Both tools answer the same question — are you cited when AI recommends a business like yours, and how do you fix it? They're built for different buyers and priced on opposite models. Here's the straight comparison, with figures from Searchable's own published pricing (which changes — check their site for the current version).
| Searchable.com | AI Search Ready | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Monthly / annual subscription | Pay once — no subscription |
| Entry price | From $125/month (~£100) | Free check · £5 report · £19 audit |
| Engines on entry plan | 3 (priced per model — more cost more) | 5 in the £19 audit, flat |
| Engines available | ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, + Claude / Gemini / Grok / Copilot / DeepSeek as paid add-ons | ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok — all included |
| Technical / on-page audit | Metered into the plan (e.g. 200/mo on Pro) | Free — 137 signals, no plan |
| Live answers you can verify | Dashboard, daily monitoring | 60 real answers per audit, watched live |
| Signup to first result | 14-day trial, account required | ~60 seconds, no signup for the free check |
| Best for | Agencies + brands needing daily monitoring at scale | Businesses wanting the answer without a contract |
| Annual cost, roughly | £1,200+ / year, ongoing | £19 when you want it |
Where Searchable wins
Credit where it's due: if you need continuous daily monitoring across many brands, regions and languages, shared dashboards, alerting and white-label client reports, Searchable is a mature platform built for exactly that. An agency running AEO as a service will get real value from a subscription. That's a genuine need — for some teams.
Where AI Search Ready wins
For the business that isn't running a monitoring operation, the maths is stark. The free check does the technical audit Searchable meters into its plans — across 137 signals. The £19 audit runs all five major engines live (Searchable charges per model, so five engines there is well above the $125 floor, every month). And when you're done, you're done — no recurring bill, no auto-renew.
The one-line version
Searchable is a per-model monthly subscription for teams that monitor continuously. AI Search Ready is a pay-once check across all five engines for everyone else. Different tools, honestly — pick the one that matches how often you actually need to know.
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