How is WhyIQ AI Radar different from Otterly?

Otterly's $29/mo floor tier covers 4 AI engines and 15 prompts, with extra engines billed as paid add-ons (+$9, +$59, +$149 each). AI Radar's $29/mo SMB tier covers 5 engines flat (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews) and 30 prompts weekly, with no per-engine add-ons. AI Radar's Agency tier ($149/mo) runs three passes per prompt per week and averages them into a confidence band on the dashboard, so the customer sees citation rate as a sample-of-three rather than a single-shot yes or no. Every funded competitor in the category, Otterly included, runs single-shot. AI Radar treats single-shot as a known noise source rather than a feature.

Why does the 6.5x price jump from Otterly $29 to $189 matter?

Otterly's published tiers go from $29 (15 prompts, 4 engines) straight to $189 (100 prompts), with no middle rung. A team that outgrows the floor tier has to commit to a 6.5x monthly spend to add capacity. AI Radar's SMB tier at $29 already includes 30 prompts and 5 engines, so the prompt budget that earns Otterly's mid tier is roughly the AI Radar starter quota. The AI Radar Agency tier at $149 sits below Otterly's $189 mid tier while also adding the 3-pass confidence band and multi-client domain support.

What does the 3-pass confidence band on AI Radar Agency mean?

AI engine responses are probabilistic. Run the same prompt twice and you may see different citations. Single-shot tracking, which is what Otterly and every other funded competitor in the category ship, presents one query result as the citation reading for that week. AI Radar's Agency tier runs each prompt three times per week against every engine and reports the averaged result as a confidence band on the dashboard (e.g. cited in 2 of 3 passes). The Agency view tells the customer not just whether they were cited but how reliably across multiple queries of the same prompt.

Can WhyIQ AI Radar replace Otterly?

Yes, for the customer profile both products target. AI Radar covers the same weekly multi-engine citation tracking job, with broader engine coverage at the floor price, larger prompt quotas, and the 3-pass measurement integrity layer on Agency. Otterly's specific moats are its established review-site presence and its self-serve SMB onboarding. AI Radar matches the self-serve onboarding (free check in about 10 minutes end-to-end, no account required, results emailed to the visitor), and the review-site presence catches up over time as the product grows.

What engines does AI Radar cover at the $29 tier?

ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. All 5 are included on the free Light tier, the $29 SMB tier, and the $149 Agency tier. No per-engine add-on charges. Grok and Microsoft Copilot are NOT in the bundle today, and AI Radar does not market them as included until pricing for those engines is finalized.

What does WhyIQ AI Radar cost compared to Otterly?

AI Radar's SMB tier is $29/mo for 30 prompts × 5 engines × weekly checks. AI Radar's Agency tier is $149/mo for 40 prompts per client across 5 client domains, with 3 passes weekly and the confidence band. Additional Agency client domains are $35 each. Otterly's floor tier is $29/mo for 15 prompts × 4 engines, with per-engine add-ons (+$9, +$59, +$149) to expand engine coverage. Otterly's next tier up is $189/mo for 100 prompts. The price points overlap at the floor; the engine count, prompt budget, measurement integrity, and tier ladder differ.

What does WhyIQ AI Radar NOT replace from Otterly?

Otterly's established review-site presence on the AI-SEO category review platforms is not something a comparison page can replicate. Customers who choose tools by review-site signal alone will continue to find Otterly first. AI Radar's response to that is to ship a free one-time check (no account, about 10 minutes end-to-end, emailed to the visitor) so prospective customers can sample the product without onboarding friction, then decide on the data quality.

5 engines flat vs 4 engines plus add-ons

Otterly starts at $29 with 4 engines. AI Radar starts at $29 with 5 engines flat.

Otterly's floor tier covers 4 AI engines and 15 prompts, with extra engines as paid add-ons (+$9, +$59, +$149) and a 6.5x jump to the $189 mid tier. WhyIQ AI Radar's SMB tier covers 5 engines flat (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews) and 30 prompts weekly, with no per-engine add-ons. Agency ($149/mo) adds a 3-pass confidence band so the data is not single-shot noise.

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	Otterly	WhyIQ AI Radar
Floor price	$29 per month	$29 per month
Engines at floor	4 engines	5 engines flat
Per-engine add-ons	+$9 / +$59 / +$149 each	None, all 5 included
Prompts at floor	15 prompts	30 prompts weekly
Next tier price	$189 per month (6.5x jump)	$149 per month (Agency)
Multi-pass confidence	Single-shot per prompt	3-pass band on Agency
Refresh cadence	Weekly	Weekly
Free trial	Limited free tier	Free check, no account, about 10 min
Page-level attribution	Domain-level	Per-prompt target page match
Time to first data	Minutes	About 10 minutes, emailed to you

What WhyIQ AI Radar replaces

The parts of Otterly that earn paid add-ons or tier jumps

Otterly is a working AI citation tracker. AI Radar covers the same job with broader engine coverage at the floor price, larger prompt budgets, and a measurement integrity layer on Agency.

The engine add-on tax

Otterly's floor tier covers 4 engines, with additional engines billed as paid add-ons at +$9, +$59, or +$149 each. AI Radar ships 5 engines flat (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews) at the $29 SMB tier. No engine you actually want to track is gated behind an upsell.

The 6.5x mid-tier jump

Otterly's published tiers run $29 then $189. A team outgrowing 15 prompts has to commit to a 6.5x monthly increase to get the next prompt budget. AI Radar's SMB tier already includes 30 prompts; the Agency tier at $149 sits below Otterly's $189 mid tier.

Single-shot noise as signal

AI engine responses are probabilistic. Single-shot tracking reports one query result as the weekly citation reading. AI Radar Agency runs each prompt 3 times per engine per week and averages into a confidence band, so customers see whether they were cited reliably or just once in a noisy sample.

Page-level citation attribution

When an engine cites your domain, AI Radar's query bank carries the intended target page per prompt and flags whether the engine landed on it (full win) or a different page (partial win). Most weekly citation tools, Otterly included, surface only the domain-level cite without the target-page match.

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What WhyIQ AI Radar does not replace

Otterly has been in market longer and earns trust on dimensions a feature comparison cannot replicate. Honest framing first.

Otterly's established review-site presence on AI-SEO category platforms

Buyer profiles that select tools by review-site search alone, regardless of engine coverage or measurement integrity

Workflows already built on Otterly's specific API shape or webhook endpoints

When each is the right call

Use AI Radar when

You want all 5 mainstream AI engines tracked from the $29 floor with no add-ons
You need more than 15 prompts but do not want to jump to a $189 tier
Single-shot citation readings feel like noise and you want a 3-pass confidence band
Page-level attribution (did the engine cite the intended page?) matters
You run an agency with 1 to 10 client domains and want flat $35-each scaling past the included 5
You already use WhyIQ Scanner and want the citation product on the same domain

Use Otterly when

Review-site presence on AI-SEO category platforms is the selection criterion
15 prompts and 4 engines cover the tracking scope and add-ons fit the budget
An existing Otterly integration or workflow is already in place
Single-shot tracking is acceptable for the current measurement need

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