Prominara vs Rankscale AI (2026): which should you pick?

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

Pick Rankscale AI if

• Fits if you want 17+ AI engines on one plan and can do the credit sums
• Works for brands where local results matter, as it shows your place in AI map packs

Look elsewhere if

• Tight if you track a lot every day, since monitoring pauses when the credits run out until renewal or a top-up
• Skip it if you want the cheapest plan paid monthly, as Essentials is yearly only and the trial is for Pro
• Pricey if you need the REST API, which starts at Pro+ for $229 a month, or white label at $385
• Watch out: Claude costs 2 credits a run against 0.25 for ChatGPT, so Essentials' 120 credits go fast
• Watch out: extra brand dashboard slots are bought separately in the app

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.

Rankscale AI

• Tracking is limited by credits, not prompts: each engine run costs 0.25 to 2 credits, and monitoring pauses when credits run out until renewal or a top-up.
• Essentials is sold on yearly billing only; the 7-day trial is for Pro.
• The REST API starts at Pro+ ($229 a month); white-label dashboards start at Growth.
• Extra brand dashboard slots are bought separately in the app.

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.

Rankscale AI

Wide engine coverage

All plans can query 17+ engines, from ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity at 0.25 credits a run to Claude at 2 credits, on schedules from hourly to monthly.

Visibility, sentiment and citations

Tracks a visibility score over time, benchmarks competitors, analyzes sentiment and shows which sources AI engines cite.

Query fan-out and ChatGPT follow-ups

Shows the internal searches AI engines run while answering, and the clarifying questions ChatGPT asks before recommending brands.

Shopping, ads and local results

Analyzes shopping cards and sponsored ads in ChatGPT, AI Mode and Copilot, and brand placement in AI local and map packs.

AI visits from Cloudflare

A read-only Cloudflare connection reports AI crawler and assistant visits, top pages and the 404 errors AI bots hit.

Sharing, API and MCP

Shareable dashboard links, CSV and Google Sheets exports, Data Studio, an MCP server for AI assistants and, from Pro+, a REST API.

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.

Rankscale AI

• Essentials$17

  per month for 120 credits, billed yearly only

  For individuals and startups: 2 brand dashboards and 10 page audits a month. Shown as $20 crossed out.

• Pro$99

  per month for 1,200 credits, billed monthly

  Up to 4,800 AI answers a month, 10 brand dashboards, 50 page audits, Looker Studio and MCP. Unused credits roll over up to 2x.

• Pro+$229

  per month for 3,000 credits, billed monthly

  Up to 12,000 answers, 25 brand dashboards, 100 page audits, REST API access and 5 prompt researches a month.

• Growth$385

  per month for 5,500 credits, billed monthly

  For agencies: up to 22,000 answers, 50 brand dashboards, 200 page audits, white-label dashboards and the agency program.

• Enterprise$780

  per month for 12,000 credits, billed monthly

  Up to 48,000 answers, 100 brand dashboards, REST API access, a dedicated partner, and credit rollover up to 3x.

• Custom PlanCustom

  Built around credit volume and team size, with options such as SSO, custom API work, SLA guarantees and a success manager.

Prominara

No public discounts listed.

Rankscale AI

• Annual discount

  15% off with yearly billing

  Rankscale's pricing FAQ says yearly billing is 15% cheaper than monthly, paid 12 months upfront, with credits still renewing each month.