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EZ Web vs ZipTie

ZipTie, as described on its own site: an accuracy-first AI search monitoring platform, built by the founders of Onely, tracking prompts, citations, mentions, and sentiment across seven AI engines with usage-based pricing. EZ Web is an SEO and GEO agency that measures who the AI assistants cite, then builds the pages that change the answer. Here is how the two line up, fact by fact, with sources.

Side by side

What each one does, from each one's own site.

Checked September 6, 2026
EZ Web
ZipTie
What it is
An SEO and GEO agency. Every engagement starts with an AI visibility audit produced by Citrion, our own instrument, and continues with the pages, rewrites, and technical fixes the audit calls for, each reviewed by a named expert before it ships.
An AI search monitoring platform from the founders of Onely, tracking prompts, citations, mentions, and sentiment across seven AI engines with an AI Success Score from 0 to 100.
AI engines covered
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Grok, and Copilot observed in real sessions. Google AI Overviews measured where we can observe them and labeled modeled where we cannot.
ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Bing AI Overview, Google Gemini. No Claude, no Grok.
Measures who AI assistants cite
Yes, in real sessions on our own accounts, from a stated location with device location sharing off, with fetched and cited pages logged separately.
Yes, plus mentions and sentiment, with a screenshot captured for every recorded answer.
Produces the content
Yes. Drafted with AI, reviewed line by line by Ezra Pinsky or an editor he trained.
An add-on generator only, at $20/month per context. The account holder's own team still does the work it produces.
Technical SEO
Yes. Crawler access is checked in every audit; technical SEO is included on the Growth plan and above.
Not stated on their site
Human review stated
Yes. Stated on every page of this site, with the reviewer named.
Not stated on their site
Pricing
Starter $1,490 a month, Growth $2,490 a month, Scale from $5,000 a month. Published at ezweb.dev/pricing/.
Usage-based configurator: Starter from $35.63/month, Professional from $549.67/month, Enterprise from $2,614.34/month. API and MCP access $10/month; content generation $20/month per context (all per ziptie.ai/pricing/).
Free offer
A free AI visibility audit, delivered as a written report before any call.
7-day free trial, no credit card required, 25 prompts a day on ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity only.
Location
Hollywood, Florida. Serves clients across the United States remotely.
Registered in Austin, Texas; states on its site that it operates the service from Poland.
Founded
Founder-run since 2021.
Started 2014 as an indexing tracker (ziptie.dev); added AI Overviews tracking in 2024 and ChatGPT plus Perplexity tracking in 2025.
Reviews and proof
No third-party review profile yet. Named clients and their live sites are listed at ezweb.dev/results/.
No G2 or Capterra profile, by their own account. Logos shown on their homepage: Ziff Davis, HubSpot, Indeed, TripAdvisor, Yelp, Amazon, ClickUp.

Every entry in the ZipTie column is taken from ZipTie's website or public listings on September 6, 2026 and is their own description. We do not rate competitors and we have not used ZipTie on a client engagement.

Which to pick

When ZipTie is the better call, and when we are.

ZipTie is the better fit for an agency or in-house team that wants a dashboard it logs into daily and a strategy it builds itself. It refreshes far more often than a monthly audit, it covers Gemini and gives Google AI Mode its own line instead of folding it into AI Overviews, and it saves a screenshot with every answer it captures. Entry pricing starts at $35.63 a month with unlimited seats and projects, so a team can look before it pays for anything. ZipTie's own case, published on its site, claims 28% of a test site's keywords surfaced a Google AI Overview against 1.6% for Semrush, a 17x gap with no sample size attached; treat that number, and any vendor's self-reported number including ours, the same way and ask for the count behind it.

EZ Web is the better fit when you want one vendor to measure and then do the work. Citrion records what five assistants actually answer for your buyers' questions, the audit names who is taking those answers instead of you, and the plan that follows builds the pages that close the gap, each one reviewed by a named expert before it ships. A dashboard like ZipTie's hands your team a queue to work; we work the queue ourselves, with the protocol behind every number published. Pricing is published, the audit is free, and there is no contract term.

Whichever you choose, the test is the same: ask for the recorded answers behind any visibility number, with the date, the assistant, and the question. A number without those three things is a guess. Our rules for that are public at how we measure AI visibility.

Questions buyers ask

EZ Web and ZipTie, in plain terms.

What does ZipTie cost?

ZipTie uses a usage-based configurator rather than fixed tiers: Starter plans start from $35.63 a month, Professional from $549.67 a month, and Enterprise from $2,614.34 a month, priced by the engines and prompt volume you pick. Add-ons include API and MCP access at $10 a month and content generation at $20 a month per context. Full detail at ziptie.ai/pricing/.

Does ZipTie have a free trial?

Yes. ZipTie offers a 7-day free trial with no credit card required, limited to 25 prompts a day across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity. The other four engines it tracks are not included in the trial.

ZipTie vs EZ Web: which AI engines does each track?

ZipTie tracks seven: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Bing AI Overview, and Google Gemini, but not Claude or Grok. EZ Web observes ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Grok, and Copilot in real sessions, and measures Google AI Overviews where we can observe them. Four engines match, and each tool covers two or three the other does not.

Is ZipTie an agency?

No. ZipTie is a monitoring platform built by the founders of Onely, an SEO agency, but ZipTie itself sells software, not the work of writing or fixing pages. Its content generation add-on drafts pieces, but a client's own team still runs the account. EZ Web is an agency: Citrion measures, and a named expert on our team then writes and ships the pages the audit calls for.

Sources

  1. https://ziptie.ai, checked 2026-09-06.
  2. https://ziptie.ai/pricing/, checked 2026-09-06.
  3. https://app.ziptie.ai/register?plan=trial (free trial signup), checked 2026-09-06.
  4. https://ziptie.ai/about/, checked 2026-09-06.
  5. https://ziptie.ai/blog/ziptie-vs-semrush-17x-more-ai-overviews/, checked 2026-09-06.
  6. EZ Web pricing, methodology, and results pages on ezweb.dev, current as of September 6, 2026.
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