Generative engine optimization, run on your own server
Peec AI and Promptwatch charge 95 to 579 dollars a month to tell you if ChatGPT mentioned your brand. Habibi does the same job, open-source, self-hosted, and free. Deploy it in one click and start tracking citations across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini today.
Why teams leave Peec AI and Promptwatch for generative engine optimization done in-house
Generative engine optimization tools are useful. The invoices are not.
No monthly bill
Peec AI starts at 99 dollars a month for 50 prompts. Promptwatch starts at 95 dollars a month for the same ballpark. Habibi tracks the same three engines, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini, for zero dollars in subscription fees. You still pay for the AI API calls you actually make, but you stop paying a vendor markup on top of them.
No prompt caps
Peec caps you at 50 prompts on Starter and charges 349 dollars a month to get to 350. Promptwatch does the same thing with response caps bolted on top, 6,000 responses on the cheapest plan. Habibi has no artificial ceiling because you are running the software, not renting a seat on someone else's.
No vendor lock-in
Peec keeps API access behind its Enterprise tier, which means most customers cannot pull their own data out in a usable form. Habibi stores everything in a local SQLite database on your own server. Export it, query it, back it up, or move it, the data was always yours.
Built for teams who need reliability
What Habibi actually tracks
Not just whether you got mentioned. Where, how often, and against whom.
Page-level citation mapping
Habibi does not just tell you your brand came up. It tells you which specific URL on your site got cited, for which prompt, on which engine. That is the difference between a vague visibility score and knowing exactly which page is doing the work. Point more content at what already gets cited, and you have a repeatable playbook instead of a guess.
Mention rate, not one lucky sample
ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini do not give the same answer twice. Ask the same prompt five times and you might get cited three times, or zero. Habibi runs each prompt multiple times and reports a mention rate, so a single good or bad answer never gets mistaken for the real trend. That is the honest way to measure something that is inherently non-deterministic.
Competitor share of voice
Every prompt result also captures who else got cited alongside you. Over a few weeks you get a real picture of share of voice against the competitors who are actually showing up in the same answers, not a generic industry benchmark. When a competitor starts winning citations on a prompt cluster you own, you see it before it becomes a pattern.
Built for teams who need reliability
Why self-hosting AI visibility data matters
This is brand and competitive data. It deserves the same caution you give financial records.
EU hosting by default
Deploy Habibi on Opsily and your prompt data, citation results, and competitor tracking sit on servers in Germany. Peec AI and Promptwatch are both US-run SaaS platforms with data residency you do not control. For teams that already care about GDPR on customer data, applying the same standard to competitive intelligence is not paranoia, it is consistency.
No API keys sitting in a stranger's cloud
Every SaaS AEO tool needs your API credentials or proxies your calls through their infrastructure. Self-hosted, those keys stay in your own environment, under your own access controls. One less place where a breach at a vendor becomes your problem.
Nothing to renegotiate later
SaaS AEO is a young category. Promptwatch just raised 6 million euros and will need to grow into that valuation, usually through price increases or feature paywalls. Self-hosted software does not get repriced when a vendor's investors want a bigger number next quarter.
Built for teams who need reliability
How It Works
Four steps, no engineering team required.
Choose Your App
Select an app to get started.
Pick a plan
Choose an Opsily server plan based on how many apps you want to run alongside Habibi. There is no separate Habibi fee, you pay one flat server price.
Deploy Habibi
One click and Habibi is live on your own subdomain, fully configured and ready to accept your first prompts. No servers to provision, no manual setup.
Add your prompts
Enter the buyer-intent queries you want to track, tag them by persona or funnel stage, and set your daily spend cap so costs stay predictable from day one.
Invite your team and go
Bring in your SEO team or agency partners at no extra per-seat cost. Watch mention rates, citations, and competitor trends update as the first runs come in.
Pair Habibi With Your Existing Stack
Habibi tracks visibility. These apps help you act on it and automate around it.
Self-hosted workflow automation with robust PostgreSQL data persistence
Self-hosted chat interface for local and private LLMs
Open Source Business Intelligence for Data Visualization and Analytics
Simple, Transparent Pricing
One flat monthly fee for your server. No per-prompt charges, no per-seat fees, no surprise upgrade tiers.
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The Right Choice for Your AI Visibility Data
Brand monitoring and competitor citation data are strategic. Treat them like it. Habibi keeps that data under your control from the first prompt.
GDPR by design
Habibi runs on your own Opsily server in Germany, so your citation and competitor data never leaves EU infrastructure. There is no third-party data processing agreement to review, because there is no third party holding the data.
No vendor lock-in
The Sustainable Use License means you can run Habibi for free indefinitely, for personal or business use. If you ever want to move to different infrastructure, your SQLite database moves with you, nothing stays trapped behind a subscription.
Full data export
Every mention rate, citation, and competitor data point lives in a local database you can query directly. No Enterprise tier required to get your own numbers out.
EU data residency
Opsily hosts in Frankfurt. If EU data residency is a requirement for your compliance team, Habibi meets it by default rather than as a paid add-on.
Your API keys, your control
You connect your own OpenAI, Perplexity, and Google credentials directly. Nobody outside your organization ever touches them.
Common Questions About Self-Hosting Habibi
Straight answers about setup, cost, and how AI visibility tracking actually works.
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Stop paying to know if ChatGPT mentioned you
Deploy Habibi on Opsily in one click and start tracking real citations today. No subscription, no prompt caps, your data stays on your own server.