Searchable.com is a genuine, well-built AEO platform — and a monthly subscription that starts at $125/month. If you're an agency tracking dozens of client brands across AI search every day, that recurring model earns its keep. But if you're a business owner who just wants to know whether ChatGPT, Claude and the rest recommend you — and what to fix — a monthly contract is heavy machinery for a question you ask a handful of times a year. Here's an honest comparison, with the real figures.
What Searchable.com costs, and covers
Searchable sells three main tiers on a monthly or annual subscription (annual saves ~20%), with a 14-day free trial. At the time of writing, per its own pricing page:
- Pro — from $125/month: 100 tracked prompts, ~9,000 AI answers analysed a month, 1 project.
- Scale — from $400/month: 500 prompts, ~45,000 answers, 10 projects, white-label reports.
- Enterprise — from $999/month: 1,250 prompts, unlimited projects.
Note the “from”. Searchable prices per model — the plans read “100 tracked prompts / model” — and the entry price covers a base set of engines (ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity). The price goes up as you add engines. Want Claude, Gemini, Grok, Microsoft Copilot or DeepSeek in the mix? Each one you select pushes the monthly bill higher. So $125/month is the floor for three engines — matching the five engines a single AI Search Ready audit runs costs substantially more, every month, on a contract. (Prices and inclusions change — always check their site for the current version.)
The technical audit they charge for is our free tier
Every Searchable plan bundles on-page / technical site audits — schema markup, crawlability, content structure, the machine-readable signals AI engines rely on — metered into the subscription (200 audits a month on the $125 Pro plan). That's useful work. It's also exactly what our free instant check does, scored across 137 signals, with no plan, no metering and no card: schema and schema-graph validation, robots and AI-crawler access, llms.txt, TLS, canonical hygiene, E-E-A-T, entity clarity and content structure. The on-page audit isn't a premium feature here — it's the front door.
The question most businesses actually have
It isn't “how do I monitor my AI visibility continuously on a dashboard?” — it's “does AI recommend me right now, across the engines my buyers use, and what do I fix?” That's a question with an answer, not a subscription. You ask it, get the truth, act on it, and ask again after you've made changes. Paying every month in between is paying for a dashboard you're not watching.
The pay-once alternative
AI Search Ready is built for exactly that:
- Free instant check — an AI-readiness score out of 100 and your top issues. No signup, no card, no trial clock.
- £5 full technical report — every signal scored with fix instructions. One-off, per site.
- £19 citation audit — twelve real buyer questions asked live across all five major engines: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok (60 real answers), showing exactly who gets recommended instead of you. The £5 report is included.
- £45 three-pack — audit, fix, rescan with the same locked questions, so the before/after is real. Then you're done until you choose to check again.
Put the numbers side by side: a business pays Searchable from $125/month (~£100) for three engines — and more every month to add the rest, because the price scales per model. The AI Search Ready audit checks all five engines for £19, once — and the technical check is free. No per-engine surcharge, no monthly bill, no annual contract, no auto-renew you forget to cancel.
When a subscription genuinely is the right call
We'll be straight, because credibility matters more than a cheap shot: if you're an agency managing many brands, or a large company that needs daily monitoring, alerting, white-label client reporting and a shared dashboard, a platform like Searchable — or our own studio partner Dyfyn — is the right shape of tool. Continuous coverage is a real need for some teams. Most small and medium businesses aren't that team, and shouldn't pay as if they were.
The honest comparison
- Searchable.com — subscription from $125/month, priced per model so the bill rises as you add engines, 14-day trial, continuous daily monitoring. Built for brands and agencies at scale.
- AI Search Ready — free to check, then £5–£45 once, five engines in the audit, rescan on demand. Built for businesses that want the answer without the contract.
Same core job — are you cited in AI answers, and how do you fix it — two very different price tags. If daily monitoring across a whole brand portfolio is what you need, buy the subscription with our blessing. If you just want to know where you stand and what to do about it, you can find out in the next sixty seconds, across all five engines, for nothing.