Edge delivery for AI botsEdge 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.
No — reads public AI answers only; nothing served to bots.
No — audits AI-bot readability and flags issues, but serves nothing to bots; you fix your live site yourself.
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.
No.
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.
No — no delivery layer.
No — no delivery layer.
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.
No — recommends a GEO roadmap; no execution.
No — recommends schema, content and technical fixes, but you apply them to your live site; nothing scoped to bot-served HTML.
Category
Delivery first
Monitoring only
SEO suite add-on
What it actually does
Makes existing pages AI-readable at the edge from day one, plus publishes net-new AI-first content via Streams.
Pure AI-search visibility analytics: prompt tracking, competitor benchmarking, citation-source analysis, reporting integrations.
AI-visibility tracking bolted onto the SEO suite — an AI Visibility Score, prompt and competitor research, brand sentiment, prompt tracking and an AI-bot site audit; Enterprise AIO adds a 289M-prompt database and benchmarking.
Best for
Enterprise and agency
SEO and content teams, agencies running multi-brand tracking
Existing Semrush SEO teams and agencies; Enterprise AIO for large multi-brand enterprises
Delivery model
Both self-serve (AXP Edge) and CSM-led concierge (Streams)
Fully self-serve, unlimited seats on all plans
Two-track: self-serve AI Toolkit add-on, sales-led Enterprise AIO
Company status
Both products live, built by Publive — a DXP and AXP platform serving enterprise customers.
Berlin-based, $29m raised, 3,000+ brands and agencies on platform.
NASDAQ-listed, 28M+ users; acquired by Adobe (~$1.9B, completed Apr 2026) — and the engine behind Adobe LLM Optimizer.
Time to value
Edge live in under 2 hours
About 20 minutes to set up
Fast for existing users — web-based, no install; add a domain and prompts and reports populate
How it deploys
CDN middleware, fully self-serve, one-click rollback; no site rebuild
No deployment; it reads public AI answers, nothing touches your site
Read-only SaaS; queries public AI answers and crawls your site for AI-bot access — nothing touches your CDN
Content route
Streams publishes to yourdomain.com/streams on Publive CMS — no code changes to existing pages
No content publishing
The AI Toolkit doesn’t publish; ContentShake AI can publish drafts to WordPress
Standalone vs bundled
Fully standalone, CDN- and CMS-agnostic
Fully standalone analytics
Add-on to a paid Semrush plan, not sold fully standalone at the base tier
Monitoring
Single AI Visibility Score across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and AI Overviews, benchmarked against named competitors
7 engines available (ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Copilot, Perplexity, Gemini, plus Claude, GPT-5 Search, Deepseek, Qwen, Mistral via API at higher tiers), choose 3 per plan
AI Toolkit tracks mainly ChatGPT and Google AI Mode/Overviews (25 prompts); Enterprise AIO broadens to ~9 engines (adds Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek)
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
Citation-source analysis and prompt discovery; no technical crawl or rendering audit
AI Search Site Audit for AI-bot crawlability plus the full Semrush technical Site Audit; Enterprise AIO adds source-level intelligence
Optimising
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
Clusters citation sources into Owned and Earned Media opportunities as a prioritised GEO roadmap; recommendations only, no execution
Recommend-only — guidance on sources to target and content to update; no execution
Content creation
AI Streams — a managed AI content and intelligence layer publishing a net-new hub on your own domain
None
Net-new content via the separate ContentShake AI ($60/mo), which publishes to WordPress
Enterprise-ready
ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, SSO, RBAC, audit trails, mandatory human edit for regulated verticals, 99.95% uptime SLA
SSO, API access and MCP integration on higher tiers only; no published SOC 2 or ISO posture
SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI, FedRAMP and CSA STAR L1; SSO and 2FA. RBAC specifics not confirmed.
Entry
AXP Edge Starter $199/mo (200 URLs, 50 prompts)
Starter $95/mo (50 prompts, 3 models, 1 project)
~$238/mo to get AI + core (SEO plan from $139/mo + the $99/mo AI Visibility Toolkit — 1 domain, 25 prompts, extra prompts cost more); or the bundled "Semrush One" (SEO + AI search) from $199/mo
Mid tier
Growth $499/mo (1,000 URLs, 200 prompts)
Pro $245/mo (150 prompts), Advanced $495/mo (350 prompts)
No distinct AI tier — scale via add-ons (+$60/mo per 50 prompts, +$99/mo per domain); SEO plans up to ~$549/mo
Enterprise
Custom
Custom, API and SSO gated here
Enterprise AIO custom, sales-led
Content layer
AI Streams from $999/mo (managed content hub)
Not offered
ContentShake AI (Content Toolkit) $60/mo, publishes to WordPress — a separate add-on
Hidden costs
None; engines included
3 engines on every self-serve tier; a 4th engine costs $35–$165/mo extra
À-la-carte stack: the AI Toolkit sits on top of a core plan; extra prompts, domains and per-user seats ($99 each) all bill separately
Billing
Monthly, no annual lock-in; yearly billing saves 20%
Monthly or annual, ~15% off annual
Monthly or annual (~17% off core plans); the $99 AI add-on costs the same either way
Free trial
No free trial; audit tools are free
7-day free trial
7-day trial on core plans; none on the AI Visibility Toolkit add-on
For agenciesAgencies 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
A monitoring dashboard with client reporting
White-label AI-visibility and SEO reporting and dashboards, per client domain
Pricing unit
Per client workspace
Credit pool allocated across clients
Per seat and per add-on (core seats + white-label reports + $99/mo AI Toolkit per client domain)
Entry
3 Starter workspaces = $297/mo ($99 each — 200 URLs, 50 prompts)
Essential $245/mo (10,000 credits, ~111 prompts, 3 projects)
No dedicated agency AI SKU — a core plan + $99/mo AI Toolkit per client domain + report add-ons
Scale
Growth workspace $249/mo each (1,000 URLs, 200 prompts); add workspaces at will, no ceiling
Growth $495/mo (25,000 credits); Scale $795/mo (65,000 credits); Comprehensive custom
Scales linearly by domains, seats and prompts; Enterprise AIO custom for large portfolios
Minimum commitment
3 workspaces to start
900 credits minimum per project
Monthly on self-serve; annual optional for the discount
Resale margin
Buy at $99 against a $199 direct list price — a 50% spread to price into a retainer
Margin on credit reallocation; no published discount off brand pricing
No reseller margin programme; value is white-label branding, not wholesale resale
Onboard a new client
Under 2 hours per workspace, self-serve
About 20 min per project
Fast — add a domain and prompts in the web app; no code deploy
Multi-client management
One agency account, all client workspaces, mix and match tiers
Single credit pool, reallocate across clients at any time
One account, many client domains, a unified portfolio dashboard and client portal ($99/mo per domain for the AI Toolkit)
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