# Nightwatch review (2026): is it worth €79 a month, billed yearly? > Rank tracker with AI answer tracking, priced by keywords and prompts Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. 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. - **Category:** Rank Trackers - **Made by:** Nightwatch - **Website:** https://nightwatch.io - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you need the API, Looker Studio or white-label reports, as none come with Starter. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## 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). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 14-day free trial on every plan, no credit card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter | €79 per 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 | €159 per 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 | €399 per 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 https://nightwatch.io/pricing/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Nightwatch before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Two months free with yearly billing** (Annual discount): Nightwatch's pricing page gives yearly billing at 20% less, two months free: Starter is €948 a year instead of €99 a month. Source: https://nightwatch.io/pricing/ ## 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. ## Good for - Teams that want Google rankings and AI answer tracking in one account - Agencies tracking many client sites with no per-seat fees from Professional - Local and multi-engine tracking, including Bing, YouTube and Maps ## 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. 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. - **Value for money: C.** Starter 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. - **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan, but every plan has a 14-day trial with no card needed, and the whole toolkit is open during it. - **Features: B.** Daily 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. - **Ease of use: C.** No 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. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web 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. These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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. ## Where it stands among rank trackers - 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. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/rank-trackers ## Keep it, 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. - You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Search volumes for millions of keywords, gathered and kept up to date. - You could not: Daily checks of where your pages rank in search results. - 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: It plugs into other products, Google Search Console, Google Analytics and Looker Studio among them, and has an API. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Looker Studio, Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor **Tags:** Rank tracking, AI search visibility, Keyword research, Site audit, Reports, Public API ## Alternatives - [AccuRanker](https://toolgpa.com/tools/accuranker): Daily rank tracker for agencies and enterprises, priced by keywords. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/accuranker-vs-nightwatch) - [Advanced Web Ranking](https://toolgpa.com/tools/advanced-web-ranking): Rank tracker for Google, Bing, YouTube and AI search, unlimited users. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/advanced-web-ranking-vs-nightwatch) - [Keyword.com](https://toolgpa.com/tools/keyword-com): Google rank tracker and AI visibility tracker, priced by keywords. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/keyword-com-vs-nightwatch) - [SERPRobot](https://toolgpa.com/tools/serprobot): Pay-per-bot rank tracker for Google, Bing, Yahoo and YouTube. 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