# Rankshift review (2026): is it worth $82 a month, billed yearly? > Credit-based AI visibility tracker with unlimited projects and seats Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. 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. - **Category:** AI Search Visibility (AEO & GEO) - **Made by:** Rankshift BV (since 2025) - **Website:** https://www.rankshift.ai - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you want daily checks on Claude and Copilot, at 5 credits a run against 2 on most engines. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## 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). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 30-day free trial, no credit card needed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter | $82 per 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 | $189 per month for 22,000 credits, billed annually ($210 billed monthly) | Everything in Starter with up to 350 prompts a day. | | Business | $425 per 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 https://www.rankshift.ai/pricing/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Rankshift before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save 10% with annual billing** (Annual discount): Rankshift's pricing page lists annual billing at about 10% less, for example Starter at $82 a month instead of $92. Source: https://www.rankshift.ai/pricing/ ## 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. ## Good for - Agencies that want unlimited client projects and seats on one plan - Teams that want to choose engines and tracking frequency per prompt - Analysts who report AI visibility in their own BI tool ## 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. 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. - **Value for money: C.** Starter 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. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A 30-day trial with no card needed. After that there's no free plan at all. - **Features: B.** Prompt 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. - **Ease of use: C.** No 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. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web 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. These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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. ## Where it stands among AI search visibility tools - 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. 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 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. - 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, Looker Studio, BigQuery and Tableau among them, and has an API. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, 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 Looker Studio, BigQuery, Tableau, Power BI, Metabase, Claude, ChatGPT, MCP **Tags:** AI search visibility, Content optimization, Reports, 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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[Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/rankscale-ai-vs-rankshift) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://www.rankshift.ai/pricing/ - https://www.rankshift.ai/ - https://www.rankshift.ai/calculator/ - https://www.rankshift.ai/integrations/ - https://www.rankshift.ai/about/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/rankshift Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).