Frase vs Otterly.ai
Otterly reports where AI ignores your content. Frase shows you — then writes the fix.
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Where Frase pulls ahead
What Frase does that Otterly.ai doesn’t.
Frase runs the whole loop in one place: it hears what your visitors ask, earns the right to act, and ships the fix when a page slips. Three moves that turn monitoring into a published result.
Frase Answers
A front door that captures the real questions your visitors ask.
Frase Answers sits on your own site and answers visitors from your own pages. Every question is first-party demand, so Frase turns the ones you have no page for yet into the next thing worth writing.
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Frase turned the demand into a content signal
Accept it, and Frase researches and drafts the page.
Earned autonomy
Frase earns its autonomy, one content type at a time.
Every content type starts in review. As Frase keeps earning your approval, you can let the safe ones publish on their own and pause any type the moment its quality dips. The agent takes on more over time, never more than you allow.
Consistently clears your bar. Now publishing on its own to FraseCMS.
Auto-publish: onEvery type starts in review. Nothing publishes on its own until you say so.
Content Guard
Frase does not stop at the alert.
When a page slips on Google, Content Guard catches the decay, drafts the revision, and sets it in front of you. You approve the change, and Frase republishes to your CMS, so the fix ships in the same place you spotted the problem.
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Frase
RecommendedThe platform that monitors your AI visibility and fixes the content behind it
- Best for
- Content teams who want to track AI visibility and act on it — research, write, optimize for SEO and AI search, monitor citations, and fix decaying content in one workflow, with self-serve access
- Key strengths
- Closed monitor-and-fix loop (detect AI gaps → diagnose → brief → fix → republish → re-track), AI visibility tracking with share-of-voice and citation-gap analysis, integrated editor with real-time SEO + GEO scoring, Content Guard scheduled fixes for your approval, site-wide auditing, AI Agent and MCP access
- Starting at
- $49/month ($39/month annual) — AI visibility, content creation, and optimization all included, free trial
- What's distinct
- Closed monitor-and-fix loop, gap diagnosis that generates fix briefs, real-time GEO scoring in the editor, Content Guard scheduled fixes for your approval, site-wide audit with cannibalization detection, MCP server
Otterly.ai
An AI search visibility monitor with a GEO audit that stops at recommendations
- Best for
- Teams whose job is to report AI visibility on a dashboard, and who are willing to write and fix the content by hand somewhere else
- Key strengths
- Built to monitor AI search and produce a GEO audit. For the content that earns citations it reports and recommends only — it does not write, optimize, or republish anything, so every fix moves to a separate tool
- Starting at
- Entry tier is monitoring only; Gemini and Google AI Mode are paid add-ons on top of the plan price
- What's distinct
- AI visibility is monitor-and-recommend with no integrated fix loop; no AI writing, no content editor, no real-time GEO scoring, no Content Guard, no republish-to-CMS
Feature-by-Feature Comparison
| Capability | FraseRecommended | Otterly.ai |
|---|---|---|
| AI Search Visibility | ||
| AI engines tracked | IncludedChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Claude, and more | IncludedChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot |
| Track Gemini and Google AI Mode | IncludedIncluded as coverage scales by plan | IncludedPaid add-ons on top of the plan price |
| Prompt tracking | IncludedTracked prompts scale by plan | Included |
| Brand visibility & mention scoring | Included | Included |
| Citation tracking & position | IncludedCitation URLs and position | Included |
| Competitor AI share-of-voice | Included | Included |
| AI visibility alerts | IncludedSlack + email | IncludedEmail only |
| AI bot/crawler analytics | IncludedGPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot (Professional+) | Not included |
| Content-to-Citation Workflow | ||
| Detect AI visibility gaps | Included | Included |
| Diagnose why AI isn't citing you | IncludedAutomated gap diagnosis | limitedAdvisory recommendations only |
| Generate content brief to fix gaps | IncludedResearch-backed, one-click from insight | Not included |
| Fix content in integrated editor | IncludedWith real-time SEO + GEO scoring | Not includedNo content editor |
| Scheduled content fixes (Content Guard) | IncludedScheduled scans detect decay and draft fixes for approval | Not includedRecommendations are advisory only |
| Republish to your CMS | IncludedWordPress, Webflow, Sanity, Wix, FraseCMS | Not included |
| Track improvement after fixing | Included | Included |
| Content Creation & Optimization | ||
| AI content writing | IncludedUnlimited AI words, 100+ languages | Not includedNo content creation |
| Content editor with real-time scoring | IncludedDual SEO + GEO score | Not included |
| GEO optimization scoring | IncludedReal-time in the editor | Not included |
| AI Agent (natural language workflows) | IncludedSpecialized content skills | Not included |
| Content briefs | IncludedResearch-backed, SERP-analyzed | Not included |
| AI image generation | IncludedBuilt-in, unlimited | Not included |
| Site & SEO Analysis | ||
| Site-wide content audit | IncludedFull domain crawl, cannibalization detection | limitedGEO audit only |
| SERP analysis | Included | Not included |
| Keyword research | Included | limitedAI prompt discovery only |
| Internal-link analysis | Included | Not included |
| Brand & Team Features | ||
| Brand voice control | IncludedTrain AI on your brand voice | Not included |
| Content governance | IncludedApproval workflows | Not included |
| Team collaboration | IncludedUp to 5 seats (Scale) | IncludedWorkspaces by plan |
| Integrations & API | ||
| Google Search Console | Included | Not included |
| Publish to CMS (WordPress, Webflow, Sanity, Wix) | Included | Not included |
| REST API | IncludedFull content lifecycle endpoints | IncludedRead-only, Standard+ |
| MCP Server (AI assistant integration) | IncludedDrive content workflows from any AI assistant | Not included |
| Webhook API | Included | Not included |
| Chrome Extension | Included | Not included |
| Pricing & Access | ||
| AI visibility included in plans | IncludedMajor engines included, no per-engine add-on | IncludedGemini and AI Mode billed as add-ons |
| AI visibility fixes content | IncludedMonitor and fix in one workflow | Not includedMonitor and recommend only |
| Content creation included | Included | Not included |
| Starting price | $49/moFull platform, content creation included | IncludedMonitoring only at the entry tier |
| Free trial | IncludedFree trial, no credit card | Included |
AI engines tracked
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Claude, and more
ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot
Track Gemini and Google AI Mode
Included as coverage scales by plan
Paid add-ons on top of the plan price
Prompt tracking
Tracked prompts scale by plan
Brand visibility & mention scoring
Citation tracking & position
Citation URLs and position
Competitor AI share-of-voice
AI visibility alerts
Slack + email
Email only
AI bot/crawler analytics
GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot (Professional+)
Detect AI visibility gaps
Diagnose why AI isn't citing you
Automated gap diagnosis
Advisory recommendations only
Generate content brief to fix gaps
Research-backed, one-click from insight
Fix content in integrated editor
With real-time SEO + GEO scoring
No content editor
Scheduled content fixes (Content Guard)
Scheduled scans detect decay and draft fixes for approval
Recommendations are advisory only
Republish to your CMS
WordPress, Webflow, Sanity, Wix, FraseCMS
Track improvement after fixing
AI content writing
Unlimited AI words, 100+ languages
No content creation
Content editor with real-time scoring
Dual SEO + GEO score
GEO optimization scoring
Real-time in the editor
AI Agent (natural language workflows)
Specialized content skills
Content briefs
Research-backed, SERP-analyzed
AI image generation
Built-in, unlimited
Site-wide content audit
Full domain crawl, cannibalization detection
GEO audit only
SERP analysis
Keyword research
AI prompt discovery only
Internal-link analysis
Brand voice control
Train AI on your brand voice
Content governance
Approval workflows
Team collaboration
Up to 5 seats (Scale)
Workspaces by plan
Google Search Console
Publish to CMS (WordPress, Webflow, Sanity, Wix)
REST API
Full content lifecycle endpoints
Read-only, Standard+
MCP Server (AI assistant integration)
Drive content workflows from any AI assistant
Webhook API
Chrome Extension
AI visibility included in plans
Major engines included, no per-engine add-on
Gemini and AI Mode billed as add-ons
AI visibility fixes content
Monitor and fix in one workflow
Monitor and recommend only
Content creation included
Starting price
Full platform, content creation included
Monitoring only at the entry tier
Free trial
Free trial, no credit card
Honest fit
Which should you choose?
Choose Frase if you
- Want to monitor your AI visibility AND fix the content behind it in one platform — not just read a dashboard and a list of recommendations
- Need content creation, SEO optimization, and GEO optimization in the same place you monitor
- Want the full loop: detect gaps → diagnose why → generate brief → fix in editor → republish → re-track
- Want Content Guard to catch decaying content, draft the fix, and republish it to your CMS once you approve
- Track Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and the other major engines without paying a per-engine add-on to see them
- Need site-wide content auditing with cannibalization detection and internal-link analysis, not just a GEO audit
- Want MCP and webhook access to drive content workflows from the tools you already use
Frase may not be your fit if
- Your only job right now is reporting AI visibility on a dashboard, and content creation is fully handled somewhere else
- You are fine taking advisory recommendations and writing the fix by hand in a separate tool
- You do not need a content editor, SEO/GEO scoring, or republishing inside the same platform
- You are comfortable adding Gemini and Google AI Mode as paid add-ons on top of the plan price
- You want the lowest possible entry price for pure monitoring and nothing else
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The differences that matter
Where the two part ways.
Frase fixes the content. Otterly only recommends.
Frase: Tracks your AI visibility, then acts on it. Frase shows you where answer engines aren't citing you, diagnoses why, generates a brief, writes and optimizes in an editor with real-time SEO + GEO scoring, and publishes. As pages decay, Content Guard drafts the fix for your approval. Measurement leads straight to the published fix, in one platform.
Otterly.ai: Hands you a report, a GEO audit, and a list of recommendations, then stops. The recommendations are advisory — Otterly does not write, optimize, or republish anything. Every gap it flags becomes work you redo by hand in a separate tool, then return to re-check.
Frase writes the content. Otterly has no editor.
Frase: A complete content platform — unlimited AI writing in 100+ languages, research-backed briefs, SERP analysis, keyword research, a content editor with dual SEO + GEO scoring, AI image generation, and an AI Agent with specialized content skills. Creation and optimization happen in the same place you monitor.
Otterly.ai: No content creation, by its own description — no AI writing and no editor. Researching, writing, and optimizing the page that wins the citation all happen in separate tools, which adds cost, handoffs, and a constant switch back and forth to re-check the result.
Frase is one workflow. Otterly is a dashboard you switch away from.
Frase: Research, writing, dual SEO + GEO optimization, AI visibility tracking, and remediation live in one workflow. An insight becomes a drafted fix you approve and publish, without re-keying the work or re-explaining your brand to another tool on the way.
Otterly.ai: Monitoring lives on its own dashboard, disconnected from where content gets made. Acting on what it finds means leaving the platform, opening a separate editor, rebuilding the page from scratch, then coming back to confirm whether it moved.
Frase shows every engine in the plan. Otterly meters them.
Frase: Tracks the major answer engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Claude, and more — with visibility and mention scores, sentiment, citation URLs and position, share of voice, and citation-gap analysis. Coverage scales by plan, with no per-engine surcharge to see the engines that matter.
Otterly.ai: Its base plans cover ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and Copilot, but bill Google Gemini and Google AI Mode as paid add-ons on top of the plan price. The engines you most need to watch can cost extra, and even then the data stops at a report.
Frase is built for the job that wins AI citations.
Frase: Built end to end for getting content cited by AI and ranked on Google: research, writing, dual SEO + GEO scoring, AI visibility tracking, site-wide auditing, and Content Guard fixes. That focus is why the whole loop closes in one place instead of leaking across a monitor here and an editor there.
Otterly.ai: Built to measure and report, and it ends there. For the specific job of getting cited by AI and keeping content fixed, a monitor without a writer leaves the hardest, most valuable half of the work — producing and republishing the page — entirely on you.
The Key Differentiator: The Frase Agent
Otterly.ai gives you clear monitoring data — you'll know your Brand Visibility Index, citation positions, and where competitors outrank you. But turning that data into action requires separate tools and manual workflows.
The Frase Agent takes monitoring insights and turns them into action. Describe what you want — "analyze my AI visibility for this topic and create optimized content to fix the gaps" — and the Agent handles research, brief creation, content optimization, and gap diagnosis across every specialized capability.
With the Frase Agent
"Check why ChatGPT isn't citing our page on 'content optimization' and create a brief to fix it"
→ Agent checks AI visibility, diagnoses the gap, generates a targeted brief, and opens it in the editor for immediate action
Without an Agent (Otterly.ai)
Check Otterly dashboard → Export citation data → Open separate content tool → Research manually → Write content → Come back to Otterly → Wait for next monitoring cycle
→ Multiple tools, manual process, days between detection and verification
Every Specialized Skill via Natural Language
From SERP analysis to content generation to GEO optimization to site auditing — the Frase Agent handles it all through conversation. Monitoring data becomes optimized content in minutes, not days. You can also access these capabilities from Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, OpenClaw, or any AI assistant your team already uses.
What you get for the price
One platform, the whole loop.
Plans open at $39/mo billed yearly, and most in-house teams and agencies settle on Professional at $129/mo. AI visibility tracking is included at every tier. Need more room? Add seats, credits, or AI prompts as you grow. Pay yearly and save 20%.
Frase — Monitor, Create, and Fix
Full monitor-and-fix workflow
- 10 articles, 50 audits, 25 AI prompts
- AI visibility tracking included
- SEO + GEO content scoring
- AI Agent, content editor, briefs
- Unlimited AI words + image generation
- 40 articles, 250 audits, 100 AI prompts
- Broader AI visibility tracking
- Bot/crawler analytics (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, etc.)
- 90-day history, 3 seats
- 100 articles, 1000 audits, 350 AI prompts
- Full AI visibility tracking
- 180-day history, 5 seats
Otterly.ai — Monitor + Recommend
Monitors AI visibility, then leaves the content fixes to you
- 15 search prompts, 1 workspace
- ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot
- Gemini and Google AI Mode are paid add-ons
- Monitoring and recommendations only
- 100 prompts, multiple workspaces
- Looker Studio connector, read-only API
- Gemini and AI Mode still cost extra
- 400 prompts, higher API limits
- All monitoring and GEO-audit features
- No content creation or fix at any tier
Where you'll still need Frase
- AI content writing
- Content editor with real-time SEO + GEO scoring
- Scheduled content fixes (Content Guard)
- Republish fixes to your CMS
Otterly monitors AI visibility, runs a GEO audit, and gives advisory recommendations — it does not write, optimize, or republish content. Gemini and Google AI Mode are paid add-ons across plans. A separate sales-led Enterprise plan exists. Pricing verified June 2026.
Why teams pick the monitor-and-fix loop over monitoring alone
The reason teams move the content work to Frase is simple. A monitoring tool shows you where AI engines stop citing you and hands you a list of things to change. Frase shows you the same gap and then writes, optimizes, and republishes the page that closes it, with Content Guard keeping it fixed as it decays.
Questions, answered straight.
What's the best Otterly.ai alternative?
Frase is the alternative for teams who want to act on AI visibility, not just watch it. Otterly.ai monitors AI search, runs a GEO audit, and hands you recommendations. Frase tracks your visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Claude, then researches, writes, and optimizes the content that closes each gap, and republishes the fix once you approve it. Otterly tells you where AI isn't citing you; Frase shows you and writes the page that fixes it.
Does Otterly.ai create or fix the content behind a visibility gap?
By Otterly's own description, the platform covers monitoring, a GEO audit, and recommendations — there is no AI writing, no content editor, and no fix in the product. Its recommendations are advisory. When Otterly flags a gap, the writing and optimizing happen in a separate tool, and you come back to re-check. Frase detects the gap, generates a research-backed brief, writes and optimizes in an editor with real-time SEO + GEO scoring, republishes to your CMS, and re-tracks the result — without leaving the platform.
What's the difference between Frase and Otterly.ai for AI visibility?
Both track your visibility in AI search. The difference is what happens next. Otterly is a monitoring product: it benchmarks visibility, tracks prompts, runs a GEO audit, and reports gaps, then hands you a to-do list. Frase closes the loop: it tracks your AI visibility, diagnoses why engines aren't citing you, and writes or rewrites the content in the same workflow, then republishes the fix once you approve it. With Otterly, the gap you find and the fix you publish live in two different tools. With Frase, they live in one.
Which AI engines does Frase track compared with Otterly?
Frase monitors your visibility across the major answer engines, including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Claude, with coverage that scales by plan and no per-engine surcharge to see them. Otterly's base plans track ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and Microsoft Copilot, and bill Google Gemini and Google AI Mode as paid add-ons on top of the plan price. The bigger difference is what each does with the data: Frase links every visibility insight to a content fix instead of stopping at the dashboard.
Do I need a separate writing tool if I use Frase for AI visibility?
No. Content creation and optimization are built into Frase, in the same workflow that monitors your AI visibility. You research, write unlimited AI words in 100+ languages, score for SEO and GEO in real time, and republish to WordPress, Webflow, Sanity, Wix, or FraseCMS. With a monitoring-only tool like Otterly, every gap it surfaces becomes work you redo in a separate editor and then re-check. With Frase, the gap you find and the page you publish to close it live in one place.
Can I use Frase alongside Otterly.ai instead of replacing it?
Yes. Frase reads from Google Search Console and publishes to your CMS, so it drops in next to whatever you already run. But the reason teams consolidate is the division of labor: Otterly reports on AI visibility and then stops, while Frase owns the content that earns AI citations and Google rankings, and keeps it fixed as it decays. If getting cited by AI is the priority, Frase is the part of the stack that actually does that job, so the second tool usually becomes redundant.
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