Siftly's Starter plan is $79 a month for 50 prompts and 4,500 tracked responses across three engines. Honeyb, our product, is also $79 for 50 prompts scanned daily across three engines of your choice, which resolves to the same 4,500 responses a month. The two tools meet exactly at that price, so the decision moves to which engines you get, what happens above and below $79, and what each tool does with the data once it has it. Every figure below comes from both vendors' public pricing pages on 3 August 2026, with the arithmetic shown rather than inferred.
Siftly earns the search. In Honeyb's first-party citation data its domain was cited 436 times across 28 URLs by AI engines in our category, and DataForSEO records 110 US searches a month for the brand name at a keyword difficulty of 6. When answer engines keep surfacing a vendor, buyers go looking for what sits behind it and what else costs the same.
Honeyb vs Siftly at a glance
| Spec | Honeyb (ours) | Siftly |
|---|---|---|
| Entry paid price | $29/mo (The Minimum), $23 on annual | $79/mo (Starter), 20% off on annual |
| Free entry point | Free AI visibility check, no account | Free plan: 100 responses, 10 prompts, weekly refresh |
| Prompts at entry paid tier | 10, scanned daily | 50, daily refresh |
| Engines at entry paid tier | 1 of 8, your choice | 3: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity |
| Price for eight engines | $199 (Full Spectrum) | $599 (Scale) |
| Claude coverage | Any tier, including $29 | Enterprise, custom pricing |
| Seats | 1 at $29, unlimited from $79 | 1 at Starter, 3 at Growth, 5 at Scale |
| Trial | 3 days on the $79 and $199 tiers | 7 days on any paid plan, no card |
| Content output | 10, 30 or 80 articles a month, published to your CMS | 8, 30 or 60 blog posts a month |
| SSO | Enterprise | Scale and Enterprise |
| API and white-label | Enterprise | Not stated on its pricing page |
Where Siftly's page does not state something, the table says so rather than guessing. As of 3 August 2026 its pricing page listed no API or white-label option and did not publish a per-engine breakdown above Scale. None of that means the capability is absent, only that a buyer cannot verify it from public information.
Both vendors count responses the same way
Siftly prices on responses tracked per month, which is the honest unit for this category because a prompt tracked on one engine is not the same purchase as a prompt tracked on eight. Its published numbers resolve cleanly to prompts multiplied by engines, markets and days. Honeyb prices on prompts and engine count, so the same arithmetic makes the two directly comparable.
| Plan | Price | Prompts | Engines | Responses a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Honeyb, The Minimum | $29 | 10 daily | 1 of choice | 300 (10 x 1 x 30) |
| Siftly, Free | $0 | 10 | 3 | 100 (published) |
| Honeyb, Multi-Model | $79 | 50 daily | 3 of choice | 4,500 (50 x 3 x 30) |
| Siftly, Starter | $79 | 50 | 3 | 4,500 (published) |
| Honeyb, Full Spectrum | $199 | 100 daily | All 8 | 24,000 (100 x 8 x 30) |
| Siftly, Growth | $249 | 100 across 2 markets | 5 | 30,000 (published) |
| Siftly, Scale | $599 | 150 across 3 markets | 8 | 108,000 (published) |
Two things fall out of that table. At $79 the volume is identical, so the tiers are a genuine like-for-like and the choice is about engines, seats and what the tool does next. Above $79 Siftly buys volume through extra markets, while Honeyb buys it through engine breadth: 24,000 responses at $199 against 30,000 at $249. A team tracking one market pays less at Honeyb for eight engines than at Siftly for five; a team tracking three markets on 150 prompts gets more raw volume from Siftly's Scale. Neither is better in the abstract, and the wider price field is mapped in our AI visibility software pricing breakdown.
Entry price
Entry-tier price of AI brand monitoring tools
Engine coverage is the real difference
Siftly gates specific engines to specific tiers. Honeyb meters how many engines you track, not which ones, so any single engine is available on the $29 plan as your chosen model. The practical effect shows up clearly when you ask what each engine costs to reach.
| Engine | Cheapest Honeyb tier that can include it | Cheapest Siftly tier that includes it |
|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | $29 | Free |
| Google AI Overviews | $29 | Free |
| Perplexity | $29 | Free |
| Gemini | $29 | $249, Growth |
| Google AI Mode | $29 | $249, Growth |
| Copilot | $29 | $599, Scale |
| Grok | $29 | $599, Scale |
| Claude | $29 | Enterprise, custom |
| DeepSeek | Not offered | $599, Scale |
Claude is the sharpest example in either direction. It sits behind Siftly's Enterprise tier, so a buyer whose audience leans on Claude cannot reach it on a published price, while Honeyb includes it as a selectable model from $29. Going the other way, DeepSeek is on Siftly's Scale tier and Honeyb does not track it at all. Read the table against your own buyers rather than as a scoreboard, and if you are still shortlisting, our AI visibility tracker comparison covers the wider field.
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Why refresh rate belongs on the spec sheet
Both tools refresh daily on paid plans, and that matters more than it sounds. SparkToro found the same AI query changes its answer roughly 70% of the time, and that two identical queries return the same list of recommended brands less than once in a hundred attempts. Honeyb's own measurement on 13 July 2026, running 20 buyer prompts three times each through four engine APIs, found the top-picked brand changed between identical runs 44% of the time on Gemini and 28% on Claude.
Top-pick change rate
How often the top recommendation changes between identical runs
Siftly's free plan refreshes weekly, which is fine for a first look and thin for a decision: at that cadence a single unlucky run sets your reading for seven days. The method for turning noisy runs into a defensible number is in how to measure AI share of voice.
Both tools also write content
This is where the two products diverge most. Siftly bundles generative engine optimisation output: 8 blog posts a month at Starter, 30 at Growth, 60 at Scale, plus 5 citation outreach campaigns at Starter rising to 30 at Scale, and Reddit engagement from Growth. Honeyb's Content Agent researches article ideas from your own visibility data, drafts them and publishes to WordPress, Ghost, Shopify, Webflow, Wix or a custom endpoint, at 10, 30 and 80 articles a month across the three tiers.
| Capability | Honeyb (ours) | Siftly |
|---|---|---|
| Articles at the $79 tier | 30 a month | 8 a month |
| Articles at the top published tier | 80 a month ($199) | 60 a month ($599) |
| Publishes directly to a CMS | Yes: WordPress, Ghost, Shopify, Webflow, Wix, custom endpoint | Not stated on its pricing page |
| Off-site outreach | Not included | 5 to 30 campaigns a month |
| Community engagement | Not included | Reddit engagement from Growth |
The outreach line is worth weighing rather than dismissing. Ahrefs found AI visibility correlates most strongly with third-party mentions and video rather than on-page work, and Semrush puts Reddit at 40.1% of all AI citations, the single most-cited source. A tool that acts off-site is aimed at the part of the problem that on-page publishing does not reach. The counterweight is that 62% of AI citations never name the brand at all (Semrush), so volume of placements is not the same as volume of recommendations, and both need measuring separately.
Which one fits your team
Three questions settle it. First, which engines your buyers use: if Claude, Gemini or Google AI Mode is on that list, check what tier each vendor puts it behind before comparing headline prices. Second, markets: one market and broad engine coverage points to Honeyb's $199 Full Spectrum, while three markets on a focused engine set points to Siftly's Scale. Third, what you want done with the finding, since Siftly leans towards off-site outreach and Honeyb towards researched articles published straight to your CMS. We ran the same spec exercise against another tool in Honeyb vs Dageno, and the full category sits in best AI brand monitoring tools.
Before committing $79 or more a month to either, get the baseline for free. Run a free AI visibility check and see which engines already name your brand and which ones do not.
