Promptwatch vs LLM Pulse: which one should you buy in 2026?
Promptwatch vs LLM Pulse for buyers: 30 features compared from vendor pages, weekly vs daily pricing worked out for three teams, where LLM Pulse wins, and a trial plan.
Promptwatch and LLM Pulse end up on the same shortlist for good reasons. Both publish their prices, both include unlimited seats on every plan, both ship an MCP server, and both now sell more than a mention count: LLM Pulse lists AI crawler logs, AI traffic analytics with conversions, recommendations and a content writer. On a feature checklist they look close. The difference shows up on the order form, in which plan each feature sits on and how often the data refreshes at the price you pay.
LLM Pulse's Agent Analytics page, captured November 8, 2026.
This comparison uses LLM Pulse's home and pricing pages captured November 6, 2026, its llms.txt, AI model pricing and feature pages fetched November 8, 2026, and Promptwatch's own published plan matrix and pricing page. Where LLM Pulse doesn't mention a feature, we say it is not listed rather than assume it is missing. For the wider field, see our LLM Pulse alternatives buyer's guide.
Quick verdict
Buy Promptwatch if you need daily data, every engine without add-on fees, and an explanation for each citation you win or lose: IP-verified crawler logs from Professional, visitor analytics with conversions on every plan, and publishing to WordPress, Webflow or Framer. Buy LLM Pulse if weekly data is enough, the budget is under €100 a month, or you need Korean or Chinese engines.
At a glance
| Promptwatch | LLM Pulse | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Essential $95/mo (€85 on its euro pricing) | Starter €49/mo (€40.83/mo billed annually) |
| Tracking cadence at that price | Daily | Weekly |
| Entry allowance | 1 project, 50 prompts, 6,000 responses a month | 1 project, 50 prompts, 50 responses per week per model |
| Engines | Every paid plan can track any of the supported engines | 5 included; others are add-ons from €8/mo per model |
| Free trial | 7 days on monthly billing, all six self-serve plans | 14 days on weekly Starter, Growth and Scale; daily plans start paid |
| Seats | Unlimited on every paid plan | Unlimited on every plan |
| Annual billing | 12 months for the price of 10 | 10 times the monthly price |
| Crawler logs start on | Professional, $245/mo | Scale, €299/mo |
Full feature comparison
| Feature | Promptwatch | LLM Pulse |
|---|---|---|
| Tracking | ||
| Engines included | Real UI: ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Alexa, Meta AI; Claude, DeepSeek, Mistral, Grok via API | ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Gemini |
| Extra engines | No per-engine surcharge | Add-ons: Claude €25, Grok €15, Meta AI €12, Copilot, DeepSeek or Alexa €10 on weekly Starter; Mistral via sales |
| Fastest tracking | Daily on every plan; every 12, 6 or 1 hours on Business | Weekly by default; daily on separate plans; hourly not listed |
| Prompt research | Prompt Volumes: monthly volume, difficulty, citation rate | AI prompt research on every plan; volumes and difficulty not listed |
| Query fan-outs | Yes, per model | Yes, from ChatGPT responses; plan not stated |
| Personas | Yes, with persona stacking and Persona Insights | Not listed |
| Location | Country on every paid plan; state/city and 20 m to 5 km coordinates on Business | Models and locales; Local Business Tracking; state/city and coordinates not described |
| Citations and narrative | ||
| Page-level citations | All Citations, URL Positions, Citation Trends | Yes, every plan |
| Social citation reports | Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram | YouTube, Reddit, social and apps from Growth; LinkedIn and Instagram not named |
| Track a specific URL, incl. a competitor's | Page Tracker | Partial: technical GEO reports for any URL |
| Sentiment and narrative | Brand Narrative on every plan: claims grouped by theme and scored | Sentiment from Growth; Reputation from Scale (0 to 100 across seven dimensions per model) |
| Fact checking against your own pages | Fact Check on Business | Not listed |
| Crawlers and traffic | ||
| AI crawler logs | Agent Analytics from Professional and on agency plans | Agent Analytics from Scale |
| IP verification, crawl-to-citation, crawl errors | All three | Per-URL bot traffic you can correlate with citations; IP verification and errors not listed |
| AI-referred visits and conversions | Every plan (script, GTM template, WordPress plugin) | From Growth; GA4, Plausible and Piano integrations |
| Search Console and Bing next to AI data | Both, every brand plan | Search Console imported; Bing not listed |
| Content and actions | ||
| Action queue | Action Board with a weekly Discovery agent | Prioritized recommendations on every plan |
| Conversational agent | Agent Chat on every plan, Scheduled Chats in-app or Slack | "LLM Pulse Agent" from Growth, not described on the pages read |
| Content generation | AEO articles: 5/mo on Professional, 10 on Business | GEO Writer: 3 tasks/mo on Starter, 5 on Growth, 15 on Scale |
| CMS publishing | WordPress, Webflow, Framer; automated Content Agent on Business | Not listed |
| Site audit | Weekly, 21 checks, every plan | GEO audits for any URL, every plan |
| Shopping tracking | ChatGPT Shopping and Alexa on Business | ChatGPT Shopping on Scale; Alexa for Shopping add-on |
| Ads inside AI answers | Ads Radar on Business and agency plans | ChatGPT Ads on Scale |
| Integrations and admin | ||
| MCP server | Every paid plan, 110+ tools | Every plan, about 140 tools |
| REST API | Every paid plan | From Scale |
| Looker Studio | From Professional | From Scale |
| PDF and scheduled reports | PDF of any dashboard; 10 scheduled PDF reports per brand plan | PDF export on every plan; custom reports from Scale; scheduled reports not listed |
| Security | ISO/IEC 27001, GDPR; SSO on Enterprise | SSO on Enterprise; ISO 27001 and SOC 2 not listed |
| Agency setup | Agency plans from $199 with unlimited projects; white-label on Enterprise | +1 project €50/mo; Partner plans from 25 client projects with white label |
| Coding agent visibility | Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode | Not listed |
Pricing side by side
Promptwatch's pricing page, captured November 6, 2026.
LLM Pulse's pricing page, captured November 6, 2026. Prices shown in euros for a visitor in the Netherlands.
The stickers compare a weekly price with a daily one, so work it through for real teams. One counting note first: on Promptwatch a response is one prompt run on one engine, and on LLM Pulse each tracked prompt runs on all five included models.
A brand team with 100 prompts on four engines, daily, with crawler logs. Take ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode and Perplexity, which both tools include. That is 400 responses a day, or about 12,000 a month. Promptwatch Professional at $245 fits: 150 prompts and 18,000 responses leave room for a fifth engine, and crawler logs, 5 AEO articles and Looker Studio are included. On LLM Pulse, Growth's 150 prompts cover the list, but crawler logs need Scale at €299, and that is the weekly price. The daily Scale price was not in our capture, and daily plans have no trial. So the honest comparison is $245 a month for daily data against €299 for weekly data, plus an upgrade you have to price with LLM Pulse.
A small brand with 50 prompts, happy with weekly data. LLM Pulse Starter at €49 wins this one: five engines, a weekly run and 3 GEO Writer tasks. Promptwatch Essential at $95 runs daily, but 6,000 responses a month covers 50 prompts on four engines, not five, and Essential has no crawler logs or AEO articles. If weekly data really answers your questions, paying for daily is hard to justify.
An agency with eight clients and about 10 prompts each on four engines. LLM Pulse Scale includes five projects, so three more at €50 each bring the bill to €449 a month, still weekly. Promptwatch Kick-off at $199 has unlimited projects and prompts, 10,000 responses (enough for 80 prompts on four engines daily), crawler logs, Ads Radar and state/city tracking. The catch is content: agency plans include no AEO articles or Content Agent, while LLM Pulse Scale includes 15 GEO Writer tasks a month.
Where LLM Pulse genuinely beats or matches Promptwatch
The entry price is lower. Starter is €49 a month for 50 prompts on five engines, against €85 for Promptwatch Essential on its euro pricing. The trial is twice as long, 14 days on the weekly Starter, Growth and Scale plans, although it needs a payment method. LLM Pulse also sells regional engines as published self-serve add-ons: Naver AI Briefing, Naver AI Tab, Baidu AI, Qwen and Doubao. None of them is on Promptwatch's tracked-model list, which settles the question for brands selling in Korea or China.
LLM Pulse's Query Fan Out page, captured November 8, 2026.
Several rows are genuine matches. LLM Pulse has its own query fan-out feature, page-level citations on every plan, an MCP server on every plan with about 140 tools, and unlimited seats. Its Agent Analytics takes logs from Cloudflare, Bunny CDN, Vercel, Fastly, Netlify, Akamai, GCP and CloudFront, and accepts raw Apache or nginx log uploads, which goes beyond Promptwatch's integration list on Bunny and file uploads. Reputation on Scale scores the brand from 0 to 100 across seven dimensions per model, comparable to Promptwatch's Brand Narrative theme scores. Content arrives earlier too: GEO Writer is on Starter, while Promptwatch's AEO articles start on Professional. And Shopping and ads tracking sit on Scale at €299, well below Promptwatch Business at $579.
What LLM Pulse is missing
Daily data at the advertised price
The prices on LLM Pulse's pricing page buy weekly runs. A drop that starts the day after a run stays invisible for up to a week, and a content change can't be checked against the next day's answers. Daily runs mean a separate plan, with no trial and a price that was not in our capture of the pricing page. Promptwatch runs every plan daily, Essential included, and Business adds runs every 12, 6 or 1 hours when a launch or an incident needs closer watching.
Engines without a per-model bill
Five engines are included on LLM Pulse. Claude, Copilot, Grok, Meta AI, DeepSeek and Alexa each add a monthly fee, and the fee rises with the plan, so the cost of broad coverage grows as you scale up. Promptwatch charges no per-engine surcharge, and every paid plan can track any of the supported engines. Ask Promptwatch how many engines your plan runs per prompt, because its own sources differ on that.
Crawler logs you can verify and tie to citations
LLM Pulse's Agent Analytics shows bot traffic per URL that you can correlate with mentions and citations, from Scale. IP verification and crawl error tracking are not listed on LLM Pulse's pricing or product pages (checked November 2026). Without verification, a scraper that sets its user agent to GPTBot looks like OpenAI in your report. Promptwatch's Agent Analytics, from Professional at $245, checks each bot against its operator's published IP ranges, gives every page a citation rate and explains crawl errors. That tells you whether a page has an access problem or a content problem.
Personas, local depth and a Bing view
Personas are not listed for LLM Pulse, and state, city and coordinate targeting are not described. Promptwatch includes personas with persona stacking, and Business adds state and city tracking and coordinate targeting from 20 m to 5 km for ChatGPT, AI Overviews and AI Mode. Its Search Insights also puts Bing Webmaster data, Copilot included, next to Google Search Console on every brand plan. LLM Pulse imports Search Console, and Bing is not listed.
Checking what AI says against your own pages
LLM Pulse's Reputation module catches inaccurate or negative claims, but checking those claims against your own pages is not described. Promptwatch's Brand Narrative, on every plan, groups the claims AI makes about you and competitors by theme and scores them. Fact Check, on Business, reads pages crawled from your site for statements that confirm or contradict a claim you marked, and an accuracy score tracks it by model and theme.
Promptwatch Brand Narrative, from the Promptwatch changelog. Example project data.
Publishing the fix
GEO Writer drafts content you can edit, but publishing to a CMS is not listed. Someone still has to copy each draft into WordPress or Webflow and then remember to check whether it got crawled and cited. Promptwatch publishes to WordPress, Webflow and Framer as a draft or live, follows each document through crawls, citations and AI traffic, and on Business runs the Content Agent on a schedule with a review inbox.
Data access and reporting below Scale
LLM Pulse's REST API and Looker Studio connector start on Scale, so a Starter or Growth team that wants AI data in its own reporting works from CSV, Excel or PDF exports and the MCP server. Scheduled reports are not listed on any plan. Promptwatch includes the REST API on every paid plan, Looker Studio from Professional, custom dashboards, and 10 scheduled PDF reports and 10 scheduled chats on every brand plan.
Promptwatch custom dashboard, from the Promptwatch changelog. Example project data.
A two-week side-by-side trial plan
Days 1 and 2: write one list of 50 prompts and pick four engines both tools include. Start LLM Pulse's 14-day trial on weekly Scale, so Agent Analytics and AI Traffic Analytics are in the test, and connect your log source. The trial needs a payment method, so set a reminder for day 13. Days 3 to 7: wait for the first weekly run, then work through the recommendations and one GEO Writer task. Day 8: start Promptwatch's 7-day trial on Professional with the same prompts, connect crawler logs through your CDN or the WordPress plugin, and install the visitor script. Days 8 to 14: you collect seven daily runs against LLM Pulse's second weekly run. On day 14, pick a page that gained or lost a citation and ask which tool told you why. For a fuller procurement checklist, see our GEO software buyer's guide.
Who should pick which
Pick Promptwatch if you report AI search to someone who asks "why" and "what did it earn", need more than five engines without stacking add-ons, want personas or city-level data, or plan to publish from the same tool. Pick LLM Pulse if a weekly check is enough, €49 to €99 is the budget, you track Naver or Baidu, or you want shopping and ads data at €299.
Our verdict
For teams that reach this comparison because a weekly number stopped being enough, Promptwatch is the better purchase. The deciding factor is the explanation layer: daily runs on every plan, and crawler logs that verify the bot and link the crawl to the citation, next to conversions counted by the tool itself. To see where you start before committing to a trial, run the free AI Visibility Report, then follow the trial plan above.
FAQ
Is LLM Pulse cheaper than Promptwatch?
At the entry level, yes: €49 against $95. Once you compare like with like, the gap narrows or flips. Crawler logs cost €299 a month on LLM Pulse with weekly data and $245 on Promptwatch with daily data, and Claude or Copilot on LLM Pulse add a fee per model.
Does LLM Pulse have AI crawler logs?
Yes, on Scale and above, with a wide choice of log sources. What it doesn't list is IP verification of bots or crawl error tracking. Promptwatch's crawler logs, from Professional, include both, plus a citation rate per page.
Can I track Claude on both?
Yes. On LLM Pulse Claude is a paid add-on, €25 a month on weekly Starter and more on higher plans. On Promptwatch every paid plan can track any of the supported engines, and Claude is tracked via API rather than through its own interface.