Promptwatch vs Qwairy (2026): The Original vs the Credit-Meter Clone
Qwairy copies Promptwatch's sitemap, then pauses at 1,300 credits. Engine lists, crawler logs, and what $95 vs €79 actually buys.
Qwairy is the closest Promptwatch lookalike that is not Temso. Same brochure: prompts, citations, action, crawlers, MCP, revenue. Promptwatch ships that loop on a published price without a prepaid cutoff. Qwairy Starter is €79 and 1,300 credits. When the credits die, analyses pause.
That pause is the review. Everything else is a sitemap comparison. Qwairy lists Cockpit, Monitor, Act, Analyze, Optimize, and Measure. Promptwatch lists prompt tracking, citation analytics, Agent Analytics, visitor analytics, and Content Agents. The words rhyme. The bill does not.
A sitemap that rhymes with a working product is not the product. The difference shows up on the invoice and at the end of the month. Qwairy meters a prepaid credit wallet that pauses analyses when the wallet hits zero. Promptwatch meters prompts, responses, articles, and crawler-log volume, and the product keeps running when one counter fills. That billing shape is the thing to compare, not the module names.
The reason the billing shape matters more than the module list is that the module list is easy to copy and the billing shape is not. A competitor can read a sitemap, write six module names, and put them on a pricing page in an afternoon. Building a crawler log pipeline that runs across named bots, ties citations to pages, and keeps measuring when a content team publishes twenty articles in a week is a different order of work. The sitemap tells you what a product claims to do. The bill tells you how it behaves when you actually use it.
Snapshot comparison
| Promptwatch | Qwairy | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free Explore; $95/mo Essential | 120 (or 100) free credits; €79/mo Starter |
| Engines on first paid plan | 10+ live UIs including Claude | Long list; Claude/Mistral/DeepSeek are API-only |
| Crawler / bot logs | Agent Analytics; 25M on Professional $245 | Business €449 |
| Content | Content Agents, 5 to 30 AEO articles/mo, CMS publish | Content Studio; 50 credits per brief |
| Visitor → conversion | Script or GTM | "AI Revenue" module; crawler/referrer analytics on Business |
| Billing failure mode | You hit prompt/response caps | Product pauses at zero credits |
| MCP / API | MCP + REST API v2 on paid | MCP on Starter; REST API from Growth €199 |
| Fact Check | Not a billed beta SKU | Growth, marked beta |
| G2 / customers | 4.7/5, 1,840+ customers | No score we can cite; homepage says 2,000+ brands |
Read the table by failure mode first. The row that separates these two products is "billing failure mode." Promptwatch's failure mode is that you hit a prompt or response cap on your tier, and you either wait for the cycle or move up a tier. The workspace keeps running. Qwairy's failure mode is that the product pauses when the credit wallet hits zero, which means an analysis in progress stops. The other rows describe what each product does. This row describes what each product does to you when you run out.
The crawler-log row is the second one to read carefully. Promptwatch puts Agent Analytics on Professional at $245. Qwairy puts crawler analytics on Business at €449. If the question you are buying for is "did the bot fetch my page," the two stickers that matter are $245 and €449, not €79 and $95. The content row is the third. Promptwatch's Content Agents publish to a CMS and run on a monthly article allowance. Qwairy's Content Studio charges 50 credits per brief, which means content work draws down the same wallet that tracking does.
Qwairy's case
You can click around without a card. The engine list on the pricing grid is long. MCP is on Starter. Annual billing knocks two months off. If you only need a few models, a few times a week, 1,300 credits can last.
That is the whole case. The six-module map is not a moat. It is a sitemap. Fact Check is beta. The free-credit number does not match across Qwairy's own pages (120 on the homepage, 100 in the FAQ). Crawler analytics (the homepage's 15+ bots) is €449.
The case for Qwairy is a light-use case. A team that checks a few models a few times a week, stays inside 1,300 credits, and does not need crawler logs at the entry tier can get value from Starter. The case stops being the case when use scales. The six-module map is a sitemap, which is to say it is a list of page titles, not a guarantee of depth. Fact Check is marked beta, which means it is a billed feature that is not finished. The free-credit number disagreeing with itself across two pages on the same site is the kind of detail that should make a buyer check the rest of the numbers.
The mixed sampling is the other tell. ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Grok are listed as UI plus API. Copilot, AI Overviews, and AI Mode are UI-only. Claude, Mistral, and DeepSeek are API-only. If you care what a logged-in user sees, that split matters. Google's AI features documentation is the official rule for Overviews and AI Mode on the Google side. A credit-metered API sample of Claude is not that surface.
The split between UI and API sampling is the detail a buyer misses when they count engines. A long engine list reads as coverage. The fine print is that some of those engines are sampled through an API rather than through a logged-in UI, which means the product sees what the API returns, not what a real user sees in the chat. For engines where the logged-in experience differs from the API experience, that gap is the difference between measuring the surface your customers use and measuring a proxy for it.
Qwairy case studies quote 40% ChatGPT mention rates and 3x brand mentions. Those are vendor stories. We did not verify them.
Promptwatch's case
Promptwatch is the product the sitemap is echoing. Essential at $95/mo already includes ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Grok, Llama, DeepSeek, Mistral, Copilot, plus Google AI Overviews and AI Mode. Explore stays free (10 ChatGPT prompts). Essential includes visitor analytics and Content Agents, but not crawler logs. Professional at $245/mo adds Agent Analytics for named bots. Agency Kick-off is $199/mo with unlimited projects and prompts plus its own crawler-log allowance.
The engine list is the first thing to notice. Essential covers the full paid UI set, including Claude as a live UI rather than an API-only sample. That is the row where Qwairy's long list and Promptwatch's shorter list tell different stories. Qwairy lists more names but marks three of them API-only. Promptwatch lists fewer names but runs them as live UIs. A buyer who counts names will favor Qwairy. A buyer who reads the sampling column will favor Promptwatch.
You do not get Qwairy's "unlimited team members on €79" line. You get a stack that keeps running after query 1,301. Promptwatch meters prompts, responses, articles, and (on higher tiers) crawler-log volume. Hitting a cap is not the same as the product pausing mid-analysis.
Professional at $245/mo is the plan that already includes 25M crawler logs and 15 AEO articles. Qwairy puts crawler analytics on Business at €449. That is the price comparison people skip when they only look at €79 vs $95.
Who should pick which
Pick Qwairy if you want to spend free credits and leave.
Pick Promptwatch if you want daily tracking, Claude as a live UI, and articles that are not 50 credits each. Choose Professional at $245/mo if you also want crawler logs before Qwairy's €449 Business tier.
Start Promptwatch at promptwatch.com. More: Qwairy alternatives.
FAQ
Is Qwairy just Promptwatch with a French domain?
Close on the brochure. Not on Starter. The Promptwatch-shaped SKU is Qwairy Business.
Is Qwairy cheaper?
€79 vs $95 on the first paid card. A month of 10-engine daily checks is not 1,300 credits. Promptwatch Essential does not pause. The sticker comparison skips the unit. Qwairy bills a credit wallet that stops the product at zero. Promptwatch bills counters that cap a tier without halting the workspace. Price the month of checks you actually run, then read the two bills again.
Does Promptwatch have a credit meter?
Promptwatch meters prompts, responses, articles, and (on higher tiers) crawler-log volume. It does not advertise a pause-when-zero credit wallet for each model query the way Qwairy's FAQ does.