Proofsource vs VisiScan
VisiScan is built for local service businesses: a free scan, a one-time full report and a low cost weekly monitor, with questions localized to where you operate. Proofsource reads more questions, as often as daily, includes Google AI Overviews, and drafts a fix for each gap.
Proofsource and VisiScan in five facts
Price
- Proofsource
- Free trial, then plans from $9 a month (5 questions on ChatGPT, weekly)
- VisiScan
- Free scan $0; full report $49 one-time; Monitor $29 a month or $290 a year[1]
Free trial
- Proofsource
- 2 days free, 4 engines, no card
- VisiScan
- Free scan, no signup, no credit card: 5 buyer questions on up to 4 engines[1]
AI engines covered
- Proofsource
- 4 on the trial, up to 4 on a paid plan
- VisiScan
- Up to four configured models; current scan APIs are ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity, with Gemini named in the agent[2]
How often answers are re-read
- Proofsource
- Daily, weekly or monthly, you choose
- VisiScan
- Weekly re-scans on Monitor; the free scan and full report are one-off[1]
Seats
- Proofsource
- Unlimited team members
- VisiScan
- No per-seat license[1]
What VisiScan is, and who it is for
A scanner for local businesses. VisiScan reads your site, works out your market and asks AI engines localized buyer questions, multi-sampled and majority voted, then shows who they name instead.[2]
Plumbers, dentists, lawyers and their agencies. Its list of fits runs from plumbers and HVAC to dentists, lawyers and clinics, and agencies can scan any client URL with no per-seat license.[1][2]
Proofsource is an AI intelligence platform that shows which buyer questions name your brand in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews, who gets named instead, and exactly what to fix.
Proofsource and VisiScan, fact by fact
Each VisiScan cell links to the page it came from. Where VisiScan does not publish a detail, the cell says so instead of guessing.
| Question | Proofsource | VisiScan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free trial, then one price card at self-serve checkout: each brand pays daily ($28 a brand a month) or weekly ($7), plus each question on each engine, plans from $9 a month (5 questions on ChatGPT, weekly). No overage charges | Free scan $0; full report $49 one-time; Monitor $29 a month or $290 a year[1] |
| Free trial | 200 answers. 25 Prompts/Question. Top AI engines. 2 days. Free. No card, no sales call | Free scan, no signup, no credit card: 5 buyer questions on up to 4 engines[1] |
| AI engines covered | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews on the trial. Paid plans pick from those 4, each priced per question; Google AI Mode, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek and Meta AI are enabled on a call |     Up to four configured models; current scan APIs are ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity, with Gemini named in the agent[2] |
| How often answers are re-read | Daily or weekly, chosen per plan; daily is one answer per question per engine per UTC day. The trial reads every engine on 2 consecutive days | Weekly re-scans on Monitor; the free scan and full report are one-off[1] |
| Seats | Unlimited team members on every plan. The agency workspace is free, with client workspaces, scoped members and Client Viewer seats set up on a call | No per-seat license[1] |
| How a number is measured | A 95% Wilson interval on every percentage; alerts wait until a change clears it | The full report samples each question 3 times per engine, majority voted; no interval published[2] |
| What it does about a gap | Each gap names the pages the engine cited instead, with a draft fix held for your approval | A highest-impact fix on the free scan; the full report adds a prioritized fix plan and citation gaps[2] |
Where each shines
Both tools are built well for different teams. Each point is a strength, read from that vendor's own pages.
Where VisiScan shines
Where Proofsource shines
- More questions from day one. The free trial alone asks 25 buyer questions on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews; VisiScan's Monitor tracks 12.
- Daily, if you choose it. VisiScan's Monitor re-runs weekly; Proofsource can re-ask every question daily.
- A drafted fix per gap. Each gap comes with a draft built from the cited pages, held for approval.
Proofsource or VisiScan: the fair verdict
VisiScan is unusually open about its method for a tool its size, and for a single local business its prices are hard to argue with.
Proofsource is the stronger choice once the question set grows, once you need daily reads, or once Google AI Overviews matters to your buyers.
Choose VisiScan if you want
- Priced for one local business
- Open about its method
Choose Proofsource if you want
- More questions from day one
- Daily, if you choose it
- A drafted fix per gap
Already using VisiScan?
You do not have to choose on day one. Here is how teams run Proofsource beside VisiScan and decide on their own data.
Keep VisiScan running
Nothing about trying Proofsource needs you to stop VisiScan. Your history and reports there stay where they are.
Bring your questions across
Export or copy the prompts you track in VisiScan and add them as buyer questions in Proofsource, so both tools ask the same things.
Run both side by side
Read the two for the same days on your own domain. Where the numbers differ, Proofsource shows the answers and the pages each engine cited, so you can see why.
Keep what serves your team
Many teams keep one tool for reporting and another for fixes. Pick on your own evidence, not on a comparison page.
Proofsource or VisiScan: what buyers ask
What are the best alternatives to Otterly.AI for tracking brand recommendations in AI search?
Some AI answers to that question named VisiScan, which suits a local business that wants a cheap weekly check of 12 questions. Proofsource suits a brand that needs ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews read daily with an interval on each rate. We have not verified Otterly.AI's plans here.
How much does VisiScan cost?
The free scan is $0, the full report $49 one-time, and Monitor $29 a month or $290 a year.
How often does VisiScan re-scan?
Weekly, on the Monitor plan, at full-report depth.
Where each fact about VisiScan comes from
- VisiScan pricing, read Oct 5, 2026.
- VisiScan homepage, read Oct 5, 2026.
Vendors change their pages. If a VisiScan fact here no longer matches their site, tell us through the contact page and we will correct it.
Your own trial settles this faster than any comparison page.
200 answers. 25 Prompts/Question. Top AI engines. 2 days. Free. No card, and the report is about your domain: which buyer questions name you, who gets named instead, and what to fix.
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