This list is for teams that want their AI visibility data inside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or another MCP client, without building an integration. Our pick is Prefer: MCP access starts on Growth ($129 a month) and queries all five engines Prefer tracks, with API access on the same plan. It is not the cheapest MCP entry here: Cituna, ZipTie, Qwairy and PromptWatch start lower. If you are choosing a tracker first and MCP is one column among many, the best AI visibility tools roundup fits better; for how Prefer’s own access works, plan by plan, see API and MCP access.
What we did: read each vendor’s pricing page in a rendered browser (Qwairy and SE Ranking on 26 September 2026, Otterly and PromptWatch on 23 September, ZipTie from its page HTML on 26 September), read the vendor MCP pages that Cituna and Asva AI publish, and cross-checked four dated third-party inventories (LLM Pulse, CitedIndex, the awesome-seo-mcp list on GitHub, Best GEO Software, plus Foglift’s guide). We did not connect to the rival servers ourselves. Where a fact comes from an inventory rather than the vendor, the item says so.
Which plan turns MCP on#
The first question is not whether a tool “has MCP”. It is which plan includes it, and what else that plan makes you buy. The table quotes each vendor’s own pricing page where we rendered it, and a dated inventory where we did not.
| Tool | Plan that includes MCP | What it costs | API | Source |
|---|
Prefer (our product) | Growth and above | $129/mo | API on Growth and above | Prefer docs, integrations |
| Cituna | Starter (reads); Pro and Max (writes) | $39/mo; writes from $119/mo | Ask (FAQ covers it; not in our read) | cituna.com/mcp, updated 12 September 2026 |
| ZipTie | Any paid configuration, as an add-on | From $42.75/mo plus $10/mo | REST in the same add-on | ziptie.ai/pricing, HTML read 26 September 2026 |
LLM Pulse | Self-serve, per its own list | From EUR 49/mo | Not in the source we read | LLM Pulse inventory, updated 14 September 2026 |
| Qwairy | Starter | $89/mo | REST API on Growth, $229/mo | qwairy.co/pricing, rendered 26 September 2026 |
PromptWatch | Essential | $95/mo | Same plan | promptwatch.com/pricing, rendered 23 September 2026 |
SE Ranking | Core | $129/mo; AI search prompts need the $89/mo add-on | 25K API credits on Core | seranking.com/subscription, rendered 26 September 2026 |
Otterly | Standard (Lite has neither) | $189/mo | Same plan | otterly.ai/pricing, rendered 23 September 2026 |
Peec AI | Not stated | Ask | Enterprise, per Foglift | awesome-seo-mcp, September 2026 |
Profound | Not stated; the only brand plan is custom | Custom | Enterprise, per Foglift | LLM Pulse inventory, check of 12 August 2026 |
| Asva AI | Not stated | Ask | Not in the source we read | asvaai.com/mcp, September 2026 |
Three of the eleven include MCP on the first paid plan with no add-on: Cituna, Qwairy and PromptWatch. Prefer starts it one plan up, on Growth; its Starter plan has no MCP, API or data export. ZipTie is close, at $10 on top of any paid configuration. Otterly’s $29 Lite plan is the trap on this list: it has neither API nor MCP, so its real entry price for this feature is $189.
A server you can plan around has a published tool list. Only two vendors on this list publish one on their own pages: Cituna (sixteen tools, twelve reads and four writes, with the plan each needs) and Asva AI (seven, from list_brands to generate_llms_txt, with OAuth setup steps).
Four more are counted or named by third-party inventories. LLM Pulse’s unauthenticated tools/list check on 12 August 2026 found 17 read-only tools on Profound, 17 on Otterly (11 reads, 6 writes) and 217 on SE Ranking, roughly 40 of them for AI search. Best GEO Software (6 September 2026) names PromptWatch’s getCitations, getCompetitorHeatmap, listContentGapPrompts, createContent and publishContentLive. Prefer, Qwairy and ZipTie describe the data the server returns without naming tools, and LLM Pulse states a count of about 85 on its own list, which we did not verify.
If the vendor has not published a list, ask for the output of a tools/list call before you sign. It takes a minute, and it is what the inventories on this page did.
Prefer: MCP from Growth, writes in the app#
Prefer is our product, and we ranked it first. Read this section with that in mind. MCP access is included on Growth and above: generate a key under Settings, Integrations, API and MCP, add it to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client, and query the data the dashboard shows across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode. Starter has no MCP, API or data export. API access is on the same plans, scheduled warehouse sync is Enterprise only, and Agency Enterprise lists full API and MCP access together.
Where Prefer is not the answer:
- You want the cheapest MCP entry. Prefer starts on Growth; Cituna, ZipTie, Qwairy and PromptWatch start lower.
- You want tool names in the docs today. Ours describe the server in prose. Cituna and Asva AI publish their lists.
- You want an agent to write over MCP. Prefer’s MCP is a read path. Drafting, publishing and queued fixes run in Action Center, where each change is tied to a prompt and re-measured. PromptWatch and Otterly have write tools per a dated inventory.
If none of those apply, start with a free AI visibility audit or see the plans on the pricing page. Agencies running clients through one key should read Prefer for agencies.
Semrush and Ahrefs run official MCP servers with published endpoints, per the awesome-seo-mcp list (hand-checked September 2026); LLM Pulse’s check counted roughly 22 brand tools on Ahrefs and found Semrush’s list not published. They are SEO suites with an AI visibility module, so they sit on the best AI visibility tools list with that caveat. Conductor has a server on a custom-quoted contract only (CitedIndex, 12 September 2026). AthenaHQ had no public MCP guide and Evertune no customer-facing API or MCP published, per Foglift and CitedIndex. LLMrefs includes API access on its $79 plan, but MCP appears nowhere on its site and its /mcp path returned a 404 on 26 September 2026. HubSpot AEO’s product page mentions neither (rendered 26 September 2026); read that as “not listed”, not “does not have”.
How we built this list#
- Inclusion: a tool made the ranked list when its own page, a rendered pricing read or a dated inventory documents an MCP server with at least an endpoint or a plan gate. Pages read 23 to 26 September 2026; inventories dated 6 to 19 September, with LLM Pulse’s counts from a 12 August check.
- Order: Prefer first, as our pick and our product. The rest by the price of the first plan with MCP, lowest first; the three whose gate no source states (Peec AI, Profound, Asva AI) go last.
- Scores: five dimensions on a printed scale, from the facts above only. Peec AI, Profound and Asva AI are unscored (no documented MCP plan or price); LLM Pulse is unscored (its only source is its own list).
- Not done: we did not connect to any rival server or run a tools/list call ourselves.
For the full price lists behind these plans, see the AI visibility tool pricing review. For what the MCP server reads on Prefer, see Answer Engine Insights.