Peec AI vs AthenaHQ

Peec AI is AI search analytics for marketing teams: visibility, position and sentiment tracked daily, prompt suggestions from search volume, and reporting through CSV, Looker and MCP. AthenaHQ tracks brand visibility across up to nine AI models with prompt and response analysis, competitor insights, and content optimization agents, with a real free tier. They compete only where the categories overlap, and the chapters below walk every dimension a buyer would price: which AI engines each can see, how the tracking actually meters, what each produces on the content side, what surrounds the core product, and the full published tier lists.

Peec AI is a focused AI search analytics platform out of Europe, trusted by 3,000+ marketing teams by its own count with logos like Zalando, Squarespace, Hugo Boss and Wix on its pricing page, and a 4.9 G2 rating in its footer. The product tracks brand visibility, position and sentiment in AI answers daily, suggests prompts from search volume data, analyzes sources and citations, and runs an agency partner program with separate bundle pricing.

Pricing model. Starter $95, Pro $245 and Advanced $495 a month, each including three of six selectable models, with extra models $30 to $140 a month by tier and 15% off annually; Enterprise is custom and unlocks all models including Claude and DeepSeek.

AthenaHQ is a San Francisco AEO platform with strong review credentials: a G2 High Performer for Answer Engine Optimization (Spring 2026) and 4.9-out-of-5 ratings on its badges. The product analyzes prompts and responses across up to nine AI models, estimates prompt volumes numerically, tracks unlimited competitors with sentiment, and acts through on-page and off-page GEO actions, a content optimization agent, smart robots.txt and llms.txt management, and an enterprise citation engine (ACE). Unlimited seats with role-based access come on every plan, and it publishes its own comparison pages against Profound, Peec, Scrunch, Semrush and Ahrefs.

Pricing model. Essential is free with a $25 credit (300 credits, five models including Claude); Starter is $295 a month with a $300 monthly credit (3,600 credits, nine models), with API access and extra credits as paid add-ons; Enterprise is custom with annual 17% off available.

Peec AI. Six models are selectable on the paid tiers: ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity and Gemini, and every tier reads choose three of them. A fourth model is a paid add-on at $30, $70 or $140 a month by tier. Enterprise opens all models and adds Claude Sonnet 4, GPT 5 Search, DeepSeek, Qwen and Mistral via API, up to 11; Grok appears nowhere on the public pages.

AthenaHQ. The free Essential tier covers ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Gemini and Claude; Starter adds AI Mode, Copilot and Grok for visibility across nine models, with additional models available on request. Claude ships from the free tier, which is rare in this set; DeepSeek does not appear on the page.

Summarized: Peec AI reads 3 of 6 per tier (ChatGPT, AI Mode, AIO, Copilot, Perplexity, Gemini); 11 on Enterprise; AthenaHQ reads 5 free; 9 on Starter (incl. Claude, Copilot, Grok, AI Mode). On Claude specifically, Peec AI: enterprise only; AthenaHQ: yes, from the free tier.

Peec AI. Every prompt executes once every 24 hours per their FAQ, with visibility, position and sentiment recorded, plus competitive benchmarking and prompt-volume estimation. Projects and countries meter by tier: one project and one country on Starter, five projects and three countries on Advanced.

AthenaHQ. Metering is credit-based with one credit equal to one AI response: 300 credits free, 3,600 on Starter, custom on Enterprise. Tracking includes unlimited topics, numerical prompt-volume estimation, unlimited competitor tracking and benchmarking, prompt variations with conversation context, and real-time brand sentiment.

Peec AI. Peec ships strategy recommendations drawn from citation data, for example suggesting a G2 profile or a subreddit the engines cite. There is no article writer and no CMS publishing surface on its public pages; acting on the recommendations stays with your team.

AthenaHQ. Content recommendations ship on the free tier and a content optimization agent from Starter, with brand voice and guideline enforcement, on-page and off-page GEO actions, and Shopify and Webflow integrations. The enterprise Athena Citation Engine and Recommendation Engine extend the action layer; there is no long-form article pipeline described.

Peec AI. There is no classic-Google organic rank tracking and no local surface: no Maps, no geo-grid, no GBP tooling anywhere on the public pages. The product's entire surface is AI search analytics.

AthenaHQ. There is no Google organic rank tracking and no local surface on the pricing page. GA4 and Google Search Console integrations connect AI visibility with site traffic, which correlates traffic with visibility; position measurement is a different job.

Peec AI. MCP access is checked on every tier, CSV export is a homepage feature, the Looker Studio connector starts on the $495 Advanced tier, and the REST API is Enterprise-only. The homepage promotes connecting Peec to Claude, Cursor and n8n through MCP and API.

AthenaHQ. CSV export ships from Starter, GA4 and GSC integrate, and API access is an optional paid add-on billed on top of the Starter subscription, included only on Enterprise. Enterprise adds SAML and OIDC SSO, audit logs, multi-region and multi-language support, and executive dashboards with Tableau, Power BI and Looker support. No MCP server is listed.

Every cell below was read from the vendors’ own rendered pages as of August 2026. Where a vendor’s public pages neither confirm nor deny a capability, the cell says so.