Rankability vs Wellows 2026: Same $97 and $497 Price Tags, Very Different Products
Rankability and Wellows both charge $97 and $497 for a plan, and both give unlimited seats. One is an agency SEO workspace with AI tracking on 11 platforms; the other is a citation-first tool built around outreach. Where each wins, and what neither publishes.
Quick verdict. Pick Wellows if citations and digital PR are the work, and you want an outreach list drawn from the pages AI engines actually read. Pick Rankability if you produce content and run classic SEO for clients, and want AI answer tracking on more engines inside the same workspace. If you need to explain why citations move or what they earn, neither publishes the data, and that's a third conversation.
Rankability facts come from rankability.com and its pricing page, read on 28 October 2026. Wellows facts come from its listing in our directory, sourced from wellows.com/pricing and its llms.txt on 25 October 2026.
Two products that happen to share price points
Both vendors charge $97 for one plan and $497 for another, and both give unlimited seats. That's roughly where the resemblance ends.
Wellows scores visibility on citations. It reads the sources behind each answer and splits them into explicit citations (the engine cites your own page) and implicit ones (it cites a third-party page that mentions you). A cited page that ignores you becomes an outreach target with contact emails and a template. KIVA, its writing agent, drafts against your Search Console data.
Rankability is an agency SEO workspace. Each client gets research, content projects, audits, backlink research, weekly Google rankings, Local Pack scans and an AI Tracker that reports mentions, cited pages and sentiment.
| Rankability | Wellows | |
|---|---|---|
| Plans | $97, $297, $497 | $29, $97, $249, $497 |
| AI engines | 11, including Claude, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI and Brave AI | 5: ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Perplexity, Gemini |
| Tracking unit | 100 / 300 / 500 saved queries, checked daily | 1,800 to 36,000 answers a month |
| Projects and seats | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Content | 20 / 80 / 160 projects a month | KIVA drafts; optimization and scoring in beta |
| Classic SEO | Google keywords, Local Pack, site audits, backlinks | Not its focus |
| Outreach from citations | Not listed | Yes, with contacts |
| Trial | 7 days, card required | 7 days |
How each one counts a check
This is where buyers get confused. On Rankability, one tracked query is one saved question checked daily across the platforms you select, and it uses one slot whatever the number of platforms. On Wellows, one answer is one prompt asked of one engine on one day, so engines multiply the cost.
At $97, Wellows Standard covers 43 prompts a day on all five engines. Rankability Starter covers 100 queries on up to 11. At $497, Wellows Scale covers 240 prompts on five engines and Rankability Agency Pro covers 500. On published allowances, Rankability tracks more questions on more engines at both price points.
Wellows has two counterweights. Weekly runs cost about a seventh of daily ones, so a balance stretches much further if daily data adds nothing. And Wellows starts at $29, which Rankability doesn't match. Running out behaves differently too: Wellows pauses collection until the billing date, and neither tool rolls unused allowance over.
Where Wellows is the better buy
The explicit and implicit split tells you whether a problem lives on your site or in other people's coverage, which is a staffing question. The outreach list is the standout. It comes from pages the engines cite, with Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn, Medium and Quora listed apart from publishers. Rankability doesn't publish anything equivalent. White-label reports are on every Wellows plan.
Where Rankability is the better buy
Engine coverage, for one. If your buyers live in Microsoft 365 or ask Claude, Wellows says plainly it tracks neither. Rankability also does the production work: briefs and drafts with two AI revisions each, Automate schedules that deliver to WordPress, Webflow or a GitHub pull request, 1,000-page site audits and weekly rank tracking. API and MCP access come on every plan, where the Wellows API is limited to reporting.
What neither publishes
Neither tool publishes AI crawler logs. Rankability's auditor reads robots.txt, which shows whether a bot may enter, not whether it did. Neither publishes its own visitor analytics that tie AI-referred sessions to conversions. Wellows' FAQ concedes that rising citations often don't show up as referral traffic. Rankability's plan pages also list no prompt search volumes or fan-outs, and our Wellows listing doesn't document them either.
Those gaps are where Promptwatch fits (facts from its llms.txt, re-checked 28 October 2026). Agent Analytics logs IP-verified hits from GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot and follows each page from crawl to citation. Visitor analytics ties AI-referred visits to conversions. Prompts come with search volumes and difficulty scores, and citation reports cover Reddit, YouTube and LinkedIn. Essential is $95 a month, crawler logs start on Professional at $245, and agency plans start at $199 with unlimited projects and prompts.
Who should pick which
- A PR-led team with a fixed prompt set and buyers on the five big engines: Wellows.
- A content agency that wants AI tracking next to briefs, audits and rankings: Rankability.
- Anyone asked to explain a citation drop or report AI revenue: Promptwatch, alone or alongside either tool. Its free Explore plan at promptwatch.com is enough to compare the reports on the same prompts.