OpenAEO pricing: free audit, $10 Solo, $39 Business
OpenAEO has four tiers: Free at $0 forever, Solo at $10 per month, Business at $39 per month, and a custom Enterprise price. Every tier runs the full engine — all 5 retrieval gates and 49 weighted checks across 6 dimensions — so the free audit is the real thing, not a teaser: you get your score out of 100, every failing check, and the copy-paste robots.txt and llms.txt that clear the gates, with no signup and no card, in about twenty seconds. The paid tiers exist for the recurring work. Solo, at $10, re-crawls your one site monthly and turns on the AI agent that edits your uploaded source directly, so the fixes get applied for you rather than handed over. Business adds four more sites, weekly crawls, citation tracking across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, a schema generator with drift alerts, and dev-ready tickets. Enterprise adds unlimited sites, single sign-on, an API, a check on every deploy, and a strategist who knows your catalogue. Here is exactly what each plan includes.
| Plan | Price | Sites | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 forever | 1 | Full audit on demand · all 5 gates + 49 checks · copy-paste robots.txt + llms.txt · public score badge |
| Solo | $10 / month | 1 | Everything in Free · monthly re-crawls · AI agent edits your uploaded source directly · re-score after every deploy |
| Business most picked | $39 / month | 5 | Everything in Solo · weekly crawls · citation tracking across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini · schema generator + drift alerts · fixes as dev-ready tickets · competitor-slot alerts |
| Enterprise | Custom | Unlimited | Unlimited sites + subdomains · SSO, roles, full audit history · API + a check on every deploy · a strategist who knows your catalog |
Why the free tier is genuinely free
The Free audit is the whole scoring engine, not a teaser. You get your AEO score out of 100, every failing check, and the two copy-paste files (robots.txt and llms.txt) plus the rewritten page copy that clear the retrieval gates. We make money when being cited has to keep happening: Solo, at $10 a month, re-crawls monthly and lets the AI agent apply the fixes to your uploaded source directly, and Business adds weekly re-crawls, citation tracking, and drift alerts across five sites. Monitoring and remediation are the recurring work — the one-time score stays free.
What "transparent pricing" means here
Assistants cite pages that state real numbers. We publish ours for the same reason we tell clients to publish theirs: "contact us for a quote" is a dead end for an AI answer. Business is $39/month billed monthly, cancel anytime; there is no setup fee and no annual lock-in. Enterprise is quoted against site count, governance needs, and whether we implement or hand your team tickets.
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