Geoa vs SearchAtlas — Which is best for SMEs?

We have previously stated that SearchAtlas did not create GEO. That was incorrect. They do have LLM Visibility, which tracks where you appear in AI responses, and their OTTO SEO automatically fixes technical and on-page issues on your site. These are genuine GEO features, and the claim has been removed.

The real difference lies elsewhere: SearchAtlas is a comprehensive marketing platform where AI visibility is just one module amongst many — and that module forms part of the Growth plan at $199 a month. Geoa provides AI visibility, technical SEO and AI articles in Danish — but neither PPC nor link building.

Geoa compared with SearchAtlas

Feature	Geoa	SearchAtlas
Focus	AI visibility, technical SEO and AI articles	Bred SEO, PPC and content suite
Cheapest plan	€39/month	$99/month (Starter)
AI visibility	Included from the outset	Requires the Growth plan ($199/month)
AI engines	5 included	3 on Growth, 5 on Pro and Agency
Auto-fix	llms.txt, robots.txt, schema	OTTO automatically corrects on-page content (autopilot by default)
Where the changes are	In your CMS — plain HTML	OTTO Pixel (JavaScript layer) or CMS connectors
Replies to reviews	Draft — you post it yourself	Can automatically reply to GBP reviews
Language	Danish	English
Company	Danish CVR, EU	US — venue of jurisdiction: New York

An suite for a tool

SearchAtlas describes itself as an agentic AI marketing platform, and its toolbox is extensive: keyword research, link building, content production ranging from 40 to 500 pages depending on the plan, PPC and technical SEO via OTTO. AI visibility is one feature within that package.

It’s a sensible option if you need several things at once. If, on the other hand, AI visibility is what you’re after, you’ll be paying for a lot of features you won’t use — and you’ll still need to upgrade to Growth before LLM Visibility is even included. Geoa does one thing and does it well, from €39 a month.

How much does AI visibility cost with them?

The Starter plan at $99 a month does not include LLM Visibility. This is included in the Growth plan at $199, which covers ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode. If you’d also like to include Copilot and Perplexity, you’ll need to upgrade to the Pro plan at $399 or the Agency plan at $999.

The cost of full engine coverage with SearchAtlas is therefore $399 per month. Geoa measures five AI surfaces from €39. That’s the most significant numerical difference between us — and we have to be honest that their $399 also includes link building and keyword research, which our €39 does not. Both provide content: with us, AI articles are included in all paid plans, ranging from 5 per month on the Starter plan to 50 on the Business plan.

OTTO actually does sort things out — credit where credit’s due

Their OTTO SEO is described as technical fixes and on-page improvements carried out directly on the basis of live search data, without a ticket queue. This is based on the same fundamental concept as our Auto Fix, and it is a feature that very few competitors offer.

The difference lies in the scope. OTTO covers the entire on-page spectrum, including link building and keyword research. Geoa’s Auto Fix fixes the technical foundations that both Google and AI crawlers read: robots.txt access, schema markup, llms.txt, title and meta description — and it monitors whether a theme update reverts the fix. If you also need links and content produced, SearchAtlas offers a broader scope.

Where are the changes — and who can see them?

OTTO is typically delivered via OTTO Pixel — a script in the page header — or via Cloudflare DNS and CMS connectors. If you’re using the pixel method, the corrections are rendered in the browser using JavaScript. Google’s own documentation recommends that you “avoid using JavaScript to inject or change meta tags whenever possible” — a crawler needs to run JavaScript to detect such changes.

Geoa’s fixes are integrated into your own CMS via a plugin or worker and served as standard HTML — visible to any crawler without JavaScript execution. SearchAtlas, on the other hand, has Deep Freeze: the pixel changes remain live, even after you cancel your subscription. That’s fair enough — but they still reside in their JavaScript layer, not in your system. If you use their CMS connectors instead of the pixel, the difference is less significant; in that case, the choice is more about the authorisation model.

Autopilot or authorised AI staff member

OTTO is marketed as an AI agent that carries out the entire search strategy on its own: autopilot is the default setting, and if you want to approve each change, you’ll need to switch to approval mode yourself. It can also reply automatically to your Google reviews.

Geoa’s AI assistant uses the reverse model — deliberately. A limited set of technical changes are carried out automatically, with a work log and rollback option; everything else is queued, awaiting your approval. And replies to reviews are never posted automatically: Google currently keeps review replies in moderation and flags template replies, so that final click is always yours. If you want as much as possible on autopilot, OTTO is, quite frankly, more automated than we are. If you want a team member who shows their work and asks for your approval first, that’s us.

On jurisdiction — and a claim we have removed

SearchAtlas’s terms and conditions refer to the laws of the State of New York, with arbitration to take place in New York. They do not provide a registered company name or an address on the website. It is therefore well documented that they are a US-based company.

We previously wrote “US-based — GDPR uncertainty” on this page. The country is a fact; the ‘GDPR uncertainty’ was an unsubstantiated claim, and we have already had to remove that type of wording in relation to another competitor. It has now been removed. What remains is verifiable: they are American; we are Danish with EU data storage.

How we checked: Prices, map content, OTTO architecture (pixel/autopilot/Deep Freeze) and engine coverage were sourced from searchatlas.com on 8 August 2026; the JavaScript recommendation is taken from Google’s own Search documentation on the same date. If you spot an error, please email hello@geoa.app and we will correct it.

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