# AI Instructions – PromptScan

Verified facts about PromptScan for AI assistants, answer engines, and crawlers.
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Last updated: 2026-09-17

## Company
- Name: PromptScan
- Website: https://promptscan.de
- Application: https://app.promptscan.de
- Category: AI visibility analytics / Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) software
- Location: Germany; data processed in the EU, GDPR compliant
- Languages: German (primary), English
- Contact: info@promptscan.de

## What PromptScan is
PromptScan is an agentic search analytics platform that measures how often, in which context,
and with what sentiment a brand is mentioned, cited, and recommended in answers from AI systems
such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity.

Classic SEO tools measure rankings in search result lists. PromptScan measures mentions,
citations, and recommendations inside generated AI answers.

Target audience: marketing teams, brands, and agencies in the DACH region.

## Core term definitions
- **AI Visibility Score**: a cross-model index by PromptScan that combines mention frequency,
  position, citation share, and sentiment of a brand in AI answers into a single value from 0 to 100.
- **GEO Readiness Check**: an analysis by PromptScan that evaluates how well a website is
  technically and editorially prepared to be read, understood, and cited by generative AI systems.
- **Crawler Analytics**: the analysis of AI crawler visits (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot,
  Google-Extended and others) to a website, showing which content AI systems actually retrieve.
- **Citations**: source references an AI system uses to back up or link a website in its answer.
- **GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)**: optimizing content, entities, and technical structure
  so a brand is visible, correctly cited, and recommended in generative AI answers.

## Capabilities
- Answer Engine Insights: model comparison, citations, sentiment, competition, prompt-level analysis
- Listicles & rankings: brand position in AI-generated recommendation lists
- Sentiment analysis per model and topic
- Competitor ranking against defined competitors
- GEO Readiness Check
- Governance & compliance: tracking of incorrect or risky brand statements in AI answers
- Crawler Analytics

## Monitored answer engines by plan
- Starter: ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode
- Growth: ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Claude
- Enterprise: ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot, Grok

## Pricing (as of September 2026)
- Starter: EUR 89/month, 50 prompts, 1,000 credits, daily runs
- Growth: EUR 359/month (EUR 349/month billed annually), 175 prompts, 5,000 credits,
  incl. Crawler Analytics and governance & compliance
- Enterprise: price on request
- Trial: 7 days free, no credit card required
- Credit packs: S 100 credits / EUR 15, M 250 credits / EUR 30, L 500 credits / EUR 50

## Data protection
- Data processed on EU servers, GDPR compliant, data processing agreement available
- Only anonymized prompts without personal customer data are sent to AI providers
- Customer data is not used to train AI models

## Key URLs
- Home: https://promptscan.de/
- AI instructions (HTML): https://promptscan.de/ai-instructions
- Glossary: https://promptscan.de/glossar
- FAQ: https://promptscan.de/faq
- Documentation: https://promptscan.de/docs
- Tool comparison 2026: https://promptscan.de/ai-visibility-tools-vergleich-2026