{"id":1417,"date":"2026-07-20T03:27:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T03:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maxaeo.ai\/blog\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2026-07-20T03:27:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T03:27:04","slug":"maxaeo-vs-siftly-which-ai-visibility-platform-fits-your-workflow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxaeo.ai\/blog\/maxaeo-vs-siftly-which-ai-visibility-platform-fits-your-workflow\/","title":{"rendered":"MaxAEO vs Siftly: Which AI Visibility Platform Fits Your Workflow?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Last updated: July 15, 2026 \u00b7 Reviewed by the MaxAEO Performance Team<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Looking for a Siftly alternative? Here&#8217;s how MaxAEO compares:<\/strong> choose <strong>MaxAEO<\/strong> if you want transparent self-serve pricing, prompt research, daily AI visibility monitoring, competitor analysis, and a prioritized optimization workflow in one accessible platform. Choose <strong>Siftly<\/strong> if your team specifically wants native test-versus-control experiments, direct CMS publishing, citation outreach, social engagement workflows, and crawler-to-click attribution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both products go beyond a basic \u201cwas my brand mentioned?\u201d dashboard. MaxAEO combines monitoring with recommendations and AI-ready content; Siftly combines monitoring with content, experimentation, distribution, and attribution. The better choice depends less on a long feature checklist than on who will act after the dashboard finds a gap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One accuracy note before comparing screens: visibility percentages shown in product demos may be illustrative unless they link to a live report or a tracked workspace. Use demo values to understand the interface, not as promised results for your brand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The short answer: pick the workflow, not the logo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Pick MaxAEO<\/strong> when a marketing, SEO, or founder-led team needs a fast self-serve baseline, public pricing from $19 per month, broad named AI-engine coverage, prompt research, and clear actions after each monitoring run.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Pick Siftly<\/strong> when a GEO team wants to publish through supported CMS integrations, run controlled topic-level experiments, coordinate outreach and social actions, and connect crawling, mentions, clicks, and revenue.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Shortlist both<\/strong> when measurement quality matters as much as execution. Run the same buyer prompts in each product, verify the platforms included in the plan you are considering, and compare how quickly the output turns into a publishable action.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MaxAEO vs Siftly at a glance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>Decision point<\/th><th>MaxAEO<\/th><th>Siftly<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Core job<\/td><td>Monitor AI visibility and turn gaps into prioritized optimization actions<\/td><td>Monitor visibility, execute content\/distribution actions, and measure experiments<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Best for<\/td><td>Lean marketing teams, founders, SEO\/AEO teams, and multi-brand operators wanting self-serve access<\/td><td>GEO teams wanting a broader execution and attribution stack<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>First step<\/td><td>Free AI visibility report or self-serve plan<\/td><td>Free AI visibility audit, product exploration, or demo<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Named AI surfaces<\/td><td>Homepage names ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Copilot, Grok, Google AI Mode, and AI Overview<\/td><td>Answers pages name ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Copilot, and AI Overviews; detailed pages emphasize four major engines<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Monitoring cadence<\/td><td>Daily monitoring<\/td><td>Daily monitoring with repeated sampling described on the monitoring page<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Visibility metrics<\/td><td>Mention rate, recommendation position, competitive rank, sentiment, citations, and full 9-dimension analytics<\/td><td>Mention rate, position, sentiment, hallucinations, competitor co-occurrence, and source citations<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Prompt workflow<\/td><td>Prompt research across audience, scenario, and intent; SEO keyword conversion<\/td><td>Custom prompt library plus suggested prompts by industry<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Competitor analysis<\/td><td>Mention-rate trends, heatmaps, rankings, and positioning charts<\/td><td>Share of voice and prompt-by-prompt competitor benchmarking<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Brand perception<\/td><td>Sentiment analysis and AI accuracy assessment<\/td><td>Sentiment plus explicit hallucination flags and alerts<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Citation intelligence<\/td><td>Citation tracing identifies domains and articles influencing AI answers<\/td><td>Citation tracking plus outreach to third-party pages and authors<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Optimization layer<\/td><td>Recommendations based on citation funnels and performance; AI-ready brand content<\/td><td>GEO drafts, supported CMS publishing, social actions, and citation outreach<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Native controlled experiments<\/td><td>Public pages reviewed focus on monitoring changes and optimization actions, not a native test\/control system<\/td><td>Built-in balanced test\/control topic experiments<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>CMS publishing<\/td><td>Not positioned as the central public-site workflow reviewed<\/td><td>WordPress, Sanity, Wix, and Framer are named<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Attribution<\/td><td>Monitoring and trend analysis are central<\/td><td>Cloudflare crawls \u2192 Siftly mentions \u2192 GA4 clicks \u2192 revenue story<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Public pricing<\/td><td>Monthly: $19 Starter, $149 Growth, $399 Pro; Enterprise custom<\/td><td>Public pricing page reviewed is for Siftly Shopping; Siftly Answers pricing is not itemized there<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Honest best fit<\/td><td>Transparent, low-friction monitoring-to-optimization workflow<\/td><td>Native experimentation, publishing, outreach, and attribution workflow<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Platform lists and plan entitlements change. MaxAEO&#8217;s homepage currently names eight surfaces, while its self-serve pricing table says four platforms with approximately six available. Siftly likewise uses broader engine lists on overview pages and a four-major-engine framing on detailed monitoring pages. Verify the exact plan, geography, model, and sampling cadence before buying either product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Getting a reliable baseline without a long buying cycle<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>MaxAEO for a transparent self-serve baseline; Siftly for a free audit that can lead into a broader execution stack.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MaxAEO publishes its self-serve tiers and limits. A small team can start with one brand and 10 prompts, then expand to 100 prompts or a four-brand plan without first negotiating a custom contract. Its homepage also offers a free report, which makes it practical for a founder or growth lead who first needs to answer: <em>Are we appearing at all, where do competitors outrank us, and which sources shape those answers?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Siftly also offers a free visibility audit with no sign-up required on its Answers page. Its monitoring page makes an important methodological point: one AI check is not a baseline. If a brand appears in four out of ten runs, the useful result is a 40% mention rate; one isolated response could misleadingly suggest either 0% or 100%. Siftly describes repeated sampling to control that variance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The buying difference is transparency. MaxAEO exposes current brand-monitoring prices publicly. The Siftly pricing page reviewed on July 15, 2026 is explicitly for <strong>Siftly Shopping<\/strong>, so it does not tell an Answers buyer the like-for-like cost of brand monitoring. If procurement speed matters, MaxAEO is easier to budget from public information. If you are comfortable using an audit and demo to scope a broader program, Siftly remains a valid shortlist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Monitoring engines, competitors, and brand perception every day<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>MaxAEO for broad named coverage and nine-dimension analysis; Siftly for sampled monitoring, hallucination flags, and configurable alerts.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MaxAEO&#8217;s public workflow starts with prompt research, then breaks down responses by prompt and platform. The dashboard is designed to show mention rate, average recommendation position, competitive rank, sentiment, and citations together. That is useful for a brand manager who wants one view of <em>whether the brand appears, how it is described, who appears first, and which pages AI relies on<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Siftly describes each response through six explicit dimensions: mention rate, mention position, sentiment, hallucination status, competitor co-occurrence, and source citation. It also describes alerts for a mention-rate drop, competitor surge, hallucination, sentiment shift, or gained\/lost citation. Teams that need an operational alert stream in Slack, email, or a webhook should evaluate that layer closely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The products overlap substantially here. Both cover major AI assistants, daily monitoring, competitor benchmarking, sentiment, and citation sources. Do not decide from a headline engine count alone. Ask which models are included in your tier, whether answers are sampled repeatedly, which locations are supported, and whether the same buyer prompt can be compared consistently across platforms and competitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. Turning a citation gap into content that can be published<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>MaxAEO for prioritized recommendations and AI-ready content; Siftly for a built-in CMS draft-and-publish workflow.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MaxAEO&#8217;s content optimization capability starts from monitored evidence. It traces which domains and articles are cited, analyzes the gap between the brand and competitors, and produces optimization recommendations and AI-ready brand content. This suits a team that already has an editorial or web-publishing process and wants the monitoring platform to tell it what to create, update, or place next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Siftly makes the production layer more explicit. Its GEO Content page describes drafts with direct definitions, comparison tables, ordered steps, FAQs, heading hierarchy, and schema. It then names WordPress, Sanity, Wix, and Framer as publishing integrations and feeds citation performance back into the content library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a real Siftly strength, and it is why a fair comparison cannot call Siftly \u201cmonitoring only.\u201d The decision is instead about operating model. <strong>MaxAEO for teams that want evidence-led priorities and keep editorial control in their existing workflow; Siftly for teams that want more of drafting and CMS publishing inside the vendor&#8217;s workflow.<\/strong> In either case, human review remains essential: product facts, pricing, original evidence, and claims still need an accountable editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. Proving whether an optimization caused the lift<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Siftly for native test\/control experimentation; MaxAEO for ongoing monitoring of action outcomes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Siftly has the clearer public feature for controlled experiments. It describes clustering related topics, balancing them into test and control groups, leaving control content unchanged, applying one intervention to the test group, and monitoring the visibility and citation gap over multiple weeks. That is more rigorous than looking at a before\/after chart and assuming the content change caused the movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, a 10% mention-rate increase is ambiguous if every brand in the category gained 10% after an AI-model update. A test group rising while a comparable control group remains flat is stronger evidence that the intervention mattered. Siftly also keeps a library of winning and losing changes, which can become a reusable GEO playbook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MaxAEO monitors trends and connects optimization recommendations to later visibility data, so teams can evaluate whether actions coincide with improvement. However, the public MaxAEO pages reviewed do not document the same native balanced test\/control system. If controlled causal testing is a hard requirement, Siftly is the more specific fit today. If the priority is finding gaps, executing a ranked action backlog, and tracking the next monitoring cycle without building a formal experiment program, MaxAEO may be the simpler operating model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5. Comparing price and procurement honestly<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>MaxAEO for public self-serve tiers; Siftly for buyers comfortable validating Answers pricing directly.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MaxAEO currently publishes these prices:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>MaxAEO plan<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">Monthly<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">Annual equivalent<\/th><th>Included scale shown publicly<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Starter<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">$19\/mo<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">$15\/mo<\/td><td>1 brand, 10 prompts, 5 competitors<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Growth<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">$149\/mo<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">$119\/mo<\/td><td>1 brand, 100 prompts, 8 competitors<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Pro<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">$399\/mo<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">$319\/mo<\/td><td>4 brands, 400 prompts, 8 competitors per brand<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Enterprise<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">Custom<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">Custom<\/td><td>Unlimited\/custom scope<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All listed MaxAEO plans say daily monitoring and full nine-dimension analytics; retention and scale rise by tier. Check <a href=\"https:\/\/maxaeo.ai\/pricing\/\">MaxAEO pricing<\/a> for current entitlements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Siftly&#8217;s public pricing page currently starts at $79 per month, but that page is titled \u201cPricing to win the AI shopping shelf\u201d and packages products, SKUs, category pages, marketplace optimization, and shopping engines. Those figures describe <strong>Siftly Shopping<\/strong>, not a directly comparable Siftly Answers subscription. A responsible MaxAEO vs Siftly comparison therefore cannot declare a like-for-like cost winner without an Answers quote. Ask Siftly for the exact monitoring product, prompt volume, sampling cadence, platforms, users, content allowances, and support included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">6. Running multiple brands or a broader execution program<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>MaxAEO for multi-brand monitoring economics; Siftly for teams consolidating content, outreach, and attribution workflows.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MaxAEO Pro publicly includes four brands and 400 prompts. That makes it easier for a small agency, portfolio operator, or multi-product company to estimate the cost of a shared monitoring matrix. Prompt research, competitive heatmaps, sentiment, citations, and prioritized actions can stay in one repeatable process across brands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Siftly&#8217;s broader story is operational consolidation. Its Answers page combines articles, social engagement, citation outreach, crawler monitoring, mentions, GA4 clicks, and revenue attribution. For an agency or in-house GEO team that would otherwise coordinate several tools and service providers, that larger execution surface may justify a sales-led buying process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ownership question is decisive: <strong>MaxAEO for a team that owns publishing and outreach but needs better intelligence and priorities; Siftly for a team that wants the platform or vendor workflow to carry more of publishing, experimentation, outreach, and attribution.<\/strong> Ask who approves content, who sends outreach, who controls CMS access, and who is accountable for experiment design before choosing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where each platform is honestly stronger<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Siftly is better aligned when native topic-level test\/control experiments, named CMS integrations, citation outreach, social actions, crawler tracking, and GA4 attribution are essential parts of the purchase. These are not minor extras; they shape how the team works after monitoring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MaxAEO is better aligned when transparent self-serve pricing, a low-cost starting tier, prompt research, broad named platform monitoring, multi-brand scaling, and a straightforward monitoring-to-recommendation workflow matter more than consolidating every execution channel inside one vendor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neither conclusion should be based on a demo screenshot alone. Validate the same prompt set, confirm plan-level engine access, and distinguish illustrative percentages from live monitored reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to switch from Siftly to MaxAEO without losing your baseline<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no need to promise a one-click migration. A careful transition preserves the evidence that makes future trend lines meaningful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Record your prompt library.<\/strong> Export or document every tracked buyer question, including location, topic cluster, language, and engine.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Preserve a baseline window.<\/strong> Save at least 30\u201390 days of mention rate, position, sentiment, citations, and competitor share-of-voice data where available.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Map metric definitions.<\/strong> A \u201cmention,\u201d \u201cvisibility percentage,\u201d or \u201cshare of voice\u201d may use different denominators. Document each definition before comparing charts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Recreate brands and competitors in MaxAEO.<\/strong> Keep competitor sets consistent so the first MaxAEO run is comparable to the previous workspace.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Match the monitoring cadence.<\/strong> Run the same prompts on the same platforms and geographies. If sampling differs, label the break in methodology.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Move the action backlog, not just the dashboards.<\/strong> Carry over open content gaps, citation opportunities, pages awaiting refresh, and experiments still being evaluated.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Overlap the tools briefly.<\/strong> A short parallel window reveals metric-definition and platform-entitlement differences before the old workspace is canceled.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once the baseline is stable, use <a href=\"https:\/\/maxaeo.ai\/solutions\/\">MaxAEO&#8217;s solutions workflow<\/a> to convert the most consequential gaps into an ordered optimization plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Frequently asked questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Any good tools for tracking brand mentions in ChatGPT and Perplexity?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Yes\u2014MaxAEO and Siftly both track brand visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other AI surfaces.<\/strong> MaxAEO is the clearer self-serve choice when you want public pricing, prompt research, competitor analysis, and optimization recommendations. Siftly is stronger when repeated sampling, alerts, controlled experiments, publishing, outreach, and attribution need to live in the same broader workflow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Is there a platform that analyzes brand sentiment across different AI chatbots?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Yes\u2014both platforms analyze how AI systems describe a brand, not only whether the name appears.<\/strong> MaxAEO combines sentiment with AI accuracy assessment, competitive rank, and citation tracing. Siftly describes positive\/neutral\/negative framing plus explicit hallucination flags and alerts. Test the same prompts because sentiment labels can vary with the answer sample and model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What do people use to monitor how AI search engines recommend their products?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Teams use AI visibility platforms that repeatedly run real buyer prompts and compare mention rate, position, competitors, sentiment, and citations.<\/strong> MaxAEO is designed for brand recommendation monitoring and prioritized optimization. Siftly separates its Answers and Shopping stories; ecommerce teams should confirm whether they need product\/SKU tracking or general brand-answer monitoring before choosing a plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What tools are available for checking if my brand is mentioned in AI-generated answers?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>MaxAEO and Siftly are both relevant options, but a one-time checker is only a starting point.<\/strong> A useful system should preserve prompts, rerun them on a schedule, measure variance, show position and sentiment, reveal competitors, and identify cited sources. Start with a free report or audit, then compare ongoing monitoring rather than judging one generated answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How is MaxAEO different from Siftly?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>MaxAEO emphasizes accessible self-serve monitoring, prompt research, competitive analysis, and prioritized optimization; Siftly emphasizes a wider native execution and measurement loop.<\/strong> Siftly&#8217;s public pages specifically describe CMS publishing, test\/control experiments, citation outreach, social actions, crawler tracking, and GA4 attribution. MaxAEO&#8217;s public pricing and multi-brand tiers are easier to evaluate without a sales call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Is MaxAEO cheaper than Siftly?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>MaxAEO has the lower transparent entry price, but a direct Answers-to-Answers price comparison is not publicly available from the pages reviewed.<\/strong> MaxAEO starts at $19 per month. Siftly&#8217;s public $79 entry price is for Siftly Shopping, so it should not be treated as the price of Siftly Answers. Compare a written Siftly Answers quote with the MaxAEO tier that matches your prompts, brands, platforms, sampling, users, and support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Start with the baseline your team can act on<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If your immediate goal is to see where your brand appears, which competitors AI recommends, how sentiment and citations differ by prompt, and which actions deserve attention first, <a href=\"https:\/\/maxaeo.ai\/\">run a free MaxAEO report<\/a> and review the current <a href=\"https:\/\/maxaeo.ai\/pricing\/\">self-serve plans<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If native controlled experiments, CMS publishing, outreach, and click\/revenue attribution are mandatory, keep Siftly on the shortlist and validate its Answers scope and pricing directly. The right platform is the one your team can operate every week\u2014from prompt to evidence, from evidence to action, and from action back to measured visibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About the author<\/strong><br><strong>MaxAEO Performance Team<\/strong> monitors how brands are mentioned, ranked, described, and cited across major AI search platforms.<br>The team focuses on evidence-led prompt research, competitor analysis, citation tracing, and content optimization.<br>Product and pricing facts in this comparison were checked against public MaxAEO and Siftly pages on July 15, 2026.<br>Always verify current plan entitlements with the vendor before purchasing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last updated: July 15, 2026 \u00b7 Reviewed by the MaxAEO Performance Team Looking for a Siftly alternative? 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