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
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.
No — analytics only; nothing served to bots.
Token optimisation at the edge
No stated capability — the AXP add-on restructures and summarises, but token reduction isn’t a tracked metric.
No.
No.
Response time (TTFB) for AI bots
CDN-layer delivery, Enterprise-only; no stated bot-TTFB metric.
No — no delivery layer.
No — no delivery layer.
AI-only content fixes
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.
No — Agentic Campaigns drafts content; recommendations only, nothing scoped to bot-served HTML.
Category
Monitoring first
Monitoring & agents
Enterprise only
What it actually does
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.
Tracks and influences how a brand appears in AI answers across millions of responses — visibility, favourability, accuracy and risk — and drafts optimisation content through Agentic Campaigns.
Best for
Enterprise and agency
Enterprise and Fortune 500 marketing teams
Fortune 500 in-house marketing orgs
Delivery model
Self-serve for monitoring; AXP edge is Enterprise-only
Hybrid: self-serve on Starter and Growth, sales-led for Enterprise
Sales-led, enterprise-only — every path is a demo request, no self-serve
Company status
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).
Founded 2024; $68M raised ($43M Series B, Apr 2026, co-led by Threshold and NEA); ~10% of the Fortune 500 engaged (Adidas, American Express, LVMH, Ulta).
Time to value
Monitoring results in under 30 min; AXP is an infra project
Fast — reads public AI answers, no site changes; no published onboarding SLA
Slow — a ~3–6 week sales and onboarding cycle before results
How it deploys
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
Read-and-analyse layer over public AI answers; no site, CDN or edge changes
Content route
No content publishing
Agents draft content pushed via integrations (Vercel, HubSpot); not a native edge or on-domain publisher
Agentic Campaigns drafts content; the publish-to-your-domain mechanism isn’t disclosed
Standalone vs bundled
CDN- and CMS-agnostic, now part of the Sitecore DXP
Standalone, expanding into a Monitor / Create / Operate / Analyze suite
Standalone agentic-marketing platform
Monitoring
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
The major answer engines — ChatGPT, Google AI, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot and Amazon Rufus — with visibility, favourability and accuracy scoring; exact engine count not published
Auditing
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
Citation and source-impact analysis, share-of-voice, an Impact Score and Influence Rank, plus hallucination and accuracy monitoring; no technical site crawl
Optimising
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
Daily impact-ranked recommendations and agent-generated content; it advises and drafts, but doesn’t deploy fixes to your properties
Content creation
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
Agentic Campaigns drafts targeted AI-optimisation content, though some reviews note it stops short of a full content hub
Enterprise-ready
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.
Google Workspace SSO and standard encryption; SOC 2 reportedly still in progress, with no published ISO 27001 or RBAC posture
Entry
Core $250/mo for brands
Starter $99/mo billed yearly (ChatGPT only, 50 prompts, 1 seat)
Not public; no self-serve tier
Mid tier
Agency $499/mo
Growth $399/mo billed yearly (3 engines, 100 prompts, 3 seats)
Not public
Enterprise
Custom; AXP edge is a separate add-on
Custom (up to 9 engines, API, SSO)
Custom, enterprise-only; independent reviews estimate six-figure annual contracts
Content layer
Not offered
Bundled — one-click AI content and agents, metered by Agent credits; not sold separately
Agentic Campaigns, bundled into the enterprise contract; not priced separately
Hidden costs
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
Annual prepaid; implementation, professional services and training reportedly add on top; usage overages set per order form
Billing
Monthly, no annual lock-in
Self-serve tiers billed yearly (2 months free); no month-to-month rate published
Annual prepaid enterprise contract
Free trial
7-day trial (monitoring only)
Free trial on the Growth tier
No trial; structured sales evaluation
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 monitoring dashboard. Edge delivery is not available to agencies
A monitoring and reporting dashboard, tracked per client brand under an Enterprise account
Nothing. No agency or multi-client product — it’s built for a single in-house team
Pricing unit
Per agency seat plan
Per client workspace (Enterprise); agents metered by credits
No agency pricing unit
Entry
$499/mo agency plan
Not public; multi-client sits inside a custom Enterprise deal
Not offered
Scale
Enterprise custom
Custom Enterprise; add tracked companies within one account
Not offered
Minimum commitment
Not published
Annual on self-serve; Enterprise terms custom
Annual prepaid enterprise contract
Resale margin
Margin on a $499 flat plan spread across clients
No reseller or white-label margin programme
None; no reseller or partner programme
Onboard a new client
Monitoring in under 30 min; edge delivery unavailable to agencies
Data appears fast (it reads public answers); no published per-client onboarding SLA
~3–6 weeks — slow for multi-client work
Multi-client management
Agency plan
Multiple companies and domains within one Enterprise account
No multi-client console; the product assumes one enterprise marketing org
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