# MarketHQ vs Peec AI: AI-answer tracking, or AI answers plus the rest of the web?

Updated October 2026

Peec AI is a focused AI-visibility tool: it checks what ChatGPT, Perplexity and other assistants say about your brand and your competitors, every day, and turns the gaps into recommended actions. MarketHQ checks the same kind of question, weekly rather than daily, and joins it to the communities, news, blogs and social posts those answers are often drawn from. Every Peec figure below is dated 1 October 2026 and cited to peec.ai.

## Quick answer

MarketHQ tracks AI answers weekly across six assistants and adds Reddit, Hacker News, GitHub, news, blogs and social in the same workspace, from $29 a month. Peec AI tracks AI answers daily across a handful of models from $95 a month, with recommended actions for the gaps it finds. Choose Peec if daily AI-only tracking is the whole job; choose MarketHQ for the web conversation too.

- MarketHQ starts at $29/month; Peec AI Starter is $95/month, checked 1 October 2026 on peec.ai/pricing.
- Peec AI checks AI answers daily; MarketHQ checks weekly across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok and DeepSeek.
- MarketHQ also tracks Reddit, Hacker News, GitHub, news, blogs and social; Peec AI's own site names no non-AI sources.
- Both ship an MCP server and recommended actions for the gaps they find; this isn't unique to either tool.

## Why choose MarketHQ instead of Peec AI?

MarketHQ puts the AI-answer check next to the web conversations it's often built from, in one workspace, for less than a third of Peec's entry price.

Peec AI's whole job is the AI-answer question: it checks what assistants say about you and your competitors every day and hands back recommended actions. What it does not do, by its own site, is read the Reddit threads, news coverage or social posts those answers are often drawn from.

MarketHQ runs both: a weekly AI-answer check across six assistants, plus Reddit, Hacker News, GitHub, news, blogs and social lanes on paid plans, with one gap analysis and action plan across all of it.

Choose Peec AI if the AI-answer question alone, checked daily, is the whole job. Choose MarketHQ for the web conversation too, at $29 instead of $95.

## What sources does MarketHQ cover?

Free: Hacker News, GitHub, RSS, Stack Overflow, Dev.to, Lobsters. Paid plans add Reddit, LinkedIn, YouTube, X, Perplexity, Product Hunt, Broader web crawl, Bluesky.

- Grouped Slack daily digest
- Drafted replies from your own strengths
- Gap analysis and action plans
- Weekly AI-answer visibility (paid plans)
- Chat over your own evidence
- API and MCP on every paid plan
- Flat capacity pricing, tiers differ by tracking volume only
- 7-day trial for $0.99 on Lite and Startup
- Free tier with no card and no end date

## Peec AI values read from peec.ai/pricing, checked 1 October 2026.

| Feature | MarketHQ | Peec AI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Entry price | $29/month (Lite), free tier below it | $95/month (Starter) |
| Higher tiers | Startup $99, Growth $199/month | Pro $245, Advanced $495/month |
| AI-answer check frequency | Weekly, on every paid plan | Daily, on every plan |
| AI engines/models tracked | Six: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, DeepSeek | Three models on Starter; not itemized at higher tiers on the pricing page |
| Tracked questions / prompts (entry tier) | Up to 10 questions on Lite | 50 prompts on Starter |
| Projects / workspaces | One workspace per plan; tiers differ by tracking capacity | 1 project on Starter, 2 on Pro, 5 on Advanced |
| Non-AI sources (Reddit, news, blogs, social) | Yes: Reddit, Hacker News, GitHub, Stack Overflow, Dev.to, Lobsters, news, blogs, X, LinkedIn, YouTube, Bluesky, Product Hunt | Not named on Peec AI's own site |
| Gap analysis / recommended actions | Yes, across AI answers and the web | Yes, for AI-answer gaps |
| API | On every paid plan from Lite up | Enterprise only |
| MCP server | Yes, on paid plans | Yes |
| Agency pricing | Not offered; one plan ladder for every workspace | Available, separate from the published tiers |
| Best fit | Teams that want AI answers and the web conversation in one place | Teams whose whole job is daily, multi-model AI-answer tracking |

## What does Peec AI cost?

Starter is $95 a month, Pro is $245, and Advanced is $495, checked on peec.ai/pricing on 1 October 2026.

Starter covers 50 prompts across 3 AI models, checked daily, for 1 project with unlimited users. Pro raises that to 150 prompts across 2 projects; Advanced to 350 prompts across 5 projects. API access is reserved for an Enterprise tier, and Peec AI also sells separate agency pricing outside the published ladder.

That is a real jump from MarketHQ's $29 entry tier, and it buys something specific: a check that runs every day instead of once a week, and more prompts to check it with.

## Does MarketHQ check AI answers as often as Peec AI?

No. MarketHQ checks weekly; Peec AI checks daily on every plan.

For most brands, the answer an assistant gives to a buying question doesn't change hour to hour, so a weekly read usually catches the shift that matters. If you're running a launch or a competitive push where you need to see a change within a day, Peec AI's daily cadence is the better fit, and we'd rather say that plainly than pretend otherwise.

What a weekly check buys back is everything else in the workspace: the same six AI engines, plus Reddit, Hacker News, GitHub, news, blogs and social, for under a third of Peec AI's entry price.

## Does Peec AI track Reddit, news or social posts?

Not as far as its own site states. Peec AI's published pages describe AI-answer tracking only.

That matters because an AI assistant's answer is frequently built from exactly those sources: a Reddit thread comparing two products, a news article, a blog post with a buyer's guide. Peec AI tells you what the assistant concluded. It doesn't show you the post that likely shaped the conclusion.

MarketHQ tracks both sides in one workspace: the AI answer and the Reddit, Hacker News, GitHub, Stack Overflow, Dev.to, Lobsters, news, blog and social activity that feeds into it, against the same list of competitors.

## Which should you choose: MarketHQ or Peec AI?

Choose Peec AI for daily, multi-project AI-answer tracking; choose MarketHQ for AI answers plus the web conversation, at a third of the price.

Both give you a gap analysis and recommended next steps for what they find; that part isn't unique to either tool.

- Choose MarketHQ if $29 a month and a weekly cadence fit your budget and your pace of change.
- Choose MarketHQ if you want Reddit, news, blogs and social tracked next to the AI-answer check, not separately.
- Choose Peec AI if you need a daily check, multiple projects, or Enterprise-tier API access and agency pricing.

## Where does Peec AI win?

Peec AI wins on cadence and depth of AI-answer tracking: daily checks, more prompts per tier, and multiple projects. Choose MarketHQ when the web conversation behind the answer matters as much as the answer itself.

If an assistant's answer about your category can change meaningfully within a day, or you're running several client or product workspaces that each need their own project, Peec AI's daily cadence and project model are built for exactly that.

MarketHQ wins when you want one workspace that checks AI answers weekly and reads Reddit, Hacker News, GitHub, news, blogs and social for the same competitors, starting at $29 a month.

- Choose Peec AI if you need AI-answer checks run daily, not weekly.
- Choose Peec AI if you run multiple projects or need Enterprise-tier API access.
- Choose Peec AI if agency pricing across several client brands is part of the requirement.

## FAQ

### How much does Peec AI cost?

Starter is $95 a month (50 prompts, 3 models, daily checks, 1 project), Pro is $245 (150 prompts, 2 projects), and Advanced is $495 (350 prompts, 5 projects), checked on peec.ai/pricing on 1 October 2026. API access is Enterprise only.

### Does Peec AI track Reddit, news or social media?

MarketHQ tracks Reddit, Hacker News, GitHub, news, blogs and social (X, LinkedIn, YouTube, Bluesky, Product Hunt) alongside its weekly AI-answer check. Peec AI's own site names AI-answer tracking only, with no non-AI sources listed.

### Does MarketHQ check AI answers as often as Peec AI?

No. MarketHQ checks weekly across six AI assistants on paid plans; Peec AI checks daily. If daily cadence matters more than price or web-conversation coverage, Peec AI is the better fit.

### Which is cheaper, MarketHQ or Peec AI?

MarketHQ. Lite is $29 a month against Peec AI's Starter at $95. MarketHQ also has a free tier; Peec AI's cheapest published plan is $95.

## Related

- [MarketHQ vs Promptwatch](https://markethq.ai/compare/markethq-vs-promptwatch) — the same AI-answer-only trade-off against a tool that also tracks crawler logs
- [MarketHQ vs Profound](https://markethq.ai/compare/markethq-vs-profound) — the AI-visibility comparison against a tool with no self-serve plan at all
- [Peec AI alternatives](https://markethq.ai/alternatives/peec-alternatives) — the wider field of AI-visibility tools
- [All comparisons](https://markethq.ai/compare) — every head-to-head we verified
- [Pricing](https://markethq.ai/pricing) — what the four MarketHQ tiers cost

## Sources

- Peec AI pricing: https://peec.ai/pricing (verified 2026-10-01)