Transparent AEO & GEO pricing — pick the lever that fits your stage.

Across the market, monthly retainers cluster in three bands: $1,500–$5,000 for foundational programs, $5,000–$15,000 for mid-market growth work, and $15,000–$50,000+ for enterprise multi-model dominance. One-time audits and readiness reports usually run $1,500–$8,000; deeper content restructuring projects run $5,000–$15,000.

Taptwice Media sits deliberately at the productized end. Our published packages — Consult $199, Starter $999, Growth $1,999, Scale $3,999 — are scoped one-time engagements. Brands that need sustained answer-share lift move to a custom monthly retainer after Scale.

Six structures recur across the market: monthly retainers (the dominant model for ongoing AI-visibility work), project-based fees (audits, schema rebuilds, content restructuring), hybrid SEO + GEO add-ons (typically a 20–50% uplift on an existing SEO retainer), performance-based pricing tied to citations or share-of-model, tiered service packages ($2,500–$15,000+/month), and productized packages ($199–$3,999 one-time).

Taptwice Media operates a productized + custom-retainer model: published prices for the four core packages and per-release distribution, with bespoke retainers for brands beyond Scale.

Most AEO/GEO buyers want to test the engine before committing 12 months of fees. A productized one-time package — baseline visibility analysis across a fixed query set, a named press release, and tracked UGC placements — gives a measurable result inside 3–5 weeks.

If the result holds, the engagement converts to a custom monthly retainer. We credit the one-time fee against the first retainer month, so there is no penalty for starting small.

Five variables move the price: query coverage (10 priority queries on Starter vs 100 on Scale vs full category mapping on custom), authority placements (wire releases, UGC posts, niche citations), technical depth (schema, entity mapping, knowledge-graph injection, RAG-readiness), competitive intensity (SaaS and regulated verticals cost more than local services), and multi-model tracking across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews.

Industry “starter” GEO/AEO programs benchmark at $1,500–$4,000/month. Our Starter package at $999 one-time covers a comparable scope — 10-query AI-visibility analysis, brand sentiment review, prioritized improvement list, and one GlobeNewswire release.

Mid-market industry retainers run $4,000–$10,000/month. Growth at $1,999 and Scale at $3,999 deliver multi-channel distribution (GlobeNewswire releases, Medium / LinkedIn Pulse, AI-cited PR distributors) at a one-time price-point that mid-market agencies typically charge per month.

The trade-off: industry retainers include continuous monthly monitoring and re-optimization. Our productized packages deliver the lift, then convert to a retainer if the brand wants ongoing work.

At the lowest end, agencies use template-based AI content and basic schema markup — work that 2026 AI models actively penalise as “regurgitated.” At the highest end, retainers fund original research, entity hardwiring into Wikidata and similar databases, digital PR for brand citations, and predictive RAG modeling for global brands.

Where Taptwice Media fits: original release writing optimized for LLM extraction, named distribution channels (GlobeNewswire, ANI, syndication to Yahoo News, Benzinga, The Manila Times), tracked UGC placements, and AI-visibility analysis across named query sets — published at productized prices.

Project-based engagements work for three scenarios: a product launch, a measured test of AI visibility in a new category, or a one-time authority push (e.g. founder thought-leadership campaign). Retainers work when the brand is committed to sustained answer-share lift across a competitive category — which usually requires monthly content cadence and continuous citation monitoring.

Both models exist inside Taptwice Media: the four packages for project-based work, custom retainers for sustained programs.

Look for these line items rather than vague “AI optimization” promises: a named query set with explicit AI-visibility baseline, brand-rank and mention-coverage report per query, positive and negative sentiment analysis from current AI answers, named distribution channels (specific wires, UGC platforms, niche publications), citation and pickup reporting after each placement, and a prioritized, action-ready list of on-page and off-page improvements.

Every Taptwice Media package — Starter, Growth, Scale — ships exactly these items. Each engagement starts with a published query set so the deliverable is measurable, not aspirational.