How much do AEO services cost?

For US clients, VX-N AEO engagements start at US$2,500 per month for at least three months: a US$7,500 minimum initial commitment. Canadian pricing is quoted separately in CAD. The scope is agreed before work starts, and paid media budgets are separate from organic AEO work.

The starting engagement, plainly:

Monthly AEO program — US$2,500 per month — The minimum for US clients; final scope is agreed before work begins

Initial term — Three months — Enough time to establish a baseline, ship the priority work and measure the first trend

Initial commitment — US$7,500 — Three monthly payments at the starting level

Canadian clients — Quoted separately in CAD — The price is set in Canadian dollars for the agreed scope

Paid AI advertising — Separate — Media spend and campaign management are confirmed before any paid launch

What the starting AEO engagement covers

The work begins with evidence, not a content quota: the commercial questions your buyers ask, which businesses the major assistants name, which sources they cite, what they believe about your company, and whether AI crawlers can read the pages that matter. That baseline turns the engagement into a ranked work plan instead of a generic monthly checklist.

From there, the program addresses the highest-value gaps: crawler and page-structure problems, answer-first pages for real buying questions, stronger proof about the business and its work, relevant off-site mention opportunities, and attribution that separates observed AI referrals, organic search, paid campaigns and self-reported sources. The exact deliverables belong in the scope, in writing, before the first paid month.

Why the minimum is three months

AEO has fast tasks and slower outcomes. Technical access problems can be found and fixed quickly. Useful pages can be published quickly. Organic recommendations still depend on systems that VX-N does not control, and their answers vary from one run to the next. One screenshot or one good week is not a result.

Three months creates a fair measurement window: establish the baseline, ship the priority changes, repeat the same prompt set across platforms, and compare the trend alongside qualified inquiries. It is long enough to measure movement and short enough to make a clear continue-or-stop decision.

What changes the final price

Scope grows with the number of services, markets, locations and languages the program must cover; the condition of the current website; the amount of proof and content already available; the number of pages that need to be created or rebuilt; and how much off-site research and outreach the category requires. A single-location firm with a readable site is a different job from a bilingual multi-location company with several service lines.

Number of services, buyer types, territories and languages

Technical crawlability, rendering and structured-data problems

Amount of answer-first content that must be written or rebuilt

Quality of existing proof, company facts and delivered-work examples

Depth of directory, publisher, community and mention work

Measurement, reporting and lead-attribution requirements

How to compare two AEO proposals

Compare the work and the scoreboard, not the label. A serious proposal names the platforms and prompts being tested, the technical checks, the pages or content system being delivered, the off-site mention plan, the reporting cadence and the path from an AI answer to a qualified inquiry. It also states what is outside scope.

Reject guarantees of a specific organic placement. No agency controls ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity or Google's answer systems. The credible promise is disciplined work on the factors that support discovery, a repeatable measurement method, and honest reporting about what changed.

Can I start with an audit before committing to three months?

Yes. VX-N starts with a written AI visibility report after the first call. It covers the questions buyers ask, who gets named, what the assistants get wrong, technical blockers and the priority plan, and it costs you nothing. The paid engagement starts only after the scope is agreed.

Does the US$2,500 monthly price include ad spend?

No. The starting price is for the agreed AEO service scope. Paid AI campaign management and the media budget are scoped separately and confirmed before launch.

Can an AEO agency guarantee that ChatGPT will recommend my business?

No. Organic answers are controlled by the platform and vary by prompt, location, timing and source set. An agency can improve crawlability, content, evidence and outside mentions, then measure whether visibility and qualified inquiries move; it cannot sell a guaranteed organic answer.

When should I expect to see movement?

Technical improvements and newly crawlable pages can show up first. A reliable share-of-voice trend takes repeated tests over weeks, and qualified inquiries usually lag visibility. That is why VX-N evaluates the first engagement over three months instead of judging one screenshot or one run.

Is pricing the same for Canadian clients?

Canadian engagements are quoted separately in CAD after the scope is agreed. The US$2,500 monthly starting price applies to US clients.

Last reviewed 22 September 2026