AIclicks vs Rankshift (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Rankshift grades higher than AIclicks: 2.4 against 2.0 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
Rankshift grades higher on the free plan and features. They get the same grade on value for money, ease of use and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
AIclicks
AI search visibility tracker with prompt monitoring and an action plan
Rankshift
Credit-based AI visibility tracker with unlimited projects and seats
Which one is for you
Pick AIclicks if
- Fits if you want a ranked task list from your tracking, not just a chart
- Works for small teams tracking about 30 prompts on one site in one country
Look elsewhere if
- Not for you if you want a real trial, as it's 3 days and charges your card unless you cancel
- Tight if you have more than one site or country, since Starter covers one of each
- Pricey if you need the API, MCP or GA4, which start at $189 a month on Pro
- Skip it if you need more than 300 prompts or every platform, which means an Enterprise quote
Pick Rankshift if
- Fits if you run an agency and want every client and teammate on one plan
- Works for teams that report AI visibility in their own BI dashboards, through the PostgreSQL connector
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you want daily checks on Claude and Copilot, at 5 credits a run against 2 on most engines
- Skip it if you need SSO or an SLA, which only come with the custom-priced Enterprise plan
- Pricey if you're one person with one site, at $82 a month even billed yearly
- Watch out: there's no free plan once the 30-day trial ends
- Tight if you track over 150 prompts a day, as more means Professional at $189 a month
How we grade them
| 2.0GPAAIclicksFair | 2.4GPARankshiftFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CStarter is $59 a month for 30 prompts on 3 platforms, billed monthly, with up to 29% off yearly. That's this category's usual range, but GA4, the API and MCP need Pro at $189. | CStarter is $82 a month billed yearly, or $92 monthly, for 9,500 credits. That's above this category's middle of $49 and under its dearer quarter of $95. Projects and seats are unlimited. |
| Free plan and trial | DNo free plan, and the 3-day trial needs a card that's charged unless you cancel before day 3. That's shorter than a week. | CA 30-day trial with no card needed. After that there's no free plan at all. |
| Features | CDaily tracking with the full answers kept, citation sources, competitor benchmarks, a ranked action list, the Clicky agent and AI-written articles. The gap the listing names: Starter covers 3 platforms, 1 website and 1 country. | BPrompt tracking on nine engines, from ChatGPT and AI Overviews to Claude, Copilot, Meta AI and Mistral, plus sentiment, citation shares, content briefs, a fix list and AI crawler logs. It covers the whole job. |
| Ease of use | CNo rating on record. You choose platforms, prompts and competitors per project, and connect GA4 on Pro to see the traffic. | CNo rating on record. You pick prompts, engines and how often each one runs, and then work out what that costs in credits. There's a calculator for that, which tells you something. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb only, with no desktop or phone app. Starter has a CMS connection, and Pro adds Google Analytics 4, the API and MCP. | BWeb only, with no desktop or phone app. It does connect to Looker Studio, BigQuery, Tableau and Power BI, and has an MCP server and a REST API on every plan. |
| Best for | daily prompt tracking turned into tasks | agencies tracking lots of clients in AI answers |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: AIclicks and Rankshift. How we grade
Price against what you get
AIclicks starts at $59 a month and scores 2.3 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Rankshift starts at $82 a month and scores 2.7.
Rankshift scores higher, and starts $23 a month higher: the question is whether the extra is worth that to you. Of the other AI search visibility tools on the chart, 11 score higher than AIclicks for less, and 1 scores higher than Rankshift for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- AIclicks also covers AI agents.
- Rankshift also covers reports.
At a glance
| AIclicks | Rankshift | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free trial |
| Starts at | $59 per month for 30 prompts on 3 AI platforms, billed monthly | $82 per month for 9,500 credits, billed annually ($92 billed monthly) |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | 3-day free trial on every plan; a card is needed and is charged when the trial ends | 30-day free trial, no credit card needed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | AIclicks | Rankshift BV |
| Price read from | aiclicks.io | rankshift.ai |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
AIclicks
- There is no free plan; the 3-day trial needs a card and charges it unless cancelled before day 3.
- Starter covers 3 AI platforms, 1 website and 1 country; GA4, the API and MCP start at Pro for $189 a month.
- Pricing follows prompts and platforms, so tracking more than 300 prompts or every platform means an Enterprise quote.
Rankshift
- Each prompt run uses credits: 2 on ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews and most engines, 5 on Claude and Copilot, so daily tracking on many engines adds up.
- There is no free plan after the 30-day trial.
- SSO and an SLA come only with the custom-priced Enterprise plan.
Key features
AIclicks
- Daily prompt tracking
- Tracked prompts are run on each chosen AI platform every day, and the full AI answer is kept behind each data point.
- Choice of AI platforms
- Pick 3, 4 or 6 platforms by plan from a list that includes ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Claude, Perplexity, Grok and DeepSeek.
- Citation sources
- Shows which domains and pages AI answers cite for your prompts, and where competitors are cited and you are not.
- Competitor benchmarking
- Compares your visibility score and mentions against rival brands, filtered by AI platform and by country.
- Recommendations and the Clicky agent
- A ranked list of actions (new content, outreach to cited sites, Reddit threads) plus an agent and a monthly allowance of AI-written articles.
- Traffic from AI
- Pro and Business connect Google Analytics 4 to tie visibility to visits, and add API and MCP access.
Rankshift
- Prompt tracking on nine AI engines
- ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Perplexity, Meta AI and Mistral, run daily or on chosen weekdays, with personas.
- Visibility, sentiment and citations
- A visibility score and leaderboard against competitors, sentiment toward your brand, and the share of citations each source gets.
- Content opportunities and briefs
- Finds pages that cite competitors but not you, and generates content briefs and drafts aimed at the prompts you track.
- Action Center
- One list of recommended fixes, such as schema, comparison pages or author bios, ranked by expected effect on visibility.
- Agent analytics
- Shows in real time when crawlers such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot read your pages, with the status codes they got.
- MCP, API and BI connectors
- An MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT, a REST API, and a PostgreSQL connector for Looker Studio, BigQuery, Tableau, Power BI and others.
Plans
AIclicks
Starter$59
per month for 30 prompts on 3 AI platforms, billed monthly
1 website, 1 country per project, 4,650 AI answers a month, 5 AI-optimized articles a month and the Clicky agent. CMS integration and email support.
Pro$189
per month for 150 prompts on 4 AI platforms, billed monthly
Unlimited websites and countries, 18,600 AI answers a month, 15 articles a month, GA4, API and MCP access, and Slack support.
Business$499
per month for 300 prompts on 6 AI platforms, billed monthly
Unlimited websites and countries, 55,800 AI answers a month, 30 articles a month and a dedicated account specialist.
EnterpriseCustom
A custom number of prompts, every AI platform, custom integrations and 30+ articles a month. Arranged on a call.
Rankshift
Starter$82
per month for 9,500 credits, billed annually ($92 billed monthly)
Up to 150 prompts a day, every AI engine, unlimited projects and seats, content briefs and writer, crawler analytics, Looker Studio, MCP and API.
Professional$189
per month for 22,000 credits, billed annually ($210 billed monthly)
Everything in Starter with up to 350 prompts a day.
Business$425
per month for 53,000 credits, billed annually ($473 billed monthly)
Everything in Starter with up to 850 prompts a day, for teams running several projects.
EnterpriseCustom
Custom credits and prompt tracking, SSO, an SLA, training sessions and a dedicated account manager.
Ways to pay less
AIclicks
- Annual discount
Up to 29% off with yearly billing
The AIclicks pricing page has a Monthly/Yearly switch and says yearly billing saves up to 29%.
Rankshift
- Annual discount
Save 10% with annual billing
Rankshift's pricing page lists annual billing at about 10% less, for example Starter at $82 a month instead of $92.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, AIclicks or Rankshift?
As of Oct 23, 2026, AIclicks is cheaper to start with: $59 a month, against $82 a month for Rankshift. AIclicks starts at $59 per month for 30 prompts on 3 AI platforms, billed monthly, and Rankshift starts at $82 per month for 9,500 credits, billed annually ($92 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, AIclicks or Rankshift?
As of Oct 23, 2026, neither AIclicks nor Rankshift has a free plan. Both have a free trial.
More comparisons
How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.