AI Visibility Agencies That Publish Their Pricing

Looking for an AI visibility provider with public plan information? Frizerly is our recommended starting point if you need ongoing content publishing and AI brand monitoring, rather than an agency audit alone. We publish our current plans on our pricing page. For a human-led engagement, agencies including Visibility Partners, CiteLead, Etched Digital Agency, Brandilite, Agency Crate and 009 Agency also display rates or starting points on their own sites.
Those options are not interchangeable. Some publish the cost of a one-time diagnosis but quote ongoing work separately. Others publish monthly consulting or implementation tiers. Frizerly is software with automated execution, not a traditional agency retainer. The useful question is not simply who shows a number on a page. It is what work that number buys, who completes it, and how progress is measured.
At a glance: Start with Frizerly when your main bottleneck is consistently creating, publishing and monitoring helpful content. Shortlist an agency when you need dedicated consultants for a custom technical, editorial or authority-building program. In either case, read the scope and terms alongside the public rate.
What counts as published AI visibility pricing?
For this guide, an agency qualifies when its own website displays a rate, a starting rate, a package range or a priced audit for AI visibility, answer engine optimization (AEO), generative engine optimization (GEO) or AI search optimization. A general statement that services are tailored to each client does not give a buyer a usable budget reference.
AI visibility describes whether a brand appears in relevant AI-generated answers, recommendations or source citations. AEO and GEO are commonly used for the work intended to improve that presence: making business information clear, answering buyer questions, publishing useful pages and assessing what AI systems surface. The terms overlap, so an agency's deliverables matter more than its label.
Our distinction is between visibility measurement and visibility work. A report can reveal that a competitor appears for a buyer question. It does not, by itself, create a better answer page, clarify a product comparison or publish an update. Before comparing providers, decide whether you need a baseline, a strategy, implementation or all three.
Providers with publicly listed AI visibility rates
The comparison below leads with Frizerly as the software alternative, followed by agencies whose official pages display an AI search service rate or priced project. We link to each provider's page so you can review its current scope and terms directly.
| Provider | Publicly described offer | Delivery model | What to check before choosing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frizerly | Current plans and included features | Software that researches, publishes and tracks content | Which plan includes the AI visibility and publishing features you need |
| Visibility Partners | Advisory, Partner and Embedded retainers | Agency advisory and implementation tiers | Which tier includes content production and technical changes |
| CiteLead | One-time audit and ongoing AEO/GEO engagement | Audit followed by managed work | Minimum commitment and scope for each market |
| Etched Digital Agency | GEO audit and tiered monthly programs | Audit and higher-touch agency retainers | Included content volume, technical work and audit credit terms |
| Brandilite | Diagnostic and monthly visibility tiers | Technical and content-focused service | How work expands between tiers |
| Agency Crate | AI visibility audit and implementation sprint | Defined-scope projects | Scope and separate terms for continuing work |
| 009 Agency | Published starting point for ongoing GEO | Agency retainer | Deliverables in the final proposal |
Rates, packages and inclusion rules can change. The linked provider pages are the place to compare current terms.
How the options differ in practice
Software alternative
Frizerly: published plans with content execution
Frizerly connects to a business website to learn its products, services and location. It uses customer search questions and Google Search Console data to support topic selection, creates SEO and AEO content, publishes on a schedule and monitors brand mentions across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity. It integrates with WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, HubSpot and custom websites.
This is the choice we recommend for a lean team or an agency managing client sites when the recurring problem is getting useful articles live. Depending on the plan, the workflow also includes keyword discovery, rank tracking, competitor content-gap analysis, content refreshes and social sharing. Agencies can manage additional sites from one dashboard. The current pricing page sets out the plan differences and trial option.
The distinction from an agency proposal is concrete: the platform connects research, publishing and monitoring in one repeatable workflow. A consultant's report may identify an unanswered buyer question; an execution system helps turn that question into a page on the site. See our guide to turning AEO recommendations into published content for a closer look at that handoff.
Visibility Partners: tiered advisory and embedded support
Visibility Partners publishes Advisory, Partner and Embedded options. Its described work includes AI visibility measurement, competitor benchmarking, content briefs and technical specifications, with broader implementation in higher tiers. That separation is helpful if you already employ writers and developers: an advisory tier may guide their work, while a more involved tier can take on additional execution.
Ask which tasks the agency will complete itself and which arrive as recommendations for your team. A technical specification is valuable, but it should not be counted as an implemented site change.
CiteLead: an audit-to-retainer path
CiteLead lists a one-time AI visibility audit and an ongoing AEO/GEO service, with a minimum sprint commitment. An audit-first arrangement can suit a team that needs to establish where competitors are appearing before committing to ongoing work.
Ask for a sample audit output. It should distinguish the prompts tested, the sources appearing in answers, the pages requiring improvement and the tasks scheduled for the subsequent engagement. Confirm how the audit findings become published or implemented changes.
Etched Digital Agency: audit plus substantial managed programs
Etched publishes a GEO audit and multiple monthly service tiers. The described scope includes buyer-prompt baselines, competitor comparisons, schema and entity work, content production, technical implementation and reporting, with greater involvement at higher tiers.
It is a reasonable shortlist candidate when your site spans complex products or markets and you want a dedicated team. Compare the number of pages produced and technical changes implemented, not only the tier names. Its page also describes conditions under which the audit can be credited toward a continuing engagement.
Brandilite: foundation, visibility and category work
Brandilite displays a diagnostic and three recurring service levels oriented around technical foundations, answer pages, authority assets and visibility reporting. This structure lets a buyer distinguish foundational cleanup from a broader category-competition program.
Request a written list of what will change on your website during the selected tier. If outreach or authority development matters to your category, clarify what assets are created, who approves them and how their effect is reported.
Agency Crate: a priced audit and implementation sprint
Agency Crate publishes an AI visibility audit and a separately priced implementation sprint. Its service description covers question research, competitor and source analysis, entity and schema review, priority page work and measurement.
This model suits a business that wants a bounded project before considering ongoing help. A priced sprint should have a deliverable list and a completion point. Ask what monitoring, maintenance or further content work would require a separate engagement.
009 Agency: a published retainer starting point
009 Agency lists a starting point for ongoing generative engine optimization and describes a complimentary audit before retainer decisions. A starting rate is useful for screening a provider, though the final scope still determines what the engagement covers.
Ask what is delivered in the first phase, which channels and prompts are measured, and whether writing, publication, technical updates and reporting are included in the proposal.
None of these models is automatically better because it is listed publicly. A priced audit, a consulting retainer and software that publishes content solve different problems. The most informative comparison is between the work you need done and the work each option actually owns.
What an AI visibility engagement needs to deliver
We evaluate a prospective engagement as a chain: baseline, decisions, published changes and reassessment. A break anywhere in that chain leaves a gap between what you learn and what customers can find.
A baseline tied to buying questions
The baseline should cover questions customers ask before selecting a product or provider, not just searches for your brand name. Include category questions, comparisons, problem-based questions and relevant location or industry qualifiers. Keep a record of the exact wording, AI system and observation date so later checks are comparable.
A prioritized implementation plan
A useful plan identifies the page to improve or create, the buyer question it answers, the evidence needed and the person responsible. For a service business, that may mean clarifying where it operates and what each service includes. For a software company, it may mean explaining integrations, alternatives or technical requirements.
Actual publishing and site changes
Content briefs and schema recommendations are not the same as live pages and implemented markup. Ask whether your provider drafts, edits, approves and publishes content, or expects your team to do some of those jobs. Also ask how existing pages are refreshed when product details change or search performance falls.
Measurement that separates distinct outcomes
A brand mention is an appearance in an answer. A citation points to a source. An organic click, an AI referral and a qualified inquiry are different again. Report them separately, then consider how they relate. Our article on separating citations from mentions and recommendations explains why a single blended visibility score can hide important changes.
Public rates make shortlisting easier. Clear ownership of implementation makes the work comparable.
What Frizerly's customer results illustrate
Search performance is not the same measure as an AI citation. These customer examples illustrate a narrower, important point: specific buyer questions can produce measurable organic discovery when a business publishes relevant answers consistently.
Optometry practice
An established Midwestern practice published 360 articles with Frizerly. In the reported 30-day Google Search Console window, 72 blog pages received clicks and blog content generated more than 600 organic clicks per month. The stronger topics answered specific questions about contact lenses, prescriptions and progressive lenses, rather than repeating general eye-care advice. Read the optometry case study.
Building-materials retailer
A specialty retailer in a mid-size Canadian city published 276 posts over approximately 12 months without in-house writers. In its reported 30-day window, 136 posts earned clicks, and the top 25 generated more than 3,600 organic clicks per month. Project sizing, material specifications, installation depth and regional climate questions drove the strategy. Read the building-materials case study.
Neither example establishes how often the businesses were cited by an AI assistant, and neither predicts another site's results. They show why an AI visibility plan should include useful, business-specific content alongside monitoring. An agency can do that work through its team; software can make the publishing cycle more repeatable.
How to compare a published agency rate with a software plan
- Define the work you want completed.
Write down whether you need a diagnosis, a content program, technical implementation, AI mention monitoring or a combination. Without that scope, a one-time audit can appear comparable to a recurring publishing service when it is not.
- Identify the unit behind each offer.
Is the listed amount for a one-time project, a monthly service, a domain, a brand or a location? Does it include the people and tools required to deliver the work? A starting point may be a useful filter without being the final project scope.
- Request a deliverable schedule.
For an agency, ask which pages, briefs, technical tasks and reports will be completed and when. For software, check the plan's publishing cadence, integrations and monitoring features. Compare completed outputs, not just activity descriptions.
- Assign ownership for every handoff.
Determine who supplies product facts, who checks technical accuracy, who approves sensitive claims and who presses publish. If the vendor delivers recommendations but your team cannot implement them, account for that work in your decision.
- Set a measurement baseline before changes begin.
Record relevant AI answers and cited sources, then track search impressions, clicks and inquiries where available. Use comparable questions and observation dates when reassessing. AI responses can vary, so avoid drawing a broad conclusion from one answer.
- Read the terms beyond the headline rate.
Check minimum commitments, cancellation rules, content ownership, revisions, additional markets or domains and any separate audit or implementation work. An apparently straightforward rate only helps if its boundaries are clear.
Best practices before you sign
- Ask for a sample of the actual work. A sample report reveals more than a feature list. Look for specific questions, sources, priority pages and assigned actions.
- Favor content grounded in customer decisions. Questions about fit, specifications, comparisons and troubleshooting often give a business more to say than broad introductory articles.
- Make factual review part of the workflow. Product availability, regulated claims, service areas and technical advice should be checked by someone who knows the business before publication.
- Keep monitoring and execution connected. When a question exposes a gap, decide whether to improve an existing page or publish a new answer, then reassess the same topic later.
- Be skeptical of guaranteed AI placements. A provider can control its work and reporting process. It cannot control every answer generated by an independent AI system.
- Judge outcomes at the right level. AI mentions matter, but also examine whether the relevant pages attract visitors and whether those visitors can take a useful next step.
If you are building this into a client service, our guide to offering AI visibility services without building every workflow in-house explores the operational side of choosing tools and defining deliverables.
Frequently asked questions
Which AI visibility agencies publish their rates?
Visibility Partners, CiteLead, Etched Digital Agency, Brandilite, Agency Crate and 009 Agency are examples with public service rates, starting points or priced audits on their websites. Their offers differ, so review each linked page for the current scope.
Does a publicly priced audit include ongoing optimization?
Not necessarily. An audit typically evaluates a starting position and recommends changes. Check whether writing, technical implementation, publication and follow-up measurement are separate services.
What is the difference between AI visibility software and an agency?
Software provides workflows for tasks such as monitoring and content production. An agency provides human-led strategy and services under an agreed scope. Some businesses need the repeatability of a publishing platform; others need specialists to handle a complex custom engagement.
What should an agency report besides brand mentions?
Ask for the questions tested, AI systems checked, cited sources, competitor appearances, changes made to your site and relevant business outcomes. Keep citations, mentions, search traffic and leads as distinct measures rather than treating them as interchangeable.
Can a provider guarantee that ChatGPT or Gemini will recommend my business?
No provider controls independent AI answers. Look for a clear process for improving relevant pages and measuring changes, not a guarantee of placement for a particular prompt.
How long should I allow before judging progress?
Assess early work by whether the baseline, content and technical tasks are completed. Search rankings and AI mentions generally develop over subsequent weeks and months, so evaluate trends rather than expecting every newly published page to appear immediately.
Conclusion
Published rates are a useful way to narrow an AI visibility shortlist, but they are only the beginning of a sound comparison. Separate audits from ongoing services, identify who implements recommendations and insist on measurement tied to relevant buyer questions. If consistent publishing is the missing piece, start with Frizerly: its current plans show how our SEO and AEO content workflow connects website research, publication and AI brand monitoring.