The Pendium Insider’s Guide
Everything we know about Pendium in one document: what it costs, its grades, getting a refund, getting help and what else to look at. Read it here, or keep a copy.
Pendium
The Insider’s Guide
AI visibility scans plus auto-written content on a hosted site
Every plan, grade, refund rule and rival among AI search visibility tools, read from Pendium’s own pages.
Made by Pendium · checked Nov 13, 2026 · toolgpa.com
Contents
- 01WelcomeWhat it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first
- 02What it costsEvery plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
- 03What it doesIts main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
- 04Where it standsIts grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
- 05The alternativesThe tools it is most often weighed against, side by side
- 06Quick answersThe questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two
- 07About ToolGPAWho made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it
ToolGPA put this guide together from Pendium’s own pages, its app-store listings and our grades. Every fact in it is on Pendium’s page too, where it is kept up to date. Checked Nov 13, 2026.
Part 01 · Overview
Welcome
What it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first
2.0
GPA, above 32 of the 168 other AI search visibility tools we grade
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.
To get you started, here are 9 things to know about Pendium, taken from its own pages and our grades.
No store rating on record, and it asks for your domain, Search Console and prompts before it works.
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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.
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Paid plans start at $99 a month
As its pricing page puts it: $99 per month for 1 brand and 100 tracked prompts, billed monthly.
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You can try it first
7-day free trial on Starter and Pro, card required, nothing charged if cancelled before day 8; a free visibility scan needs no card
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It runs on Web
Web.
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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.
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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.
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Autopilot content engine
Writes and publishes posts from the gaps found in scans, in your brand voice, up to a monthly post limit.
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A 2.0 GPA, above 32 of 168
That is against the other AI search visibility tools we grade, on value, the free plan, features, ease of use and platforms.
- 9
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.
Pendium at a glance
- Pricing
- Free trial, from $99 per month for 1 brand and 100 tracked prompts, billed monthly
- Free plan
- No
- 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
- Runs on
- Web
- Made by
- Pendium
- Category
- AI Search Visibility (AEO & GEO)
- Our grade
- 2.0 GPA, fair
The report card
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.
| Subject | Grade | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
An A is worth 4 points, a B 3, a C 2, a D 1 and an F nothing. The GPA is the average of the five.
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 it 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
Good to know
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.
Part 02 · Pricing
What it costs
Every plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
$99
A month to start
Pendium is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $99 per month for 1 brand and 100 tracked prompts, billed monthly.
A free visibility scan needs none, but it is one scan.
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.
Trying it first
7-day free trial on Starter and Pro, card required, nothing charged if cancelled before day 8; a free visibility scan needs no card
Read from pendium.ai on Nov 13, 2026.
Ways to pay less
Annual discount
2 months free on yearly billing
The pricing page says paying yearly on Starter and Pro gets 2 months free.
Stated on pendium.ai
Part 03 · Features
What it does
Its main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
1
Place it runs: Web
AI visibility scans plus auto-written content on a hosted site. Here is what it does, as its own site describes it, and what it covers: public API, reports, AI search visibility, content optimization.
Weekly scans, a hosted site, auto-written posts and an MCP server.
- 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.
Where it runs
- Web
What it works with
- Google Search Console
- Slack
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Pendium is made by Pendium.
Part 04 · Standing
Where it stands
Its grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
32/168
Other AI search visibility tools it is graded above
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
- DFree plan and trialAbove 25 of 168
- CFeaturesAbove 6 of 168
- CEase of useAbove 0 of 168
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 54 of 168
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 140 AI search visibility tools. Further left costs less; higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Pendium is the marked dot.
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
Keep it, or make your own?
Whether this is something you could build for yourself with an AI app builder, and what you would give up.
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.
Part 05 · Alternatives
The alternatives
The tools it is most often weighed against, side by side
Profound, Peec AI, Otterly.AI, AthenaHQ and Scrunch
The 5 tools Pendium is most often weighed against, with where each one differs from it.
- 2.2GPA
Profound
Free trial · from $99/mo
AI search visibility tracking with an AI marketing agent built in.
- Pendium also covers reports.
- Profound also covers AI agents and web analytics.
- 2.2GPA
Peec AI
Free trial · from $95/mo
AI search analytics that tracks brand prompts across AI models.
- Pendium also covers content optimization.
- Peec AI also covers web analytics.
- 2.4GPA
Otterly.AI
Free trial · from $25/mo
Daily brand and citation tracking across AI search engines.
- Pendium also covers content optimization.
- Otterly.AI also covers site audit.
- 2.2GPA
AthenaHQ
Free plan · from $245/mo
Credit-based AI search tracking with content optimization agents.
- AthenaHQ has a free plan. Pendium does not, though it has a free trial.
- Pendium also covers reports.
- AthenaHQ also covers AI agents.
- 1.8GPA
Scrunch
Free trial · from $250/mo
AI search monitoring plus pages served to AI agents.
- Pendium also covers reports.
- Scrunch also covers site audit and web analytics.
Part 06 · Questions
Quick answers
The questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two
14
Questions, each answered in a line or two
The short version of everything above, for when you only need the answer. Each one is told in full in its part of the guide.
Is Pendium free?
No, Pendium is a paid product, but you can try it first. 7-day free trial on Starter and Pro, card required, nothing charged if cancelled before day 8; a free visibility scan needs no card.
How much does Pendium cost?
Pendium lists 4 plans. Starter: $99 per month for 1 brand and 100 tracked prompts, billed monthly.
What platforms does Pendium work on?
Pendium is available on Web.
Does Pendium offer any discounts?
Pendium publicly lists the following: 2 months free on yearly billing.
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.
What does Pendium integrate with?
Pendium's listing names Google Search Console, Slack, Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor.
Who makes Pendium?
Pendium is made by a company of the same name.
What are the alternatives to Pendium?
The closest alternatives to Pendium in our directory are Profound, Peec AI, Otterly.AI, AthenaHQ and Scrunch.
How does Pendium compare with other 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.
Is Pendium good value for money?
ToolGPA grades Pendium C for value for money. 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.
Could I make my own version of Pendium?
The plain part of Pendium you could make: reports. What surrounds it you could not.
Where this guide comes from
The prices, plans, platforms and features were read from Pendium’s own pages on Nov 13, 2026, and the grades were given on Nov 13, 2026. 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.
Every tool we list gets five grades, A to F, each with its reason, and a GPA that averages them. How each is decided is at toolgpa.com/grades. This guide is ToolGPA’s own work; it is not made, paid for or approved by Pendium. Prices change, so check pendium.ai before you buy.
Part 07 · About
About ToolGPA
Who made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it
7,721
Tools graded, in 95 categories
ToolGPA grades software the way a school report grades a pupil: five subjects, a letter for each with the reason written beside it, and a GPA that averages them. Prices, plans and platforms are read from each maker’s own pages and dated, so you always know how fresh a figure is.
Every grade, review and ranking on ToolGPA is our own judgement. No company can pay for a grade or change one. Every tool on the site has a guide like this one, free to download and pass on. It all lives at toolgpa.com.
7,721
tools graded
95
categories
739
price changes on record
579
apps priced in 12 countries
What else is on toolgpa.com
- Pendium, kept up to dateEverything in this guide, with prices and grades as they are todaytoolgpa.com/tools/pendium
- How grades are givenThe rules behind every letter and every GPAtoolgpa.com/grades
- Value chartsWhat each tool costs against what it scores, for every categorytoolgpa.com/charts
- CompareAny two tools side by side, plan by plantoolgpa.com/compare
- Price changesEvery price rise and cut on record, each with its sourcetoolgpa.com/price-changes
- Prices by countryWhat apps cost on the App Store in 12 countriestoolgpa.com/prices-by-country
- Pay lessEvery public discount: yearly billing, students, nonprofitstoolgpa.com/save
- Keep or makeWhich tools are worth paying for, and which you could build yourselftoolgpa.com/keep-or-make
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Prices and grades as they are today
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Choosing software? Every tool graded, every price dated.
Compare tools at toolgpa.com ›Everything in this guide is ToolGPA’s own summary of what Pendium’s pages, its app-store listings and public reviews said on the dates shown. Grades are our judgement under the rules at toolgpa.com/grades. Every grade, review and ranking on ToolGPA is our own judgement. No company can pay for a grade or change one. Pendium is a trademark of its owner, and this guide is not made, paid for or approved by Pendium. Prices and plans change: check pendium.ai before you buy.