EZY AI vs AEO God Mode: Which WordPress AI SEO Plugin Actually Works in 2026?

Two WordPress plugins. Both focused on Answer Engine Optimization. Both launched in early 2026. Both claim to get your site cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Claude.

So which one should you actually install?

I spent time with both plugins, looked at the code, tested the features, and compared pricing. Here’s a full, honest breakdown of what each one does well, what each one does poorly, and which makes more sense for different situations.

What Is AEO and Why Does It Matter Right Now?

Traditional SEO gets you ranked in Google’s ten blue links. AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) gets you cited inside AI-generated answers.

When someone asks ChatGPT “what’s the best CRM for small business?” and it mentions your product with a link back to your site, that’s AEO working. When Perplexity pulls a quote from your blog post and attributes it, that’s AEO. When Google’s AI Overview summarizes your page above all the organic results, that’s AEO.

AI search traffic grew 527% year-over-year through 2025, and those visitors convert at higher rates than traditional organic traffic. This is the reason both EZY AI and AEO God Mode exist.

Both plugins approach the same problem from very different angles.

EZY AI: Full Breakdown

EZY AI is a cloud-connected WordPress plugin. The free version is on WordPress.org, and the plugin connects to the EZY.ai cloud API for processing.

What EZY AI Actually Does

EZY AI is a cloud-connected WordPress plugin. The plugin itself acts as a connector to the EZY.ai platform, where most of the processing happens. Here’s every feature, broken down:

Prompt Tracking (5 Prompts)

You enter up to 5 specific prompts related to your business. For example, “best mezcal brand in Mexico” or “top WordPress hosting 2026.” EZY AI then checks whether AI engines mention your brand when answering those exact prompts.

This is genuinely useful. You get to see, in concrete terms, whether your brand shows up in AI responses for the queries that matter most to you.

The limitation: 5 prompts. That’s the cap. If you have a site covering 50 topics, you’re only monitoring 10% of your keyword landscape. And the prompts are manually entered, so you need to already know what to track.

Citation Tracking

For each tracked prompt, EZY AI reports whether your brand was “found” or “not found” in the AI response. This gives you a yes/no visibility check per prompt per engine.

AI Bot Monitoring

Tracks visits from AI crawlers to your site. You can see which bots are hitting your pages.

Competitor Analysis

You can enter competitor domains and monitor the same prompts against them. This tells you whether competitors are getting cited where you aren’t.

This is a standout feature. Neither Rank Math, Yoast, nor most other SEO plugins offer competitor citation benchmarking.

Reddit Detector

Monitors your brand’s presence on Reddit. This matters because AI models (especially Perplexity and ChatGPT) pull heavily from Reddit threads. If your brand gets mentioned positively on Reddit, you’re more likely to get cited in AI answers.

EZY Visibility Score

A proprietary score that tracks your AI visibility over time. The scoring methodology isn’t publicly documented, so it’s hard to independently verify what goes into it.

llms.txt, robots.txt, sitemap.xml Generation

Auto-generates these files with AI-specific configurations. The robots.txt includes rules for AI crawlers, and the sitemap is formatted for AI agent discovery.

Facts.jsonld

This is unique to EZY AI. Facts.jsonld is a structured data file that feeds direct factual information to AI models. Think of it as a JSON file that says “here are the facts about our company” in a format designed for machines.

Important context: Facts.jsonld is not an established web standard. It was created by EZY AI. No major AI engine has publicly confirmed they read or honor it. The idea has merit, but treat it as experimental.

Content Automation

Auto-generates blogs, FAQs, and facts files. Can auto-publish blogs weekly based on trending keywords and update existing content to keep facts fresh.

Bulk Schema Injection

Creates, optimizes, and injects Schema.org markup across your site. Includes FAQPage and Speakable schema types. This is done in bulk rather than per-page.

“Site-Fixer” Technology

Automatically resolves technical AI visibility issues. The specifics of what it fixes aren’t fully documented.

Where EZY AI Falls Short

Data privacy. The plugin sends your website URL, authentication credentials, and (with consent) visit data including user agent and IP address to the EZY.ai API. If you’re running client sites with NDAs or handling sensitive data, sending that to a third-party API is a real concern.

No local processing. If EZY.ai’s servers go down, your AI optimization features go with them. Your site data lives on someone else’s infrastructure.

No conflict detection. If you’re already running Yoast or Rank Math, EZY AI doesn’t check whether its schema output conflicts with your existing plugin. Duplicate schema is a common problem that most people don’t catch until they validate their markup manually.

No AI HTTP headers. Server-level headers like X-AI-Crawl and X-Content-License signal to AI crawlers before they even parse your HTML. EZY AI doesn’t touch HTTP headers.

No content gap analysis. There’s no per-page breakdown of what’s missing from each post for AEO readiness. You get site-wide scores but not “this specific page needs FAQ schema and a direct answer paragraph.”

No per-page citability scoring. You get a site-level visibility score, but not “this page scores 72/100 for citability because it’s missing author attribution and quotable sentences.”

AEO God Mode: Full Breakdown

AEO God Mode is the complete WordPress plugin for Answer Engine Optimization. AI crawler management, schema, llms.txt, citation tracking, content gap scanning, and more. Free core version available on WordPress.org.

What AEO God Mode Actually Does

I verified every claim against the actual codebase. Here’s exactly what each feature does:

AI Crawler Management (18 Bots)

A configurable allowlist of 18 AI crawlers, each with individual on/off toggles:

OpenAI (3 bots): GPTBot (training), OAI-SearchBot (ChatGPT search results), ChatGPT-User (user-triggered fetches)

Perplexity (2 bots): PerplexityBot (search index), Perplexity-User (real-time browsing for cited answers)

Anthropic (3 bots + 1 deprecated): ClaudeBot (training crawler), Claude-SearchBot (search index), Claude-User (user-triggered fetches), Anthropic-AI (deprecated, kept for backward compatibility)

Google: Google-Extended (Gemini/Vertex AI training, separate from Google Search)

Apple: Applebot-Extended (Apple Intelligence AI training)

Meta (2 bots): Meta-ExternalAgent (LLaMA training + Meta AI features), FacebookBot (link previews)

Others: Amazonbot, Bytespider (ByteDance/TikTok), CCBot (Common Crawl), Cohere-AI, DeepSeekBot

Each bot has a comment in the code explaining what it actually does, so you know exactly what you’re allowing or blocking. The crawler visit log records every bot visit with the bot name, user agent, URL visited, response code, IP address, and timestamp.

This is free. Not gated behind Pro.

llms.txt Generator

Generates a spec-compliant llms.txt file following the official structure from llmstxt.org (proposed by Jeremy Howard). The file follows the exact spec: H1 heading, blockquote summary, free-form context section, H2 sections for different content areas, and an Optional section.

The generator automatically discovers your core pages (homepage, about, pricing, contact, blog), service/product pages, top blog posts (ranked by comment count as a proxy for authority), and optional secondary pages (team, partners, press, testimonials).

You can edit the free-form context section directly from the admin UI. The llms.txt file is served via WordPress rewrite rules at yoursite.com/llms.txt.

This is free.

Schema Engine (8 Schema Types)

Not just basic Organization and BlogPosting. The schema engine generates:

1. WebSite schema with search action
2. Organization schema with social profiles
3. Article/BlogPosting schema per post
4. BreadcrumbList for navigation
5. FAQPage (auto-detected from FAQ-style content)
6. HowTo (auto-detected from step-based content)
7. LocalBusiness (with address, hours, geo coordinates)
8. Product (WooCommerce integration)

The FAQ and HowTo detection is automatic. The schema engine scans your post content for FAQ patterns (Yoast FAQ blocks, Rank Math FAQ blocks, HTML5 <details> elements, definition lists, Q:/A: text patterns) and generates FAQPage schema when it finds them. Same approach for HowTo content.

There’s a third_party_handles() method that checks whether Yoast or Rank Math already generates a specific schema type and skips it to avoid duplicates. This is conflict-aware by design.

Built-in schema validator checks your markup against Schema.org standards.

This is free.

Content Gap Scanner

Scans every published post and generates a per-page report of what’s missing for AEO. The scanner checks (verified from 932 lines of analysis code):

• Does the page have FAQ-style content?
• Does the page have FAQ schema applied?
• Does the page have HowTo content?
• Does the page have HowTo schema applied?
• Does the page have a definitive answer structure (H2 followed by a direct paragraph)?
• Is auto-schema detection firing for this post?

When gaps are found, you can apply fixes directly. The apply_fix() method generates FAQ pairs, injects HowTo schema, and applies other fixes per page.

The FAQ extraction engine supports 8 different WordPress FAQ formats: Yoast FAQ blocks, Rank Math FAQ blocks, shortcodes, HTML5 accordions, definition lists, accordion markup, question headings, and text-based Q:/A: patterns.

This is free.

Conflict Detector

Scans for 7 specific conflict types when you’re running other SEO plugins:

1. Meta Title duplication (error severity)
2. Meta Description duplication (error severity)
3. Schema Output duplication (warning severity)
4. Robots.txt writer conflicts (warning severity)
5. Sitemap conflicts
6. Canonical tag conflicts
7. Open Graph tag conflicts

For each conflict found, you can choose to defer (let the other plugin handle it), override (let AEO God Mode handle it), or merge (combine both outputs).

The plugin already knows it doesn’t output canonical tags or OG tags, so those checks automatically return clean.

This is free.

AI HTTP Headers

Sends 6 specific HTTP headers on every front-end page load:

1. X-AI-Crawl: allowed (only when crawler module is active)
2. X-AI-Citeable: true
3. X-Content-License: free-to-cite-with-attribution
4. X-AI-Content-Type: human-authored
5. Link: <site/llms.txt>; rel="ai-context"; type="text/plain" (only when llms.txt module is active)
6. X-AI-Speakable: true (only on singular content)

These headers fire before the page HTML even starts loading. AI crawlers that read response headers get these signals at the network level.

This is free.

5-Step Setup Wizard

Guided onboarding that detects your existing SEO plugins, configures modules, and gets everything running without manual settings. Includes an option to connect to GSC (Pro) at the end.

This is free.

Pro Features (£9/mo, billed annually at £90/year)

Citation Tracker

Queries 4 AI engines directly: Perplexity, ChatGPT (OpenAI), Gemini (with Google Search grounding), and Claude (with web search tool).

The tracker generates topic-relevant queries based on your site’s content, sends them to each configured engine, and checks whether your domain appears in the cited sources. Results are stored with full response text and citation match data.

Each engine uses its own API integration: OpenAI-compatible format for Perplexity and ChatGPT, Gemini’s generateContent API with grounding_metadata for structured web citations, and Claude’s Messages API with web_search tool for cited URLs.

Runs on a WordPress cron schedule for automated checks, and supports manual runs from the dashboard. API keys are encrypted using AES before storage.

Requires user’s own API keys (BYOK model). You bring your Perplexity API key, OpenAI key, Gemini key, and/or Claude key. AEO God Mode doesn’t route through any proxy for citation tracking. Your queries go directly to each AI engine.

Citability Score

A per-page analysis engine that scores every published post on 9 dimensions:

1. Schema detection (checks ASGM schema, Yoast schema, Rank Math schema, JSON-LD in content)
2. Direct answer structure (does the page answer questions directly?)
3. Definitive claims (does the content make quotable, factual statements?)
4. Original data (statistics, percentages, data points)
5. Heading structure (proper H2/H3 hierarchy)
6. Quotable sentences (short, citable statements)
7. Outbound links (citation of external sources)
8. Author attribution (is the author identified?)
9. Content depth (word count scoring)

Returns a score per page with a letter grade (A through F) and specific recommendations for improvement.

E-E-A-T Schema Enrichment

Generates Person schema for blog post authors with credentials, expertise signals, and trust markers. Adds E-E-A-T fields to WordPress user profiles (job title, credentials, areas of expertise, social profiles). Auto-appends author cards to single posts with structured data.

Google’s AI Overviews weight E-E-A-T signals when deciding which sources to cite. This feature targets that specific ranking factor.

AI Referral Traffic Analytics

Tracks visitors arriving FROM AI tools (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude). Different from the Crawler Log, which tracks AI bots crawling the site. This tracks humans clicking through from AI answers.

IPs are hashed using SHA-256 with AUTH_SALT for privacy-safe storage. No raw IP addresses are stored.

Google Search Console Integration

Connects to GSC via OAuth (with a proxy for simplified setup). Syncs search analytics data and filters for AI-related queries.

Weekly Email Digest

Automated email summary of citation tracking results, AI referral traffic, and crawler activity.

Where AEO God Mode Falls Short

No prompt simulation. You can’t type in a prompt and see what AI engines would answer. The Citation Tracker checks if you’re cited, but it doesn’t let you preview AI responses to arbitrary queries the way EZY AI does.

No competitor monitoring. You can track whether you get cited, but you can’t enter competitor domains and see whether they get cited for the same queries. EZY AI handles this.

No Reddit monitoring. Reddit is a major source that AI models pull from. AEO God Mode doesn’t track your Reddit presence at all.

No Facts.jsonld. Whether this matters is debatable (it’s not a web standard), but if it gains adoption, AEO God Mode doesn’t support it.

No auto-content generation. AEO God Mode doesn’t write blog posts or FAQs for you. It tells you what’s missing and helps you structure it, but it doesn’t generate the actual content. EZY AI can auto-generate and auto-publish content.

BYOK requirement for citation tracking. You need your own API keys for Perplexity, OpenAI, Gemini, and/or Claude. This means extra cost on top of the £9/month license. If you’re running all 4 engines with moderate usage, API costs could add $10-30/month depending on volume.

Not yet on WordPress.org. As of March 2026, the plugin is distributed through aeogodmode.io, not the WordPress.org repository. This means no auto-updates through the WordPress dashboard (they use a custom updater instead).

Pricing Breakdown

EZY AI

AEO God Mode

The Math

EZY AI Pro for one year: $348 (≈£275)

AEO God Mode Pro for one year: £90 (billed annually with 2 months free)

For the price of one year of EZY AI Pro, you could run AEO God Mode Pro for over 3 years.

Both offer citation tracking and AI crawler monitoring at their paid tiers. AEO God Mode also includes GSC integration, per-page citability scoring, and E-E-A-T schema enrichment at the £9/month price. EZY AI doesn’t offer citability scoring or E-E-A-T enrichment at any price.

EZY AI’s advantages at the paid tier: prompt simulation, competitor monitoring, Reddit detection, auto-content generation, and answer simulation. These are features AEO God Mode doesn’t offer.

Head-to-Head Feature Comparison

Who Should Pick What

Pick EZY AI if:

• You want to test specific prompts against AI engines and see the actual responses
• Competitor benchmarking is a high priority
• Reddit presence matters to your brand
• You want AI-generated blog content published on autopilot
• You don’t mind your site data going through a third-party API
• Budget isn’t a constraint

Pick AEO God Mode if:

• You want the maximum number of features for free
• Data privacy matters (client sites, NDAs, regulations)
• You need per-page analysis (content gaps, citability scores)
• You’re already running Yoast or Rank Math and need conflict detection
• Schema depth matters (HowTo, LocalBusiness, Product)
• You want to control exactly which AI bots access your site
• Budget is a factor (£90/year vs $348/year)

Pick Both if:

• You want AEO God Mode for the foundation (crawlers, llms.txt, schema, content gaps, headers)
• And EZY AI’s free tier for the occasional prompt simulation check
• Don’t run both at full paid tiers. The overlap in schema output and file generation creates conflicts.

The Bottom Line

EZY AI does things AEO God Mode can’t: prompt simulation, competitor monitoring, Reddit tracking, auto-content generation, and answer simulation. If those are high priorities, EZY AI is the only option.

AEO God Mode does things EZY AI can’t: per-page content gap analysis, 9-dimension citability scoring, conflict detection across 7 check types, 6 AI HTTP headers, auto-detection of FAQ and HowTo schema from existing content, E-E-A-T author enrichment, and privacy-preserving AI referral tracking.

For pure feature count at the free tier, AEO God Mode wins by a wide margin. Its free version ships with more working features than EZY AI’s paid tier in several categories.

For pricing, AEO God Mode Pro (£90/year) costs significantly less than EZY AI Pro ($348/year).

For data privacy, AEO God Mode runs locally. EZY AI sends data to external servers.

For prompt testing and competitor tracking, EZY AI is the only choice.

There’s no single “best” plugin. It depends on what you need. But if someone pushed me to recommend just one, I’d say install AEO God Mode (free), set up your crawlers, schema, llms.txt, and content gaps. That takes 15 minutes and costs nothing. Then use EZY AI’s free tier for spot-check prompt simulations when you need them.

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