# Hikoo review (2026): is the free plan enough?

> GEO platform that tracks AI answers and then fixes, writes and pitches

Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 24, 2026 by ToolGPA.

Hikoo is a French GEO platform that measures how AI engines mention a brand and then acts on what it finds: it audits pages, suggests and updates content, and contacts the sources that AI answers cite. It can run on its own monitoring or connect to tools such as Peec AI and Otterly.AI, and each team chooses which actions go out on their own and which wait for approval.

- **Category:** AI Search Visibility (AEO & GEO)
- **Made by:** Hikoo SAS (since 2026)
- **Website:** https://www.tryhikoo.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay on Free: 10 questions on ChatGPT only, 2 competitors and 100 pages audited a month.
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026

## Pricing

As of Oct 23, 2026, Hikoo has a free plan, and paid plans start at €69 per month for 30 questions, billed monthly, excluding VAT.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** 10 questions tracked daily on ChatGPT, 2 competitors, 50 AI answers analyzed and 100 pages audited a month.
- **Free trial:** 7-day free trial of Monitoring and Growth, no credit card required.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | €0 | 10 questions on ChatGPT, 2 competitors and 100 pages audited a month, with citation tracking. |
| Monitoring | €69 per month for 30 questions on 2 AI engines, billed monthly | ChatGPT and Gemini, 5 competitors, 500 pages audited and 10 content suggestions a month. One site, excluding VAT. |
| Growth | €179 per month for 80 questions on 4 AI engines, billed monthly | Adds Perplexity and Copilot, 10 competitors, 1,500 pages audited, 30 content suggestions a month and source analysis. |
| Agent | €499 per month for 200 questions on 9 AI engines, billed monthly | Adds Claude, Mistral, Grok, AI Overviews and AI Mode, the outreach agent, prepared page fixes and a weekly summary. |
| Multiple sites | Custom | A custom plan for several sites or brands, with dedicated support and the integrations needed. |

Read from https://www.tryhikoo.com/en/pricing/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Hikoo before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **20% off with annual billing** (Annual discount): Hikoo's pricing page gives 20% off monthly prices when a year is paid in one payment. Source: https://www.tryhikoo.com/en/pricing/
- **10% off for 6 months with The Formula** (Other savings): The Duo offer bundles Hikoo with The Formula, a LinkedIn prospecting service, on one invoice at 10% off for six months. Monthly billing only. Source: https://www.tryhikoo.com/en/pricing/

## Key features

- **AI visibility monitoring:** Asks set questions every day across up to 9 AI engines and tracks mentions, citations and competitors; 10 questions on Free, up to 200 on Agent.
- **Continuous site audit:** Reviews pages the way an AI engine reads them, up to 5,000 a month on Agent, and adds headings, structured data and FAQs where answers need them.
- **Content briefs and refreshes:** Turns tracked questions into briefs and new pages and flags pages that have gone out of date; 10 to 150 content suggestions a month by plan.
- **Outreach agent:** On Agent, finds a contact at the sources AI engines cite, writes the email and sends follow-ups, either after you approve or on its own.
- **Reports and weekly summary:** Ties visibility numbers to the actions taken, as a deck, client update or export. The Monday summary of work done comes with Agent.
- **MCP server:** Included on every plan: Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other MCP clients can read citations, run audits and edit prompts with an API key.

## Good for

- Marketing teams that want AI visibility gaps worked on, not only measured
- Teams already using Peec AI, Otterly.AI or a similar monitor
- Agencies running GEO work for several client sites
- People who want to query their AI visibility data from Claude or Cursor

## Worth knowing

- Prices are in euros and exclude VAT, and each subscription covers one site; several sites need separate plans or a custom quote.
- Free covers ChatGPT only and Monitoring adds Gemini; Claude, Grok, AI Overviews and AI Mode come only with Agent or as extra engines by request.
- The outreach agent, prepared page fixes and the weekly summary are limited to the €499 Agent plan.
- Cancelling an annual subscription does not refund the year already paid.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 24, 2026. Hikoo tracks AI answers and then acts on them: it audits pages, drafts content and, on its top plan, emails the sites AI engines cite. It can also run on data from Peec AI or Otterly.AI. But prices are in euros before VAT and cover one site each, Monitoring tracks only ChatGPT and Gemini, and Claude, AI Overviews and outreach wait for the €499 Agent plan.

- **Value for money: C.** Monitoring is €69 a month before VAT, roughly $80, for 30 questions on ChatGPT and Gemini and one site. Prices are in euros, so that figure is rough, but it sits between this category's $49 middle and its dearer quarter at $95. Yearly billing takes 20% off.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** A free plan: 10 questions daily on ChatGPT only, 2 competitors and 100 pages audited a month. Paid plans also have a 7-day trial with no card. 10 questions on one engine is a cap you'll hit.
- **Features: C.** Daily tracking on up to 9 engines, page audits, content briefs and refreshes, an outreach agent and an MCP server. The gaps the listing names: Free covers ChatGPT only, Monitoring adds just Gemini, and outreach and page fixes are on Agent only.
- **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. You choose which actions go out on their own and which wait for approval, and may connect another monitor such as Peec AI first.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with no desktop or phone app. It reads data from Peec AI, Otterly.AI, Promptwatch, LLMrefs and Rankscale, and the MCP server on every plan works with Claude, Cursor and ChatGPT.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Hikoo'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

- Hikoo's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 68 of the 157 other AI search visibility tools we grade, and level with 56.
- It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 51 of 157) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at about $77.32 a month, against a middle price of $59 for the category: 74 of the 128 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 13 tools score higher and cost less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-visibility

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** The plain part of Hikoo you could make: link outreach, schema markup and reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 4 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. It costs $927.86 a year.

- You could make: Link outreach, schema markup and reports: an app builder makes these well.
- 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: A crawler that checks every page of a site.
- You could not: A score built from what the top results for each keyword cover.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Peec AI, Otterly.AI and Promptwatch among them, and has an API.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

Peec AI, Otterly.AI, Promptwatch, LLMrefs, Rankscale, Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT

**Tags:** AI search visibility, Site audit, Content optimization, Link outreach, Schema markup, Reports, Public API

## Alternatives

- [Peec AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/peec-ai): AI search analytics that tracks brand prompts across AI models. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hikoo-vs-peec-ai)
- [Otterly.AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/otterly-ai): Daily brand and citation tracking across AI search engines. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hikoo-vs-otterly-ai)
- [Profound](https://toolgpa.com/tools/profound): AI search visibility tracking with an AI marketing agent built in. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hikoo-vs-profound)
- [Promptwatch](https://toolgpa.com/tools/promptwatch): AI visibility tracking with agents that write content to get cited. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hikoo-vs-promptwatch)
- [Rankscale AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/rankscale-ai): Credit-based AI visibility tracker covering 17+ AI engines. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hikoo-vs-rankscale-ai)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026:

- https://www.tryhikoo.com/en/pricing/
- https://www.tryhikoo.com/en/
- https://www.tryhikoo.com/en/features/mcp/
- https://www.tryhikoo.com/en/features/reporting/
- https://www.tryhikoo.com/en/agencies/
- https://www.tryhikoo.com/en/about/
- https://www.tryhikoo.com/en/legal-notice/

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