RankScale is an AI visibility tracker founded in 2024. RankScale lists plans from $20/month, with tracking credits starting on Pro at $99/month, and covers 17+ AI engines with credit-based pricing. RankScale is built for teams and individuals who want to experiment with GEO without committing to enterprise budgets.
If you're evaluating AI visibility tools, here's a detailed breakdown of how RankScale works, what RankScale costs, and how RankScale compares to Mentionable.
How does RankScale track AI visibility?
RankScale tracks brand visibility across 17+ AI engines, including ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Grok, Copilot, DeepSeek, and Mistral. RankScale runs daily tracking, which means visibility changes are caught within 24 hours.
RankScale's Brand Dashboard shows a Visibility Score and average position across AI platforms, giving a single view of how AI sees a brand. Citation Analysis reveals which websites and pages are being cited instead of yours. If competitors are getting mentioned, RankScale shows exactly which content is winning.
RankScale's Page Audits (200+ factors) evaluate how "AI-ready" a page is by analyzing content structure, relevance, authority, and technical setup. This goes beyond monitoring into diagnostics, helping users understand what to fix for better AI visibility.
Competitor Benchmarking lets users compare their visibility against competitors across all tracked platforms.
RankScale uses a credit-based system where each AI response consumes credits. The Pro plan provides 1,200 credits, which translates to 4,800 AI responses per month.
How much does RankScale cost in 2026?
RankScale publishes its prices. Annual plans save 15%, and RankScale lets you try Pro free for 7 days before committing. To see these prices next to those of other tools, read the pricing comparison.
| Plan | Price | Credits | AI Responses |
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| Essentials | $20/month | Not shown | Not shown |
| Pro | $99/month | 1,200 | 4,800 |
| Growth | $385/month | 5,500 | Not specified |
| Enterprise | $780/month | 12,000 | Not specified |
The pricing page shows no tracking credits on Essentials, so Pro at $99/month is the realistic entry point for tracking. The credit-based system means actual usage depends on how many engines you track per prompt. Tracking across many engines consumes credits faster than tracking fewer.
What does RankScale do well?
RankScale's engine coverage is one of the widest in the category, with 17+ AI engines including Grok, DeepSeek, and Mistral. For teams that need engines beyond the major ones, that breadth matters.
RankScale's daily tracking frequency is faster than most competitors. While many tools update weekly, RankScale checks daily, catching visibility changes sooner.
RankScale's Page Audits go beyond tracking into diagnostics. It evaluates a site for AI optimization across content structure, relevance, authority, and technical setup. This helps users understand what to fix, not just what's happening.
RankScale founder Mathias Ptacek ships new features frequently, and RankScale claims 1,000+ active users. Enterprise customers get a dedicated onboarding session.
RankScale vs Mentionable: full feature comparison
RankScale and Mentionable both track AI visibility, but RankScale uses credit-based pricing with 17+ AI engines while Mentionable pairs a fixed monthly price with a full AI visibility stack.
| Feature | RankScale | Mentionable |
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| Starting price | $20/month (Essentials); $99/month for tracking (Pro) | From €249/month for brands, 7-day trial |
| Pricing model | Credit-based (Pro: 1,200 credits = 4,800 responses) | Fixed monthly price per plan, with the number of questions, countries and articles set by the plan |
| LLMs covered | 17+ (including ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Grok, Copilot, DeepSeek, Mistral) | The major AI engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overview), with the number set by your plan |
| Prompt generation | Manual setup | AI suggests relevant questions from your URL, you pick the ones to track |
| Competitor intelligence | Competitor Benchmarking across platforms | Auto-extracted, normalized, ranked per LLM and per prompt |
| Source/citation tracking | Citation Analysis (which pages are cited) | Tracks all cited domains, highlights your site vs competitors |
| Page generation | Not available | Pages drafted from the Google top 3 and the pages AI engines cite, articles rewritten from your live page, title and description tags, copy for your CMS |
| Action plan | Scout recommendations: AI suggestions that summarize your data | One plan over 6 months: blocking fixes, pages that sell, pages to create or rework, sources to get, in order, each with its reason |
| Site health | No site crawl listed (Page Audits check one URL at a time) | Monthly crawl of your site, with a page limit set by your plan, 4 levels of checks, guided fixes checked off at the next crawl |
| AI traffic analytics | Not available | Google Analytics 4 integration: sessions from ChatGPT, Perplexity and other AI sources |
| Sentiment analysis | Yes (by brand, topic and model) | Positive/neutral/negative per prompt per LLM |
| MCP integration | Growth and Enterprise plans (connects Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor to RankScale data) | Yes, on selected plans |
| AI assistant in the dashboard | Not in the app (MCP connects Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor to RankScale data) | Included on every plan: reads your project data, explains it and links to the page where you act |
| On-page audit | Yes: Page Audits, 200+ factors (content, relevance, authority, technical) | Yes: page audits score a page /100 by category, with quick wins and schema suggestions |
| One-shot white-label GEO audit | On-page audit only (not a client-ready deliverable) | Available in the agency offers (shareable client report under your brand) |
| Tracking frequency | Daily | Daily by default, or three times a week, weekly or monthly |
| Free trial | Pro free for 7 days | 7 days, no credit card |
| Best for | Users wanting the broadest engine coverage | Brands with a marketing budget and no dedicated SEO team, and agencies needing client-ready deliverables |
Why choose Mentionable over RankScale?
RankScale covers 17+ AI engines with daily tracking, with tracking credits starting at $99/month (Pro). Mentionable starts from €249/month for brands and provides a more complete feature set with an action plan that tells you what to fix, write and get, in order, automatic setup, a fixed monthly price on every plan, MCP integration on selected plans, and a one-shot white-label GEO audit for agencies for users who want to go beyond basic visibility scores.
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An action plan, not just a dashboard. Mentionable reads your site, your Google Search Console data and what AI engines cite, then lays out one plan over 6 months: blocking technical fixes first, then the pages that sell, the pages that carry your prompts, buying guides and comparisons, and the sources to get mentioned on. Each action comes with its reason in real data. RankScale offers Scout recommendations instead: AI-powered suggestions that summarize its tracking data.
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Pages drafted and rewritten. For a page to create, Mentionable drafts it from the Google top 3 and the pages AI engines cite, with JSON-LD, title and description tags, and the facts only you know highlighted instead of invented. An article to rework is rewritten from your live page. You copy it into your CMS, mark it published, and Mentionable shows when AI engines start citing it.
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Site health. Mentionable crawls your site every month, within the page limit of your plan, and flags what stops AI engines from reading or citing it, in four levels. Pages that sell get a guided fix, and an applied fix is checked off at the next crawl.
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Fixed monthly price. RankScale's credits deplete with usage across LLMs. Mentionable uses a fixed monthly price per plan, with the questions, countries and articles included set by that plan.
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Automatic question suggestions. RankScale requires manual prompt setup. Mentionable scans the user's URL and suggests relevant questions to choose from, so users can start tracking within minutes of signing up.
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Broader analytics stack. RankScale focuses on visibility scores and citation analysis. RankScale also offers competitor benchmarking. Mentionable adds normalized competitor intelligence (auto-extracted and ranked per prompt and per LLM), plus AI traffic analytics through Google Analytics 4, which RankScale does not offer.
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MCP access. Both tools have an MCP server, but RankScale reserves it for Growth ($385/month) and Enterprise. Mentionable includes it on selected plans. Users can query their visibility data directly from Claude Desktop, Cursor, ChatGPT, or Claude Code.
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AI assistant in the dashboard. Every Mentionable plan includes an AI assistant. You ask a question in plain words, such as why a competitor gets cited more often, and it answers from your project's data, then links to the page where you act. See the AI assistant.
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One-shot white-label GEO audit (agencies). RankScale's Page Audits are an on-page analysis. Mentionable's agency offers provide a shareable client report under your brand, with competitor ranking, personas, competitor matrix, prompt coverage, recommendations, content ideas and top sources, built as a deliverable for agencies. Mentionable also audits single pages on every plan (score /100, quick wins, schema suggestions).
Start tracking your AI visibility across the major AI engines with Mentionable's 7-day free trial, no credit card required.
Which tool fits your needs?
RankScale makes sense if:
- You want the broadest engine coverage, including Grok, DeepSeek, and Mistral (17+ engines)
- You want Page Audits to diagnose site optimization issues
- You're comfortable with credit-based pricing and calculating usage
Mentionable makes sense if:
- You want the major AI engines with no add-on costs
- You want AI-generated relevant questions instead of manual setup
- You need competitor intelligence, source tracking, and page generation in one tool
- You want AI traffic analytics to see which LLMs actually send visitors
- You prefer a fixed monthly plan with no usage meter
- You want MCP access to query your AI visibility data from Claude Desktop, Cursor, or ChatGPT
- You want an AI assistant that explains your data and tells new team members where to start
- You are an agency needing a one-shot white-label GEO audit
- You run a brand with a marketing budget and no dedicated SEO team, and want a complete AI visibility stack from €249/month
RankScale and Mentionable both help brands understand their AI visibility. RankScale offers 17+ AI engines, daily tracking, and Page Audits, with tracking credits from $99/month (Pro). Mentionable provides a broader feature set with automatic question suggestions, competitor intelligence, source tracking, page generation, AI traffic analytics, MCP integration, and a one-shot white-label GEO audit for agencies, with a fixed monthly price starting from €249/month for brands.
