VisiScan vs Ansvisor 2026
We might fork Ansvisor for a lab. We might run VisiScan on a trades URL. We still measure on Promptwatch. Two different $49s.
A developer client stars Ansvisor because it is MIT. A local client forwards VisiScan because $49 looks like a GEO platform. We run Promptwatch on accounts. We will not swap it for either $49. The two $49s land on the same line in a price comparison and they buy completely different things, and that is the part a price sort hides. One is a document you hand to a plumber. The other is a month of two-engine prompts for one brand. Neither is a measurement program, and neither is what we put in a quarterly review.
Ansvisor Starter $49 is ChatGPT and Perplexity, 50 prompts, one brand. VisiScan $49 is up to 144 answers once, four engines, files to paste. Different invoices. Growth $249 versus our Professional $245 is the only price rhyme that matters, and we still buy logs. The rhyme is a coincidence of digits, not a comparison of capability. Growth on Ansvisor adds engines and a traffic snippet. Professional on Promptwatch adds 25M crawler logs and the publish loop. The two plans sit next to each other on a page and they answer different questions, which is why the price match is the trap, not the takeaway.
Deck
| VisiScan | Ansvisor | Promptwatch | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Role | Local flashlight / PDF | Optional repo sidecar | KPI |
| $49 | Report once | Two-engine month | Not our SKU |
| $29/mo | Weekly grade | No | No; Essential is $95 |
| Logs | No | Snippet | Yes |
Read the deck by row, because the rows are what we actually decide on. The role row is the first filter. VisiScan is a local flashlight, a one-time look at one URL that produces a PDF you can attach to an email. Ansvisor is an optional repo sidecar, a thing a developer client can run next to the codebase because the license lets them. Promptwatch is the KPI, the number that goes in the report we send the client every quarter. A flashlight is not a KPI. A sidecar is not a KPI. The role row is where we stop pretending a scan and a tracker and a program are the same purchase.
The $49 row is the one that confuses people, because both products print the number. VisiScan at $49 is a report once, a single deliverable for a single URL. Ansvisor at $49 is a two-engine month, 50 prompts across ChatGPT and Perplexity for one brand. Promptwatch does not have a $49 SKU, and that is worth saying plainly, because Essential is $95 and that is the floor of the program. A one-time report and a month of prompts are not substitutes for each other, and neither is a substitute for a program that runs prompts, reads crawler logs, and publishes.
The $29/mo row is where VisiScan Monitor sits. It is a weekly grade, a re-run of the scan on a cadence. Ansvisor has no $29 plan. Promptwatch has no $29 plan, and we have written before about why the old $29 Promptwatch copy was wrong. Essential is $95. The weekly grade is a fine thing to run on a plumber inbound where you want to know if the page slipped. It is not a Promptwatch seat, and we do not bill it as one.
The logs row is the one we actually pay for. VisiScan has no logs. Ansvisor publishes a snippet for traffic. Promptwatch has Agent Analytics, the crawler-log layer that tells us whether ChatGPTBot came, what it fetched, and where the error was. A snippet is a traffic signal. A crawler log is a fetch record. They are not the same evidence, and the difference is why we keep Promptwatch on the account even when a client brings one of the $49 tools.
Self-host Ansvisor is a project (Supabase, Cloro, keys). We do not hand that to a marketing manager. The MIT license is the reason a developer client likes it, and it is also the reason we do not put it on a marketing retainer. Self-host means you run Supabase, you run Cloro, you manage the keys, and you keep the lights on. That is engineering work, not marketing work, and a marketing manager is not the person who does it. The keys are the part that bites, because a key rotation on a marketing retainer is a ticket no one wants to own, and a key that lapses is a dashboard that goes dark on the day of a review. A repo sidecar is a fair tool for a team that has an engineer on call, and it is the wrong tool for a team that does not.
VisiScan free is fine on a plumber inbound. The free scan on one URL is a cheap first look, and a cheap first look is the right shape for a lead who forwarded a score and wants to know what it means. The $49 PDF is the named-rate deliverable we hand the plumber who wants a document with a price on it to forward up the chain. The $29 weekly Monitor is the cadence we run on a local URL we want to keep an eye on without logging in. None of those are the program, and we do not bill them as the program, because the program needs the logs and the publish step the scan does not have.
QBR stays Promptwatch. The quarterly review needs a number that ran whether anyone logged in, a citation trend that moved over the quarter, and a crawler log that explains why a mention appeared or disappeared. A scan gives a moment. A sidecar gives a repo. Neither gives the quarter, and the quarter is what the retainer is measured on. Their May comparison of Promptwatch is competitor copy. We do not put it in a SOW. We do not cite a vendor's comparison of a rival as evidence, and we do not let a deck built on that comparison set the budget. A vendor grading a rival is not a source, and a source is what a SOW needs.