5 Temso AI Alternatives if $89 Starter Is Only 3 Models
Temso copies Promptwatch's loop, then sells the real product at $199 Growth. Here are five alternatives, with the original stack first.
Temso AI looks like Promptwatch on a feature list: live-UI prompt tracking, citations, AI bot visits from GSC and CDN logs, an agent that drafts work, MCP on every paid plan. Homepage copy talks about every major engine. The pricing page, fetched 2026-08-16, is narrower.
The gap between the homepage and the pricing page is the whole story. The homepage sells the loop. The pricing page sells a slice of it, and the slice that matches the homepage lives on the $199 plan, not the $89 plan. A buyer who reads the homepage and signs for Starter gets a narrower product than the one they thought they were buying.
Starter is $89/mo: 3 models, 50 prompts, 10K AI bot visits, 5 content pieces. Claude is $5/mo per prompt in packs of 25. Growth at $199/mo is where "all models," 25M bot visits, API, and Looker unlock. There is no free-forever plan. Temso's own blog ranks Temso #1. Older writeups that still say $29 are stale.
The Claude surcharge is the detail that changes the math. Starter lists three models, but Claude costs extra per prompt, in packs of 25. A team that signed for the three-model card and expected Claude inside it finds a second invoice. The $29 reference is a stale writeup; the current floor is $89, and the configuration that resembles Promptwatch starts at $199.
If you opened Temso because you wanted that closed loop, these five are the comparison set. Promptwatch vs Temso is the full split.
1. Promptwatch, the original stack Temso is priced against
Promptwatch is the Temso alternative, and in most configs it is the better first purchase. Explore is free (ChatGPT, 10 prompts). Essential is $95/mo, $6 more than Temso Starter, and includes ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Grok, Llama, DeepSeek, Mistral, Copilot, plus Google AI Overviews and AI Mode. No Claude surcharge.
The $6 gap is the comparison to hold onto. Temso Starter at $89 and Promptwatch Essential at $95 are six dollars apart, but Temso Starter covers three models with Claude as a surcharge, while Promptwatch Essential covers the broad engine set with Claude inside the plan. The sticker prices are close. The coverage is not.
Agent Analytics starts with real crawler-log volume that scales to 25M on Professional ($245/mo) and 100M on Business ($579/mo). Temso's 10K bot visits on Starter is a different product. Promptwatch also documents visitor-to-conversion analytics (script or GTM). Content Agents publish to Webflow or Framer. 4.7/5 G2, 1,840+ customers, €2M+ ARR within 12 months of launch.
The bot-visit comparison is not apples to apples. Temso Starter lists 10K AI bot visits, which is a small sample. Promptwatch's Agent Analytics scales to 25M on Professional and 100M on Business, which is a log pipeline, not a sample. Calling both "bot visits" hides that one is a cap and the other is a plan limit two orders of magnitude larger.
Temso still has a case if you want unlimited seats and projects on the first paid plan, plus backlink checks and site audits on the same invoice, and you will buy Growth. Do not treat $89 Temso as $95 Promptwatch.
2. AthenaHQ, if the agent was the buying reason
AthenaHQ Action Center is a more mature task workflow than a "coming soon" content-optimization line. $295/mo, credits, nine engines. Heavier than either Starter. AthenaHQ alternatives.
AthenaHQ is the pick when the buying reason was the task queue, not the content draft. The Action Center is a shipped workflow, where Temso's content-optimization line was coming soon at the time of the fetch. The floor is higher, at $295, and the engine count is nine. It is heavier than either Starter, which is the point: it is the mature option for a team that wanted the agent part.
3. Profound, for the enterprise version of track-and-act
Profound Agents plus Prompt Volumes live in Enterprise (reported $2,000 to $5,000+/mo). Public Growth is $399/mo and three engines. Only if you were never going to stay on an $89 to $199 self-serve seat.
Profound is the enterprise reference. The Agents and Prompt Volumes that resemble the loop live on Enterprise, which is a custom contract at a reported price far above the self-serve range. Public Growth at $399 is three engines, not the full set. This alternative only fits a team that was never going to stay on a self-serve seat.
4. Peec AI, if you only needed the tracking half
Peec AI $95/mo, three models, screenshots. Same model-count trap as Temso Starter, better review trail (4.9/5 G2). No bot-log product on the Promptwatch/Temso scale.
Peec is the tracking-only alternative. At $95 it covers three models with screenshots, which is the same model-count trap as Temso Starter. The review trail is stronger, at 4.9/5 on G2, but there is no bot-log product on the scale of Promptwatch or Temso. It is a tracker, not a loop.
5. Rankscale, if engine count was the homepage hook
Rankscale 17+ engines from $20/mo. Credits, no publish agent. Use it to sample long-tail assistants. Use Promptwatch when you want the rest of Temso's loop without Temso's Starter cuts.
Rankscale is the engine-count alternative. The homepage hook of "every major engine" maps onto Rankscale's 17+ engines at a low floor. It runs on credits and has no publish agent, so it samples long-tail assistants well but does not close the loop. Use it for breadth, and use Promptwatch for the loop.
How to read the $89 vs $95 stickers
$89 Temso is three models and 10K bot visits. $95 Promptwatch is the broad engine set and a free tier underneath. $199 Temso Growth is the first plan that resembles Promptwatch Essential plus extra bot-log volume. Price those two against each other, not the stickers.
The reading rule is to compare configurations, not stickers. The $89 and $95 stickers are close enough to look like the same tier, and they are not. The $199 Temso Growth sticker is the one that resembles Promptwatch Essential, and even there the bot-log volume differs. Compare the plans you would buy, then decide.
Start on Promptwatch unless you already prefer Temso's agent UI and have Growth in the budget.
The model-count trap is the thing to watch on the sticker. Temso Starter lists three models for $89, and Claude is not one of them unless you pay $5/mo per prompt in packs of 25. Promptwatch Essential lists the broad engine set for $95 with no Claude surcharge. The $6 gap buys a different category of product, not a slightly larger version of the same one. A team that signed up for Temso because of Claude and landed on Starter is paying for a tracker that does not track the engine they cared about. That is the case for running Promptwatch Essential in parallel for a month and comparing the two on the same prompt list before renewing.
The bot-visit difference is the other one. Temso Starter ships 10K AI bot visits as its crawler-side number. Promptwatch Agent Analytics scales to 25M logs on Professional and 100M on Business. Those are not the same unit counted at different volumes. A 10K visit figure is a sample of crawler activity. A 25M log allowance is a pipeline sized for a real site. If crawler-log volume is the requirement, Essential is not the right plan on either product, because Essential has no listed crawler-log allowance. The plan that fits is Promptwatch Professional.
FAQ
Is Temso a Promptwatch clone?
In shape, yes. In the $89 plan, no. The Promptwatch-like configuration is Temso Growth at $199/mo.
Does Temso have a free plan?
The homepage says free to start. The pricing page lists paid tiers and a trial, not a free-forever Explore plan. Promptwatch Explore is free and stays free.
Should I switch if I already paid for Temso Starter?
If Claude is why you signed up, run Promptwatch Essential in parallel for a month and compare engine coverage on the same prompt list. If crawler-log volume is the requirement, use Promptwatch Professional, which includes 25M logs. Essential has no listed crawler-log allowance.