Nightwatch review (2026): is it worth €79 a month, billed yearly?
Rank tracker with AI answer tracking, priced by keywords and prompts
Nightwatch report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Oct 23, 2026
Best for Google rankings and AI answer tracking in one place
Nightwatch is a web rank tracker that checks Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, YouTube and Maps daily and tracks set prompts in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity. Starter is €79 a month yearly for 500 keywords and 50 prompts, with no API, Looker Studio, white-label reports or unlimited seats; those start at €159. Prices are in euros only, and SSO waits on Enterprise.
Who Nightwatch is for
- Fits if you want rankings and AI answer tracking from one tool
- Works for tracking Bing, YouTube or Google Maps as well as Google
Who Nightwatch is not for
- Tight if you need the API, Looker Studio or white-label reports, as none come with Starter
- Skip it if you track hundreds of AI prompts on a budget, as Starter stops at 50 and 1,500 answers a month
- Not for you if you want prices in dollars, as the pricing page only shows euros
- Pricey if you pay monthly, at €99 for Starter against €79 on yearly billing
- Watch out: SSO and custom data retention come only with the sales-quoted Enterprise plan
Why Nightwatch gets a 2.4
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- CValue for moneyStarter is €79 a month on yearly billing (€99 monthly) for 500 keywords, 50 AI prompts and 5 sites. That's in the dearer part of what rank trackers charge, short of the dearest tenth, and it includes research, audits and AI tracking.
- CFree plan and trialNo free plan, but every plan has a 14-day trial with no card needed, and the whole toolkit is open during it.
- BFeaturesDaily rankings on six engines in 107,000+ locations, on-demand checks, AI prompt tracking with sources and sentiment, three years of saved results pages, plus keyword research and a site audit. It covers the whole job, and the tools are the same on every plan.
- CEase of useNo rating on record. There are sites, competitors, keywords and AI prompts to set up, and caps on prompts and answers to keep an eye on.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb only, with no desktop or phone app. It links to Search Console, Analytics and Looker Studio, and its MCP server works from Claude, Cursor and ChatGPT. The API starts at Professional.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Nightwatch's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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Nightwatch's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 23 of the 39 other rank trackers we grade, and level with 10.
It stands best on features (B, above 26 of 39) and worst on ease of use (C, above 2).
Its paid plans start at about $88.53 a month, against a middle price of $20.49 for the category: 25 of the 29 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 40 rank trackers we grade, cut by the letter each got. Nightwatch’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 3 of 39, level with 22
- CFree plan and trialAbove 6 of 39, level with 30
- BFeaturesAbove 26 of 39, level with 13
- CEase of useAbove 2 of 39, level with 36
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 12 of 39, level with 27
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 33 rank trackers. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
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
Keep Nightwatch, or make your own?
Keep it
To replace Nightwatch you would be making search volumes for millions of keywords, gathered and kept up to date. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.
It costs $1,062.33 a year.
What you could make
- Reports: an app builder makes this well.
What you could not
- Search volumes for millions of keywords, gathered and kept up to date.
- Daily checks of where your pages rank in search results.
- The same prompts asked of ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI answers every day, and the answers kept.
- A crawler that checks every page of a site.
- It plugs into other products, Google Search Console, Google Analytics and Looker Studio among them, and has an API.
- The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.
What this rests on. Nightwatch’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Nightwatch?
Nightwatch is a web-based rank tracker that checks positions daily on Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, YouTube and Google Maps, and tracks set prompts in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Mode and AI Overviews. Every plan also includes keyword research, a site audit, a content writer and an MCP server. Plans differ by how many keywords, prompts and sites they cover.
Worth knowing
- Prices are listed in euros only; the pricing page has no dollar option.
- Starter has no Looker Studio, API access, white-label reports or unlimited seats; those start at Professional.
- AI tracking is capped by prompts and answers: Starter covers 50 prompts and 1,500 AI answers a month.
- SSO and custom data retention come only with the sales-quoted Enterprise plan.
Key features
- Daily rank tracking
- Positions on Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, YouTube and Google Maps, mobile and desktop apart, in 107,000+ locations, with on-demand checks.
- AI visibility
- Tracks set prompts in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Mode and AI Overviews, with sentiment and analysis of the sources cited.
- Citation Intelligence
- Ties a change in AI citations back to the ranking change behind it, so you can see which position to defend.
- SERP snapshot history
- Every check is archived with the results page it was read from, and SERP archives are kept for three years.
- Toolkit on every plan
- Keyword research, site audit, a content writer, prompt research and a search simulator come with Starter too; plans differ only in volume.
- SEO MCP server and agent
- Query rankings, run audits and pull reports from Claude, Cursor or ChatGPT; an SEO Agent runs tasks on a monthly credit allowance.
Nightwatch pricing
As of Oct 23, 2026, Nightwatch is a paid product with a free trial, starting at €79 per month for 500 keywords, billed annually (€99 billed monthly).
- Starts at
- €79 per month for 500 keywords, billed annually (€99 billed monthly)
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- 14-day free trial on every plan, no credit card required
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | €79per month for 500 keywords, billed annually (€99 monthly) | 50 AI prompts (1,500 AI answers a month), 5 websites, 5 competitors per site, 100 keyword researches a month and 1,000-page site audits. |
| Professional | €159per month for 2,500 keywords, billed annually (€199 monthly) | 150 AI prompts, 25 websites, 10 competitors per site, plus Looker Studio, white-label reports, unlimited user seats and API access. |
| Agency | €399per month for 7,500 keywords, billed annually (€499 monthly) | 500 AI prompts, 100 websites, 15 competitors per site, 100,000-page audits, a dedicated account manager and priority support with an SLA. |
| Enterprise | Custom | From 20,000 keywords with unlimited prompts and sites, SSO, custom data retention and dedicated infrastructure. Quoted by sales. |
Read from nightwatch.io on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Nightwatch before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- Annual discountTwo months free with yearly billing
Nightwatch's pricing page gives yearly billing at 20% less, two months free: Starter is €948 a year instead of €99 a month.
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Common questions
Does Nightwatch have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Nightwatch is listed for Web.
Does Nightwatch have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Nightwatch is listed for Web.
Is Nightwatch open source?
Nightwatch is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Oct 23, 2026.
Does Nightwatch have an API?
Yes. Nightwatch offers a public API, according to its own site.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026.