LopeBase vs Notra
Notra is a dedicated AI search tool. It asks a long list of AI models your prompts every day, with live web search where the engine has it, and adds crawler logs, sentiment, personas, and an article writer. LopeBase is an ops console for people who run several products, and AI visibility is one tab in it: up to 10 buyer questions per product, asked of ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini weekly, monthly, or when you press the button. Here is how they compare, from Notra's own pages as of October 2026.
The short answer
Pick Notra if
AI search is a channel you work on every day. You want daily scans across many engines with web search, sentiment, personas, crawler logs, and a writer in one tool, and $100 a month or more is fine for one project.
Pick LopeBase if
You run a few products and want a regular, cheap reading of whether ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini name each one, next to its search, revenue, and uptime. Checks are paid per run in credits, so a weekly check of one product fits inside a $49 plan.
Start freeSide by side
| Topic | Notra | LopeBase |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | An AI search tool with crawler analytics, plus a writer for articles, changelogs, and social posts. | An ops console for several SaaS products, with AI visibility on the SEO page. |
| Engines | Models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Perplexity, xAI, Moonshot, DeepSeek, Meta, and Z.ai, up to 64 models, plus Google AI Overview. | ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. No Perplexity, AI Overviews, or others. |
| Live web search | Yes for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. Other models run without it. | No. Each model is asked through its API without web search. |
| Questions | Unlimited prompts. Plans cap answers: one prompt, one model, one scan. | Up to 10 per property, suggested from your site or written by you. |
| How often | Daily by default, or every 2 or 3 days, weekly, every 2 weeks, or every 30 days, plus manual scans. | Weekly, monthly, or when you press the button. |
| Competitors | Up to 2,000, with suggestions and CSV import. | Found from the answers themselves: how often, how high, which engines, and why. |
| Sources | The searches each engine ran and the pages it cited, plus "shelf space" on review and list pages. | The sites each answer names or links, as a list to work through: open, listed, or dismissed. No live citations, since there is no web search. |
| Sentiment | A score from 0 to 100 with themes and quotes. | No score. Flags answers that describe you wrongly and records how each one describes you. |
| Personas and languages | Buyer personas, multi-turn conversations, and several languages per project. | None. One plain question, one answer, in the language you write it. |
| Alerts | Webhook signals for a drop, a lost mention, a competitor gain, or a lost citation. | An email or browser alert after a check when an engine stops naming you or a competitor overtakes you, and a line in the weekly summary. No webhooks. |
| API and MCP | A REST API and an MCP server with over 100 tools. | An MCP server: read results and the change since the last check, set questions and other names, run a check, set the schedule, share a report. |
| AI crawlers | Visit logs from known AI agents, through middleware or Cloudflare Logpush, free on every plan. | Checks which AI crawlers robots.txt lets in, and your llms.txt. No visit logs. |
| Writing | A writer for guides, lists, and comparisons, plus changelogs and social posts. | A missing question becomes an article topic for the content autopilot. |
| Beyond AI search | Not covered. | Search Console and Bing, revenue, uptime, analytics, errors, and discussions, per product. |
| Price to start | Free covers crawler analytics only. Answer tracking starts at $100 a month. | Free with 50 AI credits a month. Studio $19, Portfolio $49, Agency $149. |
Based on how each product describes itself, checked October 2026. Sources: Notra pricing, Notra features, Notra engines docs, Notra billing docs. If something here is out of date, tell us and we will fix it.
How each one asks
The biggest difference is not the number of engines. It is what each answer stands for.
Notra asks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity with web search turned on, so an answer can quote a page published last week and lists the pages it cited. That is close to what a person sees in those apps today. Notra also fetches Google AI Overviews from search results, and runs models from xAI, Moonshot, DeepSeek, Meta, and Z.ai without web search. Its own pages are not fully consistent on which of those search the web, so check the engines docs for the one you care about.
LopeBase asks each model through its API without web search. A LopeBase reading is what the model itself knows about you, from what it learned in training. It moves slowly, and a new page will not show up in it next week. That is a narrower measure, and we say so in the app. It is also steadier: the same question gets a comparable answer from one check to the next, so a rise over a few months means the models have learned more about you.
Neither is a perfect copy of one person's chat. The apps also remember a person's earlier conversations, and no tracking tool sees that.
How the pricing compares
Notra's pricing page, checked October 2026, counts AI answers: one prompt answered by one model in one scan. Prompts are unlimited, every plan can use every model, and more models or more frequent scans use more answers. A yearly plan costs ten times the monthly price.
| Notra plan | Price | What it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | AI crawler and assistant traffic, 1 million events a month, and agent feedback. No answer tracking. |
| Starter | $100 a month, $1,000 a year | 2,000 answers a month, 1 project, 10 long-form posts. |
| Growth | $250 a month, $2,500 a year | 6,000 answers a month, 3 projects, 25 long-form posts. |
| Scale | $550 a month, $5,500 a year | 12,000 answers a month, 10 projects, 50 long-form posts. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Unlimited answers and projects, zero data retention included. |
Extra languages, conversations, and personas use more answers, and scans keep running on prepaid credits once a month's answers run out. Zero data retention costs 20% more below Enterprise.
LopeBase counts properties and AI credits. Free covers one property with 50 credits a month, Studio is $19 for 5 properties and 500 credits, Portfolio $49 for 15 and 2,000, and Agency $149 with no property limit and 8,000. A credit is one cent, and extra credits are $10 per 1,000. A full check of 10 questions on all three engines comes to roughly 90 to 240 credits, and the button shows the range before it runs. Credits are shared with LopeBase's other AI features, like article drafts.
What a typical setup costs
| Setup | Notra | LopeBase |
|---|---|---|
| One product, 10 questions, 3 engines, weekly | Starter, $100 a month. About 130 of its 2,000 answers. | Portfolio, $49 a month. About 360 to 1,200 of its 2,000 credits. |
| One product, 10 questions, 3 engines, daily | Starter, $100 a month. About 900 answers. | Not offered. The most often a schedule runs is weekly. |
| Three products, 10 questions each, weekly | Growth, $250 a month, for 3 projects. | Portfolio, $49, plus up to $20 of extra credits in a month where answers run long. |
| Ten products, 10 questions each, monthly | Scale, $550 a month, for 10 projects. | Portfolio, $49. About 900 to 2,400 credits a month, so up to $10 of extra credits. |
Notra figures use its pricing page; LopeBase figures use the estimate the Run button shows. Your own answers may be shorter or longer.
The pattern is plain. If you want daily readings across many engines, Notra is built and priced for it, and LopeBase cannot do it at all. If a weekly or monthly reading is enough, LopeBase costs much less, and more so as the number of products grows, because Notra counts projects and LopeBase counts properties up to 15 on its $49 plan.
Where each one is stronger
Where Notra is stronger
- Web search answersChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity asked with search on, with the pages they cited.
- Many more enginesPerplexity, Google AI Overview, Grok, DeepSeek, Kimi, Meta, and GLM models on every plan.
- Daily scansFresh readings every day, so a change shows up quickly.
- Depth per promptSentiment scores, buyer personas, multi-turn conversations, and several languages.
- Crawler logsWhich AI agents visited which pages, free even without a paid plan.
- Alerts and APIWebhook signals on drops and lost citations, a REST API, and a large MCP server.
Where LopeBase is stronger
- Price for a steady readingA weekly check of one product fits in a $49 plan with credits to spare, and Free can try a small check.
- Pay per check, seen firstEvery check shows its cost range before it runs and only starts when your balance covers the high end.
- Many products, one priceUp to 15 properties on Portfolio, each with its own questions, instead of paying per project.
- From gap to articleA question where you are missing becomes a topic for the content autopilot, and the next check shows whether it moved.
- The rest of each productSearch Console and Bing, revenue, uptime, analytics, and errors on the same console.
Both keep every answer in full so you can check the reading yourself, both find competitors from the answers, and both can be driven by a coding agent over MCP.
Questions
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Is LopeBase a Notra alternative?
For a weekly or monthly reading of whether ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini name your product, yes, at a lower price. For daily scans, web search answers, Perplexity or AI Overviews, sentiment, personas, or crawler logs, no. Notra does those and LopeBase does not.
Does Notra have a free plan for AI visibility?
Its Free plan covers AI crawler and assistant traffic and agent feedback. Tracking AI answers starts on Starter, $100 a month, according to its pricing page in October 2026.
Why does LopeBase not use web search?
It asks each model through its API, which gives a steady reading of what the model knows about you. Answers with web search change with whatever pages the search finds that day. The ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini apps can search, so what a person sees there may differ from a LopeBase check.
Can I use both?
Yes. They ask the engines separately and nothing is connected between them. A common split is Notra for daily tracking and crawler logs on your main product, and LopeBase for a weekly reading across the rest of your products.
What does a LopeBase check cost?
Roughly 90 to 240 credits for 10 questions on three engines, where a credit is one cent. Fewer questions or engines cost less. The AI visibility guide explains how it is worked out.
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