Pricing · become the brand AI names this month
Get named — and keep getting recommended — by AI. From $497 per month.
We pull the answers out of 9 AI engines and show you where they name your competitors instead of you. Onboarding ships in month one. After that — standard subscription.
Cited across
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Perplexity
- Gemini
- Grok
- DeepSeek
- Kimi
Search changed — marketing hasn't
Stop writing SEO articles on your site. AI engines cite new content from third-party publications.
Search shifted
94% of AI citations come from third-party sites, not yours
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews pull answers from the open web: reviews, industry publications, founder podcasts, community threads. Your domain is one source — rarely the main one.
Source
Marketing hasn't
The SEO budget buys the wrong signal
Marketing teams pay for SEO retainers, writers, keyword tools, and ads. That can help Google, but AI engines cite external proof: reviews, publications, directories, cases, and third-party mentions. The budget goes where AI isn't looking.
Time to react
Buyers increasingly rely on AI recommendations
AI engines barely cite old SEO content. You need new content, by a new playbook, on the right venues — or AI recommends your competitors instead of you.
A new class of solution · AI-assisted marketing management
Old model — a team of contractors for every task. New model — one marketer + AI agents.
Old model
Copywriter, SEO specialist, PR, designer: one per task
A team of 4–6 contractors plus tool subscriptions. Each does their piece, the marketer assembles. Expensive, slow, uneven.
New model
One marketer manages AI agents through the platform
Humanswith.ai is a workstation for the AI-era marketer. They set strategy, AI agents execute under their control. 5× more output, quality controlled at every step.
What changes
AI visibility in 2 months, not a year of SEO
AI engines cite fresh content from the right venues. The platform builds the strategy, ships the content, places the mentions, measures the lift. The marketer leads, AI agents do.
Choose your plan
Your competitors are already showing up in AI answers. Here's how to join them.
STARTER
$497/mo
Solo founder · pre-$1M ARR. Audit + monthly brief + 3 competitors tracked across 9 LLMs.
Get Starter →THE CATEGORY-WINNER
$997/mo
$1M–$5M ARR. Full Hermes + ContentOS + weekly briefs + 10 competitors + content production assist.
Get Category-Winner →SCALE
$2,497/mo
$5M–$30M ARR. Replace freelance marketers with Marketing Agents — always-on, at least 5× the output, quality controlled at every step. Multi-brand · API · Website Agentic Optimization included.
Get Scale →DONE-FOR-YOU · ENTERPRISE
$5–15K/mo
Managed engagement. Agency-style delivery for SMBs that want outcomes, not tools. Multi-brand portfolios, $30M+ ARR, or compliance-heavy industries — talk to us directly.
The economics
Ten licences a marketing team of this shape actually pays for come to $1,769.91/mo at the tiers the vendors publish, read on 21 July 2026. The full line-by-line table is below, with the source page and the arithmetic for every row. Scale at $2,497 carries that stack plus the operator time to run it, which is the part no licence covers.
"In 2026 the first three citations capture roughly 60% of AI engine visibility" — observation across 24 client engagements on Hermes this past year.
What the stack costs
Ten licences, read on one day.
We used to say "a typical stack runs $2–5K a month". That number was ours, not the vendors'. This table is the replacement: published tiers only, each with the page it came from and the arithmetic that produced the figure. Prices move, so the date is the point.
| Licence | Published tier | Per month | How the number is built |
|---|---|---|---|
| Profound | Growth (billed yearly) | $399.00 | published Growth tier, billed yearly |
| SerpApi · RU market coverage | Production, 15,000 searches/mo | $150.00 | published Production tier |
| Jasper AI | Pro × 10 seats | $590.00 | published $59 per seat on annual billing × 10 seats |
| Surfer SEO | Business | $219.00 | published Business tier; its price renders in the browser, not in the served HTML |
| Originality.ai | Pro + 9 extra seats | $104.50 | published $14.95 base plus 9 × $9.95 per extra seat |
| Тургенев (Ashmanov) · RU market coverage | subscription, 200 checks/mo | $2.50 | published subscription at 200 ₽/mo |
| Screaming Frog | paid licence | $16.58 | published $199 a year divided by 12 |
| Sitebulb | Pro, 1 user | $42.00 | published Pro tier |
| Ahrefs | Lite | $129.00 | published Lite tier |
| Semrush | SEO & AI Search | $117.33 | published tier, billed annually |
| Published subtotal | $1,769.91 | ten licences, read 21 July 2026 | |
Two positions are missing from that subtotal on purpose. Profound (Enterprise / agency): the tier is on the pricing page but carries no number, it is quoted. Fact-check tooling (low-enterprise): no vendor in this class publishes a public price. We carry internal estimates for both, and we are not putting them in a public table: on 21 July our own research pass found five errors in our competitor sheet, four of them flattering to us. An estimate of somebody else's price is the easiest of those errors to make and the fastest for a reader to catch.
What this table is not. It is licences only. It does not include the people who operate them: the writer, the analyst, the person who decides which gap to close this month. That labour is the larger line in most budgets and it is the line we actually replace. Software you can price from a public page; the operator you cannot, which is why the comparison that matters is measurement versus measurement plus execution, not licence versus licence.
Pricing questions buyers ask
Frequently asked questions about pricing
What does each tier actually include?
Starter = audit + monthly brief for one brand. Category Winner = full Hermes Visibility + ContentOS + weekly briefs + 10 competitors tracked. Scale = always-on Marketing Agents replacing your freelance team. Done-for-you = managed engagement with our specialists running everything.
Can I start on Starter and upgrade?
Yes. Most clients start on Category Winner once they see the audit. Upgrades are mid-cycle, prorated. There are no annual commitments on monthly tiers.
How does Scale compare to hiring freelancers?
Ten licences a team of this shape pays for come to $1,769.91/mo at published tiers, read 21 July 2026. The itemized table with sources is on this page. Freelancers sit on top of that, and they are the larger line. Scale at $2,497 carries both the tooling and the operator time to run it, which is the part a licence never covers.
Is there a setup fee?
No setup fee on Starter/Category Winner/Scale. Done-for-you includes a 2-week onboarding sprint built into month 1.
Which AI engines do you track on each tier?
All tiers track the same nine: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek, Kimi, Google AI Overviews, and Microsoft Copilot. What changes between tiers is scan frequency + competitor count + execution depth.
Do you offer custom enterprise pricing?
Yes. For multi-brand portfolios, $30M+ ARR, or compliance-heavy industries — talk to us directly. Done-for-you starts at $5K/mo and scales with scope.
What does the first audit actually show me?
You receive a per-engine breakdown of how the nine major AI surfaces describe your brand. The report covers your top three competitors and the queries your buyers are running today. It includes a citation map (who quotes whom), a gap analysis (where rivals win), and a prioritised work list (which three moves close the largest gap first).
How is this different from Profound, Otterly, or AthenaHQ?
Those tools are measurement-only — they report where AI mentions you. Humanswith.ai measures and closes the loop: we ship the content, schema, and outreach that earn the new citations, then re-measure. That is the reason clients consolidate four subscriptions into one.
How long does it take to see results?
Audit lands in your dashboard within the first 7–10 days. Citation lift signal: 6–8 weeks on Category Winner and above. Sustained share-of-answer growth: 3 months for the dogfood case (humanswith.ai itself went from 2 to 1,000+ citations in 12 weeks). SEO of the AI-era is faster than 12-month classical SEO because AI engines re-crawl their answer indexes weekly, not quarterly.
Do you require a long-term contract?
No. All monthly tiers (Starter, Category Winner, Scale) are month-to-month — cancel or downgrade any time, no penalty. Done-for-you starts at 3 months (we need the runway to do the work) but is not multi-year.
What's the refund policy?
14-day full refund on Starter and Category Winner if the audit doesn't reveal at least one closeable visibility gap in your category. Scale and Done-for-you: refund of unused months minus completed work (case-by-case).
Do you work in languages other than English and Russian?
EN and RU pipelines are production-grade today. Arabic pipeline is the next priority (Dubai-based team — native coverage). German, Spanish, French: bespoke on Done-for-you. We do not ship machine-translated content in any language.
How do you measure ROI?
Citation share by AI engine (Hermes weekly scan), branded query lift in your analytics, and qualified-lead attribution from your CRM (Twenty/HubSpot/Salesforce integration). On Done-for-you we also track downstream MRR/ARR. Reports are read-only access to your Hermes dashboard — no exported PDFs.
Who owns the content you produce?
You do. All ContentOS-generated articles, schema, and outreach assets are your property under standard work-for-hire terms. We retain the right to anonymize and use the metadata (citation gains, before/after numbers) in our /cases section after explicit consent.
What if my industry is too niche?
We test fit in the audit. If the audit shows your category lacks a meaningful AI-search surface (e.g. AI engines don't return brand recommendations for it), we tell you upfront and refund the audit. Niche-but-real categories (e.g. industrial manufacturing, B2B compliance) work — we have shipped both.
How is pricing different for agencies vs in-house?
Same tier prices for both. Agencies on Scale ($2,497) typically white-label one engagement to one client; on Done-for-you ($5K+) we co-deliver. Volume discounts kick in at 5+ concurrent engagements.
What happens in your first month
We stand up the platform for you, and build your AI-visibility strategy.
01
Week 1 — we set up the platform for you
We manually stand up the workstation under your brand: connect 9 AI engines, set up competitor monitoring, prep your marketer's dashboard. No automated onboarding — every client gets a custom setup.
02
Weeks 2–3 — we build your AI-visibility strategy
What AI engines say about you and your competitors. Which venues to publish on. Which topics. Which technical changes to your site so AI engines read it more eagerly.
03
Week 4 — we hand off to your marketer
Strategy and platform are ready. Your marketer takes the workstation, AI agents execute under their lead. From there — the standard subscription flow of your chosen tier.
Why this works
Four tiers, one underlying mechanism.
Every tier runs the same loop — Hermes measures the per-engine citation gap, ContentOS ships the third-party trust signals that close it, Website Agentic Optimization gets the schema and llms.txt right, Hermes re-measures. What changes between tiers is volume and depth: how many engines you track, how many topics per month, how many third-party authority placements per quarter. The price is not a paywall on quality; it is a multiplier on the number of citation shifts the same loop can produce in the same calendar month.
The licence half of that budget is itemized above: $1,769.91 a month across ten published tiers, read on 21 July 2026. The people half is larger and is not on any vendor page. Scale at $2,497 covers the tooling and the operator time, and adds the per-engine measurement classical SEO does not have. The reallocation, not the new line item, is how clients fit the platform into their existing budget.
Ready to be the brand AI recommends?
Free 30-minute strategy call. We'll show your current AI visibility score.
We run your brand through Hermes. You see exactly where each engine names you today. We tell you which tier — if any — would make a measurable difference for your category.