AEOeye vs Trakkr: One-Off Audit or Daily Monitoring?

Choose by the question you are asking. If it is "do AI engines recommend us at all?", run AEOeye once. If it is "is our share of AI answers rising, and who moved?", you need a daily tracker, and Trakkr is built for that job.

• Pick AEOeye if you have never read what the five engines say about you, you want a fixed price, or you want to see who gets named instead of you.
• Pick Trakkr if you already know AI answers affect your sales, someone will open the dashboard every week, and you need trends and eight models rather than a snapshot.
• Use both, in that order: run the free audit first, subscribe to a tracker only if the gap is worth watching.

Our position: paying $1,000 a year for a trend line you have never looked at once is the common mistake. Look first, then subscribe.

Trakkr monitors; AEOeye diagnoses once. Trakkr's FAQ says it sends each tracked prompt to the model providers' own APIs every day and records which brands each answer names, and in what order. AEOeye asks buyer questions once and shows you the answers.

Beyond the daily scores, Trakkr's documentation describes citation tracking, perception analysis, competitor discovery, a page-by-page action pipeline and an assistant it calls the Agent. It tracks eight models: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok, Meta AI and Google AI Overviews.

AEOeye's free audit asks ChatGPT three unbranded buyer questions live and shows the full answers, the competitors named instead of you and starter fixes. The $29 report adds Claude, Gemini, Google AI and Perplexity, ten questions instead of three, a five-layer SEO foundation audit and a fix roadmap by PDF. Each engine is tested at the default tier a free user would get; how it works.

Both sit under what Wikipedia calls generative engine optimization, also known as answer engine optimization (AEO).

Trakkr is stronger at everything that needs repetition: trends, coverage, volume and workflow. If your question is "what changed since last month?", a one-off report cannot answer it.

Repeated sampling. SparkToro's study of 2,961 runs across ChatGPT, Claude and Google AI found under a 1 in 100 chance that ChatGPT or Google's AI repeats the same brand list, and its author suggests asking 60 to 100 times and averaging. Daily runs give Trakkr about 30 samples per prompt per month; one AEOeye run is one sample.

Volume. Trakkr counts a data point as one query to one model. Growth lists 12,000 data points a month, which is 50 prompts times 8 models times 30 days. At $100 that is under one cent each (our arithmetic); AEOeye's 50 answers for $29 cost 58 cents each, once.

Coverage and workflow. Grok, DeepSeek and Meta AI are tracked; AEOeye covers five engines. Trakkr also offers MCP access, CSV and Sheets export, and on Scale a REST API and white-label client portals.

Exit terms. New subscribers get a 14-day money-back guarantee.

AEOeye is stronger at the first question: it costs the least to find out where you stand. The ChatGPT audit is free, and the five-engine report is $29 once, with no subscription to cancel.

• No card on a clock. Trakkr's 14-day trial needs a card and converts to $100 a month unless you cancel.
• Engines at the default tier. We test each engine at the tier your buyers get for free, not a stronger one.
• A fix list, not only a score. The report ends with a roadmap and a five-layer SEO foundation audit.

The honest limit: AEOeye shows a snapshot, not a trend. It cannot tell you whether last month's fix worked. Treat absence as the strong signal. If you are missing from every engine across several questions, that is robust; a single "named third" is one sample, not a rank. Re-run after you change something.

A year of Trakkr Growth costs $1,000 on annual billing or $1,200 paid monthly; AEOeye's report is $29 once. They buy different things: Trakkr's price covers 365 daily runs of 50 prompts across eight models, ours covers one run of ten questions across five engines.

Two details change the Trakkr bill. Annual plans are charged upfront and renew automatically. Extra brands cost $50 a month and extra prompts $39 to $99 a month per brand, per its billing guide.

One tip applies to any tracker: Trakkr's FAQ advises starting with 5 to 20 questions your buyers really ask, not all 50. Fewer, sharper prompts are easier to read, and you can grow once you see what moves.

A solo founder or small shop should start with AEOeye, an in-house team with a weekly routine can justify Trakkr, and an agency should price Trakkr's Scale plan against its client count.

• Solo founder or small business: run the audit, fix the obvious gaps, and only then ask whether daily tracking is worth $1,000 a year.
• In-house marketing team: if AI answers already feed your pipeline, Trakkr's dashboard, citation data and actions suit a standing weekly review.
• Agency: Scale lists ten brands, unlimited seats, an API and white-label portals; AEOeye has none of that. For a prospect pitch, a one-off AEOeye report is a cheaper opener.

We saw an open door for AI crawlers. This is a neutral fact box from AEOeye's crawler access study, one fetch on 2026-10-03, not a verdict on the product.

• trakkr.ai's robots.txt names ten AI bots, including GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot and PerplexityBot, and allows all of them.
• It publishes an llms.txt file.
• Its server-rendered homepage carries JSON-LD including FAQPage, Offer and SoftwareApplication.

The aeoeye.com row in the same study looks alike: no AI bot blocked, six named, an llms.txt file, FAQPage and SoftwareApplication schema. Both vendors practise what they sell. Method and numbers: AI crawler directory.