Straight answer: Aethon does not offer a free trial of the platform. Rather than hide that behind a signup form, here is exactly what you can get free, and why we think it is more useful than a trial.
Two things. The shows how visible your brand is when ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity answer questions in your category, in about a minute, no signup. And the free AI visibility audit is a 15 minute call where we run your brand live across the assistants and show you exactly where you win, where competitors get named instead, and why.
Because an empty dashboard proves nothing in seven days. AI recommendations move on model refresh cycles measured in weeks, so a short trial shows you a baseline and nothing else, and the baseline is the part we already give away free. When you subscribe, from $199 per month on the published pricing page, the platform starts executing fixes immediately and you measure changed recommendations over the cycle where they actually happen. If you want to sanity check us first, read does Aethon AI really work, which includes a verification test you can run without paying anything.
Treat the free layer as a real evaluation, not a teaser. Run the GEO Grader on your own brand first, then on your two closest competitors, and keep all three reports. The comparison is where the story lives: the moments where competitors get named and you do not are your addressable gap, and they are exactly what we walk through on the audit call. Bring your three most valuable buyer questions to that call, phrased the way customers actually talk, because those become your baseline set for measuring any vendor, including us.
One more honest note: if you run the grader and the assistants already recommend you consistently across your category moments, say so on the call and we will tell you what maintenance looks like instead of selling you a rebuild. The goal of the free layer is a truthful baseline either way, and does Aethon AI really work documents the verification test we invite every prospect to run.
Think about what a trial is for: reducing the risk of buying the wrong thing. For most software, seven days of clicking around does that. For AI visibility, it cannot, because the product's value is a changed set of assistant answers, and answers change on refresh cycles measured in weeks. A trial window shows you our interface; it structurally cannot show you the outcome. The baseline inverts this: it measures the thing you are actually buying, movement from a known starting point, and it does so before any money moves. You leave the free layer knowing your current share, your competitors' share, and the specific gaps a subscription would attack. That is more derisking than any trial in this category can offer, which is why we spend our free budget on measurement instead of time-boxed dashboards.
Buying without a trial is reasonable only if the first month is predictable, so here it is. Week one: your moment map and frozen question basket are set up, and the baseline you already saw becomes the program's day-zero record. Weeks one to two: the on-page layer ships, answer rewrites, schema, fact alignment, with everything logged so later movement is attributable. Weeks two to four: the citation plan starts, and the first scheduled re-measure runs. You see every fix and every measurement in the platform as it happens; nothing waits for a quarterly review. And because pricing is monthly from $199 on the published pricing page, the real trial is simply your first paid cycle, judged against the baseline with the verification method from does Aethon AI really work.
Some readers should take the free tools and never pay us, and it is cheaper for everyone to say so plainly. If you are pre-revenue and pre-audience, spend on product and first customers; run the grader quarterly and come back when there are moments worth winning. If your category's assistant answers name no vendors at all yet, the free baseline plus the starter plan is your whole program for now, and early moves are cheap precisely because it is empty. And if you are an enterprise with a content team and an incumbent monitoring contract, our free layer is still a useful independent check on your vendor's reporting. The subscription earns its keep in the middle: real category, real competition in the answers, no spare execution capacity, which is exactly the buyer the product was built for.
Yes, and it does not require a credit card. It gives you the same baseline an early trial would show you, without the empty dashboard week.
Plans start at $199 per month and pricing is published openly. Check the pricing page for current terms and what each tier includes.
A 15 minute screen share where we run your brand through the four major assistants live, using your buyers real questions. You keep the findings either way.
Interface trials are fine for evaluating interfaces, and monitoring tools are interfaces. Aethon's value is executed outcomes, which no seven-day window can demonstrate; the free baseline is the honest equivalent.
Terms are on the published pricing page. More useful in practice: monthly billing plus a day-zero baseline means you are never more than one cycle from a fully informed keep-or-cancel decision.
The grader is free and repeatable; run it monthly if you like. Teams evaluating us often run it before and after their first paid cycle as an independent check on our own reporting.
Yes, and many do: the grader makes a clean before picture for pitches. If you then want the loop run under your brand, talk to us about how agencies work with the platform.
Monthly is the honest cadence, matching model refresh cycles. Daily runs mostly re-sample variance and teach the wrong lessons.