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AthenaHQ pricing.
Essential is free. Paid plans start at $295 a month. The top plan is a custom quote.
Mack Grenfell, founder of TrakkrChecked 1 October 2026 · 8 min read
How much does AthenaHQ cost?
Every plan on AthenaHQ’s pricing page, in US dollars.
Prices checked 1 Oct 2026 at the source
Starter
$295
a month, or $245/month, billed $2,940 annually3,600 responses on 11 engines, including ChatGPT and Perplexity. Unlimited seats. Exports included.
Enterprise
Custom
quoted by sales, no public amountThe 11 published Starter models plus additional models on request. API, SSO and exports included.
What each plan includes.
3 plans, side by side. Every cell comes from AthenaHQ’s pricing page. Where it says nothing, so do we.
| Plan by plan | EssentialFreewith 300 credits | Starter$295a month, or $245/month, billed $2,940 annually | EnterpriseCustomquoted by sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Answer engines | 5, including ChatGPT and Perplexity | 11, including ChatGPT and Perplexity | The 11 published Starter models plus additional models on request |
| Prompts | 300 responses | 3,600 responses | Not published |
| Regions and languages | 1 region | 1 region | Not published |
| Seats | Unlimited | Unlimited | Custom |
| AI content credits | 300 | 3,600 | Custom response-credit allowance |
| Exports | Higher plan | CSV export | Included |
| API | Higher plan | Add-on | Included |
| SSO and access controls | Higher plan | Higher plan | Included |
| Billing term | None, it’s free | Monthly or yearly | Set in the contract |
Before you compare
Prompts, responses, checks and credits are different units, so we never convert one into another. Confirm add-ons and overages in the quote.
Essential
Freewith 300 credits- Answer engines
- 5, including ChatGPT and Perplexity
- Prompts
- 300 responses
- Regions and languages
- 1 region
- Seats
- Unlimited
- AI content credits
- 300
- Exports
- Higher plan
- API
- Higher plan
- SSO and access controls
- Higher plan
- Billing term
- None, it’s free
Tap a plan to switch. Every cell comes from the official pricing page.
Before you compare
Prompts, responses, checks and credits are different units, so we never convert one into another. Confirm add-ons and overages in the quote.
“AthenaHQ suits teams that want a free credit-based entry point and action or content-optimization workflows. The trade-off: prompt capacity is expressed as response credits, and Starter API access is a separately priced add-on.”
Mack Grenfell, founder of TrakkrOur view. The facts above are AthenaHQ’s own.
Where AthenaHQ is strong
- Action Center turns findings into tasks
- Athena has one of the more operational workflows in the category.
- Ask Athena conversational interface
- Teams can interrogate visibility changes without living in dashboards.
- Broad paid coverage
- Essential names five engines; Starter publishes visibility across 11 models.
- Free Essential tier to test
- 300 credits with no paid commitment up front.
What to weigh before you buy
- Starter is single-country
- Many multi-market teams are Enterprise buyers immediately.
- No Reddit intelligence
- Athena can suggest subreddits, but does not truly monitor them.
- Free tier is credit-capped
- Essential gives 300 credits, then you upgrade to keep monitoring.
- ACE is Enterprise-only
- The best feature in the stack is gated away from the Starter story.
Before you buy.
Who AthenaHQ suits, who should look elsewhere, and what to ask for in the quote.
A good fit for
- Single-market e-commerce brands
- Teams that want action workflows over pure dashboards
- Enterprise buyers who can justify ACE
- Operators comfortable with usage-based billing
Less suited to
- Teams that need predictable fixed pricing
- International teams on a self-serve budget
- Buyers who need Reddit intelligence or self-serve AI-bot traffic analysis
Six questions for your quote
So you can compare like for like- What is the monthly price, and the total for the year?
- Which limits apply: brands, prompts, runs or credits?
- Which engines, countries and languages are included?
- What do add-ons, overages and renewals cost?
- Which plan has the API, exports, SSO and agency access?
- Can we read the contract and data terms before we sign?
AthenaHQ vs Trakkr
Both side by side, with every fact dated.
| AthenaHQ | Trakkr | |
|---|---|---|
| One brand, ongoing | $295 a month | $100 a month |
| Free trial | Not published | 14 days |
| Most AI engines | 11 | 8 |
Other tools to price up.
If AthenaHQ’s plans don’t fit, these publish prices you can check today. Trakkr is our product, so judge it the same way.
- Otterly.AISeven-day trial. Built for small teams.$29a month to start
- Peec AIUnlimited users, daily tracking. 15% off yearly.$95a month to start
- Scrunch AISeven-day trial. Adds site audits and bot traffic.$250a brand, a month
- SemrushInside the Semrush suite, priced per domain.$99a domain, a month
- TrakkrOur product14-day free trial. Tracking, citations and fixes.$100a month to start
The fine print.
Add-ons, plan gates and the terms AthenaHQ does not publish. Ask for each one in writing before you sign.
Add-ons and extras
- Starter API accessPaid add-on price is not published, Starter subscription add-on
Engines by plan
- Essential
- 5 engines: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot
- Starter
- 11 engines: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI, Mistral
- Enterprise
- 11 engines: The 11 published Starter models plus additional models on request
Where each feature starts
- API
- Add-on
- MCP
- Not publicly stated
- Exports
- CSV export is listed on Starter
- Reporting
- Included
- SSO
- Higher plan
- Agency
- Agency Pitch Workspace and multi-brand workflows are published
- White label
- Not publicly stated
Terms to confirm
- The API add-on price is not public
- Native white-label reporting was not confirmed
Where AthenaHQ can win
Teams that want a free credit-based entry point and action or content-optimization workflows.
The main trade-off
Prompt capacity is expressed as response credits, and Starter API access is a separately priced add-on.
How we check prices
We read official pricing, product and documentation pages. A fetch time never becomes a checked date, and nothing changes automatically. Annual totals and monthly equivalents use published inputs. Our buyer-fit view stays separate from the sourced facts.
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Price it for your team.
Set your brands, prompts, engines and seats. The calculator finds the lowest qualifying AthenaHQ plan and puts it beside Trakkr. Custom and unknown amounts never become savings.
Lowest qualifying AthenaHQ plan compared with Trakkr
Enter the scope you need. Unknown and custom terms stay unknown, and annual commitments remain separate from monthly equivalents.
AthenaHQ Essential
Needs vendor confirmation
Free
$0 annual cash commitment
Essential may fit. 3 terms are not published, so confirm them before you buy.
Confirm: The brand limit is not published; Prompt capacity is not directly comparable; Tracking frequency needs vendor confirmation.
Trakkr Growth
Public limits fit
$83.33/mo equivalent
$1,000 annual cash commitment
Growth is the lowest evaluated plan with public limits covering every selected requirement.
No delta is shown because a price is custom, unknown, conflicted, in another currency, or the selected requirements are not fully confirmed.
Start free trialQuestions, answered.
The ones buyers ask about AthenaHQ’s pricing.
AthenaHQ publishes $0 to $245/mo equivalent. No public fixed annual minimum. Its largest or tailored plan is a custom quote, so no numeric estimate is shown for that tier.
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