AthenaHQ
Credit-based AI visibility monitoring across eleven engines, with content optimisation agents that can publish.
What it does
AthenaHQ tracks prompts across AI engines on a credit model (one credit is one AI response) and analyses the prompts, responses and sources behind them. It suggests on-page and off-page actions, runs a content optimisation agent that can publish to WordPress and Shopify, and manages robots.txt and llms.txt for AI crawlers. An official MCP server works with ChatGPT, Claude and other MCP clients.
Who it suits
Content and growth teams who want wide engine coverage and an agent that drafts and publishes optimised content.
Who should skip it
You need API access without an add-on on a starter budget, or your site isn't on WordPress or Shopify and you want publishing built in.
Strengths
- Eleven engines on the Starter plan, including Claude, Grok and DeepSeek
- Content agent with publishing to WordPress and Shopify
- Free plan to start; credit pricing published
- Official MCP server
Limits
- API is a paid add-on on Starter
- Credits are spent per response, so cost tracks how much you monitor
- Crawler controls rather than crawler visit analytics
- Cost
- Free Essential plan (300 credits); Starter $295/month with 3,600 credits (1 credit = 1 AI response), 17% off billed annually. Check athenahq.ai/pricing for current terms.
- Engines
- Starter: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI, Mistral.
- API and MCP
- Official MCP server; API is a paid add-on on Starter and included on Enterprise.
- Sources
- Pricing · Integrations and MCP
Criterion scores
- Citation tracking coverage 25%7/10Prompt, response and source analysis with competitors; crawler control rather than crawler or AI-referral analytics.
- Answer engines covered 15%10/10Eleven engines on the first paid plan.
- API and MCP access 15%7/10MCP is official; the API costs extra below Enterprise.
- Pricing transparency 10%9/10Free plan and published credit pricing.
- Actionability 20%9/10A content agent that drafts and publishes, plus on- and off-page actions.
- Evidence quality 15%8/10Prompt and response analysis with the sources shown.