Wellows vs Am I Cited 2026: Two Cheap Entry Points, Two Ways to Meter AI Answers
Wellows sells a monthly balance of AI answers across five engines. Am I Cited sells credits across eight. We run the same prompt set through both meters and show where each one runs out.
Quick verdict. Both are low-cost ways into GEO software, and at the entry tier they buy almost the same daily prompt count. Wellows wins for agencies and multi-brand teams, because every plan has unlimited projects and its citation data feeds an outreach list. Am I Cited wins if you have one domain and your buyers use Claude, Copilot or Grok, which Wellows does not track. When you need to know why the numbers move and whether they bring in customers, Promptwatch is the step up.
Wellows facts were read on wellows.com/pricing and wellows.com/llms.txt on 25 October 2026. Am I Cited facts come from our Am I Cited listing, which read the vendor's pricing page on 2 September 2026.
Same idea, different meter
Both tools charge for usage rather than features, and both define the unit the same way. On Wellows, one AI answer is one prompt, asked of one engine, on one day. On Am I Cited, one AI response is one prompt run on one engine once, and it costs 0.015 credits.
The difference is what else draws on the meter. Wellows describes its balance purely in AI answers and lists every feature on every plan. Am I Cited's credits pay for responses, agent runs and AI articles from the same pool, and the vendor's pricing page says agent runs and articles cost more than a response.
The numbers
| Wellows | Am I Cited | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry plan | Basic, $29/mo | Starter, from 50 euros/mo |
| Entry volume | 1,800 AI answers | 50 credits, 3,000 AI responses |
| Engines | 5 (ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Perplexity, Gemini) | 8 (adds Claude, Copilot, Grok) |
| Domains or projects at entry | Unlimited | 1 domain, 200 prompts |
| Competitors | Up to 10 per brand | 10 on Starter |
| Content | KIVA drafts, can send to WordPress | 10 AI articles on Starter, content agents |
| Unused volume | Does not roll over | Does not roll over |
| Running out | Collection pauses until billing date | Top-ups available |
| Trial | 7 days, every plan | 7 days, 1 domain, 5 prompts, 3 articles, no card |
| Higher tiers | Standard $97, Growth $249, Scale $497 | Pro, Premium, Enterprise (credit tiers) |
Note the currencies. Wellows prices in US dollars and Am I Cited's entry is quoted in euros, so the gap between them moves with the exchange rate.
One prompt set, two meters
Say you want twelve prompts checked every day.
On Wellows Basic, twelve prompts across five engines for 30 days is 1,800 answers. That's the whole balance, used exactly. On one engine only, the same balance covers 60 prompts a day. Weekly checks cost roughly a seventh as much, so Basic stretches to about 80 prompts across all five engines on a weekly schedule.
On Am I Cited Starter, the vendor's own example is useful: one prompt tracked daily on all eight engines is eight responses, or 0.12 credits, a day. Twelve prompts on that schedule is 2,880 responses over 30 days, just inside the 3,000 on Starter. So the entry tiers land in nearly the same place, twelve prompts a day, except that Am I Cited checks them on three more engines.
The catch shows up when you use the content side. Every article or agent run on Am I Cited comes out of those 50 credits, so a month with heavy content generation leaves less for tracking. On Wellows, the balance is spent on answers and the pricing page doesn't attach a credit cost to KIVA or the other features.
When the meter hits zero
This is where the two products behave differently, and it matters for anyone with an unpredictable month.
Wellows pauses collection until your next billing date if the balance runs out. There's no extra charge and no data is lost, but you have a gap in the trend line. The published fix is to upgrade, which applies immediately; downgrades take effect next cycle. Am I Cited lets you buy top-ups, so tracking can continue at a cost. Neither rolls unused volume into the next month, which means both reward a steady, predictable prompt set over a bursty one.
Domains and clients
Here Wellows pulls clearly ahead for agencies. Projects, prompts and seats are unlimited on every plan, there's no per-domain pricing, and a project spends nothing until it runs prompts. Ten small clients can share one balance. White-label reporting and client dashboards come on every plan.
Am I Cited Starter covers one domain. Our listing says higher tiers add domains and Enterprise has unlimited domains, prompts and competitors, along with an API, SSO, an audit log and an MCP server.
What each finds that the other doesn't
Wellows reads the cited pages, so it can tell an explicit citation from an implicit one and label each cited page positive, neutral or negative for your brand. The pages that cite competitors but never mention you become outreach targets with contact emails.
Am I Cited's edge is reach. Claude, Copilot and Grok sit on the entry tier, and its content agents are bundled rather than sold separately. Our listing doesn't document which CMSs those agents publish to.
Who should pick which
Pick Wellows if you're an agency or run several brands, your buyers mostly use ChatGPT, Google and Perplexity, and your team will act on an outreach list.
Pick Am I Cited if you have a single domain, Claude or Copilot is important to your audience, and you'd rather buy a top-up than lose a week of data.
What both leave out, and where to go next
Neither listing publishes AI crawler logs, a crawl-to-citation path, or visitor analytics that tie AI-referred sessions to conversions. That's fine while you're learning what the engines say about you. It stops being fine when someone asks why a citation disappeared or what last quarter's citations were worth.
That's the gap Promptwatch closes. Agent Analytics, from Professional at $245 a month, shows which AI crawlers fetched which pages, any errors they hit, and the path to the citation that followed. Visitor analytics ties AI referrals to conversions on every paid plan. Engine coverage includes everything both tools above track, plus Llama, DeepSeek and Mistral. Essential starts at $95 a month and Explore is free with 10 ChatGPT prompts, so you can test the difference at promptwatch.com before paying for anything.