Answer Audit or Peec AI: which should you use?
Use Peec AI if you want your own prompts checked daily or weekly across several AI assistants and countries, with unlimited users. Use Answer Audit if you want to see the answers AI assistants give your buyers before you pay for a monthly plan: the full report is $29£24 once, with no subscription, and asks every company in a category the same 25 questions.
Answer engine optimisation (AEO) is getting your company named when a buyer asks an AI assistant who to use. Both measure it; they suit different buyers. The grid compares them on the points these tools' own pricing and comparison pages use (price, commitment, assistants, seats, countries, how often answers are checked, app or API answers, exports and MCP), plus the ones that set Answer Audit apart.
Side by side
Peec AI's facts are as its own pages stated them on 12 October 2026, in the currency they were shown in. Where a point says “Not stated on the pages we read”, we found nothing on it, which is not the same as “no”. Prices change often; check the vendor's site before you buy.
| Point | Answer Audit | Peec AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free check 6 questions on 3 assistants, no card. Full report: $29£24 once, 25 questions Monitor: $19£15 a month, 25 questions Added to the full report; the first payment includes the report, and so does the yearly plan. | Starter: €85 a month or $95 a month, 50 prompts Pro: €205 a month or $245 a month, 150 prompts Advanced: €425 a month or $495 a month, 350 prompts Enterprise: on request Annual; prompts unlimited per Peec's AI instructions page. |
| Commitment | Free check: free. Full report: paid once, no subscription. Monitor: priced by the month. | Starter, Pro and Advanced: priced by the month. Enterprise: priced on request. |
| Free check or trial | Free check, and for its first 30 days your competitors on the grid and one drafted page. | A free trial is offered on the pricing page; its terms are not stated. |
| AI assistants asked | ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Google Search AI (AI Mode or AI Overview) The free check asks the first 3; the full report asks all 5. | Choose 3 of ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, Gemini; add-ons: OpenAI Search API, Claude Sonnet, Claude Haiku, DeepSeek API, Qwen API, Grok, Mistral, Muse Spark, Naver AI, Amazon Rufus This list is the AI instructions page's. The pricing page's plan table lists ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini and Naver AI on Starter and Pro, with Perplexity among the extra models. Starter, Pro and Advanced track three models of your choice. One extra model costs €25, €55 or €115 a month billed yearly on the pricing page, or $35, $85 or $165 a month on the AI instructions page. |
| Seats | No seats to buy: a report opens from its own private link, and your account is your email address. | Unlimited users on Starter, Pro and Advanced. |
| Countries and markets | 7 markets; another market is a pack of its own. | One country per project on Starter, three on Pro and Advanced; extra countries and languages cost nothing more, per the pricing FAQ. |
| How often answers are checked | Monthly. The full report is one run; the Monitor re-checks the same questions monthly. | Daily or weekly. |
| App or API answers | Some assistants through their own apps, some through APIs. Four assistants answer through their APIs with web search, and Google's own results page is read for the fifth. API answers are a proxy for what a person sees in the apps. | Some assistants through their own apps, some through APIs. Through each assistant's web interface ("UI scraping") for most engines; some add-on models, such as the OpenAI Search API, through an API. |
| Where the questions come from | 25 questions written for each category with the brand withheld; the same 25 are asked for every company in that category. | Your own prompts, with suggested prompts drawn from your brand context. |
| Your brand in the questions | The brand is withheld while the questions are written; on request we add a list of your own questions, scored apart and never compared with the category set. | Each prompt is classified as branded or non-branded. |
| Whole answers to read | The full report shows every answer whole, with who it named and which websites it cited. The free check shows the first 6 whole and the first 30 words of the rest. | Each tracked chat holds the model used, the response text, every brand it mentioned in order, and every URL it accessed or cited; chats can be filtered by the features they contained (ads, maps, web search, shopping, product comparison) in the All Chats table, the API and MCP (AI instructions page). |
| Exports and API | CSV, PDF and API. CSV and Save as PDF on every report. A REST API with personal keys, and an MCP server: its category tools need no sign-in, and your own reports need you to sign in. Both read only, since 12 October 2026. | CSV, Looker Studio and API. Looker Studio from Advanced; API access listed under Enterprise. The AI instructions page also says every plan exports, so the tier gating is unclear. |
| MCP server | Yes. A REST API with personal keys, and an MCP server: its category tools need no sign-in, and your own reports need you to sign in. | Listed on its pages. |
| Writes content for you | Drafts answer-shaped pages grounded in the answers we hold (a page pack). | None by design: it does not write or publish content. |
| Done for you by people | Monitor Pro: $150£120 a month Full audit: from $750£600 once Get cited: from $1,500£1,200 a month Agency white label: from $189£149 a month From 5 clients; reports carry the agency's name. A company that wants the number moved, not just measured. | Not stated on the pages we read. |
| Best for | Seeing the actual answers before you pay anyone | Marketing teams and agencies tracking their own prompts daily |
When Peec AI is the better buy
- You need numbers every day. Peec AI checks daily or weekly; our Monitor re-checks monthly. For daily numbers a daily tracker is the better buy, and Peec AI is one.
- You work in several countries. One country per project on Starter, three on Pro and Advanced; extra countries and languages cost nothing more, per the pricing FAQ.
- A whole team will log in. Unlimited users on Starter, Pro and Advanced.
- You want answers read from the assistants' own apps. Through each assistant's web interface ("UI scraping") for most engines; some add-on models, such as the OpenAI Search API, through an API. Four of our five assistants answer through their APIs; API answers are a proxy for what a person sees in the app.
- You need Microsoft Copilot. Peec AI lists it; we do not ask Copilot.
When Answer Audit is the better buy
- You want all five of our assistants at one price. Peec AI's Starter, Pro and Advanced plans track 3 models of your choice and charge for extra ones; our full report asks all 5, Claude and Google's AI answer included.
- You want to know where you stand before you commit to a monthly plan. The free check asks 6 buyer questions on 3 AI assistants with no card, and the full report is $29£24 once, with no subscription: all 25 questions on all 5 assistants.
- You want a fair test. 25 questions written for each category with the brand withheld; the same 25 are asked for every company in that category. So your result sits beside your competitors' on the same questions.
- You want the answers in one report you keep, with no subscription. The full report shows every answer whole, with who it named and which websites it cited. The free check shows the first 6 whole and the first 30 words of the rest.
- You want someone to do the work. A full audit is from $750£600, and getting cited from $1,500£1,200 a month. Agencies can resell the report under their own name.
Questions people ask
Is Answer Audit cheaper than Peec AI?
Answer Audit's free check costs nothing, the full report is $29£24 once and Monitor adds $19£15 a month on top of it, or $190£150 a year with the report included. Peec AI's plans as its pages showed them on 12 October 2026: Starter: €85 a month or $95 a month; Pro: €205 a month or $245 a month; Advanced: €425 a month or $495 a month; Enterprise: on request. Which costs less depends on whether you want one clear look or numbers every day.
Does Peec AI check every day?
Peec AI checks daily or weekly. Answer Audit's full report is one run, and its Monitor asks the same questions again each month. If you need daily numbers, Peec AI is the better buy.
Which AI assistants do Answer Audit and Peec AI ask?
Answer Audit: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Google Search AI (AI Mode or AI Overview). The free check asks the first 3; the full report asks all 5. Peec AI: choose 3 of ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, Gemini; add-ons: OpenAI Search API, Claude Sonnet, Claude Haiku, DeepSeek API, Qwen API, Grok, Mistral, Muse Spark, Naver AI, Amazon Rufus.
Does Peec AI read the AI apps or use their APIs?
Through each assistant's web interface ("UI scraping") for most engines; some add-on models, such as the OpenAI Search API, through an API. Answer Audit: four assistants answer through their APIs with web search, and Google's own results page is read for the fifth. API answers are a proxy for what a person sees in the apps.
Why not ask the AI assistants about my company by name?
Because a buyer who has not heard of you does not ask that way, and an assistant asked about a named company will talk about it. The questions that decide whether you make a shortlist are written from the category description alone, before any company's name is given.
Does every company in my category get the same questions?
Yes, for the same category and market. That is what makes scores in a category comparable, and it is why the answers are asked once and reused rather than bought again for each company.