Rate cardUpdated November 8, 2026
AEO agencies · 6 agencies and 1 agent · prices read November 8, 2026
The best AEO agencies in 2026 are AEO Engine, Discovered Labs, Lean Labs, Omniscient Digital, Marcel Digital and Graphite; four publish package prices, from $1,597 a month. Our pick is supereo, an AI agent that does the AEO work from $149 a month and proves each change.
Our pick
Comparing AEO agencies because nobody on your team has time for answer engine optimization? supereo ours is our pick. It does the AEO work an agency bills for (the buyer questions, the tracking on six engines, the page-by-page changes) and gives every change a verdict against control questions. Copilot is $149 a month; Autopilot, its higher plan, ships the changes itself. See your free audit.
An AEO agency (answer engine optimization) works to get your brand named and your pages cited when someone asks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude or Google's AI answers about the problem you solve. AEO Engine's own definition is "getting your brand recommended and cited when AI assistants answer user questions." It isn't a new discipline under the hood: Marcel Digital says AEO and GEO "refer to the same practice," and Graphite's research headline is that "Great SEO is free AEO." What an AEO agency adds to SEO is measurement of the answers themselves, and work off your own site.
These are the AEO packages each agency publishes, with the term and monthly output stated on its own pricing page.
| Option and package | Published price | Term | Each month | Questions tracked | AI engines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| supereo Copilot ours | $149/mo | Monthly or yearly; 7-day trial | What to change on each page, with the evidence and wording; each change you ship measured | 40 | 6, Claude included |
| AEO Engine Growth | $1,597/mo | 90-day initial term, billed monthly | 30 articles, 3 to 5 backlinks, 3 to 5 brand mentions; a PR campaign each quarter | 150 | 4 |
| AEO Engine Scale | $2,997/mo | 90-day initial term | 60 articles, 6 to 10 backlinks, 5 to 8 mentions; a PR campaign each month | 300 | 4 |
| Lean Labs Off-site AEO Authority | $5k/mo and up | Not published | Content created, published and promoted off your site | Not published | ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity named |
| Lean Labs On & off-site AEO | $7k/mo and up | Not published | On-site and off-site content; $12k a month for two campaigns | Not published | Same |
| Discovered Labs Establish | €6,995/mo | 6-month rate; €7,995 month-to-month | Up to 20 content units, 2 landing-page optimizations, 10 Reddit mentions | Not published | ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Gemini |
| Discovered Labs Compete | €10,995/mo | 6-month rate; €12,995 month-to-month | Up to 30 units, new comparison and product pages, 20 Reddit mentions | Not published | Same |
| AEO Engine Enterprise | $10,000/mo and up | Agreed on a call | Scoped to your category and named competitors | Every question, every market | 4 |
| Omniscient Digital | $120,000/yr and up | Not published | Strategy, owned content, digital PR, analytics | Not published | Not listed |
| Lean Labs On-site AEO Launchpad | $12k and up | One project | Schema, llms.txt and robots.txt files, trust signals | n/a | Same as above |
| Marcel Digital | Not published | Not published | Readiness assessment, then answer-first edits, schema, monitoring | Not published | AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot |
| Graphite | Not published | Not published | Prompt research, citation-ready content, reputation management | Not published | ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews |
Source: each agency's pricing or AEO service page, read November 8, 2026. Discovered Labs' month-to-month prices are our arithmetic from the discount it states ("€1,000/mo less than month-to-month"). Lean Labs' engine list is from its AEO pitch, not a tracking spec.
A guarantee is the question every buyer asks and almost no agency answers the same way. These are each agency's own words on its pricing or service page, plus supereo's.
| Option | What it promises | Conditions, in its words |
|---|---|---|
| supereo ours | A verdict on every change: Worked, No change, Made it worse or Too close to call, with a 95% range | 10 target and 10 control questions, registered before the change goes live; 45 to 60 days to a verdict |
| AEO Engine | 30% more organic and AI search traffic in 90 days, or it keeps working with no management fee | "Available only to qualified Growth and Scale clients"; measured against your prior 90-day GA4 and Search Console baseline |
| Lean Labs | "Lean Labs offers an AEO Performance Guarantee and a commission-based AEO program" | Terms not published on the pricing page |
| Tenten | A 90-day proof period: leave if the citation rate and pipeline fall short of the forecast | "You can leave at any time, no reason required" |
| Discovered Labs | No guarantee | "AI search is probabilistic, so nobody can honestly promise a fixed ranking or citation" |
| WebFX | No guarantee | "WebFX does not guarantee placements in AI search" |
| DerivateX | Targets by day 90 | "Targets, not guarantees" |
| iPullRank | No guarantee | "Anyone promising guaranteed AI citations at any budget is selling you something else" |
| Omniscient Digital | No guarantee | Lists "You need guaranteed or immediate results" under not a good fit |
Source: each agency's pricing or service page, read November 8, 2026. First Page Sage's October 2026 study finds 5% of agencies price on performance, and that buyers "reported difficulty agreeing on how those results are counted."
The two guarantees with published terms measure traffic or forecasts, not whether AI recommends you. AEO Engine's is a traffic lift against your own analytics baseline; Tenten's is a walk-away clause. A traffic number can move for reasons that have nothing to do with the work, which is why supereo measures each change against control questions instead: if the targets and the controls move together, the engine moved, not your page.
Public posts, word for word and linked. Posts by people who sell AEO are labeled.
“there is not success matrix and if there is growth after activity every tool will get credit but if there is loss no one tell "Why".”u/Extreme_One_7631 on r/aeo · Oct 23, 2026 · Read the post
What helpssupereo's control questions are the answer to the why: a change gets credit only for movement its control questions don't show.
“I’m working with seenai im a med spa saas, they have a good offer it’s like you rank or money back. $2.5k a month tho”u/Open-Cryptographer85 on r/SaaS · May 12, 2026 · Read the post
Worth knowingAEO Engine's guarantee applies only to qualified clients, and Lean Labs doesn't publish its terms. Whatever the offer, ask for the terms in writing.
“Ask them to show you AI citation results they've actually moved for a client. If they can't, walk away.”u/erickrealz on r/AskMarketing · Mar 9, 2026 · Read the post
“The thing we refuse to promise: that any engine will name you.”u/Sairam_Kumar on r/aeo · Nov 6, 2026 · Read the post · Posted by the agency itself
supereo is the AEO agency's job done by an AI agent. It writes the questions your buyers ask from your site, tracks how often ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, AI Mode and AI Overviews recommend you, and on Copilot tells you exactly what to change on each page. Autopilot, its higher plan, ships the fixes and new pages itself to WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, Wix, Framer, Next.js and Astro sites, each with an Undo, and pitches you onto the roundups AI cites. Every change is tested against control questions before anyone calls it a win.
Best for teams that want AEO done and proven without a retainer.
AEO Engine sells three human-managed programs. Growth, $1,597 a month, covers one site with 30 articles a month, 3 to 5 backlinks, 3 to 5 brand mentions across Reddit, Quora, LinkedIn, YouTube and Facebook, a managed PR campaign each quarter and tracking for up to 150 prompts. Scale, $2,997, doubles the content and runs PR monthly, with 300 prompts; Enterprise starts at $10,000. It monitors ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, and its dashboard shows "when and how often AI systems recommend your brand." Its archived pricing page listed a $797 Local plan in April and May 2026, gone by July. AEO Engine pricing
Best for growing brands that want volume at a published price.
Discovered Labs works with B2B companies and publishes three retainers: Establish at €6,995 a month and Compete at €10,995 on a six-month commitment (€1,000 and €2,000 a month more on month-to-month terms), and Outlier from €15,995. Every retainer includes an AI visibility audit with its own tracker, 90-day plans, editorial production and a dedicated pod; Establish adds up to 20 content units a month (a blog post is 1 unit, a new landing page 7) and Reddit engagement scaled to 10 mentions. A one-off Search Visibility Diagnostic is €4,370, credited if you sign within 14 days. Its Internet Archive history shows the retainer at €5,495 in February 2026 and €6,995 by April. Discovered Labs pricing
Best for B2B software teams that want a hands-on pod, month to month.
Lean Labs, a HubSpot partner agency, sells an "AEO Authority System" in parts: an On-site AEO Launchpad from $12k that builds schema, llms.txt and robots.txt files and trust signals; Off-site AEO Authority from $5k a month that creates, publishes and promotes content AI treats as a source; and On & off-site AEO from $7k a month, or $12k for two campaigns at once. It "offers an AEO Performance Guarantee and a commission-based AEO program," without the terms on the page. AEO pricing first appears in its archived pricing page between February and July 2026. Lean Labs pricing
Best for HubSpot-run B2B companies that want the on-site groundwork done first.
Omniscient Digital's AEO page carries the same price as the rest of its site, from $120,000 a year, and the same method: sales-team interviews, four workstreams including digital PR, and pipeline reported next to AI share of voice and citation share. Omniscient's AEO page
Best for B2B software brands with a pipeline target for AI search.
Marcel Digital's AEO engagements begin with a readiness assessment and a prioritized roadmap, then an implementation sprint, a launch and measurement phase, and ongoing optimization. It names Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot as the surfaces it monitors. No price is published; Clutch lists a $5,000+ minimum project. Marcel Digital's AEO services
Best for teams that want AEO added to the SEO they already buy.
Graphite, led by CEO Ethan Smith with a research team including a Chief AI Officer, sells AEO as a full-service team: prompt research built from sales calls, Reddit threads and help-center questions; citation-ready content on and off your site; and brand sentiment and reputation management. It tracks which engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews) cite you, on which questions, against which competitors. Its research page argues that "Great SEO is free AEO," that "Most offsite work is a black hole," and that measurement "means real clicks and conversions, not just mentions." No price is published. Graphite AEO
Best for teams that want AEO decisions backed by research.
Ask three things before you sign: how many buyer questions are tracked, on which engines and how often (only AEO Engine here publishes a number); what lands each month, in units you can count; and how a single change is judged. If the answer to the last is a monthly chart, ask what the chart would have done without the work. supereo answers it with control questions, and its free audit shows where you start: 20 questions on six engines in about 2 minutes.
For most teams that want the work done, supereo, our pick: it does an AEO agency's monthly work as software from $149 a month and proves each change against control questions. Among agencies, AEO Engine publishes the most work per dollar ($1,597 a month), Discovered Labs the clearest month-to-month terms, and Omniscient Digital the strongest pipeline reporting.
It tracks the questions your buyers ask AI engines, changes your pages so AI can quote them, and works off-site (PR, reviews, Reddit, lists) so AI sees others vouching for you, then reports on mentions, citations or recommendations.
Published AEO retainers start at $1,597 a month (AEO Engine) and run to €15,995 and up (Discovered Labs Outlier) and $120,000 a year (Omniscient Digital). NoGood, another AEO agency, writes that AEO retainers "generally run between $3000 to $25,000+ per month." All published prices, dated.
Two on this page offer one: AEO Engine (a 30% traffic lift in 90 days, for qualified clients) and Lean Labs (terms not published). Most others say no one can. supereo offers a verdict per change instead.
Either an AEO agency, like the six above, or AEO software. supereo is AEO software that does the work rather than only tracking it.
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On November 8, 2026 we read the AEO, pricing and FAQ pages of each agency here, plus Internet Archive captures of AEO Engine's, Discovered Labs' and Lean Labs' pricing pages for their history. We list agencies that sell a service under the AEO name and that AI engines named or that publish a package; guarantees are quoted in each agency's own words. We didn't hire any of them. Full method.
Compiled November 8, 2026