Otterly.AI vs AnswerLine
Otterly.AI is a monitoring dashboard: tracked prompts, brand reports and a visibility index, tiered by prompt count. AnswerLine is the collection layer — answers and sources as JSON per request, for every account.
Model and coverage
| Otterly.AI | AnswerLine | |
|---|---|---|
| Product shape | A dashboard: daily tracking of a fixed set of prompts, brand reports, a visibility index and link-citation analysis. | An API: one request returns one engine's answer as JSON, for your own tracking, research or features. |
| AI engines | ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity and Copilot on all plans; Gemini, AI Mode and Claude are paid add-ons per plan. | ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Grok, Google AI Mode, Google Search, and Google News; Google Search includes its AI Overview. One prepaid balance covers every engine. |
| API access | Standard and above: 2,000–5,000 requests/month on top of the dashboard. | It is the product. SDKs, n8n node and a hosted MCP server for every account, free requests included. |
| Countries | Multi-country support (65+). | Country targeting on every request. |
Pricing (monthly billing)
| Otterly.AI | AnswerLine | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry | Lite: $29/mo for 15 search prompts; no API. | 100 free requests on any engine, no card; then a prepaid USD balance topped up from $1. |
| Mid tier | Standard: $189/mo for 100 prompts and 2,000 API requests; Premium: $489/mo for 400 prompts and 5,000 API requests. | Cost is linear in requests — no prompt-count tiers; bigger spend tiers only lower the price. |
| Enterprise | Custom plans from $1,000/mo. | Usage is already unlimited; Enterprise adds contractual terms, not gates. |
When each fits
Otterly.AI fits marketers who want a finished monitoring product: a fixed set of prompts watched daily with reports attached. An API fits teams that want the underlying answers and source lists — to build a tracker, power agency reporting, or run research at whatever cadence and prompt volume the schedule needs.
Prompt-tier pricing charges for the bundle whether or not every prompt runs, and API access starts at the $189 tier. Per-request pricing charges only for the answers collected, and the API is the product for every account.