Rankshift review (2026): is it worth $82 a month, billed yearly?
Credit-based AI visibility tracker with unlimited projects and seats
Rankshift report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Oct 23, 2026
Best for agencies tracking lots of clients in AI answers
Rankshift runs your buyers' questions through nine AI engines on a schedule and shows who gets mentioned, how you're described and which sites get cited, with unlimited projects and seats on every plan. But Starter is $82 a month on yearly billing, Claude and Copilot cost 5 credits a run against 2 elsewhere, there's no free plan after the trial, and SSO is Enterprise only.
Who Rankshift is for
- Fits if you run an agency and want every client and teammate on one plan
- Works for teams that report AI visibility in their own BI dashboards, through the PostgreSQL connector
Who Rankshift is not for
- Tight if you want daily checks on Claude and Copilot, at 5 credits a run against 2 on most engines
- Skip it if you need SSO or an SLA, which only come with the custom-priced Enterprise plan
- Pricey if you're one person with one site, at $82 a month even billed yearly
- Watch out: there's no free plan once the 30-day trial ends
- Tight if you track over 150 prompts a day, as more means Professional at $189 a month
Why Rankshift gets a 2.4
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- CValue for moneyStarter is $82 a month billed yearly, or $92 monthly, for 9,500 credits. That's above this category's middle of $49 and under its dearer quarter of $95. Projects and seats are unlimited.
- CFree plan and trialA 30-day trial with no card needed. After that there's no free plan at all.
- BFeaturesPrompt tracking on nine engines, from ChatGPT and AI Overviews to Claude, Copilot, Meta AI and Mistral, plus sentiment, citation shares, content briefs, a fix list and AI crawler logs. It covers the whole job.
- CEase of useNo rating on record. You pick prompts, engines and how often each one runs, and then work out what that costs in credits. There's a calculator for that, which tells you something.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb only, with no desktop or phone app. It does connect to Looker Studio, BigQuery, Tableau and Power BI, and has an MCP server and a REST API on every plan.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Rankshift's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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Rankshift's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 125 of the 157 other AI search visibility tools we grade, and level with 20.
It stands best on features (B, above 125 of 157) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $82 a month, against a middle price of $59 for the category: 90 of the 128 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 1 tool scores higher and costs less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 158 AI search visibility tools we grade, cut by the letter each got. Rankshift’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 19 of 157, level with 100
- CFree plan and trialAbove 63 of 157, level with 88
- BFeaturesAbove 125 of 157, level with 31
- CEase of useAbove 0 of 157, level with 145
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 51 of 157, level with 106
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 131 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 Rankshift, or make your own?
Keep it
The plain part of Rankshift 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 2.4 is higher than 125 of the 157 other AI search visibility tools we grade. It costs $984 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, Looker Studio, BigQuery and Tableau among them, and has an API.
- The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.
What this rests on. Rankshift’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 Rankshift?
Rankshift runs the questions buyers ask AI assistants on a schedule across nine AI engines and reports how often a brand is mentioned, how it is described and which sources the answers cite. Every plan has unlimited projects and users, and usage is paid for with monthly credits. It also logs AI crawler visits and writes content briefs.
Worth knowing
- Each prompt run uses credits: 2 on ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews and most engines, 5 on Claude and Copilot, so daily tracking on many engines adds up.
- There is no free plan after the 30-day trial.
- SSO and an SLA come only with the custom-priced Enterprise plan.
Key features
- Prompt tracking on nine AI engines
- ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Perplexity, Meta AI and Mistral, run daily or on chosen weekdays, with personas.
- Visibility, sentiment and citations
- A visibility score and leaderboard against competitors, sentiment toward your brand, and the share of citations each source gets.
- Content opportunities and briefs
- Finds pages that cite competitors but not you, and generates content briefs and drafts aimed at the prompts you track.
- Action Center
- One list of recommended fixes, such as schema, comparison pages or author bios, ranked by expected effect on visibility.
- Agent analytics
- Shows in real time when crawlers such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot read your pages, with the status codes they got.
- MCP, API and BI connectors
- An MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT, a REST API, and a PostgreSQL connector for Looker Studio, BigQuery, Tableau, Power BI and others.
Rankshift pricing
As of Oct 23, 2026, Rankshift is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $82 per month for 9,500 credits, billed annually ($92 billed monthly).
- Starts at
- $82 per month for 9,500 credits, billed annually ($92 billed monthly)
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- 30-day free trial, no credit card needed
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $82per month for 9,500 credits, billed annually ($92 billed monthly) | Up to 150 prompts a day, every AI engine, unlimited projects and seats, content briefs and writer, crawler analytics, Looker Studio, MCP and API. |
| Professional | $189per month for 22,000 credits, billed annually ($210 billed monthly) | Everything in Starter with up to 350 prompts a day. |
| Business | $425per month for 53,000 credits, billed annually ($473 billed monthly) | Everything in Starter with up to 850 prompts a day, for teams running several projects. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom credits and prompt tracking, SSO, an SLA, training sessions and a dedicated account manager. |
Read from rankshift.ai on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Rankshift before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- Annual discountSave 10% with annual billing
Rankshift's pricing page lists annual billing at about 10% less, for example Starter at $82 a month instead of $92.
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Common questions
Does Rankshift have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Rankshift is listed for Web.
Does Rankshift have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Rankshift is listed for Web.
Is Rankshift open source?
Rankshift is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Oct 23, 2026.
Does Rankshift have an API?
Yes. Rankshift 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 Oct 23, 2026.