Best GEO agencies in 2026: 12 compared on price, proof and specialty
By Louis Decavel · Checked 16 September 2026 · 16 min read
Twelve agencies, read on their own public pages. Published rates where they exist, the words "not published" where they do not, no star ratings anywhere. We are one of them, the table is alphabetical, and a section below names the agencies that beat us.
The short answer
Which GEO agency is best?
There is no single best GEO agency. There is one per situation, and the situations barely overlap.
For published proof on named clients, Siege Media: client logos attached to citation counts and revenue figures. For technical work on how models retrieve your pages, iPullRank, with the most detailed published methodology. For B2B SaaS content tied to pipeline, on a budget you can see before the call, Optimist and Omniscient Digital both publish rates. For off-site authority bought by the placement, Chilli Fruit sells links and digital PR one placement at a time rather than on a retainer. For organic Reddit, one of the sources answer engines lean on hardest for opinion questions, that is us.
We publish this page and we are on the list. Our rate is public, and the section on where rivals beat us names five of them.
Our bias, stated up front
UpvotePartners wrote this page and UpvotePartners is in the table. Pretending otherwise would be the fastest way to make everything below worthless.
We sell one thing: organic Reddit presence for brands that want to be named inside AI answers. 3,000 euros a month, four-month minimum, target written into the contract, pro-rata refund if it is missed. We do not sell technical SEO, paid media, or enterprise content operations.
We did not rank ourselves first, because we did not rank anyone. The table is alphabetical, and the only recommendation in it lives in the "best for" column. Every fact here, ours included, comes from what that agency publishes on its own site. Where a rival publishes something we cannot match, we say so by name.
The five criteria, and how to check them
Announced before the table, not after it. You can run this grid without us, on any agency, including ours. That is the point of publishing it.
1. Does the agency publish a rate?
Why it matters: A published rate tells you the shape of the business before a sales call, and it is the one claim an agency cannot quietly walk back.
How to check it: Open their pricing page. Four of the twelve here publish something. That is not a moral score, it is a filter on how much of your quarter goes into discovery calls.
2. Organic citations or paid placement: what are you buying?
Why it matters: A mention paid for on a publisher and a mention earned in a community do not behave the same way when a model re-crawls the web six months later.
How to check it: Ask what share of the deliverable is paid placement, and ask it in writing. Both models are legitimate. Selling one as the other is not.
3. Which surfaces are actually covered?
Why it matters: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini and Copilot do not retrieve from the same places, so the phrase AI visibility means nothing without a list of engines attached.
How to check it: Ask which engines they track, how often, and whether they test logged out. If the answer is one engine, your monthly report will be one engine.
4. What kind of proof: named client, citation count, or nothing?
Why it matters: Proof has tiers. A named client attached to a number beats an anonymous number, which beats an adjective.
How to check it: Look for a logo attached to a figure on the agency's own site. Siege Media does it. Most do not, and neither can we. Just know which tier you are buying.
5. Minimum engagement, and what survives when you stop
Why it matters: Part of what you buy evaporates the month the invoice stops, and part of it keeps working for years. That difference is worth more than the monthly rate.
How to check it: Ask what is still live 90 days after the contract ends, and who owns it. A thread, an article and a link outlive the contract. A dashboard seat does not.
The 12 GEO agencies compared
Alphabetical, not ranked. Every cell is what the agency publishes on its own site, read on 16 September 2026. "Not published" means we could not find it publicly on that date, not that it does not exist. No price is estimated or inferred.
| Agency | Best for | Published price | Main GEO lever | Public proof | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chilli Fruit Web Consulting | Off-site authority, bought per link | Not published | Link building and digital PR | 500+ publications, average DR 73 | London, United Kingdom |
| Directive Consulting | Paid and organic in one contract | Not published | Paid plus organic performance | Named B2B SaaS clients | Irvine, United States |
| Go Fish Digital | SEO, reputation and GEO from one vendor | Not published | SEO, ORM and a GEO layer | Published GEO benchmark analysis | Raleigh, United States |
| Graphite | Scaleups with a content engine already running | Not published | Research-driven content programs | Named clients, named AI research lead | San Francisco, United States |
| iPullRank | Enterprise technical retrieval work | Not published | Relevance engineering on your own site | Published methodology, 5 billion dollars claimed | New York, United States |
| Minuttia | SaaS and tech content at volume | Not published | B2B SaaS and tech content | Published comparisons, no bias disclosure | Greece |
| NoGood | Funded startups wanting one growth partner | Not published | Growth marketing with an AEO practice | Case studies published | New York, United States |
| Omniscient Digital | B2B SaaS content tied to pipeline | From 10,000 dollars per month | Content mapped to pipeline | Published criteria and own rate | Austin, United States |
| Optimist | B2B SaaS, with a published rate card | 3,000 to 15,000+ dollars per month | B2B SaaS content, CORE framework | Published rate card and bias disclosure | Des Moines, United States |
| Siege Media | Named-client proof at enterprise scale | Not published | Content plus digital PR | Client-level citation and revenue figures | San Diego, United States |
| UpvotePartners publisher of this page | Organic Reddit presence for AI answers | 3,000 euros per month, 4-month minimum | Organic Reddit threads | Published rate and warm-up protocol, no named client | France |
| WebFX | Mid-market, one vendor for everything | Published, by service | Full-service SEO on the OmniSEO platform | Published pricing and case studies | Harrisburg, United States |
Two things the table does not say loudly enough
Most GEO agencies are SEO agencies with a renamed service page
That is not a scandal. A good deal of GEO really is SEO done with retrieval in mind. But you should know which of the two you are buying, because the price should not be the same. The 30-second test: open the agency's GEO page and look for anything that could not have been written in 2023. A prompt set, a list of engines, a retrieval mechanism, a measurement method. If the page is keywords and links with the word AI on top, you are buying SEO. Price it as SEO.
AI visibility dashboards measure mentions, not revenue
Every tool in this space counts how often your brand appears for a set of prompts. None can tell you a mention produced a customer, because the click often never happens: the user reads the answer, remembers a name, and types it into Google two days later. That effect is real and close to unfalsifiable, which makes it the easiest thing in marketing to oversell. Treat mention share as the leading indicator, then watch branded search and direct signups for the lagging one.
The agencies, one by one
Same template for all twelve, ours included: what they do, who it suits, the price they publish, one proof point, one limit.
Chilli Fruit Web Consulting
Off-site authority, bought per placement
London, founded 2013, run by Milosz Krasinski. Link building, digital PR and AEO work for SaaS, fintech and forex. Suits a brand that needs off-site authority bought per placement rather than on a monthly retainer. The agency states more than 500 publications and an average DR of 73 on acquired links. Limit: boutique capacity, off-site only, and the site advertises a pay-on-results model without publishing a rate, so you still need the call.
Directive Consulting
Performance marketing for B2B SaaS
Performance marketing built around what they call Customer Generation. Paid and organic sit under one roof, which is rarer than it sounds, and GEO is layered across both. Suits a company that wants one team owning ads and AI visibility together. No rate published. Limit: shaped for enterprise, so the entry ticket is high, and GEO is an addition to a paid program rather than the core.
Go Fish Digital
Full-service SEO with published GEO method
Full-service US SEO with reputation management and a GEO practice on top. The differentiator is that the method is published rather than asserted: on their site in September 2026 they work from the academic GEO-bench benchmark, where quotation addition lifts visibility by 41 percent and statistics addition by 28 percent, and they publish their own case study at 43 percent more AI-driven traffic. Note that GEO-bench is third-party research they cite, not their own. Suits a brand that wants search, reputation and AI visibility from one vendor. No rate published. Limit: GEO sits as a layer on SEO, and their GEO material never mentions Reddit once.
Graphite
Research-driven growth agency
Research-driven growth agency at graphite.io, with graphitehq.com now redirecting there. Clients listed on the site include Webflow, n8n, BetterUp, MasterClass and Hinge Health. They run an AI research team with PhDs, led by Gregory Druck as Chief AI Officer, which no other agency here publishes. Suits a scaleup that already has a content engine. No rate published. Limit: a poor fit at early stage, by their own positioning.
iPullRank
The deepest technical methodology here
Mike King's agency, and the deepest technical methodology here: passage scoring, retrieval modeling and query fan-out, published in enough detail that you can argue with it. They claim more than 5 billion dollars in organic results, as published on their site in September 2026. Suits an enterprise that wants to know why a model retrieves a competitor's docs instead of theirs. No rate published. Limit: elite budgets, and the work lands on your own site.
Minuttia
Content-first, with the most exhaustive comparison
B2B SaaS and tech content out of Greece, with GEO layered on a content practice. Their own agency comparison is the most exhaustive piece published in this category. Suits a SaaS company buying content at volume. No rate published. Limit, and it is why we read their list carefully: they place themselves first in their own comparison without disclosing it, and their scoring matrices use star ratings with no stated source.
NoGood
Growth marketing, with GEO added recently
New York growth marketing team with an AEO and GEO practice added to a broad list covering paid, creative and lifecycle. Suits a funded startup that wants one partner across channels. No rate published. Limit: generalist by design, and the GEO practice is recent, so there is less GEO-specific published material here than at the specialists beside them.
Omniscient Digital
Content measured on revenue, not traffic
B2B SaaS content attached to pipeline, co-founded by Alex Birkett. On their own comparison page they publish the five criteria they used, their own rate, and a note that they included themselves. Organic growth engagements start at 10,000 dollars a month, as published on their site in September 2026. They also admit where they are unsure, which almost nobody here does. Suits teams that measure content on revenue. Limit: B2B SaaS only, content-first, and that entry rate is well above the boutique band.
Optimist
The bluntest bias disclosure in the category
B2B SaaS content agency run by Tyler Hakes, built on their CORE framework. Rates are published, 3,000 dollars a month for advisory, 4,000 for full service, up to 15,000 and above, plus a one-time roadmap at 7,500, which puts them in the minority here. Their disclosure is the bluntest in the category: they state outright that the author of any ranking always places themselves first. Suits a company that wants a named operator on the account. Limit: no comparison table in their own ranking, SaaS only.
Siege Media
The strongest published proof in this sample
Content plus digital PR, now positioned as a full-service GEO agency, and the strongest published proof of anyone here. As published on their site in September 2026: Instacart at 46,500 LLM citations and 356 percent more traffic value, Zendesk at 98 percent LLM visibility and 731,924 dollars, Zapier at 6.1 million dollars, The Zebra at 7.77 million dollars. Listed clients include Zendesk, Zapier, Instacart, Adidas, Airbnb and Zoom. The only other agency here offering Reddit marketing, inside their Scale tier. No rate published. Limit: built for enterprise, with a long ramp.
UpvotePartners
One lever: organic Reddit
That is us, and we publish this page. One lever, organic Reddit, aimed at getting your brand named inside AI answers rather than ranking your own pages. 3,000 euros a month, four-month minimum, target written into the contract, pro-rata refund if it is missed. Our 45-day account warm-up protocol is published in full, thresholds included, so you can compare it to what any other agency tells you. Suits a brand whose buyers argue about the category in public. Limit, and it is real: no client of ours is nameable publicly, so there is no case study with a logo. Detail of what we actually do is on our own service page.
WebFX
Large, full-service, and unusually transparent on price
Large US full-service agency with its own OmniSEO platform. They publish pricing by service, which is rare at that size and is why Nutshell's ranking places them first. Suits a mid-market company that wants one vendor for SEO, ads, web and AI visibility. Limit: generalist, and accounts run in pods, so you buy a process rather than a named specialist.
Where other agencies beat us
We are on this list, so this section is the price of admission. Five places where a named competitor beats us, each on a criterion you can verify in ten minutes.
Siege Media, on published proof. They attach client names to citation counts and revenue figures. We cannot. Our clients sit in verticals where nobody wants a logo on an agency page, so what we show is method, not outcome. If a named case study is what convinces your CFO, they win that argument outright.
iPullRank, on technical depth. Passage scoring, retrieval modeling and query fan-out are things we do not do at all. If your problem is that models retrieve a competitor's documentation instead of yours, that is their work and not ours.
WebFX, on breadth and capacity. One vendor for SEO, ads, web and AI visibility, with pricing published by service. We are a small team on a single channel, and a single channel cannot absorb a full program.
Chilli Fruit, on off-site volume. The agency states more than 500 publications and an average DR of 73 on acquired links, bought placement by placement. If you need third-party authority quickly and want to pay per link, that model beats a monthly retainer.
Optimist, on price flexibility. They publish a ladder rather than a single number: a one-time roadmap at 7,500 dollars, advisory from 3,000 a month, full service from 4,000, stretching to 15,000 and above. A buyer can start small and scale. We have one price and one shape of engagement. That is simple, and it is also rigid.
Why Reddit is the lever we picked
Every agency in this table picked a lever. Here is the mechanism behind ours, so you can judge it rather than take our word for it.
An answer engine does not invent its sources. It retrieves pages, then paraphrases them. Which pages get retrieved depends on what ranks and on what the model has seen often enough to treat as consensus. Reddit sits in both buckets: threads rank for exactly the queries buyers type before they buy, and forum discussion is one of the source types answer engines lean on hardest for opinion questions.
The path from conversation to citation has four steps. Someone asks a comparison question in a subreddit. Answers accumulate and votes sort them, so the thread ends up with a stable URL, a title that matches the query, and a visible consensus near the top. Google surfaces that thread for the same long-tail query. The answer engine retrieves it, paraphrases the top answers, and names whatever the top answers named.
So the unit of work is not a post. It is being named inside an answer other people upvoted. That is why posting volume predicts nothing.
It works best in markets where paid channels are restricted and buyers compare in public: fintech, crypto and web3, cybersecurity, iGaming, prediction markets, B2B software and tools sold to engineers and hardware launches.
Two honest limits. You cannot buy this: a post that reads like an ad gets removed, and an account that has not been warmed up gets removed faster, which is why our protocol runs 45 days before the first promotional post. And it does nothing for your own site's retrievability, a different job done better by two other agencies here.
Test any agency in 30 days, without hiring them
Every comparison we read claims to measure AI visibility. None publish how. So here is a protocol you can run on any agency, including us, before signing anything. About two hours on day one, one hour on day 30.
- Step 1
Build a 20-prompt set
Write the questions your buyer would actually type, not the ones a keyword tool suggests. Mix category questions, head-to-head comparisons, brand questions and objection questions. Twenty is enough to see movement and small enough to replay by hand. Ours is below: fill in the brackets and use it as is.
- Step 2
Record a baseline on four engines
Run all twenty prompts on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Gemini. Logged out, fresh session, no memory, no personalization. For each answer record three fields: whether your brand appears, which URLs are cited, and where you sit in the list. A spreadsheet is enough.
- Step 3
Replay on day 30, same conditions
Same prompts, same wording, same engines, same logged-out state, same time of week if you can. Changing a single word changes what gets retrieved, so copy and paste rather than retype. Record the same three fields next to the first ones.
- Step 4
Separate a real move from noise
These systems are non-deterministic: run one prompt twice and you can get two different answers. So ignore single appearances. What counts is your brand showing up in the majority of runs across several prompts, a new domain citing you that was absent on day one, and a move that holds on three engines. Anything smaller is weather.
The 20-prompt set, published in full
Replace the brackets with your category, your brand and your closest competitor. Keep the wording identical between day one and day 30.
- Best [category] tools in 2026?
- Best [category] software for [buyer type]?
- [brand] vs [competitor]: which is better?
- Is [brand] any good?
- Alternatives to [competitor]?
- Cheapest [category] tool that still does [key job]?
- Which [category] tool do people on Reddit recommend?
- Best [category] tool for a ten person team?
- What do people complain about with [competitor]?
- Top [category] vendors for [industry]?
- How do I choose a [category] tool?
- Who are the main players in [category]?
- Is [brand] worth the price?
- Easiest [category] tool to set up?
- Best [category] tool for [specific use case]?
- Which [category] tools integrate with [common tool]?
- Most trusted brand in [category]?
- [category] tools compared on [criterion]?
- Any decent [category] tool on a small budget?
- What to know before buying a [category] tool?
What GEO costs in 2026
Ranges observed across published pages and public rate cards, read on 16 September 2026. Boutique agencies sit between 2,000 and 5,000 dollars a month. Mid-market work runs 5,000 to 15,000. Enterprise programs start around 15,000 and run past 50,000. Of the rates actually published by the agencies in this table, Optimist opens at 3,000 dollars a month and Omniscient Digital at 10,000. Project minimums, where they exist, run from 1,000 to 10,000 dollars and up. Our own number belongs in the same paragraph rather than in a sales box further down: 3,000 euros a month, one channel, at the bottom of the boutique band. The reason is narrowness, not generosity.
What moves a quote is not the logo on it. It is scope: how many surfaces get tracked, whether off-site placements are paid for, how many people touch the account, and whether anything is produced or only measured. Ask for the price per deliverable rather than per month, and two quotes that looked identical will stop looking identical.
Red flags when hiring a GEO agency
Six things that should slow you down. The last one applies to us.
- A guaranteed number one spot in ChatGPT. Nobody controls model output, and anyone selling that certainty is selling something else.
- No baseline measured before you sign. If nobody wrote down where you started, nobody can prove where you arrived.
- No prompt set, published or shared. Ours is on this page, so you have a reference to hold them against.
- An AI visibility score with no published methodology behind the number.
- Pricing available on a call only, after a discovery questionnaire and a demo.
- No client they can name, and no explanation of why. This one applies to us: we have no nameable client, the reason is confidentiality in regulated verticals, and you are entitled to weigh that against an agency that shows logos.
GEO vs AEO vs LLMO vs SEO: does the label matter?
Short answer: the label is marketing. What differs is the deliverable, and four words collapse into about three real jobs.
| Label | What it usually means | What actually lands in your account |
|---|---|---|
| SEO | Ranking your pages in classic search results | Technical fixes, content, internal links, backlinks |
| AEO | Being the answer in a snippet or an AI answer box | Question-shaped content, schema, short quotable passages |
| GEO | Being retrieved and cited by generative models | Citable passages, entity consistency, third-party mentions |
| LLMO | Same intent as GEO, newer word | Nothing distinct that we could find in any published offer |
Ask an agency which row it is selling. If it cannot answer in one sentence, you have your answer about the rest of the engagement.
Should you hire an agency, or do GEO in-house?
Under roughly 3,000 dollars a month of budget, a tracking tool and two focused days a month in-house will beat an agency. The first eighty percent of GEO needs no vendor: run the protocol above, fix the pages a model cannot quote cleanly, publish the comparison content you keep avoiding, and answer questions in public where your buyers already are.
An agency earns its fee when the work needs volume, coordination across several surfaces, or a channel with rules of its own that would take you six months to learn without getting removed. That is the honest boundary.
Who we are not right for: anyone who needs leads inside 30 days, since account warm-up alone takes 45; anyone under 3,000 euros a month, since we cannot run the method for less; anyone who needs technical SEO or paid media, since we do neither; and anyone whose buyers never discuss the category in public.
How this comparison was built
Selection. We started from the agencies that rank and get cited for "best GEO agencies" and its variants, plus the agencies named inside those rankings. Nobody was included or excluded on affinity, and nobody paid to be here.
Collection. Public pages read on 16 September 2026: homepage, GEO or AEO service page, pricing page and case studies where they exist. Nothing was requested from the agencies. Every figure is theirs, republished as they state it, with the location column set to the head office country as published.
What "not published" means. The information was not findable publicly on that date. It is not a judgment: an agency can perfectly well give a rate on a call. We did not estimate, infer or round a single competitor price.
What we did not test. We have not hired these agencies. This compares what they publish, not what they deliver. The 30-day protocol above exists precisely because that part cannot be done for you by a page.
Updates. Reviewed every quarter, and whenever an agency changes its published offer or rate. Last check: 16 September 2026. Found an error, a stale price, a missing agency? Tell us and we will correct it and date the correction.
Frequently asked questions
Want to know if AI is already recommending your competitors?
We will run the 20-prompt protocol on your category and send you what comes back: who gets named, which sources get cited, and where you sit. If Reddit is not the right lever for your market, we will tell you that too.
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