Local Falcon AI Visibility Tracking: AI Search, Local GEO Features, and Pricing (2026)
What Local Falcon's AI visibility credits cost in practice: every package, three worked budgets, expiry rules, API fees, and when Promptwatch is the better buy.
Local Falcon's price list looks simple: four monthly packages from $24.99 to $199.99. What buyers get wrong is what those dollars turn into. Local Falcon doesn't sell prompts or seats. It sells credits, and an AI visibility scan spends one credit for every point on the grid you ask it to sample. This guide works through the pricing the way a buyer has to: what each package holds, what a credit buys, and three budgets worked out line by line. Features and the Promptwatch comparison come after the money.
Prices and limits below were read on localfalcon.com/pricing and its llms.txt on 20 October 2026.
The packages
| Package | Monthly price | Credits a month | Annual price | Credits a year | Per 1,000 credits (monthly / annual) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $24.99 | 7,500 | $299.88 | 90,000 | $3.33 / $3.33 |
| Basic | $49.99 | 15,150 | $599.88 | 183,000 | $3.30 / $3.28 |
| Pro | $99.99 | 31,250 | $1,199.88 | 383,000 | $3.20 / $3.13 |
| Premium | $199.99 | 63,150 | $2,399.88 | 778,000 | $3.17 / $3.08 |
| Enterprise | $499 to $4,999 | 157,000 to 1,570,000 | Custom above that | Not listed | About $3.18 |
| Pay-as-you-go | $0.05 per credit | Never expire | Not applicable | Not applicable | $50.00 |
An annual package costs exactly twelve monthly payments ($24.99 x 12 = $299.88), so the annual saving isn't on price. From Basic up you get extra credits instead: 183,000 a year against 181,800 for twelve months of monthly Basic, and 778,000 against 757,800 on Premium. Starter annual is exactly 12 x 7,500, so it adds nothing but the longer expiry window.
The rate per credit barely moves. Starter works out to $3.33 per thousand credits and Premium to $3.17, a gap of about 5%. Enterprise comes to roughly $3.18 per thousand at both ends of its range, which is no cheaper per credit than monthly Premium. You move up the ladder for volume, not for a better rate.
Pay-as-you-go is 15 times the Starter rate. It only beats a Starter subscription if you use fewer than about 500 credits a month ($24.99 divided by $0.05 is 499.8).
Every package has unlimited keywords and locations. A new account gets 100 free credits without a card.
What one credit buys
One credit is one grid point, and each grid point is a separate AI answer. Grids run from 3x3 (9 points) to 21x21 (441 points). A 5x5 scan costs 25 credits, a 9x9 scan 81, and the 11x11 grid the knowledge base suggests as a starting point costs 121.
The pricing page names six things that multiply usage: grid size, keyword count, number of locations (including competitor locations you scan), Falcon AI reports at 25 credits each, the platforms you scan and how often you scan. Local Falcon recommends a weekly or bi-weekly cadence. One assumption runs through the budgets below: we count each AI platform as its own scan, which is how that list of usage drivers reads. Confirm it with Local Falcon before you sign anything based on it.
Three worked budgets
One location
A clinic with one address tracks 10 keywords on an 11x11 grid, on ChatGPT only, every two weeks, with a Falcon AI report on each scan.
- Scans: 10 keywords x 121 points x 2 runs = 2,420 credits
- Falcon AI: 20 scans x 25 credits = 500 credits
- Total: 2,920 credits a month
Starter's 7,500 credits cover that with 4,580 to spare, and the spare credits expire at the end of the cycle. Adding Gemini as a second platform doubles both lines to 5,840, still inside Starter. Go weekly on two platforms and it becomes 9,680 credits of scans plus 2,000 of Falcon AI, 11,680 in all, which needs Basic at $49.99.
Five locations
A small chain tracks 10 keywords per branch on a 9x9 grid, on two platforms, weekly, with one Falcon AI report per branch per week.
- Scans: 5 locations x 10 keywords x 81 points x 2 platforms x 4 runs = 32,400 credits
- Falcon AI: 5 x 4 x 25 = 500 credits
- Total: 32,900 credits a month
That's 1,650 more than Pro holds. Topping Pro up with pay-as-you-go costs 1,650 x $0.05 = $82.50, so $182.49 in total, just under Premium at $199.99. For $17.50 more, Premium leaves about 30,000 credits of headroom, so most buyers would take it. Drop to bi-weekly and the total halves to 16,450. That's 1,300 over Basic, and Basic plus a top-up ($114.99) costs more than Pro ($99.99), which would leave 14,800 credits unused.
An agency book
An agency runs 20 client locations with 8 keywords each on an 11x11 grid, ChatGPT only, every two weeks, with one Falcon AI report per client per run.
- Scans: 20 x 8 x 121 x 2 = 38,720 credits
- Falcon AI: 20 x 2 x 25 = 1,000 credits
- Total: 39,720 credits a month
Premium fits with 23,430 credits left over. Pro plus a top-up would mean 8,470 pay-as-you-go credits ($423.50) on top of $99.99, which is far worse. Now add the same keywords on Google Maps so clients can compare Share of AI Voice with Share of Local Voice. That's another 38,720 credits, 78,440 in total and 15,290 over Premium, which would cost $764.50 in pay-as-you-go. The smallest enterprise package, $499 for 157,000 credits, is the cheaper way to buy that. Scanning competitor locations would add to every line.
Expiry, API fees and add-ons
Monthly credits expire at the end of each billing cycle. Annual credits expire once a year, which helps when some months run hot and others are quiet. Pay-as-you-go credits never expire.
Integrations and the data retrieval API are free on packages above monthly Starter. The on-demand API is billed separately at $199 a month plus $0.0032 per request, so 10,000 requests in a month comes to $199 + $32 = $231. Falcon Guard, which monitors Google Business Profile changes, costs $0.10 per location per month according to llms.txt.
Where Local Falcon's own pages disagree
Raise two things before you sign. The pricing page says Falcon Agent is included on every package from $24.99, while llms.txt says it's free on annual and enterprise plans. And the Premium credit count appears as both 63,150 and 63,000. A 150-credit gap won't break a budget, but ask which figure your account will get. Smaller still: the AI visibility page's hero names four platforms, while its FAQ and llms.txt add Grok as a fifth.
What the credits get you
AI scans cover ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode, plus Grok per the FAQ. A report gives Share of AI Voice (the share of grid points where AI mentions you), a Buyer Persuasion Score from -10 to +10, Brand Phrases with sentiment, the sources AI drew on and a Competitor Report. Falcon AI writes a prioritized analysis, Campaigns put scans on a schedule and the Trend Report follows SAIV over time. Google Maps and Apple Maps tracking draw on the same balance. For how this compares with BrightLocal's per-location score, see our Local Falcon vs BrightLocal comparison.
Local Falcon's strength is spatial. No other tool we list samples one prompt across a service area this densely and shows the result as a map. If your deliverable is "where in town does AI recommend us", it's the right purchase.
When Promptwatch is the better buy
The Local Falcon pages we read describe no AI crawler logs and no tracking of AI-referred visits or conversions. Promptwatch covers both, and it prices the opposite way: a fixed monthly fee for a prompt panel that runs every day. City and state tracking start on Business ($579/mo) and come with every agency plan from Kick-off ($199/mo). Coordinate targeting pins a monitor to an exact spot with a radius between 20 m and 5 km, so ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode answer as if asked from there. That's on Business, Agency Scale ($799/mo) and Enterprise, and our guide to pinning a monitor to coordinates walks through the setup.
Around those monitors sit the parts a grid can't give you. Agent Analytics logs IP-verified visits from GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot, with a citation rate per page, from Professional and on every agency plan. Visitor analytics ties AI-referred sessions to conversions on every paid plan. Citation analytics goes to page level and has a Directory source type for listing and review sites, plus separate Reddit and YouTube reports. On Business, the Content Agent writes and publishes pages against the gaps it finds, through a review inbox.
Per answer, Local Falcon is cheaper: about a third of a cent per grid sample, against roughly 1.4 cents per response in the Business allowance ($579 for 42,000). The Promptwatch fee pays for what happens after the answer. It draws no grid and doesn't track Maps rankings, so a team that needs neighbourhood maps can keep Local Falcon for that job.
If you have to show that AI visibility turns into bookings, start the 7-day free trial of Promptwatch Business on monthly billing and run your city or coordinate monitors next to your next Local Falcon scan.