# A AirOps vs. A AthenaHQ

A detailed comparison to help you choose the right tool.

## Pricing and key differences

### AirOps

#### Best for

[Enterprise](/content/aeo-tools/enterprise/index.html) [Agency](/content/aeo-tools/agency/index.html)

#### Pricing
- ✓Free Solo plan (1,000 tasks/month)
- ✓Paid plans from $99/month
- ✓Scale and Enterprise require sales call

#### Funding
$60 million

#### Free plan or trial
- ✓Free Solo plan with 1,000 tasks/month

### AthenaHQ

#### Best for

[Enterprise](/content/aeo-tools/enterprise/index.html) [SMB](/content/aeo-tools/smb/index.html)

#### Pricing
- ✓Self-serve: $295/month
- ✓Enterprise: custom

#### Funding
$2.7 million

#### Free plan or trial
- ✗No free trial
- ✓offers a free audit and discounted first month ($95)

## AEO tool overview

### AirOps

AirOps is a no-code AI workflow platform built for content operations. It acts as a control center for generating, editing, and publishing content at scale. The platform shows how pages perform across both traditional search (SEO) and AI search (AEO), from citations to keyword relevance.

### AthenaHQ

AthenaHQ was founded in 2024 and emerged from stealth in 2025. In addition to monitoring, auditing, and optimization, it also offers AI-generated content capabilities designed to help you draft content briefs, outlines, and full articles.

### Worth noting

AirOps is primarily a workflow automation platform with AI visibility as a secondary feature. Best suited for agencies and in-house SEO teams with established workflows who want to scale content production.

AthenaHQ uses a credit-based system (for example, the Self-serve plan includes 3,500 credits per month), wherein one credit is spent each time you take a certain action, like analyzing an AI prompt response for a specific AI model or drafting content.

## AEO and GEO features comparison

### AirOps

**Monitoring**
AirOps offers AI visibility and prompt tracking as a secondary feature alongside its primary workflow automation and content operations platform.

**Auditing**
Analyze which pages and content are being cited by AI engines. Identify gaps, see competitor presence, and understand which sources AI models rely on for your industry.

**Optimization**
Get actionable recommendations to improve content so it ranks better in AI answers. Align your pages with the prompts that matter and refine structure for LLM-friendly consumption.

✗ **Content Delivery**
Not offered by this vendor.

✓ **Enterprise Ready**
Built for scale with SSO, team management, API access, and support tailored to larger organizations.

### AthenaHQ

**Monitoring**
Track how often your brand appears in AI-generated answers across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Claude, and other LLMs. See share of voice, prompt coverage, and visibility trends over time.

✗ **Content Delivery**
Not offered by this vendor.

✗ **Enterprise Ready**
Not offered by this vendor.

## Customer reviews and success stories

### AirOps

[5x content refresh velocity; 40% traffic uplift]
> AirOps has given me a new superpower—automation that scales. We went from manually refreshing just 48 articles a year to automating dozens each month.

*Vivian Hoang, SEO Lead — Webflow*

[Captured a 25% share of voice lead]
> With AirOps, we've been able to scale content production while maintaining quality.

*Valeriia Frolova, Sr. Data Scientist — Docebo*

[20x more traffic]
> AirOps helped us outrank top medical sites and drive significantly more traffic.

*Aakash Shah, CEO — Wyndly*

### AthenaHQ

[10x citation rate growth]
> GEO became Rootly's #1 growth pillar.

*Adam Frank, Head of Marketing — Rootly*

[50% increase in demos from AI search]
> AthenaHQ helped us understand where citations lead to real business outcomes.

*Finn Lobsien, Content Lead — Lago*

[Share of Voice: 2.0% to 12.6% in 60 days]
> Share of Voice grew from 2.0% to 12.6% in 60 days.

*Connor Dault, CMO — Gruns*