Local Falcon review: pricing, features & alternatives

localfalcon.com/features/ai-search-visibility, the pricing page, llms.txt and the knowledge base article on running AI scans (read 20 October 2026). An AI scan is set up like a map scan: pick a location, a keyword, a grid size and a radius, then choose AI platforms as data sources in a Quick Scan or a Campaign. Each grid point is one AI sample. The knowledge base suggests an 11x11 grid as a starting point and a radius of 2 miles in cities, 5 in suburbs and 10 in rural areas, and you can switch off points over water so they do not burn credits.

The report gives a combined view and the raw per-point answers. SAIV is the share of points where AI mentions the business. The Buyer Persuasion Score rates how favourably AI describes it. Brand Phrases lists the exact wording AI uses and how often. One small inconsistency: the hero of the AI visibility page names four platforms, while its FAQ and llms.txt add Grok as a fifth.

Local Falcon defines a credit as one grid point and says AI scans use the same credits as every other scan. The pricing page lists six variables that drive usage: grid size, keyword count, number of locations (including competitor locations you scan), whether you add Falcon AI at 25 credits a report, the platforms you scan and how often. Weekly or bi-weekly is its recommended cadence. Annual credits expire yearly rather than monthly, which helps if usage is uneven.

Integrations and the data retrieval API are described as free on packages above monthly Starter, while access to the on-demand API costs $199 a month plus $0.0032 per request. Falcon Guard, its Google Business Profile change monitor, is $0.10 per location per month according to llms.txt.

Every row below is a capability we already listed for Local Falcon. It is the published feature set for this page, not a guess at an unpublished demo. Compare it with the Promptwatch checklist that follows.

On this listing, Local Falcon is a SEO suite with AI tracking for Local SEO agencies and multi-location businesses that already think in geo-grids and want AI recommendations mapped neighbourhood by neighbourhood. What we sourced here: AI platforms: ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Grok; Geo-grid AI scans from 3x3 (9 points) to 21x21 (441 points), each point a separate AI sample; Share of AI Voice (SAIV), Buyer Persuasion Score (-10 to +10) and Brand Phrases with sentiment; Sources AI draws on and a Competitor Report of every brand AI named; Falcon AI analysis of each scan with prioritised recommendations, at 25 credits per report.

If you buy Local Falcon for the job above, plan a second tool (or Promptwatch) for the layers this listing does not document. Still missing here: AI crawler logs (Agent Analytics), crawl-to-citation path, bot errors; Visitor analytics: AI-referred sessions and conversions; Content Agents that plan, write, and publish GEO pages to a CMS with a review inbox; Citation analytics at page, domain, Reddit, YouTube, and offsite level; Prompt volumes, difficulty, query fan-outs, personas, city-level geo; Prompt and citation trends (what changed between checks); ChatGPT Shopping tracking and Ads Radar; Agent Chat, Unified Actions, MCP server / REST API on paid plans. Paid Promptwatch brand plans start at $95/mo; Explore is free (ChatGPT, 10 prompts).

Local Falcon's public pages (and this listing) describe a narrower job than Promptwatch. Most rivals answer whether you were mentioned. Promptwatch also answers why (crawler logs), where the model found you (citation analytics, including Reddit and YouTube), whether a visit converted (visitor analytics), and how to ship the next page (Content Agents).

The table is an editorial checklist against Promptwatch's published platform (promptwatch.com/llms.txt, 2026-08-23). It is not a hidden feature list for this vendor. 'Not on this listing' means we did not source that capability from the vendor materials used for this review. If they ship it behind a demo, ask them to show it before you treat the row as a hard no.