Pendium review (2026): is it worth $99 a month?
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Pendium report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 13, 2026
Best for AI scans plus auto-written content on a hosted site
Pendium scans AI engines for a brand and writes content on a hosted site on your own domain. It starts at $99 a month, and both trials need a card.
Who Pendium is for
- Fits if you want AI visibility scans and the content written for you in one place
- Works for a single brand that would rather publish on a hosted site than edit its own
Who Pendium is not for
- Skip it if you want to try it without a card, as both trials ask for one
- Tight if you are on Starter: 1 brand, 2 on-demand scans a month and no Perplexity
- Pricey if you manage several brands, as Pro is $350 a month for up to 10
- Watch out: the 90-day guarantee covers Pro only
- Watch out: Agency and Managed plans have no published price
Why Pendium gets a 2.0
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- CValue for money$99 a month for Starter, just above the category's $95 dearer quarter, for 1 brand and 100 tracked prompts.
- DFree plan and trialA 7-day trial on Starter and Pro that needs a card. A free visibility scan needs none, but it is one scan.
- CFeaturesWeekly scans, a hosted site, auto-written posts and an MCP server. Starter covers four engines and leaves out Perplexity, which starts at Pro.
- CEase of useNo store rating on record, and it asks for your domain, Search Console and prompts before it works.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb app with Google Search Console, Slack, Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor connections, plus an MCP server and API. No desktop or phone apps.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Pendium's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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<a href="https://toolgpa.com/tools/pendium#review"><img src="https://toolgpa.com/badge/pendium.svg" alt="Pendium: 2.0 GPA on ToolGPA" width="196" height="56"></a>Where Pendium stands among AI search visibility tools
Pendium's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 32 of the 168 other AI search visibility tools we grade, and level with 43.
It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 54 of 168) and worst on free plan and trial (D, above 25).
Its paid plans start at $99 a month, against a middle price of $56.87 for the category: 105 of the 137 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 20 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 169 AI search visibility tools we grade, cut by the letter each got. Pendium’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 21 of 168, level with 106
- DFree plan and trialAbove 25 of 168, level with 44
- CFeaturesAbove 6 of 168, level with 128
- CEase of useAbove 0 of 168, level with 156
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 54 of 168, level with 114
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 140 AI search visibility tools. 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 Pendium, or make your own?
Keep it
The plain part of Pendium you could make: reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 3 things listed below take a company, not a weekend.
That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 93 of the 168 other AI search visibility tools grade higher. It costs $1,188 a year.
What you could make
- Reports: an app builder makes this well.
What you could not
- The same prompts asked of ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI answers every day, and the answers kept.
- A score built from what the top results for each keyword cover.
- It plugs into other products, Google Search Console, Slack and Claude among them, and has an API.
What this rests on. Pendium’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 Pendium?
Pendium scans AI assistants with customer-style questions, finds where competitors are named instead of you, and writes and publishes content on a hosted site meant to be cited by AI agents. Plans range from a one-brand Starter to managed services run by an embedded team.
Worth knowing
- Starter scans four AI engines; Perplexity is listed only from Pro.
- The 90-day guarantee applies to Pro only and gives 3 free months if AI does not name the brand more often.
- Both trials need a card up front.
- Agency and Managed plans have no published price.
Key features
- Weekly AI scans
- Asks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews (and Perplexity on Pro) customer-style questions, each asked by several personas, and tracks which brands are named.
- Hosted site for AI agents
- Builds and hosts a branded site on your domain so AI agents have a source to cite, with calculators and finders and agent analytics showing what agents read.
- Autopilot content engine
- Writes and publishes posts from the gaps found in scans, in your brand voice, up to a monthly post limit.
- Citations and outreach
- Shows competitors, cited sources and sentiment, plus outreach recommendations for pages AI already trusts, with the pitch drafted.
- MCP server and API
- Pendium can be driven from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor over MCP, and scans and scores are available through a REST API.
Pendium pricing
As of Nov 13, 2026, Pendium is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $99 per month for 1 brand and 100 tracked prompts, billed monthly.
- Starts at
- $99 per month for 1 brand and 100 tracked prompts, billed monthly
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- 7-day free trial on Starter and Pro, card required, nothing charged if cancelled before day 8; a free visibility scan needs no card
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $99per month for 1 brand and 100 tracked prompts, billed monthly | Weekly scans plus 2 on demand a month on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, 15 posts a month, and a hosted site on your own domain. |
| Pro | $350per month for up to 10 brands, billed monthly | 160 prompts per brand, 10 on-demand scans a month with Perplexity, 100 posts and pages shared across brands, an account manager in Slack, unbranded sites. |
| Agency | Custom | For agencies managing 10+ brands: up to 50 brands, 200 prompts per brand and 500 posts and pages a month. Sold through sales. |
| Managed | Custom | An embedded team does outreach, content and product work, with unlimited brands, prompts and scans. Quoted after a call. |
Read from pendium.ai on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Pendium before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- Annual discount2 months free on yearly billing
The pricing page says paying yearly on Starter and Pro gets 2 months free.
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Common questions
Does Pendium have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 13, 2026. Pendium is listed for Web.
Does Pendium have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 13, 2026. Pendium is listed for Web.
Is Pendium open source?
Pendium is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 13, 2026.
Does Pendium have an API?
Yes. Pendium 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 Nov 13, 2026.