AEOeye vs Goodie: One-Time Audit or Daily AEO Platform?

Choose by the job. A daily record of how AI engines describe your brand points to Goodie; a first answer to "do they name us?" points to AEOeye. Our view: do not pay for tracking before you know your starting point.

• Choose Goodie if you will review results every week, need a trend line for a boss or client, want AI traffic tied to revenue, or run an agency that pitches prospects with live data.
• Choose AEOeye if you have never checked, cannot justify a subscription, or want Claude, Gemini and Perplexity answers in the same report without moving to a higher plan.
• Use both, in order. Run the free audit, fix what it shows, then decide whether the gaps justify a monitoring contract. If a Goodie demo is on your calendar, the audit tells you what to ask for.

Goodie is a monitoring and action platform; AEOeye is an audit. One produces a time series with a to-do list attached, the other a snapshot. Both aim at answer engine optimization (AEO), defined as improving visibility in responses generated by AI systems.

Goodie's monitoring page says it tracks brand mentions, ranking position, sentiment and competitive share of voice, with data "tracked daily". Its optimization page groups fixes into owned content, earned media, technical and social actions, executed inside the platform with monthly action credits. The page also says these are projected to lift citation rates by 15 to 40 percent. That is Goodie's own projection and we could not verify it.

AEOeye writes three unbranded buyer questions from your brand and category, asks ChatGPT live and shows the full answers and the competitors named instead. The $29 report extends that to ten questions on five engines. It is not a daily tracker and does not write content for you.

They differ most on repetition and price. Goodie collects data every day on 120 to 250 or more tracked prompts; AEOeye collects 50 answers once for $29 (10 questions on 5 engines). The table sets out the rest, as of 3 October 2026.

• Engines are gated by plan. Per the pricing page, Core covers ChatGPT, AI Overview, Perplexity, AI Mode and Copilot. Gemini arrives on Pro; Claude is listed only under Enterprise. Goodie's monitoring page lists Claude among tracked models, so ask which engines your plan includes before you pay.
• Enterprise is quote-only. The card says up to 13 models; the FAQ on the same page says 12 engines.
• Core is self-serve. Goodie says you can start without talking to sales; Pro and Enterprise begin with a conversation.
• AEOeye tests each engine at the default tier a free user gets. We do not use stronger models than your buyers see.

Core costs $399 a month on annual billing and $478.80 month to month; Pro is $999 or $1,198.80. The pricing page loads on the annual rate, so the $399 you see first is the discounted price. Enterprise is a quote.

The toggle's "2 months free" matches the arithmetic: ten months at $478.80 is $4,788, the same as twelve months at $399. Monthly billing therefore costs 20% more, and stopping before month ten favors monthly. One month on Core costs about 16 times the AEOeye report ($478.80 against $29). Our Goodie pricing guide breaks the plans down.

The contract matters as much as the rate. Goodie's service agreement says all payments are non-refundable regardless of actual usage and subscriptions renew automatically for equal terms. Monthly plans end at the close of the cycle; other terms need 30 days' written notice before renewal. Trials are provided "as-is", so a 7-day Core trial is the way to test fit before committing a year.

Goodie is stronger at everything that needs repetition or scale: daily sampling, history, sentiment, attribution, team seats and data access. If you need a trend, a snapshot cannot replace it, however good the snapshot is.

Sampling is the structural reason. SparkToro, with help from the tracking startup Gumshoe.ai, had 600 volunteers run 12 prompts through ChatGPT, Claude and Google's AI 2,961 times. It found under a 1 in 100 chance that ChatGPT or Google's AI repeats the same brand list, and advised asking at least 60 to 100 times and averaging. One answer from any engine is a sample of one, which is why daily data beats a single run for a trend.

• Attribution. Goodie's analytics page says it uses a Google Analytics integration to spot AI referrals and links them to conversions, CRM data and revenue. We have no equivalent.
• Scale. Core tracks 120 prompts for 1 brand with 5 seats; Pro 250 prompts; Enterprise 500 or more.
• Data access. Per the pricing table, exports start on Pro and API access is Enterprise-only; MCP, an open standard for connecting AI applications to outside systems, is listed on every brand plan.
• Agencies. Agency Growth is $275 a month on annual billing ($330 billed quarterly) and includes 10 seven-day pitch workspaces a month; client workspaces start at $399 a month each.

AEOeye is stronger when you have no setup time, no budget line and one question: does AI name us? There are no prompts to write and nothing to cancel. It is weaker the moment you ask what changed last month.

• Cost and commitment. $0 for the ChatGPT check, $29 once for the full report, no subscription.
• Engines in one price. The $29 report covers ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Google AI and Perplexity; Goodie's entry plan omits Claude and Gemini.
• A foundation check. The report adds a five-layer SEO audit and a fix roadmap, emailed as a PDF.
• Honest limits. Ten questions are a sample, not a market model. There is no history, no agency workflow and no guarantee that fixes earn a recommendation.

The free audit asks ChatGPT only; Claude, Gemini, Google AI and Perplexity are in the paid report. Older pages, including this one before October 2026, called the free audit multi-engine. That was wrong.

Goodie's site is open to AI crawlers. When we checked it in AEOeye's crawler access study on 3 October 2026, higoodie.com's robots.txt blocked none of the AI bots we test, named none explicitly, and the site serves an llms.txt.

Its homepage HTML carries JSON-LD, including FAQPage, Organization and Article types. This is a fact box, not a verdict on the product; an open site says nothing about answer quality.

Answer three questions in order: do you know whether AI names you, will you review the data weekly, and who else needs to see it? The answers point to one tool or a sequence.

1. Never checked? Run the free audit at aeoeye.com. If the three answers name you, you have something to protect; if not, you have a fix list.
2. Named, and need to keep it? Start Goodie's Core trial and read the pricing guide first; limits decide the real cost.
3. Still comparing? Our Goodie alternatives and the best AI visibility tools roundup cover cheaper trackers.