Traceten vs Peec AI
Peec AI tracks how AI models describe your brand, with crawler logs from your CDN or server and AI referrals read from GA4. Traceten starts from your own site: each AI visit named with a confidence and a method, crawlers verified against IP ranges and reverse DNS, and revenue from your payment provider, with AI visibility in beta.
Which one should you choose?
Choose Traceten if
- You want AI crawlers checked against IP ranges and reverse DNS wherever the vendor publishes them, not matched by user agent alone.
- You want a confidence score and a detection method on every AI visit, from your own first-party script rather than GA4.
- You want revenue per AI source from Stripe, Shopify, Lemon Squeezy, Polar or Paddle, without setting up GA4 ecommerce tracking.
- You want published prices, starting with a $0 plan.
Every plan also includes
- AI traffic by assistant
- Revenue attribution
- Verified AI crawler logs
- AI visibility and citationsBeta
- Goals and funnels
- Real-time and visitor journeys
- API, MCP, CLI and webhooks
Choose Peec AI if
- You want AI visibility as the main job, with position, sentiment, share of voice and prompt volume across models and countries.
- You want crawler logs from the CDN you already run, such as CloudFront, Cloudflare, Vercel or Akamai, with millions of bot visits a month included.
- You manage several brands and want unlimited users, multiple projects and a Looker Studio connector.
Side by side
Traceten and Peec AI, row by row. Every Peec AI fact links to its source.
AI traffic
Which AI assistant sent each visit, and how sure the classification is.
| Feature | Traceten | Peec AI |
|---|---|---|
| AI referral channel out of the boxVisits from AI assistants are grouped as their own source with no setup. | Yes | YesAI Referrals, read from your connected GA4 propertySource |
| Named assistant on each visitWhich assistant sent the visit, not only that it came from AI. | 25+ assistantsChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Grok and more | ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, CopilotAnd many more, from a published list of referring domainsSource |
| Confidence and detection method on every visitA confidence score and the method behind it (referrer, UTM tag or user agent) on each AI visit. | YesReturned with every session in the API | Not published |
| AI traffic in real timeCurrent visitors, with the AI source that sent each one. | YesThe live view shows each current visitor's AI source | Not published |
Revenue
Which AI assistant sent the buyers, from your payment provider's own records.
| Feature | Traceten | Peec AI |
|---|---|---|
| Native payment integrationsPayment providers that connect directly, with no events for you to send. | Stripe, Shopify, Lemon Squeezy, Polar and PaddlePlus a payment API for any other provider | NoRevenue comes from your GA4 propertySource |
| Revenue per AI sourceAttributed revenue broken out by the assistant that sent the buyer. | Yes | YesFrom GA4 purchase revenueSource |
| Refunds netted outRefunds come off revenue on the day they happen. | Yes | YesGA4 purchase revenue, minus refundsSource |
| Multi-currencyRevenue in other currencies, converted at the rate for the day of the order. | 30 currenciesConverted at the order date's rate | Not published |
AI crawlers
Which AI bots read your pages, and whether they are who they claim to be.
| Feature | Traceten | Peec AI |
|---|---|---|
| AI crawler visit loggingCrawlers never run JavaScript, so they have to be seen on the server. | Server or edge middlewareNext.js, Express, Hono and Cloudflare | From CDN and server logsCloudFront, Google Cloud CDN, Cloudflare, Vercel, WordPress, Akamai, a webhook or a fileSource |
| Crawler verificationChecks that a crawler comes from the network its vendor says it uses. | IP ranges and reverse DNSWhere the crawler's vendor supports them | User agent matchVerification is not describedSource |
| Crawls includedAI crawler requests included before any limit applies. | 100,000 to 1,500,000 a monthStarter 100,000, Growth 650,000, Pro 1,500,000. Separate from your events. | 4M to 25M bot visits a monthStarter 4M, Pro 10M, Advanced 25M, per companySource |
| Past the crawl allowanceWhat happens when AI crawlers use up the allowance. | Opt-in overage at $0.00004 / crawl hitOn Growth and Pro. Without it, totals stay exact with less detail. Starter pauses at the limit. | Storage pauses until next monthCrawls past the limit are not storedSource |
AI visibilityBeta
Whether AI answers mention your brand, on prompts you choose.
| Feature | Traceten | Peec AI |
|---|---|---|
| Brand presence in AI answersRuns your prompts on answer engines and records whether your brand appears. | Yes | YesVisibility, position, sentiment and share of voiceSource |
| Answer enginesWhich engines your prompts run on. | Perplexity, Google AI OverviewsClaude and ChatGPT through each vendor's API, as an add-on | 3 models per plan, up to 13 on EnterpriseChosen from ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Copilot, Gemini and more; extra models are add-onsSource |
| Prompts includedPrompts tracked for you, shared across every site on the account. | 1, 5 or 20 by planStarter, Growth and Pro | 50 to 350 by planStarter 50, Pro 150, Advanced 350; custom on EnterpriseSource |
Product analytics
Where the product suites go deeper than Traceten does.
| Feature | Traceten | Peec AI |
|---|---|---|
| FunnelsSee where visitors drop off between steps. | Up to 8 steps | Not published |
| GoalsCustom events and page matches you want to count. | 200 per site | PartialReads GA4 key eventsSource |
| Retention cohortsHow often users come back after a first action. | No | Not published |
| Session replayRecordings of what individual visitors did on the page. | No | Not published |
| Feature flagsTurn features on for some users and not others. | No | Not published |
| ExperimentsTest a change against a control and measure the result. | No | Not published |
| HeatmapsWhere visitors click and scroll on a page. | No | Not published |
Privacy
Cookies, IP addresses and where the data lives.
| Feature | Traceten | Peec AI |
|---|---|---|
| CookiesWhat the tracking script stores in the visitor's browser. | First-party only | Not published |
| IP addressesWhat happens to a visitor's IP address when it arrives. | Hashed on arrivalHMAC-SHA-256 under a per-site derived key | Not published |
| EU data hostingWhether your analytics data can be stored in the EU. | NoEU data residency is not available yet | PartialGoogle Cloud, through Google IrelandThe storage region is not statedSource |
| Open source or self-hostedWhether you can read the code or run it yourself. | NoA hosted service | Not published |
Developer
Build on your data, or hand it to an agent.
| Feature | Traceten | Peec AI |
|---|---|---|
| REST APIRead your data over HTTP. | YesDocumented with OpenAPI | PartialEnterprise onlySource |
| MCP serverAsk an AI agent about your data through the Model Context Protocol. | Yes | YesHostedSource |
| CLIUse your data from a terminal or a coding agent. | Yes | Not published |
| Server SDKsSend events and payments from your backend. | Node, Python, Go | Not published |
| Outbound webhooksSend events to your own endpoint as they happen. | YesSigned with HMAC-SHA-256 | Not published |
| API rate limitsWe link each vendor's own rate-limit docs and print no figures, ours included. | Scales with plan | PublishedSource |
Pricing
What it costs to start, and what you pay for.
| Feature | Traceten | Peec AI |
|---|---|---|
| Free planA plan you can stay on without paying. | Starter, $060,000 events and 100,000 AI crawl hits a month | NoA free trialSource |
| Entry paid planThe cheapest paid plan. | Growth, $49 a month | $95 a monthStarter, 50 promptsSource |
| What you pay forThe unit a plan is measured in. | Events, plus AI crawl hitsPageviews, custom events and goals on one meter; crawls on their own | Prompts and modelsPricing follows tracked prompts and modelsSource |
| Data retentionHow long visit data is kept. | 2 yearsOn every plan | Not published |
Checked 30 September 2026. Product names and logos belong to their owners; used here only to identify them.
Running both
Peec AI can stay your visibility tracker while Traceten measures your own traffic. Peec shows how AI models describe your brand and which sources they cite; Traceten shows which verified crawlers read your pages, which assistant sent each visit and what it earned.
Questions
01Both track AI crawlers. How do they differ?
Peec AI reads your CDN or server logs through integrations such as CloudFront, Cloudflare, Vercel and Akamai, and keeps the requests whose user agent matches a known AI bot. Traceten records crawls with server or edge middleware and checks published IP ranges and reverse DNS where the crawler's vendor supports them.
02How does Peec AI measure AI referrals?
Peec AI reads AI-referred sessions, conversions and revenue from your GA4 property, adding its own referrer matching to GA4's AI classification. Traceten records a confidence score and a detection method on every AI visit and connects to five payment providers directly.
03Which one tracks more AI models?
Peec AI. Every plan tracks three models of your choice, and Enterprise tracks up to 13. Traceten's AI visibility is in beta, with Perplexity and Google AI Overviews on every plan and Claude and ChatGPT through each vendor's API as an add-on.
04What does each cost?
Peec AI's Starter plan is $95 a month, with a free trial. Traceten's Starter plan is $0, and Growth is $49 a month.
AI is already sending you buyers. See the receipts.
No calls, no credit card.