Head-to-head review · Updated June 2026

Goodie vs Moz: which one wins in 2026?

Goodie and Moz 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. Moz is the more-funded incumbent; Goodie is the leaner challenger.

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

The verdict
Pick

Goodie

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

Pick

Moz

Pick Moz if you want the better-funded company ($29.1M before acquisition: $1.1M Series A (2007, Ignition Partners and Curious Office), $18M Series B (2012, Foundry Group and Ignition Partners), plus growth funding).

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 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

The case for Moz

Moz has raised $29.1M before acquisition: $1.1M Series A (2007, Ignition Partners and Curious Office), $18M Series B (2012, Foundry Group and Ignition Partners), plus growth funding (Acquired by iContact Marketing (J2 Global/Ziff Davis) in 2021). Founded by Rand Fishkin, Gillian Muessig, based in Seattle, WA. Pricing starts at $39/mo.

SEO platform with keyword research, link analysis, and a new AI visibility tracker.

What people praise

  • Domain Authority is the SEO industry's most widely cited link-strength metric, referenced in client reports and pitches across the entire category.
  • Moz Academy and the free MozBar Chrome extension drive deep brand trust that Ahrefs and Semrush spend millions to match.
  • Capterra rating sits at 4.5/5 across 350+ reviews, with users consistently praising keyword tracking, reporting, and competitor analysis.
  • Page Optimization Suggestions tool gives actionable on-page recommendations that are friendlier to non-SEO teams than Ahrefs Site Audit.

Where it falls short

  • Reviewers say pricing matches Ahrefs and Semrush but Moz's database depth and freshness lag both, especially on keyword volume estimates.
  • Additional user seats cost $49/mo each on every plan, which agencies call a hidden cost compared to Ahrefs' bundled seats.
  • Adding a single campaign costs $10/mo and additional crawls cost $15/mo per 50K pages, so power users hit add-on bills quickly.
  • UX is described as dated and harder to navigate than Ahrefs or Semrush, particularly on Site Crawl and Page Grader screens.

Pricing, tier by tier

Tier 1
Goodie
Explorer
Custom (quote-based)
  • 3 seats
  • 100 prompts tracked
  • 10 optimization actions per month
  • 3 AI engines (ChatGPT, AI Overview, Perplexity)
Moz
Starter
$39/mo
  • 1 campaign
  • Basic keyword research
  • Site Crawl with limited pages
  • Limited rank tracking
Tier 2
Goodie
Pro
Custom (quote-based)
  • 5 seats
  • 250 prompts tracked
  • 30 optimization actions per month
  • 6 AI engines (adds Gemini, Copilot, Rufus)
Moz
Standard
$79/mo
  • 3 campaigns
  • Keyword Explorer with monthly query limit
  • Site Crawl up to 100K pages
  • Page Optimization Suggestions
Tier 3
Goodie
Enterprise
Custom (quote-based)
  • 10+ seats
  • 500+ prompts tracked
  • 60+ optimization actions per month
  • All 11 answer engines
Moz
Medium
$143/mo
  • 10 campaigns
  • Higher keyword query limits
  • Site Crawl up to 500K pages
  • On-page grader
Tier 4
Goodie
Moz
Large
$239/mo
  • 25 campaigns
  • Highest keyword research limits
  • Site Crawl up to 2M pages
  • Higher rank tracking limits

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 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.
Only on Moz
  • Domain Authority. Proprietary 0-100 score predicting a domain's likelihood of ranking, used as a benchmark across the SEO industry.
  • Keyword Explorer. Search volume, difficulty, organic CTR, and SERP analysis for keyword research and prioritization.
  • Site Crawl. Cloud crawler that audits technical SEO issues and tracks them over time across campaigns.
  • Rank Tracker. Daily and weekly position tracking across desktop and mobile, with STAT-powered enterprise tracking on higher tiers.
  • Link Explorer. Backlink index for prospecting, lost-link recovery, and competitor link gap analysis.
  • MozBar. Free Chrome extension surfacing DA, PA, link metrics, and on-page elements while browsing the web.

When each one wins

When Goodie wins
  • Platform coverage matters. Goodie monitors 11 AI platforms; Moz covers 0.
  • Broadest AI engine coverage in the category (11 platforms including niche engines like Amazon Rufus, DeepSeek, Grok, and Meta AI)
When Moz wins
  • Budget is the constraint. Moz starts at $39/mo vs Goodie's $∞/mo, so on a per-seat basis it's the cheaper way in.
  • You want the better-funded incumbent. Moz has raised $29.1M before acquisition: $1.1M Series A (2007, Ignition Partners and Curious Office), $18M Series B (2012, Foundry Group and Ignition Partners), plus growth funding, giving it more runway and shipping velocity.
  • Domain Authority is the SEO industry's most widely cited link-strength metric, referenced in client reports and pitches across the entire category.
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 Goodie 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 Goodie over Moz

  1. Broader AI platform coverage. Goodie tracks visibility across 11 AI engines vs Moz's 0.
  2. Built for the LLM era. Goodie was founded in 2022, built around AI search from day one; Moz dates back to 2004 and is retrofitting.
  3. What users praise most. Broadest AI engine coverage in the category (11 platforms including niche engines like Amazon Rufus, DeepSeek, Grok, and Meta AI)

Reasons to pick Moz over Goodie

  1. Lower entry price. Moz publishes a clear entry tier at $39/mo; Goodie gates pricing.
  2. More plan flexibility. Moz offers 4 pricing tiers vs Goodie's 3, so there's a better chance one fits your team size.
  3. Better-funded incumbent. Moz has raised $29.1M before acquisition: $1.1M Series A (2007, Ignition Partners and Curious Office), $18M Series B (2012, Foundry Group and Ignition Partners), plus growth funding, giving it more runway and shipping velocity than Goodie.
  4. More verified reviews. Moz has 569 G2 reviews vs Goodie's none on file, so the average rating carries more weight.
  5. Faster product velocity. Moz has shipped 4 public launches in the last year vs Goodie's 1.
  6. More mature platform. Moz (founded 2004) has had more time to harden the product than Goodie (2022).
  7. What users praise most. Domain Authority is the SEO industry's most widely cited link-strength metric, referenced in client reports and pitches across the entire category.

Switching from one to the other

From Goodie to Moz

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

From Moz to Goodie

Same flow in reverse. Export from Moz, import to Goodie. 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

GoodieMoz
Starts at (USD/mo)Custom (quote-based)$39/mo
Founded20222004
HeadquartersNew York City, United StatesSeattle, WA
Funding raised$29.1M before acquisition: $1.1M Series A (2007, Ignition Partners and Curious Office), $18M Series B (2012, Foundry Group and Ignition Partners), plus growth funding
AI platforms tracked11
G2 rating4.3 / 5 (569 reviews)
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.

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

Mozwhat users praise

  • Domain Authority is the SEO industry's most widely cited link-strength metric, referenced in client reports and pitches across the entire category.
  • Moz Academy and the free MozBar Chrome extension drive deep brand trust that Ahrefs and Semrush spend millions to match.
  • Capterra rating sits at 4.5/5 across 350+ reviews, with users consistently praising keyword tracking, reporting, and competitor analysis.
  • Page Optimization Suggestions tool gives actionable on-page recommendations that are friendlier to non-SEO teams than Ahrefs Site Audit.
  • STAT Search Analytics acquisition (2018) gives enterprise customers daily SERP tracking at scale that competitors charge premium add-on fees for.

Mozwhat users complain about

  • Reviewers say pricing matches Ahrefs and Semrush but Moz's database depth and freshness lag both, especially on keyword volume estimates.
  • Additional user seats cost $49/mo each on every plan, which agencies call a hidden cost compared to Ahrefs' bundled seats.
  • Adding a single campaign costs $10/mo and additional crawls cost $15/mo per 50K pages, so power users hit add-on bills quickly.
  • UX is described as dated and harder to navigate than Ahrefs or Semrush, particularly on Site Crawl and Page Grader screens.
  • 2021 acquisition by iContact Marketing (J2 Global/Ziff Davis) slowed feature shipping noticeably, per longtime customers on Reddit.

A third option

Both Goodie and Mozare 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, Goodie or Moz?

Honestly: neither one fully solves the problem. Goodie and Moz 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 Goodie 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 Goodie and Moz cost?

Goodie starts at Custom (quote-based). Moz starts at $39/mo. 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 Goodie and Moz cover?

Goodie covers 11 AI platforms. Moz covers an undisclosed number of. 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 Goodie and Moz actually improve your AI visibility, or just measure it?

Both Goodie and Moz 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 Goodie and Moz?

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.