Otterly is the cheapest way in. SKYA gives more prompts for the money.
Otterly AI is a low-cost AI search monitor: $29 a month for 15 prompts on ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Copilot, with page audits and recommendations. SKYA costs more to start, $59 a month, and gives more for it: 50 prompts, competitor intelligence, 4 specialist agents including a Hallucination Audit, and one-click technical fixes on WordPress.
Otterly is the cheapest way in at $29. Past 15 prompts, SKYA gives more prompts and more AI platforms for the money, and installs the fixes it finds.
Otterly AI's position: Low-cost AI search monitor. Lite $29, Standard $189 and Premium $489 a month for 15, 100 and 400 prompts, on four engines with three more as paid add-ons. Includes GEO page audits, recommendations and brand reports.
| Capability | SKYA | Otterly AI |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | $59 a month (Starter: 4 AI platforms, 50 tracked prompts) | $29 per month (Lite: 4 engines, 15 prompts) |
| Tracked prompts on the first paid plan | 50 on Starter ($59) | 15 on Lite ($29); 100 on Standard ($189) |
| Free trial | 7 days, no credit card | 7-day free trial for new users, no credit card |
| AI platforms tracked | Up to 9 (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overview, Google AI Mode, DeepSeek, Grok, Copilot). 4 on Starter, 7 on Agency, all 9 on Brand Pro at $199 and Agency Pro at $649 | Otterly: 4 on every plan (ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot); Claude, Google AI Mode and Gemini as paid add-ons |
| Specialist agents | 4 specialist agents (On-Page Audit, Keyword Gap Analysis, Hallucination Audit, Brand Sentiment (Reputation)), on top of AI Visibility and Competitors' Intelligence as core features with their own menus | Monitoring, GEO page audits and recommendations |
| Hallucination audit | Included on every paid plan: 3 to 7 chat assistants by plan, each claim checked against your facts | Not listed on their site |
| Competitor tracking | Rivals detected for you, with their Google Top 100 keywords beside their AI share of voice | Your brand against your top 5 competitors in brand reports |
| Page audits | On-Page agent with a fix written for every finding | GEO URL audits: 1,000 a month on Lite, crawlability and content checks |
| Client-ready reports | Day 0 baseline and monthly client reports free on every paid plan, custom reports, PDF and Word exports with your logo and no-login share links; a client portal with client logins on Agency and Agency Pro | Unlimited brand reports; Looker Studio connector and API from Standard |
| Publish drafts and fixes to your site | One-click install on WordPress, head fixes through the SKYA apps for Shopify and Webflow, drafts into all three and eight headless stacks, seven of them in beta | GEO page audits and recommendations; publishing to a CMS not listed |
| Prompt volume in your market, ICP and intent filters | Search demand scored 1 to 5 per tracked prompt, in the country you track, with persona and intent filters | Not listed on their feature page |
| Citation freshness and hidden sub-queries | Cited pages dated; the searches behind each answer recorded | Not listed on their feature page |
| Topic clusters and prompt tags | Topic clusters with suggested topics, and intent, buyer stage, persona and branded or comparison tags on every prompt | Not listed; an AI prompt research tool on every plan (checked 15 October 2026) |
| AI crawler visits and AI referrals | AI crawler visits by page, on every plan, from your Cloudflare, the SKYA Helper for WordPress, a webhook with snippets for Vercel, Akamai and your own server, or a log upload (CloudFront and Google Cloud CDN included), plus an AI referral snippet; for any other host, SKYA Edge at $15 a project a month | Agent Analytics, 200,000 events a month; what it records is not stated (checked 15 October 2026) |
| Ads in AI answers | Ads in ChatGPT answers: the prompts that carry them, the share of answers with ads, and which advertisers appear, you and tracked rivals marked | ChatGPT Ads Tracking listed (checked 15 October 2026) |
| Honesty rules | Refund when nothing measured; scores withheld below the evidence floor | Not listed on their feature page |
| Meta Ads Hub | Included: creative lab, fatigue read, fixes with copy and image briefs | Not listed on their feature page |
| Google Reviews | Free on every plan: request links, QR codes, private feedback, what AI platforms say about your reputation | Not listed on their feature page |
| Reddit Visibility | Included from Agency and on Brand Pro: cited threads, who is named, the gaps | Not listed on their feature page |
| AI Shopping (AI shopping shelf) | Add-on from $29: product visibility, position and win rate against rival products on ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Gemini and Copilot, with price, stock and dead link alerts | Not listed on their feature page |
| Seats | Unlimited on every plan | Unlimited team members on every plan (checked 15 October 2026) |
A tick marks the side that leads on that row. No tick means the two are even, or not directly comparable. Otterly AI facts checked on 25 September 2026 against otterly.ai/pricing and otterly.ai. A cell that carries its own date was read again on that date.
An honest, feature-level breakdown of both platforms across the pillars that actually move the needle for answer engine optimization.
Otterly's Lite plan is $29 a month and SKYA Starter is $59, so Otterly is cheaper to start. What SKYA's extra $30 buys is 50 prompts to Lite's 15, competitor intelligence, four specialist agents, hallucination checks and one-click fixes on 4 core AI platforms.
Otterly audits your pages and recommends changes. SKYA does that too, then writes the exact schema block or FAQ answer and installs it on WordPress in one click, or sends it as a draft to your CMS.
SKYA runs from Starter (50 tracked prompts, $59) through Brand Pro (150, $199) and Agency (250, $239) to Agency Pro (650, $649). Otterly runs from Lite (15, $29) through Standard (100, $189) to Premium (400, $489). SKYA Starter carries 50 prompts for $59; Otterly's first plan above 15 prompts is Standard, 100 for $189. Past that the plans do not line up one to one: Otterly Premium carries 400 for $489, SKYA Agency 250 for $239.
Otterly reads four engines on every plan and sells Claude, Google AI Mode and Gemini as add-ons. SKYA reads 4 on Starter and all 9 on Brand Pro at $199, each one in the plan price; a smaller plan can add one to a single project from $1 per 50 prompts a month.
Every SKYA finding ends in something you can ship. The nine readiness checks each generate their fix; schema, meta tags, sitemap, robots and llms.txt install on WordPress in one click; Shopify takes schema, meta description, Open Graph and llms.txt through the SKYA app, and Webflow takes page titles, meta descriptions and Open Graph after you approve them; and any draft the Content Engine or the action plan writes carries a Publish to site button that creates an unpublished post or page in your own editor, on WordPress, Shopify, Webflow and Framer, and in beta on Ghost, Strapi, Directus, Payload, Sanity, Drupal and Adobe Experience Manager. Otterly AI: geo page audits and recommendations; publishing to a cms not listed.
A SKYA audit that measured nothing is marked failed and refunds its credit; a reputation dimension without enough independent sources says Not scored instead of printing a number; every hallucination finding is checked against your own facts before it is called false; and the Reddit and citation counts are stored answers, never a rank. That is the difference between a dashboard you can put in front of a client and one you have to explain.
The Meta Ads Hub is included on every SKYA plan, Reddit Visibility (the threads AI cites and where a rival is named instead of you) is included from the Agency plan onwards and in Brand Pro, AI Shopping (your products inside AI shopping answers) is an add-on beside any plan, and Google Reviews (request links, QR codes, private feedback from unhappy customers, what AI platforms say about your reputation) is free on every plan. Otterly AI: none of these are listed on their feature page.
SKYA Starter is $59 for 50 prompts against Otterly's $29 for 15, and covers 4 core platforms with competitor intelligence, 4 agents, hallucination defense and Fix Now. Brand Pro at $199 adds the remaining 5 platforms.
You do not need to add competitor tracking, on-page audit and hallucination monitoring as separate subscriptions later.
Multi-brand workspaces and no-login client share links are baked in. PDF and Word exports carry your logo and brand colour.
Nothing SKYA generates stays trapped in the tool. Copy it, or send it to your site as a draft and finish it in the editor you already use.
Visibility, fixes, content, ads, reviews and Reddit for every client, with seats and roles, a project switcher on every page, dated client-ready reports, and add-on products you can resell.
Starter $59/mo (4 platforms), Brand Pro $199/mo (all 9), Agency $239/mo (7 platforms), Agency Pro $649/mo (all 9). Save up to 15% on annual billing. 7-day free trial.
Lite $29, Standard $189 and Premium $489 a month (15% off annually) for 15, 100 and 400 prompts. Enterprise from 1,000 prompts. Extra engines are paid add-ons.
SKYA is the more expensive entry tier. Its Starter carries 50 prompts on 4 AI platforms for $59, against Otterly Standard's 100 prompts on 4 for $189. Otterly Premium carries more prompts than any SKYA plan at or under $489. The trade is monthly price against how much of the AEO stack you stop paying for separately.
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Free 7-day trial. No credit card required. Up to 9 AI platforms, competitor intelligence, 4 agents, hallucination defense and fixes that reach your site once you approve them. The first answers land within minutes of setup, and every tracked prompt has its first reading within 24 hours on ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overview.