recomention vs Otterly

Looking for a Otterly alternative?

Updated September 2026

Otterly is a subscription monitoring tool: it tracks a set of prompts on a schedule and charts how your brand shows up over time. recomention is a different kind of product: a one-time report that tells you whether AI engines recommend you today, who they recommend instead, and what to fix. Here is an honest comparison — including when Otterly is the better buy.

What Otterly offers

As of September 2026, otterly.ai’s own pricing page lists:

Lite at $29/month for 15 prompts, Standard at $189/month for 100 prompts, Premium at $489/month for 400 prompts.
Four engines in the base plans: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot.
Claude, Gemini and Google AI Mode listed as paid add-ons.
Daily tracking and team access.

Prices and plans change. Check their pricing page for the current offer.

Side by side

	Otterly	recomention
How you pay	Monthly subscription	One payment ($19 / $39 / $59)
How often it measures	Daily, while subscribed	One dated snapshot; optional monthly re-checks
Engines	ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot; others as add-ons	ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok (Quick covers 3)
Questions	Your tracked prompts (15–400 by plan)	15–40 questions, each asked several times on every engine
Deliverable	Dashboard	A report with verbatim answers, competitors, sources and a fix list

The two are not measuring the same thing on the same schedule, so a price-per-month comparison alone misleads. Daily tracking and a one-time reading answer different questions.

Choose Otterly if

You already know AI answers matter to you and want a daily trend line, not a one-off reading.
You need Google AI Overviews or Microsoft Copilot tracked — we don't measure those.
Several people on a team need to log in to the same dashboard.

Choose recomention if

You want to know where you stand before committing a monthly budget to it.
You want Claude and Gemini measured without paying for add-ons.
You want to see the verbatim answers and the sources behind them, with a list of what to fix.

One report runs up to 600 graded answers with live search on. Your brand name never appears in a question, every answer is included verbatim, and if an engine can’t be reached the report says so instead of counting it as a miss. The entry plan covers Perplexity, ChatGPT, Gemini; the others cover all 5.

The two also combine well: a report first to find out whether there is a problem and where, then a monitoring tool once it’s worth watching every day.

What is in a report

Mention rate and position per engine — how often each engine named you, as a share of its runs, and where you landed when it did.
Who is named instead — the competitors that hold the answers you are missing from.
Where the engines look — the sites they cite for your category, and whether you appear on them.
Whether they can read your site — robots.txt rules for each answer crawler, text without JavaScript, llms.txt and identity markup.
A prioritised fix list — built from those sources and gaps, not from a generic checklist.
Every answer, verbatim — so you can check the reading instead of taking it on faith.

It is a dated snapshot, not a status: run it again next month and the numbers will move, because the web moved. How the number is produced.

Get the measured answer

recomention asks the engines the questions your buyers ask, several times each, and shows you who they recommend, which sources they read, and what to fix. One payment, from $19. No subscription.

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