ByDefault pricing, explained

The costly mistake is comparing the monthly number before counting the work. You choose a ByDefault tier, assume it covers your market, then discover that the prompt list is too narrow for the questions you need. The bill is only part of the cost. The rest is a month of thin evidence.

ByDefault's pricing is built around tracked prompts, models, answer volume, daily tracking and team seats. The public page now attaches a price to every tier. On 2 Oct 2026, Starter (50 tracked prompts) was €89, Growth (150) €219 and Scale (350) €529 a month billed monthly, or €890, €2,190 and €5,290 a year billed yearly. The page also shows dollar prices: $99, $249 and $599 a month. We measure samples; we print what we found, and we do not know what we have not measured.

Three ByDefault tiers, three published prices

The ByDefault pricing page shows three prompt levels: “50 tracked prompts”, “150 tracked prompts” and “350 tracked prompts”. It also says “Track 4 models”, “Daily tracking frequency” and “Unlimited team seats”. Those are the main units to examine if you are deciding whether the product fits your market.

The page also shows the label “GrowthRecommended”. That tells you which tier the page wants visitors to notice. It does not explain why that tier fits a particular workload.

Read in a browser on 2 Oct 2026, the cards pair each price with its tier: Starter is €89 a month for 1 project and 50 prompts, Growth €219 a month for 2 projects and 150 prompts, and Scale €529 a month for 5 projects and 350 prompts, all billed monthly. All three track 4 models daily.

That gives you both the scope and the bill for each tier. What it cannot tell you is which tier your question list needs.

“Daily tracking frequency” ByDefault pricing page.

The quote describes a watchlist checked repeatedly rather than a one off audit. That changes the value of the plan. You are paying for recurring views of the same buyer questions across four models.

The “50 tracked prompts” allowance sets the size of that watchlist. Prompt count controls breadth, while daily tracking controls how often those questions are revisited.

What 50 prompts across four models covers

The 50 prompt tier is best understood as a focused market watch. You choose questions that buyers, partners or analysts may ask, then track how four models respond to them each day.

That can cover a narrow product category, a set of important comparisons, or the questions attached to one main audience. It will struggle to represent every use case for a broad catalogue. The prompt count sets the ceiling, and it does that before team size ever matters.

Four model coverage gives each prompt more than one view. A product can appear in one model's answer and disappear from another, or be cited by one and ignored by the rest. Looking across all four reduces the risk of treating one answer as the market's verdict.

The page states “6,000 AI answers a month”. That figure fits 50 tracked prompts checked across four models with daily tracking, so it helps identify the workload attached to the smallest prompt tier. The page gives 18,000 answers a month for the 150 prompt tier and 42,000 for the 350 prompt tier.

Daily tracking helps when you need to see movement rather than take a snapshot. It can show whether a page change lines up with a change in answers, although tracking alone cannot prove that the page change caused it.

Unlimited seats help when the work crosses teams

“Unlimited team seats” removes one common source of friction. A founder can review the watchlist, a marketer can maintain prompts, and an SEO can inspect the pages cited in answers without turning access into a seat allocation exercise.

Seats are most useful when several people need the same evidence for different decisions. One person may care about brand mentions, another about competitor comparisons, and another about cited pages. They still need to agree which questions deserve space in the watchlist.

Use this checklist before assuming unlimited seats solve your coverage problem:

• You have named the buyer questions that deserve a place in the tracked prompt list.
• You know whether four models cover the assistants your customers actually use.
• You have decided who owns prompt changes when the market or product changes.
• You have enough useful pages to investigate when an answer excludes you.
• You have agreed what a meaningful improvement looks like before the first report.
• You have compared the stated 6,000 answer figure with your expected question volume.

ByDefault cost depends on prompt breadth more than seats

The cost question is really a coverage question. A small team with a tight product category may get more from 50 carefully chosen prompts than from a larger allowance filled with vague variations. A broad business may need the 150 or 350 prompt level simply to represent its markets and use cases.

The page lists 5 prompt-winning articles a month on Growth and 10 on Scale, and none on Starter. It does not define what qualifies an article as prompt-winning.

Do not treat that phrase as a guaranteed publishing outcome. An article can target a prompt and still fail to appear in an answer. The narrower reading is that the product may help identify content opportunities from the prompts it tracks.

For a founder, the buying calculation has two parts. Count the distinct buyer questions you need to monitor, then decide whether daily evidence across four models answers the decision in front of you.

CiteGraph uses a different pricing shape, which makes the comparison useful but limited. Its pricing page lists Starter at $29 a month with 2 projects, 10 questions each, 3 runs per question on 4 engines, 6 tracked rivals and 30 written pages a month. Growth is $69 a month with 3 projects, 10 questions each on 4 engines, 10 tracked rivals and 60 written pages a month. ChatGPT Only is $19 a month with 1 project and 20 questions, asked on ChatGPT only. Weekly scans ask each question 3 times on every plan; a scan you start on Growth asks it 5 times.

This isn't a direct comparison. ByDefault foregrounds tracked prompts, model coverage, answer volume, daily frequency and seats. CiteGraph foregrounds projects, runs, rivals and written pages.

The free checks answer a different question

A paid tracker tells you what happens to a selected watchlist over time. A free check can help you find basic site problems before you build that watchlist.

CiteGraph's free AI readiness check needs no account, runs fifteen checks and shows the fix for each. Its free AI visibility checker offers another initial view. Neither replaces a daily prompt tracker, and neither establishes that a ByDefault tier fits your workload.

Use a readiness check to find site issues. Use a tracker when you need repeated evidence for named questions, models and competitors.

The caveat that matters most

ByDefault's public pricing page gives a clear shape: 50, 150 and 350 tracked prompts at €89, €219 and €529 a month billed monthly, four models, daily tracking, unlimited seats, and 6,000, 18,000 and 42,000 answers a month. Prices change, and these were checked on 2 Oct 2026, so read the page again before you buy.

That is the caveat that matters most: the price of each tier is now clear, but whether 50, 150 or 350 prompts covers your market is something only your own question list can tell you.