AI visibility trackers (GEO)
As of October 29, 2026, Otterly.AI's cheapest paid plan is Lite at $29/month, per its own pricing page. Otterly.AI is built around tracking and improving AI visibility, while Paperboy writes and fact checks the articles those answers can cite, and the table shows where the two overlap.
| Row | Paperboy | Otterly.AI |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest paid plan | $49 a month | $29/month |
| Fact checks claims against sources | Yes | Not listed |
| Learns from Search Console | Yes | Not listed |
| Publishes to your site for you | Partly | Not listed |
| MCP, API or CLI for agents | Yes | Yes |
Side by side
Every cell links the page it came from, with the day we read it.
| Feature | Paperboy | Otterly.AI |
|---|---|---|
| What it is for | Researches, writes, fact checks and publishes SEO articles to your own site, then learns from Search Console. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 | AI search visibility monitoring: daily runs of your search prompts (15, 100 or 400 by plan) on ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Copilot, with AI Mode, Gemini and Claude as paid add-ons. Adds GEO audits, recommendations and AI crawler analytics. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 |
| Cheapest paid plan | Starter is $49 a month per site for 3 articles a week. Growth is $99 and Pro is $179. Yearly billing is two months free. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 | Cheapest paid plan is Lite at $29 per month for 15 search prompts on 4 engines. Standard is $189 (100 prompts) and Premium is $489 (400 prompts). Annual billing is offered at a discount. The pricing page blocks automated fetching, so these dollar figures were read from search results on otterly.ai/pricing; the help center confirms plan names and prompt limits. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 |
| Free plan or trial | Yes The first article is free, no card. Any plan then starts with a 14-day trial (card required). SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 | Yes Yes. 7-day free trial, no credit card required: 50 search prompts, 1,000 API calls, 1,000 MCP calls, 50,000 Agent Analytics events, 100 GEO audit URLs, unlimited workspaces and team members. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 |
| Publishes to your site for you | Partly Posts directly to WordPress and Ghost. Other sites use a hosted blog, a signed webhook or a prompt that builds a blog in your code. No Shopify, Webflow, Wix or Squarespace connector. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 | Not listed Not stated. The pages read describe monitoring, a GEO audit and a Recommendations list (Suggested, To-Do, Archive) that your team acts on. No CMS publishing feature found. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 |
| Fact checks claims against sources | Yes Every number and cited sentence is compared with the saved text of its source. An article that fails gets one rewrite, then is held for you. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 | Not listed Not stated for articles. Otterly does not appear to write articles. Its Brand Profiling feature shows the claims and attributes AI engines attach to your brand compared with competitors. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 |
| Learns from Search Console | Yes Optional read-only Search Console connection. It picks topics from your impressions and reports clicks per article. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 | Not listed Not stated as a native integration. The help center lists Looker Studio, API, MCP, GA4 traffic measurement and a Semrush app. A search result for an Otterly blog post mentions a Claude Skill workflow that uses Search Console queries; that page could not be opened. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 |
| Open source or self-host | Yes The engine is open source under AGPL-3.0. Self-host it with Docker and your own keys. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 | Not listed Not stated. Otterly is a hosted product from OtterlyAI GmbH. Its GitHub org has no public repos. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 |
| MCP, API or CLI for agents | Yes A remote MCP server with eight tools and a REST API with an OpenAPI file. The CLI is built in the open but not on npm yet. Agents pay with credits, $20 for 100. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 | Yes Public API with API keys (read or read and write). Hosted MCP server at data.otterly.ai/mcp using OAuth 2.0, for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and n8n. MCP and API are on Standard, Premium and Enterprise, and in the trial. Looker Studio connector. API data can feed Zapier, Make or Slack. No CLI found. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 |
“Not listed” means we found no statement either way on the pages linked in that cell. It does not mean the answer is no. Vendors change their pages, so confirm before you buy.
The honest verdict
Sometimes the other tool is the better fit. Here is how to tell.
Pick Otterly.AI if
What Otterly.AI does well, from its own pages
Pick Paperboy if
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Your first article is free with its full fact check, so you can judge it before you pay anyone.
Write my first article freeWhat you get
The four that decide it for most people, each with the source for the other side.
AI search visibility monitoring: daily runs of your search prompts (15, 100 or 400 by plan) on ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Copilot, with AI Mode, Gemini and Claude as paid add-ons. Adds GEO audits, recommendations and AI crawler analytics (help.otterly.ai, read Oct 29, 2026). Paperboy does not report how often AI answers mention your brand. It has a free check that shows whether AI crawlers can read your site, and nothing more on that side.
Paperboy writes the article, compares every cited claim with the saved text of its source and publishes it. On Otterly.AI's side: The Otterly.AI pages we read do not say (help.otterly.ai, read Oct 29, 2026).
Measuring shows the gap. Fixing it takes a page that answers the question and cites sources a model can lean on, which is the part Paperboy writes. Otterly.AI on search data: The Otterly.AI pages we read do not say (help.otterly.ai, read Oct 29, 2026).
Otterly.AI: Public API with API keys (read or read and write). Hosted MCP server at data.otterly.ai/mcp using OAuth 2.0, for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and n8n. MCP and API are on Standard, Premium and Enterprise, and in the trial. Looker Studio connector. API data can feed Zapier, Make or Slack. No CLI found (help.otterly.ai, read Oct 29, 2026). Paperboy has a remote MCP server with eight tools and a REST API. Its CLI is not on npm yet.
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Paste your site address. The first article is free, no card.
Read the fact check. Every number and cited sentence is compared with the saved text of its source.
Pick a plan only if you want more. Cancel with one button on the Billing page.
https://paperboyseo.com/start?url=yoursite.comThe engine is open source under AGPL-3.0. Self-hosting for your own sites is free; you pay your own model bill. Self-host docs.
About Otterly.AI
AI search monitoring and optimization platform that shows how your brand appears in answers from ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Copilot. (its own description, read Oct 29, 2026)
otterly.ai sits behind a bot check, so WebFetch and curl could not read the pricing page. Dollar prices come from two search results on otterly.ai/pricing that agreed; plan names and prompt limits match help.otterly.ai. Annual prices were not verified. Recheck in a browser before publishing. Lite shows no API or MCP quota on the help pricing table.
| Plan | Price | What the page says it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Lite | $29/month | 15 search prompts; ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot; daily tracking; 1 workspace; unlimited team members; 1,000 GEO URL audits per month; no API or MCP quota listed |
| Standard | $189/month | 100 search prompts; same 4 engines; unlimited workspaces; 5,000 GEO URL audits per month; 2,000 API and 2,000 MCP requests per month; 200k Agent Analytics events per month; Looker Studio connector; extra 100 prompts for $99/month |
| Premium | $489/month | 400 search prompts; same 4 engines; 10,000 GEO URL audits per month; 5,000 API and 5,000 MCP requests per month; 1M Agent Analytics events per month; Looker Studio connector; extra 100 prompts for $99/month |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom prompt limits, SSO, dedicated account manager, invoice payment |
From Otterly.AI's pricing page, read October 29, 2026. Paperboy's own prices are on our pricing page.
FAQ
As of Oct 29, 2026, Otterly.AI lists Lite $29/month; Standard $189/month; Premium $489/month. otterly.ai is the source, so confirm there before you buy.
The Otterly.AI pages we read do not say (help.otterly.ai, read Oct 29, 2026).
The Otterly.AI pages we read do not say (help.otterly.ai, read Oct 29, 2026).
The Otterly.AI pages we read do not say (github.com, read Oct 29, 2026).
Public API with API keys (read or read and write). Hosted MCP server at data.otterly.ai/mcp using OAuth 2.0, for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and n8n. MCP and API are on Standard, Premium and Enterprise, and in the trial. Looker Studio connector. API data can feed Zapier, Make or Slack. No CLI found (help.otterly.ai, read Oct 29, 2026).
Sources
Every cell above links the page we read, and every date is the day we read it. Facts about Otterly.AI come from Otterly.AI's own pages only. Facts about Paperboy come from pages on this site. If something is wrong or out of date, write to hello@paperboyseo.com and we will fix it and change the date.
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