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Search Atlas
Search Atlas is a broad, agentic AI-SEO automation suite - technical SEO autopilot (OTTO SEO), AI content generation, local SEO, PPC, and reporting - that has added an LLM Visibility module tracking brand sentiment and citations across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and (at higher tiers) Google AI Mode, Copilot, and Grok. It's a strong fit for agencies that want one platform covering classic SEO plus an AI-visibility add-on, but that AI-visibility coverage is split across paid tiers ($199-399/mo) rather than unified, and the company hasn't published evidence of full-answer archiving, AI-crawler monitoring, or revenue attribution from AI traffic. Menttion is narrower in scope but goes deeper specifically on GEO/AEO: nine engines in one plan, full per-scan answer/citation storage, AI-crawler tracking tied to GA4/GSC and ecommerce revenue, and a ranked, evidence-linked opportunity queue, all starting from a $1 snapshot.
[01] At a glance
/ Menttion ↔ Search Atlas
Menttion
The AI search visibility platform: nine answer engines tracked, every answer stored with citations and sentiment, an Opportunity Engine that turns gaps into ranked plays, and a Content Studio and Page Audit to act on them.
Starting price
$1 one-time snapshot, then a metered plan you build yourself
Search AtlasAI SEO automation platform (traditional SEO + PPC + content + local, with an AI-visibility/GEO module add-on)
An agentic, all-in-one AI SEO automation platform (technical SEO autopilot, content generation, local SEO, and PPC) that added an LLM Visibility module tracking brand mentions across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude.
Starting price
$99/mo (Starter plan)
Four tiers: Starter $99/mo, Growth $199/mo, Pro $399/mo, Agency $999/mo (7-day free trial, ~20% off annual). The LLM Visibility / AI-search-tracking feature is not on the base Starter plan - Growth ($199/mo) unlocks 'up to 4' LLM projects with ChatGPT/Gemini/Google AI Mode, and Pro ($399/mo) adds Perplexity/Copilot/Grok with unlimited LLM projects. Overage AI credits are $0.99 each.
[02] Feature by feature
/ Capability ↔ Detail
| Capability | Menttion | Search Atlas |
|---|---|---|
| Engines/models tracked | 9 engines in a single plan: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek | LLM Visibility tool documents ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude; Google AI Mode, Copilot and Grok are only added at higher (Growth/Pro) plan tiers, so full engine breadth is plan-gated |
| Full answer / citation storage | Every answer from every engine stored in full (not sampled) each scan, with position, sentiment, and every citation URL captured | Aggregates data in near-real-time and shows a Citation Sources table (domains + market-share %); no public documentation of a full verbatim per-scan answer archive |
| Sentiment analysis | Net sentiment per engine, attribute-level brand perception, head-to-head sentiment vs named competitors | Dedicated Sentiment dashboard shows positive/negative trend lines, topic-level breakdowns, and platform-by-platform comparison |
| AI crawler monitoring | Tracks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended crawler activity and ties it to on-site behavior | No documented AI-crawler-detection feature; product focus is visibility/sentiment outcomes, not crawl-behavior monitoring |
| Analytics + revenue attribution | Joins GA4 + Search Console AI referral traffic and crawler activity to Shopify/WooCommerce/Stripe revenue for a single ROI number | No public documentation of LLM-traffic-to-revenue attribution or ecommerce revenue tie-in; benchmarking is visibility/sentiment based only |
| Technical + AEO page auditing | Page Audit grades every page on technical SEO, content depth, and AI-readiness; generates and verifies robots.txt and llms.txt; AI-judged deep-audit tier | OTTO SEO automates technical fixes (schema markup, internal links, meta tags) site-wide, but is a general technical-SEO autopilot, not framed around AI-answer-engine readiness or llms.txt |
| Content creation / publishing | Content Studio generates evidence-grounded briefs and drafts from citation/prompt gap data, with a block editor and scheduled auto-feed publishing | Content Genius AI writer plus Content Planner/templates generate general SEO content; not built specifically from AI-citation gap data |
| Ranked action recommendations | Opportunity Engine turns every detected gap into a ranked, evidence-linked task across 6 categories on a task board | OTTO SEO recommends/auto-executes technical fixes; no evidence of a dedicated GEO-specific ranked opportunity queue |
| Starting price | $1 one-time snapshot report, then build-your-own metered plan (pay only for engines/prompt volume tracked) | $99/mo (Starter) for the base platform; AI/LLM Visibility tracking specifically requires the $199/mo Growth tier or above |
[03] The fair take
/ Strengths ↔ Gaps
Where Search Atlas is genuinely strong
Where Menttion pulls ahead
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