Published, because nobody else does

$2,000 a month. Three month minimum.

That is the whole price. We assessed five established AEO and GEO agencies in September 2026 and not one published a figure anywhere on its site, so here is ours before you spend an hour on a call finding out.

$2,000Per month, all services, no tiers or add-onsBilled monthly

3Month minimum, then month to monthNo annual lock-in

0Of five competitors assessed publish any priceChecked September 2026

$0For the first call, which is a diagnostic rather than a pitchNo card, no form gate

The competitor finding is from our assessment of the agency field, where we are judged on the same six criteria and are not ranked first.

The short answer

Credible Roots charges $2,000 per month with a three month minimum, after which the engagement runs month to month. There are no tiers, no setup fee and no per-article rate. That figure sits below the range circulating for this category — one competitor’s published guide puts AEO retainers between $2,500 and $25,000 a month, with most B2B SaaS programmes at $5,000 to $10,000 — and the honest explanation is structural rather than generous: we are a very small firm with no sales team, no account-management layer and no office, we take few clients at a time, and the person doing the thinking is the person you speak to. What you are not buying at this price is a large team, a long client reference list or 24-hour turnaround, and if those matter more than method, several of the agencies we assessed are a better fit. The three month minimum exists because crawler access faults resolve in weeks but earned position does not, and a one-month engagement would bill you for a diagnosis and leave before the treatment.

$2,000/month, three month minimum. No tiers, no setup fee, no per-article rate.
Below the circulating range, and we explain why rather than implying a discount.
Nobody else in the field publishes a price. Five assessed, zero published.
The first call is free and is a diagnostic. Including when it ends in a no.

On this page

What $2,000 a month buys
What it does not buy
Why we are below the range
Why we do not price per article
Why three months
When we are the wrong purchase
Questions people actually ask

What $2,000 a month buys

One engagement, all of it. The mix shifts month to month depending on what the audit finds — a site with a crawler access fault needs different work in month one than a site whose pages simply are not quotable — but nothing below is a separate line item or an upsell.

The access audit. Whether GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and Applebot-Extended can actually fetch your pages, confirmed from server logs rather than inferred from robots.txt.
Entity resolution. Structured data describing something real, one canonical identity, a sameAs graph, consistent details wherever you appear, and Wikidata where you genuinely qualify.
Extractable rewriting. Restructuring the pages that matter so they open with a complete, specific, checkable answer rather than positioning language.
Original data, where there is data to be had. The most defensible page in any category holds a number nobody else has.
A prompt-set baseline, re-run. Frozen, versioned, and reported with its sample size against the metrics we publish.
Published method and corrections. What we did and, where we got something wrong, a dated entry with the old and new figures side by side.

The individual founder track — distribution, LinkedIn publishing, AI video and the long-run record work — is the same $2,000 a month. It is one price for one relationship, not a menu.

What it does not buy

Stated plainly, because you will find out anyway

A guarantee that any model names you. Nobody can sell that, at any price. The full list of what is not on offer.
A large team. You are buying a small firm. That is the reason for the price, not a detail hidden behind it.
Unlimited output. There is no page quota because quota-driven publishing is most of what is wrong with this category, but it also means you cannot buy more by paying more here.
Same-day turnaround or a dedicated account manager. Neither exists at this size.
A long client reference list. One named client and three anonymised engagements. All four, with the limits stated.
Paid media, ads or link buying. Not offered, and not something we would quietly subcontract.

Why we are below the range

A competitor’s published guide puts AEO retainers between $2,500 and $25,000 a month, with most B2B SaaS programmes landing at $5,000 to $10,000. We repeat that as their claim rather than a verified benchmark — we have not seen the underlying data — but it is roughly consistent with what agencies in this field charge, and $2,000 is under the bottom of it.

Being cheapest is usually a warning sign, so here is the actual arithmetic rather than a claim about value.

No sales team. Agencies at $10,000 a month are frequently carrying a business development function, and you are paying for the cost of acquiring yourself as a client.
No account-management layer. No weekly status call run by someone who then relays it to the person doing the work.
No office and no overhead to cover.
Few clients at a time. This is the real constraint. It caps what we can earn and it is the reason we will tell you on the first call when this is not the right purchase.
The founder does the thinking. Production is delegated. Judgement is not.

The honest risk in hiring the cheapest option is capacity, not competence. If you need a partner who can absorb a large brief quickly, a bigger firm genuinely serves you better and we will say so.

Why we do not price per article

Per-article pricing is the most searched way to think about this cost, and it is the wrong unit for the work. Rates of roughly $150 to $1,500 an article circulate for AI-assisted SEO content depending on research depth, and if you divide a $2,000 retainer by whatever a month produces you can generate a similar-looking number.

But the two things that most often decide whether an answer engine can cite you at all are not articles. A crawler returning 403 at the CDN is not an article. Structured data that resolves you to the right entity is not an article. Both routinely matter more in month one than anything published, and neither appears on a per-article invoice.

Per-article pricing also creates the wrong incentive on both sides: the agency is paid to publish, so it publishes, and the volume itself becomes the deliverable. That is the failure mode this whole category is currently running on. We would rather be paid for a result we can describe than for a word count we can hit.

If a per-article rate is genuinely what you need — because you have a content plan and want it executed — that is a legitimate purchase and we are not the right supplier for it.

Why three months

Not to lock you in. It reflects how the work actually resolves.

Timescale	What can honestly change
Weeks	Crawler access faults, once found and fixed, on the crawler’s own schedule
Weeks to months	Entity resolution, as models and knowledge graphs refresh
Months	Extractability changes showing up as citation share
Longer, and not ours to schedule	Corroboration, because it depends on third parties publishing

A one-month engagement would bill you for the diagnosis and leave before any of the treatment could show. After three months it runs month to month, and you can stop at any point.

When we are the wrong purchase

Three or four calls a month end here. It is cheaper for everyone before the invoice than after it.

You need attributable pipeline this quarter. Buy demand generation. It works on that timescale and this does not.
You want a specific volume of content produced. A content agency will do that better and probably cheaper.
You need a large team or fast turnaround. Real constraint at our size, and not one money solves.
You want a guaranteed ranking, panel or mention. Nobody controls those. A vendor promising one is selling something they do not have.
Your buyers never ask a model anything. Some categories are purely transactional or local. We would rather establish that on a free call.

Questions people actually ask

How much does an AEO or GEO agency cost?

We charge $2,000 per month with a three month minimum. Across the wider field there is no verifiable benchmark, because none of the five established agencies we assessed in September 2026 publishes pricing. A range of $2,500 to $25,000 per month circulates in competitor guides, with most B2B SaaS programmes cited at $5,000 to $10,000, but we have not seen the data behind it and neither has anyone quoting it.

Why are you cheaper than everyone else?

Structural reasons, not a discount. No sales team, no account-management layer, no office, few clients at a time, and the founder doing the thinking rather than an account team relaying it. The genuine trade-off is capacity: if you need a firm that can absorb a large brief quickly, a bigger agency serves you better and we will say so on the call.

Is there a setup fee or a separate audit fee?

No. The first call is free and is a diagnostic rather than a pitch, and the audit work is part of the monthly engagement rather than a separate charge.

What happens after three months?

It runs month to month and you can stop whenever you want. Everything produced is yours, including the published method, the prompt set and the baseline data.

Do you price per article?

No. The two things that most often decide whether an answer engine can cite you at all — crawler access and entity resolution — are not articles and never appear on a per-article invoice. Per-article pricing also pays an agency to publish rather than to produce a result, which is the failure mode this category currently runs on.

Is the price the same for companies and individuals?

Yes. $2,000 per month covers the company answer-engine work and the individual founder track alike. One price for one relationship, rather than a menu with tiers.

How this was made: our own price is stated directly. The competitor range is quoted as a published claim from another agency’s guide rather than as a verified benchmark, and the finding that no assessed agency publishes pricing comes from our own September 2026 check of five agency websites. Corrections go in the corrections log. Drafted with AI assistance, reviewed and approved by the named author before publication. Our editorial standards.

The first call is free, and often ends in a no

We will check whether the engines can reach you, run the prompts your buyers ask, show you who gets named instead, and tell you honestly whether $2,000 a month is worth spending on this in your category yet.

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