Rankscale alternative: BotSay and Rankscale compared
Rankscale sells credits spent on every query. BotSay gives a set number of questions on six engines every week, with a likely range on Mention rate.
Written by the BotSay team.
BotSay's plans are counted in questions: $59 a month for 60, each asked on six engines every week. Rankscale's plans are counted in credits: Rankscale Pro is $99 a month for 1,200 credits, and each query to an engine spends part of a credit. Every fact about Rankscale here comes from its own site, read on 11 Oct 2026, and is listed under Sources.
At a glance
| BotSay | Rankscale | |
|---|---|---|
| How the price works | Yes: Fixed a month, by number of questions | Credits, spent on each query |
| Lowest monthly plan | Yes: $59 a month | $99 a month, Pro; Essentials is $17 a month, billed yearly |
| Engines | 6 on every plan | 17+, each query spends credits |
| How often it reads | Every week, same questions and engines | Your choice, hourly to monthly |
| Likely range on Mention rate | Yes: Printed, with the answer count | Not published |
| Test for a real change | Yes: Labelled for you | Not published |
| Sentiment | Yes: On every plan | From Pro |
BotSay costs less than each monthly plan, with nothing to meter
| Plan | BotSay | Rankscale |
|---|---|---|
| Entry plan | ||
| Plan | Starter | Pro |
| Price | $59 a month Lower price | $99 a month |
| Questions | 60 questions | 1,200 credits, up to 4,800 answers |
| Engines | All six engines | 17+ engines, credits per query |
| Middle plan | ||
| Plan | Growth | Pro+ |
| Price | $139 a month Lower price | $229 a month |
| Questions | 150 questions | 3,000 credits, up to 12,000 answers |
| Engines | All six engines | 17+ engines, credits per query |
| Top plan | ||
| Plan | Scale | Growth |
| Price | $359 a month Lower price | $385 a month |
| Questions | 400 questions | 5,500 credits, up to 22,000 answers |
| Engines | All six engines | 17+ engines, credits per query |
A check marks where BotSay gives you more for the month.
Rankscale spends a fraction of a credit each time it queries an engine, typically 0.25, and more for some engines. Its Essentials plan is sold yearly only, and Enterprise is $780 a month.
Rankscale charges a fraction of a credit each time it queries an AI engine, typically 0.25, and its credit calculator charges 2 credits for a Claude run. So what a month buys depends on the engines you choose and how often you run them. When the credits run out, Rankscale says scheduled monitoring pauses until they renew.
BotSay's price covers a set number of questions, each one asked on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode every week. Claude costs the same as every other engine: it is simply included. The plans differ only in how many questions they read:
- Starter: $59 a month for 60 questions.
- Growth: $139 a month for 150 questions.
- Scale: $359 a month for 400 questions.
A likely range and a test, printed with every reading
Rankscale lets you choose how often to monitor, hourly, daily, weekly or monthly. Its visibility score is an aggregate from 0 to 100. Rankscale publishes no likely range for any figure and no test for when a change is real.
BotSay asks the same questions of the same six engines every week and compares the week with the one before. Your Mention rate comes with its likely range, the span the true rate almost certainly sits in, and the number of answers behind it. When the rate moves, BotSay runs the exact test on both weeks and labels the change as real once it clears their combined uncertainty. Share of voice, Average rank, Your pages cited and Sentiment show each week's figure and how it moved. Below, an invented brand's two weekly ranges sit clear of each other.
The figures as a table
| Week | Mention rate | Likely range (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Last week | 27.8% | 25.1 to 30.7 |
| This week | 34.0% | 31.1 to 37.0 |
Example, using an invented brand
The full method is on How we measure. Your reading arrives in the weekly email.
Every measure on every plan
Rankscale's Essentials plan, sold yearly only, has no sentiment; sentiment starts on Pro and classifies each response as positive, neutral or negative (sentiment analysis).
BotSay includes every measure on every plan, in the same order every week: Mention rate, Share of voice, Average rank, Your pages cited and Sentiment. Below, how one invented answer describes a brand, beside the week's Sentiment.
Which payroll tool is easiest to set up?
“Tessera is easy to set up and its support answers quickly, though its reports are basic.”
Example, using an invented brand
BotSay ranks the work by how many questions it could win
Rankscale includes Scout recommendations on every plan. BotSay's action list gives each item the number of your questions it could win, with the answers that show it:
- Pages to write: topics where rivals are named and you are not.
- Places to be mentioned: the review sites, communities and publishers the engines lean on, and whether you are on them.
- Quick decisions: small choices that make your numbers more accurate, like confirming which sites are yours.
Once you publish, BotSay follows the questions that work was meant to win and labels the change in Mention rate when it is real.
What you gain with BotSay
- A fixed monthly price from $59, counted in questions, with no credits to watch.
- All six engines on every plan, Claude at no extra cost.
- A likely range and answer count on your Mention rate, and a label when a change is real.
- Every measure on every plan, and a list of work sized by how many questions each item could win.
Sources: 3 pages on rankscale.ai, each read on 11 Oct 2026
- rankscale.ai/pricing does not publish: a likely range for any figure; a test for when a change is real; sentiment on Essentials; supports: Rankscale's pricing page shows monthly prices in US dollars; Rankscale charges a fraction of a credit each time it queries an AI engine; Rankscale's credit calculator charges Claude more credits per run than ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini or AI Mode; Rankscale says all its engines are available on every plan, including ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, DeepSeek, Mistral, Grok and Microsoft Copilot; Rankscale lets you choose to monitor hourly, daily, weekly or monthly; Rankscale says scheduled monitoring pauses until your credits renew when they run out; Rankscale lets unused credits roll over, up to a limit; Rankscale's Essentials plan is sold yearly only and has no sentiment; Rankscale includes Scout recommendations on every plan, read on 11 Oct 2026
- rankscale.ai/resources/glossary/visibility-score does not publish: a likely range for the score; how many answers the score rests on; a test for when a change is real; supports: Rankscale's visibility score is an aggregate score for a question or group of questions, read on 11 Oct 2026
- rankscale.ai/features/ai-sentiment-analysis supports: Rankscale classifies each response as positive, neutral or negative, read on 11 Oct 2026
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