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OClever is an AI marketer: it plans, drafts and publishes content and ads on your approval, and measures whether AI assistants name your brand. AthenaHQ positions itself as a command centre for AI search optimisation, with a free starting tier.
If you want a free tier and a wide list of engines on a credit-based plan, AthenaHQ fits. If you want the work drafted and published, and results tied to your Search Console, Google Analytics and server logs, OClever fits.
Facts about AthenaHQ come from its public pages and were checked on 21 October 2026. Plans and prices change, so confirm on its website before you decide. See sources.
At a glance
| What we compared | OClever | AthenaHQ |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | An AI marketer that plans, drafts and publishes content and ads on your approval, and measures AI answers. | A platform for answer-engine and generative-engine optimisation, with a free starting tier. |
| AI surfaces covered | ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode. How many you pick depends on your plan. | The free plan covers ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini and Copilot. Starter adds AI Mode, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI and Mistral. |
| Where the AI data comes from | Your own prompts, run daily on each engine, plus your Search Console, Google Analytics and server and CDN logs of AI crawlers. | How responses are collected is not stated. Usage is metered in credits, where 1 credit is 1 AI response. |
| First-party data (Search Console, GA4, logs) | Yes: Search Console, Google Analytics and server and CDN logs. | It says it connects Google Analytics and Search Console. Server and CDN logs were not found. |
| Drafts and publishes content or ads | Yes, and nothing goes live without your approval. | It describes recommendations, content templates and a content optimisation agent on Starter, plus a Shopify integration. Ads were not found. |
| Public pricing | Starter $199 a month ($169 billed annually), Growth $499 ($425), Scale $1,499 ($1,275), Enterprise custom. India pricing is in INR. | Essential is free with 300 credits. Starter is $295 a month with 3,600 credits. Enterprise is custom. Extra credits and the API cost more. |
| India | India pricing in INR. India is one of the markets OClever tracks. | India is not named on the pages we read. |
Which to choose
Choose AthenaHQ if you want to start free, need many engines, and prefer paying by AI responses checked.
Choose OClever if you want content and ads drafted and published for you, server and CDN log evidence in the same view, or agency white-label.
AthenaHQ can serve as a broad checker. OClever adds the planning, drafting and publishing, and the crawler evidence from your own logs.
Questions
AthenaHQ is a platform for AI search visibility and optimisation, priced in credits per AI response. OClever is an AI marketer that drafts and publishes content and ads on your approval and ties AI visibility to your Search Console, Google Analytics and server logs.
It has a free Essential tier with 300 credits. Paid plans start at $295 a month for Starter. OClever's Starter plan is $169 a month billed annually.
OClever prices in INR and treats India as a core market. AthenaHQ's pages do not name India.
No. OClever (oclever.com) is an AI marketing and AI visibility platform from OClever Private Limited in Bengaluru, India. It is not affiliated with Clever Ads, Clever Ecommerce, the Clever education platform (clever.com) or any other company called Clever.
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