Best AI visibility tool for a freelancer: the entry tiers hand out the seats you do not need and meter the brands you do

Every cheap tier in this market is built for a company with one brand and several staff. A freelancer is the opposite: one person with several brands. Peec's Starter publishes 50 prompts, "1 project" and "Unlimited users". Otterly's Lite publishes 15 search prompts, "1 Workspace" and "Unlimited team members". Scrunch's Core publishes "1 brand workspace" and "5 user licenses". Profound publishes "Seats Unlimited" on both its tiers. So the resource that is given away free is the one you have exactly one of, and the resource that is metered hard is the one that grows with every client you win.

The criterion, applied to us as well

Four questions from each vendor's own page: how many brands or projects at the cheapest published tier, how many seats, can you add brands without moving tier, and can the output be handed to a client.

Vendor	Brands at the cheapest published tier	Seats	Client-ready output?
Rankscale	"Brand dashboards: 10" on Pro, rising by tier, with "Add extra slots anytime in the app"	"Team workspaces (unlimited seats)"	"Shareable dashboard links", with white-labelled links above the entry tier
Depra AI	1 project at the bottom. Its third tier publishes "120 prompt slots pooled across 5 client projects" and "Move prompts between clients freely"	Not published as a seat count	"Your logo, colours and footer on client reports" and "Per-client reports, CSV exports and action lists" from its third tier
Otterly.AI	"1 Workspace" on Lite, "Unlimited Workspaces" from its second tier, with "Unlimited Brands & Competitors" throughout	"Unlimited team members"	"Unlimited Brand Reports" and "Detailed Reports & Export" on every tier
Peec AI	"1 project" on Starter, 2 on Pro, 5 on Advanced, with separate agency pricing signposted	"Unlimited users"	Looker Studio integration from its third tier
Scrunch	"1 brand workspace" on Core, custom at Enterprise	5 user licences	Not published on the Core card
Profound	Projects described as shared spaces rather than counted brands	"Seats Unlimited"	Exports "None" on the trial, "CSV, JSON" at Enterprise
AI Knows Us	"Businesses covered 1" on every plan except our agency plan, which covers 10	"1, full access" login on every plan	The tracking log exports any time

Two vendors answer the one-person-many-clients question below their top tier

Rankscale is the only vendor in this set that treats the brand count as the main dial rather than a tier gate: ten brand dashboards on its second tier, more above it, and a published line that extra slots can be bought in the app at any time. Pair that with unlimited seats and shareable dashboard links and a freelancer can start small and add one client at a time without a tier conversation. White-labelling the shared link sits above the entry tier.

Depra answers it differently and more specifically, by pooling: 120 prompt slots across five client projects, with prompts movable between clients freely, plus your own logo, colours and footer on client reports. Pooling is the right shape for a practice where one client needs twelve questions and another needs forty, because you buy the total rather than buying a ceiling for each.

The rest make you move tier, and at two of them the move is to a tier with no published price.

The arithmetic that catches freelancers out

Prompt allowances are per account, not per client. Fifteen prompts across three clients is five questions each, and five questions is a thin basis for a report somebody is paying for. Work it out before you buy, in this order:

• Questions per client. Eight to twelve is a credible set for one service in one market.
• Multiply by clients. Three clients at ten questions is thirty, which is over Otterly's entry allowance and inside Peec's and Scrunch's.
• Multiply by surfaces if the vendor counts a prompt per surface. Ask which way it counts, because the same thirty questions become 120 at four surfaces under one counting rule and stay 30 under another.
• Add a market per client that sells somewhere else. Depra defines one prompt slot as "one buyer question in one language and one market", which is the clearest statement of this trap anywhere in the set.

Where rivals beat us, which on this one is nearly everything

Our pricing page publishes one business covered on every plan except our agency plan, which covers ten, and one full-access login throughout. For a freelancer with three clients, that means either the agency plan or one plan per client, and the agency plan is near the top of our ladder. Rankscale will sell a freelancer ten brand dashboards on a mid tier with unlimited seats. Otterly publishes unlimited workspaces from its second tier and unlimited brands and competitors on every tier. Depra publishes white-labelled client reports and pooled prompts from its third tier. All three of those are better shaped for a one-person practice than anything we publish, and anybody choosing this week should know it.

One thing worth separating out: this is not the same decision as reselling a tool under your own name to a roster of retained clients, where what you keep when a client leaves becomes the question. That one is worked through separately, on a page with no durable inbound link from anywhere on this site, which is true of 147 of our live pages in this category, counted across 2,054 stored bodies.

Questions a one-person practice asks about these tools

Should I buy one account or one per client?

One account with enough brand slots, every time, because you want one place to compare and one bill. The exception is a client who insists on owning the subscription, which happens and is reasonable; in that case help them buy an entry tier in their own name and take a login.

Can I charge for this if the tool does the reading?

What you are selling is the question set, the interpretation and the work that changes the answer, and the tool is the instrument. The deliverable clients actually value is a dated before reading, a list of the questions where a competitor is named instead of them, and the pages you published in between. Two vendors here publish white-labelled client reporting, which makes the packaging easier and does not change what the work is.

Do I need a tool at all for one or two clients?

Not at first. Ask each client's five real buying questions on the surfaces they care about, save the full answer text with the date, and repeat monthly in a spreadsheet. A tool pays for itself when the number of clients times the number of questions makes that a morning's work rather than twenty minutes, and when a client asks for a chart.

What happens to history when I move a prompt between clients?

Ask in writing, because it is the thing most likely to cost you a report. Depra publishes that prompts can be moved between clients freely on its pooled tier, which is unusual and worth having. Elsewhere, assume editing a question can break its trend line until a vendor tells you otherwise, and freeze each client's set once you have agreed it.

Which is more valuable at the start, more questions or more surfaces?

More questions, by a wide margin. Ten questions on two surfaces tells you which parts of a client's category they lose; two questions on nine surfaces tells you almost nothing twice. Peec's "Choose 3 models" shape is built on this bet and it is a defensible one.

Count the clients before you read another price

Write down the number of brands you will need in twelve months and the number of questions each one deserves, multiply them, and take that single figure to each vendor's cheapest published tier. On every page in this market the seat column will be generous and irrelevant to you, and the brand column will be the one that decides whether you can grow without a tier change. Two vendors here let a one-person practice add clients one at a time without a sales call. We are not one of them, and that is the honest answer to the question this page is named after.