# Rankscale AI review (2026): is it worth $17 a month, billed yearly? > Credit-based AI visibility tracker covering 17+ AI engines Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. Rankscale tracks how a brand ranks, is cited and is described in answers from more than 17 AI engines, including ChatGPT, Google AI Mode and AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, DeepSeek, Grok and Copilot. Search terms are unlimited and each run spends credits, so a plan's credit allowance sets how much can be tracked. It also analyzes AI shopping cards, ads, local packs and the follow-up searches AI engines run. - **Category:** AI Search Visibility (AEO & GEO) - **Made by:** Rankscale GmbH - **Website:** https://rankscale.ai - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you track a lot every day, since monitoring pauses when the credits run out until renewal or a top-up. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, Rankscale AI is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $17 per month, billed yearly only (Essentials). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 7-day free trial of the Pro plan with a limited credit allowance. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Essentials | $17 per month for 120 credits, billed yearly only | For individuals and startups: 2 brand dashboards and 10 page audits a month. Shown as $20 crossed out. | | Pro | $99 per month for 1,200 credits, billed monthly | Up to 4,800 AI answers a month, 10 brand dashboards, 50 page audits, Looker Studio and MCP. Unused credits roll over up to 2x. | | Pro+ | $229 per month for 3,000 credits, billed monthly | Up to 12,000 answers, 25 brand dashboards, 100 page audits, REST API access and 5 prompt researches a month. | | Growth | $385 per month for 5,500 credits, billed monthly | For agencies: up to 22,000 answers, 50 brand dashboards, 200 page audits, white-label dashboards and the agency program. | | Enterprise | $780 per month for 12,000 credits, billed monthly | Up to 48,000 answers, 100 brand dashboards, REST API access, a dedicated partner, and credit rollover up to 3x. | | Custom Plan | Custom | Built around credit volume and team size, with options such as SSO, custom API work, SLA guarantees and a success manager. | Read from https://rankscale.ai/pricing on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Rankscale AI before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **15% off with yearly billing** (Annual discount): Rankscale's pricing FAQ says yearly billing is 15% cheaper than monthly, paid 12 months upfront, with credits still renewing each month. Source: https://rankscale.ai/pricing ## Key features - **Wide engine coverage:** All plans can query 17+ engines, from ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity at 0.25 credits a run to Claude at 2 credits, on schedules from hourly to monthly. - **Visibility, sentiment and citations:** Tracks a visibility score over time, benchmarks competitors, analyzes sentiment and shows which sources AI engines cite. - **Query fan-out and ChatGPT follow-ups:** Shows the internal searches AI engines run while answering, and the clarifying questions ChatGPT asks before recommending brands. - **Shopping, ads and local results:** Analyzes shopping cards and sponsored ads in ChatGPT, AI Mode and Copilot, and brand placement in AI local and map packs. - **AI visits from Cloudflare:** A read-only Cloudflare connection reports AI crawler and assistant visits, top pages and the 404 errors AI bots hit. - **Sharing, API and MCP:** Shareable dashboard links, CSV and Google Sheets exports, Data Studio, an MCP server for AI assistants and, from Pro+, a REST API. ## Good for - Small teams that want low-cost AI visibility tracking on a yearly plan - Marketers who want to track many AI engines, including less common ones - Agencies sharing white-label dashboards with clients ## Worth knowing - Tracking is limited by credits, not prompts: each engine run costs 0.25 to 2 credits, and monitoring pauses when credits run out until renewal or a top-up. - Essentials is sold on yearly billing only; the 7-day trial is for Pro. - The REST API starts at Pro+ ($229 a month); white-label dashboards start at Growth. - Extra brand dashboard slots are bought separately in the app. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 3.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Rankscale AI queries 17+ AI engines on every plan, and checks shopping cards, ads and local packs inside AI answers too. But you pay in credits, 0.25 to 2 per run, and monitoring pauses when they run out. Essentials is $17 a month paid yearly only, and its 120 credits cover about five prompts a day; the REST API starts at $229 and white label at $385. - **Value for money: A.** $17 a month on yearly billing is just under $17.40, the line for an A in this category. But Essentials' 120 credits cover about five prompts a day on ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity at 0.25 a run. Pro, at $99 a month for 1,200 credits, is where daily tracking gets room. - **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan, just a 7-day trial of Pro with a limited credit allowance. Enough to see how fast credits drain, not much more. - **Features: A.** All 17+ engines on every plan, Claude and DeepSeek included, with visibility, sentiment, citations and query fan-out, plus things few rivals track: your place in AI local and map packs, and the questions ChatGPT asks before it recommends brands. Page audits cover what to fix. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. A run costs 0.25 to 2 credits depending on the engine, and tracking pauses when credits run out, so there are sums to do before you set a schedule. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with no desktop or phone app. Looker Studio, Google Sheets, Cloudflare and an MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, with the REST API from Pro+ at $229. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Rankscale's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among AI search visibility tools - Rankscale AI's GPA of 3.0 is higher than 154 of the 157 other AI search visibility tools we grade, and level with 3. - It stands best on features (A, above 157 of 157) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $17 a month, against a middle price of $59 for the category: 8 of the 128 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 3.0 out of 4, and no tool on the category's chart scores higher without costing more. 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 Rankscale AI you could make: reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 4 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 3.0 is higher than 154 of the 157 other AI search visibility tools we grade. It costs $204 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 tracking script and a database that counts every visit. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Google Looker Studio, Google Sheets and Cloudflare among them, and has an API. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features A, 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 Looker Studio, Google Sheets, Cloudflare, Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor **Tags:** AI search visibility, Reports, Web analytics, Public API ## Alternatives - [Peec AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/peec-ai): AI search analytics that tracks brand prompts across AI models. 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