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title: "Lighthouse Local vs. Merchynt - AI Visibility Platforms Compared (2026)"
description: "Compare Lighthouse Local and Merchynt on AI assistants tracked, local prompts, agency reporting and pricing, every Merchynt fact checked against its own pages."
source: "https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/compare/lighthouse-local-vs-merchynt"
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# Compare Lighthouse Local vs. Merchynt

Merchynt makes Paige, local SEO software that manages a Google Business Profile for you and reports Google Maps and AI rankings each month, priced per profile. Lighthouse Local checks every week whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI recommend you, by city and service area or nationally, with fixes our specialists can make. Here's how they compare, every Merchynt fact sourced from its own pages.

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14-day free trial on self-serve plans Checked against Merchynt's pages, November 5, 2026

Checked on every Lighthouse Local plan

ChatGPT

Claude

Gemini

Perplexity

Google AI

## Which one is built for you?

Two honest lists. Pick the one that sounds like your week.

### Choose Lighthouse Local if

- You want a plain answer every week on whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI recommend you, with no dashboard to learn.
- You want to be set up in ten minutes and watch the answers move week to week, not wait for next month's report.
- You'd rather hand over the fixes beyond your Google listing, so our specialists work on your website, content and citations and you approve the work.
- You're tracking a brand with many locations or no storefront at all, and want one allowance of questions instead of a bill per profile.

![](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/images/compare/merchynt.png)

### Choose Merchynt if

- You want software that edits your Google Business Profile itself, writing posts, review replies and descriptions on autopilot or after your approval.
- You want Google Maps rank checked at 169 points on a 13 by 13 grid for up to 10 keywords, shown as heatmaps.
- You want AI rank reports that also cover Grok and Meta AI alongside ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity.
- You want white label on every Paige plan, with your own subdomain, your own name for the product, and your logo and colors.
- You want a built website with hosting, review requests and social posting inside the same $99 a month per profile.

## Feature by feature

The same eighteen rows on every comparison we publish.

### AI platforms checked

| Feature | Lighthouse Local | ![](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/images/compare/merchynt.png)Merchynt |
| --- | --- | --- |
| ChatGPT | Yes | Yes |
| Google Gemini | Yes | Yes |
| Claude | Yes | Yes |
| Perplexity | Yes | Yes |
| Google AI Overviews | Yes | No Also checks Grok and Meta AI |

### What gets tracked

| Feature | Lighthouse Local | ![](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/images/compare/merchynt.png)Merchynt |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Local-intent questions, by city and service area | Yes | Yes Up to 10 keywords, each asked with your city |
| Weekly sweep of every tracked question | Yes | No A report each month after the sign-up baseline, or every two weeks on request |
| Daily checks on priority questions | Yes | No On-demand reports use credits, and the help center advises no more than one every 30 days |
| Competitor tracking on every platform | Yes | Partial Top competitors by Google Maps rank, reviews and photos |
| Ranked, plain-English fix list | Yes | Partial Paige makes the changes itself, with a task log in the monthly report |
| Optional done-for-you fixes | Yes | Yes Paige makes the changes on autopilot or after your approval |

### For agencies

| Feature | Lighthouse Local | ![](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/images/compare/merchynt.png)Merchynt |
| --- | --- | --- |
| White-label client dashboard | Yes | Yes Included on every Paige plan per its white-label page, with your subdomain, product name, logo and colors |
| Unlimited client reports | Yes | Partial One branded report a month per profile is included |
| Embeddable white-label audit for lead capture | Yes | Partial On the Agency Partner Program at $100 a month, with 50 audits a month |
| Ask ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini about your own data | Yes | Yes MCP for ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini |

### Plans and trial

| Feature | Lighthouse Local | ![](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/images/compare/merchynt.png)Merchynt |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 14-day free trial | Yes Self-serve plans | No 3 days on Paige, which the help center billing guide lists at $1 |
| Month-to-month billing | Yes | Yes Billed monthly per profile |
| Dedicated agency plans | Yes | Yes Agency Partner Program at $100 a month, plus $99 per client profile |

## Plans, side by side

Lighthouse Local prices come straight from our plan catalog. Merchynt's are what its pricing page showed on November 5, 2026. A prompt count on its own undersells coverage, because Lighthouse Local runs every tracked prompt on ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI, so compare the answer checks a month.

### Lighthouse Local

- Starter

 $79 / month

 1,400+ AI answer checks a month

 50 tracked prompts (weekly sweep) · 3 daily slots (checked every day)
- Growth

 $249 / month

 4,700+ AI answer checks a month

 150 tracked prompts (weekly sweep) · 12 daily slots (checked every day)
- Enterprise

 Custom From \~$599 / month

 Custom prompts (\~250+), sites & seats · \~25 daily slots, custom competitors
- Agency Starter

 $349 / month

 5,500+ AI answer checks a month

 160 shared prompts · 16 daily slots
- Agency Growth

 $999 / month

 17,000+ AI answer checks a month

 500 shared prompts · 50 daily slots
- Agency Enterprise

 Custom From \~$1,999 / month

 Custom client sites, prompts & seats

### ![](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/images/compare/merchynt.png)Merchynt

- Paige

 $99 per Google Business Profile per month, no contract

 Profile optimization, weekly posts, review requests and replies, Google Maps and AI rank reports for up to 10 keywords, competitor analysis, a built website with hosting, social posting, unlimited users, MCP, white label
- Citations add-on

 $40 per profile per month, or $20 for Agency Partner Program members

 Listings on 62 directories
- Agency Partner Program

 $100 per agency per month, billed separately from Paige

 White-label audit tool with 50 audits a month, Sam and heatmap credits, a newsletter tool, a branded Chrome extension, sales materials, half-price citations
- Google Business Pro

 $449 per month, sign up by phone

 Full-service Google Business Profile management run by Merchynt's team

Merchynt prices are in dollars as shown on its own pages on the verified date. Paige is billed per Google Business Profile, so a business with three locations counts three times. Its pricing page asks you to get in touch above 3 profiles, while its Paige page lists custom pricing from 10. Its Paige page offers 3 days free, and its help center billing guide lists $1 for those days. Google Business Pro is listed at $449 a month on its own page, with sign-up by phone.

[See full pricing](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/pricing)

## How often the question gets asked

Paige's rank tracker takes up to 10 keywords, turns each one into a question that names your city, and asks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, Meta AI and Claude, recording whether and where each one mentions you. The same report checks your Google Maps rank at 169 points on a 13 by 13 grid across the area you draw. Paige records a baseline the day you sign up, then sends a report each month, or every two weeks if you ask for that. If Google Maps is where your customers find you, one report with the map and the assistants side by side is a tidy way to see both.

The question to ask any vendor is how many readings sit behind the result. An assistant can name you one day and leave you out the next, so a single reading a month shows where you stood that day, and it can't tell a real change from ordinary variation.

Lighthouse Local runs a weekly sweep of every tracked question and daily checks on the ones you mark as priorities, across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI, pointed at a city and service area or at a whole country. When you change something on Monday, you're watching the answers respond that week instead of waiting for the next report. If a monthly reading beside a map heatmap is what you need, Paige's report gives you that.

## Software that edits your profile, or people who fix what AI reads

Paige's promise is that the software does the work. It rewrites your Google Business Profile description, services and attributes, publishes posts every week, requests reviews and drafts the replies, and adds photos over time, either on autopilot or after you approve each item. The $99 a month per profile also covers a built website with hosting and social posting, with citations on 62 directories as a $40 add-on. If you'd rather have Merchynt's team run it, Google Business Pro is listed at $449 a month. When the profile is where your work is, that's a lot of labor for the price.

So ask any vendor what the work covers. What an assistant says about you draws on more than one profile. It reads your website, what other sites say about you, your reviews and your listings. A tool that edits the profile well still leaves the question of who fixes the rest.

Lighthouse Local turns each gap into a [ranked fix list](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/how-it-works) in plain English, ordered by what moves your visibility most. You can make the fixes yourself, or add done-for-you services to any plan and [our specialists do the work](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/for-business), covering on-page SEO, content, backlinks, Google Business Profile management and local citations. You just approve it.

## What an agency pays as clients grow

Merchynt's white-label page says white label is included on every Paige plan. The dashboard sits on your subdomain through one CNAME record, you can rename Paige to anything, and your logo and colors go on it, with a branded report for each client every month. Each client profile is $99 a month, and a client with three profiles counts as three. The Agency Partner Program is a separate $100 a month per agency, and it adds an AI audit tool you embed on your own site under your brand, with 50 audits a month and each visitor's report and contact details sent to your inbox. If Google Business Profile management is the service you deliver, that's a complete kit at a clear price.

Ask any vendor what one more location costs, and what a client with no storefront costs. Per profile pricing answers the first one plainly at $99 each, with custom pricing on request for larger counts. Merchynt's pages describe businesses with a Google Business Profile, so ask how a national or software client would be tracked.

On [our agency plans](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/pricing), one pool of prompts is shared across every client, so a new location draws on the pool you already pay for. Clients log into a [white-label dashboard](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/for-agencies) on your own domain and you share unlimited reports. Lighthouse Local's Beacon puts [an embeddable AI visibility audit](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/beacon) on your site, so a prospect sees what the assistants say about them before your first call.

## Frequently asked questions

### Is Lighthouse Local an alternative to Merchynt?

For tracking what AI assistants say about you, yes. For automated Google Business Profile management, no, and the two can work side by side. Merchynt's Paige edits your profile, posts every week and reports Google Maps and AI rankings each month. Lighthouse Local checks ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI every week, by city and service area or nationally, ranks the fixes in plain English, and has our specialists make them.

### Which AI assistants does Merchynt track?

Its rank tracker page lists ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, Meta AI and Claude, each asked a question built from your keyword and city, with your position recorded. Google's AI Overviews aren't in that list,. If Google's AI answers matter to your customers, ask Merchynt whether they're covered. Lighthouse Local tracks ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI on every plan.

### How much does Merchynt cost?

Paige is $99 a month per Google Business Profile with no contract, so three locations are three subscriptions, and citations on 62 directories add $40 a month per profile. Agencies add the Agency Partner Program at $100 a month. Google Business Pro, the managed service, is listed at $449 a month. That's clear pricing if you count in profiles. Our plans are sized by a monthly allowance of AI answer checks instead, shown on the cards above.

### How often does Merchynt check AI rankings?

Monthly by default. Its rank tracker page describes a baseline on the day you sign up and a report each month after, with every two weeks available, and its help center advises against running on-demand reports more often than every 30 days. That suits a monthly client review. If you'd like to see movement sooner, Lighthouse Local sweeps every tracked question weekly and checks your priority questions daily.

### Does Merchynt have a free trial?

A short one. Its Paige page offers 3 days free before the $99 monthly charge, with no charge if you cancel by the end of day 3, while its help center billing guide lists $1 for those 3 days, so confirm at checkout. Three days shows you the sign-up baseline and Paige's first edits. Every Lighthouse Local self-serve plan carries a 14-day free trial, which is long enough to see two weekly sweeps.

### Can agencies white-label Merchynt?

Yes. Its white-label page says white label is included on every Paige plan, with the dashboard on your subdomain, your own name for the product, your logo and colors, and a branded monthly report. The Agency Partner Program at $100 a month adds an embeddable audit tool with 50 audits a month. Lighthouse Local's agency plans include a white-label dashboard on your own domain and unlimited reports, sized by a shared pool of prompts instead of a fee per client profile, and Beacon is our separate embeddable audit for your own site.

### Does Merchynt work for a brand without a Google Business Profile?

Paige is priced and described per Google Business Profile, and its rank reports build each question from a keyword and a city. Tracking for a brand with no profile or no single city isn't described on the pages we read, so ask Merchynt how that would work. Lighthouse Local points each question at a city and service area or at a whole country, so a national or software brand can be tracked too.

### How did we check these facts?

Every Merchynt fact on this page comes from Merchynt's own pages, read on November 5, 2026. Where a page doesn't publish something, the scorecard says No. If you spot a change, [contact us](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/contact) and we'll re-verify. Sources: [Merchynt pricing](https://www.merchynt.com/pricing) (seen November 5, 2026) · [Paige rank tracker](https://www.merchynt.com/paige/rank-tracker) (seen November 5, 2026) · [Paige](https://www.merchynt.com/paige) (seen November 5, 2026) · [Paige local competitor analysis](https://www.merchynt.com/paige/local-competitor-analysis) (seen November 5, 2026) · [Merchynt white-label software for agencies](https://www.merchynt.com/white-label-ai-local-seo-software-for-agencies) (seen November 5, 2026) · [Merchynt white-label rank tracker](https://www.merchynt.com/white-label-ai-local-seo-software-for-agencies/white-label-rank-tracker) (seen November 5, 2026) · [Merchynt white-label SEO audit tool](https://www.merchynt.com/agencies/white-label-seo-audit-tool) (seen November 5, 2026) · [Merchynt for agencies](https://www.merchynt.com/agencies) (seen November 5, 2026) · [Merchynt Google Business Pro](https://www.merchynt.com/google-business-pro) (seen November 5, 2026) · [Merchynt help center, on-demand reports](https://support.merchynt.com/kb/article/how-to-run-on-demand-reports-ic-13118784) (seen November 5, 2026) · [Merchynt help center, Paige billing guide](https://support.merchynt.com/kb/article/paige-billing-guide-ic-9350578) (seen November 5, 2026).

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