AirOps has a following among content teams for good reason: it turns research, drafting and page refreshes into workflows you can see, review and repeat, and it watches how ChatGPT and other answer engines talk about your brand. The reasons people go looking for something else are mostly on its pricing page. Solo, Pro and Enterprise are listed without a single plan price, billing runs on tasks, and the entry plan's Insights cover ChatGPT only.
So we sorted the alternatives by the job you hired AirOps for: content that gets cited by AI, on-brand writing, page optimization, general LLM workflows, or an enterprise AI search program. Below are 12, each with the price as US visitors see it on the vendor's own page (read on 13 October 2026), what it does better than AirOps, one limit and who it suits. Eight of the twelve print a US dollar price before you talk to anyone. For the job most AirOps buyers have, getting their content recommended by AI, Honeyb comes out first and is our pick for best overall and best value.
The quick pick
| If you used AirOps for | Pick | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Content that gets recommended by AI: best overall and best value | Honeyb (ours) | All 8 engines tracked daily and 30 Content Agent articles a month on Full Spectrum at $199/mo, about $0.008 per answer, with ranked fixes and publishing to your CMS |
| Tracking and articles for under $100 a month | Honeyb (ours) | Multi-Model is $79/mo for 50 prompts daily on 3 engines and 15 articles; The Minimum is $29 with 5 articles |
| A writer's research, briefs and drafts | Frase | From $49/mo ($39 billed yearly) for 10 articles, with AI Visibility on ChatGPT and Google AI |
| Visibility tracking with bundled articles and site audits | Writesonic | From $79/mo billed annually, 15 AI articles and 10 site audits |
| On-brand marketing content | Jasper | $69 a seat a month, 2 Brand Voices, 7-day free trial |
| No-code LLM workflows | Gumloop | From $37/mo, unlimited seats, 35+ models |
| Editorial optimization with AI query tracking | Clearscope | $129/mo, ChatGPT and Gemini query tracking on every plan |
| An enterprise AI search program with a vendor team | Conductor or Profound | Agents, governance and support, both sold through sales |
Why teams look past AirOps
We read airops.com/pricing on 13 October 2026. It lists three plans and no dollar figure for any of them. The only price on the page is for overage: Solo users pay $0.025 for each task beyond their monthly allotment.
Four limits come up again and again, and three are printed on that page:
- No plan prices. Solo and Pro say "Start for free" and Enterprise says "Work with us". The FAQ explains that usage is counted in tasks, so the monthly figure is something you work out with AirOps.
- Task-based billing. A task is counted every time a workflow completes an action, and adding data sources, model calls and steps raises the count. That suits steady volume and surprises teams still experimenting.
- One engine and one user at the entry level. Solo's Insights cover ChatGPT only and allow a single user; Insights across 7+ answer engines and unlimited seats start on Pro.
- A system to build. AirOps rewards someone who owns the workflows, brand kits and knowledge bases. Teams that wanted finished articles sometimes find they bought a workshop.
AirOps at a glance
- Price (airops.com/pricing, 13 Oct 2026): no plan prices published; $0.025 per extra task on Solo. A 14-day free trial runs the Scale plan's features with no payment details until it ends.
- Solo: ChatGPT Insights only, 35,000 tasks for content production, 1 brand kit and 3 knowledge bases, basic CMS and SEO integrations, a single user.
- Pro: Insights across 7+ answer engines, 100,000 tasks, 5 knowledge bases, CMS, SEO, AEO, social and project integrations, unlimited seats.
- Enterprise: custom prompt, page and task limits, custom agent builds, unlimited brand kits and knowledge bases, a dedicated account manager and 1:1 onboarding.
AirOps against the alternatives, head to head
| Tool | Entry price (US) | What it is | AI visibility tracking | Content it produces | Seats on entry plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AirOps (today) | Not published | Content engine and workflow builder | ChatGPT on Solo; 7+ engines on Pro | Task-based workflows | 1 on Solo; unlimited on Pro |
| Honeyb (ours) | $29/mo | AI visibility agent with a Content Agent | 1, 3 or all 8 engines by plan, daily | 5, 15 or 30 articles a month, published to your CMS | 1; unlimited from $79 |
| Writesonic | $79/mo billed annually | AI search visibility platform with an article writer | ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews; all 8 on Enterprise | 15 to 50 articles a month | 1 |
| Frase | $49/mo ($39 billed yearly) | SEO and GEO content platform | ChatGPT and Google AI; Perplexity from $129 | 10 to 100 articles a month | 1 |
| AthenaHQ | Free plan; $295/mo Starter | AI visibility platform with an agent | 11 models on Starter | Content recommendations | Unlimited members on the free plan |
| Jasper | $69/seat/mo ($59 yearly) | Marketing AI platform | GEO agents on Business (custom price) | Brand Voice drafts and agents | 1 |
| Copy.ai | $29/mo Chat | GTM AI workflows | None | Chat; workflows from $1,000/mo | 5 |
| Clearscope | $129/mo | Content optimization | ChatGPT and Gemini query tracking | 20 drafts a month | Unlimited |
| Surfer | Not published to us in USD | Content optimization | Separate AI tracking plan | Yes | Varies |
| Gumloop | From $37/mo | No-code AI agents and workflows | None | Through your own workflows | Unlimited |
| n8n | Not published to us in USD | Self-hostable workflow automation | None | Through your own workflows | Varies |
| Conductor | Not published | Enterprise AEO and SEO platform | AI search credits from Growth | 60 Writing Assistant drafts a year on Essentials | Not stated |
| Profound | No brand price | Enterprise AI visibility | Up to 9 engines on Enterprise | AI Marketer agent | Not stated |
Read across the table and AirOps turns out hard to replace with one tool, because it is two products in one: a visibility module and a workflow builder. Honeyb and Writesonic match the first half at a printed price and add articles; Gumloop and n8n match the second half and know nothing about AI answers. Most teams will find that one of the groups below describes what they actually used. If it is the first, the numbers favor Honeyb: Full Spectrum checks 100 prompts a day on all eight engines, about 24,000 answers a month, and writes 30 articles for $199.
Content that gets recommended by AI: Honeyb, Writesonic, Frase and AthenaHQ
Every entry follows the same order: the verdict, the price as published for US visitors, what it does better than AirOps, its limit and who it suits.
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1. Honeyb (ours): best overall and best value, a visibility agent with a Content Agent attached
Honeyb starts from the answers: it asks the engines your buyers use the questions they ask, ranks what to fix first, then researches, drafts and publishes the articles that close the gaps. That is the Insights-plus-content loop most teams bought AirOps for, at a price on the page and with no workflow to design.
- Price (honeyb.ai/pricing, 13 Oct 2026): The Minimum is $29 a month for 10 prompts daily on one engine and 5 Content Agent articles a month ($23 billed annually); Multi-Model is $79 for 50 prompts daily on three engines and 15 articles; Full Spectrum is $199 for 100 prompts daily on all eight and 30 articles. The AI visibility API sells answers at $0.08 each, prepaid, with no plan.
- Engines: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Grok, DeepSeek, Google AI Mode and AI Overviews.
- Better than AirOps at: a published price for tracking and content together, every engine named on the plan and checked daily, and article ideas drawn from the prompts where competitors are named and you are not. The Content Agent publishes to WordPress, Ghost, Shopify, Webflow or Wix, or to any stack through a custom endpoint.
- Best value: Full Spectrum runs about 24,000 answers a month on eight engines plus 30 articles for $199, about $0.008 an answer, with ranked fixes included.
- Limit: no visual workflow builder or multi-step review chains, one seat on the $29 plan, 30 articles a month as the ceiling below Enterprise, and a 3-day trial on Multi-Model and Full Spectrum only.
- Suits: marketing teams who want to get recommended by AI and want the tracking and the content in one place.
2. Writesonic: tracking with articles and site audits bundled in
Writesonic has moved from AI writer to AI search visibility platform, and its plans read like a priced version of AirOps' pitch: track, find the gaps, write the fix. If Writesonic is the tool you are leaving, our Writesonic alternatives cover that move.
- Price (writesonic.com/pricing, 13 Oct 2026): Starter is $79 a month billed annually for 50 prompts and 50 answers tracked daily, 15 AI articles and 10 site audits; Basic is $199 for 100 prompts and 300 answers daily, 25 articles and 2 users; Growth is $399 for 200 prompts, 50 articles and sentiment analysis. Monthly billing costs $240, $600 and $1,200 a year more. The free trial needs no card.
- Engines: ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews on self-serve plans; all 8 platforms on Enterprise.
- Better than AirOps at: a public price, articles counted per month, ads monitoring and site audits in every plan.
- Limit: three engines until Enterprise, the Action Center is Enterprise-only (a trial of it on Growth), and agentic workflows are limited to trial runs on self-serve plans.
- Suits: small marketing teams who want articles and audits from the same vendor.
3. Frase: the content team's loop, from research to publish
Frase is the cheapest serious content platform here, and it now scores pages for AI answers as well as Google.
- Price (frase.io/pricing, 13 Oct 2026): Starter is $49 a month, or $39 billed yearly, for one seat, one site, 10 articles and 50 audit pages a month; Professional is $129 ($103 yearly) for 3 seats, 5 sites and 40 articles; Scale is $299 ($239 yearly) for 5 seats, up to 10 domains and 100 articles. The 7-day trial needs no card.
- AI visibility: ChatGPT and Google AI on Starter, Perplexity added on Professional, Claude and Gemini on Scale.
- Better than AirOps at: a printed price, SERP research and briefs built for writers, Content Guard alerts when pages decay in Google, and free hosting on FraseCMS.
- Limit: the workflows are Frase's own, so custom LLM pipelines are out, and Starter stops at its monthly limits.
- Suits: in-house content teams and freelancers who want research, drafting and optimization at a small-business price.
4. AthenaHQ: the longest model list, with a free plan
AthenaHQ comes at the job from the tracking side, and its self-serve model list is longer than any other here.
- Price (athenahq.ai/plans, 13 Oct 2026): a free Essential plan with 300 credits on five engines and unlimited members; Starter at $295 a month for 3,600 credits across 11 models, where one credit is one AI response. API access and extra credits are paid add-ons.
- Engines: ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI and Mistral on Starter.
- Better than AirOps at: eleven models at a published price and a free plan that keeps going.
- Limit: its content help comes as recommendations and an agent with no monthly article allowance, so teams that used AirOps to publish at volume will still need a writer.
- Suits: marketing teams whose main question is where AI mentions them, with content as the follow-up.
On-brand writing: Jasper and Copy.ai
5. Jasper: brand-governed marketing content
Jasper is the established choice for teams who care most about voice, and it now sells GEO agents on its top plan.
- Price (jasper.ai/pricing, 13 Oct 2026): Pro is $69 a seat a month, or $59 billed yearly, with a free 7-day trial, 2 Brand Voices, 5 knowledge assets and 3 audiences. Business is custom and adds agents for GEO, translation and deep research, a no-code agent builder and Jasper Grid for content at scale.
- Better than AirOps at: brand voice and governance, campaign content well beyond SEO, and a simple per-seat price.
- Limit: the GEO agents and the agent builder sit on the custom Business plan, and Pro tracks no AI answers.
- Suits: brand and product marketing teams producing campaigns as well as search content.
6. Copy.ai: GTM workflows for sales and marketing
Copy.ai has become a go-to-market workflow platform, which makes it the pick for teams who used AirOps' builder for prospecting content as much as for SEO.
- Price (copy.ai/prices, 13 Oct 2026): Chat is $29 a month, or $24 billed annually, for 5 seats with unlimited chat across OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini models; Growth is $1,000 a month for 75 seats and 20,000 workflow credits; Expansion is $2,000 for 150 seats. API access sits on Enterprise.
- Better than AirOps at: sales use cases and a cheap five-seat entry.
- Limit: no AI visibility tracking, and workflows start at $1,000 a month.
- Suits: revenue teams that want one AI workflow platform for sales and marketing.
Page optimization for writers: Clearscope and Surfer
7. Clearscope: editorial-grade optimization with AI query tracking
Clearscope is what editors reach for when the writing is good and the page still needs to rank and get cited.
- Price (clearscope.io/pricing, 13 Oct 2026): Essentials is $129 a month for 50 tracked queries, 50 pages, 20 topic explorations and 20 drafts; Business is $399 for 300 tracked queries. Unlimited users, no contracts and a 14-day free trial.
- AI visibility: every plan tracks chosen queries across ChatGPT and Gemini.
- Better than AirOps at: the writing experience inside Google Docs and WordPress, and a page-level grade editors trust.
- Limit: it improves what your writers produce; it does not run workflows or publish at volume.
- Suits: editorial teams with skilled writers who want a quality bar.
8. Surfer: content scoring with an AI tracking plan
Surfer scores a draft as you write, which is a different job from AirOps' pipelines and a useful one.
- Price: not published to us in US dollars. On 13 October 2026 surferseo.com/pricing showed our connection euros only, so we give no figure.
- Better than AirOps at: real-time content scoring in the editor, and a separate plan that tracks brand visibility in AI answers.
- Limit: like Clearscope, it improves pages one at a time and does not orchestrate workflows.
- Suits: SEO writers and agencies who want a score while they write.
If you used AirOps as a workflow builder: Gumloop and n8n
9. Gumloop: AI agents and workflows for the whole company
Gumloop is the closest match to AirOps' canvas for teams whose workflows reach beyond content.
- Price (gumloop.com/pricing, 13 Oct 2026): Pro starts at $37 a month with 20,000 credits, unlimited seats and a 14-day free trial; Enterprise is custom. You can bring your own API keys, and an 8% orchestration fee applies.
- Better than AirOps at: general automation beyond content, 35+ models, and unlimited seats from the entry plan.
- Limit: no AI visibility data and no SEO templates you would not build yourself.
- Suits: operators who used AirOps mainly as an LLM workflow canvas.
10. n8n: the self-hostable option
n8n gives technical teams the whole pipeline to own.
- Price: not published to us in US dollars; n8n.io/pricing showed us no dollar figure on 13 October 2026. The community edition can be self-hosted.
- Better than AirOps at: full control, self-hosting and hundreds of integrations.
- Limit: you build everything, including the prompts, the review steps and the publishing, and nothing tracks AI answers.
- Suits: technical teams who want to own their content pipeline end to end.
Enterprise AI search programs: Conductor and Profound
11. Conductor: AEO, SEO and content for large teams
Conductor calls itself an all-in-one enterprise AEO platform (AEO: answer engine optimization, or getting your brand named in AI answers), with content creation built in.
- Price (conductor.com/pricing, 13 Oct 2026): not published. Essentials (60 Writing Assistant drafts a year, 500 tracked keywords, 3 monitored sites) offers a free trial; Growth adds 2,500 AI search credits a year and 180 drafts; Enterprise is custom.
- Better than AirOps at: classic SEO reporting, website monitoring and AEO in one governed platform.
- Limit: sales-led pricing above Essentials, and a content allowance counted per year.
- Suits: enterprise SEO teams who want content creation inside their search platform.
12. Profound: enterprise visibility with an AI Marketer agent
Profound is the enterprise reference for AI search measurement, with an agent layer on top.
- Price (tryprofound.com/pricing, 13 Oct 2026): a free trial with 50 prompts run daily for 7 days on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews; Enterprise is custom, sold after a demo.
- Better than AirOps at: depth of visibility data, with up to nine engines and Prompt Volumes on Enterprise.
- Limit: no published price, and the trial's prompts are a recommended set you cannot customize.
- Suits: large brands that want the visibility data first and an agent on top. Our Profound alternatives price the field around it.
Also considered
Rytr and other low-cost writers suit short-form copy and would have little to say about AI search. Otterly AI, Peec AI and Rankscale are dedicated AI visibility trackers with no article generation; our Otterly AI alternatives compare them. Each either publishes too little to price or is mainly a different product.
Before you switch
List what AirOps actually does for you each month before you compare anything: how many articles it ships, how many pages it refreshes, which workflows run on a schedule and who reviews them. A team that ships 20 articles a month and checks ChatGPT can move to Honeyb, Writesonic or Frase in a week. A team with forty custom workflows should rebuild the three that matter most in Gumloop or n8n first and run both systems side by side for a month. And if AI visibility is the reason you are moving, capture a baseline on the new tool before you cancel, since AI answers vary between identical runs and only a fixed prompt set turns readings into a trend.
How we chose and checked
Every tool here does one of the jobs AirOps is hired for, and each entry follows the same order so you can compare them line by line.
Prices. Read on each vendor's own pricing page on 13 October 2026, in US dollars as printed. Where a page showed us only euros or no figure (Surfer, n8n) or no plan price at all (AirOps, Conductor, Profound), we say so and give no dollar figure. Writesonic's figures are the annual-billed prices its page shows first.
Related reading: Otterly AI alternatives, Profound alternatives with public pricing and the best AI visibility tools.
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