Zene vs Promptmonitor
Promptmonitor is one of the few low-cost trackers that includes Claude and Grok at its entry price, and it bundles AI crawler analytics and cookieless website analytics on every plan. Its Opportunities feature lists the sources AI engines cite and extracts author contact details for outreach.
The two tools sit close together on price, so the difference is in what the plan holds. Promptmonitor leans toward prompt volume, measurement depth and outreach contacts; Zene leans toward a free start and drafted fixes. Zene Pro covers 2 brands and 15 questions shared across them on five engines at $19/month, and ends each scan in a prioritized action plan with drafts.
Choose Zene if…
- You want a free plan with no card, not only a 7-day trial
- You track more than one brand on a small budget - Pro covers 2 brands at $19/mo; Promptmonitor's $29 Starter is 1 project
- You want the tool to draft the fix (content brief, FAQ copy, schema JSON-LD, llms.txt), not only list opportunities
- You want competitor overtake alerts in Slack or Teams and PDF reports - both on Growth ($49/mo)
Choose Promptmonitor if…
- You want more prompts per dollar - Starter is 25 prompts for $29 and Growth 50 for $39 with daily scans; Zene Pro tracks 15 questions for $19 and Growth 40 questions for $49
- You want each prompt sampled more than once - Promptmonitor multi-samples; Zene doesn't offer multi-sample mention rates
- You want author contact details extracted from cited sources for outreach
- Google AI Overviews, AI Mode or DeepSeek matter to you - Promptmonitor tracks them (AI Mode and AI Overviews on Pro); Zene doesn't
- You want cookieless website analytics and unlimited seats from the $39 Growth plan
The comparison, in one table.
| Zene | Promptmonitor | |
|---|---|---|
| Engines tracked | ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok | ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok, Perplexity; Pro adds AI Mode and AI Overviews |
| Free plan / trial | Free forever: 1 brand, 10 questions, ChatGPT + Gemini, scans on demand, no card | 7-day trial, no card |
| Entry price | $0; Pro $19/mo (2 brands, 15 questions, all 5 engines) | Starter $29/mo (shown as discounted from $49): 25 prompts, 1 project, 1 seat |
| Higher tiers | Growth $49/mo: 5 brands, 40 questions, PDF reports, Slack/Teams/webhook alerts, 3 markets. Agency $99/mo: unlimited brands, 75 questions, white-label reports, REST API, Zapier, Looker Studio, 10 markets | Growth $39 (50 prompts, 2 projects, daily, unlimited seats), Pro $129 (150 prompts, 5 projects, adds AI Mode and AI Overviews); Agency program described as "free to pitch clients", revenue share |
| Refresh | Daily on paid plans (Gemini and Grok answers refresh daily, ChatGPT's every 3 days, Claude and Perplexity weekly); Free scans on demand | Twice weekly on Starter; daily from Growth |
| Sampling | No multi-sample mention rates; methodology publishes 95% confidence ranges | Multi-sampling per prompt (since July 2025) |
| Fixes / content | Pro: prioritized action plan, content drafts (brief, FAQ, schema, llms.txt), outreach list of cited sources | Opportunities: cited sources with author contact extraction |
| Traffic and crawlers | First-party AI-referral snippet and AI-crawler log drains (Vercel, Cloudflare, JSON) on every plan | AI crawler analytics and cookieless website analytics on all plans |
| Integrations | Read-only MCP server from Pro; Slack, Teams and webhook alerts from Growth; the REST API, Zapier, Looker Studio and MCP write tools on Agency | Not listed in the sources we checked |
| Best for | Small teams tracking several brands that want fixes drafted | Teams that want sampling depth and outreach contacts |
Facts as of October 4, 2026, from Promptmonitor's public pages (sources below). Both products ship fast - verify current details at promptmonitor.io and on our pricing page.
Where Promptmonitor is stronger
Measurement method and outreach. Promptmonitor samples each prompt more than once, which gives a steadier read of how often a brand appears; Zene doesn't offer multi-sample mention rates. Its Opportunities view extracts author contact details from the sources AI engines cite, so your outreach list comes with names. It also tracks DeepSeek on every plan and Google AI Overviews and AI Mode on Pro, covers 200+ countries, and includes cookieless website analytics. From the $39 Growth plan, seats are unlimited.
Where Zene is different
A free start and fixes in the box. Zene's free plan tracks 10 questions on ChatGPT and Gemini with no card, and Pro at $19/month covers 2 brands and 15 questions shared across them on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok, on a daily schedule. Promptmonitor gives you more prompts for the money - 25 at $29, 50 at $39 - so if volume is the priority, it wins on that count. Each Zene scan on Pro ends in a prioritized action plan with a content brief, FAQ copy, schema JSON-LD and an llms.txt, plus a list of cited sources where competitors appear. Both tools now cover AI crawlers.
Pricing
Zene: Free, Pro $19/month, Growth $49/month, Agency $99/month ($190/$490/$990 yearly), in USD. Promptmonitor's pricing page shows Starter $29, Growth $39 and Pro $129 a month, each displayed as a discount from a higher list price ($49, $66 and $219), so check whether the discount still applies.
How to choose
If sampling depth, author contacts and AI Overviews matter most, Promptmonitor is a strong pick. If you want a free plan, room for more than one brand and the fixes drafted, Zene is the better fit.
Sources · facts as of October 4, 2026
Every Promptmonitor fact on this page comes from these public pages, checked on October 4, 2026. Zene's side comes from our pricing page and methodology. Spot something outdated? Tell us and we'll fix it.
Common questions.
Yes. Both track whether AI engines mention your brand and both include Claude and Grok on their entry paid plan. Zene has a free plan and a $19/mo Pro plan with 2 brands and 15 questions shared across them on a daily schedule; Promptmonitor starts at $29/mo for 25 prompts in one project, scanned twice weekly.
Zene is cheaper to start: free, then Pro at $19/mo. Promptmonitor's plans were $29, $39 and $129 a month when checked on 2026-10-04, shown as discounts from $49, $66 and $219. Per prompt, Promptmonitor includes more: 25 prompts at $29 and 50 at $39, against 15 questions on Zene Pro and 40 questions on Growth at $49.
Yes. Promptmonitor has offered multi-sampling per prompt since July 2025. Zene publishes 95% confidence ranges in its methodology but does not offer multi-sample mention rates.
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