AEO Engine vs Rocketito: Done For You Pricing, Link Building and Which Is Worth It in 2026

Short answer: AEO Engine (aeoengine.ai) is a high-touch agency: senior people plus automation, from $1,597 a month, with a 90-day minimum and a traffic guarantee for qualified clients. Rocketito's Done For You plans publish more articles for less money per article, start with a 7-day trial and no long contract, and put a human audit on every article, but they do not include the backlink and PR work AEO Engine sells. If you want link building and PR bundled into one retainer and can commit 90 days, AEO Engine is built for that. If you want daily audited content for one site and a way out after a week, Rocketito's Done For You is the cheaper test. All AEO Engine figures below were read on its public site on 4 November 2026.

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What AEO Engine actually is

AEO Engine describes itself as a "Service-as-a-Software" agency: senior humans set the strategy and run the account, and specialized software agents do the execution. Its site lists topical mapping, on-page optimization, schema and technical SEO, internal linking, link building, Reddit and Quora seeding, weekly reporting and tracking of AI visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. The idea behind the name is to make a brand "citable" in AI answers, not only ranked in blue links. If you are new to the term, our guide to SEO versus AI optimization explains what AEO means and how it overlaps with ordinary SEO.

It is not a self-serve tool. There is no sign-up form and no dashboard you log into on day one. You request a free AEO report or audit, or book a strategy call, and then you sign a retainer. That makes it comparable to a service like ours, not to a software product, which is why this page compares it with the Done For You plans and not with the $47 to $79 self-serve plan.

AEO Engine pricing, read on 4 November 2026

The public pricing page lists three plans:

- Growth, $1,597 a month: 30 on-brand SEO and AEO articles with supporting media, 3 to 5 backlinks a month targeting an average domain rating of 35 or more, one PR campaign per quarter, 3 to 5 brand mentions a month on Reddit, Quora, LinkedIn, YouTube and Facebook, and one site in scope.

• Scale, $2,997 a month: 60 articles, 6 to 10 backlinks, one PR campaign a month, 5 to 8 brand mentions, and full-site optimization.
• Enterprise, from $10,000 a month: scoped on a strategy call, with the number of articles "agreed at kickoff".

Both Growth and Scale carry a "90 day initial term, billed monthly". Doing arithmetic only on those published prices, the smallest commitment is $1,597 times three months, which is $4,791, and the Scale commitment is $2,997 times three, which is $8,991. No free trial is listed. The site offers a free report, a free audit and a strategy call instead. It also says it is "limited to 5 new clients per month". That is a claim about its own capacity, and we cannot verify it from outside.

Third-party data points in the same direction. The revenue tracker TrustMRR, which verifies revenue through Stripe, listed AEO Engine on 4 November 2026 with 63 active subscriptions and $187,116 in monthly recurring revenue, which averages roughly $2,970 per customer per month (our own division of two published numbers). In other words, the typical customer is on the Scale tier, not on the entry plan.

Rocketito Done For You pricing, same date

Rocketito's Done For You plans are listed on our pricing page in the Done For You tab:

- Done For You, $997 a month: 31 articles a month, one every day, written and published by us, with site optimization, topical mapping and AEO prompt analysis for one site. Every article is audited by a human every day of the month, and your dashboard is managed by team members.

• Done For You, $1,697 a month: 62 articles a month, direct priority support, custom SEO and AEO features built for your niche, weekly technical SEO and AEO audits of your site, and article audits that block competitor mentions and limit sources to public authority institutions and top-authority companies outside your sector.
• Scale, $2,997 a month: 120 articles a month in 2 languages with a native human auditing each language, a custom blog with internal linking, and a monthly results report that compares against past results and estimates future ones.

Paying yearly takes 20% off the monthly price and paying every six months takes 10% off. The trial is 7 days with a card on file, and you can cancel before it ends. Rocketito does not offer refunds after charges, so use the trial to decide. We also cap how many Done For You clients we take, because each account gets human review.

Price per article, using only published numbers

Price per article is a rough yardstick, not a verdict, because AEO Engine's retainer also pays for backlinks, PR and brand mentions that our plans do not include. With that caveat, here is the plain division:

At the same $2,997 a month, Rocketito's Scale plan lists 120 articles and AEO Engine's Scale plan lists 60 articles plus 6 to 10 backlinks and a monthly PR campaign. So the real question is whether you value a second batch of 60 audited articles more than the link and PR work. That depends on your site, which we cover below.

Where AEO Engine is the better choice

Be straight about it: AEO Engine sells things we do not.

- Backlinks and PR. Links are still one of the strongest signals in classic search, and a retainer that includes 3 to 10 links a month plus PR placements covers a gap that content alone cannot. Our plans publish content and audit it. They do not build links.

• Off-site brand mentions. Seeding Reddit, Quora, LinkedIn and YouTube is a deliberate tactic for being named by AI assistants, since those systems read the open web, not only your site. We do not run that work for you.
• A written guarantee. The site promises "30% more qualified organic + AI traffic in 90 days, or we work free until you do". The stated conditions are that it applies to qualified Growth and Scale clients, that it baselines your previous 90 days of Google Analytics and Search Console traffic, and that you keep every page, link and asset they ship. The page does not define "qualified" or "execution conditions", so read the contract before relying on it. Rocketito offers no traffic guarantee.
• Scope beyond articles. Scale covers full-site optimization and a PR calendar. If your problem is authority, not volume, that matters more than a count of posts.

Where Rocketito Done For You is the better choice

- Lower entry price and no long lock-in. $997 against $1,597 for the entry plan, and a 7-day trial against a 90-day term. If you have never bought a done-for-you SEO service, testing a week costs far less than committing to a quarter.

• More articles for the money. 31 audited articles at $997 compared with 30 at $1,597, and 120 against 60 at the same $2,997.
• A human audit on every article, every day. Each article is checked before it goes live, for factual accuracy and for the sourcing rules above, and the whole dashboard is watched by team members. That is a quality control process you can ask us to show you during the trial.
• Languages. The Scale plan covers 2 languages with a native reviewer for each. AEO Engine's public plan table does not mention multilingual delivery.
• Simple scope. One site, daily articles, audits. There is no bundle of tactics to understand before you can judge whether it is working.

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What the case studies do and do not prove

AEO Engine's site shows client results: one credit union with search impressions up 341%, a dental marketing firm with organic traffic up 286%, a law firm with organic traffic up 217%, and an AI software company with 622,000 clicks and 10.5 million impressions over 12 months. It also states a "920%" average AI traffic growth across managed campaigns. These are the company's own claims on its own page. We cannot verify them, and percentage growth depends heavily on the starting point: going from a few hundred to a few thousand monthly visitors is a large percentage and a small absolute number.

Our guidance is the same one we would give about our own results. Ask for the baseline, the time period, the traffic source and the number of months the client had been with the agency before the figure was taken. Ask whether the gains came from content, links, or a change of site structure. Google's own guide to hiring an SEO makes the same point: it recommends asking "Can you show me examples of your previous work and share some success stories?" and "What kind of results do you expect to see, and in what timeframe?" (Google Search Central, read 4 November 2026). The same page states plainly that "No one can guarantee a #1 ranking on Google". A percentage-based traffic guarantee is different from a ranking guarantee, but the sensible reaction is identical: read the conditions.

Link building: the honest comparison

Link building is the largest difference between the two services, so it deserves its own section. AEO Engine lists a monthly backlink count with a target domain rating of 35 or higher, plus quarterly or monthly PR campaigns. Its PR line quotes "596+ placement instances across a 400+ outlet footprint" and "up to 1,788 network-reported backlinks" per campaign. Those are the vendor's own numbers about a distribution network, and a wire-style placement is not the same as an editorial link from a publication that chose to cover you.

Google's spam policies matter here. They define link spam as "the practice of creating links to or from a site primarily for the purpose of manipulating search rankings", and list "buying or selling links for ranking purposes" and "excessive link exchanges" as examples. Paid links are allowed when they are qualified with rel="nofollow" or rel="sponsored" (Google spam policies, read 4 November 2026). Before you sign any retainer that includes links, ask which placements are editorial, which are sponsored and tagged, and which are neither. We do not sell links, and for that reason we also do not promise what a link package would produce.

The same spam policy page warns about "scaled content abuse", meaning many pages generated mainly to manipulate rankings, typically "large amounts of unoriginal content that provides little to no value to users". That applies to us as much as to AEO Engine. It is the reason our Done For You plans put a human audit on each article, limit sources to public authority institutions and top-authority companies, and block competitor mentions. If you buy articles from any vendor, publish only what you would be comfortable reading aloud to a customer.

How to choose in five questions

1. Is your bottleneck links or content? If competitors outrank you because they have far more referring domains, a content-only service will not close that gap. If you have almost no articles on the topics your buyers search, content comes first. 2. Can you commit three months? AEO Engine's initial term is 90 days. If you cannot, the Rocketito trial removes the risk. 3. Do you need several languages? Our Scale plan covers two with native review. 4. Do you want one retainer or two? Some teams prefer one agency for everything. Others prefer content from one vendor and links from a specialist, so they can judge each separately. 5. How will you measure it? Whichever you pick, record your baseline today: Google Search Console impressions and clicks for your key pages, plus 10 questions your customers ask AI assistants and whether you are named. Repeat monthly. Our guide to getting ChatGPT to recommend your business includes a 5-question test you can run for free.

Who should pick which

If your sector has advertising rules, such as law or dentistry, read the sector guides before buying anything from anyone: SEO services for law firms and SEO services for dentists cover what the regulators say and which questions to ask a provider.

Questions to ask AEO Engine, or any agency, before you sign

These apply to every vendor on this page, including us:

• What exactly is in the "fixed monthly execution mix", and can I see last month's deliverables for a client in my sector?
• Which backlinks are editorial, which are sponsored, and are sponsored ones tagged as Google requires?
• How do you define a "qualified" client and "execution conditions" in the guarantee?
• Who writes and who reviews each article, and what do they check?
• Do I own every page, link and asset if I leave?
• What is the cancellation process after the initial term, and is it in writing?
• How do you report results, against which baseline and over what period?

What we cannot tell you

We have not been a customer of AEO Engine, so this page covers what its public site and public listings say, not what the service is like to work with. We did not find independent customer reviews we could verify, and we did not want to guess. Prices and plan contents change, so confirm them on its site before you decide. For a wider view of the category, see our AI visibility software pricing comparison, our TrySoro vs Rocketito and GrandRanker vs Rocketito comparisons for cheaper self-serve options, and the comparison hub.

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