Semrush AI Toolkit
AI visibility bundled into an SEO subscription you may already have
Entry price
$117.33/month annual (SEO plan, $139 monthly) — AI tracking included in plans
Typical annual
$1,982/year at Starter ($165.17/mo annual), the first tier with a stated prompt allowance
Free trial
Free trial available on Semrush plans
Contract
No — monthly available; annual discounts apply
About Semrush AI Toolkit
Semrush no longer sells AI visibility as an add-on — it is built into the subscription plans, which changes the buying question entirely. If your team already pays Semrush for keyword and rank work, AI search tracking arrives at no extra cost, with 50 prompts tracked daily across multiple LLMs from the $165 Starter tier and 200 a day at Advanced. Set that against Profound charging $399 for three engines, and for a lot of marketing teams the dedicated tools stop making sense. Where the argument turns back the other way is depth. Semrush does not publish which models it queries, gives no prompt figures for two of its four tiers, and does not offer the citation analytics, AI crawler logs or persona modelling the specialists build their pricing around. So the sensible read is: if AI answers are one thing you monitor among many, this is almost certainly enough and effectively free. If AI answers are the thing you are being measured on, it is not. One disclosure worth carrying into any comparison: Semrush also owns Prowly, listed separately in this catalogue.
Full specification
Pricing & Model
- Entry price
- $117.33/month annual (SEO plan, $139 monthly) — AI tracking included in plans
- Median annual cost
- $1,982/year at Starter ($165.17/mo annual), the first tier with a stated prompt allowance
- Pricing model
- Bundled into subscription tiers — NOT a separate per-domain add-on
- Free trial
- Free trial available on Semrush plans
- Contract required
- No — monthly available; annual discounts apply
- Overage pricing
- Not published for the AI tracking component
Searches / Topics / Queries
- What they call it
- Prompts tracked daily
- Entry tier limit
- SEO $117.33/mo annual — prompt allowance not published
- Mid tier limit
- Starter $165.17/mo annual — 50 prompts tracked daily; Pro+ $248.17/mo
- Enterprise limit
- Advanced $455.67/mo annual — 200 prompts tracked daily
- Boolean support
- Not applicable to the AI component; full keyword tooling elsewhere in the suite
Mentions / Results
- Counting method
- Prompts tracked daily, scaling by subscription tier
- Entry tier
- Not published
- Mid tier
- 50 prompts daily (Starter)
- Enterprise tier
- 200 prompts daily (Advanced)
- Historical lookback
- Per plan; extensive historical data across the suite
Users & Seats
- Entry tier users
- Per Semrush plan seat allowances
- Mid tier users
- Per Semrush plan seat allowances
- Enterprise users
- Per Semrush plan seat allowances
- Extra seat cost
- Semrush charges for additional users; AI-specific seat pricing not published
Key Features
- Sentiment analysis
- Yes — brand sentiment within AI answers
- Emotion detection
- Not documented publicly
- Intent classification
- Search intent tooling exists across the suite
- Entity extraction
- Yes — brand and competitor mentions within answers
- Image recognition
- Not applicable to this category
- Webhooks
- Not documented publicly
- API access
- Semrush API exists; AI Toolkit endpoint coverage not published
- Publishing tools
- Content tooling across the wider suite, not in the AI component
- News / media coverage
- No — this tracks AI answers and search, not news or social
- Language support
- Not published for the AI component
- Interface languages
- Multiple — Semrush ships a localised interface
AI Visibility Tracking
- AI surfaces tracked
- Multiple LLMs — Semrush does not enumerate which on the pricing page
- Prompts tracked
- 50 prompts/day (Starter) to 200/day (Advanced); SEO and Pro+ allowances not published
- Citation analytics
- Not documented as a distinct feature
- Competitor share of voice
- Yes — competitive visibility is core to the Semrush model
- Content recommendations
- Yes — via the wider content and SEO toolkit
- AI crawler analytics
- Not documented publicly
Best For
- Primary audience
- Marketing and SEO teams already inside Semrush, for whom AI visibility is one signal among many rather than the reason for the budget line — and who would rather not add a fifth vendor to do it.
- Regional focus
- Global
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