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Surfer
SEO content platform whose AI Tracker monitors brand visibility across five AI engines.
- Best for
- Content and SEO teams who want AI visibility tracking wired directly into content optimization.
- Cheapest GEO-ready plan
- $82/mo billed annually
- Engines
- ChatGPT · Perplexity · Google AI Mode · Google AI Overviews · Gemini
Sign up yourself · Trial only
Loop coverage
Monitor
Yes
Diagnose
Yes
Recommend
Yes
Generate
Yes
Publish
Partial
Verify
Yes
Pricing verified on 2026-11-12. Features verified on 2026-11-10. Refresh cadence: daily.
Strengths
- Scrapes real AI interfaces instead of sanitized APIs
- One prompt tracked across all 5 models per credit
- Full SEO content suite bundled in
Watchouts
- Discovery tier tracks zero AI prompts and Standard tracks ChatGPT only — full 5-engine coverage starts at Pro ($182/mo)
- Listed prices require annual billing
Fit and access
Solo founder · Small team (2–10) · Marketing team · Enterprise · Agency · Sign up yourself
Also: Monitor, Diagnose
Pricing tiers
| Tier | Monthly eq. | Volume | Engines |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Search Analytics | $82$82/mo billed yearly | 50 prompts (daily refresh) | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Gemini |
| Discovery | $49$49/mo billed yearly | 0 AI prompts (no AI tracking) | Undisclosed |
| Standard | $99$99/mo billed yearly | 25 prompts (weekly refresh) | ChatGPT |
| Pro | $182$182/mo billed yearly | 50 prompts (daily refresh) | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Gemini |
| Peace of Mind | $299$299/mo billed yearly | 100 prompts (daily refresh) | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Gemini |
| Enterprise | UndisclosedCustom | custom prompt quota | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Gemini |
Data features
- Share of voice
- Yes
- Sentiment
- Yes
- Citation sources
- Yes
- Position in answer
- Yes
- Prompt-volume data
- Undisclosed
- Fanout queries
- Yes
- AI crawler/agent analytics
- Undisclosed
- Traffic/conversion attribution
- Undisclosed
- Hallucination detection
- Yes
- Persona breakdown
- Undisclosed
- Shopping visibility
- Undisclosed
- Multi-country
- Undisclosed
- Multi-language
- Yes
Action features and channels
- Recommendations
- Yes
- Content generation
- Yes
- Blog writing
- Yes
- Optimization scoring
- Yes
- Auto-publish
- Undisclosed
- Workflow builder
- Undisclosed
- Outreach drafts
- Undisclosed
- Undisclosed
- Quora
- Undisclosed
- YouTube
- Undisclosed
- Connects to AI agents
- Undisclosed
Integrations, compliance, methodology
- WordPress
- Yes
- Webflow
- Undisclosed
- GA4
- Undisclosed
- Google Search Console
- Undisclosed
- Slack
- Undisclosed
- API
- Yes
- MCP
- Yes
White-label: Yes. Classic SEO suite: Yes. Methodology: real user-facing answers.
SOC 2: No. HIPAA: No. GDPR: No.
Compare head-to-head
- Surfer vs Frase — verified entry prices, engines and watchouts on both sides.
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Changelog
- 2026-11-12 Re-verified 2026-11-12 on the rendered surfer.ai/pricing page (pixels read): Discovery $49, AI Search Analytics $82, Standard $99, Pro $182, Peace of Mind $299 per month billed yearly, unchanged. Probe DRIFT was a false positive: surferseo.com now redirects to surfer.ai and savings/document amounts on the redirect page confused the fetch; probe source URL updated.
- 2026-11-10 Re-verified 2026-11-10 on the rendered pricing page (screenshot read): AI Search Analytics $82, Discovery $49, Standard $99, Pro $182, Peace of Mind $299 per month billed yearly, Enterprise custom - all unchanged; probe DRIFT was savings figures again. Features re-checked on the plan cards and comparison table: tracked engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Gemini), prompt volumes and refresh cadences, Mention Gap and Brand Sentiments, integrations, API and MCP access confirmed.
- 2026-11-08 Re-confirmed 8 Nov on rendered surferseo.com/pricing (screenshot read): AI Search Analytics $82, Discovery $49, Standard $99, Pro $182, Peace of Mind $299 per month billed yearly, Enterprise custom. Probe DRIFT was noise.
- 2026-11-06 Re-verified on surferseo.com/pricing (rendered): all five plan prices confirmed unchanged ($49-$299/mo billed yearly). The daily probe flagged DRIFT on savings figures and prompt counts, not prices.
- 2026-11-02 Re-verified on surferseo.com/pricing: Discovery $49, AI Search Analytics $82, Standard $99, Pro $182, Peace of Mind $299 (all billed yearly) confirmed.
- 2026-08 Surfer MCP (Beta): exposes Surfer's tools to MCP-compatible AI agents
- 2026-01 AI Tracker gains Fan-out Queries (Beta), Mention Gap, Sentiment Analysis and Gemini