How much does GEO cost?
Updated July 2026 · Three plans · Scoped to your category after a free auditCredible GEO agency retainers run roughly €2,000–5,000+ per month in 2026, depending on scope: monitoring-only at the low end, monitoring plus earned placements in the middle, full management at the top. Redaccel prices each engagement to your category and competitive landscape after a free audit. Three-month minimum, and the KPI we report is share of voice in AI answers — not rankings.
The three plans
| Plan | Scope | Right for |
|---|---|---|
| Monitor | AI visibility tracking across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Mode and AI Overviews · competitor benchmark · monthly share-of-voice report with cited-source breakdown | Brands that want to see the battlefield before committing budget to it |
| Growth | Everything in Monitor · 6–10 earned placements per month across the citation surface · owned-content optimization so engines can quote your site | Brands ready to actively move their share of voice — most clients are here |
| Managed | Everything in Growth · PR and trade-press outreach · reputation defence when engines repeat something wrong or damaging about you | Brands in contested or regulated categories where the answer is a battleground |
What decides the number?
Three things: how competitive your category is, how many engines and markets we track, and how contested your buyer prompts are.
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We quote an exact figure after the free audit — which also tells you honestly whether you need any of this at all. No anchoring games: the audit shows the gap, the quote matches the work required to close it.
Why a three-month minimum?
Because GEO takes 6–10 weeks to show measurable movement. Engines re-crawl and re-weigh sources on their own schedules; earned placements need time to be discovered and trusted.
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A one-month engagement would end with a report that honestly says "too early to tell", and we'd rather lose the deal than sell that. After three months you're month-to-month.
What KPI do you actually get?
Share of voice in AI answers. Each month you see the percentage of answers to your buyers' prompts — across five engines — that mention you versus each competitor, whether each mention was a recommendation or a passing reference, and which specific pages drove each citation.
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We deliberately do not report rankings; there are no rankings inside a paragraph. We also don't dress up "AI traffic estimates" nobody can verify.
If share of voice isn't moving by month three, the report says so in plain language, and we talk about whether to change approach or stop.
What's the ROI of GEO?
A citation is an asset; an ad is an expense. That difference is the whole ROI case.
| Earned citations (GEO) | Paid ads | |
|---|---|---|
| When spend stops | Placements keep getting read and cited — threads and reviews work for years | Visibility ends the same day |
| Where it lands | Inside the recommendation itself, at the moment of decision | Labeled as an ad, which buyers discount and AI engines don't cite |
| Cost curve | Flat retainer; each month's placements stack on the last | Rises with competition; every impression is re-bought |
| Compounding | Month 6's share of voice stands on month 1–5's placements | None — spend resets to zero monthly |
One more asymmetry: your category's AI answers are being written right now, from a small set of sources. Whoever occupies those sources first is the incumbent every later entrant has to displace. The cost of winning a citation surface is lowest before your competitors are trying.
Redaccel vs doing it in-house
| Redaccel | In-house | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | One monthly retainer, scoped to the work | €4,000–7,000+/mo for one experienced hire, plus €200–800/mo tooling |
| Time to competence | Working from week one | 3–6 months of learning on your budget |
| Moderation experience | Years inside Reddit's moderation — we know what survives LLM-based detection because we operated under it | Usually none; the expensive lessons get learned on your brand's accounts |
| Placement network | Existing relationships across forums, reviewers and trade press | Built from zero |
| Risk if it fails | Cancel after month three | A hire to unwind |
| When in-house wins | You have genuine community DNA (a founder who already lives in your niche's forums) and the patience to spend months earning presence — then in-house is authentic in a way no agency can fake, and we'll say so in your audit. | |
Frequently asked
Is there a setup fee?
No. The first month includes the setup work (prompt-set design, baseline measurement, placement map) at the normal monthly rate.
Can I start with Monitor and upgrade?
Yes — that's the normal path. Monitor's baseline becomes the before/after evidence for Growth.
Do you work with competitors in my category?
No. One brand per buyer-prompt set — we can't honestly maximize two clients' share of the same answers.
What's not included?
Paid ads management, link-building retainers, technical SEO and social media management. Where a problem is one of those, the report says so instead of absorbing it into scope.
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