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 — the AXP add-on can restructure and simplify pages at the CDN, but bundled and Enterprise-tier only.
No — monitoring and agents only; nothing served to bots.
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 AXP add-on restructures and summarises, but token reduction isn’t a tracked metric.
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.
CDN-layer delivery, Enterprise-only; no stated bot-TTFB metric.
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.
In part — the AXP add-on can restructure, summarise and translate the bot-served view, but bundled and Enterprise-only.
No — agents draft content that publishes to your live pages via integrations, not a separate AI-served view.
Positioning & fit
Category
Delivery first
Monitoring first
Monitoring & agents
What it actually does
Makes existing pages AI-readable at the edge from day one, plus publishes net-new AI-first content via Streams.
Measures presence, citations and sentiment across up to 9 LLMs; edge delivery (AXP) is an Enterprise add-on, not the entry point.
Monitors and analyses how a brand shows up across AI answer engines — Answer Engine Insights, Prompt Volumes demand data and Agent Analytics for AI-crawler traffic — plus autonomous agents that draft optimised content.
Best for
Enterprise and agency
Enterprise and agency
Enterprise and Fortune 500 marketing teams
Delivery model
Both self-serve (AXP Edge) and CSM-led concierge (Streams)
Self-serve for monitoring; AXP edge is Enterprise-only
Hybrid: self-serve on Starter and Growth, sales-led for Enterprise
Company status
Both products live, built by Publive — a DXP and AXP platform serving enterprise customers.
Acquired by Sitecore (~$225M, June 2026).
Founded ~2024; ~$155M raised (Series C $96M at a $1B valuation, Feb 2026, led by Lightspeed); 2,000+ Fortune 500 marketers (Target, Walmart, Figma, MongoDB).
Onboarding & integration
Time to value
Edge live in under 2 hours
Monitoring results in under 30 min; AXP is an infra project
Fast — reads public AI answers, no site changes; no published onboarding SLA
How it deploys
CDN middleware, fully self-serve, one-click rollback; no site rebuild
CDN middleware, Enterprise tier only, deployed with your infra team
SaaS; reads public AI answers, and Agent Analytics reads CDN logs (Cloudflare, Vercel, AWS) to track AI crawlers — nothing served from your site
Content route
Streams publishes to yourdomain.com/streams on Publive CMS — no code changes to existing pages
No content publishing
Agents draft content pushed via integrations (Vercel, HubSpot); not a native edge or on-domain publisher
Standalone vs bundled
Fully standalone, CDN- and CMS-agnostic
CDN- and CMS-agnostic, now part of the Sitecore DXP
Standalone, expanding into a Monitor / Create / Operate / Analyze suite
Feature comparison
Monitoring
Single AI Visibility Score across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and AI Overviews, benchmarked against named competitors
4 engines on Core, 9 on Enterprise (adds Claude, Gemini, Meta AI, AI Mode, Grok)
Up to 9 engines on Enterprise (ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek); just 1 on Starter and 3 on Growth, plus Prompt Volumes demand 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
Site Maps and Deep AI Audit for rendering, structure and access blocks; domain-focused only
Answer Engine Insights for citations and answers, Prompt Volumes for demand, and Agent Analytics for AI-crawler traffic — but no technical rendering or crawl audit
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
AXP restructures, summarises and translates with redact/simplify/enhance rules; no pre-deployment answer-shift test
Prioritised actions plus autonomous agents that generate optimised content; recommendations and drafting, with no pre-deployment answer-shift test and no edge
Content creation
AI Streams — a managed AI content and intelligence layer publishing a net-new hub on your own domain
None by design; generates briefs, your team writes
One-click AI content and content agents that draft net-new, AI-optimised pages; publishing to your domain relies on integrations, not native hosting
Enterprise-ready
ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, SSO, RBAC, audit trails, mandatory human edit for regulated verticals, 99.95% uptime SLA
SOC 2 Type II, SSO (SAML / OIDC), RBAC, Enterprise Data API
SOC 2 Type II; SSO/SAML and API on Enterprise; 24-hour support SLA. ISO 27001 and RBAC detail not published.
Bundled — one-click AI content and agents, metered by Agent credits; not sold separately
Hidden costs
None; engines included
9-engine coverage only on Enterprise
Steep engine caps (1 on Starter, 3 on Growth, up to 9 only on Enterprise); Prompt Volumes and API are Enterprise-only; agents burn credits per task
Billing
Monthly, no annual lock-in; yearly billing saves 20%
Monthly, no annual lock-in
Self-serve tiers billed yearly (2 months free); no month-to-month rate published
Free trial
No free trial; audit tools are free
7-day trial (monitoring only)
Free trial on the Growth tier
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
A monitoring dashboard. Edge delivery is not available to agencies
A monitoring and reporting dashboard, tracked per client brand under an Enterprise account
Pricing unit
Per client workspace
Per agency seat plan
Per client workspace (Enterprise); agents metered by credits
Not public; multi-client sits inside a custom Enterprise deal
Scale
Growth workspace $249/mo each (1,000 URLs, 200 prompts); add workspaces at will, no ceiling
Enterprise custom
Custom Enterprise; add tracked companies within one account
Minimum commitment
3 workspaces to start
Not published
Annual on self-serve; Enterprise terms custom
Resale margin
Buy at $99 against a $199 direct list price — a 50% spread to price into a retainer
Margin on a $499 flat plan spread across clients
No reseller or white-label margin programme
Onboard a new client
Under 2 hours per workspace, self-serve
Monitoring in under 30 min; edge delivery unavailable to agencies
Data appears fast (it reads public answers); no published per-client onboarding SLA
Multi-client management
One agency account, all client workspaces, mix and match tiers
Agency plan
Multiple companies and domains within one Enterprise account
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
Strong monitoring breadth and Sitecore’s enterprise trust after the acquisition.
Where it loses
Edge delivery — the part that actually changes outcomes — is Enterprise-only.
For agencies
Sitecore’s enterprise trust plus broad engine coverage in reporting — but edge delivery isn’t sold to agencies at any price.
Where it wins
The best-funded, broadest AI-visibility monitor — up to 9 engines, Prompt Volumes demand data and AI-crawler analytics — now with content agents, and trusted by Fortune 500 marketers.
Where it loses
Still measures more than it delivers: steep engine and prompt caps on affordable tiers, key data (Prompt Volumes, API) locked to Enterprise, and no way to serve a fixed page to AI crawlers.
For agencies
Real multi-client tracking under Enterprise, but no public agency pricing, no reseller margin and no self-serve workspace — so the agency resells a dashboard, not a fix.
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