Head-to-head review · Updated June 2026

AlsoAsked vs Goodie: which one wins in 2026?

AlsoAsked and Goodie both claim to do the same thing: tell you where your brand shows up in AI search. They go about it differently enough that the choice matters. Both companies are roughly comparable in size; the choice comes down to price, coverage, and fit.

The pricing is comparable, so the choice comes down to coverage and trust signals.

The verdict
Pick

AlsoAsked

AlsoAsked is the right pick if your team prefers their approach and pricing fits.

Pick

Goodie

Pick Goodie if you need broader AI platform coverage (11 platforms vs 0).

If neither is right, GrowthManager.ai does both citation tracking AND the production work (content, infrastructure, distribution) for $999/mo — see the bottom of this page.

The case for AlsoAsked

AlsoAsked has raised Bootstrapped. Founded by Mark Williams-Cook, based in Bath, UK. Pricing starts at $12/mo.

People Also Ask research tool for AEO and content strategy.

What people praise

  • Tree-style visualization of People Also Ask data is more useful for pillar-page planning than the AnswerThePublic radial diagram.
  • Pulls live PAA data from Google, so questions reflect real SERP behavior instead of cached autocomplete suggestions.
  • Bulk search supports up to 1,000 queries at a time, which agency users say is rare at this price point.
  • Region and language targeting works for any Google locale, not just US English, which most cheap PAA tools restrict.

Where it falls short

  • Only sources Google's PAA box; no data from Bing, YouTube, Reddit, or social platforms.
  • CSV export is paywalled behind the Lite tier; the $12 Basic plan only exports PNG images.
  • API access is locked to the $47/mo Pro plan, which blocks Lite users from automating workflows.
  • PAA relationships are algorithmic, not semantic, so the tree sometimes maps loose associations as if they were topical clusters.

The case for Goodie

Founded by Mostafa ElBermawy, based in New York City, United States. They cover 11 AI platforms. Pricing starts at Custom (quote-based) with no free trial.

Goodie is an enterprise AEO platform that monitors, analyzes, and optimizes brand and product presence across 11 AI search engines including ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Amazon Rufus, and more.

What people praise

  • Broadest AI engine coverage in the category (11 platforms including niche engines like Amazon Rufus, DeepSeek, Grok, and Meta AI)
  • Actionable optimization layer that closes the loop between insights and execution inside a single platform
  • Delivers measurable, defensible business outcomes — documented client results across conversions, citations, and traffic
  • User-friendly dashboard with digestible metrics accessible to both technical and non-technical marketers

Where it falls short

  • No free trial — only demos and a free AI Search Assessment, putting it at a disadvantage vs. competitors that allow self-serve evaluation
  • Premium pricing with no published rates makes ROI justification difficult for smaller or budget-constrained teams
  • Onboarding complexity and setup friction — not self-serve; requires hands-on support and operational discipline to get started
  • Rapid product roadmap velocity creates a 'moving target' effect — users must stay constantly informed of changes

Pricing, tier by tier

Tier 1
AlsoAsked
Basic
$12/mo
  • 100 search credits per month
  • 24-hour search history
  • All regions and languages
  • PNG export
Goodie
Explorer
Custom (quote-based)
  • 3 seats
  • 100 prompts tracked
  • 10 optimization actions per month
  • 3 AI engines (ChatGPT, AI Overview, Perplexity)
Tier 2
AlsoAsked
Lite
$23/mo
  • 300 search credits per month
  • 1-month search history
  • CSV export
  • Bulk searches
Goodie
Pro
Custom (quote-based)
  • 5 seats
  • 250 prompts tracked
  • 30 optimization actions per month
  • 6 AI engines (adds Gemini, Copilot, Rufus)
Tier 3
AlsoAsked
Pro
$47/mo
  • 1,000 search credits per month
  • 1-year search history
  • API access
  • Deep search expansion
Goodie
Enterprise
Custom (quote-based)
  • 10+ seats
  • 500+ prompts tracked
  • 60+ optimization actions per month
  • All 11 answer engines

Feature parity

What each one ships that the other doesn't. We conservatively only include features each tool explicitly markets; absence here doesn't mean a feature is impossible, just that it isn't in their marquee list.

Only on AlsoAsked
  • PAA Tree Visualization. Branching diagram of People Also Ask questions showing how queries relate.
  • Deep Search. Expands each PAA branch multiple levels deeper for pillar and cluster planning.
  • Bulk Search. Upload up to 1,000 seed queries at once and process them in a batch.
  • CSV and PNG Export. Export results as PNG diagrams or CSV files for sharing with clients.
  • Public API. REST API for programmatically pulling PAA trees into custom workflows.
  • Locale Targeting. Choose any Google country and language for region-specific PAA data.
Only on Goodie
  • AI Visibility Monitoring. Tracks brand mentions, sentiment, ranking position, and top domains citing the brand across all 11 AI models. Segments performance by geography, persona, model language, and topic category. Enables competitive share-of-voice benchmarking.
  • Prompt Research. Discovers the actual customer prompts used in AI search and surfaces visibility opportunities. Helps teams identify which queries they are and are not appearing in across AI answer engines.
  • Agentic Commerce Suite. Tracks and optimizes product visibility inside AI shopping experiences on ChatGPT, Amazon Rufus, and Perplexity. A differentiating feature for e-commerce brands not commonly offered by other AEO platforms.

When each one wins

When AlsoAsked wins
  • Budget is the constraint. AlsoAsked starts at $12/mo vs Goodie's $∞/mo, so on a per-seat basis it's the cheaper way in.
  • Tree-style visualization of People Also Ask data is more useful for pillar-page planning than the AnswerThePublic radial diagram.
When Goodie wins
  • Platform coverage matters. Goodie monitors 11 AI platforms; AlsoAsked covers 0.
  • Broadest AI engine coverage in the category (11 platforms including niche engines like Amazon Rufus, DeepSeek, Grok, and Meta AI)
When neither wins (pick GrowthManager)
  • You don't have an in-house content team and you don't want to hire one.
  • You want one $999/mo invoice instead of stacking AlsoAsked plus an agency.
  • You need the team that measures to also act on the data, in the same week.
  • You're a B2B SaaS, services firm, or e-commerce brand at $20K+ MRR.

Reasons to pick one over the other

Reasons to pick AlsoAsked over Goodie

  1. Lower entry price. AlsoAsked publishes a clear entry tier at $12/mo; Goodie gates pricing.
  2. Faster product velocity. AlsoAsked has shipped 4 public launches in the last year vs Goodie's 1.
  3. What users praise most. Tree-style visualization of People Also Ask data is more useful for pillar-page planning than the AnswerThePublic radial diagram.
  4. EU data residency. AlsoAsked is HQ'd in Bath, UK, which simplifies GDPR data-processor agreements for European buyers.

Reasons to pick Goodie over AlsoAsked

  1. Broader AI platform coverage. Goodie tracks visibility across 11 AI engines vs AlsoAsked's 0.
  2. What users praise most. Broadest AI engine coverage in the category (11 platforms including niche engines like Amazon Rufus, DeepSeek, Grok, and Meta AI)

Switching from one to the other

From AlsoAsked to Goodie

Export your saved queries and prompt panels from AlsoAsked (most tools support CSV export). Most Goodie setups can import the same query list in a single CSV upload. Expect 1-2 days of parallel running so you can validate Goodie's data againstAlsoAsked's; one to two weeks of full reconciliation before you cancel AlsoAsked. The risk is annotation history: notes and tags don't survive most migrations, so screenshot anything you want to keep.

From Goodie to AlsoAsked

Same flow in reverse. Export from Goodie, import to AlsoAsked. The historical visibility data is the big loss; most platforms don't backfill from a competitor's data, so you start your trendline over.

From either to GrowthManager.ai

We handle the migration ourselves; you give us your query list (or we infer it from your existing dashboard) and we re-build the tracking on our infrastructure in week one. You also start getting content shipped from week one, so the switch produces results before the trendline restarts. The conversation that kicks this off is a 20-minute call.

Side by side, every number we could verify

AlsoAskedGoodie
Starts at (USD/mo)$12/moCustom (quote-based)
Founded20202022
HeadquartersBath, UKNew York City, United States
Funding raisedBootstrapped
AI platforms tracked11
G2 rating
Named customers
SOC 2 Type 2
GDPR✓ Yes
HIPAA

What real users say

Below: the recurring themes from G2, Capterra, SourceForge, Reddit, and case-study reviewers — distilled into the strengths and limitations that came up most often.

AlsoAskedwhat users praise

  • Tree-style visualization of People Also Ask data is more useful for pillar-page planning than the AnswerThePublic radial diagram.
  • Pulls live PAA data from Google, so questions reflect real SERP behavior instead of cached autocomplete suggestions.
  • Bulk search supports up to 1,000 queries at a time, which agency users say is rare at this price point.
  • Region and language targeting works for any Google locale, not just US English, which most cheap PAA tools restrict.
  • Free tier of three searches per day is genuinely usable for one-off content briefs without a signup.

AlsoAskedwhat users complain about

  • Only sources Google's PAA box; no data from Bing, YouTube, Reddit, or social platforms.
  • CSV export is paywalled behind the Lite tier; the $12 Basic plan only exports PNG images.
  • API access is locked to the $47/mo Pro plan, which blocks Lite users from automating workflows.
  • PAA relationships are algorithmic, not semantic, so the tree sometimes maps loose associations as if they were topical clusters.
  • Single-purpose tool; users still need a full SEO platform like Ahrefs or Semrush for keywords, backlinks, and audits.

Goodiewhat users praise

  • Broadest AI engine coverage in the category (11 platforms including niche engines like Amazon Rufus, DeepSeek, Grok, and Meta AI)
  • Actionable optimization layer that closes the loop between insights and execution inside a single platform
  • Delivers measurable, defensible business outcomes — documented client results across conversions, citations, and traffic
  • User-friendly dashboard with digestible metrics accessible to both technical and non-technical marketers
  • Multi-market, multilingual monitoring with region and language segmentation — a differentiator for global enterprise brands

Goodiewhat users complain about

  • No free trial — only demos and a free AI Search Assessment, putting it at a disadvantage vs. competitors that allow self-serve evaluation
  • Premium pricing with no published rates makes ROI justification difficult for smaller or budget-constrained teams
  • Onboarding complexity and setup friction — not self-serve; requires hands-on support and operational discipline to get started
  • Rapid product roadmap velocity creates a 'moving target' effect — users must stay constantly informed of changes
  • Not a replacement for traditional SEO tools — lacks site audits, keyword explorers, backlink crawlers, and web search monitoring

A third option

Both AlsoAsked and Goodieare tracking tools. They tell you what's wrong with your AI visibility. Neither one fixes it. That's our pitch for GrowthManager.ai — we do citation tracking too (parity with these two), and we also ship the content, configure the infrastructure, and run the distribution. $999/mo, managed end-to-end. If you're leaning toward picking one of these two and then hiring an agency to act on the data, it's worth a 20-minute conversation first.

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Frequently asked questions

Which is better, AlsoAsked or Goodie?

Honestly: neither one fully solves the problem. AlsoAsked and Goodie are tracking tools — they tell you where your brand shows up in AI answers but don't change the answer. If you only need one of these two, pick AlsoAsked for the cheaper monthly price; pick the other if its specific integrations matter to your team. Our actual editorial pick is GrowthManager.ai, which does the tracking and ships the content, infrastructure, and distribution as a single $999/mo managed program. Disclosure: we publish this comparison and make GrowthManager.

How much do AlsoAsked and Goodie cost?

AlsoAsked starts at $12/mo. Goodie starts at Custom (quote-based). Both have higher-tier plans for larger workspaces. GrowthManager.ai is a flat $999/mo for the full managed service (tracking + content + infrastructure + distribution) — usually cheaper than buying one of these two and hiring an agency on top.

Which AI platforms do AlsoAsked and Goodie cover?

AlsoAsked covers an undisclosed number of AI platforms. Goodie covers 11. Most tools in this space monitor ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity at minimum; the differences come down to less-common platforms (Copilot, Grok, Meta AI). GrowthManager.ai monitors the same four primary platforms and acts on the data.

Do AlsoAsked and Goodie actually improve your AI visibility, or just measure it?

Both AlsoAsked and Goodie are measurement tools. They show you where your brand appears (or doesn't) in AI answers, plus suggestions for what to improve. Neither one writes the content, configures the schema, or builds the backlinks that actually move the needle. To do that you need an in-house content team or an agency. GrowthManager.ai is the agency — and we include the tracking, so you don't pay twice.

What's the GrowthManager.ai alternative to AlsoAsked and Goodie?

GrowthManager.ai is a managed AI visibility program. We give you the same citation tracking these two offer (parity on the measurement layer), plus 100 researched and published articles per month, schema and llms.txt configuration, ongoing backlink acquisition, and Reddit/Quora seeding. One $999/mo invoice, one dedicated account manager, twelve clients per team member maximum so we can actually deliver. If you were going to buy one of these tools and then hire someone to use it, we're cheaper and faster.

Further reading

External research that informs the editorial framework on this page. We cite these openly because the framework is meant to be auditable.

  1. Microsoft Bing Webmaster Guidelines (2025)· Microsoft

    How Microsoft's crawlers parse content for Copilot, which now powers a large share of AI answers behind the scenes.

  2. Generative Engine Optimization research· Kevin Indig

    Long-running practitioner research on what gets cited in AI-generated answers; the most-quoted source in the GEO category.

  3. Zero-Click Search forecasts· Gartner

    Industry forecasts on how a growing share of buyer queries end without a click to the brand site, making AI-answer presence the new pole position.

  4. Audience intelligence analyses· SparkToro

    Public datasets on how audiences actually discover brands across search, social, and now AI surfaces.

  5. Trust Barometer (2024)· Edelman

    The annual study on how buyers weigh source authority, used to weight our trust criterion against third-party review volume.

Disclosure + methodology

GrowthManager.ai makes a competing product in the AI visibility space, so this comparison is not neutral. Every pricing number was pulled from each competitor's public pricing page or triangulated from third-party reviews when the page is JavaScript-gated. Pros, cons, and user-review themes are distilled from real G2, Capterra, SourceForge, Reddit, and case-study reviews with the quotes preserved verbatim. We update this comparison whenever the underlying data changes.