Comparison
AthenaHQ vs GetRanked AI
One is an enterprise platform for AI search visibility across brands and markets. The other tells you whether AI recommends your business and runs competitor intelligence on the rivals taking your answers, without you naming one first.
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The thirty-second verdict
AthenaHQ or GetRanked AI?
AthenaHQ covers the full monitor, understand, act and measure loop coherently, across the brands you configure. GetRanked AI starts from your business instead: do the assistants recommend you, and which rivals took the answers? Competitor intelligence is built into it and the GetRanked Algo produces all of it from the answers themselves: Competitor Capture names the businesses recommended in your place, Competitor Radar builds a dossier on each one covering what they appear to do better and how you compete, and Decision Trace prints the reason each assistant gave with the sources it leaned on. You never list a rival first, which is why the ones you were not already watching are the ones it finds. It runs per website with no cap on how many, and team and agency plans carry multiple client sites and seats, so a portfolio is not a reason to choose between them.
Where AthenaHQ is stronger
AthenaHQ covers the full monitor, understand, act and measure loop, and presents it coherently.
That structure suits a team who want tracking and recommended actions in one platform.
Where GetRanked AI is different
Its loop begins with the prompts you configure. GetRanked AI begins with your business and returns a recommendation verdict you can act on without configuring anything.
It also names the businesses the assistants recommended instead, with the reason each one gave and the sources behind it, and it does that across as many websites as you run.
AthenaHQ can run the ongoing programme for a large team. GetRanked AI gives an owner-level check on whether a buyer asking AI gets your name.
If you already pay for it
Already use AthenaHQ? Don't replace it.
If you already run AthenaHQ, GetRanked AI is a business-level second opinion on the outcome rather than a competing tracker.
Two different measurements
Search visibility and AI recommendation visibility are not the same reading. A business can climb the rankings and still not be the name an assistant gives a buyer who asks who to use.
Measure first, then decide
You do not have to choose a platform today. Run the free scan, see whether the assistants recommend your business, and let that decide what else you actually need.
The half most tools leave to you
It also tells you who is taking the answers
Every product on this page can report on competitors you name. AthenaHQ included. The difference is where the list comes from: GetRanked AI reads the businesses the assistants actually put forward for your buyers' questions, so the rivals you were not already watching are the ones it finds.
Competitor Capture
The businesses the assistants recommended in your place, question by question. You do not name them in advance, which is how the unfamiliar ones surface.
Competitor Radar
A dossier on each rival the assistants put forward: what they appear to do better, and how you compete with them.
Decision Trace
The reason each assistant gave, in its own words, for recommending whoever it recommended.
Source Authority Map
Which sources the assistants cited, how often, whom those sources favour, and whether your business appears in them at all.
Recommendation Delta
Staying ahead is the ongoing half. Tracked competitors are re-read on the ongoing plans, and Recommendation Delta measures which answers you gained and which you lost between two comparable readings, so you can see whether the gap to the businesses AI names is widening or closing rather than guessing at it.
The first four are in the Professional AI Report, produced by the GetRanked Algo from the answers themselves. Recommendation Delta needs two comparable readings, so it belongs to the ongoing plans, which are listed on the pricing page and are not open for self-serve purchase yet. None of it is surveillance of a rival’s website: there are no alerts when a competitor edits a page, no advertising or social listening, and each plan covers a set number of tracked competitors.
Different jobs
Two tools, two questions
AthenaHQ is built to help enterprise teams measure AI search visibility and turn the gaps into governed action across content, PR and commerce. GetRanked AI answers one question: when a customer asks an AI assistant, does it recommend you?
How AthenaHQ works
- Track prompts across the selected AI models and markets, reading visibility, mentions, citations, sentiment and competitive movement
- Trace each result back to the sources, claims, content gaps and technical factors shaping how AI represents the brand
- Rank the opportunities, then route each prioritised gap into a content, outreach or commerce workflow
- Move the asset from draft to review and measurement, with usage metered as one credit per AI response
How GetRanked AI works
- Enter your website. That is the whole set-up.
- Leading AI assistants are measured on the moments prospective customers look for a business like yours.
- You see your AI Trust Score, the Recommendation Gap and who captured the answer.
- You get a prioritised list of fixes in plain English.
The buying question
Which one is built around the AI recommendation outcome?
Every row below is part of one question: when a prospective customer asks an assistant who to choose, does the product tell you what happened to your business? Read against the AthenaHQ pages listed at the foot of this page.
| Capability | AthenaHQ | GetRanked AI |
|---|---|---|
| Tells you whether AI recommends your business | PartialMonitors how a brand appears across AI answers and reports movement over time. | YesThe single thing it is built to report: whether the assistants put your business forward when a buyer is choosing. |
| Starts from your business, not a prompt project you build | Different focusPrompts and competitors are configured as part of set-up. | YesYou enter your website. There is nothing to design and no project to configure first. |
| Shows the Recommendation Gap | PartialThe platform page shows a visibility gap measured against a category leader, framed as visibility rather than a per-business recommendation gap. | YesShows the buying questions where your business could reasonably be named and is not. |
| Identifies Competitor Capture | PartialCompetitive Intelligence is described as seeing who influences answers and why, at brand and source level. | YesNames the businesses the assistants recommended in your place, question by question. |
| Finds competitors from the answers themselves | PartialCompetitive monitoring covers the brands configured. | YesCompetitors surface from the answers themselves, so you find the ones you were not already tracking. |
| Reports Evidence Coverage behind the result | PartialSource Intelligence reveals the sources shaping answers and Brand Integrity flags inaccurate claims and inaccessible pages. | YesReports the observable evidence around each result, including what the assistants could not find about you. |
| Says what deserves attention first | YesOpportunity Prioritization ranks actions and the Action Center routes them into workflows. | YesAn ordered list of what to change, led by what moves the most buying questions. |
| Gives a plain-English verdict, not only analytics | PartialMonitoring output with recommended actions attached. | YesWritten for a business owner to act on, not a dashboard to interpret. |
| Learn something before committing to a subscription | Not publicly advertisedA self-serve free reading is not advertised on the pages checked. | YesA free scan returns a real reading of your own business before you pay for anything. |
- Primary purpose
- AthenaHQMeasure AI search visibility for enterprise teams and turn the insights into governed action.
- GetRanked AITell one business whether AI assistants recommend it to buyers, and what to fix first.
- Best suited for
- AthenaHQEnterprise marketing, PR and content teams, and agencies managing several brands.
- GetRanked AIBusiness owners and marketing leads who want a clear answer on AI recommendations.
- Pricing model
- AthenaHQA free tier, a monthly or annual Starter subscription metered in credits, and a quote-based Enterprise tier.
- GetRanked AIA free scan, then a one-off report for one website. Prices are on the pricing page.
Everything else
Broader platform capabilities
This is where AthenaHQ is broader, shown in full. Broader does not mean better for every job: GetRanked AI deliberately does not recreate an SEO suite, because the recommendation outcome above is a different measurement and it is the one it is built to produce.
| Capability | AthenaHQ | GetRanked AI |
|---|---|---|
| Traditional SEO suite | Different focusContent creation, crawlability checks and commerce optimisation are aimed at AI answers, not a rank tracking or site audit suite. | Different focusNot an SEO suite. It measures the recommendation, not the ranking. |
| Keyword research | Different focusWorks at prompt level through Prompt and Demand Intelligence rather than keyword research. | Different focusNo keyword tool. Coverage starts from your business, not a term you enter. |
| Backlink database | Different focusCitation Outreach targets the sources shaping AI recommendations rather than analysing a backlink profile. | Different focusNo backlink index. Evidence Coverage reports what the assistants actually reached instead. |
| Content production and optimisation | PartialSome briefs or recommendations are produced; a full content suite is not what the pages describe. | Different focusIt does not write or optimise pages. It tells you which buying questions a page would need to win. |
| Technical site auditing | PartialCrawlability and bot-access checks appear; a full technical SEO crawler is not described. | Different focusNo crawler or site audit. Reachability appears only where it affected an answer. |
| Multi-client and multi-site dashboards | PartialWorkspaces or seats are advertised on higher plans. | YesMultiple client websites and seats sit on one account, ten of each on Professional and unlimited on Enterprise, and a report can be run per client site with no cap on how many. |
| Enterprise integrations | PartialAPIs or exports are advertised on higher plans. | Different focusNo data warehouse or BI connectors. The report is the deliverable. |
| Large-scale prompt management | YesManaging and tracking a prompt set is the core of the product. | Different focusNothing to build or maintain. Coverage is derived from your business and what it sells. |
A missing public fact is written as “not publicly advertised”, never as a “no”. Where a product does something well, this table says so.
Where AthenaHQ is strong
What AthenaHQ does well
A fair comparison starts with the other side. These are taken from AthenaHQ's own pages.
Broad model coverage stated
The homepage names eleven AI platforms including ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI and Mistral, and the Starter plan advertises visibility across ten models.
A full loop from monitoring to action
The platform page describes the work as Monitor, Understand, Act, Measure, with an Action Center for content creation, citation outreach and commerce optimisation, and assets moving from draft to review and measurement.
A free tier to start on
The Essential plan is free, includes a credit allowance and unlimited members, and lists prompt and response analysis, sources and competitor insights and content recommendations.
Enterprise controls
SAML and OIDC single sign-on, an audit log, multi-region and multi-language support, and SOC 2 Type I and II, GDPR and NIST CSF Tier 3 are stated on the pricing and enterprise pages.
An agency programme
The agency page describes centralised management of several brands with team permissions and a Google Analytics integration, pitch-ready workspaces, GEO certification and partner tiers by brand count.
Where GetRanked AI differs
Built for the moment a buyer asks AI
AI Recommendation Intelligence: not how visible a brand is, but whether the assistant recommends your business when it matters.
Built for one business, not a programme
GetRanked AI starts from your business and measures how leading AI assistants respond when prospective customers are looking for what you sell. There are no prompts to curate, no credits to budget and no team workflow to set up.
A verdict, not a dashboard
You get an AI Trust Score and a plain-English answer on whether AI assistants recommend you, written for an owner rather than an analyst or an executive dashboard.
Competitor Capture names who took the answer
The report names the businesses the assistants recommend instead of you when customers are looking for options, so you see the capture without setting up competitive tracking.
Evidence Coverage shows why the answer went elsewhere
The report sets out what the assistants could and could not find about your business, so the fixes target the evidence behind the answer instead of a citation gap in a dashboard.
A free scan and one report, no credits
You can see your first result for free and buy the full report once. AthenaHQ sells a free tier, a credit-metered Starter plan and a quote-based Enterprise tier.
The signature moment
What happens when a customer asks AI?
This is the Recommendation Surface: the short list an assistant gives a buyer who is ready to choose. It is where the two products look at the same moment through different lenses.
- 1Ledgerline Payroll
- 2Northgate People Systems
- ?Your business
Illustrative. The businesses are invented and real answers vary by assistant, place and day.
Through AthenaHQ
AthenaHQ can track a prompt like this across the models on your plan and show presence, citations, sentiment and which sources shaped the answer.
Through GetRanked AI
GetRanked AI shows whether your software is named in an answer like this, which payroll products captured it instead, and what evidence about you the assistant was missing.
Nobody can guarantee what a model will say. What you can do is find out what it says today, see who it names instead of you, and fix the evidence behind the answer.
Who should use which
Match the tool to the job
A business that does not know who its AI competitors are
GetRanked AI. Every other product here reports on rivals you name first, so the ones you are not already watching stay invisible. Competitor Capture reads who the assistants actually put forward, Competitor Radar profiles each, and Decision Trace prints why.
A local business owner with no marketing team
GetRanked AI. One scan, one AI Trust Score, and prioritised fixes in plain English, with no credits or workflows to manage.
A founder checking a new service before spending on it
GetRanked AI. Find out where the new service stands with the assistants, who they recommend instead, and what evidence they could not find, without a credit budget.
An enterprise team tracking several brands across markets
AthenaHQ covers brands and markets in one platform. GetRanked AI reads the recommendation for each brand you run and names who is taking it, across multiple client websites and seats on one account.
An agency pitching AI visibility to prospects
AthenaHQ for enterprise brand and market tracking. GetRanked AI for the recommendation verdict per brand, with the rivals discovered from the answers, across multiple sites and seats.
A marketing lead who already runs AthenaHQ
Both. Keep AthenaHQ for the team programme and use GetRanked AI for an owner-level check on the recommendation moment for one business.
Pricing and value
What each one costs
AthenaHQ prices as shown on its site in September 2026. GetRanked AI prices come from the same source as our pricing page.
AthenaHQ
- EssentialUnlimited members, prompt and response analysis, sources and competitor insights, content recommendations and the Athena AI agent, across five models.free; includes 300 credits$0 per month
- Starter3,600 credits, visibility across ten models, on-page and off-page actions, a content optimisation agent, integrations and CSV export. API access and extra credits are paid add-ons.monthly billing; an annual toggle advertised 17 percent off but no annual figure was shown$295 per month
- EnterpriseCustom credits, contact sales. Knowledge base and claim review, discrepancy detection, citation and recommendation engines, SSO, audit log, multi-region and multi-language support, executive dashboard.Quote-based
Pricing is credit based, where one credit is one AI response. The Starter plan has a monthly or annual billing toggle. The agency page lists Bronze, Silver and Gold partner tiers by number of brands with discounted licences but no prices.
AI search visibility is the whole product, so every plan is AI visibility. Usage is metered in credits, with 300 on Essential, 3,600 on Starter and a custom amount on Enterprise. Extra credits and API access are paid add-ons on Starter.
Pricing checked September 2026. Prices change; confirm on AthenaHQ’s site before buying.
GetRanked AI
- Free scanSee where you stand.Find out whether AI recommends your business, and who it recommends instead.$0
- Professional AI ReportGet the full picture.See your Recommendation Gap, Competitor Capture, Evidence Coverage and the priority actions that matter most.$129 one-off
- MonitoringStay on top of your AI visibility.Track your business, watch key competitors and see when your position starts to change.1 business · 1 seat · 3 competitors tracked$189 per month
- GrowthTurn insight into ongoing improvement.Track more of the competitive landscape and uncover more opportunities to strengthen your AI recommendations.1 business · 1 seat · 10 competitors tracked$319 per month
- ProfessionalFor businesses serious about winning more AI recommendations.Get broader competitive intelligence, more users and deeper coverage across the areas that matter most.10 businesses · 10 seats · 25 competitors tracked$499 per month
- EnterpriseAI Recommendation Intelligence at organisational scale.Built for larger businesses that need wider coverage, more users and a tailored setup.Unlimited businesses · unlimited seats · unlimited competitors trackedfrom $1,249 per month
Save two months with annual billing. Pay annually on any monthly plan and you’ll pay for 10 months instead of 12. Optional add-ons are available on top. Full detail is on the pricing page.
Start today without a subscription. Run the free scan or buy the full Professional AI Report for $129. Monthly plans are currently available by arrangement while self-serve signup is being switched on.
Questions
AthenaHQ vs GetRanked AI, answered
Is GetRanked AI a replacement for AthenaHQ?
No. AthenaHQ is an enterprise platform for measuring AI visibility across brands and markets and running governed content, outreach and commerce workflows. GetRanked AI reports on one business: whether AI assistants recommend it, who they recommend instead, and what to fix first.
What does AthenaHQ measure?
According to its platform page, it measures presence, mentions, citations, sentiment and competitive movement across the AI models on your plan, then traces each result back to the sources, claims and technical factors shaping the answer.
How does AthenaHQ pricing work?
It is credit based, with one credit equal to one AI response. The free Essential plan includes 300 credits, Starter includes 3,600 credits a month with extra credits and API access sold as add-ons, and Enterprise is custom.
Which is cheaper?
It depends on how you would use them. AthenaHQ has a free tier, then a monthly Starter plan metered in credits. GetRanked AI has a free scan and a one-off report with nothing recurring, so the comparison rests on how long you would keep a Starter plan running.
Do I need to know my competitors before I start?
With GetRanked AI, no. The report names the businesses the assistants recommend instead of you. AthenaHQ describes competitor insights and competitive movement as part of its monitoring; how competitors are chosen was not stated on the pages checked.
Does either tool guarantee AI will recommend me?
No. Nobody can guarantee what a model will say. Both tools measure and report, and AthenaHQ adds workflows to act on the gaps, but earning the recommendation is still work you have to do.
Can I use both?
Yes. AthenaHQ suits a team running an ongoing programme across brands and markets. GetRanked AI gives an owner a clear read on the recommendation moment for one business, which can sit alongside that programme.
How current is this comparison?
The AthenaHQ pages were read on the date shown at the top of this page and the pricing was checked in the month shown. Plans and prices change; check AthenaHQ directly before buying.
Sources and dates
AthenaHQ facts on this page were read from the following AthenaHQ pages on 4 September 2026. Where a capability is marked not publicly advertised, it was not found on these pages.
- Homepage: https://www.athenahq.ai/
- Pricing page: https://www.athenahq.ai/pricing
- Plans page (same cards as pricing): https://www.athenahq.ai/plans
- Platform page: https://www.athenahq.ai/platform
- Agency page: https://www.athenahq.ai/agency
- Enterprise page: https://www.athenahq.ai/enterprise
- Case studies index: https://www.athenahq.ai/case-studies
AthenaHQ is a trademark of its owner. GetRanked AI is not affiliated with or endorsed by AthenaHQ.
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