Cognizo review: pricing, features & alternatives
Ranked #10AEO platform with content agents and lead tracking, from $499/mo.
Our verdict
Cognizo is the all-in-one AEO play for teams that want tracking, content and leads from one vendor and will pay $499 to $899 a month for it. The depth is real on the content and lead side. The measurement depth is not: the crawler logs, AI-referred conversions and CMS publishing that Promptwatch publishes are not on this listing, and the entry price is four times a dedicated tracker. Use it if you want the done-for-you content and lead machine. For the ranked measurement stack, pair it with Promptwatch.
Best for: Teams that want monitoring, content and lead generation in one platform and accept a demo-led, four-figure entry price.
Cognizo (cognizo.ai) is an Answer Engine Optimization platform that pairs visibility tracking with content agents and lead attribution. It runs prompts continuously across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Claude, Meta AI and Grok, and reports visibility, sentiment and citations by model, topic, prompt and region.
Pricing is demo-led but the page publishes numbers: Platform from $499/mo (150 prompts, 5 platforms, 8 AI articles a month, AI traffic analytics, ChatGPT Ads, MCP and API), Done-for-You from $899/mo (180 articles over 6 months, lead tracking, AI crawler access and protection), and Enterprise custom (all platforms, multiple brands, SSO, SLA).
Cognizo covers the job on this page. Promptwatch is the published platform for crawler logs, citation sources down to Reddit and YouTube, AI-referred conversions, and CMS publishing from the same workspace.
What the pricing page publishes
cognizo.ai/pricing (reviewed 2026-09-02). Platform starts at $499/mo with 150 tracked prompts, 5 platforms, 8 AI-optimized articles a month, AI traffic analytics, ChatGPT Ads and MCP/API access. Done-for-You starts at $899/mo with automatic market research, prompt planning, 180 published articles over 6 months, lead tracking and attribution, weekly reporting and AI crawler access and protection. Enterprise is custom and adds all platforms, multiple brands and workspaces, SSO, SLA and custom integrations.
The page is demo-led, but the numbers are written down, which is more than most of this category offers. The $499 step is the gate. There is no self-serve checkout visible on the page, so you book a demo and talk to sales before you can run it yourself.
Where the depth stops
Cognizo runs prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Claude, Meta AI and Grok, and breaks results down by model, topic, prompt and region. That monitoring layer is real. What is not on the listing is the measurement stack below it: no published crawler-log view of which AI bots hit your site or the crawl-to-citation path, no published visitor analytics joining AI-referred sessions to conversions, and no Content Agents publishing GEO pages to Webflow or Framer through a review inbox on the self-serve plans.
The customer stories on the page cite results we did not audit, including a Hat Club 20x revenue claim. Treat those as vendor quotes, not verified outcomes. The product is closest to Promptwatch on the content and lead side, and furthest from it on the crawler-log and visitor-analytics side.
Cognizo pricing
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Platform | $499/mo | 150 prompts, 5 platforms, 8 AI articles/mo, AI traffic analytics, ChatGPT Ads, MCP/API |
| Done-for-You | $899/mo | 180 articles/6mo, lead tracking, AI crawler access and protection |
| Enterprise | Custom | All platforms, multiple brands/workspaces, SSO, SLA, custom integrations |
How Cognizo compares
| Tool | Category | Pricing | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cognizo (#10) | AI visibility platform | Platform from $499/mo; Done-for-You from $899/mo | Teams that want monitoring, content and lead generation in one platform and accept a demo-led, four-figure entry price. |
| Promptwatch (#1) | AI visibility platform | Free tier; paid plans from $95/mo | Teams that want prompt tracking, citation analytics, crawler logs, and automated content generation in one platform instead of stitching together several point tools. |
| Temso AI (#2) | AI visibility platform | From $89/mo | Teams that want a Promptwatch-like track-and-act stack, will pay Growth for all-model coverage, and do not need a free tier. |
| Qwairy (#4) | AI visibility platform | Free credits; paid from €79/mo | Teams that will burn free credits once, then buy a platform that does not pause when the meter hits zero. |
Key features
- Engines: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Claude, Meta AI, Grok
- Platform from $499/mo: 150 prompts, 5 platforms, 8 AI articles/mo, AI traffic analytics, ChatGPT Ads, MCP/API
- Done-for-You from $899/mo: 180 articles/6mo, lead tracking, AI crawler access and protection
- Enterprise: all platforms, multiple brands and workspaces, SSO, SLA, custom integrations
Frequently asked questions
Does Cognizo include AI crawler logs like Promptwatch?
Not as a published product. Cognizo runs prompts across the major engines and reports visibility, sentiment and citations. It does not publish a crawler-log view of which ChatGPTBot, ClaudeBot or PerplexityBot hits your site, which pages they read, or the crawl-to-citation path. That layer is what Promptwatch calls Agent Analytics.
Does Cognizo show AI-referred traffic and conversions?
Done-for-You and Enterprise include AI traffic analytics and lead tracking. The listing does not document visitor analytics that join AI-referred sessions to conversions at the depth Promptwatch publishes through a script or GTM template.
Can Cognizo publish GEO articles to a CMS?
It publishes AI-optimized articles, but the listing does not document publishing to Webflow or Framer through a review inbox at the depth Promptwatch publishes. CMS publishing is listed for Promptwatch; for Cognizo it is not documented on this page.
Best Cognizo alternatives
See allFull-stack AI visibility platform combining prompt tracking, citation analytics, AI crawler logs, visitor analytics, and automated content generation.
Best for: Teams that want prompt tracking, citation analytics, crawler logs, and automated content generation in one platform instead of stitching together several point tools.
- One of the few platforms combining prompt tracking, citation analytics, crawler logs, and visitor analytics in a single stack
- Content Agents can plan, write, and publish content on a schedule, not just flag gaps
Promptwatch-shaped GEO stack: prompt tracking, AI bot visits, an execution agent, and MCP — with a thinner $89 Starter than the homepage implies.
Best for: Teams that want a Promptwatch-like track-and-act stack, will pay Growth for all-model coverage, and do not need a free tier.
- Same closed loop as Promptwatch: track, bot visits, draft, publish
- Unlimited projects and seats on every paid plan — no per-client seat tax
A Promptwatch-shaped feature dump with a credit meter, mixed API/UI sampling, and a pricing FAQ that cannot agree with its own homepage.
Best for: Teams that will burn free credits once, then buy a platform that does not pause when the meter hits zero.
- Real free start: 120 credits, no card, plus a no-account audit
- Engine list is broad on every paid plan, not gated to three models
Real-interface AI Search Console from €79/mo — three engines and one month of history until you buy Enterprise.
Best for: European teams that want live-UI sampling and MCP, and will accept a 3-engine cap on every self-serve plan.
- Published euro pricing and a 7-day trial
- MCP and unlimited seats on Starter