In short
- Gauge's Growth plan costs $599/month for 600 daily prompts across 3 platforms (ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Microsoft Copilot) with no Growth free trial listed (checked October 29, 2026).
- Multi-engine trackers start at $95/month on Peec AI and Promptwatch, or $250/month on Scrunch Core.
- FoundByChat is free to start, checking ChatGPT search every 2 hours to tell you when it finds, cites or rewrites your pages, and emailing you when a page is new in the index, its snippet changes or three checks in a row return no web results.
- Profound offers a 7-day trial and custom Enterprise pricing for up to 9 engines; its features include traffic attribution with CDN integrations.
Teams exploring generative engine optimization can compare Gauge Growth's 600 daily prompts and 18 monthly articles with its separate coding-agent evaluation product, Gauge Agents.
What Gauge does and costs
Gauge (withgauge.com) is an "Agent-Led Growth" platform for AI search visibility (Gauge Chat) and coding-agent evaluations (Gauge Agents). As of October 29, 2026, Growth costs $599/month for 600 daily prompts (54,000 monthly answers) across ChatGPT, Google AI Mode and Microsoft Copilot, plus 1 location, 3 seats and 18 monthly articles. Custom Enterprise covers 6 platforms. Gauge lists no annual price or Growth trial, though Gauge Agents includes 1,000 free credits.
Why people look for a Gauge alternative
At $599/month, Gauge costs far more than Peec AI ($95/month), Promptwatch ($95/month) and Scrunch ($250/month). Teams can compare Gauge's 600 prompts run daily with plans listing 50 to 125 prompts. Gauge Growth covers ChatGPT, Google AI Mode and Copilot; teams seeking other platforms can compare the alternatives' published coverage. Gauge does not list a Growth trial; teams can compare free options and 7-day trials.
Gauge alternatives compared
This table compares FoundByChat, Gauge and four other trackers based on published pricing as of October 29, 2026.
| Tool | Plan price or starting option | AI engines tracked | Free option | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FoundByChat | Free to start | ChatGPT search | Yes, plus a free GEO audit | Knowing when ChatGPT finds, cites or rewrites your pages |
| Gauge | $599/month (Growth) | 3 on Growth (ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Copilot); 6 on Enterprise | No Growth trial listed; 1,000 free Gauge Agents credits | 600 daily prompts, 18 articles/mo and coding-agent evaluations |
| Peec AI | $95/month (Starter) | 3 active of 6 on Starter; more on Enterprise | Not published | Unlimited seats and competitor tracking at a low entry price |
| Promptwatch | $95/month (Essential) | 13 engines listed | 7-day free trial | Multi-engine prompt tracking with crawler logs and visitor analytics |
| Scrunch | $250/month (Core) | 4 on Core (ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Copilot); 9 on Enterprise | 7-day free trial | Mid-market prompt benchmarking and AI-optimized page serving (AXP) |
| Profound | Custom Enterprise | 3 on Free Trial; up to 9 on Enterprise | 7-day free trial (50 prompts/day) | SSO and API on Enterprise; ChatGPT Shopping and traffic attribution |
The alternatives
Different teams need different parts of the answer engine optimization stack.
FoundByChat
FoundByChat tells site owners when ChatGPT's search finds, cites or rewrites their pages. It is free to start via Google or email link (no password or credit card). Add your site and customer questions, and FoundByChat asks ChatGPT with web search on every 2 hours as a user in the United States (English) or the Netherlands (Dutch).
Each check records if ChatGPT's search found ("Found") or cited ("Cited") your page and its usual result position. It lists your "Pages in ChatGPT's index" with the title and short snippet ChatGPT's search keeps. It emails you for "New in the index", "Snippet changed" or "No search results" (three checks in a row without web results). The first check sets the baseline.
FoundByChat checks ChatGPT search only, not Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Copilot or competitors, and gives no visibility score. Our free GEO audit (5/day, no account) fetches your page using the OAI-SearchBot user agent, rebuilds ChatGPT's ~200-character snippet, checks robots.txt for OAI-SearchBot, GPTBot and ChatGPT-User, and scores it out of 100.
Peec AI
Peec AI (peec.ai) provides AI search visibility analytics. Starter costs $95/month for 50 prompts, 4,500 monthly answers, 1 country and 1 project; higher tiers are $245 and $495/month (checked October 29, 2026). Starter lets you pick 3 of 6 models (ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, AI Overviews, Copilot, Gemini, Naver AI); custom Enterprise adds Perplexity, Claude, Grok and DeepSeek. Starter includes unlimited users, unlimited competitors and MCP access, with no free trial listed; see our Peec AI alternatives guide.
Promptwatch
Promptwatch (promptwatch.com) combines AI visibility tracking with crawler logs, visitor analytics and content agents. On October 29, 2026, Essential is $95/month (50 prompts, 6,000 responses, 1 project), Professional is $245/month (150 prompts) and Business is $579/month (350 prompts, up to hourly). It lists 13 engines (including ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Copilot, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Meta AI, DeepSeek and Mistral) with daily updates and a 7-day trial.
Scrunch
Scrunch (scrunch.com) monitors AI answers and offers AXP to serve AI-optimized pages to agents. Core is $250/month for 125 prompts, 5,000 monthly responses, 5 site audits, 5 competitors, 1 country, 1 language and 5 seats across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Copilot (checked October 29, 2026). Agency Core is $500/month; custom Enterprise covers 9 engines (adding Claude, Gemini, AI Mode, Grok, Meta AI). A 7-day Core trial converts to paid; data refreshes daily for 14 days, then every 72 hours or on demand (see Scrunch alternatives).
Profound
Profound (tryprofound.com) is an enterprise AEO/GEO platform with "Answer Engine Insights" and AI Marketer agents. An October 21, 2025 blog post noted "Our new pricing starts at $99/month" for ChatGPT Starter, but on October 29, 2026 its pricing page lists only a 7-day Free Trial (50 daily prompts on ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews; 1 language, 1 region) and custom Enterprise pricing. Enterprise covers up to 9 engines (adding AI Mode, Perplexity, Copilot, DeepSeek, Claude, Exa Search), daily tracking, API, SSO and unlimited seats. Profound also lists ChatGPT Shopping, Prompt Volumes and Agent Analytics (Cloudflare, Vercel, Akamai, AWS, GA); see Profound alternatives.
When Gauge is still the better pick
Gauge Growth offers 600 prompts run daily and 18 monthly articles; Gauge Agents is its coding-agent evaluation product. Scrunch Core lists 125 prompts, Peec AI Starter 50 and Promptwatch Business 350.
How to choose
- Only care about ChatGPT search? Start with FoundByChat (free to start, with checks every 2 hours) and the free GEO audit.
- Want multi-engine tracking under $100/month? Compare Peec AI Starter ($95/month, unlimited seats) and Promptwatch Essential ($95/month, 7-day trial, crawler logs).
- Want Perplexity and AI Overviews in a mid-tier plan? Check Scrunch Core ($250/month).
- Need 600 daily prompts and 18 monthly articles? Pick Gauge Growth ($599/month).
- Need SSO, CDN attribution or ChatGPT Shopping? Request Profound Enterprise pricing.
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Questions
How much does Gauge AI cost?
According to Gauge's pricing page on October 29, 2026, the Growth plan costs $599/month and includes 600 daily prompts (54,000 answers a month) across 3 platforms, 1 location, 18 articles a month and 3 seats. Gauge also offers an Enterprise plan across 6 platforms with custom pricing, and does not list an annual price on its pricing page.
Does Gauge offer a free trial?
Gauge does not list a free trial for its Growth plan on its pricing page as of October 29, 2026. Its coding-agent evaluation product, Gauge Agents, comes with 1,000 free credits.
What is the cheapest alternative to Gauge?
FoundByChat is free to start (with no credit card required) if you only need to track when ChatGPT's search finds, cites or rewrites your pages. For multi-engine tracking, the lowest published paid plans in this comparison are Peec AI Starter and Promptwatch Essential, which both cost $95/month as of October 29, 2026.
Can blocking GPTBot keep my site out of ChatGPT search?
No, blocking GPTBot only blocks OpenAI's training crawler and does not remove your site from ChatGPT search. OAI-SearchBot is OpenAI's search crawler, and ChatGPT-User fetches pages for users. You can check your robots.txt rules for all three bots using FoundByChat's free GEO audit.