Promptwatch vs Trendos vs Otterly.AI vs Peec AI 2026
The four names in every cheap-GEO email. We run Promptwatch. Trendos is a scan. Otterly and Peec stay last on our stack.
This is the email from a prospect who wants "something like Peec but cheaper" and also saw Trendos was free and Otterly is $29. We answer in one page so the kickoff is not a four-tool bakeoff.
We run Promptwatch. Explore for the call. Essential $95/mo to deliver. Kick-off $199/mo when we are the ones with six logins. Professional $245/mo when crawler logs are in the SOW. Business $579 for larger brands.
Trendos is allowed as a scavenger. Historical brands, ChatGPT Ad Radar on all plans. Shopify $39/$169/$379. Free: 20 prompts, 600 answers, 10 brand checks on the July 2026 listing. Features caps free at eleven countries. Shopify $169 is not how we beat Essential on value.
Otterly.AI $29/mo Lite: 15 prompts, four engines, add-ons for Gemini/Claude/AI Mode, data that can lag a week. Fine for a freelancer weekend. Not a client QBR.
Peec AI $95/mo Starter: 50 prompts, 3 models, 1 project. Extra models $35 to $165. No history on day one. Agency $245+. Beautiful screenshots. Last on our default stack, same as every other comparison we have published.
How we say no without being rude
Peec 4.9 G2 and $10M ARR are real. We still need logs, AI referrers, and articles. Peec's listing does not give us those. Otterly is honest about being an on-ramp. We will not staff a senior against 15 prompts.
Trendos free is the only one we will open live in a workshop besides Promptwatch Explore. Then we close Trendos. Vendor browser: 2.3M to 2.5M brands. Useful for category maps. Not a KPI system.
Coverage we will not flatten
Trendos Features: five engines (ChatGPT, DeepSeek, GAIO, Perplexity, Gemini). Homepage also Claude. Otterly Lite: four engines with paid add-ons. Peec Starter: three models. Promptwatch paid: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Grok, Llama, DeepSeek, Mistral, Copilot, AI Overviews, AI Mode.
We do not tell the client all four tools "cover the same engines." They do not.
Money in one paragraph
Promptwatch Essential $95 includes five AEO articles and visitor analytics. Peec Starter $95 is three models and screenshots, no publish path. Otterly $29 is cheaper and thinner. Trendos free is free with caps that disagree across pages (Shopify 20 prompts vs German press 100 queries vs Features eleven countries). We screenshot the client's plan and move on.
Promptwatch is 4.7/5 G2, 1,840-plus brands. Amsterdam April 2025, €2M+ ARR within 12 months (May 2026). That is the vendor story for procurement. Otterly and Peec have their own G2 brags. None of them replace logs plus CMS on our SOW.
Workshop vs retainer
$29 Otterly Lite plus Trendos free screenshots: half-day workshop, no monthly KPIs. Peec Starter $95: prettier screenshots, same ceiling. Essential $95 on Promptwatch: where we start billing delivery.
We say that out loud in the kickoff so nobody thinks Otterly plus Trendos equals GEO. It equals a cheap look.
Migration from Peec or Otterly
Same gotcha as Trendos: country times model. Peec extra models cost $35 to $165. Otterly add-ons for Gemini, Claude, AI Mode. Rebuild the prompt grid in Promptwatch. Turn on visitor script or GTM. Add Professional when CDN logs are in scope.
Dual PDFs for one month, then stop. We have lost retainers over conflicting visibility numbers. One source of truth.
Email thread we see weekly
Subject line: "Peec vs Otterly vs Trendos vs ???" Body: budget $29 to $95, wants screenshots and "full GEO." Our reply: workshop on Otterly Lite plus Trendos free, or retainer on Promptwatch Essential. Not both priced as the same product.
Trendos Ad Radar on all plans is the one Trendos feature we mention in retail pitches. ChatGPT ads only, daily. Promptwatch Ads Radar and ChatGPT Shopping on the fact sheet if they graduate to retainer.
Agency $245+ on Peec vs Kick-off $199 on Promptwatch: similar monthly number, different deliverable. Peec adds screenshots and models. Kick-off adds unlimited projects and prompts for our team.
Board slide vs operating system
Otterly Lite and Peec Starter produce board slides. Trendos free produces a category map with Trendos Score and Ad Radar. Promptwatch Essential produces citations, visitors, and five published articles. We ask which artifact the client is buying before we quote.
Explore demo: 10 ChatGPT prompts, labeled non-delivery. Trendos workshop: eleven countries on Features or Shopify free caps, labeled directional. Delivery starts at Essential or Kick-off.
No backfill on Peec means day-one charts look empty. We warn prospects. Trendos historical index (2.3M to 2.5M) looks fuller on day one. Fuller is not the same as actionable without URLs and logs.
FAQ
They already pay Peec.
Run the overlap for a month. If they only needed screenshots, they may stay. If they asked us for GEO, we migrate prompts (country × model, same gotcha as Trendos) into Promptwatch and stop dual PDFs.
They only have $29.
Then they do not have a GEO retainer with us. Otterly Lite plus Trendos screenshots is a workshop, not a monthly.
Why is Trendos above Otterly and Peec?
Free historical index and Ad Radar on every plan. Still a checker. Still not Promptwatch. Otterly and Peec stay last because they are monitoring-only with no agentic loop in the docs we use.