AirOps vs Clearscope

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors.

The short answer

Free plan: Only AirOps (Clearscope has paid plans only)
Public API: AirOps has one; not confirmed by us for Clearscope
Higher Trust score: AirOps — 92 vs 81 for Clearscope
Best fit: AirOps: In-house SEO and content teams whose organic traffic is being eaten by AI answers · Clearscope: Content teams with several writers who need one shared grading standard
Status: Both up at our last check (Sep 6, 2026)

From our own records as of each tool's last check. Anything we have not confirmed is left out rather than guessed. How we verify

AirOpsTracks brand mentions in AI answers and closes content gaps

ClearscopeGrades drafts against what already ranks, and now tracks whether ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude recommend you.

Side by side

Fact	AirOps	Clearscope
Category	AI Visibility & AEO/GEO	SEO Tools
Pricing model	Freemium	Paid
Starts at	—	$129/mo
Public API	Yes	Not confirmed
Trust score	92 / 100	81 / 100
Platforms	Web, API	Web
Company	AirOps	Mushi Labs LLC
Launched	2022	—
Last verified	Sep 6, 2026	Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

AirOps

Built for content teams with real budget who need both AI-citation measurement and the production capacity to act on it. If you only want to see where you rank in ChatGPT answers, a pure tracking tool costs a fraction of this.

Pros

Measurement and production in one system, so gaps flow straight into briefs and refreshes
Multi-engine tracking (Google, Perplexity, OpenAI, Gemini) rather than a single-source view
Genuine API, SDKs and MCP servers make it scriptable instead of UI-only
Free Insights tier lets you validate the tracking data before any commitment

Cons

No public prices above the free tier — Solo and Pro both route to sales
Task-based metering makes cost forecasting hard until you have run a month
Free tier is capped at one user and 1,000 tasks, enough to look but not to work
Positioning has shifted repeatedly from AI app builder to marketing workflows to AI search visibility

Clearscope

Clearscope is the content-grading tool editorial teams tend to settle on when they want writers to see a score while they write and not fight a bloated interface, and the Google Docs and WordPress hooks are why. The AI-visibility tracking across ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude is a real addition rather than a label, but at $129 a month for 50 tracked queries it is priced for teams with a content budget, not for a solo blogger optimising a few posts.

Pros

Term-coverage grading reads cleanly and updates live in Google Docs and WordPress
Unlimited users and projects on every plan, so the price does not scale with headcount
Tracks brand presence and competitor recommendations inside ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude
Monthly billing with no minimum contract and a 14-day trial

Cons

$129/month entry price with only 50 tracked queries and 20 drafts a month
Add-on pricing for pages and drafts is shown without stating which tier each price applies to
No public API found and no Chrome extension on the site today
The Google Docs add-on is private and installed through a direct marketplace link, which confuses first-time setup

Which one fits

Choose AirOps if you need

In-house SEO and content teams whose organic traffic is being eaten by AI answers
Agencies running programmatic content at scale across many client sites
Engineering-adjacent marketers who will actually use the workflow API rather than the UI

Choose Clearscope if you need

Content teams with several writers who need one shared grading standard
Publishers that draft in Google Docs or WordPress and want the score in the editor
Marketing teams that now have to report on brand mentions in AI answers as well as rankings