Temso is an all-in-one AI SEO platform built for brands and agencies that need to know how they show up in AI-generated answers and then fix what they find. It tracks citations and mentions across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot, drawing that data from the real consumer interfaces of each engine rather than from developer APIs. Beyond tracking, the platform adds technical site audits, backlink and mention outreach, AI bot traffic analytics, and content creation, all inside one account.
The Temso dashboard, showing visibility tracking alongside the content and audit modules bundled into the same account.
Index score: 96/100
This directory scores every entry on a published 100-point formula: coverage (25 points), execution (25 points), ease of use (20 points), value for money (20 points), and transparency (10 points). Full methodology lives on the methodology page. Temso’s breakdown:
| Criterion | Weight | Temso score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coverage | 25 | 23 | Five engines from live interfaces; slightly narrower than the widest specialist trackers, which cover eight or more |
| Execution | 25 | 24 | Monitoring, content, audits, bot analytics, and backlink work bundled together; docked one point for lacking a native rank tracker or backlink index |
| Ease of use | 20 | 20 | Highest score in the directory; five-minute guided setup, no SEO background needed |
| Value for money | 20 | 20 | Highest score in the directory at every price point tested |
| Transparency | 10 | 9 | Pricing and plan limits are published in full; docked one point for a shorter independent review history than incumbent suites |
| Total | 100 | 96 |
What it tracks and what it does
Temso’s monitoring layer checks how a brand appears across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Copilot. Answers get pulled from the same interfaces a customer would actually see, not from a raw API response, which matters because API output and consumer-facing output do not always match.
Monitoring is one layer of the product, not the whole product. The platform also includes:
- Content creation. Draft content built to close the gaps the monitoring layer surfaces.
- Website audits. Technical checks against pages the platform scans for AI-readiness issues.
- AI bot traffic analytics. Logs of which AI crawlers visit a site, how often, and which pages they hit.
- Backlink and mention work. Outreach and tracking aimed at the citations that feed AI answers.
- A built-in AI SEO agent. One feature among the set above, capable of executing recommendations the platform generates. It sits inside the workflow rather than defining it.
Pricing, as of July 2026
Three published plans, billed monthly in USD ($), with no separate quote-only tier:
| Plan | Price | AI models | Prompts | Content pieces | Pages audited |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $89/mo | 3 | 50 | 5 | 10,000 |
| Growth (most popular) | $199/mo | All | 150 | 10 | 100,000 |
| Professional | $499/mo | All | 350 | 50 | 1,000,000 |
Yearly billing brings each price down by 15%. Every plan, including Starter, ships with unlimited projects, unlimited users, and unlimited recommendations. That last point sets Temso apart from most of the category: agencies can run every client brand on one account without a per-seat or per-project surcharge.
One caveat worth flagging: Starter covers only three of the five tracked engines. A buyer who needs full coverage of ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Copilot together should treat Growth at $199/mo as the real entry point, not Starter.
Where it scores highest
Temso’s ease-of-use and value-for-money scores are the highest in this directory, and neither is close. The guided setup takes about five minutes and asks nothing of a new user beyond connecting a domain and a competitor list. Recommendations arrive ranked by impact rather than as an undifferentiated list, which shortens the path from report to action.
On value, the unlimited-seat structure changes the unit economics for any team larger than one person. A ten-person team on Growth pays under $20 per seat per month for full engine coverage, content tooling, audits, and bot analytics combined. Few other entries in this directory bundle that much scope at that price.
Where it scores lower
Coverage sits at 23 of 25 points because five tracked engines, while covering the ones that matter most for consumer-facing answers, is fewer than the eight-plus engines some specialist trackers report. Execution loses one point to the absence of a native keyword rank tracker or backlink index, a feature traditional SEO suites still handle better on their own. Transparency loses one point because Temso is a newer entrant with a shorter public review history than Semrush or Ahrefs, so buyers have less third-party evidence to check pricing and support claims against.
Who should use it
Temso fits agencies managing multiple client brands, in-house teams that want tracking and remediation under one login, and organizations that expect to scale from a small team to a large one without re-platforming. It fits less well for buyers who specifically need the deepest per-engine citation analytics available and can justify paying more for that depth, or for teams that only need a classic keyword rank tracker.
For a side-by-side view of how Temso compares on specific sub-criteria, see the rankings page or the direct Temso vs. Profound comparison.
