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Askadia vs AthenaHQ: AI visibility with content agents, or a $29 tracker?

AthenaHQ tracks your brand across eleven AI assistants and helps you act on it, with content agents that write and publish to your site; it has a free plan, then $295 a month. Askadia tracks three, ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode, and leaves the acting to you and your coding agent, which can run all of it: find the questions you lose, read every answer behind them, plan what to change, and reschedule, add or pause questions as you go. If you want many assistants and content tools in one place, AthenaHQ; if ChatGPT and Google are where your buyers ask and you want to work through it with your own agent, Askadia.

Who wrote this: we make Askadia. Every price and feature comes from each vendor's own website, checked on October 31, 2026, linked where it's stated; the numbers about what ChatGPT recommends come from the same buying questions we ask it for every tool, three times a week, live. Spot something out of date? Tell us.

At a glance

How they differ

• Price and what it buys: AthenaHQ's free plan gives 300 credits once; Starter is $295 a month ($245 billed yearly) for 3,600 credits (AthenaHQ pricing). A credit is one answer on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode, Gemini and Copilot, and five on Claude, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI and Mistral (AthenaHQ's API changelog). Askadia is one plan with everything included: $29 for 2,000 answers, all from ChatGPT, and answers are all you pay for.
• Assistants: eleven on AthenaHQ's Starter. Askadia covers three: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode.
• Acting on it: AthenaHQ has a content optimization agent, publishing to WordPress, Webflow and your Shopify blog, and outreach to the authors of pages AI cites. Askadia gives you and your coding agent the evidence (who each assistant recommends, the pages it read) and leaves the writing to you, with your own context.
• Agents: AthenaHQ has an MCP server you can sign in to from ChatGPT and Claude (AthenaHQ MCP); its API is a paid add-on, and its own pages disagree on whether that's from Starter or Enterprise. Askadia's API, MCP server and agent skill are included in its one plan, and its MCP server signs in from Claude.ai and ChatGPT too. An agent can do everything you can in the app except the plan and the team: review your questions and say which need work, pause, resume and reschedule them, read every answer and its raw page, and keep notes for the next agent (Askadia's API docs).
• Schedule: on AthenaHQ you pick the days of the week a prompt set runs (daily is all seven); more than one schedule is Enterprise. On Askadia each question has its own days on each assistant (every day, weekdays, Mon/Wed/Fri, weekly or any days), on every plan, and you or your agent change it any time through the app, the API or the MCP server: daily for a baseline, Mon/Wed/Fri once it's steady, daily again during a launch or campaign.

Where AthenaHQ is better

• Breadth: eleven assistants on a self-serve plan, and a free plan to try five of them.
• Tools to act: content agents, CMS publishing, outreach, prompt volume estimates, shopping and ads insights.
• Unlimited users and prompts, and SaaS case studies on its site (Rootly, Lago, Popl).

Where Askadia is better

• Your agent works the whole loop with you: it goes through the questions you lose, reads every raw answer behind them, makes a plan, and carries it out on your word: questions added, paused or resumed, competitors tracked, names merged, feedback sent. You decide; it does the legwork.
• A schedule that moves with you: each question on its own schedule on each assistant, changed any time by you or your agent, daily for a baseline or a launch and Mon/Wed/Fri in between.
• A plain unit: one answer is one answer on any of its assistants, and everything, the API and MCP server too, is on one $29 plan, against AthenaHQ's jump from free to $295.
• Counts you can check: questions as x of n, with every answer in full and your rank in each.

Which ones ChatGPT recommends: our own data

We ask ChatGPT 40 questions buyers ask about AI visibility tools, the same ones for every tool, on Mon, Wed, Fri: in the ChatGPT app, logged out, from the US, a new chat each time. A tool counts for a question when most of that question's answers recommend it, as the top pick or an option. The questions were published before its first answer, and every answer is public, word for word.

Questions, counted when most of their answers recommend the tool; since November 11, 2026. Under 28 days of answers so far, so this shows who's recommended more than the exact order. Every tool, every question and every answer.

Which to pick

Pick AthenaHQ if you want many assistants in one place and tools that write and publish content for you, and $295 a month fits.

Pick Askadia if you build a software product, ChatGPT and Google are where your buyers ask, and you or your coding agent will make the changes, for $29 a month.

Questions

What can an AI agent do in Askadia?

Give Claude Code, Cursor or any agent one line, the docs address, and approve it once; or add Askadia's MCP server to Claude Code or Cursor, or as a connector in Claude.ai or ChatGPT, which signs in without a key to copy. Then it can:

• Work through what you lose: find the questions where an assistant leaves you out, read every answer behind them down to the raw page, and come back with a plan for you to approve.
• Review your questions on four checks (a real buyer, neutral wording, specific, the way buyers ask), say which are good and which need work, and suggest questions to add, pause or replace. You accept, edit or dismiss each one, in Reviews or in the chat.
• Add, pause and resume questions, and set each one's assistants and how often on each: daily for a baseline, Mon/Wed/Fri once it's steady, daily again for a launch or campaign.
• Read every number and every answer word for word on each assistant: the products named in order, the pages cited, Google's top 10 beside each AI Overview, and each answer's raw page as it reached us, to check our reading or run its own analysis.
• Find the questions you lose and to whom, and compare the pages each assistant cites with yours.
• Sort which products are your competitors, count two names of one product as one, and add your pages elsewhere, like an app-store listing, so their citations count.
• Propose a correction when an answer was read wrong, send us feedback (we reply to it), and keep the site's notes for the next agent.

With no account, it runs your free checkup and signs you up: you enter an emailed code and pay. The plan and your answers are always your click. It's all in the $29 plan, and reading is unlimited (the agent docs).

How much does AthenaHQ cost?

A free plan with 300 credits once, then Starter at $295 a month ($245 billed yearly) for 3,600 credits, and Enterprise at a custom price. From AthenaHQ's pricing page on October 31, 2026.

How many answers do AthenaHQ's credits buy?

One credit is one answer on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode, Gemini and Copilot, and five on Claude, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI and Mistral. Its optional prompt expansion asks three rewordings too, so each answer counts four times.

Is there a cheaper AthenaHQ alternative?

Askadia at $29 for ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode; for more assistants, see AthenaHQ alternatives.

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