Honest comparison · Updated November 2026

AI Schema Gen vs Otterly.AI: an Otterly Alternative That Fixes What It Finds

Otterly.AI tracks where your brand shows up in AI search: in ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Copilot, with more engines as add-ons. It is one of the most affordable tools in the category, from $29 a month, and it also has a website audit that checks AI crawler access and how readable your content is.

AI Schema Gen overlaps with Otterly more than with most tracking tools, because we also check your website and track AI answers. The main difference is what happens next: Otterly reports and recommends, while we make the website fixes for you. This comparison is written by the AI Schema Gen team.

AI Schema Gen vs Otterly
Quick verdict

The short answer

Choose Otterly if

Tracking is your main need, you want lots of prompts, share of voice and sentiment for the money, plus content briefs and recommendations your team will act on.

Choose AI Schema Gen if

You want the problems a website audit finds actually fixed (schema markup, business identity, llms.txt), weekly checks across five engines included, and a free plan to start.

The core difference

Report and recommend vs fix and re-check

Otterly measures and advises. It tracks brand mentions and link citations, your share of AI voice, sentiment and competitors. Its recommendations tell you what to change to get cited, and its content briefs help your writers. Its GEO audit, described in its own product update, has two parts: a crawlability checker (can each AI bot get past your robots.txt and firewall) and a content checker that scores static content, AI readiness and structured data. We found nothing on its site saying it changes your website for you.

AI Schema Gen checks, fixes, then keeps checking. Our free AI readiness check covers similar ground to Otterly's audit (crawler access, content that needs JavaScript, page structure) and adds a deeper look at whether AI can tell who runs your business and answer questions about it from your own data. Then the dashboard publishes the fixes: schema markup for each page, one consistent business identity, llms.txt and canonical links. A weekly re-check alerts you if your score drops.

Price

What each one costs

Otterly's pricing page lists Lite at $29 a month with 15 search prompts, Standard at $189 with 100 prompts, Premium at $489 with 400 prompts, and Enterprise from 1,000 prompts on request. A second, lower set of prices ($25, $160 and $422) appears to be for yearly billing. ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Copilot are included; Google AI Mode, Gemini and Claude cost extra on every plan. There is a free trial and a long list of free tools.

AI Schema Gen: a free plan (one site, full readiness report, fixes for up to 25 pages), Pro at $19 a month with 10 tracked questions, Premium at $49 with 30 questions and 5 sites, and Agency at $99 with 80 questions and unlimited sites. All five engines are included on every paid plan.

Free option

AI Schema Gen

Free plan

Otterly

Free trial and free tools

Entry price

AI Schema Gen

$19 a month

Otterly

$29 a month

Prompts or questions at entry price

AI Schema Gen

10

Otterly

15

Engines at entry price

AI Schema Gen

5 included

Otterly

4 included, 3 as add-ons

Mid plan

AI Schema Gen

$49: 30 questions, 5 sites

Otterly

$189: 100 prompts
Tracking

How the AI visibility tracking compares

Otterly gives you more tracking for the money once you go past the entry plan: 100 prompts on Standard and 400 on Premium, with share of AI voice, sentiment and brand profiling. If your work is mainly reporting on AI visibility, that volume matters.

AI Schema Gen tracks fewer questions, weekly, but includes ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Claude and Gemini on every paid plan without add-ons. Each check records whether you were cited, which businesses the AI recommended and whether a competitor you follow appeared, and you get an alert when that changes.

Engines included

AI Schema Gen

ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Claude, Gemini

Otterly

ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot

Extra-cost engines

AI Schema Gen

None

Otterly

AI Mode, Gemini, Claude

Share of voice and sentiment

AI Schema Gen

✗

Otterly

✓

Competitors named in answers

AI Schema Gen

✓

Otterly

✓

Alerts on gained or lost mentions

AI Schema Gen

✓

Otterly

Not found
Website audit

Two audits, side by side

Both tools check whether AI bots can get in and whether your content shows up without JavaScript. From there they go different ways.

Otterly's content checker gives a score for structured data, alongside static content and AI readiness. It tells you how you are doing and recommends improvements.

AI Schema Gen's check spends most of its weight on understanding: does your site state clearly who runs the business, what it does and where, and do your pages connect to that one identity or contradict each other? It then asks an AI model questions about your business using only what it found on your site, to show whether the answer comes from your own data or is a guess. And because we publish the fix, the next check shows whether it worked.

Honest assessment

Where Otterly is stronger

An honest comparison has to include this section.

✓

More tracking per dollar above the entry plan

100 prompts at $189 and 400 at $489, with share of AI voice, sentiment and brand profiling.
✓

Content help

Content briefs and recommendations on what to change to get cited. AI Schema Gen doesn't write or brief your content.
✓

AI crawler activity

Agent Analytics shows how AI agents crawl your site. We check whether they are allowed in, not live visits.
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Free tools

A wide set of free tools, such as an AI crawler simulation and a query fan-out tool, that are useful even if you never pay.
Side by side

Feature comparison

Free website check: crawler access, page structure, business identity

AI Schema Gen

✓

Otterly

Some checks as free tools

Checks AI bot access through robots.txt

AI Schema Gen

✓

Otterly

✓

Checks pages that need JavaScript to show content

AI Schema Gen

✓

Otterly

✓

Structured data

AI Schema Gen

Generated and published

Otterly

Scored

Business identity built and published for you

AI Schema Gen

✓

Otterly

Not found

llms.txt and canonical links set up

AI Schema Gen

✓

Otterly

Not found

Weekly website re-check with score-drop alerts

AI Schema Gen

✓

Otterly

Not found

AI visibility tracking

AI Schema Gen

Weekly, 5 engines

Otterly

4 engines + 3 add-ons

Share of voice and sentiment

AI Schema Gen

✗

Otterly

✓

Content briefs

AI Schema Gen

✗

Otterly

✓

Free plan

AI Schema Gen

✓

Otterly

Free trial

Entry price

AI Schema Gen

$19 a month

Otterly

$29 a month

Checked against each product's own website in November 2026. Plans and features change, so check their current pages before you decide.

Decision guide

Who should choose which

Otterly is the better fit if

  • Tracking and reporting are the main job
  • You want 100+ prompts with share of voice and sentiment
  • Your writers will act on content briefs and recommendations
  • Copilot tracking matters to you

AI Schema Gen is the better fit if

  • You want the audit's findings fixed, not just listed
  • You want schema markup and a clear business identity published for you
  • You want Claude and Gemini included without add-ons
  • You want a free plan before paying anything
  • You run several client sites as an agency

Using both makes sense when

Otterly for wide tracking and content briefs, AI Schema Gen for the website fixes. They overlap on a small amount of tracking, so you could use our tracking only for your most important questions.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Run the check, then let us fix it

Free readiness check, no signup. See what AI gets from your site in about a minute.

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