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Best AEO tools for WordPress
Published Rows read 1–10 Oct 2026No affiliate linksTell us about a stale row
The short answer
Six engines and scheduled tracking, with each article's citations compared before and after it went live.
2PassciteThis is us
We publish new pages and hand every other change to whoever runs the site. Use us for the prompts each client loses, the pages that answer them, and the check afterwards.
Changes anything in WordPress, keeps a history you can restore, and asks five assistants — from one plugin.
Edits the pages a site already has, not only new ones, and checks the live page straight after.
The cheapest AI tracking here — ten brands for €9.99 a month — inside a plugin on more than four million sites.
Ties each drafted fix to the prompt it was written for, and tells you when the engine starts citing you.
Four assistants in Brand Insights, Claude included, with the sources each one cited.
Articles published every day with nothing to do after setup.
On this page
Six criteria, fixed before scoring
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Asks the assistants
A WordPress plugin can grade a page against a checklist without ever asking ChatGPT anything. What the assistants answer, and whom they name instead, is the measurement that says which page is missing. Full marks when it shows who was named instead on each question; half when it reports only whether the brand was named.
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What it can change in WordPress
Posts are one part of a WordPress site; titles, schema, robots.txt and llms.txt are another, and they need different access. Full marks when it can change both the pages a site already has and its titles and markup; half when it only adds new pages, or touches one of the two.
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Nothing goes live unseen
On a client's site the question is whether a person reads each change before visitors do. A change made by hand in the editor passes, and so does a queue. Full marks when that is the default; half when it is a setting you turn on.
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Taking a change back
WordPress keeps revisions of a post, but not of every field a tool changes, and a tool that has published thirty pages needs a way to take one back. Full marks when the tool itself takes one change back without deleting it; half when it can only delete, or WordPress's own revisions and backups have to do it.
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Re-asks afterwards
Answers drift on their own, so asking the same questions again after a change is the only way to tell whether it did anything. Full marks when the re-ask is tied to the change it checks; half when the same questions are simply asked again, on a schedule or by hand.
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Cost across ten sites
Agencies run WordPress sites by the dozen, and a per-site price that looks small at one is a different number at ten. Priced with what this page scores: full marks under $100 a month for ten sites, half up to $400, none above.
| Tool | Asks the assistants | What it can change in WordPress | Nothing goes live unseen | Taking a change back | Re-asks afterwards | Cost across ten sites | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Rank Prompt | Meets it | Partly | Meets it | Meets it | Meets it | Meets it | 11 |
| 2Passcite | Meets it | Partly | Meets it | Meets it | Meets it | Meets it | 11 |
| 3AIOSEO | Meets it | Meets it | Meets it | Meets it | Partly | Meets it | 11 |
| 4Foliora | Meets it | Meets it | Meets it | Meets it | Meets it | Misses it | 10 |
| 5Rank Math | Partly | Meets it | Meets it | Partly | Partly | Meets it | 9 |
| 6Scout LLM | Meets it | Partly | Meets it | Partly | Meets it | Misses it | 8 |
| 7Yoast SEO | Partly | Meets it | Meets it | Partly | Partly | Partly | 8 |
| 8overrank | Misses it | Partly | Partly | Partly | Unconfirmed | Partly | 4 |
Points: two for a full mark, one for a partial. The order is the total; a tie goes to the points on “Asks the assistants” and “Re-asks afterwards”, then against Passcite, then the alphabet.
Each tool, scored and dated
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Rank Prompt
$89 a month for Pro, $71.25 billed annually, for 500 credits; Agency $149 for 1,000
An answer-engine tracker that writes articles and publishes them into WordPress, signing in with an application password or a one-click approval inside WordPress.
Meets it01Asks the assistants
Six engines on every plan, with a “Prompts they win” tab naming who was named instead on each prompt.
Partly02What it can change in WordPress
New articles as WordPress posts with the SEO plugin's fields filled, and a linking sentence added to related posts. Fixes to llms.txt, schema and meta go to a GitHub pull request or a task, not into WordPress.
Meets it03Nothing goes live unseen
An article waits as “Needs review” until someone publishes it, or lands as a WordPress draft; Autopilot, if you switch it on, publishes after a review window.
Meets it04Taking a change back
Saving a live article as a draft takes the post off the site, and publishing again updates the same post.
Meets it05Re-asks afterwards
Scheduled re-runs, and an “AI impact” column comparing each article's citations before and after it went live.
Meets it06Cost across ten sites
$89 a month for Pro's 500 credits: ten sites asking 10 prompts on three engines twice a month use 200 by its help center's rule, which leaves 30 articles.
Wins
- Six engines and scheduled tracking, with each article's citations compared before and after it went live.
- Publishes to WordPress and seven other kinds of destination, according to its help center.
- A client portal, white-label reports and an API on the same plan.
Pick it for
An agency with a WordPress roster that wants tracking on a schedule and articles published from one account, and is happy to run a credit balance.
Checked 1 Oct 2026
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Passcite
This is us$49 / $89 / $149 / $299 a month, for 150 / 500 / 1,000 / 2,000 credits
The prompts each client brand tracks, asked on ChatGPT, Claude and Google AI Mode; the missing pages written for your review; the new ones published into WordPress once you approve them; and their prompts asked again a week after they go live.
Meets it01Asks the assistants
A brand starts with 10 prompts suggested from its site, asked on ChatGPT, Claude and Google AI Mode — and Gemini, Perplexity and Grok when a report adds them — each recorded with who was named instead and the pages the engines cited.
Partly02What it can change in WordPress
New pages only: an approved page goes up as a post through an application password you create, on a self-hosted site or WordPress.com on a paid plan with its hosting features on. A section for a page that exists is copied in; titles, structured data and robots.txt come as tasks with the block to paste.
Meets it03Nothing goes live unseen
Every article waits for review on its own page, on every plan: read in full, edited, rewritten or approved. Autopilot publishes new pages without review only if you switch that on.
Meets it04Taking a change back
One click puts a published page back to a WordPress draft, never deleted; publishing it again puts the same post back up.
Meets it05Re-asks afterwards
Tied to the page: the page is looked for on the site until it shows up, and a week after it goes live the prompts it was written for are asked again and set beside the answers before it, and a change that does not hold when re-asked is not counted. Proof notes whether Google had the page that day, from Search Console when it is connected.
Meets it06Cost across ten sites
Pro at $89 a month: ten brands asking 10 prompts twice a month use 200 of its 500 credits, which leaves 30 articles at 10 credits each.
Wins
- Prompts suggested from each site, so nobody has to type them — and you can change any of them.
- Writes the pages a report finds missing, not only the ones you ask for, from the site and your notes and never from facts it would invent.
- No plugin to install, and an application password you can revoke at any time.
Loses
- What it can change: AIOSEO, Rank Math and Yoast run inside WordPress and edit titles, schema, robots.txt and llms.txt, and Foliora edits the pages a site already has. We publish new pages and hand the rest to whoever runs the site.
- Destinations: Rank Prompt meets every criterion here the same way we do, at the same price, on the same six engines, and publishes to more kinds of site. It ties with us on every count, and a tie we are in goes against us.
- Price: AIOSEO covers ten sites for $199.50 a year in its first year, and Rank Math for under €40 a month with AI tracking.
Pick it for
An agency with WordPress client sites that wants the prompts asked and the missing pages written for it, each new page approved before it goes up and checked against its prompts afterwards.
Checked 10 Oct 2026
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AIOSEO
$49.50 a year for one site, $199.50 for ten, $299.50 for 100 — first-year prices, renewing at $99, $399 and $599
The All in One SEO plugin, on more than two million WordPress sites, with an AI Suite: AI Insights asks five assistants about a query you type, and an AI writer works inside the editor.
Meets it01Asks the assistants
AI Insights asks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek and Perplexity a query you type and shows every brand named, its position on each engine, the full answers and the sources — who appeared in your place, query by query. One query a report, in beta; its pages disagree on whether the free version has it.
Meets it02What it can change in WordPress
Titles and meta, schema, robots.txt and robots meta, llms.txt and redirects, all inside WordPress, and — once you confirm — a rewrite of a post's title, headline and body. AI agents reach the same fields through its MCP server.
Meets it03Nothing goes live unseen
Every change is made or confirmed by a person in the editor, and generated content is reviewed before it goes in. Automatic internal links are a Pro feature you turn on.
Meets it04Taking a change back
SEO Revisions keeps a history of a post's SEO fields with one-click restore — 15 on Plus, 30 on Pro, unlimited on Elite — and each AI rewrite can be reverted change by change.
Partly05Re-asks afterwards
Only when you run the query again: reports are on demand, and scheduled tracking is listed as coming.
Meets it06Cost across ten sites
Pro covers ten sites for $199.50 in the first year — under $17 a month — and $399 after; Elite covers 100 for $299.50, then $599.
Wins
- Changes anything in WordPress, keeps a history you can restore, and asks five assistants — from one plugin.
- Already on more than two million WordPress sites, with llms.txt and a robots.txt editor in the free version.
- About $20 a site a year at ten sites, in the first year.
Pick it for
A WordPress site, or a roster of them, where someone on your side will type the questions, read the answers and make the changes in the editor.
Checked 1 Oct 2026
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Foliora
$49.99 a site a month, or $149.99 for the weekly cycle; 20% less billed annually
A per-site loop that asks the buyer questions, drafts the change, waits for approval of the exact change, publishes it into WordPress and re-reads the live page.
Meets it01Asks the assistants
A fixed panel of 25 buyer questions a site on ChatGPT and Gemini, with the sites cited instead of you on each.
Meets it02What it can change in WordPress
Edits existing posts and pages, titles and descriptions, canonicals and redirects, drafts Article, breadcrumb and FAQ markup, and publishes new pages you sign off. Not llms.txt, theme files or plugins; how it signs in to WordPress is not published.
Meets it03Nothing goes live unseen
Every change — a new page or a redirect — waits for approval of the exact edit, on both plans, with no switch to publish without it. A page edited since the proposal is marked stale rather than overwritten.
Meets it04Taking a change back
It keeps each page's before-state, and a person can roll an applied change back from the dashboard.
Meets it05Re-asks afterwards
It re-reads the live page as soon as a change publishes, and asks the questions again on the next cycle — monthly, or weekly on the $149.99 plan.
Misses it06Cost across ten sites
Priced per site with no agency rate: ten sites are $499.90 a month, and white-label reporting is not sold.
Wins
- Edits the pages a site already has, not only new ones, and checks the live page straight after.
- Approval of the exact change, always, with the before-state kept for a rollback.
- Publishes into Shopify, Webflow and GitHub as well, for a roster that is not all WordPress.
Pick it for
One WordPress site that matters, where the fix is usually an edit to a page that already exists and you want it published and checked this week.
Checked 1 Oct 2026
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Rank Math
PRO €6.99 a month for your own sites, Business €22.99 for 100 client sites, and AI Visibility from €4.99 more — billed annually, offer prices that renew higher
The WordPress SEO plugin on more than four million sites, with AI Visibility, a separate subscription that tracks what ChatGPT and Gemini say about a brand.
Partly01Asks the assistants
AI Visibility asks ChatGPT or Gemini — both only on its top plan — prompts generated from your brand description, and surfaces the competitors named alongside or instead of you. It lists the prompts where you were mentioned, not who won the ones you lost.
Meets it02What it can change in WordPress
Titles and meta, schema, sitemaps, robots.txt, llms.txt and .htaccess from inside WordPress; a Blog Post Wizard that puts a drafted article into a new post for you to publish; MCP tools for your own AI assistant.
Meets it03Nothing goes live unseen
A person makes or publishes every change by default. Automatic internal links are a feature you turn on, and an assistant connected over MCP writes what you ask it to.
Partly04Taking a change back
Timestamped settings backups you restore in one click, and a rollback for its bulk link changes; no history of a post's SEO fields.
Partly05Re-asks afterwards
AI Visibility asks the same prompts again weekly or monthly, daily on its top plan, without tying a run to a change.
Meets it06Cost across ten sites
Business covers 100 client sites for €22.99 a month billed annually, renewing at €27.99, and AI Visibility for ten brands is €9.99 more — under $100 a month either way. Prices were shown to us in euros.
Wins
- The cheapest AI tracking here — ten brands for €9.99 a month — inside a plugin on more than four million sites.
- llms.txt and a robots.txt editor in the free version.
Pick it for
A roster of WordPress sites already on Rank Math that wants to see whether ChatGPT or Gemini mentions each brand, for very little.
Checked 1 Oct 2026
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Scout LLM
A$149 / A$449 / A$1,299 a month — Starter, Professional and Agency, the plan ten clients need
An answer-engine tracker that asks four engines your prompts daily and drafts the page a lost prompt needs into WordPress, without ever publishing it.
Meets it01Asks the assistants
Daily, on four engines you pick from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overview and AI Mode — Claude costs extra — with the competitor named on each prompt where you were not.
Partly02What it can change in WordPress
New-page drafts — an answer-first article with a decision table and its JSON-LD — sent into WordPress as drafts with your own token. It does not edit pages that already exist.
Meets it03Nothing goes live unseen
It only ever creates drafts: nothing goes live until you publish it in WordPress, on every plan.
Partly04Taking a change back
Nothing of its own to take back, since it never publishes; a page you published is taken down in WordPress.
Meets it05Re-asks afterwards
The next tracking run after you publish asks the prompt again, and marks the fix recovered when the engine cites you.
Misses it06Cost across ten sites
Prompts are pooled per workspace, and ten client brands with white label need the Agency plan at A$1,299 a month — above $400 at any recent exchange rate.
Wins
- Ties each drafted fix to the prompt it was written for, and tells you when the engine starts citing you.
- Drafts only, so nothing reaches a site until a person publishes it.
- Tracks by country or by city.
Pick it for
An agency that wants daily tracking and drafted pages, publishes them itself, and has the budget for the agency plan.
Checked 1 Oct 2026
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Yoast SEO
Premium $118.80 a year a site; AI+, with AI Brand Insights, $358.80 a year a brand; bulk discounts from five sites
The WordPress SEO plugin on more than ten million sites, with AI Brand Insights — a weekly read of what four assistants say about a brand — in its AI+ plan.
Partly01Asks the assistants
AI Brand Insights, in the AI+ plan, asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude up to five questions a brand and shows whether you were found and how often the competitors you picked were mentioned. It does not say who won each question.
Meets it02What it can change in WordPress
Schema, llms.txt and sitemaps automatically, robots.txt and .htaccess in its file editor, titles and descriptions per post or in bulk, AI-written suggestions in Premium, and AI tools that can edit SEO fields through its Abilities.
Meets it03Nothing goes live unseen
Every change is made in the editor, and an AI suggestion is saved only once you accept it. Nothing writes or publishes a post by itself.
Partly04Taking a change back
WordPress keeps revisions of a post; Yoast describes no history of its own settings or SEO fields.
Partly05Re-asks afterwards
Brand Insights asks the same five questions again once a week, without tying a run to a change.
Partly06Cost across ten sites
AI+, which carries Brand Insights, is $358.80 a year for each brand — about $300 a month for ten before any bulk discount. Premium alone for ten sites is $1,009.80 a year.
Wins
- Four assistants in Brand Insights, Claude included, with the sources each one cited.
- On more than ten million WordPress sites, with llms.txt generated free.
Pick it for
A site already on Yoast Premium that wants a weekly read of five questions on four assistants, without another tool.
Checked 1 Oct 2026
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overrank
From $29 a client seat, five seats minimum; $39 a month for a single site, $25 billed annually
A content engine that publishes up to an article a day into each client's WordPress through its own plugin, on its own by default.
Misses it01Asks the assistants
It asks no assistant: its visibility tracker builds each answer from live Google results.
Partly02What it can change in WordPress
New articles as WordPress posts through its plugin, with titles, schema and internal links for its own articles. It does not edit pages that already exist.
Partly03Nothing goes live unseen
A per-client Auto-publish switch: left on — their default — it publishes by itself; turned off, each draft waits for “Publish now” or “Skip”.
Partly04Taking a change back
A live article can be deleted from the site, and the plugin removes the post; there is no way back to a draft.
Unconfirmed05Re-asks afterwards
Its pages do not say whether or when the tracker asks the same questions again; the monthly report counts articles, keywords and clicks.
Partly06Cost across ten sites
$245 a month for ten seats at its published $24.50; above five seats the rate is arranged with them.
Wins
- Articles published every day with nothing to do after setup.
- Its plugin pulls posts on a schedule, so it never needs a WordPress password.
- Fully unbranded, with a monthly report in your colours.
Pick it for
An agency reselling content volume on WordPress, where the deliverable is a post count.
Checked 1 Oct 2026
What this page leaves out, and why
GetIntel
Its pricing table offers publishing to WordPress and Ghost, and its docs say it never touches your site. We could not tell which is current, so it is not scored on a page about changing a WordPress site.
Checked 1 Oct 2026
ChatSEO
An SEO agent built on Search Console that writes into WordPress one approval at a time, but nothing we read on chatseo.app says it reads any AI answer. overrank, the one tool ranked here that asks no assistant, at least counts mentions in AI Overviews and Gemini.
Checked 1 Oct 2026
SEOPress
A WordPress SEO plugin with llms.txt and AI-written metadata, $149 a year for unlimited sites, but no tracking of what assistants answer that we could find.
Checked 1 Oct 2026
Lantern
Its pricing sells autonomous publishing and its docs describe an approval boundary; we could not tell which is the default, so it is not scored.
Checked 1 Oct 2026
Discuss this post with AI
Opens your assistant with a question about this post, ready to send.
Questions
- Why is Passcite not first on its own ranking?
- Because three tools tie on points — Passcite, Rank Prompt and AIOSEO — and the tiebreak, the points on asking and re-asking, leaves Passcite and Rank Prompt level, and a tie Passcite is in goes against Passcite. Rank Prompt meets every criterion the same way we do, at the same price and on the same six engines, and publishes to more kinds of site. AIOSEO changes anything in WordPress for less, but someone types each query and makes each change in the editor. Read their rows before ours.
- How is the order worked out?
- From the points in the last row of the table: two for a full mark, one for a partial, nothing otherwise. A tie goes to the tool with more points on asking and re-asking, then to the alphabet — except that a tie Passcite is in always goes against Passcite, added on 10 October 2026 when Passcite first tied. The criteria and the rest of the rule were set before any tool was scored.
- Do I need a plugin and one of the others?
- If the site already runs one of these plugins, nothing here replaces it: the plugin looks after titles, schema and the files, and the others ask the questions and draft the pages. A page we publish is an ordinary post, so your plugin handles it like any other.
- What does Passcite need from a WordPress site?
- An application password you create in WordPress — on a self-hosted site, or WordPress.com on a paid plan with its hosting features on — and can revoke at any time. No plugin is needed. Without the password, an approved page is copied in by whoever runs the site — rich text, HTML or Markdown — and we look for it once you give us its address.
- WordPress and AI searchWhere each fix lives on a WordPress site, which ones we publish for you, and what we need from WordPress to do it.
- One-to-one comparisonsSemrush, Ahrefs, Surfer SEO, Foliora, overrank, Rank Prompt and Otterly.AI, one at a time, with where each is stronger first.
- Best AI visibility tools that publish the fixSix criteria, five tools that write changes into a site — and the one place each stops. We are last on this list and the page says why.
- Best white-label AI search tools for agenciesWhat one more client costs, whose name is on the report, and whether anyone approves a change before it reaches a client's site. Ours stops short of your own domain.