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OpenAEO pricing: free audit, $29 Solo, $39 Business

OpenAEO has four tiers: Free at $0 forever, Solo at $29 per month, Business at $39 per month, and a custom Enterprise price. Free and Solo are for one site, Business is for agencies and in-house teams running up to five, and Enterprise is quoted for more. Every tier runs the same instant audit, all 5 retrieval gates and 8 headline checks, so the free version 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 seconds. The full 49-check rubric across 6 dimensions (including off-site consensus and measurement, which a single crawl can't judge) is the deeper framework the dashboard tracks over time. The paid tiers exist for the part that recurs. Fixing your site is mostly a one-time job, but whether an assistant actually names you changes every week, and that's what you can't check yourself. Solo, at $29, runs a weekly citation test on 3 of your target prompts across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini, alerts you when you gain or lose a citation, re-crawls monthly, and includes the AI source fixer. Business, at $39, widens that to 12 prompts across all six surfaces (adding Copilot and Google AI Mode), tracks competitor share-of-voice, and covers five sites. Enterprise adds unlimited sites and full audit history with a strategist who knows your catalogue; single sign-on, roles, an API and per-deploy checks are scoped and built as part of the engagement rather than switches you flip. Here is exactly what each plan includes.

PlanPriceSitesWhat you get
Free$0 forever1Instant audit on demand · 5 gates + 8 headline checks · copy-paste robots.txt + llms.txt · open-source engineering packet (tickets with acceptance commands) · public score badge
Solo
$29 / month1Everything in Free · weekly citation testing: 3 prompts across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini · full engineering packet: multi-template crawl, phased plan, competitor evidence, print-ready PDF · alerts on citation changes · AI source fixer
Business
$39 / month5Everything in Solo · 12 prompts across all 6 surfaces (adds Copilot + Google AI Mode) · competitor share-of-voice · weekly crawls · schema + fix-file generator · drift alerts when a passing check regresses · fixes as dev-ready tickets. Built for agencies and in-house teams running several sites: the weekly crawl is what catches a CDN starting to refuse an AI crawler on a client site while its robots.txt still says yes
EnterpriseCustomUnlimitedUnlimited sites + subdomains · full audit history · everything else is scoped per engagement: SSO, roles, an API and per-deploy checks are built for you, not toggles you switch on · 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 $29 a month, runs a weekly citation test on 3 of your prompts so you find out whether assistants actually name you, and Business widens that to 12 prompts across all six surfaces with competitor tracking 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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Pricing questions people actually ask

How much does OpenAEO cost?+
Free is $0 for one site and includes the full audit: all 5 gates, 8 headline checks, and the generated robots.txt and llms.txt. Solo is $29 per month for one site: monthly re-crawls, the hosted source fixer, and a weekly citation test on 3 prompts across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini. Business is $39 per month for five sites: weekly crawls and 12 prompts across all six surfaces, adding Copilot and Google AI Mode. Enterprise is quoted against site count and governance needs.
Is the free tier a trial?+
No. Free is free forever on one site, with no card and no signup for the instant audit. It runs the same 5 retrieval gates and 8 headline checks the paid tiers run, and returns the same copy-paste robots.txt and llms.txt.
What do I actually get for $29 a month?+
Solo adds monthly re-crawls, a re-score after every deploy, the AI source fixer that rewrites HTML you paste, and a weekly citation test on 3 target prompts across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini, so you find out whether the fixes got you named.
When should I move from Solo to Business?+
Move to Business at $39 per month when you run more than one site, or when you need weekly crawls, drift alerts, a schema generator, competitor slot alerts, and fixes written as tickets a developer can ship.
What does “1 site” actually limit?+
It limits tracking, not auditing. The instant audit runs on any URL you paste, on every plan, as often as you like. Your plan decides how many sites are saved to your history so you can watch the score move over time, get drift alerts, and compare runs. Free and Solo track 1 site, Business tracks 5, Enterprise is unlimited. Audit anything; track this many.
Can I cancel any time?+
Yes. Paid plans are month to month and cancel from your dashboard. Your audit history stays readable on the free tier after you cancel.

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