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Yes. A 7-day free trial covering ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Microsoft Copilot, with no card required at signup. The other engines (Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Bing AI Overview, and Google Gemini) unlock on a paid plan. You can downgrade or cancel from workspace settings any time. We don't refund paid subscriptions, so we recommend using the trial to validate ziptie.ai fits your workflow before upgrading.

What's in it: 25 monitored prompts on a daily refresh. The trial's capacity is all daily, so trial projects run daily checks - weekly and monthly cadences appear once you're on a plan that includes them. UGC Impact Analysis is not part of the trial; it is an add-on you switch on when you build a plan.

What isn't: the API and MCP surface stays off for the whole trial. A trial workspace is refused at the API regardless of the add-on, so schedule any integration testing for after you upgrade. Add-ons are chosen as part of the plan you subscribe to rather than bolted onto a running trial, so UGC Impact Analysis and Content Generation start when you add them to a paid subscription, not during the trial. And the trial is once per person - it's available on your first workspace and can't be started again on a second one.

Nothing is tiered: you build your own plan from prompt count, refresh frequency, and engine coverage, with optional add-ons on top. Teammates and projects are unlimited, with no per-user charge. The pricing page shows current numbers. Longer billing periods carry a discount vs. monthly: 3 months -5%, 6 months -10%, annual -20%. For unusual configurations or large prompt volumes, see custom plans below.

These never appear on an invoice:

• Seats, projects and competitors. Unlimited on every plan, with no per-user charge, no fee per brand or client project, and no cap on the competitors you track.
• Exports and share links. CSV, Excel and the PDF snapshot, shared through a link that needs no account.
• Google Search Console. Connect a property you already own, read-only, and see its clicks and impressions next to your AI data.
• Google and Bing organic results. They come with the Google AI Overviews and Bing AI Overview engines at no extra cost.
• The check summary email. It arrives when scheduled checks finish, with the change since the previous check.

What you pay for is the prompts you monitor, how often they run and how many engines run them, plus any add-on you switch on. The pricing page shows the numbers.

Prompts checked, not checks run. Your plan buys a number of prompt slots per refresh frequency. Every monitored prompt holds a slot, and a prompt checked in the current window keeps holding it until that window resets, even after you pause or delete it. A prompt on a daily project takes one daily slot and then runs every day at no further cost. That's why the price scales with cadence rather than with usage.

The slots sit in three separate pools, one per refresh frequency, and a prompt draws from the pool matching its project's cadence: a prompt in a weekly project uses a weekly slot, never a daily one. Each pool resets on its own clock - daily at midnight UTC, weekly on Monday at midnight UTC, monthly on the 1st of the month at midnight UTC. Practical consequences worth knowing before you buy:

• A prompt checked in the current window holds its slot until that window resets, even if you pause it, delete it, or move it to another cadence. Checking the same prompt again inside the window never costs a second slot.
• Pausing a prompt before it has been checked in the current window frees its slot right away, so you can swap it for a different prompt without buying more.
• Re-enabling a paused prompt is free if it already holds a slot this window; re-enabling one that would need a new slot fails when the pool is full - free one up or raise the plan.
• Deleting a whole project follows the same rule per prompt: any of its prompts already checked this window keep holding their slots until that window resets, not until your next renewal.
• When a window resets, paused and deleted prompts stop holding slots, and each pool starts again at your plan's allowance minus the prompts you still monitor. Nothing rolls over and nothing is lost.
• A project can only be set to a cadence your plan has capacity in. Buy no weekly capacity and Weekly won't be offered as an option.

There are no credit packs, top-ups, or overage charges to buy. If you need more room, you change the plan.

US dollars, and only US dollars. Every plan and every add-on is priced and charged in USD - there is no EUR or GBP billing and no local-currency pricing, so if your card is denominated in something else your bank does the conversion.

Listed prices exclude tax. Checkout asks for your billing address, and where VAT or sales tax applies it is calculated from that address and added on top of the price, so you see the full total before you pay.

Buying for a company? Signing up and the free trial don't ask for billing details; you add them when you subscribe. At checkout, tick "I'm purchasing as a business" to enter your company's legal name and VAT number or other business tax ID. We take a valid tax ID into account when calculating tax, and it appears on your invoices. To add or change it later, update your billing details in the billing portal linked from Workspace settings → Subscription; the change applies to invoices issued from then on. Your payment method, your next invoice, and every past invoice live there too.

And to restate it where a buyer will actually look for it: we don't issue refunds. Cancelling stops the next charge and you keep full access until the end of the period you have already paid for; switching off an add-on works the same way. That's the reason the free trial exists - use it to be sure.

Yes. If the standard configurator doesn't fit your prompt volume, check frequency, or engine mix, send us a note with your numbers and we'll quote a plan that does.

A quoted plan is also what carries single sign-on: sign-in through your own identity provider over SAML 2.0 or OpenID Connect. The self-serve configurator doesn't offer it, so tell us if that's part of what you need. Once it's on the plan, your workspace Owner sets the connection up in Settings.

Yes, and there are two gaps worth knowing before you put it in front of a client. ziptie.ai charges for the prompts you monitor and the engines you run them on. Seats, projects and competitors are unlimited, so a new client costs only its prompts. Every project in a workspace draws on one shared pool of daily, weekly and monthly prompts, so capacity moves with your roster.

• A project per client. Each client gets its own prompts, competitors, country and language.
• Client viewers. Invite a client as a Guest with Viewer access to their own project, or give each client a workspace of its own when their data must never meet.
• Share links and the PDF snapshot. Share the PDF snapshot or any export through a link that needs no account. Each link works until the export is 14 days old.
• One API token per project. With the API & MCP add-on, each token reaches one project, so ten clients through the API means ten tokens.

The two gaps, stated plainly. There are no white-label reports: the PDF snapshot and the share page carry the ziptie.ai mark. And there is no cross-client rollup: every client is its own project, and no view adds projects together. How agencies use ziptie.ai covers both setups and what a roster costs.

Yes. The ziptie.ai API & MCP add-on (+$10/mo) exposes every prompt, response, mention, citation, sentiment score, and competitor metric over two surfaces:

• REST API at api.ziptie.ai - for BI pipelines, internal dashboards, or scheduled jobs that poll for visibility changes. Tokens are created per project with a read, write, or admin scope, set to expire in 30, 90, or 365 days or never, and capped at 10 active tokens per project. Default rate limits are 60 requests per minute per token, 600 per minute per workspace, and 50,000 per day per workspace; every response carries your remaining budget in X-RateLimit-* headers, and going over returns a 429 with a Retry-After.
• MCP server at api.ziptie.ai/mcp - same data, same auth, exposed as Model Context Protocol tools. Drop the URL into Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code, or any client that speaks streamable-HTTP MCP; Claude Desktop connects through the standard mcp-remote bridge. Step-by-step guides for each client ship in the docs.

Full reference and OpenAPI spec at docs.ziptie.ai.

Native CSV, Excel, and PDF export plus public share links are available on every plan, no API required. Google Search Console connects via OAuth today.