Both platforms track how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and other AI systems talk about your brand. Here's where they actually differ, in the same evidence-first format we use for everything else on this blog: no unsubstantiated claims, no fabricated comparisons, just what's publicly verifiable as of August 2026.
The short version
Aimate's $149/mo Starter plan bundles a full website chatbot and lead-capture tool at no extra cost. Peec AI has no equivalent product at any price. That's a second product most teams would otherwise pay for separately (live chat and visitor tracking tools typically run $50 to $150+/mo on their own).
Peec AI is built around simplicity and prompt-based pricing, with unlimited seats at every tier and a strong self-serve onboarding experience, but it is a visibility tracker only, nothing more.
Aimate is built around evidence: every metric traces back to a stored raw response, and it's the only one of the two that joins AI citation data with your actual Google Search Console performance.
Peec's entry plan starts lower (€89/mo for 50 prompts across 3 models); Aimate's Starter plan is $149/mo for 30 prompts, but that price also includes the chatbot widget, 300 AI-powered replies/month, live visitor tracking and a team inbox for managing leads.
Teams without a dedicated marketing/SEO person also get a situational next-steps plan from Aimate, plus a free expert consultation if that's not enough. Peec's dashboard leaves interpretation entirely to you.
If your priority is a lightweight, fast-to-set-up tracker and nothing else, Peec is a reasonable fit. If you want AI visibility monitoring, an on-site lead-gen chatbot, and guided next steps from one vendor and one bill, Aimate is built for that specifically.
QUICK COMPARISON
Aimate
Peec AI
Starting price
$149/mo
~€89/mo (Starter)
What that price includes
AI visibility monitoring (30 prompts) plus a website chatbot with 300 AI replies/mo, live visitor tracking and lead capture, bundled with no add-on
AI visibility monitoring only (50 prompts, 3 models). No chatbot, live visitor tracking, or lead-capture product at any tier.
Monitored prompts
30 (Starter) → 150 (Growth, $399/mo) → custom
50 (Starter) → 150 (Pro) → 350 (Advanced)
Models per plan
ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews (plan-dependent)
Choose 3 models on Starter/Pro; up to 11 on Enterprise
Raw response storage
Yes. Every metric links back to the stored answer
Not specified on public product pages
Google Search Console correlation
Yes. Joins AI citations with GSC clicks, impressions, AI Overviews and AI Mode data
Not specified on public product pages
Website chatbot
Included on every plan: 300 AI replies/mo (Starter), 800/mo (Growth), custom (Scale)
Not offered. You'd need a separate tool (e.g. Intercom, Crisp, Drift)
Live visitor tracking
Included: live map of who's on your site, by page, device and location
Not offered
Lead capture
Included: name and email requested at AI-to-human handoff, routed to a team inbox
Not offered
Competitor tracking
Yes
Yes
Reporting cadence
Structured biweekly report format
Dashboard-based; Looker Studio integration on Advanced+
Free trial
Not publicly listed
Self-serve signup
Seats
Not specified
Unlimited on every tier
Guided next steps + expert support
Included: a next-steps plan based on your current data, plus a free consultation with an Aimate expert if you need more help
Not offered. Self-serve dashboard only; interpreting the data is on you
Pricing and feature availability change frequently on both sides. Confirm current details on peec.ai/pricing and hiaimate.com/pricing before making a decision.
The bundled chatbot: a second product Peec doesn't have
This is the biggest practical difference between the two platforms, and it's easy to miss if you only compare prompt counts. Every Aimate plan, Starter included, comes with a website chatbot at no additional cost:
A chat widget for your own site. Matches your brand's colors, installs with a single script tag, greets visitors with your own welcome message.
AI-powered replies included in the plan price. 300 AI replies/month on Starter, 800/month on Growth, custom on Scale. Answered only from your business profile, website content and knowledge base. Never fabricated.
A live visitor map. See who's on your site right now: page, device and location. Plus proactive triggers that nudge a visitor after they spend time on a page.
Honest human handoff. The moment the AI isn't confident, or a visitor asks for a person, the conversation hands off to your team, and that's also when name and email are requested, never upfront. That handoff is the lead-capture moment.
A real team inbox. A 3-pane conversation view, assignment, resolve/reopen, search and filters, CSV export, and sound/badge alerts. Not just a chat log.
Peec AI's public product pages describe AI visibility monitoring only. There's no chat widget, no live visitor tracking, and no lead-capture flow anywhere in its feature set. A team choosing Peec that also wants on-site chat and lead capture would need to buy and integrate a separate tool, typically another $50 to $150+/month, on top of Peec's subscription. Aimate's $149/mo Starter price already includes both.
Guidance for teams without a dedicated marketing or SEO person
Both platforms hand you a dashboard. Aimate goes further for teams that don't have in-house AEO expertise: based on your current visibility data, Aimate surfaces a recommended next-steps plan tailored to where your brand actually stands, not a generic checklist. If that's still not enough, you can get a free consultation with an Aimate expert to work through it directly. Peec AI's public product pages don't describe anything like this. Interpreting the dashboard and deciding what to do next is left entirely to the customer.
Where Peec AI is strong
Peec's own customers consistently praise how uncluttered the product feels. One reviewer specifically credits it with avoiding “the issues we see with other SEO/AEO platforms, where there's often an overload of features and information that isn't of primary importance.” Unlimited seats at every tier, transparent published pricing, and a fast self-serve signup make it an easy first tool to try. Peec also publishes dedicated tracker pages for individual platforms (ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Mode), which makes it easy to understand exactly what you're getting for a specific engine.
Where Aimate is different
Aimate's platform is built around a single idea: every number in a report should be traceable back to the exact prompt, provider, timestamp and raw response that produced it. That shows up in ways Peec's public product pages don't describe:
Search Console correlation. Aimate joins AI citation data with your actual Google Search Console performance, including AI Overviews and AI Mode impression data, so you can see whether a page that gets cited by AI systems is also performing in classic search, or whether the two are diverging. This is useful for prioritization: a page with strong citations but weak search performance points to a different fix than a page with strong search performance but no citations.
Honest provider coverage. Aimate's platform explicitly separates “not yet supported” from “zero score” for any given provider, so a coverage gap never gets reported as a performance decline. This matters most when you're presenting results to a team that will ask hard questions about a number.
Structured reporting rhythm. Rather than leaving analysis entirely to a live dashboard, Aimate ships a defined biweekly report format (executive changes, prompt flips, competitor movement, citation changes, and owned next actions) designed to be handed to a team, not just browsed.
The bundled chatbot and lead capture, covered in detail above, is the other major structural difference: it's a second product included in the price, not an add-on.
Choose Aimate if
You need to show your team or leadership exactly which response produced a given metric.
You want AI citation data connected to your real Search Console performance, not tracked as a separate system.
You're building a recurring reporting cadence and want a format already designed for that, not just a dashboard export.
You also want a website chatbot with live visitor tracking and lead capture, without adding a separate tool.
You don't have a dedicated marketing/SEO team and want a next-steps plan, or a free expert consultation, rather than a raw dashboard to interpret yourself.
Choose Peec AI if
You want the lowest-friction way to start tracking a handful of prompts across 3 models today.
Unlimited seats at a lower entry price matters more than citation-to-search correlation.
You're an agency managing several brands and want per-brand project structure out of the box.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Questions people actually ask.
Straight answers about switching, pricing and what's included.
Both track ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity. Aimate's platform is built around ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews; Peec's model coverage depends on plan tier, up to 11 models (including API-based models like GPT-5 Search and DeepSeek) on Enterprise.
Since both platforms are prompt-based, the main migration work is rebuilding your monitored prompt library in Aimate. There's no automated import between the two as of this writing.
Peec's published Starter tier is lower priced for a smaller prompt volume. Cost-per-prompt and total cost at scale depend on your plan tier on each platform. Compare current pricing pages directly, since both change.
Not according to its public product pages. Aimate's chatbot is included on every Aimate plan: a chat widget for your own site with live visitor tracking, proactive triggers and human handoff, alongside AI-powered replies that scale with your tier.
Aimate is built with that in mind: based on your current data, the platform surfaces a next-steps plan for your specific situation, and you can get a free consultation with an Aimate expert if you need more help working through it. Peec AI's public pages don't describe an equivalent; its dashboard is designed for teams that already know what they're looking for.
Have a correction or an update to a claim on this page? Email hello@aimate.com and we'll fix it. This page is held to the same evidence-first standard as the rest of the blog.
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