AirOps is no longer the tool most reviews describe. On 2 September 2026 its co-founder and CEO, Alex Halliday, announced "the next chapter": AirOps now sells itself as a partner that combines its platform with AirOps Services, a team of channel experts who set and run your AI search strategy with you. The homepage line is "Run the strategy that wins AI discovery", and the pricing page still prints no plan price.
That shift is the whole review in one sentence. For an enterprise marketing team with budget and appetite for a hands-on partner, AirOps is a serious choice with an impressive customer list. For a founder or marketing head who wants to see the price, switch on every AI engine and have an agent do the work this week, it is the wrong shape. Full disclosure: we build Honeyb, a competing tool, so weigh our verdict against the facts we cite, all of which come from AirOps' own pages, read on 14 and 15 October 2026.
AirOps at a glance
| AirOps (October 2026) | |
|---|---|
| What it is | AI search platform plus strategists (AirOps Services): content engine, visibility Insights, offsite and AI ads programs |
| Built for | Content and SEO teams at mid-size and enterprise brands, and agencies |
| Plans | Solo, Pro and Enterprise, no plan prices published |
| Billing | Tasks; Solo overage is $0.025 per extra task |
| AI engines | ChatGPT only on Solo; "7+ answer engines" on Pro; ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Mode and AI Overviews named on its enterprise page |
| Seats | One on Solo; unlimited on Pro and Enterprise |
| Trial | 14-day free trial with Scale plan features, no payment details until it ends |
| Standout | Quill, Grids and Workflows for content at volume, plus people who run it with you |
| Main limit | You cannot see what it costs, or which engines Pro covers, before a conversation |
What AirOps does
AirOps describes its platform as a loop of three parts: Intelligence ("see where your brand stands with the buyers who matter"), Action ("agents that learn from every run, review, and result") and Measurement (what shipped, how buyers and AI agents responded, and how that connects to revenue). It says the loop runs on "6 billion citations, 47 million actions, and 1.5 billion prompts" of proprietary data.
Underneath the new positioning sits the product AirOps built its name on: a content engine. Its own feature names, as its site lists them:
| Feature | What AirOps says it does | What it means for a buyer |
|---|---|---|
| Insights | Visibility across AI answer engines, "ChatGPT Insights Only" on Solo and "Insights Across 7+ Answer Engines" on Pro | Tracking is a module, and the engine list depends on the plan |
| Page360 | "Unify SEO, AI search, and GA4 data for a complete view of content health" | Page-level reporting that joins Google, AI and analytics data |
| Quill | Handles refresh and net-new production "at the volume enterprise teams need" | The content production layer |
| Workflows and Grids | Build a workflow once, then run it across many rows of pages or keywords | Powerful, and someone has to own and maintain them |
| Brand Kit and Knowledge Bases | Voice, rules and source material the workflows draw on | One Brand Kit on Solo and Pro; unlimited on Enterprise |
| Offsite | "Find, secure, and measure 3rd party mentions" | Help with Reddit, review sites and publishers |
| AirOps MCP | Connects the platform to Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf and Lovable | Lets technical teams drive it from their own tools |
Since September, AirOps also groups its work into five channels: owned content, external content, AI ads, community, and social and influencer. The last three are mostly services: AirOps says it "coordinates the work" with partners and tracks the effect on AI citations.
AirOps pricing
AirOps does not publish a price for any plan. We opened airops.com/pricing in a browser on 15 October 2026: Solo and Pro carry a "Start for free" button, Enterprise says "Work with us", and the FAQ says "Our pricing is based on your task volume and specific needs." Figures quoted on other blogs are not on AirOps' page, so we do not repeat them.
| Plan | Price on the page | Insights | Content tasks a month | Brand Kits and Knowledge Bases | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solo | None ("Start for free") | ChatGPT only | 35,000 | 1 and 3 | Single user |
| Pro | None ("Start for free") | 7+ answer engines | 100,000 | 1 and 5 | Unlimited |
| Enterprise | None ("Work with us") | Custom prompts and pages | Custom | Unlimited | Unlimited, plus a dedicated account manager |
Tasks are AirOps' currency. Its FAQ says a task is counted "every time an AirOps workflow successfully completes an action", that more data sources, model queries and steps raise the count, and that Solo users pay $0.025 for each task over the allotment. A 14-day trial runs Scale plan features and each workspace gets 50,000 free credits to test workflows. The practical result: you will know your monthly bill only after a sales conversation and a month of real usage.
Who AirOps is built for
AirOps' own customer list tells you the buyer: Ramp, Webflow, Chime, HubSpot, Carta, Brex, Wiz, KAYAK, Gong and monday.com. These are content-heavy companies with an SEO team, budget for a partner and the patience to build workflows. Its plan copy says the same thing in plainer words: Solo is "for individuals building content for one brand", Pro "for small teams", and Enterprise "for organizations building enterprise-grade content and tailored solutions".
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AI engines read it the same way. When we asked ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity which AI search tools to use in October 2026, the answers that mentioned AirOps described it as a content operations platform, "best for content teams" or for enterprise teams that want tracking and execution in one system, rather than as a tracker for a lean team.
Where AirOps is strong
- Content at volume. Grids, Workflows and Quill let one team refresh hundreds of pages with the same steps and review gates. AirOps says Webflow "5xed content refresh velocity" with it.
- Proof from known brands. On its AI search visibility page, AirOps says Chime went from being recommended in 24 to 68 priority questions and Webflow grew AI-attributed signups from 2% to over 10% in under a year. These are vendor claims, but they are specific and named.
- People, not just software. AirOps Services adds strategists who run the program with you. For a company that would otherwise hire an agency, that is a real advantage.
- Joined-up reporting. Page360 puts SEO, AI search and GA4 data on one page, which helps when you have to explain AI search to a CFO.
Where AirOps falls short
- No price before a conversation. Every plan is "Start for free" or "Work with us", and usage is billed in tasks you can only estimate once workflows run.
- Engine coverage is plan-gated and loosely stated. Solo's Insights are ChatGPT only. Pro promises "7+ answer engines" without listing them on the pricing page. Its enterprise page names ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Mode and AI Overviews, and its visibility page adds Claude. We found no mention of Grok or DeepSeek on the pages we read.
- A system to build and run. Workflows, Grids, Brand Kits and Knowledge Bases reward someone whose job is to own them. Teams that wanted finished, published articles can end up owning a workshop.
- One user on the entry plan. Solo is single-user, so a team of two starts on Pro, whose price is also unpublished.
AirOps vs Honeyb
Honeyb (ours) is an agent that gets brands recommended by AI. It runs your buyers' questions every day on eight engines, ranks what to fix first, then does the work: its Content Agent researches, writes and publishes articles to WordPress, Ghost, Shopify, Webflow or Wix, alongside fixes to how AI crawlers read your site and a list of the sources the engines trust. The difference with AirOps is one of shape. Honeyb gives you the agent and the price on day one; AirOps gives you a platform and a team after a conversation.
| AirOps | Honeyb (ours) | |
|---|---|---|
| Price on the page | No plan prices | $29, $79 and $199 a month; Enterprise on request |
| AI engines | ChatGPT on Solo; 7+ on Pro (list not published on pricing page) | Choose 1, 3 or all 8: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Grok, DeepSeek, Google AI Mode, AI Overviews |
| Refresh | Daily insights named on its enterprise page | Daily on every plan |
| Content | Task-billed workflows you build, or AirOps Services builds | 5, 15 or 30 Content Agent articles a month, published to your CMS |
| What to do next | Opportunity reports and strategists | Ranked fixes, crawler fixes and target sources, every day |
| Seats | 1 on Solo; unlimited on Pro | 1 on The Minimum; unlimited from Multi-Model |
| Trial | 14 days, Scale features | 3 days on Multi-Model and Full Spectrum; free checker with no card |
| Custom workflow builder | Yes, its core | No |
| Done-for-you strategists | Yes, AirOps Services | No; the agent does the execution |
Read across the rows and the trade is clear. AirOps wins if you want a configurable workflow builder and a human team on retainer. Honeyb wins on everything a buyer can check before signing: the price, every major engine including Claude, Grok and DeepSeek, daily data on every plan, and an agent that ships the content without a workflow to design. On Full Spectrum, $199 a month buys 100 prompts a day on all eight engines, about 24,000 answers a month, or roughly $0.008 an answer, with 30 published articles included. That is why Honeyb is our pick for best overall and best value for teams that want to get recommended by AI.
The verdict: is AirOps worth it?
AirOps is worth a demo if you are an enterprise content team that wants a configurable engine for hundreds of pages and a partner to run strategy across owned content, Reddit, publishers and AI ads. It has the customers and the case studies to back that up.
It is a harder sell for everyone else. You cannot price it, the entry plan sees one engine, and the value depends on workflows someone has to build. If what you need is to know where AI recommends you on every engine tomorrow, and an agent that writes and publishes the fixes, Honeyb gets you there at a published price. If you want to see the whole field, our AirOps alternatives sort 12 tools by the job you would hire AirOps for, and the best AI visibility tools score the trackers.
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