Is Ansvisor Worth It?
We run Promptwatch on client programs. Ansvisor is an MIT repo plus a $49 two-engine cloud. We would not swap the scoreboard for their May comparison page.
A technical client forwarded Ansvisor because it is open source and $49. We already run Promptwatch on client programs. We read the cloud cards, the README, and their Promptwatch comparison (15 May 2026). We would not replace our measurement stack with Starter at two engines. We might let an engineering-heavy account self-host the repo as a sidecar, not as the KPI source.
Company: Empler AI Inc., MIT license, GitHub ansvisor/ansvisor. Co-founders Gokhan Geyik and Cihan Geyik. They say they launched 15 May 2026. Fetched 29 August 2026.
What we checked
Cloud: Starter $49 (1 brand, 50 prompts, ChatGPT and Perplexity, 10 briefs, 100 audits). Growth $249 (4 brands, 200 prompts, extra Google/Gemini/Copilot on the card, 50 briefs). Enterprise from $999. Compare table response analyze 4,500 / 18,000. Stripe USD.
Self-host: Node 20, Yarn, Supabase, an AI provider, Cloro. IS_CLOUD=false. BYO keys still planned. That is a project, not a login we hand a marketing manager.
Traffic product is a snippet. We measure bots on Promptwatch Agent Analytics. We will not tell a client the snippet is the same QBR. Citations exist as a module. We still use Reddit and YouTube views on Promptwatch. Content Agents still publish to Webflow or Framer. Ansvisor briefs stay drafts unless someone pastes them.
Trial copy names Pro, Starter, Growth, and a 7-day demo. FAQ names Lite. Engine lists disagree on Claude and Grok. Changelog in llms.txt still points at aeohub/ansvisor. We screenshot before a proposal.
Their vs Promptwatch page says we (or Promptwatch) only monitor. We generate and publish on Promptwatch. We will not adopt competitor copy into a SOW.
Vendor 50x (David Henricks, Scale) and homepage 35%/22%/4.3% stay in their column.
Pricing we can put in a proposal
| Vendor | What we can print | Role on our accounts |
|---|---|---|
| Ansvisor self-host | MIT | Engineering experiment; client pays Cloro and tokens |
| Ansvisor Starter | $49/mo | Two-engine sample, not our GEO KPI |
| Ansvisor Growth | $249/mo | Wider cloud; still not CDN logs |
| Promptwatch Explore | $0 | ChatGPT smoke test we already use |
| Promptwatch Essential | $95/mo | Citations, visitor events, 5 AEO articles |
| Promptwatch Professional | $245/mo | 25M crawler logs, 15 articles |
GitHub showed 102 stars the day we looked. Homepage 50+ contributors. Neither is a reason to drop G2 4.7/5 Promptwatch.
When we say yes
Yes as a sidecar when the client's developers want the repo and we keep Promptwatch for the monthly report. We will not mark homework in both and average them.
Yes as a $49 experiment if the client only cares about ChatGPT and Perplexity this quarter and already pays us for Promptwatch.
No as "the GEO platform." $49 is not Essential. $249 is not Professional's crawler layer. No if they quote Ansvisor's May comparison as proof Promptwatch cannot act.
How we explain it on a call
Ansvisor is a visibility codebase you can fork. Promptwatch is the platform we already operate for citations, crawlers, conversions, and CMS agents. Open source is a procurement plus for some IT teams. It is not a reason to change the number we put in the deck.
If they insist on Ansvisor Cloud, we still keep Promptwatch Explore at minimum. We do not let a two-engine Starter define share of voice.
Ansvisor can be worth a Starter seat or a fork. It is not worth dropping Promptwatch.