Manifold vs Otterly.AI for AI visibility on a small budget
Otterly.AI tracks a fixed set of prompts daily from $29 a month. Manifold checks any prompt on demand in your agent, from free. Which fits a solo founder.
Manifold or Otterly.AI on a small budget?
At a glance
| Otterly.AI entry price | $29 a month, Lite, 15 prompts |
|---|---|
| Manifold entry price | $0, 250 credits a month |
| One prompt on five engines, Manifold | 27 credits |
| Checked | otterly.ai/pricing, 26 October 2026 |
Side by side
| Otterly.AI | Manifold | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A web app with a dashboard | An MCP server your agent calls |
| Entry price | Lite $29 a month ($25 billed yearly), 15 prompts | Free plan, 250 credits a month, no card |
| Next step up | Standard $189 a month, 100 prompts | Pro from $20 a month |
| How you pay | A fixed set of prompts, re-run daily | Per prompt and engine, each time it runs |
| Engines included | ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot | ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode |
| Extra engines | Claude, Google AI Mode and Gemini as paid add-ons | None to add; Copilot is not covered |
| Daily tracking and history | Yes | No; your agent runs a check when asked |
| Sentiment and recommendations | Yes | No scores; your agent reads the answers and judges |
| API and MCP | API and MCP access from Standard | MCP on every plan, the free one included |
| Other data on the same account | GEO audits, crawlability audit, prompt research | SEO, Search Console, Reddit, social, ad libraries, leads |
| Free trial | Yes | Free plan, every month |
Otterly's prices and features are from its pricing page, read on 26 October 2026.
Who each one is for
Otterly.AI is for a marketer who wants a fixed list of prompts checked every day without thinking about it, with a dashboard, recommendations and reports.
Manifold is for a founder or marketer who already works in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor and wants to ask an AI visibility question when it comes up, then keep going in the same chat: which sources the engines cite, what those pages rank for, what Reddit says.
What a month costs
One prompt on Manifold's five default engines costs 27 credits. The free plan covers about 9 such prompts a month, and Pro's first step about 37.
That is cheaper than Otterly for occasional checks and much dearer for daily ones. Otterly Lite re-runs 15 prompts every day, about 450 checks a month, for $29. The same schedule on Manifold would cost 450 times 27 credits. If daily tracking of a fixed list is the job, Otterly is the better buy.
When to pick which
- Pick Otterly.AI for a set-and-forget daily tracker with a dashboard you can share, and you do not mind a fourth tool.
- Pick Manifold to ask a few prompts when a question comes up, to see what all six engines say about a launch, or to follow a citation into SEO, Reddit or ads data without leaving your agent.
- Use both if you want Otterly's daily history and your agent's research on the sources it surfaces.
