Wellows Alternatives 2026: GEO Software Sorted by the Gap You Need to Close
Wellows is a focused citation tool. When you outgrow it, the right alternative depends on the gap: deeper diagnostics, Claude and Copilot coverage, content that actually ships, or an enterprise program. Promptwatch first.
Few teams go looking for a Wellows alternative because Wellows does its job badly. It calls itself a citation-first AI visibility platform, and the label fits. It reads the pages behind each AI answer, separates explicit citations (the engine cites your own page) from implicit ones (it cites a third-party page that mentions you), and turns cited pages that ignore you into outreach targets. People start shopping when they hit a limit the product was never designed to cross.
So this guide is sorted by that limit, not by one overall score. There are four that matter, and most buyers hit more than one. Wellows facts come from wellows.com/pricing and wellows.com/llms.txt, read on 25 October 2026. Every other tool's details come from its listing in our directory.
What you'd be leaving
Wellows tracks five engines on every plan: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Perplexity and Gemini. Plans run from $29 to $497 a month and differ only in the monthly balance of AI answers, from 1,800 to 36,000. Projects, prompts and seats are unlimited, and runs are daily or weekly. What Wellows does not publish is just as clear: no Claude or Microsoft Copilot tracking, no AI crawler logs, no visitor analytics tied to conversions, no prompt search volumes, and no automated agent that publishes to a CMS on a schedule.
Start with Promptwatch if two or more gaps apply
Promptwatch goes first because it is the one alternative that covers every gap below in a single account. That matters more than it sounds. Three specialist tools means three logins, three meters and three sets of numbers that never quite agree.
On diagnostics, Agent Analytics reads AI crawler logs (ChatGPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, GoogleOther, the Meta AI crawler) from Cloudflare, AWS CloudFront, Fastly, Vercel, Netlify, Akamai, Google Cloud CDN or a custom HTTP source, and follows each crawl to the citation that came after it. Visitor analytics ties AI-referred sessions to conversions through a lightweight script or a GTM template. On engines, every paid plan monitors ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Grok, Llama, DeepSeek, Mistral, Copilot, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode through the real interfaces. On publishing, the Business plan's Content Agent plans, writes and publishes to Webflow, Framer or WordPress through a review inbox. Enterprise adds SSO, audit logs and a dedicated success manager.
The trade is a higher floor. Essential is $95 a month for 50 prompts and 6,000 responses, crawler logs start on Professional at $245, and Business is $579. Explore is free with 10 ChatGPT prompts. Agencies start on Kick-off at $199 with unlimited projects and prompts.
Gap one: you need to know why, not only whether
Wellows shows which citations you hold and which you're missing. It doesn't publish a way to check whether AI crawlers can fetch the page you want cited, or whether a new citation sent anyone to the site. Its own FAQ concedes that rising citations often don't show up as referral traffic, because many AI answers resolve in place.
Besides Promptwatch, the directory tool with a crawler-side angle is Scrunch AI. Core is $250 a month for 125 unique prompts, 5,000 responses, five site audits, one brand workspace and five licences, with AI agent and bot traffic reporting included. The engine list is the catch: Core tracks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Copilot, so Gemini and AI Mode drop out. The Agent Experience Platform, which serves AI-optimised page versions to LLM crawlers, is on the custom Enterprise plan. Sitecore acquired Scrunch in June 2026, reportedly for about $225M.
Gap two: your buyers ask Claude or Copilot
Developer audiences and Microsoft 365 shops make the missing engines a real problem. Three tools cover both at a low entry price.
Am I Cited runs eight engines on every tier, Claude, Copilot and Grok included. Starter is from 50 euros a month for 3,000 AI responses on one domain, and the same credits also pay for agent runs and articles.
Ceyo captures answers from the live interfaces of eight engines, though each plan tracks a subset: two models on Core at $39 a month billed yearly, three on Grow, four on Pro+. It adds a ranked fix list and a Technical Agent that applies schema and crawlability fixes on domains you authorise.
Authority Radar monitors ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok, Copilot and Meta AI inside an SEO suite with Search Console insights. Starter is $49 a month for three projects and 300 AI executions.
Gap three: you want the page shipped, not drafted
KIVA, the Wellows writing agent, builds a brief and a draft from your Search Console data and can send it to WordPress for editing. A person still finishes and publishes it, and nothing runs on a schedule.
Promptwatch's Content Agent is the scheduled version of that loop. Cheaper and broader, Rank Prompt generates articles to a hosted blog or WordPress, opens GitHub pull requests and runs outreach through Gmail, all metered in credits from $39.17 a month billed annually. Mentionable is closest to Wellows in spirit: on a prompt where no engine cites you, it reads the cited pages, drafts yours in the same structure, and checks for the citation once you paste the live URL back. Publishing stays manual.
Gap four: procurement wants an enterprise vendor
Wellows offers a Custom plan, but enterprise checklists ask for SSO, audit logs and multi-region support by name.
AthenaHQ has a free Essential tier with 300 credits and a $295 Starter plan with 3,600 credits across 11 models. Enterprise adds the Athena Citation Engine, SSO, an audit log, multi-region support and persona targeting. Scrunch AI Enterprise, covered above, adds nine LLMs, API access and SSO. Profound now sells itself as an AI marketer with agents for research, content and reporting, where AI search is one channel. Its public page lists a 7-day trial and a custom Enterprise plan with up to nine engines, SSO and SOC 2; an earlier read put Enterprise around $40k a year. Evertune works like market research, sampling each prompt up to 100 times per model across 11 models, and publishes no prices at all.
The short version
| Your gap | Where to look | Published entry point |
|---|---|---|
| Two or more of these | Promptwatch | Free Explore; Essential $95/mo |
| Crawler-side diagnostics | Scrunch AI | Core $250/mo |
| Claude and Copilot | Am I Cited, Ceyo, Authority Radar | From 50 euros/mo; $39/mo yearly; $49/mo |
| Content that ships | Rank Prompt, Mentionable | $39.17/mo yearly; 79 EUR/mo |
| Enterprise procurement | AthenaHQ, Profound, Evertune | $295/mo; custom; not published |
Our recommendation
If your only gap is engines, a cheap eight-engine monitor is a fair swap and you keep most of what Wellows gave you. Once a second gap shows up, and it usually does the first time someone asks what the citations were worth, one platform beats a stack. In our directory that platform is Promptwatch. Crawler logs show the bots reached the page. Citation analytics go down to Reddit and YouTube. Conversion tracking shows whether the visit paid, and the Content Agent ships the next page. The free Explore plan at promptwatch.com is enough to see the dashboards before you commit.