Is VisiScan Worth It?
We run Promptwatch on client programs. VisiScan is a four-engine local scan at $0 / $49 / $29. We would use the free pass for a trades URL, not as the GEO scoreboard.
Local clients forward VisiScan because the scan is free and the $29 Monitor looks cheaper than our stack. We already run Promptwatch on client programs. We read pricing.md (24 August 2026) and the live site on 29 August 2026. We would not replace measurement with a 12-question weekly re-grade. We might run the free scan on a plumber or clinic URL as a conversation piece, next to Promptwatch, not instead of it.
Founder: Mike Holp. Four engines: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini.
What we checked
Free: 5 questions, 2 samples, up to 40 answers, 1 scan per URL, no API. Scores without a card. Email to keep the free link. One homepage block still talks like email unlocks the full report. The SKU is $49. We screenshot for the client.
$49: 12 questions, 3 samples, up to 144 answers, quotes, citation plan, schema and llms.txt to paste, L1-L5 ladder, 7-day refund if five new things are missing. That is a deliverable we could attach to a local audit. It is not a workspace.
$29/mo or $290/yr: weekly at that depth, alerts, beacon counting AI referrers, API. We measure bots on Promptwatch Agent Analytics. We will not tell a client the beacon is the same QBR.
Harborlight / Ridgeline / Fast Bros: illustrative. 328 scans, 289 index, average 25: vendor. No Grok, no Overviews. Paste, not Webflow publish.
Pricing we can put in a proposal
| Vendor | What we can print | Role on our accounts |
|---|---|---|
| VisiScan free | $0 | Prospecting a local URL |
| VisiScan report | $49 once | Attach to a local audit PDF |
| VisiScan Monitor | $29/mo | Only if they insist on a cheap weekly grade; we still keep Promptwatch |
| 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 |
VisiScan $29 is not a Promptwatch plan. We stop that sentence on the call. Promptwatch has no $29 SKU.
When we say yes
Yes as a free scan on a local service we do not intend to put on a full GEO retainer. Yes as a $49 appendix if the owner wants a shareable 144-answer page and will paste schema themselves.
No as the GEO platform. We run logs, citations, conversions, and CMS agents on Promptwatch. No if finance thinks $29 Monitor replaces Essential.
How we explain it on a call
VisiScan is a named-rate flashlight for "best [trade] near me." Promptwatch is the stack we already operate for whether ChatGPT cited the client this week, which bot fetched the URL, and whether that visit converted. A 60-second scan is fine. It is not a reason to change the number in the deck.
If they insist on Monitor, we still keep Promptwatch Explore at minimum. We do not mark homework in a weekly 12-question loop.
VisiScan can be worth a free pass or a $49 PDF. It is not worth dropping Promptwatch.