AthenaHQ: price, engines and features.
AthenaHQ is a specialist AI search tracker. Its entry plan, Essential, is free and covers 5 AI engines.
- Entry price
- Free Essential plan
- Engines
- 5 on the entry plan
- Prompts
- Credits usage is billed in credits
- Checks
- Credits
Who it suits
Teams that want a free credit-based entry point and action or content-optimization workflows.
The trade-off
Prompt capacity is expressed as response credits, and Starter API access is a separately priced add-on.
5 engines on the entry plan.
AthenaHQ names ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot on Essential. AI Mode, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek and Meta AI need a higher plan.
ChatGPT Entry plan 
Google AI Overviews Entry plan Google AI Mode Higher plan 
Gemini Entry plan 
Perplexity Entry plan 
Claude Higher plan 
Microsoft Copilot Entry plan 
Grok Higher plan 
DeepSeek Higher plan 
Meta AI Higher plan 3 public plans.
Prices, usage, engines and seats as AthenaHQ lists them. Where it doesn’t say, neither do we.
| Plan | Price | Usage | Engines | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EssentialEntry plan | $0/mo | 300 responses | 5 engines | Unlimited members |
| Starter | $295/mo or $245/mo yearly | 3,600 responses | 11 engines | Unlimited members |
| Enterprise | Custom quote | Not publicly stated for this plan | 11 engines | Custom access controls with RBAC |
What it includes.
Across all of AthenaHQ’s public plans. “Higher plans” means not on the entry plan; “Not public” means the vendor doesn’t say.
- Citation tracking
- YesSources, competitor insights, and citation intelligence are listed
- Competitor tracking
- Yes
- Page-level fixes
- YesAction Center and content-optimization workflows are published
- AI crawler data
- Not publicCrawler access controls are listed, not crawler traffic analytics
- Reddit or community monitoring
- Not public
- Shareable reports
- Yes
- Data exports
- YesCSV export is listed on Starter
- API
- Add-on
- MCP access
- Not public
- Agency support
- YesAgency Pitch Workspace and multi-brand workflows are published
- White-label reports
- Not public
- SSO
- Higher plans
- Free trial
- Not public
- Free plan
- YesEssential includes 300 credits
Three alternatives.
The highest-ranked tools on the same published rubric, other than AthenaHQ.
Trakkr $100/mo for 8 engines, checked daily. Teams that want eight engines, citations, perception, Reddit monitoring, crawler data, and agency delivery in one product.
Ranked 2nd, 73.5
LLMrefs $79/mo for 8 engines, checked weekly. SEO teams that want a simple $79 plan with a large prompt allowance.
Ranked 3rd, 71.3
SE Visible by SE Ranking $99/mo for 5 engines, checked daily. Teams that want a dedicated AI visibility workspace with a clear path into a wider SEO suite and API dataset.
Sources.
- AthenaHQ plans and pricingChecked 1 October 2026
- AthenaHQ for agenciesChecked 1 October 2026
- AthenaHQ trust centreChecked 18 August 2026
Scores out of 100: engines on the entry plan (30), features beyond mention counts (35), a public price and free trial (15), daily checks (10) and entry price (10). Facts come from each vendor’s pricing and product pages, last checked 5 October 2026; anything not public scores zero. This site uses data from Trakkr, which is one of the tools ranked. How we rank
See how the top-ranked tracker compares.
Trakkr checks eight AI engines every day, shows the pages they cite and tells you what to fix. $100 a month after a 14-day free trial.