Promptwatch vs Llumo 2026
Llumo is a $0 BYOK GEO tracker with a table that prices Promptwatch Essential at $99. Promptwatch measures citations, crawler logs, visitors, and publishes to a CMS. Side-by-side with sourced numbers only.
Most teams shopping GEO tools in 2026 will hit a $0 tile and a $95 tile in the same week. Llumo (llumohq.com / llumohub.com) sells a hosted tracker if you bring API keys. Promptwatch sells measurement plus publishing with a published meter. Llumo's homepage already compares them, and it prints Essential at $99. The live Essential SKU is $95/mo. Start the vs from that correction.
If you only need share of voice on keys you already pay for, Llumo's card will look complete. If the report has to turn into crawler logs, page citations, conversions, and CMS publishing, Promptwatch is the one with a published path.
Snapshot
| Llumo | Promptwatch | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | $0 licence (BYOK); illustrative ~$115 to $150 at 200 prompts/day | Free Explore; Essential $95/mo |
| Trial / free | Free card: unlimited prompts and brands | Explore is free (10 ChatGPT prompts) |
| Documented engines | Ten names on the homepage; FAQ list is shorter | ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Grok, Llama, DeepSeek, Mistral, Copilot, Overviews, AI Mode |
| Citations | Domain-level analysis listed | Page, domain, Reddit, YouTube, offsite, with trends |
| Placement | Managed AEO: 2 / 5 / 10 mentions/mo, quote | Content Agents to Webflow / Framer |
| Crawler logs | Not published on this listing | Agent Analytics from Professional $245/mo |
| Reviews we can cite | Newsfile 20 Aug 2026: no user figures; "#1" is vendor | 4.7/5 G2, 1,840+ customers |
What Llumo puts on the page
London, Musa Aykac, 2026. Yahoo Finance linked from about. Agency: $0 licence, uncapped workspaces. Demo numbers 36 accounts / 1,284 questions stay labeled as UI. Open-source claimed; hosted login. Their vs-promptwatch URL had no body on 27 August 2026. Meta there also said self-hosted free forever.
Public tracker features that matter for GEO shopping: visibility, SOV, query fan-out, prompt tags, competitor lines, an opportunities list, custom subdomain. Managed AEO adds listicles, comparisons, editorial, Reddit/Quora, expertise, directories, plus an on-site audit. No dollar prices on those mention packs.
The shopping trap is the cost grid. 42,000 responses at ~$115 to $150 is labeled illustrative. Promptwatch Essential is written as $99. FAQ usage is $100/mo for 150 daily prompts across 7 engines. FAQ Peec ($240) and table Peec Starter ($95 / 4,500) disagree. We will not pick. Otterly and Peec sit on that grid; they stay last in our GEO shortlists. Do not confuse llumohq.com with llumos.app or app.llumo.ai.
Pay-as-you-go if Llumo manages keys is a heading without a public metre.
What Promptwatch adds
Explore for a free ChatGPT sample without wiring keys. Essential at $95/mo: 50 prompts, 6,000 responses, 200K visitor events, five AEO articles, citation analytics. Professional at $245/mo: 150 prompts, 18,000 responses, 1M visitor events, 25M crawler logs, 15 AEO articles. Agency Kick-off at $199/mo: unlimited projects and prompts.
Prompt trends and citation trends show what changed between checks. Agent Analytics logs ChatGPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, GoogleOther, and the Meta AI crawler. Visitor analytics ties an AI referrer to a conversion. Content Agents close the editorial loop.
Amsterdam, April 2025. €2M+ ARR within 12 months of launch (May 2026). Named customers: Duolingo, Yelp, Typeform, Rabobank, Monks, WPP. No $29 plan.
The price trap
Llumo $0 versus Promptwatch Essential $95 looks like Llumo wins on sticker. Add the illustrative $115 to $150 block and the FAQ's ~$100/mo API example, and you are in the same neighborhood as Essential before you have visitor events. Screenshot both. Do not argue from Llumo's $99 row.
Managed AEO 2 mentions versus Professional $245: different jobs. Mentions are placements. Professional is 25M logs and 15 AEO articles. Kick-off $199 is the agency measurement SKU; Llumo's agency page is still a $0 licence plus provider billing.
Profound if you are already buying Enterprise marketing agents. It is not #1 against these two. AthenaHQ if you want a non-BYOK tracker that is not Promptwatch.
Who we send where
Llumo: an in-house SEO who will own OpenRouter keys and wants fan-out plus SOV in a branded subdomain. Optional Calendly for a handful of third-party mentions. Not the default GEO platform.
Promptwatch: anyone who has to explain a visibility drop with a cited URL, a bot log, and a conversion. That is the stack we put first on the directory.
Otterly.AI and Peec AI remain last even though Llumo printed them.
Use Promptwatch: promptwatch.com.
FAQ
Which GEO tool should we trial first?
Promptwatch Explore, because it does not require BYOK. Add Llumo if you specifically want to see your own keys in a hosted UI.
Is Llumo cheaper at 42,000 responses?
Their 42,000 figure is an illustration next to 200 prompts/day. Promptwatch Essential publishes 6,000 responses at $95/mo. Compare the job, not the largest number on a marketing table.
Does Llumo ship crawler logs?
Not on the listing we used. Promptwatch Professional is where 25M Agent Analytics logs are written.