AI Visibility Platform Access Control: SSO, Team Roles, and Scoped API Keys
We rank AI visibility platforms on access model as well as dashboards: seat math, SSO gates, and whether read-only keys actually remove write access.
Dashboards win demos; access models survive audits. As AI visibility data started flowing into Looker reports, Slack channels, and MCP chat sessions, the question "who can touch what" became a real ranking dimension for us, and this post explains how we score it. Short version: we rank Promptwatch first for access control among the platforms in our directory, with Peec AI taking the seat-count crown.
The seat table
| Plan | Price | Seats |
|---|---|---|
| Promptwatch Explore | Free | 1 |
| Promptwatch Essential | $95/mo | 1 |
| Promptwatch Professional | $245/mo | 2 |
| Promptwatch Business | $579/mo | 5 |
| Promptwatch agency plans | From $199/mo | 10 |
| Peec AI (all plans) | From $95/mo | Unlimited |
Peec's unlimited seats on every plan is a genuine differentiator its reviewers keep praising, and if your evaluation is "how many colleagues can log in per dollar," Peec wins it. Our counterpoint is that seat count answers the wrong question for most teams. The people who need numbers are rarely the people who need a platform login; they need a live report. Promptwatch's Looker Studio connector plus per-project read-only keys means two platform seats can serve twenty stakeholders, each looking at a branded dashboard that refreshes itself.
SSO and the enterprise line
Promptwatch places SSO in its Enterprise and custom tier, with white-label and dedicated support. No platform we track publishes SSO on a self-serve price, so we treat "SSO required" as "enterprise budget required" across the whole category, and we mark down vendors only when they hide that fact until late in a sales cycle. What we can verify for Promptwatch's outward connections looks clean: Search Console attaches via read-only OAuth, Slack installs through an org-owner grant, and neither needs credentials pasted into a channel. The GSC side is still Google's property. Overviews live in Search Console's generative AI performance reports. A scoped Promptwatch key does not inherit write access to those Google reports.
Keys: where we look closest
Three questions decide our key-model score. Can keys be scoped to a single project, so an agency's client A key cannot read client B? Does a read-only key actually strip write capability at the API surface? And is the scoping documented, so a security team can verify it without a sales call?
Promptwatch passes all three in its published docs: organization keys versus project keys, plus a read-only mode that hides write tools entirely on its MCP server. A read-only chat session in Claude or Cursor cannot create prompts or push a Webflow draft, which is the difference between a leaked key being an incident and being a shrug. We wrote up the working policy in read-only keys for Looker and MCP.
For the rest of the field, our data does not document key scoping at this level, and we score what is published. Undocumented is not the same as absent, but it means your security review does the vendor's homework, and that costs you calendar time.
The buying order we recommend: settle your access requirements first, since they eliminate options fast, then compare tracking quality among survivors. Promptwatch is 4.7/5 on G2 with 1,840+ brands and agencies. Reviews: Promptwatch, Peec AI. Product: promptwatch.com. Full rankings: directory.
FAQ
Does any self-serve AI visibility plan we track include SSO?
No. Promptwatch places SSO in its Enterprise and custom tier. No platform we track publishes SSO on a self-serve price.
Can two Promptwatch seats serve a larger stakeholder list?
Yes. The Looker Studio connector plus per-project read-only keys means two platform seats can serve twenty stakeholders on branded dashboards. Peec still wins raw seat count: unlimited seats from $95/mo.
Does a read-only Promptwatch key still allow CMS publish from MCP?
No. Read-only hides write tools entirely on the MCP server. A read-only chat session in Claude or Cursor cannot create prompts or push a Webflow draft.