Real estate marketing agencies the assistants named, and which published prices hold up

Ask an assistant for the best marketing agency for a real estate business and you will not get a list of agencies. You get a lead generation platform, a template subscription, a website company and a managed service, priced per month, per year and per package, mixed into one ranked list. Two engines asked the same question on the same night produced seven names with one in common, and gave that one name two different prices. The prices that hold up are below, each against the page it was read on.

What was asked, and what each engine did

"What is the best marketing agency for a real estate business", put to the ChatGPT and Gemini product surfaces through a data provider on 21 October 2026 at 22:20 and 22:38 UTC. Neither question named any vendor. Both engines ran a live search. ChatGPT returned 28 citations, led by realtor.com with five, zillow.com with three and reddit.com with two. Gemini returned three citations.

ChatGPT named Real Geeks, TREM Group, Luxury Presence and Coffee and Contracts. Gemini named Luxury Presence, Curaytor, Azulio and Knightsbridge Park. Luxury Presence is the only name on both lists, priced at about 265 dollars a month by one engine and at 300 to over 1,000 dollars a month by the other.

The published prices, checked on 22 October 2026

Provider	Named by	Price the engine gave	What we read on the vendor page
Real Geeks	ChatGPT, first	399 a month plus 500 setup	Confirmed. realgeeks.com/pricing redirects to realgeeks.com/real-geeks-pricing, which publishes the platform at 399 a month with a 500 dollar one time setup, two users included, and a 6 or 12 month commitment term.
Luxury Presence	Both engines	About 265 a month, or 300 to over 1,000 a month	luxurypresence.com/pricing returns HTTP 404. luxurypresence.com/plans renders the tier table with managed ad budgets up to 1,000, up to 5,000 and up to 10,000 dollars and a CRM up to 10,000 contacts, and no monthly plan price. Neither engine's figure was verifiable there that day.
Curaytor	Gemini, second	Typically 1,000 to 2,500 or more a month	curaytor.com/pricing publishes one figure, and the page disagrees with itself: the body reads "Curaytor is 1,300 dollars per month" while the page title reads "Real Estate Marketing for 1299 a month". Both render.
Azulio	Gemini, third	Tiers from 9,970 a year, which is 997 a month, to 16,950 a year	Confirmed, on azulio.ai/blog/best-real-estate-marketing-companies, the page Gemini cited, which also publishes setup fees of 1,500 and 3,000 dollars that the answer left out.
Coffee and Contracts	ChatGPT, fourth	Reported starting price 74 a month	coffeecontracts.com/pricing returned 200 with 212 words of rendered text and no figure, so the 74 dollars stands as the engine's report and not as a reading of the vendor page.
TREM Group	ChatGPT, second	Custom quote	No figure offered and none quoted here.
Knightsbridge Park	Gemini, fourth	Custom enterprise retainers, typically 3,000 to 5,000 or more	Presented by the engine as typical rather than published.

Two of the sources behind these answers are worth knowing about

Gemini's four name answer carried three citations, and one of them, the source given for Luxury Presence, was dmrmedia.org/blog/best-real-excel-marketing-agencies. That URL returns HTTP 404. The correctly spelled version of it, dmrmedia.org/blog/best-real-estate-marketing-agencies, returns 200. A buyer following the link in the answer lands on nothing.

The citation given for Azulio is azulio.ai/blog/best-real-estate-marketing-companies. We read it on 22 October 2026. It opens with the sentence "Azulio is the best real estate marketing company in the United States in 2026" and then publishes its own annual price, 9,970 dollars for Producer plus 1,500 setup and 16,950 for Accelerator plus 3,000 setup, and lists Luxury Presence and Sierra Interactive at 3,600 to 14,400 dollars as the website only option. So the authority the engine leaned on for third place was the vendor's own ranking of itself, and the vendor is the most transparent party in the answer about what it charges. Both things are true at once, and a buyer should know which it is reading.

The real decision is which of four products you are buying

The names in these answers are not substitutes, which is why a monthly number cannot rank them. ChatGPT said so itself in its answer, that these are different types of providers and the published starting prices are not directly comparable. Sorted by what they are:

• A lead platform you operate. Real Geeks at 399 a month plus setup, with lead packages on top: social at 299 per package per month, search at 599, seller at 599, an AI texting add on at 49, and MLS board feeds at 10 dollars per board. The platform is the floor and the packages are the real bill.
• A website and brand product. Luxury Presence and Sierra Interactive sit here. Ad budget caps are published per tier, the plan price is not on the plans page we read.
• A managed service with one invoice. Azulio and Curaytor, published annually at 9,970 and monthly at 1,300 respectively, with setup fees in Azulio's case.
• A content subscription. Coffee and Contracts, where you publish the material yourself and the price is a fraction of the others because the labour is yours.

Decide which of the four you are short of before you compare any two prices. An agent short of follow up discipline does not need a 9,970 dollar managed service, and a brokerage short of brand does not need another lead faucet. The four supplier types and the overlap between them are set out in our comparison of real estate marketing agencies and the four suppliers that all answer this one search.

Cost per closed transaction is still yours to calculate

None of the seven publishes a cost per closed transaction, and none separates buyer side from seller side acquisition in its pricing. The closest published unit in the set is Real Geeks pricing its seller lead package at 599 dollars a month against roughly 10 to 15 seller leads a month, which is a published cost per lead rather than per transaction, before any of your own time.

The arithmetic that matters: all in monthly cost, platform plus packages plus ad spend, divided by closings attributable to the channel, kept separately for buyer side and seller side because the two convert at different rates and earn different fees. Ask any provider to report that, and to state which leads it counts as qualified.

The question nobody in this set measures

Every provider above competes for a buyer or seller who types into a search box. A growing share of them type into an assistant instead, and ask which agent, which brokerage, which neighbourhood. AI Knows Us is not a real estate marketing agency and sells no IDX website, no CRM and no lead packages, so nothing here competes with the firms named on this page. What we sell is the measurement that sits beside them: we ask the buyer and seller questions a client would ask, with your name absent from the question, on ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews, and report which names come back and which sources produced them.

Our own rates, from aiknowsus.com/llms.txt read 22 October 2026: SEO Start 149 dollars a month in the US watches 0 buyer questions on 0 engines, Growth 299 watches 100 questions on all five engines weekly, Scale 599 watches 300. Growth is the cheapest plan that reads all five surfaces. Where a rival is stronger, named: tryprofound.com/pricing, read 22 October 2026, publishes SSO and SAML with SOC 2 compliance, unlimited seats and up to nine answer engines on its enterprise tier, where our own pricing page, 119,203 bytes read the same day, renders no SSO, no SAML, no SOC 2 and no data processing agreement. A brokerage buying for several offices should also know that our pricing page contradicts itself on multi business coverage, listing "businesses covered 1 1 1 1 1 1 10 1" while the row below reads "more than one business, no" in every column. Both render.

What the real estate reading above establishes and what it does not. It is one question per engine on one night, so it fixes what each engine said then rather than describing a month of behaviour. It grades published disclosure and agreement between engines, not the quality of anybody's marketing. The 404 and the empty body are records of what those servers returned on 22 October 2026.

What agents and brokers ask about these answers

Why does the list mix software with agencies

Because the phrase real estate marketing is answered by four different businesses, and an assistant ranking them in one list has to pick a price to show. Real Geeks is software you run, Azulio is a service that runs it for you, and Coffee and Contracts is a content subscription. Sort the list by type first, then compare inside a type.

Which published figure should I trust for Luxury Presence

Neither of the two the engines gave, until you have a quote. luxurypresence.com/pricing returned 404 on 22 October 2026 and the plans page we read publishes ad budget caps rather than a monthly fee, so ask for the tier price in writing and ask what the ad budget cap means for your spend.

What does real estate marketing cost a month in the United States

From figures we verified on 22 October 2026: a lead platform at 399 a month plus a 500 dollar setup, lead packages at 299 to 599 a month each, a managed service at 1,300 a month, and annual managed plans at 9,970 and 16,950 dollars plus setup fees of 1,500 and 3,000. Website only products were quoted by one vendor's own comparison at 3,600 to 14,400 a year.

Is a 6 or 12 month commitment normal in this market

It is published as the norm by the one platform in the set that publishes terms. Real Geeks shows a commitment term of 6 or 12 months in its own plan summary. Shorter terms exist in the content subscription category, where you are doing the work.

How do I find out what assistants say about my own market

Ask the question a client would ask, naming the suburb and the price band but not your name, on each assistant. Write down every agent, brokerage and portal named, and every source cited. Run it again next week. Portals dominated this citation set, with realtor.com and zillow.com appearing eight times between them, so the practical question is what those pages say about you.