Skillaeo review (2026): is the free plan enough?
AI visibility audits with the questions, answers and citations shown
Skillaeo report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Oct 24, 2026
Best for AI visibility audits that show the raw answers
Skillaeo asks AI models 8 to 10 generated questions about your category and shows the exact answers and cited links behind its score, plus drafted llms.txt and schema files. But it counts audits a month rather than tracking prompts every day, no plan covers Perplexity or Google's AI Overviews, and Gemini waits for Pro at $83.25 a month.
Who Skillaeo is for
- Fits if you want to read the exact AI answers and links behind a visibility score
- Works for teams that want llms.txt and schema drafts to check before publishing
Who Skillaeo is not for
- Skip it if you need daily prompt tracking, as Starter gives 25 audits a month and Pro 90
- Not for you if Perplexity or Google's AI Overviews matter, since no plan lists them
- Pricey if you need Gemini, which only Pro covers, at $83.25 a month yearly or $99.90 monthly
- Tight if you stay free: 3 audits a month on GPT alone, with 7 days of history
- Watch out: models are asked through their APIs, which the methodology says can differ from the chat apps, and used billing periods aren't refunded
Why Skillaeo gets a 2.0
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- CValue for moneyStarter is $33.25 a month billed yearly at $399, or $39.90 monthly, for 25 audits on GPT and Claude. That's just above this category's cheaper quarter, which starts at $29, and it buys audits, not daily tracking.
- CFree plan and trialA free account gets 3 full audits a month of 8 questions each, on GPT only, 1 quick recheck a day and 7 days of history. Without an account, 3 short audits a day. You'll hit those caps.
- CFeaturesAudits that record mentions, recommendations, citations and claim accuracy, a site readiness score, and drafted llms.txt, schema and robots.txt files. The gaps are in the listing: monthly audit counts instead of daily tracking, and no Perplexity or AI Overviews on any plan.
- CEase of useNo rating on record. Audits run from a domain, but the drafted files come from facts you confirm and have to be checked and put on your site by hand.
- CPlatforms and integrationsWeb only, with no desktop or phone app and no integrations or API listed. Exports start on Starter.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Skillaeo'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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Skillaeo's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 29 of the 157 other AI search visibility tools we grade, and level with 38.
Its paid plans start at $33.25 a month, against a middle price of $59 for the category: 39 of the 128 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 31 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 158 AI search visibility tools we grade, cut by the letter each got. Skillaeo’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 19 of 157, level with 100
- CFree plan and trialAbove 63 of 157, level with 88
- CFeaturesAbove 6 of 157, level with 118
- CEase of useAbove 0 of 157, level with 145
- CPlatforms and integrationsAbove 0 of 157, level with 50
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 Skillaeo, or make your own?
Keep it
The plain part of Skillaeo you could make: schema markup. What surrounds it you could not. The 2 things listed below take a company, not a weekend.
That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 90 of the 157 other AI search visibility tools grade higher. It costs $399 a year.
What you could make
- Schema markup: 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 crawler that checks every page of a site.
What this rests on. Skillaeo’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 Skillaeo?
Skillaeo runs audits that ask AI models a set of generated questions about a website's category and reports whether the answers mention, recommend or cite the brand, alongside a separate site readiness score. Each report shows the prompts, raw answers and cited URLs behind its numbers. A Skills Pack drafts llms.txt, schema markup and robots.txt suggestions for review before publishing.
Worth knowing
- Audits are counted per month rather than run as daily prompt tracking: 25 on Starter and 90 on Pro.
- Free covers GPT only, Starter adds Claude and only Pro adds Gemini; no plan lists Perplexity or Google AI Overviews.
- Models are queried through their APIs via a provider called KIE, which the methodology says may differ from the consumer chat apps.
- The terms say subscription charges are generally not refunded for a billing period already used.
Key features
- Full AI visibility audits
- Asks AI models 8 or 10 generated questions per audit and records mentions, recommendations, first-choice placement, owned citations and claim accuracy.
- Evidence in every report
- Each report shows the exact prompts, raw answers and cited URLs, and the methodology page publishes the weights behind the score.
- Site readiness checks
- A separate score from public-page checks on crawlability, factual clarity, support coverage, structured data, site architecture and trust signals.
- Skills Pack
- Drafts llms.txt, Schema.org JSON-LD, an experimental agent.json and robots.txt suggestions from facts you confirm, for manual review and deployment.
- Quick rechecks
- Re-runs a lighter check on a domain between full audits: once a day on Free, and without a daily cap on paid plans, with a same-domain cooldown.
- Free anonymous audit
- Without an account, up to 3 audits a day, 1 per domain, each asking GPT 5 questions, subject to daily capacity.
Skillaeo pricing
As of Oct 23, 2026, Skillaeo has a free plan, and paid plans start at $33.25 per month, billed annually ($39.90 billed monthly).
- Starts at
- $33.25 per month, billed annually ($39.90 billed monthly)
- Free plan
- Free account: 3 full audits a month of 8 prompts each on GPT, 1 quick recheck a day, a Skills Pack preview and 7 days of report history.
- Free trial
- None listed
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 3 full audits a month with 8 prompts each on GPT, 1 quick recheck a day and 7-day report history. |
| Starter | $33.25per month for 25 audits, billed annually ($39.90 billed monthly) | 10 prompts per audit across GPT and Claude, the full Skills Pack, quick rechecks without a daily cap, 90-day history and exports. $399 a year. |
| Pro | $83.25per month for 90 audits, billed annually ($99.90 billed monthly) | 10 prompts per audit across GPT, Claude and Gemini, the full Skills Pack, 365-day report history and exports. $999 a year. |
Read from skillaeo.com on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Skillaeo before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- Annual discountTwo months free with yearly billing
Skillaeo's pricing page bills Starter at $399 a year and Pro at $999 a year, described as 2 months free against monthly billing.
Stated on skillaeo.com
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Common questions
Does Skillaeo have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Skillaeo is listed for Web.
Does Skillaeo have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Skillaeo is listed for Web.
Is Skillaeo open source?
Skillaeo is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Oct 23, 2026.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026.