Prices read November 7, 2026
The best AI SEO tools for small businesses do three jobs: show whether ChatGPT and other AIs recommend you, get you found on Google, and help you write pages that answer buyers. Slibur covers the first from $59 a month. Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools cover the second for free.
7 days free. No card required.
Find the line that sounds like your business. Prices read on November 7, 2026 on each maker’s page.
| If you want | Pick | From, a month | What you give up |
|---|---|---|---|
| Find out if ChatGPT and other AIs recommend you | Slibur | $59 | You give up: Google rankings, keyword research and backlinks. Claude, Perplexity and Grok are read weekly. |
| See your Google searches, clicks and indexing problems | Google Search Console | Free | You give up: Anything about rivals: it reports on your own site only. |
| Show up on Google Maps and in local results | Google Business Profile | Free | You give up: Nothing, unless you sell online only: then you cannot have one. |
| See which of your pages Copilot cites | Bing Webmaster Tools | Free | You give up: Every AI that is not Microsoft’s. |
| Research keywords and rivals on a small budget | Ahrefs Starter | $29 | You give up: Volume: 200 credits a month and one user. No free trial. |
| Track map rankings and local listings | BrightLocal | $41$31 billed yearly | You give up: Writing help. Track watches 100 keywords and 4 competitors. |
| Write service pages that match what ranks | NeuronWriter | $23 | You give up: Room: 2 projects and 25 documents on its cheapest plan. |
| One paid suite for all of your Google SEO | Ahrefs Lite | $129 | You give up: A free trial. AI prompt checks stop at 150. |
Spend nothing first. Search Console, Business Profile and Bing Webmaster Tools are free and cover most of what a small site needs from Google and Bing. Set up all three before you pay for anything.
Then pay for what you cannot see. None of the free tools tells you what ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or Grok say when a customer asks for a recommendation. That is the gap Slibur fills, and the five AIs disagreed about this very question.
Thirteen tools: ours first, then the free ones, then the paid ones the AIs named most. Every price comes from the maker’s own page, read on .
Tracks what AI tells your customers
$59/ month
Or $602 for a full year, about $50.17 a month. Growth costs $129 for 75 prompts; Scale, $299 for 250.
Best for: A business that wants to know what ChatGPT, Google’s AI Overviews, Claude, Perplexity and Grok tell a customer who asks for a recommendation, and which rivals they name instead.
Weak point: It does not track Google rankings, research keywords or check backlinks, and it has no SEO content score, WordPress connection or API. Claude, Perplexity and Grok are read once a week, through their APIs.
Free Google report
Free
Best for: Every business with a website. It is where Google itself shows which searches bring up your site, how often people click and which pages it cannot index.
Weak point: It reports on your site only, never on rivals. Traffic from AI Overviews and AI Mode is counted inside the Web search type, with no report of its own.
Free Google listing
Free
Best for: Shops, clinics, restaurants and trades that serve an area. Hours, phone, photos and reviews show on Maps and Search, and Google’s page on AI features tells owners to keep this profile current.
Weak point: Businesses that never meet customers in person are not eligible. It tracks no rankings and no reviews on other sites.
Free Microsoft report
Free
Best for: Seeing AI citations before you pay for anything. Since February 10, 2026 its AI Performance report counts how often Copilot and Bing’s AI summaries cite your pages, which pages, and the phrases the AI searched with.
Weak point: It covers Microsoft’s AI only, and it counts citations of your pages, not mentions of your name. ChatGPT, Google, Claude, Perplexity and Grok are outside it.
SEO suite with AI tracking
€109/ month
Core. €87.20 billed yearly. Its page showed us euros only.
Best for: One paid tool for Google rank tracking, research and audits, with some AI tracking on top. Four of the five AIs we asked named it, and two named it first.
Weak point: Prices in euros for us, so we cannot give you the dollar figure. Core tracks 25 AI prompts a day on 5 engines, and the plan table does not say which five.
Per its pricing page, read November 7, 2026
SEO suite
€134/ month
The SEO plan. €112.52 billed yearly. Its page showed us euros only.
Best for: Keyword research, rank tracking and site audits for up to 5 websites. Semrush aims its SEO plan at freelancers and small businesses.
Weak point: The SEO plan marks AI search tracking as not included. It starts on Starter at €190 a month, for 50 prompts. That is a lot of tool for a ten-page site.
Per its pricing page, read November 7, 2026Semrush’s AI toolkit next to Slibur
Content editor
$59/ month
Discovery. $49 billed yearly. Its page showed us these figures in euros; its help center gives them in dollars.
Best for: Owners who write their own pages and want guidance on terms, headings and length while they type.
Weak point: Discovery tracks no AI answers. Tracking starts on Standard, $99 a month billed yearly, and there it covers ChatGPT only. The trial asks for payment details first.
Per its pricing page, read November 7, 2026Surfer’s alternatives, job by job
Content editor that publishes
$39/ month
Starter, billed yearly ($468 a year). $49 if you pay month to month.
Best for: A one-person business that writes its own blog and wants drafts, an SEO score and a first look at ChatGPT and Google AI in a single plan.
Weak point: Starter covers one site and 10 articles a month. Perplexity tracking starts on Professional, and Claude on Scale.
Per its pricing page, read November 7, 2026Frase’s alternatives, AI by AI
AI answer tracker
$29/ month
Lite. $25 a month billed yearly.
Best for: The lowest entry price on this page for tracking AI answers, on ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Copilot.
Weak point: Lite tracks 15 prompts. Adding Claude costs another $29 a month, and Gemini or AI Mode $9 each. Grok is not available, and neither is a writer.
Per its pricing page, read November 7, 2026Otterly.AI next to Slibur, plan by plan
SEO suite
$29/ month
Starter, with 200 credits a month. Lite, the plan Ahrefs pitches at small businesses, is $129. Yearly billing saves up to 17%.
Best for: Owners who want to see what people search and which pages rank for their rivals. Starter opens Site Explorer, Keywords Explorer, Site Audit and Rank Tracker.
Weak point: No free trial, and its pricing page says it never runs discounts. Starter is meant for light use, with no extra users or credits. Tracked AI prompts begin on Lite.
Per its pricing page, read November 7, 2026Ahrefs’ AI tracker next to Slibur
Budget content editor
$23/ month
Bronze. $230 a year if you pay yearly, about $19.17 a month.
Best for: The cheapest editor here, for owners who write a few pages a month and want term suggestions from the pages that already rank.
Weak point: Bronze gives 2 projects, 25 documents and 5 AI-monitored questions. Its AI monitoring leaves out Claude and Grok.
Per its pricing page, read November 7, 2026
Local SEO tool
$41/ month
Track, for one location. $369 billed yearly ($31 a month).
Best for: Service businesses that live on local search: rankings on a map grid, citation checks and an audit of your Business Profile against rivals.
Weak point: Track watches 100 keywords and 4 competitors. Listing sync starts on Manage ($54) and review tools on Grow ($65). No writing help.
Per its pricing page, read November 7, 2026
WordPress SEO plugin
$8.99/ month
PRO, billed yearly. On sale for $5.59 a month when we read it. The basic plugin is free.
Best for: Sites on WordPress that want focus keywords, schema, sitemaps and a keyword rank tracker handled from inside the editor.
Weak point: WordPress only. Its AI writing and AI visibility features sit in a separate Rank Math AI plan.
Per its pricing page, read November 7, 2026
* On paid plans. ChatGPT is read on chatgpt.com in every country Slibur tracks except Venezuela and Puerto Rico, where it is asked weekly through its API.
More names from the AI answers. They also brought up Screaming Frog for crawling a site, Mangools for its free AI visibility graders, Clearscope as an editor and a handful of new AI trackers. For trackers side by side, here are the plans under $100 a month.
Monthly billing before tax, at the cheapest plan that does the job. Semrush and SE Ranking showed us euros only, so those rows stay in euros.
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| Tool | Job | Monthly | Billed yearly, a month | Free plan or trial | AI answers covered |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SliburStarterOur product | What AI answers say about you | $59 | $50.17 | 7 days, no card | ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Claude, Perplexity, Grok |
| Google Search ConsoleGoogle’s own tool | Your Google searches and indexing | Free | Free | Free | AI Overviews and AI Mode, inside Web totals |
| Google Business ProfileGoogle’s own tool | Maps and local listing | Free | Free | Free, not for online-only | None of its own |
| Bing Webmaster ToolsMicrosoft’s own tool | Bing data and Copilot citations | Free | Free | Free | Copilot and Bing’s AI summaries |
| SE RankingCorePer its website, read November 7, 2026 | Google SEO plus AI tracking | €109 | €87.20 | 14 days, no card | 5 engines, 25 prompts a day |
| SemrushSEOPer its website, read November 7, 2026 | All-round Google SEO | €134 | €112.52 | 7-day trial; a free plan | From Starter, €190 |
| SurferDiscoveryPer its website, read November 7, 2026 | Content editor | $59 | $49 | 7 days, card first | None on Discovery |
| FraseStarterPer its website, read November 7, 2026 | Editor that publishes | $49 | $39 | 7 days, no card | ChatGPT and Google AI |
| Otterly.AILitePer its website, read November 7, 2026 | AI answer tracking | $29 | $25 | Free trial, length not given | ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot |
| AhrefsStarterPer its website, read November 7, 2026 | Keyword and rival research | $29 | Up to 17% off | No trial; a limited free plan | None on Starter |
| NeuronWriterBronzePer its website, read November 7, 2026 | Budget content editor | $23 | $19.17 | 7 days after sign-up | AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity |
| BrightLocalTrackPer its website, read November 7, 2026 | Local rankings and citations | $41 | $31 | 14 days, no card | A local AI visibility tracker |
| Rank MathPROPer its website, read November 7, 2026 | WordPress SEO plugin | Not shown | $8.99 | Free plugin | Through a separate AI plan |
Slibur’s Starter covers 20 prompts; Growth is $129 for 75 and Scale $299 for 250. Yearly prices are what each plan works out to per month when paid for the year. Ahrefs shows no yearly price per plan, only “save up to 17%”.
Your customers now ask AI for shortlists, so we asked too. On we typed “best ai seo tools for small businesses” into all five, once each, with Slibur’s own engine, from the United States. None of the four top Google pages we read shows what the AIs answer.
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AIs named SE Ranking, Semrush, Surfer and Google Search Console, the most named of 25 tools. No tool came up in all five.
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answers named Slibur. We are new, and that is the problem this page is about: buyers ask an AI and get a short list.
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sites the AIs cited belong to companies that sell an SEO or AI visibility tool. That is the minimum: a few more are unclear.
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cited sites also show up on Google’s first page for the same search.
Asked . The number is the order each AI named the tool in.
| Tool |  ChatGPT |  Google AI Overviews |  Claude |  Perplexity |  Grok | AIs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Ranking | Named 2 | Named 4 | Named 1 | Named 1 | Not named | 4 |
| Semrush | Named 1 | Named 6 | Named 2 | Named 3 | Not named | 4 |
| Surfer | Named 4 | Named 5 | Named 3 | Not named | Named 4 | 4 |
| Google Search Console | Named 9 | Named 1 | Not named | Named 6 | Named 7 | 4 |
| Frase | Named 3 | Not named | Named 4 | Named 2 | Not named | 3 |
| Otterly.AI | Not named | Not named | Named 6 | Named 9 | Named 3 | 3 |
| ChatGPT | Named 12 | Named 3 | Named 10 | Not named | Not named | 3 |
| Ahrefs | Named 5 | Not named | Not named | Named 4 | Not named | 2 |
| HubSpot | Not named | Not named | Not named | Named 5 | Named 6 | 2 |
| Claude | Not named | Named 2 | Named 11 | Not named | Not named | 2 |
| Bing Webmaster Tools | Not named | Not named | Named 8 | Named 7 | Not named | 2 |
Named by one AI: Visby (Grok), Rankscale (Grok), ChatSEO (Grok), Paige by Merchynt (Claude), NeuronWriter (ChatGPT), Mangools (Claude), Perplexity (Google), Rank Math (ChatGPT), BrightLocal (ChatGPT), Google Business Profile (Perplexity), Clearscope (Claude), Google Analytics (ChatGPT), Google Keyword Planner (ChatGPT), Screaming Frog (ChatGPT).
The AIs do not agree. 25 tools came up across five answers. Grok put three AI trackers ahead of any SEO suite, Perplexity was the one to bring up Google Business Profile, and only Claude mentioned a tool built for Business Profiles alone. Ask a different AI and you get a different shortlist.
They lean on sellers’ pages. At least 21 of the 35 sites they cited sell a tool of this kind, and ChatGPT linked the homepages of the tools it listed for 8 of its 12 sources. Google’s AI Overview cited the page that ranks first on Google for this search.
Read it as one day. Each AI answered once, in English, as asked from the United States. Answers shift between runs, which is why Slibur asks every day or every week and reports the trend with its margin of error.
Why a plumber should care. If five AIs disagree about software, they disagree about plumbers, dentists and bakeries too. The only way to know what your customers hear is to ask their questions on a schedule.
ChatGPT
Google AI Overviews
Claude
Perplexity
Grok
In bold, sites cited by more than one AI for that question.
ChatGPT: read on chatgpt.com, logged out, with web search on, with gpt-6.Google AI Overviews: the AI Overview Google shows above its results.Claude: asked through its API with live web search, with claude-haiku-5-5.Perplexity: asked through its API, which always searches, with sonar.Grok: asked through its API with live web search, with grok-4.3.We pasted the question as written, without a brand name or any instruction. Slibur’s extraction step listed every brand in each answer, and each list was then checked against the answer itself: one name per product, in the order it is recommended, dropping names that only appear in passing. Google’s answer also linked through Google redirects that do not show the site, and those are left out of the counts. Sites are shown by name, not address.
Four of the five AI answers above gave prices. We checked every figure against the maker’s page the same day: 6 matched, 3 did not and 4 could not be checked, because those pages showed us euros.
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| Tool | What the AIs said | The maker’s page, November 7, 2026 | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frase |
| Starter: $39 billed yearly, $49 month to month | Both right |
| Otterly.AI |
| Lite: $29 a month, $25 billed yearly | Both right |
| NeuronWriter |
| Bronze: $23 a month, or $230 a year | Right |
| Ahrefs |
| Lite: $129. Starter: $29 | $129 is Lite. Paid plans start at $29, with Starter |
| Surfer |
| Discovery: $59 a month, $49 billed yearly | ChatGPT right. Claude’s figure is the yearly price of the next plan up |
| BrightLocal |
| Track: $41 a month, $31 billed yearly | Matches neither price |
| SE Ranking |
| Core: €109 a month, €87.20 billed yearly | Euros only for us, and the two AIs sit almost twice apart |
| Semrush |
| SEO plan: €134 a month. With AI search: €190 | Euros only for us |
Matches the pageDoes not matchEuros on the page, not checkable
The lesson is short. AI answers are a fine way to build a shortlist and a poor way to budget. The ranking pages they read slip the same way, as the list of what to skip shows. Read the maker’s page, then decide.
Six questions to put to any tool before you pay. Each one is answered here for the tools above, with the plans read on the same day.
Most paid tools here began as Google tools. Slibur and Otterly.AI are built around AI answers; SE Ranking, Frase, NeuronWriter, BrightLocal and Ahrefs Lite add a smaller AI allowance to a Google product.
ChatGPT is covered nearly everywhere. Claude and Grok are the usual gaps: Slibur reads both on Starter, Frase adds Claude only on Scale, Otterly.AI sells Claude for $29 more and has no Grok, and SE Ranking’s plan table does not name its five engines.
Price the cheapest plan that does your job, not the cheapest plan on the page. Ahrefs opens at $29, yet tracked AI prompts begin on Lite at $129. Semrush puts AI tracking on Starter, not on its SEO plan.
Rank Math works inside WordPress only. Frase publishes to WordPress, Webflow, Sanity or Wix. Slibur needs nothing installed on your site, and Search Console and Bing ask you to verify it once.
A page with a wrong price or an invented customer does more harm than no page. Google wants a person to review (opens in a new tab) AI drafts. Slibur’s Writer leaves a marked gap where only you know the fact; Surfer and NeuronWriter grade your text against the pages that rank.
Entry plans assume one business. Frase Starter covers one site, BrightLocal prices each location, Semrush’s SEO plan monitors 5 websites and a Slibur workspace measures one country and one language.
Most small businesses need two or three tools, not twenty. Here are the cheapest combinations for three common cases, at the prices on this page.
Any small business, before it pays for anything.
A month$0
Plumbers, dentists, salons, law offices: customers in one area.
A month$100
$81.17 a month if you pay both yearly.
Shops and firms that win customers with pages and articles.
A month$111
Outgrowing them? Ahrefs Lite with Slibur Starter comes to $188 a month and adds 750 tracked keywords. If you need more customer questions tracked, Slibur Growth covers 75 for $129. Agencies running several clients have a plan priced per client.
We run 18 checks on what helps AI assistants find, read and cite your site, and tell you what to fix first.
Ready as soon as you sign up, included in the free trial.
No account? Free GEO audit tool: the same 18 checks, without signing up.
Slibur asks the AIs your customers’ questions on a schedule and counts how often your business comes up, who comes up instead and which pages the answers lean on.
Where you are missing
Each question you track sits next to each AI, and the ones where no answer names or cites you come first. Red means none, orange under half, green half or more.
On this page’s question the row is red for us on all five, and SE Ranking, Semrush and Surfer show up instead. That is the screen a dentist or a bakery sees for its own questions, with its own rivals in that last line.
3 tasks a week on Starter. Code, not a model, chooses each one from a fixed menu of 17 actions, and it shows the pages that settle the question and how strong the evidence is.
5 drafts a month on Starter. Each starts from the answers and the pages the AIs cited for that question, and leaves a marked gap wherever only you know the fact. No made-up figures or customers.
Paid plans send one email a week. It tells you if your visibility slipped 10 points or more, if a rival moved ahead and if any new answer turned negative.
The Slibur dashboard: visibility, sentiment, average position, mentions and the competitor ranking.
The math on Starter. 20 prompts give about 1,440 AI answers a month* for $59, around 4.1 cents an answer. Every answer is kept in full, with the rivals it named and the pages it cited.
What a small business tracks. Questions a stranger would type, with the trade and the town in them: “best emergency electrician in Tampa open tonight”, “who installs heat pumps in Columbus”, “is a family law firm in Plano worth the retainer”. These are examples, not readings. Slibur suggests your first ones from your website.
* On paid plans. ChatGPT is read on chatgpt.com in every country Slibur tracks except Venezuela and Puerto Rico, where it is asked weekly through its API.
Ten items, each worth points, and every one of them free to check. Add up your score, then read your band at the end.
Item 1, 15 points: Search Console is set up and your sitemap is in.
Free, and the only place Google lists the searches that already find you. Skip it and every other tool is guessing.
Item 2, 15 points: Your Google Business Profile is complete.
Category, hours, phone, service area and recent photos. Online only, with no in-person contact? Take the points if your site has a clear contact page.
Item 3, 10 points: Bing Webmaster Tools is verified.
Its free AI Performance report counts how often Copilot cites your pages, and for which searches.
Item 4, 5 points: You claimed your Bing Places listing.
Microsoft says current details there keep a local business eligible for AI answers to questions about places.
Item 5, 15 points: AI crawlers can read your site.
OpenAI says sites that block OAI-SearchBot are left out of ChatGPT’s search answers (its crawler docs (opens in a new tab)). Test yours with our free AI crawler checker.
Item 6, 10 points: Each service has a page that answers the question in its first lines.
What you do, where, a price range and how to book. Our AEO checker tells you whether an AI can lift a direct answer from it.
Item 7, 10 points: Name, address and phone match everywhere.
Your site, Google, Bing and every directory that lists you. Two versions of your business leave an engine to guess which one is right.
Item 8, 10 points: You asked ChatGPT five buyer questions and wrote down who it named.
Logged out, one new chat per question, the way a stranger would ask. Here is the method, step by step.
Item 9, 5 points: You know which pages the AIs cite for those questions.
Our free ChatGPT sources tool shows what one real answer relied on.
Item 10, 5 points: A person checks every AI draft before it goes live.
Google asks for exactly that (opens in a new tab), titles and descriptions included, because generative models can get facts wrong.
Your band
Six ways a small budget leaks on SEO tools, and what to do instead.
Some tools on the top Google lists sell them. Google says that generating many pages without adding value for people may break its policy on scaled content abuse (opens in a new tab). One solid page per service beats thirty thin ones.
Search Console already shows your own searches for free. A suite pays off when you need rivals’ keywords and backlinks every week, not before.
Of the 9 AI price quotes we could check on November 7, 2026, 3 were wrong, and 4 more could not be checked in dollars at all. Open the maker’s page before you decide.
Surfer’s trial asks for payment details at the start. Slibur, SE Ranking, BrightLocal and Frase run trials with no card. Ahrefs has no trial.
No tool decides what an AI writes. For AI Overviews and AI Mode, Google says (opens in a new tab) there are no extra requirements beyond normal SEO best practices. Shortcuts for sale are a bad sign.
Two of the four Google results we read quote plans their makers no longer show: Surfer’s retired Essential plan, and Koala at $7 a month while Koala’s own page reads $25.
Ask the AIs your own customers’ questions before you pay for anything.
7 days free, no card. Sign up with your email or Google. When the trial ends, tracking stops and nothing is charged.
Up to 10 prompts. We suggest prompts and competitors from your website, and you edit the list before the first run.
All five AI platforms on day one. ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Claude, Perplexity and Grok answer your prompts as soon as your email is confirmed.
ChatGPT and Google AI again every day while you keep visiting your dashboard. Claude, Perplexity and Grok are asked once, at sign-up.
One “Run now” and the 18-point site audit. After the trial, our free GEO audit tool still audits any site, without an account.
On paid plans only: team invites and the weekly email summary with alerts.
* On paid plans. ChatGPT is read on chatgpt.com in every country Slibur tracks except Venezuela and Puerto Rico, where it is asked weekly through its API.
Track 20 prompts on 5 AI platforms
$59/ month (USD)
Or $602 billed yearly · save $106
Start your 7-day free trial7 days free. No card required.
Need more prompts? Growth is $129 a month for 75 and Scale $299 for 250. Compare all plans
Slibur covers the AI half. Start somewhere else if:
Start with a Google Business Profile. Slibur suggests your questions and rivals from your website, and AI answers need pages to cite.
Slibur does not track them. Ahrefs Starter at $29 includes Rank Tracker, and SE Ranking Core tracks 2,000 keywords a day.
Slibur does not track them. Otterly.AI adds both for $9 each on Lite, and NeuronWriter’s monitoring includes AI Mode.
Slibur writes a first draft but gives no SEO score. Surfer and NeuronWriter grade the page as you type.
Bing Webmaster Tools shows Copilot citations for free, and Slibur does not track Copilot.
BrightLocal prices by location and keeps listings in sync from its Manage plan. Slibur measures one country and one language per workspace.
Each maker’s own pages and official documentation, on the dates shown. Nothing here comes from using the paid tools or from reviews.
About Slibur itself? Read the full FAQs or see every plan and price.
There is no single one, because a small business needs three jobs done. For what AI assistants say about you, Slibur from $59 a month. For Google data, Search Console, which is free. For keyword research, Ahrefs Starter at $29. For writing, NeuronWriter at $23 or Frase at $39 billed yearly. Prices read on November 7, 2026.
Software that uses AI for search work: drafting and grading pages, finding keywords, auditing a site, or checking what ChatGPT, Google’s AI Overviews and other assistants tell someone who asks about your trade. Most small businesses need one tool of that last kind and the free Google and Bing reports for the rest.
Yes. Google Search Console and Google Business Profile cost nothing, and Bing Webmaster Tools now counts how often Copilot cites your pages. Ahrefs Free gives verified site owners a limited audit. Slibur’s free GEO audit runs an 18-point AI-readiness check on your site, with no account.
You can start at $0. A local service business can cover Google, map rankings and AI answers for about $100 a month with BrightLocal Track and Slibur Starter, and a content site for about $111 with Ahrefs Starter, NeuronWriter and Slibur. Spend more only when a tool shows you work you cannot do yet.
It can draft titles, descriptions and pages, and suggest the questions customers ask. It cannot see your Google data, and it cannot tell you how often it recommends you, because it writes each answer fresh. Google’s guidance is to have a person check every AI draft, metadata included, before it goes live.
Let OpenAI’s search crawler in, keep your details identical on your site, Google and Bing, and get listed on the pages ChatGPT cites for your customers’ questions. Then ask those questions every week and count how often you come up. No tool can promise a mention.
Not by itself. Google says generative AI is useful for research and structure, but generating many pages without adding value may break its spam policy on scaled content abuse. Use AI for a first draft, add what only you know (prices, areas, photos, real jobs) and check every figure.
Yes. Google says normal SEO best practices still apply to AI Overviews and AI Mode, with no extra requirements. ChatGPT, Perplexity and Grok can search the web before they answer, so the pages that rank in those searches still shape what they say. What changes is that you now check a second place: what those answers say about you.
Only when you need rivals’ keywords and backlinks every week. Ahrefs Starter at $29 is the cheap way in, and Lite is $129. Semrush’s SEO plan showed us €134 a month, and its AI search tracking starts on the €190 Starter plan. Semrush has a 7-day trial; Ahrefs has none.
No. Slibur reads AI answers instead: once a day on ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews with a paid plan, once a week on Claude, Perplexity and Grok. For your Google positions, Search Console is free, and Ahrefs Starter or SE Ranking add a proper rank tracker.
If customers find you on Maps, start with a complete Google Business Profile and Bing Places, both free. Pay for a local tool such as BrightLocal ($41 a month for one location) when you want your rankings across a map grid and your listings kept in sync.
By the Slibur team. Last reviewed .
The best AI SEO tools for small businesses start from one fact: what your customers hear when they ask. Add your website and up to 10 questions, and you get answers from all five AIs on the first day.
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