BrightEdge alternatives, with the prices that are public

By Michael Nefedov, noetio · Updated 21 October 2026

BrightEdge shows no price and no plan sizes, and you book a demo. The cheapest public price among eight alternatives is SE Ranking Growth at €235 a month.

Which one to pick

If you want a price before a call, start with SE Ranking, Ahrefs or Otterly.AI.

• A price and a trial firstSE Ranking Growth is €235 a month. Its 14-day trial needs no card and is capped (10 projects, 750 keywords a day, 20 AI prompts a day), so it is not the full Growth plan.
• Only AI answersProfound or Otterly.AI Profound has a free 7-day trial of 50 prompts a day. Otterly.AI Premium is €489 a month for 400 prompts.
• Many sitesSemrush Advanced lists 40+ websites and unlimited AI prompts, so it fits many sites, at a custom price.
• A try before a sales callConductor Essentials has a Try for Free button. No amounts are shown.
• Site Agents SuiteBrightEdge book a demo, because no price is shown.

BrightEdge vs the alternatives

BrightEdge is the only tool here with no public price; most alternatives list one.

Higher-tier plan of each tool, from its own page, read on 21 October 2026. Monthly billing means month to month; the yearly column is the monthly equivalent when you pay for a year.

Each price is in the currency its vendor page uses. Not every tool here is an enterprise product, and the table says which plan is shown.

Prices: the vendor pricing pages linked in the first column, read 21 October 2026, on both billing switches where a page has one. For BrightEdge: its home page, its Site Agents Suite page and brightedge.com/pricing, which returns HTTP 404.

• *Surfer says a fair usage policy applies to "unlimited".
• Surfer and Writesonic show yearly prices first. Peace of Mind is €359 and Writesonic Growth is $499 month to month.
• Ahrefs tracks keywords weekly and AI prompts daily. SE Ranking and Semrush list keywords tracked daily.

What BrightEdge does

BrightEdge is an enterprise platform for keyword data, AI search tracking and site agents, with no public price.

The home page headline is "The #1 AI-Powered AEO & SEO Platform", with the line "One unified platform to win across Google, AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity." (see SEO vs GEO for the difference).

• Data Cube X is the keyword research engine.
• AI Hyper Cube covers how people search across ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews, which brands are mentioned or cited, and the sentiment of those answers.
• Copilot gives insights and suggestions.

The navigation also lists AI Catalyst, AI Agent Insights, Agent Edge, an MCP connection, site audit, on-page SEO, content creation, local and mobile SEO, and custom reporting.

BrightEdge Site Agents Suite (formerly Autopilot)

Site Agents Suite is the new name for Autopilot, with three agents and one stated approval step.

The page is titled "BrightEdge Site Agents Suite (Previously Known as Autopilot)" and says the suite is the new name for Autopilot. The home page still mentions Autopilot in its text, and the page address still contains /autopilot. Per the page:

• The Site Agent builds and places internal links.
• The Schema Agent generates and deploys JSON-LD structured data as pages change.
• The Publishing Agent pushes title tag, meta title and H1 updates into WordPress, Drupal or another major CMS.

The page says "a person confirms every change before it goes live" in the Publishing Agent section. It does not say the same in the Site Agent or Schema Agent sections. If that matters to you, ask in the demo.

Where BrightEdge wins

BrightEdge puts keyword data, AI search tracking and site agents with one vendor.

• Its home page lists SEO, AEO, reporting and security in the same workflow.
• Data Cube X claims 4 billion+ data points and 10 years of history (BrightEdge's claim).
• The Publishing Agent writes into WordPress, Drupal or another major CMS, and for that agent the page states a human confirmation step.

If you want research and site changes from one vendor, that is the scope it sells.

Where BrightEdge falls short

You cannot see a price, a plan size or a limit before the call.

• No free trial is listed.
• The agents page states the confirmation step only for the Publishing Agent.
• Conductor and Profound publish a way to try before you talk to sales, and Conductor lists limits per plan.

The 8 BrightEdge alternatives, one by one

Each alternative below is read for what a larger buyer asks: sales path, seats, SSO and compliance, API, and contract terms. BrightEdge sells to enterprises.

Conductor

Best for: teams that want to try a plan first: Essentials has a Try for Free button.

Pricing is usage-based with no amounts, in three tiers with different buttons: Essentials has Try for Free, Growth has Request a Demo, Enterprise has Contact Sales. Essentials covers 3 websites, 500 tracked keywords, 5 competitors and 60 writing drafts a year. Growth covers 5 websites and 5,000 keywords; Enterprise 10+ websites and 60,000+ keywords. Its home page names four products (Creator, Intelligence, Monitoring, AgentStack). See Conductor alternatives.

Semrush Advanced

Best for: many sites in one account: 40+ websites, custom price.

Advanced is a custom price for 40+ websites, 5,000+ keywords tracked daily and unlimited AI prompts, with SEO share of voice, team users and API access. Semrush for Enterprise lists SSO, team governance and audit logs, a dedicated account manager, and "Enterprise SLA & 24/7 support". On monthly billing, SEO is €134.21 a month and Pro+ €286.74. Semrush has a free plan, and the page says "Try Semrush free for seven days. Cancel anytime." See Semrush alternatives.

Ahrefs Advanced

Best for: teams that want research, site audit and 20 AI prompts a day in one plan, at €419 a month.

Advanced is €419 a month, or €349 a month billed €4,190 a year on the annual switch (the FAQ says to contact support to switch an existing plan to annual billing), with 5,000 keywords tracked weekly, 600 AI checks a month (20 prompts a day), 50 non-verified projects, 5 years of history and 1 user; extra users are €74.80 a month. Enterprise shows €1,394 a month with an annual commitment required. It lists unlimited history, SSO and uncapped API access. No trial is listed for paid plans; an Ahrefs Free plan exists.

SE Ranking

Best for: a public price and a no-card trial: Growth is €235 a month.

Growth is €235 a month, or €188 billed yearly: 30 projects, 3 manager seats, 5k keywords and 250 AI prompts tracked daily, plus historical data and guest links. Enterprise is custom. The 14-day trial needs no card. Payments are non-refundable unless the service was not delivered as promised.

Surfer

Best for: teams that write many documents: Peace of Mind lists unlimited* documents, €299 a month billed yearly.

Peace of Mind is €299 a month billed yearly, or €359 month to month: unlimited* documents, 100 AI prompts a day, 10 team seats, API access and a dedicated success manager. Enterprise is custom. To cancel, you turn off auto-renew and keep access to the end of the paid period.

Writesonic

Best for: AI tracking with articles in one plan: Growth is $399 a month billed annually.

Growth is $399 a month billed annually ($499 month to month on the Monthly switch): 200 prompts and 600 answers tracked daily across ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, 50 AI articles, 50 site audits of 2,500 pages each, 3 users and 2 projects, with sentiment analysis. The Enterprise column lists SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA. You can start without a card ("Start free. No credit card needed."), and the FAQ gives a 7-day refund.

Profound

Best for: teams that only track AI answers and want to try first: 7 days free.

Two plans. The free Trial runs 50 prompts a day for 7 days on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, with limited AI Marketer credits, one language and one region, and unlimited domains in Agent Analytics. Enterprise is custom: up to 9 answer engines, a tailored prompt plan, SSO/SAML and SOC 2. See Profound alternatives.

Otterly.AI

Best for: AI answer tracking alone: Premium is €489 a month for 400 prompts.

AI answer tracking only. Premium is €489 a month, or €422 billed annually, for 400 search prompts with API and MCP access. Standard is €189 (€160 yearly) for 100 prompts. Enterprise starts from 1,000 prompts and lists single sign-on, enterprise-grade compliance and a dedicated customer success manager. The FAQ says there is a free trial, without a length, and that you can cancel any time.

How to pick a BrightEdge alternative

Decide first whether you need a visible price, a trial, site agents or AI tracking alone.

• See a price firstAhrefs, SE Ranking, Surfer, Writesonic, Otterly.AI list plan prices. Conductor lists plan limits, and Semrush has a free plan.
• Try before a sales callConductor, Profound, SE Ranking Conductor Essentials has a Try for Free button, Profound has a 7-day trial and SE Ranking has 14 days; Semrush says seven days.
• Agents that write to the siteBrightEdge or Conductor Site Agents Suite and Conductor's Content and Technical Agents say they publish. Ask each who approves the change.
• Only AI answer trackingOtterly.AI, Profound, Writesonic list prompt counts per plan, per day. Ahrefs counts 600 checks a month on Advanced (20 prompts a day). Compare how each one counts a prompt.

More comparisons: Conductor alternatives, Semrush alternatives, Ahrefs alternatives, Profound alternatives and all SEO tool alternatives.

Where Compass fits

Compass is the AI SEO agent we are building, and it is not open yet.

It is designed for small teams whose site code lives in a Git repo, and to send each change to you as a pull request or draft to approve. More: AI SEO tools by the job they do.

Sources

All read on 21 October 2026, in a browser with a German IP, both billing switches where the page has one.

1. BrightEdge, home page, brightedge.com. Headline, Data Cube X (4 billion data points, 10 years), AI Hyper Cube, customer groups, Autopilot mention.
2. BrightEdge, Site Agents Suite (Previously Known as Autopilot), brightedge.com. Three agents, rename, the confirmation sentence.
3. BrightEdge, /pricing, brightedge.com. Returns HTTP 404.
4. Conductor, Pricing, conductor.com. Plan limits, buttons, no amounts.
5. Semrush, Plans & Pricing, semrush.com. Both switches, Advanced and Enterprise, seven-day trial line.
6. Ahrefs, Plans & pricing, ahrefs.com. Both switches, Enterprise, FAQ on trials and annual billing.
7. SE Ranking, Subscription plans, seranking.com. Both switches, trial and refund FAQ.
8. Surfer, Pricing, surferseo.com. Both billing switches, fair usage note, cancellation FAQ.
9. Writesonic, Plans & Pricing, writesonic.com. Both switches, FAQ on card, refund and cancelling.
10. Profound, Pricing, tryprofound.com. Trial and Enterprise columns, agencies tab.
11. Otterly.AI, Pricing, otterly.ai. Monthly and annual plans, FAQ on trial and cancelling.

Questions

More alternatives pages

• Semrush alternatives
• Ahrefs alternatives
• Mangools alternatives
• Conductor alternatives
• Profound alternatives

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Written by Michael Nefedov, founder of noetio. Updated 21 October 2026.