The 6 best Semactic alternatives in 2026

Semactic is one of the few European platforms that tries to do classic SEO and generative engine optimization (GEO) in one place. It tracks Google rankings and AI answers, turns the gaps it finds into a prioritized task board, and wraps the whole thing in a workflow that agencies and in-house teams can run together. That is a sensible pitch, and for some teams it is exactly right.

But it is also a specific set of trade-offs, and they are easy to miss on the pricing page. So before we get to the list, here is what actually pushes people to look for a Semactic alternative:

• AI engine coverage is narrow. Semactic’s pricing table and its API documentation list four tracked AI engines: ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity. Perplexity is a paid add-on at €29 per month, so three engines are included by default. Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Meta AI, and Mistral are not on the list. If your buyers live in Gemini or Copilot, you cannot measure that.
• Prompts appear to run once a month. The entry GEO plan gives you 50 prompts for €129 per month (€99 per month if you pay annually). The pricing page’s own tooltip describes prompts as the number of AI questions asked each month, while keywords on the SEO side are described as tracked in real time. Semactic does not state a refresh cadence outright, but read together that points to one run per prompt per month, which is a very different quantity of data from the daily or weekly tracking most dedicated tools offer.
• Integrations cost extra. API and MCP access is a €100 per month add-on on every self-serve plan. The Log Analyser is another €50 per month.
• Every extra country or language is a “market”. In Semactic’s docs, a market is one website in one country and language, and each active market counts against your subscription. Multi-country brands should budget for that before they sign.
• You might not need the SEO half. Semactic’s combined SEO and GEO plans start at €219 per month billed monthly. If you already run rank tracking elsewhere, you are paying for a second copy of it.

None of that makes Semactic a bad product. The Kanban task board, the technical crawl, and the Google Analytics and Search Console integrations are useful, and if you want one tool for both SEO and GEO with a European vendor, it deserves a look. But if your priority is broad, frequent, well-priced AI visibility tracking, the alternatives below are worth your time.

The best Semactic alternatives at a glance

All prices were checked on the vendors’ official pricing pages in late September 2026. Where a vendor shows a monthly price for annual billing, I say so. Read the “usage limits” column carefully, because the tools count usage in different units, and a “prompt” in one tool is not the same as a “prompt” in another.

Tool	Best suited for	Key differentiator	Starting price and billing basis	Important usage limits
Rankshift	Brands and agencies that want all major AI engines, unlimited projects and users, and a prioritized action list	Nine AI engines on every plan, credit-based pricing where you choose engines and refresh frequency	€69/mo billed annually (€77/mo billed monthly); also in USD and GBP	Starter: 9,500 credits/mo, up to 150 prompts/day. Crawler analytics, Looker Studio, MCP and API from Professional (€159/mo annual)
Peec AI	Marketing teams that want a clean, focused AI visibility dashboard	Strong source and citation analytics, agent-based recommendations, 15% off annually	€85/mo billed monthly (15% off on annual billing)	Starter: 50 prompts, 3 of 6 models, 1 project, 1 country, 4,500 AI answers/mo. API on Enterprise only
Otterly AI	Small teams and solo consultants on a budget	Cheapest entry point, unlimited team members, MCP and API from the mid tier	$29/mo billed monthly ($25/mo billed annually)	Lite: 15 prompts, 1 workspace. Claude, AI Mode and Gemini are paid add-ons
Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit / Semrush One	Teams already in the Semrush ecosystem, or those who want SEO and AI visibility in one suite	Prompt research from Semrush’s search data plus SEO tools in the same login	$99/mo per domain billed annually (AI Visibility Toolkit); Semrush One from $199/mo billed monthly ($165.17/mo billed annually)	Toolkit: 25 prompts daily, 1 domain. Semrush One Starter: 50 prompts daily. Extra users from $45/mo
Ahrefs Brand Radar	Existing Ahrefs customers, and brands with enough search demand to show up in a prompt database	A 449M+ prompt index for instant benchmarking, plus a small free custom prompt quota on paid plans	Free custom prompts with Ahrefs Lite ($129/mo billed monthly); custom prompt packs from $50/mo; standalone index from $199/mo	Lite: 5 daily custom prompts included. Packs are check-based (1 check per prompt, platform, location and update; Claude uses 8)
Profound	Enterprise brands with a budget and a procurement team	Up to nine answer engines, agent analytics, ChatGPT Shopping, SSO and SOC 2	Custom pricing (contact sales); free 7-day trial	Trial: 50 prompts daily on 3 engines, 1 language, 1 region, no API or exports

How to compare usage allowances without fooling yourself

This is the part of the evaluation most people get wrong, so it is worth two minutes.

• Tracked prompts are the unique questions you monitor. Semactic, Peec AI, Otterly and Semrush all count this way.
• Responses or AI answers are prompts multiplied by engines multiplied by runs. Peec AI is explicit about this: 25 prompts on 3 models, daily, for 30 days is 2,250 AI answers.
• Credits and checks are the flexible version of the same thing. Rankshift charges credits per prompt run per engine (2 for most engines, 5 for Claude and Copilot). Ahrefs charges one check per prompt, per platform, per location, per update (8 for Claude). You decide how to spend them.

So when Semactic says “50 prompts” and Rankshift says “9,500 credits”, those are not comparable until you decide how many engines you want and how often you want them refreshed. A plan that looks small on prompts can be large on answers, and the other way round. I have tried to translate every plan below into the same terms so you can compare like with like.

Rankshift

Rankshift pros:

• Tracks nine AI engines on every plan: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Copilot, Meta AI, and Mistral
• Unlimited projects and unlimited users on every plan, which matters for agencies and multi-brand companies
• You pick the engines and the refresh frequency per prompt, so credits go where they matter
• ChatGPT ads tracking is included in every plan
• Action Center ranks recommended fixes by expected visibility impact
• 30-day free trial, no credit card, data hosted in the EU

Rankshift cons:

• GEO only; no Google keyword rank tracking, so it does not replace the SEO half of Semactic
• Crawler analytics, Looker Studio integration, MCP and API access are not on the Starter plan
• Credit-based pricing takes a few minutes with the calculator to size properly

Rankshift is a Belgian AI visibility platform built for brands and agencies that want to know whether they are recommended in AI answers, who is beating them, and what to do about it. It tracks prompts across every major engine, records mentions, citations, position in the answer, share of voice and sentiment, and turns the gaps into a prioritized task list. If Semactic’s appeal was “monitor, then act”, Rankshift covers the same loop for the AI side of search, with much wider engine coverage.

Where Rankshift is stronger than Semactic

Engine coverage. This is the biggest practical difference. Semactic tracks up to four engines, with Perplexity as a €29 per month add-on. Rankshift’s pricing page lists “Track all LLMs” on every tier, and its FAQ names all nine. You can track all of them or only the ones relevant to your market. For a brand whose customers use Gemini in Google’s own apps, or Copilot inside Microsoft 365, this is the difference between having data and not having it.

Flexibility in how you spend your budget. Rankshift charges credits per prompt run: 2 credits per run on ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Gemini, Mistral, Perplexity and Meta AI, and 5 credits per run on Copilot and Claude, according to the credit calculator. You choose a refresh frequency per prompt, from daily to a few times a week to weekly. Some worked examples on the Starter plan’s 9,500 credits:

• 50 prompts on ChatGPT, AI Overviews and AI Mode, refreshed daily: roughly 9,000 credits a month. That is comparable to Semactic’s entry plan in prompts and engines, for €77 a month billed monthly instead of €129.
• 50 prompts on all nine engines, refreshed weekly: roughly 5,200 credits a month, so you get full coverage at a trend-line cadence and still have room to spare.
• 100 prompts on five engines daily: about 30,000 credits, which puts you on Professional or Business.

Semactic’s pricing tooltip describes its prompts as AI questions asked each month, which reads as one run per prompt per month. On that reading, Semactic’s entry plan returns about 150 AI answers a month (50 prompts on three engines, once), while Rankshift’s Starter returns around 4,500 for the same 50 prompts on three engines checked daily. Semactic does not state the cadence outright, so treat that as the pricing page’s own description rather than a guarantee, but it is the difference between a monthly snapshot and a trend line.

Unlimited projects and users. Semactic gives you unlimited users but charges per project and per market, and its agency model adds an access licence (from €110 per month billed monthly) on top of per-project plans. Rankshift includes unlimited projects and seats on every plan, including Starter. Agencies also get unlimited pitch projects with 1,000 credits each, so you can run a visibility audit for a prospect before they sign, at no extra cost.

Acting on the data. Rankshift’s Action Center collects every recommended action in one place, prioritized by expected AI visibility impact. Alongside it you get a content brief generator and an AI content writer on every plan, citation analytics that show which third-party sources the engines trust in your category, and a content opportunities view that lists sources where competitors are cited and you are not. That is a similar “insights to action” philosophy to Semactic’s Kanban board, applied to AI search.

Two things Semactic does not do at all. Rankshift tracks competitors’ placements in ChatGPT ads, and its crawler analytics (from Professional) show when GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and friends actually read your pages. Semactic offers a Log Analyser as a €50 per month add-on for the second job; the first has no equivalent.

Where Semactic keeps the edge

Rankshift does not track Google organic rankings, run a technical SEO crawl, or connect to Google Analytics and Search Console for SEO reporting. If you want SEO and GEO in one platform, Semactic’s combined plans do that and Rankshift does not. You would pair Rankshift with a rank tracker you already own.

The Starter plan also leaves out the integrations that data-driven teams tend to want: crawler analytics, the Looker Studio connector, and MCP and API access all start at Professional. Semactic charges €100 per month for API and MCP as an add-on, so the comparison is not one-sided, but it is worth knowing before you pick a tier.

Rankshift pricing and plan restrictions

• Starter: €69 per month billed annually, or €77 per month billed monthly ($82 or $92, £60 or £67). Unlimited projects and seats, up to 150 prompts per day, 9,500 credits per month, all nine engines, daily or weekly refresh, content brief generator and AI content writer.
• Professional: €159 per month billed annually, or €177 per month billed monthly ($189 or $210). Up to 350 prompts per day, 22,000 credits, plus crawler analytics, Looker Studio integration, and MCP and API access.
• Business: €359 per month billed annually, or €399 per month billed monthly ($425 or $473). Up to 850 prompts per day, 53,000 credits.
• Enterprise: custom. Adds custom prompt tracking, training, a dedicated account manager, SSO and SLA support.

Every plan comes with a 30-day free trial with no credit card required. Personas and tags are available for organizing prompts, and you can set frequency per prompt.

Why choose Rankshift over Semactic

Choose Rankshift if AI visibility is the job you are hiring a tool for, you want every engine your customers use rather than three or four, and you run more than one brand or want your whole team and your clients in the tool without counting seats. The credit model rewards people who think about what they need, and the Action Center means you are not left staring at a dashboard. Keep Semactic if you want SEO rank tracking and GEO under one login and you are happy with ChatGPT and Google’s AI surfaces as your main engines.

Peec AI

Peec AI pros:

• Clear, well-designed dashboard with strong source, citation and fan-out analytics
• Unlimited users on every plan, and countries and languages carry no extra charge
• Gap analysis, recommended actions and an agent that can generate actions from your data
• Crawlability audit and AI referral tracking with CDN and log integrations

Peec AI cons:

• Self-serve plans limit you to 3 models out of 6; Claude, Perplexity, Grok, Mistral and other API models are Enterprise only
• Starter is one project and one country, Pro is two projects
• API access is Enterprise only (MCP is available more broadly)
• No SEO rank tracking

Peec AI is one of the most polished dedicated AI visibility tools on the market, and it is a common shortlist companion to Semactic for European teams. It tracks visibility, position, sentiment and share of voice against competitors daily, and it is especially good at the “where is AI getting this from” question: domain and URL-level source analytics, citation share, fan-out queries, and a source classifier that labels each domain as competitor, editorial, reference or user-generated content.

The “Act” side of the product has grown, too. Gap analysis lists sources that often name competitors but not you, recommended actions are ranked and split into earned and owned, and a Peec agent can generate actions using pre-built and custom skills. Add crawlability audits across 40+ AI bots, AI referral tracking and crawl insights, and it covers a lot of what Semactic’s technical and log features do, without the SEO rank tracking.

The main limitation is model coverage on self-serve plans. Starter, Pro and Advanced each let you choose three models from ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini and Naver AI. Everything else, including Claude, Perplexity, Grok, DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral and Meta, sits on the Enterprise plan or costs extra as an additional model add-on. That is still more choice than Semactic gives you, but it is not the “all engines” approach of Rankshift or Profound.

Peec AI pricing: According to the pricing page, Starter is €85 per month billed monthly for 50 prompts, 3 models, daily tracking, 1 project, 1 country and 4,500 AI answers per month. Pro is €205 per month for 150 prompts, 2 projects, up to 3 countries, 13,500 answers and monthly automated reporting. Advanced is €425 per month for 350 prompts, 5 projects, multi-country tracking, 31,500 answers, weekly reporting and the Looker Studio connector. Enterprise (annual, custom pricing) adds all models, API access, SSO, unlimited projects and a daily or weekly cadence. Additional models cost €25, €55 or €115 per month on annual billing depending on your tier. Annual billing is 15% cheaper across the board.

Why choose Peec AI over Semactic: You want a purpose-built AI visibility tool with deeper source and citation analytics than Semactic offers, unlimited users, and no surcharge for extra countries. Prompt-for-prompt it is pricier than Semactic’s entry plan, but each prompt runs daily on three engines and the reporting is a level up.

Otterly AI

Otterly AI pros:

• The lowest entry price on this list
• Unlimited team members on every plan, unlimited workspaces from Standard
• API, MCP, Looker Studio connector and agent analytics from the Standard plan
• GEO URL audit on every plan
• Agency programme with pitch workspaces and a higher prompt allowance

Otterly AI cons:

• Lite is 15 prompts and one workspace, which is tight for anything beyond a test
• Claude, Google AI Mode and Gemini are paid add-ons; the included engines are ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity and Copilot
• Add-on and extra prompt pricing adds up quickly on Premium

Otterly AI is the budget option that keeps showing up in “cheap Semactic alternative” conversations, and for good reason. The Lite plan costs less than a nice lunch and includes daily tracking, unlimited team members, brand reports, citation and link analysis, and a GEO audit. For a consultant who wants to show a client what AI says about them, it is hard to argue with.

The catch is scale and engines. Lite gives you 15 prompts in one workspace. Standard jumps to 100 prompts with unlimited workspaces, unlimited recommendations, 2,000 API and MCP requests a month, the Looker Studio connector and 200,000 agent analytics events. Premium doubles most of that. And while ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot are included on every plan, Claude, Google AI Mode and Gemini are add-ons priced per tier. If you want all seven engines on Premium, the add-ons cost more than the plan.

Otterly is also worth a look for agencies specifically. Its partner programme gives Standard and Premium subscribers a higher prompt allowance (150 and 500 instead of 100 and 400), pitch workspaces for prospect audits, and custom Looker Studio branding.

Otterly AI pricing: Per the pricing page, which shows USD excluding tax: Lite is $29 per month billed monthly or $25 per month billed annually for 15 prompts. Standard is $189 per month ($160 annually) for 100 prompts. Premium is $489 per month ($422 annually) for 400 prompts. Enterprise starts from 1,000 prompts with SSO and custom limits. Add-ons per month: Claude $29, $109 or $439; Google AI Mode $9, $59 or $149; Gemini $9, $59 or $149, by tier. Extra prompts are $99 per month per 100 on Standard and Premium. European accounts see the same figures in euros in the app.

Why choose Otterly AI over Semactic: You want to start small and cheap, you are fine with four engines, and you want API and MCP access without paying a €100 per month add-on. It is the easiest way to get real AI visibility data for a low monthly commitment.

Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit and Semrush One

Semrush pros:

• Closest match to Semactic’s “SEO and GEO in one platform” positioning, with far deeper SEO tools
• Prompt research backed by Semrush’s search data, plus AI visibility reports for any domain
• Tracks Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini
• Free plan with limited AI visibility reports, and a 7-day free trial on paid plans

Semrush cons:

• Prompt allowances are small relative to price: 25 daily prompts on the standalone toolkit, 50 on Semrush One Starter
• Additional users start at $45 per month
• The AI Visibility Toolkit is billed annually per domain

If what you liked about Semactic was the one-login approach to SEO and GEO, Semrush is the obvious mainstream alternative. Its AI Visibility Toolkit covers custom prompt tracking, AI brand performance, competitor analysis, prompt research and an AI-readiness site audit. Semrush One bundles that with the full SEO toolkit: keyword research, site audit, rank tracking and the rest.

The engine list, per Semrush’s own knowledge base, is Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini. That is one more engine than Semactic’s maximum, with Gemini included and Perplexity not charged separately. It does not cover Claude, Copilot, Meta AI or Mistral.

Where it falls short of a dedicated tracker is volume. The standalone toolkit tracks 25 custom prompts daily for one domain. Semrush One Starter tracks 50 prompts daily, Pro+ 100 and Advanced 200. For a large prompt set across several markets you will outgrow it quickly, and you will pay for it in a suite whose price is mostly driven by SEO features you may or may not use.

Semrush pricing: The AI Visibility Toolkit is $99 per month per domain billed annually, with 25 custom prompts tracked daily, one domain for brand performance analysis and 300 reports per day. Semrush One is $199 per month billed monthly or $165.17 per month billed annually for Starter (50 prompts daily, 5 websites, 500 tracked keywords), $299 or $248.17 for Pro+ (100 prompts daily, 15 websites, 1,500 keywords), and $549 or $455.67 for Advanced (200 prompts daily, 40 websites, 5,000 keywords). Additional users start at $45 per month. There is a free plan with one demo project and 10 reports per day.

Why choose Semrush over Semactic: You want a mature SEO suite with AI visibility bolted on properly, five engines including Gemini, and the security of a large vendor. Accept that the prompt limits are lower than a dedicated GEO tool and that you pay per user.

Ahrefs Brand Radar

Ahrefs Brand Radar pros:

• Instant benchmarking against a 449M+ prompt index with no setup
• Custom prompts are included free on every paid Ahrefs plan (5, 10 or 20 per day)
• Per-platform cadence: daily, weekly or monthly, so checks go where freshness matters
• Covers AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot, plus Claude on custom prompts

Ahrefs Brand Radar cons:

• The included custom prompt quota is small; serious tracking means buying check packs
• The check model needs some arithmetic (Claude costs 8 checks per update)
• One user per Ahrefs plan; extra seats cost $40 to $80 per month each

Ahrefs Brand Radar approaches AI visibility from the opposite direction to Semactic. Instead of asking you to define prompts first, its AI Visibility Index runs hundreds of millions of search-backed prompts through the AI platforms and stores the answers, so you can see any brand’s share of voice, mentions, citations and estimated impressions immediately. For established brands in busy categories, that is a fast way to find out where you stand and who else is being recommended.

Custom Prompts cover the Semactic-style use case: define the exact questions your buyers ask, choose a cadence per platform, and track mentions and citations over time. Every paid Ahrefs plan includes a daily quota (Lite 5, Standard 10, Advanced 20), and check-based packages extend it. One prompt uses one check per platform, per location, per update, and Claude uses eight, so a 50-prompt set on four platforms checked daily is 50 × 4 × 30 = 6,000 checks a month, which lands you on the Basic pack with overage or the Growth pack.

The trade-off is that Brand Radar lives inside Ahrefs. If you are already a customer, it is close to free to start. If you are not, you are buying an SEO suite priced per user to get at it, or paying for the standalone index.

Ahrefs Brand Radar pricing: Ahrefs plans are $129 (Lite), $249 (Standard) and $449 (Advanced) per month billed monthly, one user included, with annual billing saving up to 17%. Custom prompt packages are Basic at $50 per month (+2,500 checks), Growth at $100 per month (+7,000 checks) and Scale at $250 per month (+25,000 checks), with overage at $0.020 per check. The standalone AI Visibility Index starts at $199 per month for 83 prompts per day plus 2,500 checks, with a $699 per month option for all models.

Why choose Ahrefs Brand Radar over Semactic: You already pay for Ahrefs, or you want the market-wide view a prompt database gives you before you decide which prompts to track. It also gets you Gemini, Copilot and Claude, which Semactic does not track.

Profound

Profound pros:

• Tracks up to nine answer engines, including DeepSeek and Exa Search alongside the usual names
• Agent analytics across unlimited domains, ChatGPT Shopping tracking, prompt volume data
• Full API, CSV and JSON exports, all-time history, unlimited seats
• SSO/SAML, SOC 2, dedicated support with a 24-hour SLA option

Profound cons:

• No public pricing; everything beyond the trial is a sales conversation
• The 7-day trial is limited to three engines, one language and one region, with no exports or API
• Overkill, and over budget, for most small and mid-sized teams

Profound is the enterprise pick. Its Answer Engine Insights product tracks how your brand and competitors appear across up to nine engines: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Anthropic Claude, Google AI Overviews and Exa Search. Around that it has built agent analytics for AI-sourced traffic, ChatGPT Shopping tracking, prompt volume data, and an “AI Marketer” agent layer that runs on credits.

Compared with Semactic, it covers more than twice as many engines, supports custom languages and regions, and adds the governance features large organizations ask for. What it does not do is tell you what it costs. The pricing page lists a free trial and an Enterprise tier with “tailored packages”, and that is it.

Profound pricing: Custom, via sales. The free trial runs 50 prompts daily for seven days on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, in one language and one region, with limited agent credits and no data history, exports or API.

Why choose Profound over Semactic: You are a large brand with several regions and languages, you need nine engines and an API, and SSO and SOC 2 are on the procurement checklist. If you have to ask about the price, one of the other tools on this list is probably the better fit.

Which Semactic alternative should you choose?

Start with two questions: how many engines do you need, and do you need SEO rank tracking in the same tool?

• All major engines, unlimited projects and users, and a clear action list: Rankshift. It is the most flexible way to spend a GEO budget on this list, it is European like Semactic, and it directly addresses Semactic’s narrowest limits, engine coverage and per-project pricing.
• A focused, well-designed AI visibility dashboard with deep source analytics: Peec AI, accepting the three-model cap on self-serve plans, or Rankshift if you want the same source and citation view across all nine engines, with the Action Center turning the gaps into tasks.
• The cheapest way to start: Otterly AI, with an eye on add-on costs if you want Gemini, AI Mode or Claude.
• SEO and GEO in one suite, replacing what Semactic bundles: Semrush One, or Ahrefs Brand Radar if you already run Ahrefs.
• Enterprise scale with procurement requirements: Profound.

If you are still unsure, most of these tools offer a trial. Rankshift’s is 30 days with no card, Semrush and Profound offer seven days, and Otterly has a free trial too. Put the same 30 prompts into two of them, run them for a fortnight, and pick the one whose data you actually acted on.

FAQs

Does Semactic track Gemini, Claude or Copilot?

Not according to its own pricing and API documentation, which list ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity as the tracked engines, with Perplexity as a paid add-on. Rankshift, Profound, Peec AI (on Enterprise or with add-ons) and Ahrefs Brand Radar all offer some or all of Gemini, Claude and Copilot.

Which Semactic alternative works best for agencies?

Rankshift includes unlimited projects and users on every plan plus unlimited pitch projects, so client count never changes the price. Otterly and Peec AI both have agency programmes with multi-client management. Semactic’s own agency model combines an access licence with per-project plans, which is workable but adds up as you grow.

Is the cheapest plan ever enough?

Sometimes. Otterly’s Lite plan at $29 a month proves the concept with 15 prompts, and Rankshift’s Starter comfortably covers 50 prompts on three engines daily. The thing to check is not the price but the arithmetic: prompts times engines times refreshes per month. If that number is smaller than the questions your buyers actually ask, you will be guessing again within a quarter.