Radar is Live. Here is What Changed.
Radar by Pixelmojo is generally available as of April 19, 2026. The product is the same 12 parallel AI visibility tools we have been running, but the access model changed. Instead of a private-beta waitlist, Radar now opens as a freemium platform with a clear split between technical readiness tools (free) and LLM-powered monitoring tools (paid). This post covers what shipped, why the split works, and what we built under the hood.
Why We Went Freemium Instead of Free
Free access for everything was tempting. It matches how indie developers usually launch: give it all away, chase adoption, monetize later. Radar is a different kind of product. Six of the 12 tools make live API calls to large language models. The other six run against the users own site.
A single Citation Tracker run makes around 16 LLM API calls (4 providers times 4 templated queries, sometimes more for competitive queries). A Prompt SOV run makes 20 or more API calls with longer context windows. Those costs add up quickly at scale, even with cheap models. Offering them free meant either capping runs to the point of uselessness (which breaks the product) or burning cash on every anonymous lead.
The 6 free tools (AI Crawl Checker, Robots.txt Analyzer, llms.txt Validator, Schema Audit, AEO Page Auditor, AI Readiness Score) run against the users own site. They parse publicly available files (robots.txt, llms.txt), inspect schema markup, and test HTTP response headers. The marginal cost is a few HTTP requests, not LLM API calls. At zero cost per run, they make sense as a free lead magnet.
The 6 paid tools run against external LLMs. Every run costs real money. Pricing them as paid aligns the revenue model with the cost structure. It also creates a clear upgrade story: use the free layer to understand whether AI can technically access your site, then upgrade to the paid layer to see what AI actually says about you.
The 6-and-6 Split, Explained
Radar groups tools into two layers that map directly to the pricing tiers. The free layer audits the technical conditions that determine whether AI can reach and understand a site. The paid layer monitors what AI says about the site once it has reached it.
| Tool | Layer | Tier | What It Checks |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Crawl Checker | Technical Readiness | Free | 13 AI bot user-agents tested for actual site access |
| Robots.txt Analyzer | Technical Readiness | Free | Directive parsing and conflict detection for 16 bots |
| llms.txt Validator | Technical Readiness | Free | Structure, sections, entities, and content quality scoring |
| Schema Markup Audit | Technical Readiness | Free | JSON-LD coverage across 10 schema types |
| AEO Page Auditor | Technical Readiness | Free | Answer engine content structure, 6 category scoring |
| AI Readiness Score | Technical Readiness | Free | Unified 5-category grade across all readiness dimensions |
| Citation Tracker | LLM Monitoring | Paid | Brand mentions across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity |
| Reddit Brand Monitor | LLM Monitoring | Paid | Mentions and AI-seeded promotional content detection |
| Hallucination Detection | LLM Monitoring | Paid | Factual errors in AI claims with severity scoring |
| Prompt SOV | LLM Monitoring | Paid | Share of voice vs competitors across AI responses |
| Source Influence Map | LLM Monitoring | Paid | Which domains shape AI narratives in a category |
| Answer Engine Tester | LLM Monitoring | Paid | Per-page citation testing across 4 providers |
The free tier covers what most teams need first. Before you worry about what AI says about your brand, you need to confirm AI can reach your brand. Misconfigured robots.txt that blocks AI bots is the single most common reason a site is invisible to LLMs, and it is caught by the Crawl Checker in 5 seconds. Missing llms.txt, broken schema, or pages structured against answer engine patterns all fall into this category.
The paid tier covers what teams need after. Once the technical layer is clean, the next question is what AI is actually saying. That requires querying live LLMs, which requires paid API calls, which requires a paid tier.
Pricing Structure and the Math Behind It
The pricing structure has three tiers, each with clear use cases.
Free (forever, 1 audit per domain)
For teams evaluating their AI visibility baseline. Run the 6 technical readiness tools on any public domain. No credit card. Enter your email, we send a one-click access link, you run the audit. The result is an AI Readiness Score plus the top 3 prioritized action items. If the report shows a clean technical layer (which roughly 1 in 5 sites do based on our labs data), the user can move on to the paid tier to see what AI says. If the report shows problems, there is enough context to start fixing without ever paying.
Audit Packs ($5 to $40)
For teams that need audits on demand without a subscription commitment. Three tiers: Single ($5 for 1 audit), Starter ($12 for 3 audits at $4 each), Power Pack ($40 for 10 audits at $4 each). Credits never expire. Best fit for freelancers, small agencies running occasional client audits, or teams who want to re-audit after making fixes.
Pro Retainer ($199 per month, 40 audits)
For agencies billing client retainers or in-house teams running monthly audits at scale. 40 full audits per month, roughly $5 per audit. Adds watched domains with automatic weekly pulse re-scans, which is the one feature the pack tiers do not get. At 40 audits per month, that works out to more than one audit per business day.
Compared to the alternatives
| Platform | Entry Price | What You Get | Gaps |
|---|---|---|---|
| Radar Free | $0 | 6 tools, 1 audit per domain | No LLM monitoring layer (paid) |
| Radar Packs | $5 per audit | All 12 tools, credits never expire | No automated watch re-scans |
| Radar Pro Retainer | $199 per month | 40 audits, weekly pulse re-scans | None |
| AthenaHQ | ~$295 per month | Citation monitoring | No technical audit layer |
| Gauge | ~$99 per month | Citation monitoring | No technical audit layer |
Radar Pro Retainer at $199 for 40 audits lands between Gauge and AthenaHQ on price, but includes the technical audit layer that neither competitor offers. For teams that want both layers, it is the only option at that price point.
Refund Policy and Why We Publish It
Most SaaS refund policies are either absent, buried in terms of service, or written in hostile legalese. Ours is published on the pricing page and directly visible on the user dashboard after purchase. The policy is a hybrid: 14-day window, prorated by unused quota, with an abuse cap.
Within 14 days
- 0 audits used: 100 percent refund, no questions.
- 1 to 30 audits used (under 75 percent of quota): prorated refund of the unused portion. Using 10 of 40 audits gets roughly $149.25 back on a $199 Pro Retainer.
- 31 or more audits used (over 75 percent of quota): no refund. This is the abuse cap. Using 39 of 40 audits and then asking for a refund would be refunded under a pure prorated policy, which invites gaming. The cap removes that incentive.
After 14 days
No refunds except for documented service failures (our API was down, audits did not complete, credit was never granted). These are reviewed manually and almost always result in a credit, not a refund.
We publish the policy this directly because it matters for conversion. The reason SaaS buyers hesitate on a new platform is uncertainty about what happens if it does not work out. A 14-day window with prorated refunds removes most of that uncertainty. The abuse cap protects the business without punishing honest users.
The policy is enforced through Paddle, which acts as our Merchant of Record. Paddle handles payment processing, VAT and sales tax across jurisdictions, and the refund workflow itself. On our side, refunds automatically revoke access for retainers and deduct credits from packs. You never have to email us to get your money back. The automated path is the default path.
Who Radar is For
Radar is built for three groups. If you do not fit one of these, the product may not be for you, and that is fine.
In-house marketing and growth teams
The primary audience. You own the brand, you own the search performance targets, and you are starting to see AI-driven traffic show up in analytics (or conspicuously not show up). You need to know whether your site is even reachable by AI models, what they say when they describe you, and where you lose share of voice to competitors in AI recommendations. Radar gives you that picture in 60 seconds without a dedicated SEO analyst running 12 tools in sequence. Free tier answers the technical questions. Paid tier answers the narrative questions.
Agencies billing client retainers
Pro Retainer ($199 per month, 40 audits) is designed for this segment. At $5 per full audit, it is cheaper than running a single hour of an SEO consultant on the same work. Agencies use the watched domains feature to auto-scan their retainer clients weekly and surface score drops before the client does. The implementation prompts (paste into Claude or Cursor) mean junior team members can execute fixes without needing to know what schema.org Organization vs WebSite entity requires.
Founders and solo operators
The $5 Single Pack exists for one reason: to let a founder audit their own site once, see the report, and decide if they care. No sales call, no demo, no credit card for the free tier. We do not want to gatekeep the evaluation step. If you do not convert after seeing the Power Pack value at $40 for 10 audits, you were not going to convert anyway.
What Changed for Existing Users
Existing free-tier users (anyone who had a platform token from the private beta) are grandfathered. Their historical audit runs stay visible in /platform/account. Future audits run under the new tier logic: 6 free tools, 6 paid tools unlocked by purchase. Re-engagement emails sent to past tokens have been updated to reflect the 6-tool free tier reality.
Existing free-tier users (anyone who already has a platform token) keep working as before: token stays valid, access is granted on arrival, audit history is preserved. The only change is tier enforcement at tool level: 6 tools free, 6 tools paid. Anyone who had a private-beta waitlist URL is redirected to the live landing page.
For the AI Visibility Strategy service, nothing changes. The $4,500 sprint and retainer are unchanged. Radar is the DIY path; the service is the done-for-you path.
What Is Next
The GA bundle is the baseline. The roadmap from here covers three areas.
LLM Answer Diff Pro
The paid tier already includes LLM Answer Diff (side-by-side comparison of how AI models describe a brand between scans, with citation flip detection and sentiment shift hierarchy). The Pro version adds competitor displacement tracking: which competitors gained visibility when yours dropped, and which prompts they now appear in instead of you. This is the first feature gated behind Pro Retainer specifically, not just the paid tier broadly.
Watched domains with weekly pulse re-scan
Pro Retainer subscribers can add up to 10 domains to a watch list. Each Monday, Radar re-runs a lightweight audit, compares scores against the baseline, and emails a change report. Configured and live in the current GA build; users will see it in their dashboard as "Watched domains" with a "Watch this domain" button after any audit.
Agency workspace features
For the Pro Retainer tier serving agencies billing client retainers, we are building client labels, internal notes, and white-label PDF exports (planned, not live yet). Client labels group audits by engagement. Internal notes let teammates annotate findings without exposing them to clients. PDF export with an agency logo removes Pixelmojos branding for client deliverables.
The Pricing Page Has the Full Story
Everything in this post is mirrored on Radar Pricing with the pricing table, feature matrix, FAQ, and refund policy summary. The page is designed to be the single source of truth for what Radar offers and what it costs. If anything on the pricing page conflicts with what is in this post, the pricing page wins. That is the public contract.
Radar GA: Questions Readers Ask
Common questions about this topic, answered.
Run Your First Audit
Radar is generally available right now. No waitlist, no invite code, no credit card for the free tier.
Ready to see how AI models view your brand?
- Run free audit - 6 tools, 60 seconds, any domain
- See pricing - packs from $5, retainer $199 per month
- AI Visibility Strategy - done-for-you service with sprint plus retainer
