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The same eight questions we ask of every tool on the list, ours included. Athena's answers are quoted from its own pages with the day we read them; ours are written against our code, and the price, assistants and passes are read from it. Where Athena is the better pick, that comes first.

Where Athena Is the Better Pick

The Eight Questions

Each one is something you can test in a trial of either tool. A cell that says “not stated” means we found no page that says it, not that the tool cannot do it.

  1. Lowest Listed Price

    What the cheapest thing on the price page costs, and what it buys.

    Athena
    “Free … $25 free credit … Includes 300 credits … Starter … $295/month … 3,600 credits … 1 credit = 1 AI response”athenahq.ai, read 2026-10-14Our reading: A free plan with 300 credits on five assistants, one answer per credit; Starter is $295 a month for 3,600. Annual billing takes 17% off, and API access and extra credits cost more.
    AEOSearch
    A free scorecard: 4 questions on ChatGPT and Gemini. A report of your own from $25, priced before you pay.

  2. Assistants Measured

    Which AI assistants the numbers come from.

    Athena
    “Visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Grok, and more”athenahq.ai, read 2026-10-14Our reading: The Starter card lists eleven, adding DeepSeek, Meta AI and Mistral; the free card shows five.
    AEOSearch
    ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode. You choose which ones a report asks.

  3. Times Each Question Is Asked

    An assistant answers the same question differently from one run to the next, so a number built on one answer per question can move on a reroll.

    Athena
    “Set a weekly cadence, including the selected days and a repeat interval of one to four weeks, or choose one or more days of the month.”docs.athenahq.ai, read 2026-10-14Our reading: You set the schedule, and each answer spends a credit. How many answers a prompt gets per run is not stated.
    AEOSearch
    Once or 3 times per question, chosen before you pay and printed on the report.

  4. Model Named on the Answer

    ChatGPT is several models, and they disagree. A number that does not say which one answered cannot be checked against the app.

    Athena
    “Model: The AI model that generated the response (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity).”docs.athenahq.ai, read 2026-10-14Our reading: The label is the assistant's name; no version appears in the docs we read.
    AEOSearch
    Stored with every answer, and printed on the report for each engine whose provider reports it.

  5. Web Search Labelled

    An answer written without a web search reports what a model remembers, not what the live assistant says today.

    Athena
    “These are searches the model issued while preparing its answer, not your monitored prompt text. Missing captured queries do not prove the model performed no search.”docs.athenahq.ai, read 2026-10-14Our reading: Search queries show when they were captured, and the docs say plainly that a missing one proves nothing. How answers are collected is not stated.
    AEOSearch
    Stored with every answer. The report says, engine by engine, whether web search was on, and for Claude and Perplexity, how many answers searched.

  6. Answers You Can Read

    Whether the full answer behind a number opens when you ask for it.

    Athena
    “Lets a customer browse, search, filter, sort, export, and drill into every individual AI-model response collected for their tracked prompts.”docs.athenahq.ai, read 2026-10-14
    AEOSearch
    Every answer is stored in full, and the report opens the text behind its numbers.

  7. Branded Questions Counted Apart

    A question that already names you is one you will almost always win. Mixed into the headline, it inflates it.

    Athena
    “Prompt Type: Categorizes the prompt as Branded or Non-branded.”docs.athenahq.ai, read 2026-10-14Our reading: Every prompt is typed branded or non-branded when it is added, and the setup guide says to track both.
    AEOSearch
    Yes. Questions that name you or a competitor you track are scored apart from the ones that name none of them.

  8. Changes to Your Site

    Whether it edits your site, and whether each edit can be undone.

    Athena
    “Create & Publish - Shopify, Webflow, Wix, Framer, WordPress, Payload CMS, Sanity, and Contentful. These let you publish content created in Athena directly to your live site.”docs.athenahq.ai, read 2026-10-14Our reading: A person picks draft or live in the publish dialog. Undoing a publish is not described.
    AEOSearch
    Only through our plugins, only after you opt in on that site, and every change carries a rollback. The platform itself never edits your site.

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Run the free scorecard: it shows the stored answer for up to three questions you lost, and a paid report opens every answer behind every number, with the model where the provider names one, the search label and the full text. The standard lists the five standards a paid report's mention rate carries, and the other comparisons ask the same questions of every tool on the list. Something here wrong about Athena? Write to support@aeosearch.io with the page that says otherwise and we will correct it.

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