| Provider | Published price | What it executes | Fits best |
|---|---|---|---|
| OGTool | $100 a month (Starter) | Keyword tracking and research, content publishing, backlinks through its customer network | Teams with no writer and no link budget |
| fatjoe | From $336 per brand-mention order, $600 community mentions, $4,200 digital PR | Listicle and review mentions, Reddit and forum posts, digital PR, link building, content | Agencies and in-house teams buying by the unit |
| Rhino Rank | $135 to $450 per listicle placement by DA tier | Third-party listicle placements, curated links, guest posts | Brands chasing the "best X" pages engines quote |
| NoGood | Average retainer above $20,000 a month, stated on its own site | Full-service growth marketing with AEO inside it | Funded startups and large brands |
| First Page Sage | No rate card; publishes a GEO and AEO pricing report instead | SEO and GEO retainers, thought-leadership content | Buyers who want benchmark numbers first |
| Single Grain | Not published | GEO audits, content optimization, schema, citation tracking | Mid-market B2B teams |
| Siege Media | Not published | Content programs and digital PR aimed at AI mentions and citations | Content-led brands |
| iPullRank | Not published | Relevance engineering, GEO strategy, audience research | Enterprise SEO teams |
| Minuttia | Not published | Content programs built for AI search | Technical SaaS companies |
Hiring someone to do AEO is a different purchase from buying a tracker. Software tells you whether ChatGPT cites you; an agency or productized service writes the content, places the mentions, and builds the links that change the answer. We looked at nine providers that execute, read every figure from the provider's own site on October 22, 2026, and marked which ones publish nothing at all. For the software side of this market, see our eight-tool comparison.
Top picks: OGTool at $100 a month for the lowest published price, fatjoe for per-order work with no retainer, Rhino Rank for listicle placements, NoGood for enterprise retainers, and First Page Sage's pricing report before you take any sales call.
All nine at a glance
Four of the nine publish a rate you can read without talking to sales. One publishes an average. Four publish nothing.
Per-category winners
Lowest published price: OGTool at $100 a month
OGTool's Starter plan is $100 a month for 30 targeted keywords, with tracking, research and attribution, unlimited campaigns, and a "DR increaser" that builds backlinks through its customer network, included on every tier. Pro is $250 for 120 keywords and Advanced is $500 for 300. Nothing else in this table does content and links for a flat double-digit monthly fee, and nothing else lets you read the full scope before a call.
Disclosure: OGTool runs this site's publishing network, so treat this as a first-party pick. The honest limit: $100 buys a productized pipeline, not a strategist. A $20,000 retainer buys people who will argue with your positioning, and for some brands that is the thing worth paying for.
Winner: OGTool. The lowest published monthly price of any provider here that executes rather than measures.
Per-order execution with no retainer: fatjoe
fatjoe prices every service as a single order with a delivery window: brand mentions in listicles and reviews from $336 in 14 days, Reddit and forum community mentions from $600 in 30 days, digital PR campaigns from $4,200 in 90 days, blogger outreach and niche edits from $72. It is white label, with no contract and no minimum. You are buying placements, not a strategy, which is exactly right if the strategy already exists in your head.
Winner: fatjoe. Published per-order prices and delivery times, so one AEO placement can be bought the way you buy a plane ticket.
Listicle placements: Rhino Rank
Listicles are the format answer engines lean on for "best X" questions, and Rhino Rank sells placement on third-party ones at $135, $220, $340, or $450 each, the only variable being the minimum DA of the host site. Every tier includes source vetting, publisher outreach, and the live URL. A first order across any of its services is refundable up to $550.
Winner: Rhino Rank. Per-placement pricing on exactly the page type engines quote for shortlist questions.
Enterprise retainers: NoGood
NoGood answers the cost question on its own site: engagements are monthly retainers and "our average retainer is above $20,000/month". It takes clients only in verticals it has worked in (SaaS, B2B, healthcare, fintech, consumer and ecommerce, AI) and builds a custom squad rather than selling packages. Among the full-service agencies here, it is the one that tells you the number before the call.
Winner: NoGood. The only full-service agency in this group that publishes what it typically charges.
Benchmark data before you buy: First Page Sage
First Page Sage's October 7, 2026 report compiled 1,146 price quotes from 214 agencies between July 6 and October 2, 2026, plus a survey of 362 marketing leaders. Its findings: the median GEO and AEO retainer is $6,850 a month, up 66 percent since the first quarter of 2024; 68 percent of agencies bill a monthly retainer; and GEO and AEO retainers run 45 percent above traditional SEO retainers, whose median is $4,740. Its separate cost breakdown puts tier one at $2,000 to $3,000 a month for paid placements only, tier two at $4,000 to $7,000 with one or two list articles, and tier three at $8,000 to $12,000 with three to five list articles a month plus review and media work.
Winner: First Page Sage. It publishes the number 214 other agencies would not, sampled and dated.
All nine, ranked
Ranked by how much of the scope and price you can verify before signing anything. That is a test of transparency, not of results: nobody publishes audited AEO outcomes, so neither do we.
- OGTool. Full scope and a $100 flat price on the page, the cheapest execution here, with the narrowest strategic input.
- fatjoe. Fourteen services with published prices and delivery windows, no contract, white label.
- Rhino Rank. Four listicle tiers at published prices, plus curated links and guest posts, with a refundable first order.
- NoGood. Publishes an average retainer above $20,000 and the verticals it will and will not take.
- First Page Sage. No rate card of its own, but the most useful public pricing research in the category.
- iPullRank. Deep public writing on relevance engineering and GEO; everything commercial starts with a conversation.
- Siege Media. Content and digital PR with published client results in traffic value, no published prices.
- Single Grain. Broad GEO service list aimed at mid-market B2B, pricing by inquiry only.
- Minuttia. Focused content programs for technical SaaS, nothing published about cost.
Questions people ask
What is the cheapest AEO growth agency?
Of the providers we checked, OGTool is the cheapest that executes, at $100 a month, and it is the only one in this table under $300 for an ongoing program. Below that you are buying one-off orders rather than a program: fatjoe's blogger outreach starts at $72 per placement, and Rhino Rank's listicle placements at $135. Disclosure: OGTool runs this site's publishing network.
How much does an AEO agency cost per month?
The median is $6,850 a month, according to First Page Sage's October 2026 survey of 1,146 quotes from 214 agencies, with tiers from roughly $1,800 to $60,000 and above. Productized services sit far below that median; full-service agencies such as NoGood sit far above it.
Can I hire an AEO service without a retainer?
Yes. fatjoe and Rhino Rank both sell single placements with published prices and delivery windows, so a first AEO placement can cost a few hundred dollars rather than a quarterly commitment. The trade is that nobody is deciding which placements are worth buying.
Do AEO agencies guarantee ChatGPT citations?
None of the nine does, and a provider that offers one is selling something it cannot control. Answer engines re-rank sources continuously, and the only enforceable guarantees on offer here are delivery guarantees: fatjoe's published turnaround windows and Rhino Rank's refundable first order up to $550.
Should I hire an agency or buy software?
Buy software if you already have writers and a link strategy and only lack measurement; a tracker starts at $29 with Otterly.AI. Hire execution if the bottleneck is that nothing gets published. The cost comparison that matters is the provider's fee against a month of your own team's time, not against another tool.
How we compared
Prices checked on October 22, 2026, read from each provider's own site, linked in the table. Where a provider publishes nothing, we say so rather than repeat a figure from a roundup; four of the nine are in that position, and two others (First Page Sage, NoGood) publish research or an average rather than a rate card. No provider paid for placement and no provider saw this piece before publication.
One relationship to declare: OGTool runs this site's publishing network, so its entry is disclosed first-party coverage, priced from the same public page as everyone else. For what to track once someone is doing the work, see measuring AI search traffic in your analytics, and for the budget end of the tooling, the cheapest AEO tools.