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title: "AI Readiness Scanner Pricing in 2026: Every Price, Verified and Dated"
slug: ai-readiness-scanner-pricing-2026
published: 2026-08-30T03:41:37.176883+00:00
updated: 2026-08-30T03:41:37.176883+00:00
author: "Asif Rahman"
author_url: https://masifrahman.com
category: "AI Readiness"
tags: pricing, AI readiness, scanner comparison, AEO tools, cost analysis, check:D1, check:D2, check:B2, check:C2, check:C3, check:E3, check:P2, check:P3, platform:wordpress, platform:shopify
description: "Every AI readiness scanner price, fetched and dated 30 August 2026: free tiers, $12 to $1,100 a month, and the three vendors that publish no price at all."
url: https://aiscan.site/blog/ai-readiness-scanner-pricing-2026
---

**Verified 30 August 2026.** Every price below was fetched from the vendor's own pricing page on this date. Where a vendor publishes no price, that is recorded as a finding rather than filled in with a guess.

Prices in this category run from $0 to $1,100 a month. That range is real, but it is also misleading, because the tools are not selling the same thing. One sells a scan. One sells a page. One sells a "check" that means a single prompt sent to a single AI platform from a single location. One sells a credit that equals a quarter of a query. Put those numbers in a column next to each other without saying what they meter, and the cheapest tool on the page can easily be the most expensive tool for your actual use.

Three vendors in this category publish no prices at all. Two more could not be reached today. Both facts are reported below with the status code that produced them.

## Quick summary

| If you want to… | Use this | What it costs | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|
| Run one free scan, no account, no email | [Cloudflare's checker](https://isitagentready.com) or AgentGrade | $0, unmetered | 30 Aug 2026 |
| Run scans from CI on every pull request | Agent Ready Pro or AgentGrade | $19/mo, or free | 30 Aug 2026 |
| Monitor a handful of sites daily and get alerted on regressions | AIScan Pro (ours, see the disclosure below) | $12/mo, or $99/yr | 30 Aug 2026 |
| Let an agent pay for its own scan with no account | Agent Ready via x402 | $0.02 USDC per 25-page scan | 30 Aug 2026 |
| Track how often an AI assistant mentions your brand | Profound, Ahrefs Brand Radar, Rankscale | $99–$385/mo | 30 Aug 2026 |
| Crawl 500,000 URLs for classic technical SEO | Screaming Frog SEO Spider | £199 per licence per year | 30 Aug 2026 |

**The single most useful thing on this page** is not the price column. It is the billing-unit column further down, because "cheap per scan" and "cheap per month" are different tools solving different problems.

**Cheapest genuine monitoring:** AIScan Pro at $99/year, which works out at $8.25/month. **Cheapest capable free tier:** AgentGrade, unlimited and unmetered. **Most expensive thing a reader will mistake for a scanner:** WordLift Business+ at $1,100/month billed monthly.

## How these numbers were collected

Every figure carries a URL, a status code and today's date. The method was deliberately boring:

1. Fetch the vendor's own pricing page with a browser user-agent, following redirects, and record the HTTP status.
2. Read the price out of the server-rendered HTML, or out of the page's JSON-LD `Offer` blocks where the visible price is drawn by JavaScript.
3. Where the price is not in the response at all, say so and name the reason.
4. Never carry a figure forward from an earlier snapshot and present it as current.

That last rule is why this page is shorter on some vendors than a competing roundup would be. On 25 August we recorded Otterly.AI at $29, $189 and $489 per month. Today `otterly.ai/pricing` returns **HTTP 202** with an `sg-captcha: challenge` header and a 176-byte redirect stub instead of a page. We are not restating the August figures as current prices, because we cannot see the page that would confirm them. The same applies to Scrunch AI, where the request failed at the network layer before any page was served.

Two vendors render their prices client-side and were recovered from structured data instead: Rankscale's figures came from its schema.org `Offer` markup, and AIScan's monthly price came from ours. Sitebulb's headline price could not be recovered either way, because the server HTML ships a literal `...` where the number belongs.

If that sounds pedantic, compare it to the alternative. Several published pricing pages in this category quote a Peec AI number. Peec AI does not publish prices. Somebody made a number up and everyone downstream copied it.

## What every AI readiness scanner costs

Listed alphabetically, not ranked. Ranking a price table by price rewards whichever vendor meters the smallest unit.

| Tool | Free tier | Paid | Enterprise | Account needed? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Agent Ready](https://agent-ready.dev/pricing) | 25 pages per scan, 10 scans per 30 days | **Pro $19/mo** (Stripe, monthly only): 250 pages per scan, 50 scans/mo, 90-day history, weekly monitoring, REST API, GitHub Action | None. Its FAQ states there is no sales-led enterprise tier | Free scans work signed out |
| AgentGrade | Unlimited, unmetered | **None published.** `/pricing` and `/docs` both return **404** | None | No |
| [aireadinesschecker.com](https://aireadinesschecker.com) | "3 free scans remaining today" | None published, `/pricing` 404 | None | **Email opt-in required** |
| Apify actor `startuphub/agent-readiness-scanner` | None | "Pay per usage" with **no figure shown** | N/A | Apify account plus a third-party API key |
| [Cloudflare's isitagentready.com](https://isitagentready.com) | Unlimited, no signup | None | None | No |
| [IsAgentReady](https://isagentready.com/en/about) | Free, unmetered | None. `/en/pricing` returns 404 | None | No |
| Search Engine Land / Semrush checker | "3 / 3 free checks left for today" | None on the tool. Upsells a 14-day Semrush One trial | Via Semrush | No card, no account |
| WordLift AI Audit | Limits not published (client-rendered shell) | Parent product: **Business+ $879/mo billed yearly, $1,100/mo billed monthly** | Custom quote | Sales-assisted |
| **AIScan** (ours) | Guest: 3 lifetime scans, no account. Free account: 20 scans/mo | **Pro $12/mo or $99/yr.** Founder LTD **$129 once** | None | Free tier needs an account |

Two of those entries deserve their own quotes. IsAgentReady's about-page FAQ still says, verbatim: *"Yes, IsAgentReady is completely free. Scan any website and get instant results with detailed scores, checkpoint-level pass/fail results, and actionable recommendations with code snippets."* Search Engine Land's checker says: *"Yes. You can run free checks without creating an account or entering a credit card."* Both were read from the live pages today.

Agent Ready also sells scans to machines. Its pricing page describes an x402 micropayment path: *"$0.02 USDC for a 25-page scan or $0.25 for a 250-page scan, settled on Base mainnet (the facilitator pays the gas)."* That is the only per-scan machine price published by anyone in this category, and it is worth knowing about even if you never use it, because it is the first honest answer to "what is one scan actually worth". Two cents.

## The three tools that publish no price at all

Non-publication is a finding. Reported plainly, with what produced it:

| Tool | What happens | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| **AgentGrade** | `agentgrade.com/pricing` → **404**. `agentgrade.com/docs` → **404**. The only pricing artifact anywhere on the site is a JSON-LD `Offer` block declaring `"price":"0"` | Not a free tier of a paid product. There is no paid product yet |
| **Peec AI** | `peec.ai/pricing` returns **200** with four named tiers, feature counts, prompt limits and project limits, and **zero dollar signs** in 886 KB of HTML | Deliberate. Every CTA routes to "Get started" or "Talk to Sales" |
| **Apify actor** | Listing shows the label "Pay per usage" with no figure. The actor's own README quotes a rate that is a note to the developer, not a price to buyers | Cannot be budgeted before you commit to an account |

The Apify listing carries one more number worth reading before you build anything on it: **2 total users, 1 monthly active**. That is a public field on the listing page, and it is a fair proxy for how load-bearing that option is today.

## The unit problem: a scan, a check and a credit are three different things

This is the part no other pricing page in this category covers, and it matters more than any individual figure.

| Tool | What you are actually buying |
|---|---|
| Agent Ready | A **scan**, capped by pages (25 free, 250 on Pro), rationed per month |
| aireadinesschecker.com | A **scan**, capped at 3 per day, paid for with your email address |
| AIScan | A **scan**, rationed per month, plus **watched sites** for monitoring and **MCP/API calls** as a separate allowance |
| Ahrefs Brand Radar | A **check**, defined by Ahrefs as one prompt × one platform × one location |
| Profound | Three units stacked in one price: **prompts tracked**, **answer engines**, and **Agents credits** |
| Peec AI | **Prompts** × **models** × **projects**, three axes, no dollar anchor |
| Rankscale | A **credit**, where one AI-engine query costs about 0.25 credits |
| AthenaHQ | A **credit**, defined as one AI response. The cleanest unit in the group |
| Semrush | Four units bundled per tier: sites, keywords per day, AI prompts per day, AI visibility reports per day |
| WordLift | **URLs** plus knowledge-graph usage plus "Smart Credits" |
| Screaming Frog | A **licence-year**. Crawl volume is bounded by your RAM, not by billing |

Read that table twice before comparing any two prices in this article.

![Monthly cost of AI readiness scanners and AI visibility platforms on a log scale, each bar labelled with the unit it meters, plus three vendors that publish no price](https://gqdxuwsuuasfjeeqafyq.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/blog-covers/ai-readiness-scanner-pricing-2026-units.jpg)

A worked example. Ahrefs Brand Radar sells check packages: **$50/mo for 2,500 checks with overage at $0.020/check**, **$100/mo for 7,000 checks at $0.015/check**, and **$250/mo for 25,000 checks at $0.010/check**, all verified on `ahrefs.com/pricing` today. Standalone access starts, in Ahrefs' own words, "from $199/mo". Now compare that to Profound's Starter at **$99/mo** for 50 tracked prompts. The $50 package looks half the price of nothing on that page until you notice one is buying 2,500 prompt-platform-location combinations a month and the other is buying 50 recurring monitoring slots. They are not substitutes and neither number tells you which is cheaper for you.

The same trap catches the scanner tier. Agent Ready Pro at $19/mo gives 50 scans of 250 pages. AIScan Pro at $12/mo gives 250 scans. If you scan one site deeply, Agent Ready is better value. If you scan many sites shallowly, the arithmetic flips. Neither of those is "cheaper".

## Scanner by scanner, what the money buys

**Agent Ready** is the only tool in the category with a conventional SaaS shape: a free tier, one paid tier, a card, and no sales call. Pro at $19/mo adds 90-day history, weekly monitoring, email regression alerts, a REST API, an authenticated MCP server and a GitHub Action. That GitHub Action is a real advantage over us and is named again in the disclosure section below.

**Cloudflare's isitagentready.com** is free with no signup and no pricing surface of any kind. Its scan returns a level rather than a number, and the full evidence chain for all 22 checks, which makes it the best free tool in the category for understanding *why* a check failed. We ran it against the same URL as nine other scanners in our [ten-scanner benchmark](https://aiscan.site/blog/best-ai-agent-readiness-scanners-2026), and it is the tool that caught a false negative in our own product.

**IsAgentReady** is free and says so in its own FAQ. Worth knowing before you rely on it: in our benchmark, three of its five category checkers timed out at 15,000 ms and each scored zero, producing a grade that was not a fair reflection of the site.

**The Search Engine Land checker**, powered by Semrush, gives three free checks a day with no card and no account, then funnels into a 14-day Semrush One trial. It is a lead-generation tool, which is not a criticism, but it does mean the free tier's job is to end.

**aireadinesschecker.com** is free in the sense that no money changes hands. The price is an email address and a checkbox reading *"I agree to receive email communications from HeyTony"*, with a daily cap of three scans.

**WordLift** is the outlier. Its audit tool at `audit.wordlift.io` is a client-rendered shell with no limits stated in the server HTML, so we could not verify what a free audit gets you. The parent product's pricing page today shows only **Business+ at $879/mo billed yearly, or $1,100/mo billed monthly**, covering 2,500 URLs plus knowledge-graph usage and Smart Credits, and an Enterprise tier at a custom quote. There is no self-serve entry plan published. A reader who arrives expecting a $49 SEO tool should know that before they book a discovery session.

## Full disclosure: what AIScan costs, and four places it loses

We publish this blog, so treat the next four paragraphs as marked. All figures read from [our own pricing page](https://aiscan.site/pricing) today, the same way every other figure on this page was read.

| Plan | Price | Scans | Watched sites | MCP/API calls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guest | $0, no account | 3 lifetime | none | none |
| Free | $0 with an account | 20/mo | 1, weekly checks | 50/mo |
| Pro | **$12/mo or $99/yr** ($8.25/mo effective, 31% off) | 250/mo | 10, daily checks | 2,000/mo |
| Founder LTD | **$129 once**, 100 seats | 100/mo | 5, daily checks | 1,000/mo |

Now the parts we would rather not print.

**You cannot pay us today.** Our own pricing page says, verbatim: *"Checkout is not live yet. Plans, limits and metering are fully active in the product; card payments are being connected."* Plans are activated by hand after a request. Every other vendor in the master table with a paid tier takes a card in a browser right now. That is a genuine, current disadvantage and not a rounding error.

**The Founder LTD has sold nothing.** The page says "100 of 100 seats left". A lifetime deal with no customers is a promise, not a track record, and a reader is entitled to weigh it that way.

**Three tools beat our free tier at zero cost.** AgentGrade, Cloudflare's checker and IsAgentReady are all unmetered and free. Ours is 20 scans a month and asks for an account. If all you want is to scan a site occasionally and read the result, we are not the cheapest option on this page and there is no argument that we are.

**We have no GitHub Action.** Agent Ready and AgentGrade both ship CI integration; we ship a CLI and an MCP server. If your requirement is a pass/fail gate on every pull request today, buy Agent Ready Pro at $19/mo, or use AgentGrade for nothing.

**When to choose something else instead.** Choose Cloudflare's free checker if you want the deepest evidence trail and never need history. Choose Agent Ready Pro if you want CI gating or you scan one large site rather than several small ones. Choose Profound or Ahrefs Brand Radar if your real question is "does ChatGPT mention us", because that is a different product category and no scanner on this page answers it.

**Where the $99/year is defensible:** continuous monitoring of up to ten sites with daily checks, alerting by email, Telegram and webhook, and platform-aware fixes rather than generic advice. If you are watching one site once a quarter, use the free tier or somebody else's.

## The adjacent category readers keep confusing with this one

These tools do not scan your HTML. They send prompts to AI assistants and count how often you get mentioned. Different job, different price band, verified today.

| Platform | Entry price | What the price meters |
|---|---|---|
| **Rankscale** | Essentials **$20/mo** ($204/yr); Pro $99/mo; Growth $385/mo; Enterprise **$780/mo** ($7,956/yr) | Credits, at ~0.25 credits per AI-engine query |
| **Profound** | Starter **$99/mo** billed yearly; Growth **$399/mo**; Enterprise custom | Prompts tracked, answer engines, Agents credits |
| **Ahrefs Brand Radar** | "from $199/mo", plus packages at $50/$100/$250 per month | Checks (prompt × platform × location) |
| **AthenaHQ** | Free with a one-off 300-credit grant; Starter **$295/mo** | Credits, one credit per AI response |
| **Semrush SEO + AI Search** | Free ($0, no card); SEO **$139/mo**; Starter **$199/mo**; Pro+ **$299/mo**; Advanced **$549/mo** | Sites, keywords/day, AI prompts/day, AI reports/day |
| **Peec AI** | Publishes no prices | Prompts × models × projects |
| **Otterly.AI** | Could not verify: HTTP 202 bot challenge | Unknown today |
| **Scrunch AI** | Could not verify: connection failed | Unknown today |

Two oddities worth naming. Rankscale calls its top tier "Enterprise" and prices it at a fixed, self-serve **$780/mo**, while every other Enterprise tier on this page is a custom quote behind a sales call. And AthenaHQ's $295/mo Starter includes a credit grant the page describes as "$300/month free credit", which is more nominal credit value than the plan costs.

## What you already pay for a crawler

Useful context, because a lot of readers are deciding whether this category is worth a new line item at all.

Screaming Frog's SEO Spider is **£199 per licence per year**, dropping to £189 at 5 to 9 licences, £179 at 10 to 19, and £169 at 20 or more. The free version crawls 500 URLs. Sitebulb's headline price could not be read because the pricing widget renders client-side and the server HTML ships a placeholder, though the page does state extra users cost "from £7 per month" and describes Sitebulb Cloud as "starting from £95/month, and going up in excess of £20k/year".

Set against that, most of this category is either free or under $20 a month. The AI visibility platforms are the expensive part, and they are answering a different question.

## What changed in the last five days

| Date | What we recorded | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| 25 Aug 2026 | First snapshot: Profound $99/$399, Otterly $29/$189/$489, a Semrush "AI Visibility" line at $99/mo per domain | Two of those three could not be re-verified today |
| 29 Aug 2026 | Prices captured alongside our ten-scanner benchmark. AgentGrade's `/pricing` already returned 404 | Non-publication is not new, it is the steady state for that vendor |
| 30 Aug 2026 | Full re-verification. 2 of 21 pricing pages unreachable, 3 vendors publish nothing, Semrush's `/ai-visibility/` path now 404s and redirects into the SEO + AI Search plan page | The standalone "AI visibility" SKU we logged on 25 Aug is no longer findable as a separate line item |

Five days is a short window to see this much movement in a price list. Treat any undated pricing roundup in this category as fiction.

## Decision path from what you already know

Branch on what you have already observed, not on who you are.

- **You have never run a scan.** Run a free one before you compare anything. Cloudflare's checker and AgentGrade are both free and unmetered, and `npx aiscan-cli yoursite.com` costs nothing either.
- **You ran a scan, got a low score, and want the fix list.** You do not need a paid tier for this. Every free scanner on this page returns findings. What you need is time.
- **You ran a scan, fixed things, and want to know if it breaks again.** This is the only requirement on this page that genuinely needs a paid plan, because it needs scheduling and alerting. Cheapest options are AIScan Pro at $8.25/month effective and Agent Ready Pro at $19/month.
- **You need a pass/fail gate in CI.** Agent Ready Pro or AgentGrade. We do not have this.
- **You want to know whether ChatGPT recommends you.** No scanner answers this. Look at the adjacent-category table and budget $99/mo or more.
- **You are an agent with a wallet and no account.** Agent Ready's x402 path, $0.02 USDC per 25-page scan.

## What it costs to fix what a scan finds

Worth separating from the price of finding out, because the fix is often free and the tooling is often something you already own.

**On WordPress**, the usual result is three plugins arguing over one robots.txt file. [ThinkRank](https://thinkrank.ai) handles robots.txt, robots meta, schema, sitemaps and llms.txt from a single plugin, which is the answer to that specific mess, and it migrates settings from Rank Math, Yoast, All in One SEO and SEOPress, so adopting it does not mean re-entering configuration. Rank Math and Yoast remain stronger on classic on-page SEO workflows and content analysis, and if that is your bottleneck rather than agent readiness, stay where you are. Platform-specific detail is on our [WordPress platform page](https://aiscan.site/docs/platforms/wordpress).

**On Shopify**, [StoreSEO](https://storeseo.com/) generates llms.txt from products, collections, pages and articles, edits agents.md, and covers AEO and GEO for stores, which is the set of things a Shopify theme cannot do by itself. It is rated 5.0 from 685 reviews on [the Shopify App Store](https://apps.shopify.com/storeseo). Other Shopify SEO apps do meta tags and image alt text better; they do not write the agent-facing files. See the [Shopify platform page](https://aiscan.site/docs/platforms/shopify).

**On anything else**, llms.txt is a text file. Our [llms.txt generator](https://aiscan.site/llms-txt-generator) is free and needs no account, and whether that file does anything for you is a question we answered honestly and unfavourably in [our evidence review](https://aiscan.site/blog/does-llms-txt-actually-work-2026).

## Where AIScan fits, and where it doesn't

| Question | Can a scan answer it? | Check |
|---|---|---|
| Is my robots.txt reachable and does it name AI crawlers? | Yes | **B2** |
| Do I publish a valid llms.txt at the domain root? | Yes | **C2** |
| Does my page ship real content to a crawler that runs no JavaScript? | Yes | **C3**, **E3** |
| Is my sitemap declared and does the declared URL resolve? | Yes | **D1**, **D2** |
| Do I publish an MCP server card or an Agent Skills index? | Yes | **P2**, **P3** |
| Is a crawler hitting my site actually the bot it claims to be? | **No.** That needs server logs and IP verification, covered in [our crawler user-agent guide](https://aiscan.site/blog/ai-crawler-user-agent-list-2026) | none |
| Does ChatGPT recommend my product? | **No.** No scanner measures this. That is the adjacent category above | none |
| Will publishing llms.txt increase my traffic? | **No.** Nobody can answer that from a scan | none |

Two honest limits on our own checks, both published: our **P3** check probes a single Agent Skills path and misses sites that serve the file at the legacy location behind a redirect, and our platform detector has produced a false positive on a large site. Both were found by running our scanner against a competitor's and are documented in the benchmark post.

Dimension pages: [discoverability](https://aiscan.site/docs/checks/discoverability), [content](https://aiscan.site/docs/checks/content), [capabilities](https://aiscan.site/docs/checks/capabilities), [bot access](https://aiscan.site/docs/checks/bot-access).

## A dated checklist before you pay for anything

Ten minutes, in this order:

- [ ] Run one free scan. `npx aiscan-cli yoursite.com`, or paste the URL at [aiscan.site](https://aiscan.site/). No account, no card.
- [ ] Run a second free scan with a different tool. Disagreements between scanners are informative, not noise.
- [ ] Write down which checks failed by ID, not by adjective. "B2 and C2" is actionable, "poor AI readiness" is not.
- [ ] Fix the free things first. robots.txt, a sitemap declaration and server-rendered HTML cost nothing.
- [ ] Only then ask whether you need scheduling and alerting. That is the one thing worth paying for.
- [ ] Check the price again on the day you buy. Two of the twenty-one pricing pages behind this article moved or vanished within five days.

## Next: scan first, then decide what to buy

The cheapest way to answer "am I ready for AI agents" is still to run the scan and read the check IDs.

```bash
npx aiscan-cli yoursite.com
```

Or paste your URL at [aiscan.site](https://aiscan.site/). It is free, there is no account, and it reports **D1** and **D2** for sitemap discovery, **B2** for explicit AI bot rules in robots.txt, **C2** for llms.txt, **C3** and **E3** for server-rendered HTML, and **P2** and **P3** for MCP and Agent Skills discovery. If you would rather check by hand, `curl -sI https://yoursite.com/robots.txt` and `curl -s https://yoursite.com/llms.txt` will answer the first two, and a `curl` of your homepage piped through a tag stripper will answer the third.

Then read the [guides](https://aiscan.site/guides) for the fix that matches your stack, or the [scanner benchmark](https://aiscan.site/blog/best-ai-agent-readiness-scanners-2026) if you want to see what these tools disagree about before you pick one.