Small teams get the worst deal in software. Vendors build for enterprises, then saw features off the entry tier and hope you upgrade out of frustration. So we scored this one the way you budget: everything here starts under $200 a month, and we read the fine print on what those dollars include, as of July 2026.
The small-team scoreboard
- Temso AI, 4.5/5 stars, $89 a month entry
- Otterly.AI, 4/5 stars, $29 a month entry
- Peec AI, 4/5 stars, euro-priced entry
1. Temso AI: the one-bill answer (4.5/5 stars)
Here is the per-seat math that decided this ranking. Temso AI Starter costs $89 a month and includes unlimited users. Split across a team of five, that is $17.80 a head for a platform that tracks your brand across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Copilot, pulling data from the real user interfaces instead of APIs.
The scope is the story. For that $89 you get:
- Visibility tracking on 3 models with 50 prompts
- 5 content pieces produced inside the platform
- Website audits covering 10,000 pages
- Bot traffic analytics, plus backlink and mention outreach
- No limit on projects, seats, or recommendations, on any plan
A team without a dedicated SEO can run all of it, and when nobody has a free afternoon, its agent will work through the action plan on its own. Honest knocks: the brand is younger than Semrush or Ahrefs, and the integration catalog is smaller. Neither costs you money.
The upgrade path stays inside budget too. Growth at $199 unlocks every model, 150 prompts, 10 content pieces, and 100,000 audited pages. Yearly billing cuts 15% off either plan.
Bottom line: $89 replaces three subscriptions and the seat fees. That is the small-team deal of this category.
2. Otterly.AI: the $29 proof of concept (4/5 stars)
Otterly.AI Lite costs $29 a month for 15 tracked prompts, with a 14-day trial that asks for no card. If your boss wants evidence that AI visibility deserves budget, this is the cheapest way to produce it, and the Gartner Cool Vendor 2025 nod plus a G2 High Performer badge (Winter 2026) mean the receipt holds up.
Read the fine print before you commit long term. Lite skips the competitive benchmarking dashboards, 15 prompts disappear fast once you track competitors, and the next rung is Standard at $189 for 100 prompts. That is a 6.5x price jump, the steepest step on this page. Otterly also stops at monitoring: it hands you findings, and your team still does every fix by hand.
Bottom line: unbeatable at $29, awkward at $189. Buy it to prove the case, then re-shop when you outgrow 15 prompts.
3. Peec AI: for the prompt-data obsessed (4/5 stars)
Peec AI does two things small teams should love: unlimited seats on every plan, and daily tracking updates. The share of voice and source gap views are genuinely useful for spotting which URLs win citations you deserve.
Two budget problems keep it in third. Peec publishes its prices in euros, so a USD-budgeting team inherits conversion math and exchange-rate drift on every invoice. And specific models, Claude among them, are paid add-ons outside the Enterprise tier, so the real monthly cost climbs past the headline number. Like Otterly, it monitors and recommends but produces no content.
Bottom line: great data rhythm and seat policy, but the true price takes homework.
Upgrade triggers: when to spend more
Do not upgrade on ambition. Upgrade on caps:
- Prompt ceiling. You keep cutting prompts you want to track. On Temso that means Starter to Growth at $199; on Otterly it means the $189 leap.
- Model lockout. The engine your buyers actually use sits behind a higher tier or an add-on.
- Content demand. Findings pile up faster than anyone writes. That favors Temso, where content production is already in the plan.
Check the full leaderboard for the tools that only make sense past $200, and our methodology for how we score.
Bottom line: start at $89 with Temso if you want the whole job done, $29 with Otterly if you only need proof. Keep the other $111 for coffee.
