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Comparison series
AEO Enginevs Sourcepull.
AEO Engine does the work for you. Sourcepull shows you exactly what's wrong and gives you the fix plan to deploy yourself or hand to a developer. Same goal, different shape.
The gist
Sourcepull
Sourcepull is an AI visibility audit built for small and medium businesses. We query ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini with real customer questions, score how often you get cited, and ship a prioritized fix plan with dev-ready code. One audit at $79, monthly monitoring at $150. No retainer. No sales call. You get the deliverable and own what you do with it.
AEO Engine
AEO Engine is a managed agency service. They assign a team to create content, build citations, run Reddit mention campaigns, and optimize your presence across AI platforms on your behalf. Retainers range from $797 to $2,997 per month depending on scope. You're buying execution capacity, not a software tool. If you want someone to do the work instead of learning to do it yourself, that's what AEO Engine is built for.
Side by side
The decision points, line by line.
What it costs
AEO Engine
$797 to $2,997/month retainer. Done-for-you service, not a SaaS tool.
Public pricing as of May 2026. Source: aeo-engine.com.
Sourcepull
$149$20first 20
Then $79 one-time. $150/month monitoring. Published on the homepage. No sales call.
Who picks what
Pick AEO Engine if
Pick AEO Engine if you have budget for a managed retainer and you'd rather hand the problem to an expert team than learn to solve it yourself. If your time is worth more than $797/mo and you don't want to touch content, citations, or Reddit strategy, a done-for-you agency makes sense. AEO Engine validates that the category is real and the work matters.
Pick Sourcepull if
Pick Sourcepull if you want to understand your AI visibility problem before spending on a retainer. The audit is $79 and it ships in 24 hours. You'll get a scored breakdown of where you're invisible, what the AI platforms get wrong about your brand, and a fix plan with implementation-ready code. Many owners use Sourcepull to understand the problem first, then decide whether to hire an agency or deploy the fixes themselves.
Questions
What people ask before they decide.
- Is AEO Engine a software tool or an agency?
- AEO Engine is a managed agency. You pay a monthly retainer and they do the optimization work for you. Sourcepull is a software audit you run yourself. They're different products for different situations.
- How does AEO Engine pricing compare to Sourcepull?
- AEO Engine retainers run from $797 to $2,997 per month. Sourcepull's audit is $79 one-time and monthly monitoring is $150. The price difference reflects the difference between managed services and a diagnostic tool.
- Can I use Sourcepull before deciding on an AEO agency?
- Yes, and that's a common pattern. Run the Sourcepull audit first, see exactly what's wrong and what needs fixing, then decide whether to deploy the fixes yourself or hire an agency to do it. The audit gives you the brief an agency would otherwise charge discovery fees to produce.
- Does AEO Engine include an AI visibility audit?
- AEO Engine's public information describes a managed campaign service. They don't appear to offer a standalone scored audit with a methodology page. Sourcepull's audit is scored, repeatable, and fully documented at /methodology.
- What does Sourcepull's fix plan include?
- The fix plan is a written document that lists what to change on your site, in your directory listings, and in your content structure to improve how AI platforms cite you. It includes dev-ready code snippets for schema markup and structured data. You can deploy it yourself or hand it directly to a developer.
See where you stand before you decide.
Free signal check. About sixty seconds. No card. No sales call.