AthenaHQ

Credit-metered AI visibility with five surfaces free

AI Visibility / LLM Mention Tracking AI-Powered AI Visibility Free Tier Self-Serve

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Entry price

Free (Essential, $25 credit) — then $295/month

Typical annual

$3,540/year at Starter, or $2,938 with the 17% annual discount

Free trial

Better than a trial — a permanent free tier with 5 surfaces

Contract

No — monthly available; annual saves 17%

Verified against vendor pricing page Checked July 30, 2026

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About AthenaHQ

AthenaHQ is the easiest place in this category to find out whether AI visibility tracking is worth paying for, because a working version of it is free. The Essential tier gives you $25 of credit, five surfaces — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini and Claude — unlimited team members, competitor insights and the Athena agent, with no card. Nothing else at this tier is that generous. Paid starts at $295 a month for nine models, GA4, Search Console, Shopify and Webflow integrations, CSV export and both on-page and off-page optimisation actions. Enterprise is where the distinctive machinery lives: the Athena Citation Engine, Oracle discrepancy detection, knowledge base and claim review, persona targeting and multi-region support. One thing to understand before you budget — this is priced in credits, not prompts or seats. The $295 tier carries 3,600 credits stated as $300 of value, but the site never says what a credit buys, so your real monthly cost depends on usage you cannot model in advance. Ask before you sign. API access and extra credits are add-ons even at the paid tier.

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Pricing & Model

Entry price: Free (Essential, $25 credit) — then $295/month
Median annual cost: $3,540/year at Starter, or $2,938 with the 17% annual discount
Pricing model: Credit-metered, not per-prompt or per-seat
Free trial: Better than a trial — a permanent free tier with 5 surfaces
Contract required: No — monthly available; annual saves 17%
Overage pricing: Extra credits sold as a paid add-on; per-credit rate not published

Searches / Topics / Queries

What they call it: Credits
Entry tier limit: Essential: free, 300 credits, 5 AI platforms, unlimited seats
Mid tier limit: Starter: $295/mo, 3,600 credits, 9 AI models, integrations, CSV export
Enterprise limit: Enterprise: custom credits, ACE, Oracle detection, SSO, multi-region
Boolean support: Not applicable — prompt-based, not Boolean query-based

Mentions / Results

Counting method: Credits consumed; the site does not publish what one credit buys
Entry tier: 300 credits
Mid tier: 3,600 credits/month
Enterprise tier: Custom credit allocation
Historical lookback: Not published

Users & Seats

Entry tier users: Unlimited (even on the free tier)
Mid tier users: Unlimited
Enterprise users: Unlimited
Extra seat cost: None — team members are unlimited from the free tier up

Key Features

Sentiment analysis: Yes — prompt and response analysis
Emotion detection: Not documented publicly
Intent classification: Persona targeting at Enterprise
Entity extraction: Yes — brand and competitor entities within answers
Image recognition: Not applicable to this category
Webhooks: Not documented publicly
API access: Paid add-on even on Starter — not included at any published tier
Publishing tools: No — but it does ship optimisation actions and a content agent
News / media coverage: No — this tracks AI answers, not news or social
Language support: Multi-language is an Enterprise feature
Interface languages: EN

AI Visibility Tracking

AI surfaces tracked: 5 free (ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Gemini, Claude); 9 models on Starter
Prompts tracked: Credit-metered: 300 free / 3,600 per month at $295 — credit value not published
Citation analytics: Yes; Athena Citation Engine (ACE) at Enterprise
Competitor share of voice: Yes — competitor insights, included even on the free tier
Content recommendations: Yes — on-page and off-page actions plus a self-learning content agent
AI crawler analytics: Not documented publicly

Best For

Primary audience: Teams that want to test whether AI visibility matters to them before spending — and e-commerce and content sites already on Shopify, Webflow, GA4 or Search Console, since those integrations come at the first paid tier.
Regional focus: Global; multi-region support is an Enterprise feature