Iris vs AISEOgic vs Geoptie vs SellOnLLM vs the Apify GEO audit
Five tools that promise to tell you whether your website is ready for AI search. They do not measure the same thing. This page explains what actually differs: whether the tool predicts your visibility or proves it by asking real AI engines, whether it looks at one page or the whole site, what it does after the audit, and what it costs, including the cases where a competitor is the better choice.
The short version
Iris does two jobs the others split: it scores a page for classic SEO and AI-search readiness with copy-paste fixes, and then it asks live AI answer engines the questions your buyers ask and tells you whether you were named, who was named instead, and how that changes week by week. AISEOgic and the AEO Engine audit are free readiness scores: useful first looks, but they estimate visibility from your HTML rather than checking it. Geoptie is the closest rival: a free readiness audit with real engine queries on its paid plans. SellOnLLM is a Chrome extension that checks the page you are on, with citation tracking as a paid add-on. The Apify GEO audit actor is a deterministic crawler for developers who want raw per-page checks at volume, with no AI model in the loop.
- Evidence, not just a prediction: Iris asks real answer engines and grades your coverage from A to F, with the competitor domains that took your place
- Fixes you can paste: every audit ends with corrected code, including one rewritten head block for the page, plus an llms.txt and Markdown pack for the whole site
- It keeps watching: weekly citation monitoring alerts you the week you start or stop being named, and a client-ready share link with PDF download comes with every report
Side by side
| Iris | AISEOgic | Geoptie | SellOnLLM | Apify GEO audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | AI SEO, AEO and GEO auditor with live citation evidence and monitoring | Free AI SEO and GEO readiness score for a URL | AI visibility platform with a free site audit | Chrome extension that checks the page you are on | Crawler that scores pages on fixed rules |
| Free to try | Yes, single-page audit with no sign-up | Yes, sign-in required | Yes, site audit with no sign-up | Yes, on-page checks | Pay per page, small free credit on Apify |
| Classic SEO score | Yes, deterministic 0-100 with the failing signals listed | Yes | Partial, focused on AI readiness | Partial, on-page checks only | Yes, rule based |
| AI-search readiness score | Yes, scored from the raw HTML crawlers see, with the reasons | Yes, blended internally | Yes | Yes, 21 on-page checks | Yes, rule based |
| Asks real AI engines whether you are cited | Yes. Several engines with live web access, 2 to 8 buyer questions, per-engine tally and an A to F coverage grade | No | Paid plans only | Paid add-on | No, no AI model is used |
| Names who was cited instead of you | Yes, competitor domains with their share of answers | No | Partial, on paid plans | Partial, on the add-on | No |
| Whole-site scan | Yes on paid plans: sitewide issues, per-page scores, the fixes that repeat | No, one URL at a time | Yes | No, current tab only | Yes, that is its job |
| Copy-paste fixes | Yes, corrected code per fix and one rewritten head block | Recommendations | Recommendations | Recommendations | Findings only |
| llms.txt and Markdown for AI readers | Yes, generated as an AI-ready pack on paid plans | - | - | - | - |
| Ongoing monitoring | Yes: daily re-scoring with drop alerts, plus weekly citation checks that alert when you start or stop being named | - | Yes, on paid plans | Citation tracking add-on | Run it on a schedule yourself |
| Client-ready report | Yes, public share link that leads with the citation grade, with Download as PDF | Screen only | Dashboard | Screen only | Dataset export |
| Entry paid price | $9/month | Free | Around $41/month billed annually | About $10/month for citation tracking | From about $7.50 per 1,000 pages plus Apify usage |
Where Iris comes out ahead
A readiness score predicts. A citation check proves.
You can score 98 for AI readiness and still never be named. Most free GEO auditors stop at the score because the score is cheap: it only needs your HTML. Iris goes on to ask live answer engines the questions a buyer would ask, records whether your domain appears in each answer, and grades your coverage from A to F with a per-engine tally. That is the number a client actually cares about, and it is the number the readiness score is supposed to move.
It tells you who is being cited instead of you
When an answer engine skips you it names somebody. Iris keeps that list: every competitor domain that appeared for your buyer questions, with its share of the answers, ranked. That turns a vague "improve your AI visibility" into a concrete task: read what the top-named site did on that topic and close the gap.
Corrected code, an AI-ready pack, and a report you can send
Iris does not stop at recommendations. Each fix comes with the corrected code and the page gets one rewritten head block you can paste as-is. Paid plans add an AI-ready pack: a generated llms.txt and a Markdown copy of your key pages so answer engines can read you without fighting your markup. Every audit or whole-site scan can become a public share link that opens without an account, leads with the citation outcome, and downloads as a PDF, which is what an agency needs to put in front of a client.
Weekly citation monitoring, from $9 a month
AI answers change week to week. Iris re-runs the citation check on a weekly schedule for the sites you monitor and emails you the week you start being named, stop being named, change grade or swing ten points, alongside daily readiness re-scoring with drop alerts. Comparable monitoring elsewhere in this table starts at roughly four times the price or is sold as an add-on.
The questions people actually ask
A readiness score is a prediction. It reads your page's signals, headings, structured data, robots rules, llms.txt, answer-shaped copy, and estimates how easy the page is for an AI engine to use. A citation check is evidence: it asks live AI answer engines the questions your buyers ask and records whether your domain is named, and who is named instead. Iris does both. Most free AI SEO auditors only do the first.
A single-page audit with an SEO score, an AI-search readiness score and copy-paste fixes is free with no sign-up. Whole-site scans, the live citation check, weekly citation monitoring and the AI-ready pack are on paid plans from $9 a month.
Several answer engines with live web access, currently Groq web search, Gemini grounded with Google Search and OpenAI web search. Each engine answers every question, so the report shows a per-engine tally rather than one blended number, and a grade from A to F for overall coverage.
Yes. Every citation check lists the competitor domains the engines named for the same questions, with each one's share of the answers, so you know who you are losing to and can read what they did differently.
Yes. Any audit or whole-site scan can be turned into a public share link that opens without an account, leads with the citation grade and verdict, and has a Download as PDF button. On paid accounts the citation evidence is refreshed when the link is opened if it is more than a week old, so the client sees current numbers.
See whether AI names your site
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