# Spotaq review (2026): is the free plan enough? > AI visibility checker with a free scan, PDF audits and weekly tracking Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 24, 2026 by ToolGPA. Spotaq checks whether ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google-grounded AI recommend a brand for buyer questions in its category, or name competitors instead, and turns the result into a 0 to 100 score. Each run lists the missed prompts, the pages the answers cite and a fix pack of copy and schema suggestions. A free scan needs no signup; paid options add a one-time PDF audit or weekly monitoring. - **Category:** AI Search Visibility (AEO & GEO) - **Made by:** Spotaq - **Website:** https://www.spotaq.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want to track your own prompts, as it uses a curated set built around buyer intents. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, Spotaq has a free plan, and paid plans start at $19 one-time for a single-domain audit PDF. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Free instant scan with no signup or email: the SpotAQ score, which engines mention you and which competitors AI recommended instead. No saved history. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free scan | $0 | An instant scorecard for any site, run from the homepage with no account, using the same engines and scoring as the paid plans. | | Audit | $19 one-time, for 1 domain | One full benchmark with every prompt, answer and citation, a scored Missed Prompts report and a fix pack, as a shareable PDF. | | Monitor | $49 per month for 1 domain, billed monthly | The audit re-run weekly (up to 6 runs a month) with score history, competitor tracking, a weekly email digest and alerts. | | Pro | $149 per month for up to 5 domains, billed monthly | 30 runs a month shared across domains, 4 extended checks of up to 14 questions, 1,000 quick re-checks and 3 named competitors per domain. | Read from https://www.spotaq.com/pricing on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Spotaq before buying. ## Key features - **SpotAQ score:** A 0 to 100 score averaged across the prompts in a check, built from mention rate, sentiment, which sites are cited and whether Google grounding finds your site. - **Missed Prompts report:** Lists the buyer questions where AI named a competitor instead of you, with an opportunity score and a suggested next move for each. - **Fix pack:** Copy-ready positioning rewrites and JSON-LD schema suggestions, drawn from the AI answers already collected for the run. - **Citation chain:** Shows whether answers drew on your own site, review sites, directories or third-party articles, prompt by prompt. - **Weekly monitoring:** Monitor and Pro keep score history, compute changes between runs, track when competitors appear or drop off and email a weekly digest. ## Good for - Founders who want a quick, free look at whether AI recommends their product - Teams wanting a cheap one-off audit PDF to share internally or with clients - Checking an agency's or GEO tool's results against an independent measure ## Worth knowing - Prompts are a curated set built around buyer intents, not a list you write yourself; Pro adds pricing and category-leader questions. - The pricing page names ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google-grounded AI; the homepage also shows Claude and Gemini without saying which plans check them. - Monitor covers one domain; tracking more brands means Pro, which caps runs at 30 a month across 5 domains. - There is no yearly discount yet; plans are month to month, and paying for a year is arranged by email. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 24, 2026. Spotaq checks whether ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google-grounded AI recommend you for buyer questions in your category, scores it 0 to 100 and lists the prompts where a rival got named instead. The free scan needs no signup, and a full audit PDF is $19 once. But the prompts are a set it picks, not ones you write, it's unclear which plans check Claude and Gemini, and weekly tracking covers one domain for $49 a month. - **Value for money: B.** A full audit PDF is $19 once, so even one a month stays inside this category's cheaper quarter, which starts at $29. Weekly monitoring of one domain is $49 a month, the category's middle, and Pro is $149 for 5. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A free scan from the home page with no signup or email, on the same engines and scoring as the paid plans. It's a snapshot, though: no saved history, and the full answers and fix pack are paid. - **Features: C.** A 0 to 100 score, a Missed Prompts report, the sites each answer drew on and a fix pack of copy and schema. The gaps are in the listing: you can't write your own prompts, and which plans check Claude and Gemini isn't stated. - **Ease of use: B.** No rating on record, but there's nothing to set up: the prompts are a curated set, and the free scan runs from the home page with no account. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with no desktop or phone app and no integrations or API listed. Results go out as a PDF and a weekly email. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Spotaq'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 - Spotaq'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 ease of use (B, above 146 of 157) and worst on platforms and integrations (C, above 0). 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 Spotaq you could make: schema markup and reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 1 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 $19, paid once. - You could make: Schema markup and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: The same prompts asked of ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI answers every day, and the answers kept. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** AI search visibility, Schema markup, Reports ## Alternatives - [Am I On AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/am-i-on-ai): ChatGPT and AI Overview visibility tracker with weekly action plans. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/am-i-on-ai-vs-spotaq) - [Otterly.AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/otterly-ai): Daily brand and citation tracking across AI search engines. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/otterly-ai-vs-spotaq) - [LLMrefs](https://toolgpa.com/tools/llmrefs): Keyword-based AI search visibility tracker with one flat plan. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/llmrefs-vs-spotaq) - [Peec AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/peec-ai): AI search analytics that tracks brand prompts across AI models. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/peec-ai-vs-spotaq) - [Rankscale AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/rankscale-ai): Credit-based AI visibility tracker covering 17+ AI engines. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/rankscale-ai-vs-spotaq) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://www.spotaq.com/pricing - https://www.spotaq.com/ - https://www.spotaq.com/methodology Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/spotaq Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).