional and Business, especially once you factor in the included AEO content and crawler analytics that Geneo doesn't offer at any price.
Content and technical optimization
This is where the two products diverge most. Promptwatch's Business tier includes 10 AEO articles per month generated and pushed straight to your CMS, plus a content gap analysis run against your own site's index, agent analytics on AI crawler behavior, and a Shopping Insights and Ads Radar module for tracking product recommendations and paid placements inside AI answers. Geneo gives you content recommendations and topic suggestions ranked by impact (its dashboard shows things like