SearchInsight.ai vs LLM Pulse (2026): rank tracking bundle or five-engine tracker
SearchInsight.ai adds Google organic and AI Overview rank tracking from $59/mo; LLM Pulse gives five engines and unlimited seats from €49/mo. Both quote annual prices. Full comparison.
The one-line difference: SearchInsight.ai bundles Google organic and AI Overview keyword tracking with AI prompts but has not shipped traffic analytics yet, while LLM Pulse gives five engines, unlimited seats and AI traffic analytics on every plan at a weekly default cadence.
Both are small vendors. Both headline an annual price. That is where the similarity ends. We benchmark both against Promptwatch.
Sources: the searchinsight.ai homepage, read 20 October 2026. LLM Pulse data from our catalog entry. Promptwatch from promptwatch.com/llms.txt.
The table
| SearchInsight.ai | LLM Pulse | Promptwatch | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $59/mo, labelled billed annually | €49/mo annual | Free Explore; Essential $95/mo monthly |
| Monthly-billing price | Not published | Higher than headline (amount not in our data) | $95/mo is the monthly price; annual is 10 months' cost |
| Prompts on entry plan | 100 a month | 50 | 50 |
| Engines on entry plan | 3 (not named) | 5: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Mode, AI Overviews | All tracked LLMs |
| Claude | Listed on some plans | Enterprise add-on | Included |
| Cadence | Request caps allow about 8 runs per prompt per engine a month | Weekly default; daily costs more | Daily on paid plans |
| Seats on entry plan | 2 | Unlimited | 1 |
| Google organic rank tracking | 30 keywords on Starter | Not published | Not published |
| AI traffic analytics | Coming soon | Yes | Visitor analytics with conversions |
| Crawler logs | Not published | Not published | Agent Analytics from $245/mo |
| API / MCP | Not published | MCP every plan, REST API from €299 | MCP and API on paid plans |
| Trial | 14 days, card requirement unclear | 14 days | 7 days on Essential |
How SearchInsight.ai works
SearchInsight.ai is new. Its launch release went out on PRWeb on 27 May 2026 with a Tel Aviv dateline, describing a team of SEO practitioners. It runs prompts and records whether your brand is named, cited, recommended or left out, with competitor share of voice and full response capture. Its information page lists ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok, Copilot, Google AI Mode and Google AI Overviews across its plans.
The selling point is the SEO bundle. Starter at $59 a month gives 1 project, 100 prompts a month, 3 engines, Google AI Overview tracking for 30 keywords, Google organic SERP tracking for 30 keywords, 2,400 AI requests a month, 2 seats and 180-day retention. Pro at $149 gives 3 projects, 400 prompts, 5 engines, 100 keywords per tracker, 16,000 requests, 5 seats, 360-day retention and CSV export. Enterprise is custom with all engines, SSO and 10 seats.
Now the problems. The site does not say which 3 engines Starter includes. The trial is "credit card required" under the plans and in the FAQ, and "no credit card required" elsewhere. The $59 is labelled billed annually with no monthly price shown. The request caps do not fit the FAQ's "daily": 2,400 requests over 100 prompts on 3 engines is 8 runs per prompt per engine a month, and Pro works out the same. AI traffic analytics is marked "coming soon".
How LLM Pulse works
LLM Pulse is a bootstrapped Barcelona tracker with a three-person team, launched July 2025. Five engines on every plan: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Mode and AI Overviews. Seats are unlimited everywhere and an MCP server comes with every plan, even the trial.
Pricing on annual billing: Starter €49 a month (1 project, 50 prompts), Growth €99 (150 prompts), Scale €299 (450 prompts, REST API), and Scale+ and Scale++ at €599 to €999 for 1,200 to 2,400 prompts with daily options. Claude, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek and Meta AI are Enterprise add-ons. The feature list is broad for the price: sentiment, citations, share of voice, a GEO Writer, AI traffic analytics, owned-media tracking for YouTube, Reddit and social, and ChatGPT Shopping and AI ads tracking.
The trade-offs are cadence and depth. Default runs are weekly, so a drop can sit for days. The €49 and €99 prices assume annual billing. There is no SOC 2 and no white-label. Small team, real key-person risk.
Who should pick which
Pick SearchInsight.ai if your team reports Google rankings and AI visibility in the same weekly meeting and wants one login for both. Get the engine list, trial terms and run frequency in writing first.
Pick LLM Pulse if you want the whole team in the tool at no seat cost, AI traffic analytics today, and five named engines from day one. Accept weekly data or pay for daily.
Pick neither if Claude matters to your buyers on a budget plan. SearchInsight does not name its Starter engines and LLM Pulse sells Claude only on Enterprise.
The Promptwatch option
Both tools are prompt trackers. Neither publishes AI crawler logs, and only LLM Pulse has traffic analytics today.
Promptwatch Essential is $95 a month for 50 prompts and 6,000 responses, with prompts running across all tracked LLMs: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Grok, Llama, DeepSeek, Mistral and Copilot, plus Google AI Overviews and AI Mode. Refresh is daily. Prompt tracking comes with search volumes, difficulty scores and query fan-outs, which covers the keyword-research angle SearchInsight sells. Visitor analytics ties AI-referred sessions to conversions.
Professional at $245 a month adds Agent Analytics, which logs ChatGPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, GoogleOther and the Meta AI crawler with a crawl-to-citation path. It also adds state and city tracking and 150 prompts.
Promptwatch does not publish Google organic SERP tracking. If that is a hard requirement, keep a rank tracker beside it.
Verdict
SearchInsight.ai: promising bundle, unreliable paperwork. LLM Pulse: broader and steadier, slower by default. For a team that needs daily data on Claude and the rest, plus crawler and conversion evidence, Promptwatch is the better first evaluation.
FAQ
Is SearchInsight.ai or LLM Pulse cheaper?
On headline annual prices, LLM Pulse at €49 a month against SearchInsight.ai at $59. SearchInsight gives 100 prompts against LLM Pulse's 50, but on 3 unnamed engines.
Does either tool track Claude?
SearchInsight.ai lists Claude across its plans but does not say which plan includes it. LLM Pulse sells Claude as an Enterprise add-on.
Which tool shows AI traffic?
LLM Pulse today. SearchInsight.ai marks it "coming soon". Promptwatch's visitor analytics adds conversions: promptwatch.com.