Comparison

Rivarise vs Otterly.AI

Otterly Lite is the cheapest way into this category at $29. It caps you at 15 prompts, and Gemini, Google AI Mode and Claude are paid add-ons on top of every tier.

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All Otterly.AI figures below were taken from their public pricing page on 2026-08-08 and are linked so you can check them.

Rivarise vs Otterly.AI, in short. Otterly Lite is the cheapest way into this category at $29. It caps you at 15 prompts, and Gemini, Google AI Mode and Claude are paid add-ons on top of every tier. Rivarise is built for teams who want the widest engine coverage for the money, a free plan to evaluate with, and the full answer text behind every number. Otterly.AI is the cheap entry point, and there are real cases below where it is the better choice. This page states both.

How to read this page. We sell one of these two products, so treat our framing with the scepticism it deserves and verify the figures. Every Otterly.AI claim here links to their own pricing page, checked on 2026-08-08. Pricing in this category changes often, so confirm before you buy either one.

Side by side

The figures that actually decide this comparison, at the tiers most teams buy.

	Rivarise	Otterly.AI
Entry paid price	$69 per month	$29/mo
Engines at entry	4	4 core search engines
Prompts at entry	50 per day	15 prompts
Engines at the top self-serve tier	All 9, at $349	4 core search engines
Free plan	Yes, permanent, no card	No permanent free plan
Full answer text stored	Yes, for the plan history window	Check with the vendor
Google surfaces	Gemini, AI Mode and AI Overviews tracked separately	Check with the vendor

Rows marked "check with the vendor" are ones we could not verify from a public page. We would rather leave a gap than guess at a competitor's product.

Otterly.AI pricing, as published

Taken from their pricing page on 2026-08-08.

Plan	Price	Engines	Prompts	Other
Lite	$29/mo	4 core search engines	15 prompts	Add-ons billed separately
Standard	$189/mo	4 core search engines	100 prompts	Unlimited workspaces
Premium	$489/mo	4 core search engines	Higher volume	Add-ons billed separately

Rivarise pricing, for the same comparison

Plan	Price	Engines	Prompts	Other
Free	$0	1	3 per week	1 brand, 7 days of history
Starter	$69/mo	4	50 per day	1 brand, 30 days, sentiment, email alerts
Growth	$149/mo	6	75 per day	1 brand, 3 seats, competitors, fix suggestions
Business	$349/mo	9	80 per day	1 brand, unlimited history, reports, portals, white-label, API
Agency	$1,299/mo	9	60 per brand	5 client brands, unlimited seats, SSO, benchmarks

Annual billing is 15 percent cheaper on every paid Rivarise plan. Full detail on the pricing page and in the documentation.

Where Otterly.AI is the better choice

A comparison page that claims one product wins everything is a sales page pretending to be a comparison. These are genuine advantages.

Their strengths

The lowest entry price in the category. At $29 a month, Otterly Lite is genuinely cheaper than any Rivarise paid plan. If 15 prompts on four engines is all you will ever need, it is the cheaper answer and we would rather say so.
Link and share-of-voice reporting. Otterly has a long history in AI search monitoring and reports on link citations in a way some teams prefer.

Where Rivarise is the better choice

Our strengths

Add-ons change the real price. Otterly core plans cover four engines. Google AI Mode and Gemini are add-ons at $9, $59 or $149 per month each depending on tier, and Claude is $29, $109 or $439. A Standard plan with those three added lands well above Rivarise Business, which includes 9 engines at $349.
Prompt headroom. Otterly Lite allows 15 prompts. Rivarise Starter allows 50 at $69 across 4 engines, which is enough to cover all five buying intents rather than only your brand terms.
Free rather than cheap. Rivarise Free costs nothing permanently and needs no card. It is the honest way to find out whether this category is worth any spend at all.
Competitor tracking included from Growth. Rivarise records which rivals the engines cite for your prompts and ranks you against them, with no additional charge per competitor.

What neither product does

Worth knowing before you buy either one.

Neither can guarantee an AI engine will cite you. Citation decisions belong to the engines, whose models and retrieval sources change without notice. Any vendor promising placement is overselling.
Neither reports a complete census. Both sample engine behaviour on a schedule. Results describe what the engines returned to those checks, not what every user of that engine sees.
Neither replaces your rank tracker. These tools measure the generated answer, which is a different surface from the ranked list of links.

Which should you choose

Otterly

Choose Otterly if

You need a handful of prompts on the four mainstream engines, your budget is genuinely $29, and you will not need Claude, Gemini or Google AI Mode.

Rivarise

Choose Rivarise if

You want the engine list included rather than itemized, you need more than 15 prompts, or you want to start at zero and only pay once the data proves useful.

Questions people ask about this comparison

At the tiers most teams buy, yes. Otterly Lite is the cheapest way into this category at $29. It caps you at 15 prompts, and Gemini, Google AI Mode and Claude are paid add-ons on top of every tier. Rivarise also has a permanent free plan, where Otterly.AI does not publish one. Compare on engines and prompts included rather than headline price alone, because add-ons and tier gating change the real number.

Yes, and there is nothing to migrate technically: Rivarise installs no code on your site, so switching means recreating your prompt list and competitor list, which takes about ten minutes. Historical data does not transfer between vendors, so run both in parallel for a couple of weeks if the history matters to you. Export whatever you need from Otterly.AI first.

Nine: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok, Meta AI, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Mode. Coverage is cumulative by plan, from 1 on Free to all 9 on Business. Microsoft Copilot is deliberately not tracked, because approximating it without Bing grounding produces answers that look real and are not. The three Google surfaces are tracked separately because they answer the same question differently.

No. Sign up, add a domain and three prompts, and the Free plan runs real ChatGPT checks with no card and no expiry. There is no demo requirement and no trial countdown.

They were taken from their public pricing page on 2026-08-08. Pricing in this category changes frequently, so verify before purchasing either product. If you find something out of date here, email support@rivarise.com and we will correct the page.

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