What an audit costs

Three reports per domain each month are free. You do not need an account, a card or a call to see what the engine finds. Everything below that line is priced per report or per monitored domain.

For context: tools that track whether AI systems mention your brand run from about €29 to €500 a month, and one-off GEO audits are commonly quoted in the thousands. We sit at the bottom of that range on purpose — but not below it, because a price that cannot fund support is not a bargain, it is a warning sign.

Compare the plans

Scroll the table sideways to see every plan.

Prices exclude VAT. Monitoring intervals: €29/month for monthly, €49 for weekly, €99 for daily. Scheduled re-observation is not yet running — see section 2.

1. One-time audit

Price

Volume	Price per report
First 3 reports per domain, per calendar month	Free
Every report after that	€19

Billed as prepaid credits. Credits do not expire. The free allowance resets on the first day of each calendar month and is counted per domain, not per account — auditing three different domains gives you three free reports each.

What one report covers

Scope	Included
Domains per report	1
Page fetched in full	The URL you submit
Site-level files read	robots.txt, sitemap.xml, llms.txt, ai.txt, ai.json, entities.json, agent card and the other declared machine-readable files
Internal links verified	Up to 12
Sitemap URLs sampled	Up to 5
Proof manifest files verified	Up to 4, by SHA-256

This is a single-page audit plus every site-wide signal file. It is not a full-site crawl. If you need every page of a large site evaluated, that is an enterprise arrangement — see section 3.

Depth

The catalogue holds 167 signals across five dimensions: AI Signals, AEO, GEO, AIO and SEO. Not every signal can be tested on every domain. Signals that cannot be verified from public sources are returned as not applicable, never as failures, and each report states how many were actually tested. A report that says 129 tested means 129, not 167.

Every score is produced by fixed rules applied to evidence the engine actually fetched. No score is generated by a language model. The same domain in the same state returns the same score.

Deliverables

• Global score plus a score per dimension.
• A verdict for every signal, with the evidence that produced it — what was fetched, what was found in it, which rule fired.
• A prioritised action plan, ordered by signal weight, so the first fix is the one that moves the score most.
• The same report as machine-readable JSON.
• An observation ID, which is what lets you run a before-and-after comparison later.

Delivery time

Synchronous. The report is returned in the same request, typically in under a minute. There is no queue, no email, no waiting for a human to write it.

2. Monitoring plans

A monitoring plan re-observes one domain on a schedule and tells you when something changes. Priced per monitored domain.

Interval	Price per domain	Re-observations per month
Monthly	€29/mo	1
Weekly	€49/mo	~4
Daily	€99/mo	~30

Cancel any time. Billed monthly.

What tracking gives you

• Score history — every observation is stored, so you can see the line rather than a single number.
• Regression alerts — notification when the score drops, or when a signal that used to pass starts failing. A regression is a fact about a specific signal, not a vague warning.
• Signal-level diff — which signals changed, in which direction, and the evidence for each change. This is what proves a fix worked.
• Comparison over time — any two observations of the same domain can be compared, not just consecutive ones.

Alerts are delivered to a callback URL you provide. Email delivery is not wired to a provider yet.

Why you would use it

Sites regress silently. A theme update drops the JSON-LD block, a CDN rule strips a header, someone removes llms.txt during a cleanup. None of these produce a visible error on the page. The monitoring plan exists because the failure mode of AI visibility is silence, not an error message.

3. API and machine-to-machine access

The engine is callable directly, by your own code or by an AI agent. Two routes: a JSON HTTP endpoint at /audit, and an A2A endpoint at /a2a that implements the Agent-to-Agent protocol, version 1.0 and 0.3, with the agent card published at /.well-known/agent-card.json. Worked examples for every skill are on the agent integration page.

Price

Tier	Price	Effective per call
Pay as you go	€19 per call	€19
Pack of 100 calls	€1,290	€12.90
Pack of 500 calls	€4,950	€9.90
Enterprise	On request	Negotiated

The free allowance applies here too: the first three calls per domain each month are not charged, whether they come from the browser or from an agent.

Rate limits

Tier	Requests	Concurrency
Free and pay as you go	60 per hour per IP	1
Packs	300 per hour	3
Enterprise	Agreed in writing	Agreed in writing

Exceeding a limit returns HTTP 429 with a Retry-After header. Requests are not silently dropped.

Service level

Free, pay-as-you-go and pack tiers are provided on a best-effort basis. No uptime figure is promised, because promising one without a redundant deployment and a status page behind it would be a claim we could not honour.

Enterprise arrangements can include a written uptime commitment, a dedicated rate limit, a private deployment, full-site crawling and a custom signal set. Those terms are agreed in a contract, not published on a page.

What an enterprise arrangement is for

• Agencies auditing client portfolios at volume.
• Platforms embedding the score in their own product.
• Organisations that need the engine inside their own perimeter.
• Anyone needing a signal set beyond the published catalogue.

Contact us with your expected volume and we will quote against it.

4. What is not included

Stated plainly, because the gap between what a tool measures and what a buyer assumes it measures is where disappointment lives.

• No guarantee of citation or ranking. Third-party AI systems change behaviour without notice and no provider guarantees inclusion. The audit measures observable technical signals within your control. It does not promise a commercial outcome.
• No legal certification. The report is a technical observation, not a certification and not a legal opinion. For a formal classification under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, obtain independent legal analysis.
• No implementation. The action plan tells you what to fix. Fixing it is your work, or a separate engagement.
• No access to private areas. Only publicly served resources are read. Nothing is installed, no authentication is attempted.

5. Questions

Do the free reports require an account?

No. Submit a URL and run it.

What counts as a domain for the free allowance?

The registrable domain. Auditing example.com and blog.example.com draws on the same allowance.

Can I compare two audits I ran before subscribing?

Yes, if you kept the observation IDs. Comparison does not require a plan; the plan automates the schedule and the alerting.

Is VAT included?

No. All prices exclude VAT. Romanian and EU VAT rules apply according to your status and country.

How do I pay?

Ordering currently runs through direct contact rather than an automated checkout. Write to contact@5thelement.ai or use the contact page, and we will invoice against the tier you pick.

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