Compare Lighthouse Local vs. Rank Authority

Rank Authority's unit is the page. You install its plugin on WordPress, Shopify, Wix, Webflow, GoDaddy or GoHighLevel, it scans every page, and its Autopilot writes the fixes, titles, meta descriptions, alt text, schema, broken links and internal links, then publishes them to your site with one-click approval, an activity log and rollback. Each month it also publishes a quota of GEO artifacts, pages written to be quoted by AI platforms, plus page rewrites, blog posts and link silos, from 30 each on Free through 90 each on Titan. Plans are sized by page count, every tier carries the same features, and a site that grows past its cap moves up a tier. For an owner who wants changes shipped tonight without a person in the loop, that's a thorough machine.

The question to ask any vendor is who decides what gets published to your site, and what happens on a site the plugin doesn't support. Software that rewrites pages at volume needs someone reading the output, and the setup guide says sites outside those six platforms get the findings to apply by hand.

Lighthouse Local keeps a person in that seat. Every gap becomes a ranked fix list in plain English, and on any plan our specialists do the work, on-page changes, Google Business Profile management and local citations included, with you approving each change before it goes live. If you'd rather the software publish without waiting on anyone, Rank Authority's Autopilot is built for exactly that.

Rank Authority tracks nine AI platforms on every tier, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI, Google AI Overviews, Grok, Meta AI and Microsoft Copilot, and rolls the results into an AI Visibility Score, a composite of how often and how prominently you're cited across them. You add the customer questions it checks, from 25 prompts on Free to 500 on Authority and Titan, name your competitors or let it find them, and a citation gap report shows which rivals get mentioned where you don't. Its AI Visibility page says the score is monitored 24/7 with an alert when it changes, and its FAQ says it's sampled on prompts that matter for your industry and location and re-checked on a schedule. Three platforms beyond the five we track is a real reach, and 500 prompts on one site is a deep set.

So ask two things of any tracker. How often does each question actually run, and can you point one question at one town? Monitoring described as 24/7 on one page and as a schedule on another is worth pinning down in writing before you buy, and a prompt worded for a city is a different thing from a city setting you can add to.

Lighthouse Local runs every tracked question through ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI weekly, with daily checks on the ones you mark, each pointed at a city and service area or at the whole country, so the result is a gap per town and per service with the competitor named beside it. If Grok, Meta AI or Copilot answers matter to your buyers today, Rank Authority's nine-platform list covers them.

Picture the first client review. Rank Authority's FAQ describes an Agency option at signup where you add each client as its own account, with its own site connection, scan history and reporting, including the AI Visibility Score across nine platforms, indexing status and a log of what shipped and when. The setup guide calls the per-scan PDF audit your client deliverable, and users are unlimited from Starter up. Each paid plan covers one website, and agencies running a portfolio get Enterprise, quoted by page count with several sites under one account. If publishing fixes across many client sites is the service you sell, that's a lot of shipped work per month to show.

Ask any vendor two things before you sign, and get the answers in writing. Can the client's view live on your own domain under your brand, and what does each client site cost once you've added it, given that each paid plan covers one website? Rank Authority's pages describe client accounts and PDF audits, and quote Enterprise by page count above 3,000 pages.

On our agency plans the client's view is a white-label dashboard on your own domain from the first tier, reports are unlimited, and one prompt pool is shared across clients. Lighthouse Local's Beacon runs an embeddable AI visibility audit on your own site, so a prospect sees what ChatGPT says about them before your first call. Set our agency plans beside Rank Authority's Enterprise quote and price a typical client on each.