VisiScan vs Geoptie 2026
Four engines each. Geoptie is a $49/mo tracker with a logo problem. VisiScan is a scan. GEO software still needs a third column.
Same four names on the engine row. Geoptie wants a monthly login. VisiScan wants a URL and maybe $49 once. GEO software shopping that stops at "Claude is included" will buy the wrong one, because the engine row is the one thing they share and the least important thing about them. Promptwatch is in the table because neither listing publishes CDN crawler logs, and the log layer is the thing that separates a tracker from a program.
Geoptie Starter is $49 a month, 15 prompts, 2 brands. Pro is $99, 100 prompts, 10 brands. Unlimited seats. 14-day trial. Content Studio. Free checkers. The logo wall we could not verify. Bard is still in a FAQ. Enterprise is $333 live versus $199 on an old blog line. Each of those is a reason to read the listing slowly before quoting it. The trial and the seats are real. The logos and the FAQ are not.
VisiScan free is 5 questions by 2 samples, $49 is 12 by 3, $29 is weekly. Public methodology. One scan per URL free. The methodology page is the part that earns trust, because it tells you what the score is made of. A score without a recipe is a number. A score with a recipe is a number you can argue with.
Grid
| GEO question | VisiScan | Geoptie | Promptwatch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standing daily tracker | No | Yes (small prompt caps) | Yes |
| Local one-shot | Yes | Not the SKU | Explore is ChatGPT |
| Independent reviews | Vendor scan counts | None on major boards | G2 4.7/5 |
| Logs | No | No | Professional |
| Publish | Paste schema | Content Studio | Content Agents |
The standing daily tracker row is where Geoptie earns its place. It tracks daily, with small prompt caps. VisiScan does not track daily. Promptwatch tracks on a standing set. If the job is a daily four-engine tracker, the middle column is the only one that fits, and the prompt cap is the cost of the daily cadence.
The local one-shot row is where VisiScan earns its place. A one-shot scan for a single URL is the VisiScan SKU. Geoptie does not sell that. Promptwatch Explore is ChatGPT only, so it is not a four-engine one-shot either. If the job is a named-rate for one local site, the first column is the only one that fits.
The independent reviews row is the one that should slow a buyer down. VisiScan shows vendor scan counts. Geoptie has none on major boards. Promptwatch has G2 4.7 out of 5. A vendor's own scan count is a number the vendor picked. A missing review profile is a gap. A G2 score is a third-party number. The three are not the same kind of evidence, and the row is the one that tells you how much weight to put on the rest of the listing.
The logs row is the one that keeps Promptwatch in the grid. VisiScan has no logs. Geoptie has no logs. Promptwatch has Professional, which is the crawler log layer. Neither cheap listing sells the receipt that says which bot came and what it fetched. For a buyer who wants to connect a change on the site to a citation in the model, the log is the evidence, and the evidence is the thing the two cheap options do not have.
The publish row is the agentic test. VisiScan publishes by pasting schema. Geoptie publishes through Content Studio, which is a writing surface, not a documented CMS push. Promptwatch publishes through Content Agents to Webflow and Framer. If the brief is "write it and put it on the site," only one column does the second half. The other two stop at the file or at the studio.
The logo wall on Geoptie is the part a buyer sees first and should weigh last. Logos without independent corroboration read as enterprise proof, but a logo is not a case study and a logo is not a review. We could not verify them. The Bard entry in the FAQ is a smaller version of the same problem. A FAQ that still names Bard in 2026 is a FAQ nobody updated, and an unupdated FAQ is a reason to check the rest of the page. The Enterprise price gap is the same shape. The blog line says $199. The live page says $333. A price that roughly doubles between a blog and the live card is a price you quote from the live card, with a note that the blog is stale.
The VisiScan methodology page is the part that does the opposite work. It tells you the question counts and the sample counts, and it tells you the scan is one per URL on the free tier. That is the kind of transparency that lets you read the score as a score, not as a marketing number. The Harborlight example is illustrative, not a cited client, and the listing treats it that way.
Buy Geoptie on the trial if daily four-engine tracking is the job and you can live with 15 prompts. The trial is 14 days, the seats are unlimited, and the daily cadence is real. The logo wall and the stale FAQ are the reasons to trial before you commit. Buy VisiScan if the job is a named-rate for one local site, because the $49 report with schema to paste is a clean one-off for a single URL. Buy Promptwatch when the job is the rest of the stack, because the rest of the stack is logs and a publish path, and neither cheap listing has them.
$49 a month Geoptie is closer to a thin Essential than to a VisiScan PDF. Essential is still $95, with 50 prompts, 6,000 responses, 200K visitor events, and 5 AEO articles, plus the visitor events and citations Promptwatch actually documents. The jump from $49 to $95 is the jump from a small daily tracker to a program, and the jump is the one that decides whether the next step leaves the tab.