Pulse re-checks whether yours is legible to them — llms.txt, structured data, robots.txt access, no-JS content, and more — on a schedule, and emails you the moment something breaks.
What makes this different
Pulse never calls the ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok, or Copilot APIs and reports back what they "think" of your site. Nobody outside those companies can do that reliably — answers change per query, per user, per day, and a score built on that is theater. Most tools in this category, including expensive ones, work exactly that way anyway.
What Pulse checks instead: the same infrastructure signals every one of those platforms reads before it can cite a site at all. Get those right and you're legible no matter which AI a customer happens to be using. The full 9-check rubric and scoring weights are published, not hidden: read the methodology.
This is the same bar we hold ourselves to. Pulse is built under The Checkable Standard, our open standard for verifiable operations.
The category charges more for less certainty
Every other recurring AI-visibility monitor found in a direct pricing scan runs live LLM prompts and charges accordingly. Pulse doesn't, and costs less at every tier:
| Product | Entry $/mo | Top self-serve $/mo | Method |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pulse | $9 | $99 | Static infra checks only |
| Otterly AI | $29 | $489 | Live LLM prompting |
| Profound | $99 | $399 | Live LLM prompting |
| SE Visible | $99 | $355 | Live LLM prompting |
| Scrunch AI | $250 | $500 | Live LLM prompting |
Verified directly against each vendor's own pricing page, 2026-07-29. Pulse is the cheapest confirmed entry point in the category and the only recurring paid product built entirely on non-LLM-prompted checks.
The category's own critics agree
"If you use three different tools and give them the same prompts, you get three different answers."
— Paul Dyer, CEO, /prompt, via Digiday"We don't know enough of these companies to be charging what they're charging."
— Joseph Levi, Noise Media Group, via DigidayPulse doesn't promise rankings, citations, or recommendations, guaranteed or otherwise — nobody honestly can. It measures and reports the verifiable conditions that make citation possible, and shows its work.
Pick a tier
30-day money-back guarantee on every tier.
Subscribe on Gumroad · Free one-time checker · Methodology · Contact