AirOps alternatives with prices you can see
By Michael Nefedov, noetio · Updated 21 October 2026
AirOps alternatives show their prices: Koala Starter is $25 a month and Search Atlas Starter $99. AirOps shows no plan prices, and lists a human review step on every plan.
Entry prices at a glance
- AirOpsthis pageNo plan prices shownAI search and content platform with a vendor teamSolo, Pro and Enterprise; extra Solo tasks cost $0.025 each
- Gumloop Pro$37 a monthBuild your own agents20,000 credits; pricing page says Starts at $37 / month and has no yearly toggle
- Frase Starter$49 a monthFixes wait for your approval by defaultMonth to month, or $39/mo billed yearly (10 articles)
- Writesonic Starter$99 a monthAI tracking, articles and audits in one planBilled monthly, or $79/mo billed annually (15 articles, 50 prompts)
- Search Atlas Starter$99 a monthAn agent that edits the site, with approval modeBilled monthly, 50,000 credits
Vendor pricing pages, read 21 October 2026. Billing basis differs, so read the table below.
Short answer
- AirOps' pricing page shows Solo, Pro and Enterprise with no prices. Its FAQ describes a 14-day free trial.
- Its plan table ticks "Human Review & Approvals" on Solo, Pro and Enterprise.
- Koala ($25), Gumloop ($37), Frase ($49) and Search Atlas ($99) show a price. They bill in different ways, so check the basis.
Which one to pick
Pick by the job you need done. The billing basis differs per tool, so check the table below.
- The lowest priceKoala Starter shows $25 a month, the lowest sticker price in the table.
- A review step before anything goes liveFrase (approval by default), Search Atlas (approval mode) and Koala (drafts) describe one on their own pages.
- Client work for an agencyRankability lists client workspaces and client approvals, from $97 a month.
- Your own flowsGumloop Pro starts at $37 a month.
- A vendor team next to the platformStay with AirOps if you can ask for a quote.
AirOps vs the alternatives
Every alternative shows a price; AirOps does not. Prices are the first plan each vendor shows. Currency and billing basis are in each cell.
| Tool | What it does | Entry price | Approval step | Trial |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AirOps | AI search and content platform: agents, workflows, insights | No plan prices shown (Solo, Pro, Enterprise). Extra Solo tasks cost $0.025 each. | "Human Review & Approvals" is ticked on Solo, Pro and Enterprise in its plan comparison table (21 October 2026). | 14-day free trial, no payment details until the end |
| Gumloop | General AI agent and workflow builder. SEO is one use case. | Pro from $37/mo (20,000 credits); its FAQ says "$37/month"; there is no monthly or yearly toggle on the page. Enterprise is custom. | You build the flow. The pricing page names no approval step. | 14-day free trial |
| Frase | Research, articles, GEO scores, site audits, Content Guard fixes | Starter $49/mo month to month, or $39/mo billed yearly (10 articles) | Content Guard fixes wait for your approval. Approval is the default. | 7-day free trial, no credit card |
| Surfer | Content editor, AI visibility tracking, audits | Discovery €49/mo billed yearly, or €59 month to month | Not stated on its pricing page | "Start for Free" button. The page gives no trial length. |
| Writesonic | AI visibility tracking, AI articles, site audits | Starter $79/mo billed annually, or $99/mo billed monthly (15 articles, 50 prompts) | Approval workflows appear in its Enterprise description. None is listed for Starter. | "Start free trial" button; site label says 7-Day Free Trial. FAQ: 7-day, no-questions-asked refund. |
| Search Atlas | OTTO SEO agent, content, CMS publishing | Starter $99/mo billed monthly (50,000 credits) | OTTO deploys changes on its own. An approval mode can be turned on to review each change. | 7-day trial |
| Koala | AI article writing with an SEO agent | Starter $25/mo, monthly billing (45,000 words) | Home page: "Publish as drafts to review, or auto-publish per brand." | 5,000 free words and 25 credits, no card |
| Rankability | Content projects and AI tracking for agencies | Starter $97/mo billed monthly (20 content projects) | "Branded reports & client approvals" is listed on Starter. | 7-day trial, card required |
Prices: each vendor's pricing page, linked in the Tool column, read 21 October 2026.
Limits and features beyond price
Volume units differ (tasks, credits, articles, words, projects), so compare limits before price.
| Tool | Plan | Volume shown | Seats and sites | Publishing and connectors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AirOps | Solo (Pro) | 35,000 tasks (Pro: 100,000) | Single user (Pro: unlimited seats) | Basic CMS and SEO integrations (Pro adds AEO, social and project tools) |
| Gumloop | Pro | 20,000 credits a month | Unlimited seats and teams | Its site lists connectors for Ahrefs, Semrush, Search Console and Webflow |
| Frase | Starter | 10 articles, 50 audit pages | 1 seat, 1 site | WordPress, Webflow, Sanity, Wix, or host on FraseCMS |
| Surfer | Discovery | 10 documents on monthly billing (yearly card: 120), 10 tracked pages | 1 team seat (Team Seats row of the compare table) | Integrations row in the plan table; the page does not name the platforms |
| Writesonic | Starter | 15 articles, 10 site audits, 50 prompts tracked | 1 user, 1 project | Integrations list: Google Search Console, WordPress, GA4, Looker Studio |
| Search Atlas | Starter | 50,000 credits (its own estimate: about 50 premium AI articles) | 1 project, 1 seat | "Connect and publish to any CMS" |
| Koala | Starter | 45,000 words, 500 credits | 1 brand. No seat limit stated on the pricing page | WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Ghost, webhooks |
| Rankability | Starter | 20 content projects, 100 tracked AI queries | Unlimited client workspaces and team members | API and MCP access |
AirOps pricing
On 21 October 2026 the AirOps pricing page showed three plan cards and no prices.
- Solo is for individuals building content for one brand or project: 35,000 tasks, one user, ChatGPT insights only.
- Pro is for small teams: 100,000 tasks, unlimited seats, insights across 7+ answer engines.
- Enterprise is custom, with a dedicated account manager and 1:1 onboarding.
The FAQ adds more detail on billing and the trial:
- Pricing is based on your task volume and needs. Extra Solo tasks cost $0.025 each, and tasks reset at the start of each calendar month.
- The FAQ mentions Scale and Agency plans that the cards do not show, and the page does not say how they map to Solo and Pro.
- The 14-day free trial gives all Scale plan features. It ends when the 14 days pass, when you use the trial tasks, or when you upgrade. It needs no payment details until the end.
- Workspaces on Scale, Enterprise and trial accounts get 50,000 free credits to test workflows before going live.
Where AirOps wins
AirOps sells more than software: a vendor team sits next to the platform.
- Its pricing page calls it the partner behind a brand's AI search strategy, and its homepage says the team stays hands-on from strategy to execution. Its customer quotes come from Chime, Sanity and Venn.
- The plan table ticks content review, quality scores and human review and approvals on Solo, Pro and Enterprise.
- It also lists version history, brand kits and knowledge bases, and CMS, SEO research, AEO research, social and MCP integrations.
If you want a vendor team next to the platform and are fine asking for a quote, that is what AirOps offers.
Where AirOps falls short
You cannot see a price, and task billing is hard to estimate.
- No plan price on the page. You start the trial or ask the vendor to learn what you will pay.
- Task billing: only some step types count, and the number depends on the step type and the data. The page gives no worked example, so a monthly bill is hard to estimate.
- Solo is limited to one user and ChatGPT insights only. For what is documented about getting cited in ChatGPT, see how to get cited by ChatGPT.
The 7 alternatives, one by one
Each tool below is judged on its own pages, with one limit per tool. Each section uses the vendor's own pages, read 21 October 2026. The last line of each is a limit shown on those pages.
Gumloop
Best for: people who want to build their own agents, from $37 a month.
- Gumloop is a general builder for AI agents, with SEO as one use case on its site.
- The Pro plan is listed from $37 a month with 20,000 credits, unlimited seats and a 14-day free trial.
- Credits are indexed at $0.005 each, and agents stop when credits run out unless you turn on pay as you go.
- Unlike AirOps, there is a plain starting price. You also do the building: its pricing page lists SEO Automation as a use case and names no approval step.
Limit: Gumloop adds an 8% fee on the list cost of each task, and 16% if you bring your own model API key.
Frase
Best for: teams that want fixes to live pages to wait for approval by default, from $49 a month with a 7-day trial.
- Frase covers research, drafting, GEO and SEO scores, site audits, publishing and Content Guard, which watches live pages for ranking decay.
- Starter costs $49 a month, month to month or $39 a month billed yearly, with 1 seat, 1 site, 10 articles and 50 audit pages each month. Professional is $129 and Scale $299, month to month.
- Its pricing page says Content Guard republishes a fix once you approve, and that approval is the default.
- A 7-day free trial needs no credit card. Frase also lists an MCP server so you can run it from Claude or Cursor.
Limit: Starter stops at its monthly limits, and watches only 10 pages with Content Guard.
Surfer
Best for: writers who optimise documents, from €49 a month billed yearly.
- Surfer is a content optimization platform that also tracks AI visibility.
- Discovery is €49 a month billed yearly (€59 month to month) for 120 documents created or optimized on the yearly card (10 on monthly billing) and 10 tracked pages.
- Standard is €99, Pro €182 and Peace of Mind €299 a month; each card says "Billed yearly". There is also an AI Search Analytics plan at €82 a month billed yearly (50 prompts), priced between Discovery and Standard.
- Enterprise is custom and adds SSO, white-label and priority support.
- Its FAQ says that when you cancel, your plan is not renewed and you keep access to the end of the paid period.
Limit: The pricing page gives no trial length and names no approval step.
Writesonic
Best for: AI visibility tracking with articles and audits in one plan, from $79 a month billed annually.
- Writesonic's pricing page sells AI search visibility tracking with articles and audits attached.
- Starter is $79 a month billed annually (it shows a $240 yearly saving) with 50 prompts on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, 15 AI articles, 10 site audits, 1 user and 1 project.
- Basic is $199 and Growth $399 a month billed annually. Switching the page to monthly billing shows Starter at $99, Basic at $249 and Growth at $499 a month. The FAQ says annual billing saves 20%.
- Enterprise is custom and lists all 9 AI platforms, a full Action Center, SSO and SOC 2 Type II.
Limit: On Starter, the Action Center is listed for Enterprise and agentic workflows show 10 trial runs.
Search Atlas
Best for: an agent that changes the site itself, with an approval mode, from $99 a month.
- Search Atlas combines an SEO suite with OTTO, an agent for technical fixes, on-page changes and content.
- Starter is $99 a month billed monthly with 50,000 credits, 1 project and 1 seat, and a 7-day trial. Growth is $199, Pro $399 and Agency from $999.
- On its OTTO SEO page (searchatlas.com/otto-seo/), Search Atlas says OTTO deploys optimizations on its own, and that you can switch on approval mode to review each change.
Limit: Starter has no LLM Visibility projects or queries. They begin on Growth.
Koala
Best for: the lowest sticker price in this list ($25 a month) and drafts you review before publishing.
- Koala writes articles and runs an SEO agent that reads your Search Console and Analytics data.
- Starter is $25 a month on monthly billing (annual saves 20%) with 45,000 words and 500 credits. Professional is $49 and Boost $99.
- The koala.sh home page says you can publish as drafts to review, or auto-publish per brand.
- The FAQ gives a 15-day refund window if you used under 15,000 words and 100 credits, and says you can cancel from the Account page.
Limit: Starter has 1 brand and a 25-message monthly cap on the brand agent.
Rankability
Best for: agencies that need client workspaces and client approvals, from $97 a month.
- Rankability prices for agencies.
- Starter is $97 a month billed monthly for 20 content projects, 100 tracked AI queries across 11 AI platforms, unlimited client workspaces and team members, and branded reports with client approvals.
- Agency is $297 (80 projects, 300 queries) and Agency Pro $497 (160 projects, 500 queries). Annual plans are listed as saving 2 months.
- A content project is one new page or one existing-page refresh with research, a brief, an outline, an AI-assisted draft and optimization guidance.
Limit: The 7-day trial needs a card and limits usage. After 7 days the plan bills at its listed price unless you cancel.
More: our hub of SEO tool alternatives, the Gumloop alternatives, Frase alternatives and Writesonic alternatives pages, AI SEO tools by the job they do, and what the work involves in SEO automation and agentic SEO.
Where Compass fits
Compass is the AI SEO agent we are building, and it is not open yet. It is designed to send each change to you as a pull request or draft for your approval.
Sources
All read on 21 October 2026 in a browser with a German IP.
- AirOps, Platform Pricing, airops.com/pricing (plans, plan table, FAQ), and home page airops.com.
- Gumloop, Pricing, gumloop.com/pricing (plan, credits, FAQ).
- Frase, Plans and pricing, frase.io/pricing.
- Surfer, Pricing, surferseo.com/pricing/.
- Writesonic, Plans & Pricing, writesonic.com/pricing.
- Search Atlas, Pricing, searchatlas.com/pricing/, and OTTO SEO, searchatlas.com/otto-seo/ (approval mode).
- Koala, Pricing, koala.sh/pricing, and home page koala.sh (publish as drafts).
- Rankability, Pricing, rankability.com/pricing.
Questions
AirOps shows no plan prices on its pricing page (21 October 2026). It lists Solo, Pro and Enterprise, and says pricing is based on task volume and needs. Extra tasks on Solo cost $0.025 each.
Solo and Pro have Start for free buttons. The FAQ describes a 14-day free trial with all Scale plan features and no payment details until it ends. No AirOps page calls it a free plan.
Tasks are the unit AirOps uses for actions like generating content or extracting data. Not every workflow step counts. Solo lists 35,000 tasks and Pro 100,000. If you run out, you pay for extra use.
Yes, as a feature. Its plan comparison table shows a tick for "Human Review & Approvals" and for "Content Review & Quality Scores" on Solo, Pro and Enterprise (21 October 2026). The table shows an X for Collaboration on Solo and Pro.
The comparison table has an Integrations group with CMS, SEO research, AEO research, project management, social and MCP rows. Solo lists basic CMS and SEO integrations. The page does not name the CMS platforms.
Yes. On Solo the option can be added to your plan. The FAQ says it is included for Scale and Agency plans, which the plan cards do not list.
Koala Starter shows $25 a month, the lowest sticker price in the table. The units differ (words, articles, credits, projects), so cost per article cannot be compared.
Frase (Content Guard fixes wait for approval by default), Search Atlas (an approval mode for OTTO), Koala (publish as drafts) and Rankability (client approvals) describe one on their own pages.
More alternatives pages
- Gumloop alternatives
- Profound alternatives
- Peec AI alternatives
- Semrush alternatives
- Ahrefs alternatives
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Written by Michael Nefedov, founder of noetio. Updated 21 October 2026.