AI visibility audit: agency or self-serve report?
Published · Viscovery, Pepper Square
The short answer. Published prices for a professional SEO or GEO audit run from about $1,000 to $5,000, and an agency can give you what software cannot: people who learn your business, adapt the advice to it, and often do the work. A self-serve report such as Viscovery costs $49 to $149 and gives you the diagnosis without the people. If you have someone to act on a written list of fixes, start with the report. If you need the fixes done for you, you need an agency.
What agencies charge, from published sources
| Source | Published figure | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Backlinko survey of 300+ SEO professionals | Under $1,000 for simple audits; $1,000–$5,000 for comprehensive site audits | SEO project pricing; the survey year is not stated |
| Ahrefs poll of 439 SEO providers | $2,501–$5,000 is the most common per-project fee (21.2% of respondents) | SEO projects in general, not audits alone; the collection year is not stated |
| Avante Visibility, an agency | $5,000 flat for its Full GEO Audit | One agency’s published price, 2026 |
| Mentionable, a GEO vendor’s blog | $2,000 to $4,500 for a one-off GEO audit | The author’s estimate, no method given, 2026 |
We checked each source on 4 October 2026. None of them is a survey of AI visibility audits specifically; the two surveys cover SEO work in general, and the other two are one company’s price and one company’s estimate. Treat the range as a guide, and ask agencies for a quote.
What an agency can add
- Conversations with your team, so the recommendations fit your constraints and priorities.
- Judgement on trade-offs a report leaves to you, such as which pages to rewrite first.
- The implementation: rewriting pages, fixing robots.txt and structured data, earning mentions.
What the Viscovery report covers
Each report reads your site, asks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity about your top keywords, and ends with what to fix first. The plans differ in depth:
- Starter, $49: 1 keyword analysis, AI Visibility Score, Personalized recommendations.
- Growing Brands, $99: 5 keyword analysis, Competitor benchmarking, AI Visibility Score, Priority fixes, Action roadmap.
- Market Leaders, $149: 7 keyword analysis, Complete visibility analysis, Competitor benchmarking, AI citation insights, Technical & content recommendations, Prioritized roadmap, Executive report.
You get a report link and a PDF. There are no meetings and no implementation; the report is written for whoever will make the changes. See a sample report before you buy.
Using both
A report first means you arrive at an agency with the gaps already written down, so the brief is about fixing them. Start with the free AI visibility check, which reads your robots.txt, llms.txt and homepage with no signup.