AI Rankly vs SE Ranking
Comparing AI Rankly and SE Ranking?
Their sticker is lower, and for one person it stays lower. For a team it does not: Growth is $279 for three manager seats, extra seats start at $16 each, and white-label client reporting needs the Agency Pack at $69/mo on annual billing only. A six-person team that reports to clients is $396, against $349 here with every seat and white-label included. Then there is what the numbers are made of: their own FAQ says mentions are matched by name, so a brand written as "ION" where you configured "ION Group" registers as no mention at all.
- A six-person team that reports to clients pays $396 on SE Ranking, against $349 here.
- Their own FAQ concedes mentions are matched by name, so "ION" against "ION Group" can register as no mention.
- Local AI visibility and AI traffic analytics are both badged coming soon on their site.
- 5 answer engines
- 300 prompts, re-run daily
- 10 competitors tracked
- Unlimited team seats
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The same brief. The question is what each plan actually includes.
Capabilities sorted by whether the mid-tier plan on each side actually includes them, or holds them back for a higher tier, an add-on or a contract.
AI RanklyProfessional · $349/mo10 of 11
included on this plan
- E-E-A-T scoring
- Entity accuracy ledger
- Citation outreach pipeline
- An agent that drafts the fixes
- Unlimited team seats
- White-label client reports
- Claude & Grok tracking
- Daily prompt tracking
- Five answer engines
- Crawlability auditing
- REST API & MCP
SE RankingGrowth · $279/mo4 of 11
included on this plan
- E-E-A-T scoring
- Entity accuracy ledger
- Citation outreach pipeline
- An agent that drafts the fixes
- Unlimited team seats
- White-label client reports
- Claude & Grok tracking
- Daily prompt tracking
- Five answer engines
- Crawlability auditing
- REST API & MCP
The plan you'd actually buy, side by side
| Feature | AI RanklyProfessional · $349/mo | SE RankingGrowth · $279/mo |
|---|---|---|
| The plan a marketing team buys | ||
| Plan compared | Professional | Growth |
| Price per month | $349 | $279 |
| AI prompts tracked daily | 300 | 250 |
| Answer engines | 5 | 5 |
| Cost for a six-person team with client reports | $349 | $396 |
| Manager seats included | Unlimited | 3 |
| White-label available month to month | ||
| White-label reporting | Included | Agency Pack |
| AI tracking in the base plan | ||
| Engine coverage | ||
| ChatGPT | ||
| Perplexity | ||
| Google AI Overviews | ||
| Google AI Mode | ||
| Gemini | ||
| Claude | ||
| Grok | ||
| How the measurement is done | ||
| Scored across many samples | ||
| Captured from the consumer product, not the model API | ||
| Mentions matched semantically, not by string | ||
| City-level and "near me" tracking | ||
| Turning findings into work | ||
| Agent that drafts the fixes | ||
| E-E-A-T scoring | ||
| Entity accuracy ledger | ||
| Citation outreach with stored contacts | ||
| Alerts on AI visibility drops | ||
| AI crawler activity log | ||
| AI Shopping tracking | ||
| Reddit as a tracked channel | ||
| Where SE Ranking is stronger | ||
| Price per tracked prompt | $1.16 | $1.12 |
| Free way to try it | ||
| REST API & MCP | ||
| Paid and sponsored placement detection | ||
| Full SEO platform in the same subscription | ||
SE Ranking figures were read from their public pricing and product pages on August 31, 2026 and may have changed since, so check seranking.com/subscription.html. Rows compare each vendor's mid tier, Professional · $349/mo against SE Ranking Growth · $279/mo, because that's the plan most teams buy; a ✕ means it is not included on the plan compared. Both prices are month-to-month. AI Rankly also bills annually at $291/mo. Our pricing is public in full.
Measure it, then actually move it
Track
Every buyer question, re-run daily
Add the questions your buyers actually ask. We run them through every engine on your plan, every day, and capture the full answer text, not just whether you were named.
Cover
Five engines on the plan you buy
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode, all included on Professional rather than parcelled out as add-ons or held back for a contract.
Benchmark
See exactly who gets recommended instead
Share of voice against the competitors you name, per prompt and per engine, so you can tell the difference between losing everywhere and losing one question that matters.
Act
Fixes drafted, not just findings filed
The supervised agent turns each gap into reviewable work: the page edit, the schema, the citation to chase. You approve it; you don't write it from scratch, and it isn't metered in credits.
A very good SEO platform with AI tracking in it
Be clear about what SE Ranking is. It is a mature SEO suite (rank tracking, keyword research, backlinks, site audit, content tools) and AI visibility now sits inside the base plans rather than behind an add-on. Core is $129/mo for 100 AI prompts daily across five LLMs; Growth is $279 for 250. Their standalone SE Visible product starts at $99 for 200 prompts. On price per tracked prompt they beat us at every tier, and their 20% annual discount is a shade deeper than the two months free we give for paying annually.
Two things we normally lead with are also true of them, so we won't claim them here: SE Visible runs three samples per prompt with a published weighting formula, and collects answers through a real browser rather than an API. Credit where it is due.
The difference is the half after the measurement. Their AI Results Tracker documentation states plainly that mention detection is name matching. Local AI visibility and AI traffic analytics are both badged "coming soon" on their own site. There is no E-E-A-T audit, no entity-accuracy ledger, no outreach pipeline, no AI-visibility alerting, and no Claude or Grok coverage. Seats are one on Core and three on Growth, with extras from $16, and white-label reporting needs the Agency Pack at $69/mo on annual billing only. AI Rankly includes the team and the client reporting, and ships the agent that drafts the fix.
Buy AI Rankly if more than three people need access, if you send client-ready reports, or if you want mention detection that understands what an answer means rather than matching a string. Buy SE Ranking if you are one or two people who also need a full SEO platform, because the bundle is genuinely good and at that size they are cheaper.
Six months, three teams, numbers they signed off
E-commerce+244%
AI-referred sessions in six months
$5,600 in sales attributed to AI search.
E-commerce+193%
AI-referred sessions in six months
$32,462 in sales attributed to AI search, from zero.
B2B SaaS+900%
AI-referred sessions in six months
50 customers acquired from AI search, from zero.
Before you decide
For one person, no. SE Ranking Growth is $279/mo, or $223.20 on annual billing, with 250 AI prompts daily across five engines, and their standalone SE Visible starts at $99 for 200 prompts. For a team, it reverses. Growth covers three manager seats; more start at $16 each, and white-label client reporting requires the Agency Pack at $69/mo sold on annual billing only. Six people reporting to clients is $396 against $349 here, with 50 fewer prompts and an annual commitment we don't ask for.
The team and the work. Every seat is included here against one on their Core plan and three on Growth, with extras from $16. White-label client reporting is included rather than a $69/mo annual-only Agency Pack. And the layer their documentation doesn't cover: an E-E-A-T audit, an entity-accuracy ledger that grades each engine on getting your facts right, a citation-outreach pipeline with contacts and drafted pitches, alerting when visibility drops, and an agent that drafts the fixes.
It is included. Their base plans publish daily AI prompt limits, 100 on Core and 250 on Growth, across five LLMs. The AI Search add-on at $89/mo extends those limits and bundles access to SE Visible; it is not what switches AI visibility on. This is often reported incorrectly, including by us until we checked.
Both sides run daily, so this is a tie on cadence and a difference in volume. SE Ranking publish 100 daily AI prompts on Core and 250 on Growth across five LLMs; AI Rankly re-runs every prompt on every engine in your plan each day, 100 on Starter and 300 on Professional. What daily buys is a longer series gathered the same way: the same prompts, the same engines, scored identically, with the underlying answers stored so any number traces back to the response that produced it. It is not a significance claim. Answers vary between runs, and one day's movement on one prompt is not a signal on either platform.
SE Ranking Growth covers three manager seats and Core covers one, with extras charged from $16 each, and white-label client reporting sits in their Agency Pack at $69 a month sold on annual billing only. Their base plans do schedule reports, capped at 10 on Core and 30 on Growth. AI Rankly has never charged per user: seats are unlimited on every plan with Owner, Admin and Member roles, and white-label reports plus shareable read-only client links are included on all three tiers. That is where the six-person figure comes from, $396 there against $349 here.
Close to a tie, with the line drawn in a different place. SE Ranking include REST API and MCP access on both Core and Growth. AI Rankly exports to CSV, Excel and JSON on every plan and ships an MCP server on every plan, but the REST API, the CLI and the Looker Studio connector start on Professional at $349, so the $99 Starter is exports and MCP rather than a REST API. If programmatic access is a real requirement, price the tier you would actually need on both sides before comparing stickers.
Three days on the plan you are considering, running its real engines against your own brand rather than a demo account, and the prompts and competitors you set up carry over if you stay. Running SE Ranking alongside for those three days is a fair test, and since seats are unlimited it costs nothing to put the whole team in. After that you pay monthly or annually in advance with no minimum term on monthly billing, cancel any time from account settings, and keep access to the end of the period you have paid for. Fees are not refundable for partial periods or unused prompts.
When you are one or two people, or when what you want is an SEO platform with AI tracking inside it. Core is $129 a month for 100 daily prompts, Growth is $279 for 250, and their standalone SE Visible starts at $99 for 200 prompts, which is cheaper per tracked prompt than anything we sell. That subscription also carries rank tracking, keyword research, backlink analysis, site audit and content tools, plus 1:1 onboarding, and we do none of it. We become the better buy when the team passes three people, when reports go to clients, or when you want the work that comes after the measurement.
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