AEOeye vs Goodie: Free Instant Audit vs Full AEO Program

AEOeye is a free instant audit. You enter a brand and it asks the questions real buyers ask across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI, Claude, and Gemini, then shows whether each engine recommends you, where you rank, and which competitors come up instead. The querying is blind — the engines answer naturally, not knowing they're being tested — so the result reflects what a real prospect would see. There's no setup, no sales call, and no contract. Deeper, repeated multi-engine querying activates as you use it.

Goodie is a full AEO/GEO platform. It continuously monitors how your brand is cited and represented across AI answer engines, then layers on sentiment analysis, share-of-voice, competitive benchmarking, and an optimization/action layer that recommends content and changes to improve visibility. It's a closed-loop program: monitor, optimize, measure, repeat.

The honest framing: AEOeye answers "where do I stand right now?" in minutes. Goodie answers "how do we systematically improve and track this over months?" — and charges accordingly.

This is the clearest split. AEOeye is free to start — you get a real multi-engine audit without entering a credit card or talking to anyone.

Goodie has no free tier. Its self-serve Explorer plan starts at $399/month (100 prompts, 3 engines), and the fuller Pro and Enterprise plans are custom, sales-led quotes that aren't published. Cost scales with tracked prompts, models, languages, and markets, so the true price for broad coverage isn't clear until you talk to sales. There's a 30-day money-back guarantee, but you commit real budget before you see results. Independent reviews repeatedly flag the $399 floor as steep for small businesses and solo marketers, often pointing them to cheaper monitoring tools.

To be fair to Goodie: $399/mo buys an ongoing program, not a one-time check — monitoring, optimization, and attribution bundled together. If you'll genuinely run that program, the per-feature value is reasonable. If you just want to know where you stand, paying $399 to find out is the wrong tool.

AEOeye's free audit queries five engines out of the box: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI, Claude, and Gemini. You see all of them in your first result.

Goodie covers more engines in total at its top tiers — 11+, including DeepSeek, Grok, Copilot, and Meta AI — which is a genuine strength for enterprise brands tracking fringe surfaces. But coverage is gated by tier: Explorer ($399/mo) covers only 3 engines (ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity). Gemini and Copilot arrive on Pro, and Claude lands on Enterprise. So the two engines many buyers care about most after ChatGPT — Claude and Gemini — require moving up from the entry plan.

The practical takeaway: for a complete five-engine snapshot today, AEOeye's free audit is actually broader than Goodie's $399 entry tier. For the widest possible long-tail engine coverage as a paid, ongoing feed, Goodie's higher tiers go further than AEOeye does.

AEOeye is instant and plug-and-play. There's nothing to define — no prompt lists, no dashboards, no model configuration. You run the audit and read the result in minutes. That's the entire point: a quick, honest check anyone non-technical can do.

Goodie is not instant, and it isn't trying to be. Onboarding means defining your topics and prompts, configuring which models to track, and integrating dashboards. The platform surfaces recommendations, but someone on your team still has to execute them, and people new to AI-visibility metrics face a learning curve. Reviewers consistently note this is setup-and-coordination work, not a one-click report.

That complexity is the cost of depth — Goodie's continuous tracking and action layer require structure that a one-shot audit doesn't. But if your goal is simply "check my AI visibility this afternoon," Goodie's setup is overhead you don't need yet.

We won't pretend AEOeye does everything. If you need a sustained program, Goodie is the more complete platform, and these are real advantages:

• Continuous monitoring over time — historical trend lines and dashboards that show whether your visibility is improving, which a one-time audit doesn't provide.
• Sentiment and share-of-voice — not just whether you're mentioned, but how you're characterized and how much of the conversation you own versus rivals.
• An optimization/action layer — concrete content and on-page recommendations (plus AEO content tooling on higher tiers) to actually move the needle, not just measure it.
• Deeper enterprise analytics and the widest engine list at top tiers.

AEOeye is newer and lighter on enterprise analytics and long-run historical dashboards. If you have a marketing team with execution capacity and budget for a full closed-loop AEO effort, Goodie is built for exactly that.

Pick based on where you are, not on which tool has more features.

Start with AEOeye if you want to know — today, for free, with no commitment — whether AI engines recommend you and who's beating you. It's the no-risk first look. You'll find out in minutes whether AI visibility is even a problem worth investing in, and you'll have a concrete baseline across all five major engines.

Choose Goodie if you've already confirmed AI visibility matters for your brand, you have budget at the $399/mo+ level, and you have a team ready to run continuous monitoring, act on optimization recommendations, and track share-of-voice and sentiment over time.

The two aren't really rivals so much as stages. AEOeye is the diagnostic you run first; Goodie is the ongoing program you graduate into once you know you need it. Running AEOeye's free audit before you ever book a Goodie demo is the smart sequence — you'll walk into that conversation knowing exactly what you're trying to fix.