# Pendium review (2026): is it worth $99 a month? > AI visibility scans plus auto-written content on a hosted site Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. 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. - **Category:** AI Search Visibility (AEO & GEO) - **Made by:** Pendium - **Website:** https://pendium.ai - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want to try it without a card, as both trials ask for one. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## 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. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **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 | $99 per 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 | $350 per 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 https://pendium.ai/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Pendium before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **2 months free on yearly billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page says paying yearly on Starter and Pro gets 2 months free. Source: https://pendium.ai/pricing ## 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. ## Good for - Small businesses and local brands that want content written for them - Agencies running AI visibility for many client brands ## 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. 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. - **Value for money: C.** $99 a month for Starter, just above the category's $95 dearer quarter, for 1 brand and 100 tracked prompts. - **Free plan and trial: D.** A 7-day trial on Starter and Pro that needs a card. A free visibility scan needs none, but it is one scan. - **Features: C.** Weekly scans, a hosted site, auto-written posts and an MCP server. Starter covers four engines and leaves out Perplexity, which starts at Pro. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record, and it asks for your domain, Search Console and prompts before it works. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web app with Google Search Console, Slack, Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor connections, plus an MCP server and API. No desktop or phone apps. These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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. ## Where it 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. 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 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. - You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this 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 score built from what the top results for each keyword cover. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Google Search Console, Slack and Claude 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 Google Search Console, Slack, Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor **Tags:** AI search visibility, Content optimization, Reports, Public API ## Alternatives - [Profound](https://toolgpa.com/tools/profound): AI search visibility tracking with an AI marketing agent built in. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/pendium-vs-profound) - [Peec AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/peec-ai): AI search analytics that tracks brand prompts across AI models. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/peec-ai-vs-pendium) - [Otterly.AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/otterly-ai): Daily brand and citation tracking across AI search engines. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/otterly-ai-vs-pendium) - [AthenaHQ](https://toolgpa.com/tools/athenahq): Credit-based AI search tracking with content optimization agents. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/athenahq-vs-pendium) - [Scrunch](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scrunch): AI search monitoring plus pages served to AI agents. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/pendium-vs-scrunch) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://pendium.ai/pricing - https://pendium.ai Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/pendium Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).