Promptwatch vs Temso AI (2026): Original Full-Stack GEO or the $89 Clone?
Temso copies Promptwatch's loop, prompts, citations, bot logs, an agent, MCP. The $89 Starter is three models and 10K bot visits. Here's the actual split.
Temso AI is the closest Promptwatch lookalike on this site. Same job: track prompts across live AI UIs, show citations, ingest AI bot traffic, draft the work, expose the data over MCP. The difference is what $89 to $95 actually buys. Promptwatch Essential includes the broad engine set and a free tier underneath. Temso Starter is three models, 10K bot visits, and five content pieces. The Temso that matches the homepage is Growth at $199/mo.
Snapshot comparison
|| | Promptwatch | Temso AI | | --- | --- | --- | | Starting price | Free Explore; $95/mo Essential | $89/mo Starter (trial, no free-forever plan) | | Engines on first paid plan | 10+ including Claude, Grok, Copilot, AI Overviews | 3 models; Claude is $5/mo per prompt (packs of 25) | | All-model coverage | Essential | Growth $199/mo | | AI crawler / bot logs | Agent Analytics; 25M logs on Professional | 10K bot visits on Starter; 25M on Growth | | Content | Content Agents, 5 to 30 AEO articles/mo, CMS publish | 5 / 10 / 50 pieces/mo; CMS publish; optimization "coming soon" | | Visitor to conversion | Script or GTM template | Not documented as conversion attribution | | Seats / projects | Tiered (1 project on Essential) | Unlimited on every paid plan | | MCP / API | MCP + REST API v2 from paid | MCP on Starter; API + Looker from Growth | | Yearly discount | 12 months for the price of 10 | 15% off | | G2 (vendor-stated) | 4.7/5, 1,840+ customers | Homepage displays 4.8 / Top rated |
Temso's case
Temso's public product is a Promptwatch-shaped stack: daily UI-level tracking, citation analytics, AI bot analytics from GSC and CDN/server logs, website audits, backlink checks, and an agent that drafts content, outreach, and on-page changes inside guardrails. Unlimited seats and projects on every paid plan is the one place it is structurally nicer for agencies than Promptwatch's project caps.
Read the pricing page, not the homepage. Starter ($89/mo) is 50 prompts, 6,000 responses, 10K AI bot visits, 5 content pieces, MCP. Growth ($199/mo) is "All models," 150 prompts, 25M bot visits, API and Looker, 10 content pieces. Professional is $499/mo. Extra prompts are $100 per 50. Claude is an add-on. Content optimization is marked coming soon. Temso's own blog ranks Temso #1, that is marketing. Third-party posts that still say $29 are stale.
The unlimited seats and projects line is the real argument for an agency. A shop with twelve clients and a rotating contractor pool pays one Temso Growth number and adds everyone. The same shop on Promptwatch Essential would hit the one-project cap on the second client. That trade is worth naming before the comparison turns into a feature checklist.
The add-on structure is the trade in the other direction. Claude on Temso Starter is a per-prompt charge in packs of 25. Claude on Promptwatch Essential is included. A program that tracks Claude prompts at volume will spend the difference fast, and the engine count on Temso Starter is three models, not the full set.
Promptwatch's case
Promptwatch is the product Temso is echoing. Essential at $95/mo already includes ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Grok, Llama, DeepSeek, Mistral, Copilot, plus Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, no Claude surcharge. Explore is free (ChatGPT, 10 prompts). Professional or an agency plan adds Agent Analytics for crawl-to-citation mapping with named bots. Visitor analytics ties AI-referred traffic to conversions. Content Agents publish to Webflow or Framer with a review inbox. MCP and API are on the paid plans.
You give up Temso's unlimited projects and seats at $89 and its bundled backlink-check quota. Essential keeps the broader engine coverage. Matching Temso Growth's 25M bot-log volume requires Promptwatch Professional, not Essential.
The free tier is the part that changes how a team starts. A team can run Explore on ten ChatGPT prompts for as long as it takes to sell the program internally, then move to Essential when the budget clears. Temso has a trial but no free-forever plan on the sheet we fetched, so the same team has to buy before it can show a real dashboard to a stakeholder.
The visitor-to-conversion gap is the part that changes how a team reports. Promptwatch ties an AI-referred session to a conversion through a script or GTM template. Temso has not documented that attribution. A program that needs to defend AI visibility in revenue terms will hit that gap in the first QBR.
Who should pick which
Pick Temso if unlimited seats and projects matter more than engine count, you will buy Growth ($199/mo) so "all models" and 25M bot visits are real, and you like their agent UX.
Pick Promptwatch if you want the same loop with a free tier, Claude included at $95, and visitor-to-conversion tracking Temso has not documented. Choose Professional at $245/mo when crawler logs are part of the brief.
FAQ
Is Temso just Promptwatch with a different logo?
Close on the brochure. Not on Starter. Three models and 10K bot visits is a thinner product than Promptwatch Essential.
Does Temso Starter include Claude?
No. The pricing page sells Claude at $5/mo per prompt, in chunks of 25, and labels Starter as 3 models.
Is Temso cheaper?
$89 vs $95 on the first paid tier. Configure the same engines and bot-log volume and the comparison becomes Temso Growth at $199 vs Promptwatch Professional at $245.
Does Temso have a free plan?
Homepage: free to start, cancel anytime. Pricing page: paid tiers and a trial. There is no Promptwatch-style free Explore plan on the sheet we fetched (2026-08-16).