Pricing
Pay nothing until you are in the answer.
One campaign is one buyer question on one AI engine. We build for up to ninety days at no charge. Billing begins only in the months where the measurement verifies the agreed outcome. The measurement is the only referee.
The price · per keyword · per engine
One keyword. One LLM (starts with Google AI Overview).
Payment method secured at signing, charged only when the monthly measurement verifies the outcome. Minimum of three verified months once billing starts.
How payment works.
Three stages. Nothing is billed until the answer contains your brand.
Step 1 · Build
$0
We build for up to ninety days. You pay nothing. Free monthly verdicts show progress the whole way.
Step 2 · In the answer
$5,000/mo
Billing starts and continues for a minimum of three verified months. A month where the listing slips is not billed and does not count toward the three.
Step 3 · If we never get you there
You owe nothing.
Keep what we built for $1,000 per ten articles, engagement and the full report included. Built twenty, it is $2,000. Otherwise the network assets are retired. Earned press stays regardless.
The measurement is the trigger. Every invoice is backed by that month's verified runs, and the verdict and its evidence are always free.
Win one answer. Then expand from $1,000 a month.
Add-ons share the authority base you have already built, so expansion costs less than the first win. Each bills only on its own verified result.
Start
One campaign
$5,000 /mo
One keyword, one engine. Win this answer first. It is the proof.
Expand engines
Each additional engine
+$2,000 /mo
The same keyword on another engine. A new buyer surface, tuned to the sources it trusts.
Expand keywords
Each similar keyword
+$1,000 /mo
Another similar buyer question sharing the same authority base. An unrelated category is a new campaign.
One keyword on three engines is $9,000 per month. Two similar keywords on one engine is $6,000 per month. Each add-on bills only when its own result is verified, so a miss on any of them costs nothing.
The outcome, agreed up front.
Before the campaign starts, we lock a day zero baseline for your buyer question on the target engine and agree the specific outcome the month is measured against. There are no attribution debates in either direction.
Outcome type
New recommendation
Your brand goes from not listed to listed on the agreed question, verified across sampled runs.
Outcome type
Higher position
You move up within the shortlist, for example from third mention to first mention.
Outcome type
Higher frequency
Your brand is named in a higher share of sampled runs across the month.
Outcome type
Expansion
The recommendation extends to an additional buyer question or an additional AI engine.
The settlement matrix.
One binary, verifiable fact each month. Was the agreed outcome achieved, or not.
What is ours, and what is yours.
The retire-or-keep choice only applies to what we actually control. Everything else stays where it is.
Network placements · ours to host
Articles, video, posts and coordinated engagement produced by us and hosted on our owned properties or partner network, including high-authority editorial pages we operate with and creator posts on channels we operate with. If the campaign never triggers, you can keep them at $1,000 per ten articles or they are retired.
Earned coverage · irrevocable
Real press pickups, organic community threads and any third-party publication we did not host are outside LinkinGrow's control. They remain published regardless of how the campaign ends. We never claim we can pull earned press.
Where the market bills for effort.
Tool pricing from published list prices. PR and retainer averages from industry outreach surveys and AEO and GEO pricing guides. Examples are illustrative. LinkinGrow is the only line where billing does not start until the result exists.
Included every month, regardless of result
The verdict and its evidence are always free: locked day zero baseline, sampled run logs and the verified monthly Answer Presence.
You always receive the record the settlement was decided on. The full Intelligence report is the optional $1,000 add-on.
Commercial rules.
- One campaign equals one buyer question on one AI engine at $5,000 per verified month. Scaling is priced on shared authority work: an additional engine on the same question adds $2,000 per month, a closely related buyer question adds $1,000 per month, and a new unrelated category is a new campaign at $5,000. Settlement applies per unit.
- Build phase up to ninety days, at $0. That is the physical time required for graph expansion to be crawled and processed by LLM training loops and live search indices. You see a free verdict each month during it.
- Minimum of three verified months once billing starts. A month where the listing slips is not billed and does not count toward the three.
- Attribution is immaterial by design. Your team and other partners continue their work. The only referee is the measurement, and it applies in both directions.
- Nothing is pulled mid-campaign. The retire-or-keep choice only arises if the campaign never triggers at all.
- Earned coverage is irrevocable. Real press pickups, organic community threads and any third-party publication we did not host are outside our control and remain published regardless.
- No guaranteed rankings. Anyone promising them is guessing. We guarantee the measurement and the billing rule: nothing is charged until you are in the answer.
Pricing FAQ.
How is the outcome defined?+
Before launch, we agree the specific outcome for the campaign against a locked day zero baseline. It is one of: new recommendation (not listed becomes listed), higher recommendation position, higher frequency across sampled runs, or expansion to another buyer question or engine. That single agreed outcome is what each month is measured against.
What counts as a verified recommendation?+
Your brand is explicitly named, cited or recommended within the primary text response of the target AI engine during the month's sampled runs. Twenty plus fresh sessions per question, spread across days, locale pinned and engine version logged. All data points are appended to your monthly run logs.
When exactly do I start paying?+
Only in the first month where the measurement verifies the agreed outcome. Before that, including the build phase of up to ninety days, you are charged nothing. Your payment method is secured at signing so billing can start the month the result exists.
What happens in a month where I slip out of the answer?+
That month is not billed and it does not count toward the three verified months. Everything stays live and we keep working. You still receive the free verdict and its run logs.
What if you never get me into the answer?+
You owe nothing. You can keep what we built for $1,000 per ten articles, with engagement and the full report included, so twenty articles is $2,000. If you do not, the network assets are retired. Earned press stays published regardless.
What exactly can be retired, and what stays?+
Only placements we produced and host on our owned network or partner network, including articles, coordinated engagement and creator posts on channels we operate with. Earned coverage, meaning real press pickups, organic community threads and any third-party publication we did not host, remains published regardless. We never claim we can pull earned press.
What if I am already listed on the target question?+
That question cannot be sold to you as an outcome. Baseline protection is measured at day zero. We agree the next level up, for example a top three or first mention position, or a different question.
Do you guarantee rankings?+
No. Anyone who does is guessing. We guarantee the measurement and the billing rule: nothing is charged until you are in the answer.