The Rankshift Insider’s Guide
Everything we know about Rankshift 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.
Rankshift
The Insider’s Guide
Credit-based AI visibility tracker with unlimited projects and seats
Every plan, grade, refund rule and rival among AI search visibility tools, read from Rankshift’s own pages.
Made by Rankshift BV · checked Oct 23, 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 Rankshift’s own pages, its app-store listings and our grades. Every fact in it is on Rankshift’s page too, where it is kept up to date. Checked Oct 23, 2026.
Part 01 · Overview
Welcome
What it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first
2.4
GPA, above 125 of the 157 other AI search visibility tools we grade
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.
To get you started, here are 9 things to know about Rankshift, taken from its own pages and our grades.
You pick prompts, engines and how often each one runs, and then work out what that costs in credits.
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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.
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Paid plans start at $82 a month
As its pricing page puts it: $82 per month for 9,500 credits, billed annually ($92 billed monthly).
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You can try it first
30-day free trial, no credit card needed
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It runs on Web
Web.
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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.
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Visibility, sentiment and citations
A visibility score and leaderboard against competitors, sentiment toward your brand, and the share of citations each source gets.
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Content opportunities and briefs
Finds pages that cite competitors but not you, and generates content briefs and drafts aimed at the prompts you track.
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A 2.4 GPA, above 125 of 157
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 Rankshift you could make: reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 4 things listed below take a company, not a weekend.
Rankshift at a glance
- Pricing
- Free trial, from $82 per month for 9,500 credits, billed annually ($92 billed monthly)
- Free plan
- No
- Free trial
- 30-day free trial, no credit card needed
- Runs on
- Web
- Made by
- Rankshift BV, since 2025
- Category
- AI Search Visibility (AEO & GEO)
- Our grade
- 2.4 GPA, fair
The report card
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.
| Subject | Grade | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
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 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 it 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
Good to know
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.
Part 02 · Pricing
What it costs
Every plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
$82
A month to start
Rankshift is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $82 per month for 9,500 credits, billed annually ($92 billed monthly).
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.
Trying it first
30-day free trial, no credit card needed
Read from rankshift.ai on Oct 23, 2026.
Ways to pay less
Annual discount
Save 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.
Stated on rankshift.ai
Part 03 · Features
What it does
Its main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
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Place it runs: Web
Credit-based AI visibility tracker with unlimited projects and seats. Here is what it does, as its own site describes it, and what it covers: public API, reports, AI search visibility, content optimization.
It does connect to Looker Studio, BigQuery, Tableau and Power BI, and has an MCP server and a REST API on every plan.
- 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.
Where it runs
- Web
What it works with
- Looker Studio
- BigQuery
- Tableau
- Power BI
- Metabase
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- MCP
Rankshift is made by Rankshift BV, and has been around since 2025.
Part 04 · Standing
Where it stands
Its grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
125/157
Other AI search visibility tools it is graded above
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
- CFree plan and trialAbove 63 of 157
- BFeaturesAbove 125 of 157
- CEase of useAbove 0 of 157
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 51 of 157
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 131 AI search visibility tools. Further left costs less; higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Rankshift 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 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.
Part 05 · Alternatives
The alternatives
The tools it is most often weighed against, side by side
Peec AI, Otterly.AI, LLMrefs, AIclicks and Rankscale AI
The 5 tools Rankshift is most often weighed against, with where each one differs from it.
- 2.2GPA
Peec AI
Free trial · from $95/mo
AI search analytics that tracks brand prompts across AI models.
- Rankshift 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.
- Rankshift also covers content optimization.
- Otterly.AI also covers site audit.
- 2.2GPA
LLMrefs
Free trial · from $79/mo
Keyword-based AI search visibility tracker with one flat plan.
- Rankshift also covers content optimization.
- 2.0GPA
AIclicks
Free trial · from $59/mo
AI search visibility tracker with prompt monitoring and an action plan.
- Rankshift also covers reports.
- AIclicks also covers AI agents.
- 3.0GPA
Rankscale AI
Free trial · from $17/mo
Credit-based AI visibility tracker covering 17+ AI engines.
- Rankshift also covers content optimization.
- Rankscale AI also covers web analytics.
Part 06 · Questions
Quick answers
The questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two
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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 Rankshift free?
No, Rankshift is a paid product, but you can try it first. 30-day free trial, no credit card needed.
How much does Rankshift cost?
Rankshift lists 4 plans. Starter: $82 per month for 9,500 credits, billed annually ($92 billed monthly).
What platforms does Rankshift work on?
Rankshift is available on Web.
Does Rankshift offer any discounts?
Rankshift publicly lists the following: Save 10% with annual billing.
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.
What does Rankshift integrate with?
Rankshift's listing names Looker Studio, BigQuery, Tableau, Power BI, Metabase, Claude, ChatGPT and MCP.
Who makes Rankshift?
Rankshift is made by Rankshift BV. It dates from 2025.
What are the alternatives to Rankshift?
The closest alternatives to Rankshift in our directory are Peec AI, Otterly.AI, LLMrefs, AIclicks and Rankscale AI.
How does Rankshift compare with other 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.
Is Rankshift good value for money?
ToolGPA grades Rankshift C for value for money. 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.
Could I make my own version of Rankshift?
The plain part of Rankshift you could make: reports. What surrounds it you could not.
Where this guide comes from
The prices, plans, platforms and features were read from Rankshift’s own pages on Oct 23, 2026, and the grades were given on Oct 23, 2026. 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.
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 Rankshift BV. Prices change, so check rankshift.ai before you buy.
Part 07 · About
About ToolGPA
Who made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it
3,189
Tools graded, in 94 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.
3,189
tools graded
94
categories
426
price changes on record
579
apps priced in 12 countries
What else is on toolgpa.com
- Rankshift, kept up to dateEverything in this guide, with prices and grades as they are todaytoolgpa.com/tools/rankshift
- 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
Quoting this guide?
Please name ToolGPA and link to the live page, so readers can check the figures for themselves:
ToolGPA, "Rankshift: The Insider's Guide", checked Oct 23, 2026. https://toolgpa.com/tools/rankshift
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See our other guides
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- Rankscale AI Insider's GuideCredit-based AI visibility tracker covering 17+ AI engines3.0 GPA
Choosing software? Every tool graded, every price dated.
Compare tools at toolgpa.com ›Everything in this guide is ToolGPA’s own summary of what Rankshift’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. Rankshift is a trademark of its owner, and this guide is not made, paid for or approved by Rankshift BV. Prices and plans change: check rankshift.ai before you buy.