AI search API pricing starts with $5 of credits.
Pay as you go with the Wallet, or pick Monitor from $6.03 a month for 25 prompts. Which plan fits you?
Track and fix citation gaps in AI answers across 8+ LLMs from $5 of pay-as-you-go credits, or Monitor from $6.03 a month.
Wallet
Buys 12,285 credits, about $0.41 per 1,000 credits.
- No monthly fee, buy credits when you need them
- Credits never expire
- One credit balance for every platform
- Run any request on demand
- API and MCP server included (limits apply)
Monitor
Use a beautiful UI to create, schedule, run and store prompts, review trends and recommendations, and understand revenue attribution added by events.
- Everything in Wallet, with a UI
- Store answers indefinitely
- Schedule prompt runs and page audits
- AI crawler server-log analytics
- AI visibility metrics calculated on every answer
- Traffic and revenue attribution analytics (add-on, $20 per 100K events)
- Integrations with GA4, GSC, Bing Webmaster, Stripe, Chargebee, QuickBooks and HubSpot CRM
What would it cost you a month?
- Pay per request from your credits
- Store answers if you want
- AI visibility metrics, if you turn them on
- Retrieve stored answers
- Owned and earned media recommendations
- API and MCP server
- Dashboard
- Attribution
- Prompts run on a schedule
- Every answer stored
- AI visibility metrics, included
- Dashboard, API and MCP
- Attribution, if you turn it on
- Owned and earned media recommendations
Prompts
Platforms
Content
Free: content and technical recommendations (AEO, SEO, crawlers, entity schema) for every audited page.
Storage
Monitor extras
| Runs | ||
| Stored answers | ||
| Visibility metrics | ||
| Recommendations | ||
| Attribution | ||
| Retrievals | ||
| Content page audits |
Credits cost $0.000407 each ($5 buys 12,285). Storage adds 10% of the first month for each extra month kept. Retrieving a stored answer costs $0.00005. Proposed launch pricing, may change.
Buy my first $5 of creditsWalletCredits per request
$0.000407 a credit, $5 minimum
| Request | Credits | Per $5 |
|---|---|---|
| Create a prompt by tags | 5 | 2,457 |
| ChatGPT search | 5 | 2,457 |
| ChatGPT full response (fan-out, ads, shopping) | 7 | 1,755 |
| ChatGPT Ads monitoring (5x ChatGPT search) | 25 | 491 |
| Owned and earned media recommendations, per stored answer | 10 | 1,228 |
| Google AI Overview | 5 | 2,457 |
| Google AI Mode | 4 | 3,071 |
| Gemini | 4 | 3,071 |
| Google Search | 3 | 4,095 |
| Audit a page for AI readiness | $0.23 a page | 22 |
| Content and technical recommendations (AEO, SEO, crawlers, entity schema) | Free with a page audit | Included |
| Store a prompt | Free | No charge |
| Store an answer (first month; each extra month adds 10%) | $0.001 an answer | 5,000 |
| Retrieve a stored answer | $0.00005 an answer | 100,000 |
MonitorRun and store, priced by prompt volume
From $6.03 a month for 25 prompts
Pick how many prompts you track. Each one runs once a day on ChatGPT search, and every answer is stored for a month.
| Prompts tracked | Runs a month | Price a month |
|---|---|---|
| 25 | 750 | $6.03 |
| 250 | 7,500 | $60.26 |
| 1,000 | 30,000 | $241.05 |
| 5,000 | 150,000 | $1,205.25 |
Priced at the Wallet rate: one ChatGPT search run (5 credits, about $0.002), storing the answer for one month ($0.001) and AI visibility metrics on it ($0.005), 30 days a month. More platforms or other schedules use the credit table. Volume discounts are not set. Proposed launch pricing, may change.
RecommendationsFree with every page audit. Owned and earned media fixes from your citation gaps.
Free with audits, then 10 credits per stored answer
Each recommendation reads what AI said about you and what your pages show, and returns a ranked list of answer engine optimization fixes.
Content and technical: free with a page audit ($0.23 a page)
Owned and earned media: from citation gaps, 10 credits per stored answer
Content and technical recommendations are free with each page audit ($0.23 a page). Owned and earned media recommendations cost 10 credits per stored answer (about $0.0041), so 3,000 answers cost about $12.21. Proposed launch pricing, may change.
Attribution analytics$20 per 100,000 events a month
Billed in 100,000-event blocks
Events combine website traffic (GA4), AI crawler server logs, billing events (Stripe) and CRM records, matched and synced so AI visits link to leads and revenue. Billed in blocks of 100,000 events.
| Events a month | Price a month |
|---|---|
| 100,000 | $20 |
| 250,000 | $60 |
| 1,000,000 | $200 |
Example: 250 prompts and 250,000 events is $60.26 plus $60, which is $120.26 a month. Proposed launch pricing, may change.
AnalyticsStore every answer in a format you can query, with the UI and the MCP server.
$0.001 per stored answer
Store answers for 1, 3, 6 or 12 months and query them by brand, prompt, platform, source or date. The first month costs $0.001 per stored answer. Each extra month adds 10% of that first-month price. The API and the MCP server are included (limits apply), and Monitor adds the dashboard.
| Retention | Per stored answer | Added to first month | 3,000 answers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 month | $0.001 | base | $3.00 |
| 3 months | $0.0012 | +20% | $3.60 |
| 6 months | $0.0015 | +50% | $4.50 |
| 12 months | $0.0021 | +110% | $6.30 |
Example: 3,000 answers a month is one brand with 50 prompts run daily on one platform. Priced per stored answer and taken from the same balance as your credits. Proposed launch pricing, may change.
Prices may change. Need volume pricing? Book a call for a custom deal.
You can fund an AI search API from the SERP data budget you already have.
$50 of credits covers about 8 brands for a month. Use your own prompt counts.
Worked example from the proposed launch pricing above. Not a quote.
AI search API and AEO tool pricing, explained.
What recommendations does the MoltMentions Monitor plan give?
Monitor gives recommendations for AEO, SEO, crawlers, entity schema, owned media and earned media. They are built from your stored AI answers and the pages you have audited. Content and technical recommendations (AEO, SEO, crawlers and entity schema) are free once a page is audited. Owned and earned media recommendations come from the citation gaps in your stored answers and cost 10 credits per stored answer. Launch pricing may change.
What is the Monitor plan in the MoltMentions API?
Monitor is a monthly plan for teams that track prompts on a schedule. You create prompts, schedule runs, run them and store every answer, and you pay by prompt volume. For example, 25 prompts run daily on ChatGPT search cost $6.03 a month, and 1,000 prompts cost $241.05. Attribution analytics is added by events. Plan names and prices are proposed and may change.
How is attribution analytics priced in the MoltMentions API?
Attribution analytics costs $20 per 100,000 events a month, billed in blocks of 100,000. Events combine website traffic (GA4), AI crawler server logs, billing events (Stripe) and CRM records that are matched and synced. For example, 250,000 events cost $60 a month. Launch pricing may change.
How much does it cost to create and store prompts with the MoltMentions API?
Creating a prompt from tags costs 5 credits, so $5 of credits (12,285) creates 2,457 prompts. Storing prompts is free. Running a stored panel costs the normal credits per request. For example, creating 25 prompts and running them once on ChatGPT search costs 125 plus 125 credits, which is about $0.10. Launch pricing may change.
Do MoltMentions API credits expire?
No. Credits never expire, so you can buy them when it suits you and use them whenever you need them.
How does credit pricing work for the MoltMentions API?
One credit balance is shared across all platforms. The Wallet plan is pay as you go. You buy credits, with a $5 minimum that gives 12,285 credits, and each request costs a set number of credits by platform. A ChatGPT search request costs 5 credits, so $5 covers 2,457 of them. There is no monthly fee. Launch pricing may change.
How much does it cost to store AI answers for analytics?
Storing an answer for the first month costs $0.001. Each extra month of retention adds 10% of that price, so 3 months is $0.0012, 6 months is $0.0015 and 12 months is $0.0021 per stored answer. The API and the MCP server are included (limits apply), and Monitor adds the dashboard. Launch pricing may change.
Start tracking ChatGPT and AI Mode with $5 of credits, or Monitor from $6.03 a month.
Run your first prompts today. Move to Monitor when you want them on a schedule.