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What does an AI visibility scan cost, and what are you buying?

Dan CartwrightDan Cartwright
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British Army veteran and founder of ScopeSite Digital Studios. Creator of...

Updated 16 October 2026. This revision replaces the older product and competitor comparison. Previous per-scan prices and “cheapest” claims are not a current CAFMO subscription offer.

The useful price is the cost of the work you need, with its coverage and limits attached. A page audit, one answer to one prompt and a month of repeated monitoring are different units. Dividing each subscription by a number labelled “credits” will not make them equivalent.

A recruitment agency owner wants to know whether the website helps employers find the right desk. The software catalogue offers a score, a graph, a report and six ways to spend a credit. Somewhere between those things, somebody needs to explain what was actually checked.

Start with the question the purchase should answer

If the problem is whether your website exposes its services, company details and vacancy information clearly, start with a technical audit. Its scope should identify the URLs fetched, whether scripts were rendered, which facts were extracted and which checks could not run.

If you want to know whether an assistant names your agency when asked for a supplier, you need recorded answers. Ask which consumer product or API was used, the exact prompts, country or location, dates, cited sources and repeat frequency. An API response and a signed-in consumer session can be different observations.

If the question is whether the work creates useful enquiries, website analytics and the enquiry record have to join the discussion. A citation count will not tell you whether the caller needed a recruitment partner or wanted to sell you printer toner.

Compare the bill against the same unit

Write down the total charge for the period, the useful checks included, limits per domain, the number of providers and the repeat schedule. Check whether failed requests consume an allowance and whether reports, exports or extra users cost more. Record renewal and cancellation terms from the actual offer.

For a one-off website audit, compare the total price and the work required to act on it. For monitoring, compare the same set of questions, providers and dates over the same period. “One prompt” might be a saved question run repeatedly; “one scan” might inspect a single URL. Treating both as one check creates arithmetic with a very confident face.

Unused capacity matters too. A large allowance has little practical value if you only need a small number of checks, while a low entry price can become expensive when every useful export is another purchase. None of this establishes a universal cheapest tool.

CAFMO and the earlier scanner

CAFMO means Can AI Find Me Online, ScopeSite’s live application for checking website pages, inspecting model answers and keeping a saved improvement plan. V.O.I.C.E. is the underlying methodology and engine name. CAFMO is live at canaifindme.online with monthly plans. The earlier scanner remains at voice.scopesite.co.uk, with its existing accounts and credits kept separate. Purchased legacy credits do not expire and are not automatically converted into subscriptions.

A page check examines the website evidence it can retrieve. Its findings do not give a percentage chance of an AI recommendation, or show that every assistant has searched for or cited your business.

Use CAFMO’s monthly plans for the live application, or the earlier scanner’s pricing page for existing credits. ScopeSite’s agency services are a separate purchase.

What should a useful report contain?

  • The exact pages or questions checked, with dates and sources.
  • A distinction between observed facts, estimated metrics and generated suggestions.
  • Explicit unavailable or failed checks, rather than a reassuring zero.
  • Repairs linked to the evidence they address, with enough detail to review the recommendation.
  • A way to repeat the measurement after a change without changing the question halfway through.

For recruitment work, start with the employer service page, the relevant sector page and a genuine vacancy journey. Our recruitment AI visibility service explains how those checks fit the website build and its existing ATS.

Does paying more guarantee an AI recommendation?

No. Better evidence and broader monitoring can improve the information available to you. Each provider still decides what to retrieve and cite, and answers vary. Buy a defined investigation or repair, then measure the outcome you care about.

Sources and further checks

Tags:AI VisibilityV.O.I.C.E.™AI Visibility CheckerAI Visibility ScannerAEOGEOAI SearchScopeSite Digital Studios
Dan Cartwright

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Dan Cartwright

British Army veteran and founder of ScopeSite Digital Studios. Creator of V.O.I.C.E™, a proprietary methodology for AI search visibility. Builds SSR websites in Next.js from Somerset, UK. Direct communication. Transparent pricing. Zero bullshit.

British Army veteran (REME) | AI visibility methodology lead

Written by Dan Cartwright, British Army veteran and founder of ScopeSite Digital Studios. See the full bio, proof in the H4TLT case study, and check the current product status in the CAFMO and earlier scanner overview.

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