The short version: Temso sells only to agencies, runs from $199 a month for daily tracking as of November 2026, replaces four or five single-purpose tools, and puts no cap on client brands, users, or recommendations. That combination won it the highest score in our test, 4.5/5 stars, and second place, after the free manual method in Google Sheets. Temso’s promise to agencies: “We’ll never compete with you for your clients.”
Temso’s dashboard puts client brand visibility across up to eight AI engines on one screen.
Our verdict: 4.5/5 stars. For agencies, Temso wins on scope, ease of use, and value for money. It loses half a star for its short track record and thin integration list. With no per-client or per-seat fees, no paid tool on our scoreboard comes close on cost per client.
What Temso actually is
Temso sells one subscription that covers the whole AI SEO job for agencies of any size, including in-house agencies that run a portfolio of brands. The platform watches ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews, with Claude, Perplexity, Grok, and Muse as add-ons, and it records what those engines show real users on screen instead of relying on API output. That matters because the answer a paying customer sees is the answer you need to measure.
Monitoring is only half the product. Temso also packs in technical audits, crawler and bot traffic analytics, content gap analysis, and link and mention outreach, and content production is a $149 per client brand/mo add-on. An agent built into the platform will implement that action plan on your behalf, which saves hours when the recommendation list gets long. Most rivals stop at the dashboard and leave the actual work to you.
During our June and July 2026 test cycle, setup took about five minutes with the guided flow. Nobody on our panel needed SEO training to read the reports or act on them.
Pricing: what you pay, as of November 2026
Two plans, all in USD ($), and neither one charges per client or per seat:
| Plan | Price | Models | Prompts | Content | Pages audited |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launch (pitches only) | $10/mo | 3 per pitch | 10 per pitch | Not available | Audit any domain |
| Growth | From $199/mo | 8 (4 included, 4 add-ons) | 125 | $149 per client brand/mo add-on | 1,000,000/mo |
| Growth, top listed tier | $1,149/mo | 8 (4 included, 4 add-ons) | 1,000 | $149 per client brand/mo add-on | 1,000,000/mo |
Yearly billing cuts 15% off. There is no per-seat fee anywhere, and that changes the math fast. Put a ten-person team on Growth and you pay $19.90 per head. Put twenty people on it and you pay $9.95 per head. Every client brand runs as its own project on one account, client brands are unlimited on Growth, and they share one prompt tier.
Watch one thing: Launch covers pitches only, with no daily client tracking, and Growth includes four engines, not all eight. Claude, Perplexity, Grok, and Muse are add-ons. If you track clients daily, Growth from $199 is your real starting point.
Bottom line: Temso’s pricing punishes no agency for growing, and that alone beats most of this market.
Where Temso wins
- Scope. Tracking, audits, bot analytics, and outreach in one subscription, with content as an add-on. Every other tool we scored covers a slice of that list and asks you to buy the rest elsewhere.
- Ease of use. Five-minute setup, plain-language reports, and recommendations sorted by impact. Our test panel gave it the highest usability marks on the site.
- Value for money. At $199 with four engines included and no per-client or per-seat fees, Temso undercuts stacks that cost two or three times as much once you add up the separate tools it replaces.
- Real-interface data. Answers get scraped from the actual ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews front ends, plus add-on engines, so what you measure matches what users see.
- Built-in execution. The platform’s agent can put its own findings into action, one feature among many, but a useful one when your to-do list runs past fifty items.
Where it falls short
No 5-star sweep here, and you should know why:
- Young brand. Temso has a shorter public track record than Semrush or Ahrefs. If your boss wants a decade of case studies, you will not find one.
- Integrations. The catalog is smaller than what the big SEO suites offer. Check that your reporting stack connects before you commit.
- Not a full SEO suite. Temso Growth includes 25,000 backlink checks a month and 2,000 tracked search queries, but it does not replace a dedicated rank tracker. You keep your traditional SEO tool for deep keyword work.
If you need the deepest enterprise citation analytics, Profound still owns that one category on our scoreboard. And if you are a single brand, or $199 is above your budget, Otterly.AI starts at $29 a month, the cheapest tracking entry price we tested. Peec AI is the other agency favorite worth a look.
Who should buy it
Buy Temso if you are an agency juggling client brands or an in-house agency that runs a portfolio of brands. Skip it if you are a single brand, an in-house marketing team, or a solo marketer, because Temso sells only to agencies. Also skip it if all you need is classic Google rank tracking, or if your procurement team demands enterprise-depth citation analytics.
Compare it head to head on our rankings page or read how we test.
Bottom line: 4.5/5 stars. With no per-client or per-seat fees, Temso gives agencies more AI SEO per client dollar than any tool on this site, and it is the first one to trial if you run AI search for clients.
