# Beamtrace review (2026): is it worth $24 a month? > Small-business AI visibility tracker from the makers of Elfsight Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 24, 2026 by ToolGPA. Beamtrace checks whether ChatGPT recommends a business when asked the questions its customers would ask, with the answer, position and competitors recorded for each prompt. It generates the starting prompts from the business profile and location, and turns gaps into improvements that can be exported to task trackers. It comes from Elfsight, the website widget company, and is aimed at small businesses and agencies. - **Category:** AI Search Visibility (AEO & GEO) - **Made by:** Elfsight, SL - **Website:** https://beamtrace.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you need Gemini, Claude, Perplexity or Grok, which are listed as coming soon. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, Beamtrace is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $24 per month for 10 prompts, billed monthly. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 14-day free trial on all plans, no credit card needed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter | $24 per month for 10 prompts, checked every 3 days, billed monthly | 5 competitors, improvements, AI reputation monitoring and basic support. $240 a year billed annually. | | Growth | $48 per month for 30 prompts, checked every 2 days, billed monthly | 15 competitors, improvements, AI reputation monitoring and priority support. $480 a year billed annually. | | Premium | $120 per month for 60 prompts, checked daily, billed monthly | 30 competitors, improvements, AI reputation monitoring, priority support and live chat. $1,200 a year billed annually. | Read from https://beamtrace.com/pricing on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Beamtrace before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save 17% with annual billing** (Annual discount): Beamtrace's pricing FAQ says the annual plan saves 17% against monthly billing; Starter is $240 a year against $24 a month. Source: https://beamtrace.com/pricing - **33% off the yearly plan during the trial** (Other savings): The pricing FAQ says subscribing to a yearly plan during the free trial gives 33% off. Source: https://beamtrace.com/pricing ## Key features - **Visibility Score:** The share of tracked prompt runs in which AI answers mention your business, on a 0 to 100 scale, with trends and share of voice over time. - **Generated prompts:** Builds a starting set of customer-style prompts from your business profile and location, grouped by topic. You can add or delete prompts but not edit them. - **Competitor discovery:** Lists the businesses AI answers actually name next to you, compares visibility side by side, and lets you star three to follow closely. - **Improvements to task trackers:** Suggested improvements export as tasks to Trello, Jira, Linear, Asana, Todoist or monday.com, with status synced back when they are done. - **MCP connections:** Visibility, prompt and competitor data can be read from Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, JetBrains IDEs and other MCP clients. ## Good for - Small local businesses checking whether ChatGPT recommends them - Agencies and freelancers tracking a few client brands on a small budget - Teams that keep their to-do list in Jira, Linear or Asana ## Worth knowing - Only ChatGPT is tracked today; Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, DeepSeek and Grok are listed as coming soon. - Starter refreshes every 3 days and Growth every 2; daily checks need Premium at $120 a month. - Slack, Zapier, Make and n8n connections are listed as coming soon. - A full refund is offered within 14 days of paying; after that, the refund policy limits refunds to the cases it lists. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Oct 24, 2026. Beamtrace checks whether ChatGPT recommends your business for questions it writes from your profile and location, and sends suggested fixes to Trello, Jira, Asana or monday.com. But ChatGPT is the only engine tracked today, the $24 plan checks 10 prompts every 3 days, and daily checks need the $120 Premium plan. - **Value for money: B.** Starter is $24 a month for 10 prompts checked every 3 days, inside this category's cheaper quarter, which starts at $29. Yearly billing saves 17%. It's ChatGPT only, and daily checks need Premium at $120. - **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan, but a 14-day free trial on every plan with no card needed. - **Features: C.** A visibility score, prompts generated from your profile, competitors found in the answers, AI reputation monitoring and fixes sent to task trackers. The gap the listing names: only ChatGPT is tracked, with Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, DeepSeek and Grok coming soon. - **Ease of use: B.** No rating on record, but it writes the starting prompts from your business profile and location and finds the competitors for you, so there's little to set up. You can add or delete prompts, not edit them. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with no desktop or phone app. Fixes go to Trello, Jira, Linear, Asana, Todoist or monday.com, and the MCP server works with Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code and JetBrains. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Beamtrace's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among AI search visibility tools - Beamtrace's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 146 of the 157 other AI search visibility tools we grade, and level with 6. - It stands best on ease of use (B, above 146 of 157) and worst on features (C, above 6). - Its paid plans start at $24 a month, against a middle price of $59 for the category: 14 of the 128 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 1 tool scores higher and costs less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-visibility ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** Nothing Beamtrace does is plain enough to make in a weekend. The 4 things listed below take a company. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.6 is higher than 146 of the 157 other AI search visibility tools we grade. It costs $288 a year. - You could not: The same prompts asked of ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI answers every day, and the answers kept. - You could not: Daily checks of where your pages rank in search results. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Trello, Jira and Linear among them. - You could not: Hooks into the device itself: widgets. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Trello, Jira, Linear, Asana, Todoist, monday.com, Claude Code, Cursor **Tags:** AI search visibility, Rank tracking ## Alternatives - [Otterly.AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/otterly-ai): Daily brand and citation tracking across AI search engines. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/beamtrace-vs-otterly-ai) - [Am I On AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/am-i-on-ai): ChatGPT and AI Overview visibility tracker with weekly action plans. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/am-i-on-ai-vs-beamtrace) - [LLMrefs](https://toolgpa.com/tools/llmrefs): Keyword-based AI search visibility tracker with one flat plan. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/beamtrace-vs-llmrefs) - [Peec AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/peec-ai): AI search analytics that tracks brand prompts across AI models. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/beamtrace-vs-peec-ai) - [Reachd](https://toolgpa.com/tools/reachd): Shows why AI recommends rivals and what to change, per business. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/beamtrace-vs-reachd) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://beamtrace.com/pricing - https://beamtrace.com/api/trpc/paddleIntegration.getCatalog - https://beamtrace.com/ - https://beamtrace.com/help - https://beamtrace.com/integrations - https://beamtrace.com/refund-policy - https://beamtrace.com/terms-of-service Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/beamtrace Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).