Pay-as-you-go keyword research, rank tracking and site audits on your Cloudflare account, with an MCP server for agents
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Self-hosted alternatives to Otterly.AI
Otterly.AI is a hosted tool that monitors how a brand is mentioned and cited in AI search engines such as ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. One listed app does its main job and runs in your own Cloudflare account.
Each answer comes from the app’s README and source code, compared with the features Otterly.AI describes on its own site.
Otterly.AI features, app by app
| Feature | OpenSEO |
|---|---|
| Monitoring across many AI engines | Partly |
| Prompt research | Yes |
| Brand mention and citation tracking | Yes |
| Competitive benchmarking | Yes |
| Multi-country monitoring | Yes |
| AI-readiness content audit | No |
| Brand reports | Partly |
| API access | Partly |
Pay-as-you-go keyword research, rank tracking and site audits on your Cloudflare account, with an MCP server for agents
- What a Otterly.AI user would miss
- It has no AI-readiness content audit; it covers Perplexity, Copilot and Claude tracking and brand reports only in part; data comes from DataForSEO through your own API key rather than a vendor index.
- What it adds
- It also covers keyword research, Google rank tracking, backlinks and site audits in the same app.
- Partly Monitoring across many AI engines. Tracks ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews; others only in one-off runs.
- Yes Prompt research. Prompt research from People Also Ask and ChatGPT answers.
- Yes Brand mention and citation tracking. ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews prompts with mentions and citations.
- Yes Competitive benchmarking. Competitor mentions, citations and positions.
- Yes Multi-country monitoring. A country and language market per project.
- No AI-readiness content audit. No AI-readiness content audit found.
- Partly Brand reports. Agent-written HTML reports; no white-label option found.
- Partly API access. MCP server and agent skills; no REST API found.
Sources:github.com/every-app/open-seo#readmegithub.com/every-app/open-seo/blob/main/src/shared/ai-visibility.ts