AthenaHQ measures on a schedule you set and publishes content to many CMSs, with a free plan and Starter at $295 a month. XORV measures every day on its paid plans, counts buyer questions rather than credits, and never counts a failed answer as zero.
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At a glance
Who AthenaHQ fits
Marketing teams, from smaller companies to large enterprises and agencies, that want many engines and content published straight to their CMS or store.
Who XORV fits
Brands and agencies that want daily measurement, plans counted in buyer questions, and failed answers kept apart from zero.
The main difference
AthenaHQ reaches more engines and more CMSs. XORV measures every day on its paid plans, and counts questions rather than credits.
AthenaHQ and XORV, row by row
Fifteen rows in five groups. Each cell was read on November 2, 2026 unless it shows another date, from the page its number opens. Where a company’s website says nothing, the cell reads “Not disclosed”, never “No”.
What is comparedAthenaHQXORV
Measurement
What one measurement is
A tracked prompt asked of each selected engine; each answer collected uses a credit.1
A buyer question, sent word for word to every engine in the plan.11
AI engines
Five on the free plan; 11 on Starter, adding Google AI Mode, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI and Mistral; more on request.2
ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overview on Core and Agency, with Claude and Google AI Mode coming. Free: ChatGPT. Pro: ChatGPT and Perplexity.12
Countries and languages
Starter: country level, one region and one language. Enterprise: several countries, regions and languages.2
The market and language you choose: one on Free and Pro, two on Core, ten on Agency.1213
How often
On a schedule you set, weekly or on chosen days of the month; prompts can also be re-run on demand.1
Every day on Pro, Core and Agency; every week on Free.12
Evidence
Shows the sources answers cite
YesThe domains and pages answers cite, classed as owned, competitor, partner or third party.3
YesThe pages each answer cites, with your own site marked.14
Starter covers 11 AI platforms, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek and Mistral among them, with more on request. 2
Sources, classified
Its sources view classes every cited domain as owned, competitor, partner or third party, filtered by engine and country. 3
Publishing to many systems
It connects to eight CMSs and stores, from WordPress and Shopify to Sanity, so drafted content is published without leaving the product. 5
It checks the live page
After a page edit is applied, it checks the live URL on a schedule and flags any difference from the approved draft. 10
What XORV does differently
Each screen below comes from Dunelight, a made-up coffee roaster in XORV’s example workspace. Its numbers follow XORV’s rules; no real company appears.
Measured every day
AthenaHQ re-runs prompts on the schedule you set, weekly or monthly. On XORV’s paid plans every buyer question is measured every day, on every engine in the plan.
AthenaHQ plans are counted in credits, one for each answer collected. XORV plans count buyer questions: each one is asked of every engine in the plan, every run, and opens to the full answer.
Talvara Coffee is named in 22 of 44 answers this run, Dunelight in 12. The gap is on delivery and subscription questions, where talvara.coffee is cited and Dunelight is often left out.
12 of 44 answers name you
Which sources leave us out?
What do we fix first?
Example
Prices, as each company publishes them
AthenaHQ’s plans from its pricing page, XORV’s from its own. Prices change: each number opens the page it was read from.
AthenaHQ
EssentialFree300 credits, five engines, unlimited users.2
Starter$295/month3,600 credits a month, 11 engines, unlimited prompts and competitors.2
EnterprisePrice on requestCustom credits, several regions and languages, single sign-on.2
XORV
FreeFreeSee where your brand stands before you decide.
Pro$20/monthFor one brand starting to track its AI visibility.
Core$129/monthThe full reading for one brand: every live engine, two markets.
Agency$549/monthMany clients in one workspace, with one shared pool of questions.
Monthly prices in US dollars. Payment is not open yet. See every plan
Moving from AthenaHQ to XORV
01
Keep the buyer questions
Go through the prompts you track in AthenaHQ and keep the ones a buyer would really ask.
02
Compare a week of readings
Run XORV’s free plan alongside and compare the same question, on the same engine, in the same market.
03
Move at your pace
Pick the plan whose engines and markets fit; XORV keeps every reading from the first day.
Questions people ask
Does AthenaHQ publish to more systems than XORV?
Yes. AthenaHQ publishes to eight CMSs and stores. XORV Build, in beta, publishes to GitHub; WordPress is in testing.
How often does each one measure?
AthenaHQ runs on the schedule you set, weekly or monthly, and on demand. XORV measures daily on Pro, Core and Agency, and weekly on Free.
Is there a free way to start with each?
Yes. AthenaHQ has a free Essential plan with 300 credits; XORV has a free plan with 10 buyer questions on ChatGPT, measured weekly.
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