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How LegitGeo compares with other AI visibility tools.
Every tool below shows what AI assistants say about a business. They differ in who they are built for, what they cost, and how they show whether a change worked. Each fact comes from the vendor's own pages, checked on October 20, 2026; prices change, so follow the links before you decide.
At a glance
| Tool | Built for | Published price | What it tracks | How it shows a change worked | Free tool |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LegitGeo | Local service businesses and the platforms that serve them | $99, $299 or $499 a month; 14-day trial, card required | ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Gemini; Growth adds Google AI Mode and Copilot | A verdict on each change, measured against businesses that changed nothing; the method is public | Website readiness check, no sign-up |
| BrightLocal | Local businesses, agencies and SaaS platforms | About $31 to $41 a location, AI tracking included; 14-day trial, no card | ChatGPT, Google AI Mode and AI Overviews | Claims no AI lift; publishes a large study of the problem | Email-gated visibility checker: 1 location, 5 prompts |
| Local Falcon | Agencies | Credits from $24.99 | AI answers from every map pin in a grid, including Gemini and Grok | Before-and-after case study (about +27 points of ChatGPT share of voice), no comparison group | 100 free credits |
| Profound | Enterprise brands and large agencies | Free 7-day trial, then custom Enterprise pricing | Many engines; enterprise features such as SOC 2 Type II | 21 case studies with before-and-after numbers, no comparison group; research on how often to sample | None labelled free |
| Peec AI | Marketing teams and agencies | About $95, $245 or $495 a month (reported by a third party; prices render on the page) | Daily runs of the logged-out consumer apps, as its docs explain | No published lift method | None |
| Otterly.AI | Small-business and agency marketers | $29, $189 or $489 a month, plus engine add-ons | Selected engines by plan, more as paid add-ons | "GEO experiments" articles, no comparison group | A suite of free GEO tools |
The one real difference: a comparison group
Every vendor above that reports an improvement shows a before-and-after number. None of them describes measuring businesses that made no change over the same weeks. Without that, a rise after a fix cannot be told apart from a model update or the ordinary run-to-run swing of AI answers, which is large: in one study of 2,961 runs, the same list of brands came back less than 1% of the time.
LegitGeo's verdicts subtract what the comparison group did in the same weeks, and say so when a fix did nothing. How we prove it sets out the method and its limits.
When another tool is the better choice
- You want listings, citations, reviews and AI tracking in one low-cost bundle: BrightLocal includes AI tracking from about $31 a location.
- You need answers sampled from every map pin across a service area today: Local Falcon does that; LegitGeo does not sample by map pin yet.
- You are an enterprise brand that needs many engines, SSO and SOC 2: Profound is built for that buyer.
- You only want the cheapest prompt tracking: Otterly.AI starts at $29 a month.
- You need to know whether a specific change worked: that is what LegitGeo is for.
Comparing AI visibility tools: frequently asked questions
Is LegitGeo a BrightLocal alternative?
For AI visibility, yes, but it does a different job. BrightLocal tracks answers and manages listings; LegitGeo tracks answers and gives each change you make a verdict against businesses that changed nothing.
Why does LegitGeo cost more per question than some trackers?
A plan includes verified lift: a verdict on every change, measured against a comparison group. Plain tracking is cheaper elsewhere, and the comparison above says where.
Do these comparisons go out of date?
Yes. Every fact was checked on October 20, 2026 on the vendor's own pages, linked in the table and the sources. If something has changed, email hello@legitgeo.com and we will correct it.
Sources and further reading
- BrightLocal pricingAI visibility included from about $31 a location.
- Local Falcon case studyAbout +27 points across 85 location-prompt pairs.
- Local Falcon AI visibility gridsAI prompts from every map pin, October 7, 2026.
- Profound customersCase studies with no baseline or control described.
- Peec AI pricing, as reported by TrakkrThird-party capture of the tiers.
- Peec AI docsHow answers are collected.
- Otterly.AI pricingPlans and engine add-ons.