The ZipTie Insider’s Guide
Everything we know about ZipTie 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.
ZipTie
The Insider’s Guide
AI search visibility tracker priced per prompt and engine
Every plan, grade, refund rule and rival among AI search visibility tools, read from ZipTie’s own pages.
Made by ZipTie, Inc. · 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 ZipTie’s own pages, its app-store listings and our grades. Every fact in it is on ZipTie’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
2.6
GPA, above 146 of the 157 other AI search visibility tools we grade
ZipTie (styled ziptie.ai) tracks what seven AI search engines say about a brand, measuring citations, mentions and sentiment and rolling them into one score per prompt. An Action Center ranks the gaps to close, and fixes can be marked on the trend line. There are no fixed tiers: the price is built from the number of prompts, how often they run and how many engines check them.
To get you started, here are 9 things to know about ZipTie, taken from its own pages and our grades.
You choose prompts, cadences and engines per project in a calculator, and which engines run depends on the country.
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Best for AI tracking priced per prompt and engine
Unused time isn't refunded if you cancel mid-period.
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Paid plans start at $25.65 a month
As its pricing page puts it: $25.65 per month for 30 daily prompts on 3 engines, billed monthly.
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You can try it first
7-day free trial with 25 daily prompts on 3 engines, no card required
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It runs on Web
Web.
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Seven AI engines
Checks ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Microsoft Copilot, Bing AI Overview and Gemini, at the same price per engine.
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AI Success Score
Combines citation rate, mention rate and sentiment into a 0 to 100 score for each prompt and a trend line for the project.
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Daily, weekly or monthly checks
Cadence is set per project, so key prompts can run daily and long-tail prompts monthly from one shared pool.
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A 2.6 GPA, above 146 of 157
That is against the other AI search visibility tools we grade, on value, the free plan, features, ease of use and platforms.
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Keep it
The plain part of ZipTie you could make: reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 4 things listed below take a company, not a weekend.
ZipTie at a glance
- Pricing
- Free trial, from $25.65 per month for 30 daily prompts on 3 engines, billed monthly
- Free plan
- No
- Free trial
- 7-day free trial with 25 daily prompts on 3 engines, no card required
- Runs on
- Web
- Made by
- ZipTie, Inc.
- Category
- AI Search Visibility (AEO & GEO)
- Our grade
- 2.6 GPA, good
The report card
Best for AI tracking priced per prompt and engine
ZipTie has no fixed plans: you build your own from prompts, engines and how often they run, at about a cent a check, and the smallest preset is $25.65 a month for 30 daily prompts on three engines. But the API, MCP and content writing are paid add-ons, UGC analysis adds 80% to the cost, and the trial skips most engines. Unused time isn't refunded if you cancel mid-period.
| Subject | Grade | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | B | The Starter preset is $25.65 a month for 30 daily prompts on 3 engines, inside this category's cheapest quarter, which starts at $29. Yearly billing takes 20% off the prompt cost. The API and MCP are $10 a month extra. |
| Free plan and trial | C | No free plan, but a 7-day trial with 25 daily prompts and no card. It only covers ChatGPT, AI Overviews and Copilot, though. |
| Features | B | Seven engines, AI Mode, Gemini and Bing's AI Overview among them, at the same price each, a 0 to 100 score per prompt, daily to monthly checks, an Action Center, competitor ranking and organic results alongside. Nothing in the listing shows a gap in the core job. |
| Ease of use | C | No rating on record. You choose prompts, cadences and engines per project in a calculator, and which engines run depends on the country. |
| Platforms and integrations | B | Web only, with no desktop or phone app. Search Console connects, Excel exports and share links need no account, and the API and MCP are a $10 add-on. |
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 ZipTie is for
- Fits if you want to pay only for the prompts and engines you track
- Works for agencies that need white-label PDF reports on every plan
Who it is not for
- Tight if you want content written for you, as that's $20 a month per brand extra
- Skip it if you might cancel mid-period, since unused time isn't refunded
- Pricey if you want UGC Impact Analysis, which adds 80% to the prompt cost, or the API and MCP at $10 more
- Watch out: the trial covers only ChatGPT, AI Overviews and Copilot, and engines vary by country
Good to know
Good for
- Agencies with many clients: seats, projects and competitors are never charged
- Teams that want to pay only for the prompts and engines they choose
- Tracking a long tail of prompts cheaply on a monthly check
Worth knowing
- Add-ons cost extra: API and MCP access $10 a month, content generation $20 a month per brand context, and UGC Impact Analysis adds 80% to the prompt cost.
- The trial covers only ChatGPT, AI Overviews and Copilot; other engines need a paid plan.
- Cancelling takes effect at the end of the paid period, and unused time is not refunded.
- Which engines can run depends on the country chosen for each project.
Part 02 · Pricing
What it costs
Every plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
$25.65
A month to start
ZipTie is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $25.65 per month for 30 daily prompts on 3 engines, billed monthly.
It only covers ChatGPT, AI Overviews and Copilot, though.
Starter
$25.65
per month for 30 daily prompts on 3 engines, billed monthly
A starting preset on ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity. Every plan is built in a calculator at about $0.01 per prompt check.
Professional
$340.20
per month for 100 daily and 280 weekly prompts, billed monthly
A preset on 5 engines, adding AI Mode and Gemini, with the UGC Impact Analysis add-on switched on.
Enterprise
$1,647
per month for 300 daily, 1,050 weekly and 1,500 monthly prompts
The largest preset: all 7 engines with UGC Impact Analysis, billed monthly. Bigger volumes get a custom quote.
Trying it first
7-day free trial with 25 daily prompts on 3 engines, no card required
Read from ziptie.ai on Oct 23, 2026.
Ways to pay less
Annual discount
Save 20% with annual billing
ZipTie's calculator takes 20% off the prompt cost for annual billing, 10% for semi-annual and 5% for quarterly. Flat add-ons stay at full price.
Stated on ziptie.ai
Part 03 · Features
What it does
Its main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
1
Place it runs: Web
AI search visibility tracker priced per prompt and engine. Here is what it does, as its own site describes it, and what it covers: public API, reports, AI search visibility, content optimization.
Nothing in the listing shows a gap in the core job.
- Seven AI engines
- Checks ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Microsoft Copilot, Bing AI Overview and Gemini, at the same price per engine.
- AI Success Score
- Combines citation rate, mention rate and sentiment into a 0 to 100 score for each prompt and a trend line for the project.
- Daily, weekly or monthly checks
- Cadence is set per project, so key prompts can run daily and long-tail prompts monthly from one shared pool.
- Action Center
- A ranked queue of gaps per project, such as prompts where no engine names or cites the brand across several checks.
- Competitors and organic results
- Ranks the brands and domains AI answers name and cite, with Google and Bing organic results captured alongside at no extra cost.
- Client reports
- White-label PDF reports with an agency's logo, Excel exports and share links that need no account, on every plan.
Where it runs
- Web
What it works with
- Google Search Console
ZipTie is made by ZipTie, Inc.
Part 04 · Standing
Where it stands
Its grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
146/157
Other AI search visibility tools it is graded above
ZipTie's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 146 of the 157 other AI search visibility tools we grade, and level with 6.
It stands best on features (B, above 125 of 157) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $25.65 a month, against a middle price of $59 for the category: 20 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. ZipTie’s own letter is outlined.
- BValue for moneyAbove 120 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. ZipTie 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 ZipTie 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 2.6 is higher than 146 of the 157 other AI search visibility tools we grade. It costs $307.80 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, Google Search Console among them, and has an API.
- The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.
What this rests on. ZipTie’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, Profound, LLMrefs and Rankscale AI
The 5 tools ZipTie 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.
- ZipTie 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.
- ZipTie also covers content optimization.
- Otterly.AI also covers site audit.
- 2.2GPA
Profound
Free trial · from $99/mo
AI search visibility tracking with an AI marketing agent built in.
- ZipTie also covers reports.
- Profound also covers AI agents and web analytics.
- 2.2GPA
LLMrefs
Free trial · from $79/mo
Keyword-based AI search visibility tracker with one flat plan.
- ZipTie also covers content optimization.
- 3.0GPA
Rankscale AI
Free trial · from $17/mo
Credit-based AI visibility tracker covering 17+ AI engines.
- ZipTie 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
14
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 ZipTie free?
No, ZipTie is a paid product, but you can try it first. 7-day free trial with 25 daily prompts on 3 engines, no card required.
How much does ZipTie cost?
ZipTie lists 3 plans. Starter: $25.65 per month for 30 daily prompts on 3 engines, billed monthly.
What platforms does ZipTie work on?
ZipTie is available on Web.
Does ZipTie offer any discounts?
ZipTie publicly lists the following: Save 20% with annual billing.
Does ZipTie have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. ZipTie is listed for Web.
Does ZipTie have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. ZipTie is listed for Web.
Is ZipTie open source?
ZipTie is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Oct 23, 2026.
Does ZipTie have an API?
Yes. ZipTie offers a public API, according to its own site.
What does ZipTie integrate with?
ZipTie's listing names Google Search Console. A listing names up to eight integrations, so it may connect to more.
Who makes ZipTie?
ZipTie is made by ZipTie, Inc.
What are the alternatives to ZipTie?
The closest alternatives to ZipTie in our directory are Peec AI, Otterly.AI, Profound, LLMrefs and Rankscale AI.
How does ZipTie compare with other AI search visibility tools?
ZipTie's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 146 of the 157 other AI search visibility tools we grade, and level with 6.
Is ZipTie good value for money?
ToolGPA grades ZipTie B for value for money. Its paid plans start at $25.65 a month, against a middle price of $59 for the category: 20 of the 128 others that charge start lower.
Could I make my own version of ZipTie?
The plain part of ZipTie you could make: reports. What surrounds it you could not.
Where this guide comes from
The prices, plans, platforms and features were read from ZipTie’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 ZipTie'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 ZipTie, Inc. Prices change, so check ziptie.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
- ZipTie, kept up to dateEverything in this guide, with prices and grades as they are todaytoolgpa.com/tools/ziptie
- 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
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Choosing software? Every tool graded, every price dated.
Compare tools at toolgpa.com ›Everything in this guide is ToolGPA’s own summary of what ZipTie’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. ZipTie is a trademark of its owner, and this guide is not made, paid for or approved by ZipTie, Inc. Prices and plans change: check ziptie.ai before you buy.