What AI Search Consulting Actually Costs

The table records only figures that appear on the provider's own website, with a link to the page carrying them. Where a firm does not publish, the cell says so. We do not repeat numbers from third-party review sites, directories or aggregators, because those figures cannot be checked and are frequently wrong.

2 of 12 providers in this set publish any figure on their own site.

We publish because the alternative — a discovery call before a number — wastes the time of buyers who were never going to fit the budget, including ours.

• AI Visibility Audit — $3,500 one-time, delivered in two weeks, credited toward the first month if an engagement starts within thirty days.
• Advisory — $6,000 per month. Measurement across five engines, a maintained roadmap, briefs and specifications; your team executes.
• Partner — $12,000 per month. Everything in Advisory, plus schema and entity specifications implemented with your team, a citation target list, and weekly working sessions.
• Embedded — $20,000 per month, limited to two clients at a time. Everything in Partner, plus content production, technical implementation and citation acquisition.

Full inclusions, the comparison table and how to choose between tiers are on the pricing page.

Because so little is published, most buyers end up comparing two or three proposals with no market reference. Three questions make them comparable: who executes the work, how many engines are measured and how often, and what you keep if the engagement ends. A $6,000 advisory retainer and a $20,000 embedded engagement can look like the same service on a slide and be entirely different purchases.

If the comparison you are really making is software versus help, the total-cost table on consultancy vs. tool is the more useful page, and the sourced vendor prices are on AI visibility tools compared.