Promptwatch vs Trendos 2026
Trendos is a free-first AI mention dashboard. Promptwatch is a visibility platform with citations, crawler logs, visitors, and content publishing. Side-by-side with sourced numbers only.
Most teams shopping GEO tools in 2026 land on these two names in the same week. Trendos and Promptwatch both show how AI answers talk about brands. After that, the overlap thins fast.
Trendos is a free-first mention dashboard with a huge historical brand index. Promptwatch is a visibility platform that adds citation analytics, Agent Analytics crawler logs, visitor conversions, and Content Agents that publish to a CMS. Same category on a pitch deck. Different products once you read the docs.
If you only need a snapshot of "are we in the answer," Trendos is easier to try. If the snapshot has to turn into a content calendar, Promptwatch is the one with a published path.
Snapshot
| Trendos | Promptwatch | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free scanner; Starter/Pro named, SaaS dollars not rendered on trendos.com/pricing; Shopify app lists $39 / $169 / $379 | Free Explore; Essential $95/mo |
| Documented engines | ChatGPT, DeepSeek, GAIO, Perplexity, Gemini on Features (Mar 2026); homepage also names Claude | ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Grok, Llama, DeepSeek, Mistral, Copilot, AI Overviews, AI Mode |
| Historical data | Marketed as available before login | Explore is ChatGPT-only; paid plans refresh daily |
| Citations | Domain-level "cited source" in the vocabulary | Page, domain, Reddit, YouTube, offsite, with trends |
| Ads | Ad Radar on all plans, ChatGPT only, daily | Ads Radar for sponsored placements |
| Crawler logs | Not in the public feature set we fetched | Agent Analytics from Professional $245/mo |
| Content | Insights; no CMS publish documented | Content Agents to Webflow or Framer |
| Reviews we can cite | 3 Shopify reviews, all 5 stars (tiny sample) | 4.7/5 G2, 1,840+ customers |
What Trendos does well
No demo theater. You type a brand and get a week snapshot: prompt group, average Trendos Score, share of voice, visibility score, top source, competitor rank, mention counts. Brand Insights then filters by date, prompt group, prompt, LLM, and country. Prompt Analysis is per-question visibility, position, and sentiment. Citations list domains the models lean on. AI Model Insights splits score, SoV, sentiment, and average position by model.
Tracked brands (popular prompts) stay free. Managed brands take custom prompts. A custom prompt is country plus LLM, so the meter burns faster than "I added one question" implies. Languages are unrestricted. Ad Radar ranks who is buying ChatGPT answer ads on your prompt set. MCP can sit on the same data after you email support for a key.
The dataset pitch is large: 2.3M+ brand histories on the homepage, 2.5M+ brands and 30,000+ prompts in support. Free countries are a fixed list of eleven on the Features page. Paid Starter/Pro are unlimited countries there.
What Promptwatch adds
Explore is free for 10 ChatGPT prompts, one project, one seat. Essential at $95/mo (7-day trial) is 50 prompts, 6,000 responses, 200K visitor events, five AEO articles. Professional at $245/mo is 150 prompts, 18,000 responses, 1M visitor events, 25M crawler logs, 15 articles, two seats. Business is $579/mo. Agency self-serve is Kick-off $199 / Growth $399 / Scale $799, unlimited projects and prompts, 10 seats.
Prompt trends explain what changed between checks. Citation trends watch sources over time, not a single count. Agent Analytics logs ChatGPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, GoogleOther, and Meta's AI crawler, with a crawl-to-citation path. Visitor analytics attach AI referrers to conversions (script or GTM). Content Agents plan, write, and publish with a review inbox. Agent Chat and Unified Actions sit on the live data.
Founded April 2025 in Amsterdam. €2M+ ARR inside 12 months of launch (May 2026). That is a different company story than a Vilnius Shopify listing launched 10 July 2026.
Pricing without pretending the tables match
Trendos.com/pricing showed Enterprise Custom and 15% off yearly. It did not give us Starter/Pro dollar figures in the fetch. The Shopify app did: Free (20 prompts, 600 answers, 10 brand checks), Basic $39, Starter $169, Pro $379, billed in USD. Unlimited countries on every Shopify tier, which already disagrees with the Features free-country list. We cite both. We do not flatten them into one "Trendos costs $169."
Promptwatch annual billing is 12 months for the price of 10. Prices also exist in EUR. No $29 plan. Do not use old blog numbers.
Who should pick which
Pick Trendos for a free, historical read of category prompts and ChatGPT ads. Useful for a Monday standup. Thin for a retainer.
Pick Promptwatch when someone will ask why visibility moved, which URL got cited, whether the crawler even hit the page, and whether a draft can go live this week. AthenaHQ is the action-queue alternative from $295/mo if that workflow is the priority. Profound is the enterprise-agent buy; Starter is $99/mo annual and ChatGPT-only, with the real suite around $40k/year.
Do not run two overlapping trackers for long. If you already live in Trendos, keep the free layer and put the program on Promptwatch.
FAQ
Does Trendos replace Promptwatch?
No. Trendos monitors mentions, scores, sources, and ChatGPT ads. Promptwatch adds crawler logs, conversion-tied visitors, and publishing.
Can I try both for free?
Yes. Trendos markets core data with no paywall. Promptwatch Explore is 10 ChatGPT prompts.
Which one tracks Google AI Overviews?
Trendos Features lists GAIO. Promptwatch lists AI Overviews and AI Mode on paid plans, with daily UI monitoring. Google still documents the surfaces on Search Central; neither vendor is Google Search Console.