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Askadia vs Rankscale: many engines on credits, or three assistants at a flat price?

Rankscale is the cheapest way in to tracking many AI assistants: $20 a month, with credits you spend across six assistants' web interfaces and fifteen model APIs, on any schedule from hourly to monthly. Askadia tracks three, ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode, and costs less for each answer: $14.50 per 1,000 against Rankscale's $41.67, billed monthly. With an API for your agent, 12,000 answers a month are $174 on Askadia and $229 on Rankscale's Pro+. If you want breadth and control on a small budget, Rankscale; if you want depth on ChatGPT and Google at a price that's simple to forecast, 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 Spot something out of date?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: Rankscale's Essentials is $20 a month for 120 credits (Rankscale pricing). An answer from one of its browser engines costs a quarter credit, so about 480 a month, $41.67 per 1,000; a model API costs 1 to 4 credits a run. Askadia is one plan with everything included: $29 for 2,000 answers on any of its three assistants, $14.50 per 1,000, and answers are all you pay for.
• With an API: Rankscale's REST API starts on Pro+, $229 a month for about 12,000 answers (its MCP server is on every plan). On Askadia the API and MCP server come with every plan and their calls aren't counted, so the same 12,000 answers a month are $174.
• Assistants: Rankscale covers the web interfaces of ChatGPT, Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode, Gemini, Copilot and Perplexity (paused since October 12, 2026, “hitting login walls”, per its changelog), plus models like Claude, GPT and Gemini through their APIs. Askadia covers three of the same: ChatGPT, Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode.
• Where the answers come from: Rankscale mixes both: “GUI executions … use our automated browser interface”, “API executions … use direct API connections”. An API model's answer can differ from what people see in the app (ChatGPT app vs API). Askadia only asks the assistants' own pages: the real ChatGPT and a Google search.
• Agents: Rankscale's MCP server is on every plan and asks you to confirm each credit it spends, a thoughtful design; its REST API starts at $229 (Rankscale MCP docs). Askadia's API, MCP server and agent skill are included in its one plan, built so an agent can do everything you can in the app except the plan and the team: review your questions, add, pause, resume and reschedule them, and read every answer with its raw page. It changes questions on your word, or on its own once you say it can; the plan and answers stay your click (Askadia's API docs).
• Schedule: Rankscale runs from hourly to monthly; Askadia asks each question on the days you choose, per question and assistant: every day, weekdays, Mon/Wed/Fri, weekly or any days you pick.

Where Rankscale is better

• The lowest price to start, and many assistants and models on every plan with no add-ons.
• Control: any schedule from hourly to monthly, page audits, prompt research, query fan-outs and local results.
• An MCP server on every plan, Essentials included.

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 flat unit: 2,000 answers a month for $29, one answer the same on any assistant, so you know what a schedule costs before you set it.
• Less for each answer, billed monthly: $14.50 per 1,000 against $41.67 on Essentials; with an API, 12,000 answers a month for $174 against $229 on Pro+.
• Built for products: buying questions, the top pick, who each assistant recommends instead, and the pages it read.
• An API and MCP server on the entry plan, and a free checkup before you pay: 10 questions, no sign-up.

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 Rankscale if you want many assistants and models for the least money, and you're happy managing credits and schedules.

Pick Askadia if ChatGPT and Google are where your buyers ask, and you want real answers from them at a price per answer you can forecast, with an API your agent can use, from $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 Rankscale cost?

Essentials $20 a month, Pro $99, Pro+ $229, Growth $385 and Enterprise $780, each with a monthly allowance of credits (about 15% less billed yearly); Pro has a free 7-day trial. From Rankscale's pricing page on October 31, 2026.

How many answers do Rankscale's credits buy?

A quarter credit per answer from its browser engines, so Essentials' 120 credits buy about 480; a model API costs 1 to 4 credits a run, depending on the model and on web search.

Does Rankscale track Perplexity?

Through Perplexity's Sonar API, yes; its browser tracking of Perplexity has been paused since October 12, 2026, per its changelog.

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