Recomma vs Otterly.AI (2026): which AI visibility tool fits you

Otterly.AI is the cheaper way to start and covers more engines out of the box. Recomma includes Gemini and Google AI Mode without an add-on, reports every figure with the number of answers behind it and the range it could be wrong by, and re-measures each fix two weeks after it ships. Which matters more depends on what you will do with the numbers.

The short answer

Otterly.AI is an AI search monitoring tool with a $29 entry plan, daily tracking on every tier, and ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot included. Recomma is an AI search visibility tool that captures ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews and Google AI Mode from the pages readers see, prices the market behind the questions, and treats every gap it finds as a ticket with a measured outcome.

• Choose Otterly.AI if you want the lowest entry price, daily tracking from the first plan, Perplexity and Copilot in the base price, or a large set of reviews from other customers to lean on.
• Choose Recomma if Gemini and Google AI Mode are engines you need, if you report the numbers to someone who will ask how sure you are, or if you want each fix measured against a frozen baseline rather than eyeballed on a trend line.

At a glance

Engines: what is included and what is extra

This is the biggest practical difference, and it cuts both ways. Every Otterly.AI plan includes ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot. Gemini, Google AI Mode and Claude are add-ons priced per tier: on Standard, Gemini and AI Mode are $59 a month each and Claude is $109; on Premium they are $149, $149 and $439 (Otterly pricing).

Recomma tracks four engines — ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews and Google AI Mode — and none of them costs extra. Starter and Growth track up to three of the four per project; Scale tracks all of them. Perplexity is not part of Recomma's standard pass, and Copilot and Claude are not tracked at all. Claude has no consumer search interface to capture, and an answer drawn from an API is a measurement of something no buyer reads — the reasoning is set out in what sampling can see.

So the question to ask is which engines your buyers use. If Perplexity and Copilot matter to you, Otterly.AI covers them and Recomma does not. If Google's own answers matter — AI Mode is a separate surface from AI Overviews, with its own citations — Recomma includes them, and on Otterly they are where the bill grows.

What 100 prompts actually cost

List prices compare badly when the engines differ, so here is one concrete case: a hundred prompts, asked daily, on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode.

At this size the two land within a few dollars of each other, and what differs is what comes with the money: Otterly.AI adds three more engines, Recomma adds room for three times the prompts and two more brands. Below this size Otterly.AI is clearly cheaper — Lite is $29 with daily tracking, and Recomma's Starter at $30 samples weekly. Above it, Otterly's extra prompts are $99 per hundred on Standard and Premium.

How each turns answers into numbers

Both tools collect answers from the consumer products rather than from the model APIs, which is the right call: the API answer and the page a reader sees cite different sources. Otterly.AI says it posts prompts "through the website of the AI search", using an API only for Claude (how Otterly collects data).

Where the two differ is what they do with the count. An AI answer is sampled, not looked up: ask twice and the list of brands can change. Recomma prints the number of answers behind every figure and a 95% Wilson interval beside it, and dims a figure whose interval is wider than the reading itself, so a 4% on 28 answers is shown as the guess it is. The reasoning is in why every number comes with its error range. Otterly.AI publishes a Brand Visibility Index and domain and citation rankings; it does not publish sample sizes or intervals on its pricing or feature pages.

Recomma also prices the questions. Each tracked prompt is tied to the keywords behind it, and a keyword is worth its monthly searches, times the clicks a top result takes, times what advertisers bid. That is what lets a gap be ranked by what closing it is worth rather than by how many prompts it touches.

What happens after the measurement

Otterly.AI gives recommendations — three a week on Lite, unlimited above it — and a GEO audit that checks whether 19 AI crawlers are allowed and actually served, scores pages on structure and answerability, and since June includes a query fan-out tool (Otterly features, changelog).

Recomma turns each gap into a ticket: a source that keeps feeding the answer and skips you, or one of the 15 markup rules a page breaks. When a ticket is closed, the reading on its prompts is frozen, and fourteen days later the same prompts are asked again on fresh answers. The verdict is recorded whichever way it goes, so a quarter of work ends with a list of what moved the number and what did not.

API, MCP and reporting

Otterly.AI's REST API arrived in May 2026 and its MCP server in June, both from the $189 Standard plan, with 2,000 API and 2,000 MCP requests a month there and 5,000 each on Premium. Write access to prompts and tags followed in July. It also has a Looker Studio connector in the official gallery, and an agency partner programme that raises prompt allowances and adds branded reports (changelog).

Recomma's MCP server answers in Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, VS Code, Windsurf and n8n. Its write tools preview before they apply and need a separate scope, so an agent can propose prompts or close a ticket but cannot change the workspace by accident. The walkthrough is in fixing what AI search gets wrong from Claude Code. CSV export and the full API are on Scale. Recomma has no Looker Studio connector.

Which one to choose

Choose Otterly.AI if you are starting out and want daily numbers for $29; Perplexity and Copilot are engines your buyers use; you want a Looker Studio connector; or you would rather pick a tool many other teams have already reviewed. Recomma is new and has no third-party reviews yet.

Choose Recomma if Gemini and Google AI Mode are on your list and you do not want to pay for them twice; you report figures to someone who will ask whether the movement is real; you run several brands from one pool of prompts; or you want every fix measured, with the verdict kept. Plans and limits are on the pricing page, and the other tools worth a look are in Otterly.AI alternatives.