A detailed, side-by-side comparison to help you choose the right AI-visibility tool — across positioning, pricing, onboarding, features and agency fit.
This comparison is maintained by Publive. We know that puts us on the page, so we’ve kept every row factual and sourced from each vendor’s public information (2026) — capabilities and pricing change often, so verify before you buy. The fastest way to judge Publive AXP isn’t our table; it’s to run your own domain through our free AI Audit Hub and see your AI-search results in minutes.
Edge delivery serves a parallel, AI-only view of your existing pages to AI crawlers at the CDN — humans and Google/Bing still get the normal site. It’s where Publive AXP Edge is built to win: readable content, a token-light payload, faster responses and AI-only content fixes, all standalone from day one. Most tools here do none of this; a couple offer a limited, bundled or gated version.
Content readability for AI
Yes — serves a clean, structured, AI-readable version of every existing page at the CDN; content-visibility gain tracked per URL, no rebuild.
Partly — detects unreadable client-rendered content and can serve approved fixes to bots, but only on approved URLs and not sold standalone.
Token optimisation at the edge
Yes — serves a token-light payload so AI spends fewer tokens per page and is likelier to prefer your URL on live fetches; reduction tracked per URL.
No stated capability — the edge serves approved content changes, not token-optimised payloads.
Response time (TTFB) for AI bots
Yes — serves each optimised page from the CDN edge to cut TTFB for AI crawlers, so bots succeed on live fetches; response time tracked per URL.
Runs at the CDN for approved URLs, but bot TTFB isn’t a stated or tracked metric.
AI-only content fixes
Yes — auto-detects gaps and applies surgical fixes (LLM-friendly summaries, FAQ and schema inserts, answer repositioning, meta inserts) only in the HTML served to AI bots, with one-click rollback.
In part — can serve approved optimisations to AI bots on approved URLs, but gated to Adobe customers and not sold standalone.
Positioning & fit
Category
Delivery first
Analytics first
What it actually does
Makes existing pages AI-readable at the edge from day one, plus publishes net-new AI-first content via Streams.
Semrush-backed insight engine inside Experience Cloud; edge delivery exists to push the engine’s approved recommendations.
Best for
Enterprise and agency
Enterprise on the Adobe stack
Delivery model
Both self-serve (AXP Edge) and CSM-led concierge (Streams)
Sales-led enterprise application
Company status
Both products live, built by Publive — a DXP and AXP platform serving enterprise customers.
GA since Oct 2025; Semrush-powered Brand Visibility expansion announced June 2026.
Onboarding & integration
Time to value
Edge live in under 2 hours
Weeks; business agreement first for non-Adobe customers
How it deploys
CDN middleware, fully self-serve, one-click rollback; no site rebuild
Needs crawler allowlisting and CDN log forwarding; edge itself is no-code once routing rules are set
Content route
Streams publishes to yourdomain.com/streams on Publive CMS — no code changes to existing pages
Recommendations deployed via CMS origin or edge
Standalone vs bundled
Fully standalone, CDN- and CMS-agnostic
CDN- and CMS-agnostic but strongest inside Adobe Experience Cloud
Feature comparison
Monitoring
Single AI Visibility Score across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and AI Overviews, benchmarked against named competitors
ChatGPT, Google AI Mode and Overviews, Copilot, Perplexity (Gemini planned), Semrush prompt data
Auditing
Prioritised fix list from AXP Edge; Agents Hub runs continuously with a Brand Reputation Agent and an Outdated Content Agent across AI answers and the open web
Serves a clean, token-light view and deploys approved fixes, grounded in a Brand Knowledge Hub (OKF); prompt tracking tests whether a change shifts the AI answer before you commit
Recommends content, technical fixes and off-site plays (Wikipedia, Reddit, PR), ranked by projected traffic value
Content creation
AI Streams — a managed AI content and intelligence layer publishing a net-new hub on your own domain
Page-level elements only (FAQs, summaries, transcripts) grounded in existing pages; no content hub
Enterprise-ready
ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, SSO, RBAC, audit trails, mandatory human edit for regulated verticals, 99.95% uptime SLA
Adobe IMS auth, TLS and AES encryption, no PII stored, regional data residency
Pricing & commercials
Entry
AXP Edge Starter $199/mo (200 URLs, 50 prompts)
Not public
Mid tier
Growth $499/mo (1,000 URLs, 200 prompts)
Third-party estimate ~$115K/yr
Enterprise
Custom
Custom, annual contract
Content layer
AI Streams from $999/mo (managed content hub)
Not sold separately
Hidden costs
None; engines included
Requires an Experience Cloud footprint to get full value
Billing
Monthly, no annual lock-in; yearly billing saves 20%
Annual contract
Free trial
No free trial; audit tools are free
Trial only for existing AEM Cloud / Analytics customers
For agencies
Agencies don’t pick a single tier — they build a portfolio of client workspaces. Publive AXP starts at a 3-workspace minimum (3 × Starter = $297/mo, $99 per client brand), then you add workspaces at will.
What the agency resells
A working AI-visibility outcome: edge delivery plus optimisations, live per client brand
Nothing. Access sits inside the client’s own Adobe contract
Growth workspace $249/mo each (1,000 URLs, 200 prompts); add workspaces at will, no ceiling
Same contract, no agency tier
Minimum commitment
3 workspaces to start
Annual contract
Resale margin
Buy at $99 against a $199 direct list price — a 50% spread to price into a retainer
None. Agency bills services only
Onboard a new client
Under 2 hours per workspace, self-serve
Weeks, gated behind the client’s Adobe agreement
Multi-client management
One agency account, all client workspaces, mix and match tiers
Not supported
The one-line takeaway
Where it wins
The only tool here that measures, fixes at the edge and creates net-new content — all standalone and live in under 2 hours.
Where it loses
Youngest brand in the set; no free trial (free audit tools instead).
For agencies
The only option where the agency sells a fix, not a report. Every workspace ships the full feature set — Enterprise SLAs and a CSM included — at the $99 entry tier.
Where it wins
Deepest enterprise-stack integration and Semrush data.
Where it loses
~$115K/yr, annual lock-in, gated trial, and value concentrated inside Adobe.
For agencies
Useful only where the client already owns Experience Cloud; no agency plan or multi-brand model.
Tell us your stack and where you want to show up in AI answers. We’ll come back with your AI Visibility Gap Report and the fastest path to being cited.
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