Check Your Website vs AthenaHQ
AthenaHQ is built for a marketing team with an agent doing the work. We are built for one person fixing one page.
The short version
AthenaHQ tracks prompts, brands, sentiment, sources and competitors, then connects those gaps to content and marketing actions. Ask Athena and a content agent use that data to act. They advertise a free audit, and paid plans start at $295/month after a free tier of 300 credits.
Check Your Website takes one public URL and reads the page the way an AI reads it. Nine scored areas, the evidence behind every score, a roadmap of small changes ordered by how much score each can still win, split into what you can publish yourself and what needs a developer, and a verify step after you publish.
The gap between $0 and $295/month is not a discount argument. It is a different product for a different person.
Side by side
| Check Your Website | AthenaHQ | |
|---|---|---|
| Core question | What do I change on this page, and did it work? | Where are the gaps in AI answers, and what content closes them? |
| Built for | A website owner who can publish a change | Marketing teams, enterprise and agencies |
| Page-level technical readiness | Yes — nine areas, each with evidence | A free audit is advertised; the page-level technical flow is not publicly detailed |
| Content gaps | Not our focus | Yes — this is a strength |
| Who makes the change | You do. We never edit your site | A content agent can produce and act on content |
| Proof a change worked | Re-runs the one check the area depends on: fixed / improved / still failing, score before and after | Post-fix validation of a specific page is not publicly documented |
| Entry price | Free check, no signup | Free tier of 300 credits; Starter $295/month |
What AthenaHQ is genuinely good at
If you have a marketing team, prompts worth tracking and content to produce, AthenaHQ covers ground we deliberately do not: monitoring across channels, sentiment, source and competitor analysis, and agents that turn those findings into content. "Become the brand AI trusts" is a real positioning and they are building toward it.
For a team that wants an agent to do the work, an agent is the right answer. We are not that.
What we do differently
We do not write your site, and we do not touch it. AI never edits your page. We show you what a machine reads off the page today, what it will read once you publish the change, and then we check it. You stay in control of your own content.
We are page-first, not brand-first. Nine concrete things measured on one URL: whether AI can open your site, what the page is about, answers that can be quoted, proof people can trust, hidden page labels, a machine-readable version, link text, loading weight on mobile, and scannable layout.
Every score carries its evidence. The exact line, tag or missing answer — not a number and a recommendation.
Deterministic scoring and a specific verify. Same page state, same score. After you publish, we re-run the exact check that area depended on and record fixed, improved or still failing, with the score before and after.
You can start at zero, with no credits to budget. Free check, no signup, nothing to install.
Which one should you pick
Pick AthenaHQ if you are a marketing team or enterprise, you want monitoring plus agents that produce content, and a $295/month starting point fits your budget.
Pick Check Your Website if you are the person who would have to make the change, you want to understand your own page rather than delegate it to an agent, and you want the change verified after you publish.
What we do not claim
We do not monitor brand mentions, we are not a ranking report, and we promise no rankings, traffic or AI citations. We check one exact public URL per run and prove whether your change moved that page.
Run a free check on one page
One URL. No signup, nothing to install.
Details about AthenaHQ are taken from their public pages and pricing, last verified 4 September 2026, and may have changed since. We have not tested their paid product from the inside. We are not affiliated with AthenaHQ; all trademarks belong to their respective owners.