Tibly vs Promptwatch
This starts with a concession: Promptwatch tracks nine model families, has an agent that writes AEO articles, and pushes them into your CMS, and if you have a marketing team and a site on WordPress or Webflow, it's a strong pick. Tibly is for the business without that team. It's your website, it measures whether AI names you when someone nearby asks who to hire, and it publishes the fix on the site it already hosts.
By Joshua Gluck
The short version
Where each one is the better choice, stated plainly.
Choose Tibly when
Choose Tibly if you don't have a CMS, a content calendar, or anyone whose job is to run them. A restaurant, a law firm, or an HVAC company gets a website, hosting, an editor, and the visibility scan in one subscription, with prompts generated from its industry and cities and fixes published to the site Tibly hosts. There's nothing to integrate because there's nothing else.
Choose Promptwatch when
Choose Promptwatch if you want more models than Tibly tracks, an agent that drafts AEO articles into a CMS you already run, or Business-tier extras like state and city level tracking, shopping insights, and an ads radar. A marketing team that publishes several articles a month on a site it controls will get more from Promptwatch than from Tibly, and its free tools and glossary are the best learning material in the category.
Tibly vs Promptwatch, side by side
| Feature | Tibly | Promptwatch |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A website that also measures and fixes its own AI visibility | An AI-visibility tracker with a content-writing agent and CMS integrations |
| Who it's built for | The individual small or medium business whose website is the business | Marketing teams and agencies that already run a CMS |
| Price | Growth $299, Scale $699, Premiere $1,499/month, Enterprise custom, as of October 2026 | Essential $95, Professional $245, Business $579/month, as of September 2026. 7-day free trial |
| Prompts included | 100 on Growth, 250 on Scale, 500 on Premiere, unlimited on Enterprise | 50 on Essential, 150 on Professional, 350 on Business |
| Answer engines | 3 on Growth, 6 on Scale and Premiere, all 7 on Enterprise | Track 4 models on Essential from a list of 9: OpenAI, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Claude, Gemini, Meta, DeepSeek, Grok |
| Where prompts come from | Generated from your industry and the cities you serve | You choose the prompts for each project |
| Acting on what it finds | Drafts the fix and publishes it to your Tibly-hosted site, on every plan | Agent writes AEO articles into your CMS: 5 a month on Professional, 10 on Business, none on Essential |
| Website included | Yes. Builder, hosting, and editing in the same subscription | No. You bring your own CMS |
| Free tools and learning content | A free AI visibility report and a blog | 9 free tools, a 276-term glossary, and a 440-page directory of AI bots |
45% of US consumers used AI tools like ChatGPT for local business recommendations in the past year, up from 6% the year before (BrightLocal, 2026 Local Consumer Review Survey). The question isn't whether your customers ask AI, it's whether the answer names you. See the research
What does Promptwatch do?
Promptwatch is an AI-visibility tracker with a content agent attached. You set up a project, choose the prompts and the models you want to watch, and it reports how often you're mentioned, where you sit in the answer, and which sources get cited. Its model list is one of the widest in the category: OpenAI, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Claude, Gemini, Meta, DeepSeek, and Grok. Where it differs from most trackers is the agent, which drafts what Promptwatch calls AEO articles and pushes them into your CMS. As of September 2026 the plans are Essential at $95 a month for 50 prompts, one project, four models, and no articles, Professional at $245 for 150 prompts, two projects, and five articles a month, and Business at $579 for 350 prompts, five projects, ten articles a month, state and city level tracking, shopping insights, and an ads radar. There's a 7-day free trial. Promptwatch holds a 4.7 out of 5 on G2 and publishes nine free tools, a 276-term glossary, and a 440-page directory of AI bots. Check Promptwatch's own page before deciding, because packaging in this category changes often.
When is Promptwatch the right choice?
When you already run a CMS and someone owns it. If your site is on WordPress, Webflow, or something similar and you have a marketer or a content lead who publishes regularly, Promptwatch's agent slots into that workflow: it finds the questions you're missing, drafts the article, and lands it where your team already works. Nine model families means you can watch DeepSeek, Grok, and Meta alongside ChatGPT and Gemini, which Tibly doesn't cover at all. Business-tier extras like state and city level tracking, shopping insights, and the ads radar are built for brands with real geographic spread or a product catalog. If that's you, start the trial and skip the rest of this page.
What's the difference between an article agent and a site that fixes itself?
The difference is whether you own a CMS to receive the article. The agent is genuinely useful and the closest thing in this category to what Tibly does. But it ends at the CMS integration: the article has to land somewhere, and that somewhere is a site you already have, on a platform you already manage, with a login someone already knows. For a family-owned restaurant in Sacramento whose site was built by a designer three years ago, there's no CMS to integrate with and nobody to approve five drafts a month. Tibly removes the hand-off. It hosts the site, so when the daily scan finds that nobody names the restaurant when someone asks Perplexity for the best tamales near Midtown, it drafts the page, publishes it on the site, and checks the next day whether the answer moved. The prompts come from the restaurant's cuisine and the neighborhoods it serves rather than a list the owner picks, because the owner isn't going to pick one.
Which is the better value for a small business?
On the tracker alone, Promptwatch is cheaper and wider. Essential at $95 undercuts Tibly Growth at $299 and tracks four models where Growth tracks three, and Professional at $245 gives you 150 prompts and five articles a month where Growth gives you 100 prompts. The picture changes when you count what Tibly's $299 replaces: the website builder, hosting, an on-page editor, a custom domain, payments and invoices, a store, booking, forms, and site analytics, with the fixes published to that site on every plan rather than metered as articles per month. If you're paying for a builder, a host, and a person to make changes, those are the lines Tibly removes. Both companies publish their prices, so compare the totals, not the headline numbers.
Common questions
- Is Promptwatch better than Tibly?
- For a marketing team with an existing CMS, yes. Promptwatch tracks nine model families to Tibly's seven, costs less at every published tier, and its agent drafts AEO articles straight into WordPress or a similar platform. For an owner-run business with no CMS and no content team, Tibly fits better because it's the website, and the fixes publish there without an integration.
- How much does Promptwatch cost?
- As of September 2026, Promptwatch is Essential $95, Professional $245, and Business $579 a month, with a 7-day free trial. Essential includes no AEO articles, Professional includes five a month, and Business ten. Tibly is Growth $299, Scale $699, Premiere $1,499, and Enterprise by quote, with the website included on every plan. Verify current pricing on Promptwatch's page.
- Does Tibly write AEO articles like Promptwatch?
- Tibly drafts fixes and publishes them to the site it hosts on every plan, so the outcome is similar: new pages that answer the questions your customers ask AI. The difference is delivery. Promptwatch pushes a metered number of articles into a CMS you run, and Tibly publishes directly because it is the site. Tibly has no CMS integrations, so if you need WordPress or Webflow, Promptwatch is the one that fits.
- Which tracks more AI models, Promptwatch or Tibly?
- Promptwatch. It offers nine model families including Meta, DeepSeek, and Grok, and lets you track four on its entry plan. Tibly tracks three on Growth (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini), six on Scale and Premiere, and seven on Enterprise, and doesn't cover Meta, DeepSeek, or Grok at any tier. If model breadth decides it for you, Promptwatch wins outright.
