LLMrefs vs Prominara (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 24, 2026, LLMrefs and Prominara share a 2.2 GPA, neither has a free plan, and Prominara starts cheaper, at $29 a month against $79 a month.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 and Oct 24, 2026 by ToolGPA
They get the same grade on all five counts.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
LLMrefs
Keyword-based AI search visibility tracker with one flat plan
Prominara
AI visibility tracking with site audits and fixes for agencies
Which one is for you
Pick LLMrefs if
- Fits if you already track SEO keywords and want the same lists checked in AI answers
- Works for agencies, since projects and seats are unlimited on one plan
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you need daily data, as it refreshes about once a week per keyword
- Not for you if you need SSO, white-label reports or an enterprise tier, as none are listed
- Skip it if you need a price you can count on, as $79 is marked limited time only
- Watch out: no integrations are listed beyond the API and CSV export
Pick Prominara if
- Fits if you want to know whether a change moved AI answers, rather than guessing from the trend
- Works for agencies reporting to a few clients under their own brand, from Pro
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you need daily checks, as prompts are re-checked weekly at most
- Tight if you start on Starter: 15 prompts on 2 of the 5 AI surfaces, checked every two weeks
- Pricey if you want all five surfaces or white-label reports, which start on Pro at $149 a month
- Too light for agencies with more than 3 clients, as Agency includes 3 workspaces and more means asking sales
- Watch out: plans bill monthly, and yearly billing is arranged by email with no saving stated
How we grade them
| 2.2GPALLMrefsFair | 2.2GPAProminaraFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | C$79 a month for 500 prompts on every engine, with unlimited projects and seats. That's mid-range for this category, between $29 and $95. But the price is marked limited time only, with no end date or regular price given. | CStarter is $29 a month, at the edge of this category's cheaper quarter, but it buys 15 prompts on 2 AI platforms checked every two weeks. All five surfaces and weekly checks need Pro at $149, in the dearest tenth. |
| Free plan and trial | CNo free plan, but a 7-day free trial, and signing up needs no credit card. | CNo free plan, but a 14-day trial with full Pro access and no card. It's one trial per domain. |
| Features | CFan-out prompts built from your keywords, share of voice and position across ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok, Copilot, Meta AI and DeepSeek, and cited sources in 50+ countries. The gap: data refreshes weekly, not daily. | CFive AI surfaces, source playbooks, share of voice with a range on each figure, a 40-check audit, file generators and before-and-after tests. The gap the listing names: prompts are re-checked weekly at most, never daily. |
| Ease of use | CNo rating on record. Importing an SEO keyword list is a familiar start, but you still set up projects, countries and competitors before the rankings say much. | CNo rating on record. You pick the prompts to track, and the impact tests need each change logged and then 7 to 28 days of waiting. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb only, with no desktop or phone app and no integrations on record. The one plan includes an API and CSV export. | BWeb only, with no desktop or phone app. It connects Google Analytics, and an MCP connection lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Codex use the workspace. |
| Best for | tracking AI visibility by keyword, not prompt | AI tracking that tests whether a change worked |
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: LLMrefs and Prominara. How we grade
Price against what you get
LLMrefs starts at $79 a month and scores 2.3 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Prominara starts at $29 a month and scores 2.3.
They score the same, and Prominara starts $50 a month lower. Of the other AI search visibility tools on the chart, 13 score higher than LLMrefs for less, and 6 score higher than Prominara 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
- Prominara also covers site audit, content optimization and schema markup.
At a glance
| LLMrefs | Prominara | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free trial |
| Starts at | $79 per month for 500 prompts | $29 per month for 15 prompts on 2 AI platforms, billed monthly |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | 7-day free trial; signing up needs no credit card | 14-day free trial with full Pro access, no credit card required; one trial per domain |
| Web | ||
| Made by | LLMrefs | Prominara |
| Price read from | llmrefs.com | prominara.com |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
LLMrefs
- There is one plan; the $79 price is labeled limited time only, with no end date or regular price given.
- Dashboard data refreshes at least once a week per keyword, not daily.
- The pricing page lists no enterprise tier, SSO or white-label options.
Prominara
- Starter covers only 2 of the 5 AI surfaces, checks every two weeks rather than weekly and has no white-label reports.
- Prompts are re-checked weekly at most, not daily; the vendor says this is deliberate to judge changes against noise.
- Plans are billed monthly; annual billing is arranged by email, and the page states no saving for it.
- Agency includes 3 client workspaces; more clients means asking sales to raise the limits.
Key features
LLMrefs
- Keyword-based tracking
- Import SEO keyword lists; LLMrefs generates fan-out prompts for each keyword from real AI conversations and aggregates the answers.
- Share of voice rankings
- Ranks brands against competitors per keyword by share of voice and average position, weighted across every prompt.
- Source and citation lists
- Shows and filters the URLs AI engines cite when answering about your products, to find content and outreach targets.
- Countries and languages
- Geo-targeted tracking in 50+ countries and 20+ languages, filterable by engine and country.
- Agency projects
- Unlimited projects and seats under one subscription, with client dashboards and keywords spread across projects.
- Free AI SEO tools
- An AI crawlability checker, a Reddit threads finder and an llms.txt generator come with the plan.
Prominara
- Prompt tracking on five AI surfaces
- Puts tracked buyer questions to ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, counting mentions and citations apart, with position and sentiment.
- Source gaps and playbooks
- Ranks the pages each answer cites and, where competitors are cited and you are not, writes a playbook with steps, effort and risks.
- Share of voice
- Shows how often AI names you against each competitor, engine by engine, counting only prompts that do not name you, with a range on each figure.
- Site audit and generators
- Scores more than 40 page and site checks into a 0 to 100 GEO score and generates llms.txt, robots.txt, sitemap and JSON-LD schema from the crawl.
- Impact measurement
- Log a change and it compares the prompts you worked on with ones you did not touch over 7, 14 and 28 days, giving a probability rather than a yes or no.
- Accuracy monitor and agent access
- Flags wrong facts AI states about your brand with a correction playbook, and an MCP connection lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Codex use the workspace.
Plans
LLMrefs
All in One$79
per month for 500 prompts
All AI engines, weekly reports, citations, 50+ countries, unlimited projects and users, CSV export and API. Marked limited time only.
Prominara
Starter$29
per month for 15 prompts on 2 AI platforms, billed monthly
1 website, citation checks every two weeks, 10 pages audited in depth per run, 3 months of history and 3 llms.txt or schema generations a month.
Pro$149
per month for 50 prompts on 5 AI platforms, billed monthly
3 websites, weekly checks on all five AI surfaces, 50 pages audited per run, 12 months of history, unlimited generators and 5 white-label reports a month.
Agency$299
per month for 120 prompts on 5 AI platforms, billed monthly
3 client workspaces with 6 websites, 200 pages audited per run, 24 months of history, unlimited white-label reports and client portals.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, LLMrefs or Prominara?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Prominara is cheaper to start with: $29 a month, against $79 a month for LLMrefs. LLMrefs starts at $79 per month for 500 prompts, and Prominara starts at $29 per month for 15 prompts on 2 AI platforms, billed monthly.
Which has a free plan, LLMrefs or Prominara?
As of Oct 23, 2026, neither LLMrefs nor Prominara has a free plan. Both have a free trial.
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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.