AI SEO & AEO Services Pricing

AI SEO & AEO Services Pricing

Straight numbers for what it costs to get your business cited by ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Perplexity, plus what each price point actually includes.

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$600-$3,000Typical monthly AEO retainer range in 2026 (Digital Elevator, 2026)
13.14%Share of Google searches now returning an AI Overview (BrightEdge, 2025)
3Pricing tiers built for solo owners up to growing teams
TL;DR

AI SEO and AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) pricing with me runs from $600 to $3,000 a month depending on how much of your site needs work and how many AI platforms you want to track. A one-time AEO audit starts the engagement for most clients. Ongoing packages add ongoing content optimization, schema markup, and monthly reporting on whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews are actually citing you.

There is no setup fee, no long-term contract, and every price includes direct access to me, not a rotating account team.

What Determines AI SEO & AEO Pricing

Four factors move the price up or down for any AEO engagement.

Site size and content volumeA 15-page service site costs less to optimize for AI citation than a 300-page blog with years of outdated content.
How many AI platforms you want trackedMonitoring ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews together costs more than tracking one.
Schema and technical starting pointSites with no structured data need FAQPage, Organization, and Article schema built from scratch, which adds hours up front.
Content creation vs. optimization onlyRewriting and creating new AI-citable content costs more than optimizing what already exists on the page.

AI SEO & AEO Pricing Tiers

Three packages built around how much AI visibility work your site actually needs right now.

Starter

$600-$900 / month

Best for a single site that needs its AI visibility foundation built.

  • Full AEO audit of your current site
  • Schema and FAQ markup setup (Organization, FAQPage, Article)
  • Single-platform AI visibility check (ChatGPT or Google AI Overviews)
  • Priority page fixes for AI-readability
  • Written findings report, not just a dashboard
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Full AEO Partner

$2,200-$3,000 / month

For businesses that want AI visibility treated as a core growth channel.

  • Everything in Growth
  • Full content strategy built around AI citation goals
  • Digital PR tie-in to earn mentions AI platforms pull from
  • Priority support with direct access to me
  • Quarterly strategy review and roadmap update
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Every tier is a starting range, not a fixed quote. I confirm exact pricing after a short discovery call, once I know your site size, current schema setup, and how many AI platforms you want tracked.

Real Client Work Behind These Numbers

These packages come from the AI visibility and schema work I have already done inside client engagements, not a rate card built in a vacuum.

Immigration Lawyers USABuilt out a five-hub content architecture with FAQPage and Organization schema across every service page, the same schema foundation included in every AEO package above.
Doctors FacultyStructured data and guest-post-driven content work on a healthcare education platform, where AI-readability and E-E-A-T signals both had to hold up under scrutiny.
Bluetooth Headphone ZoneProduct and category page optimization built for both traditional rankings and AI shopping assistant retrieval, the content-optimization work in the Growth and Full AEO Partner tiers.

AI SEO & AEO Pricing FAQ

The questions I get asked most before someone books a call.

How much does AI SEO and AEO cost per month?

Most clients pay between $600 and $3,000 a month, depending on site size, how many AI platforms you want monitored, and whether you need new content created or just existing pages optimized. Digital Elevator’s 2026 market data puts independent AEO specialist pricing in this same range.

Is there a one-time AEO audit option instead of a monthly retainer?

Yes. The Starter tier is built as a project-based audit and setup engagement first, and most clients only move to a monthly retainer once they see what the audit finds.

What is included in an AI visibility audit?

I check your current schema markup, test whether ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews already know about your business, review your content for AI-readability, and hand you a written report with prioritized fixes, not just a scored dashboard.

Do I need AEO if I already do traditional SEO?

Traditional SEO and AEO overlap but are not the same discipline. Traditional SEO targets ranking positions in Google’s blue links, while AEO targets being the source an AI system quotes or cites directly in its answer. Most sites need both.

How long until I see AI citations after starting?

Schema and technical fixes can show up in AI platform responses within a few weeks. Ranking for competitive terms and consistent citation across multiple platforms usually takes two to three months of ongoing work.

Do you work with agencies or only direct clients?

Both. Some AEO packages are white-labeled for agencies that want to offer AI visibility work without building the expertise in-house.

See Exactly Where You Stand With AI Search

Book a free AI visibility audit and I will show you whether ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews already know about your business, and what it would take to change that.

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