Oetzi vs LLMrefs: 11 engines tracked, or 5 engines acted on?

Pick LLMrefs if you want the widest engine coverage you can get on a single plan and you will do the marketing work yourself. Pick Oetzi if five engines is enough coverage and you want the tool to continue past the number, into the threads those engines cited, the reply you should leave, and the post you should write. LLMrefs measures wide. Oetzi measures, then acts.

What LLMrefs does well

LLMrefs sells one plan. That plan covers 500 prompts across 11 or more engines with a seven day trial. There is no tier ladder to decode and no upsell call, which is why it is popular with indie hackers in roundups. Eleven engines is more than most trackers cover and more than Oetzi covers. If your buyers ask questions in engines beyond the big five, LLMrefs sees answers Oetzi does not. The full engine list is on llmrefs.com.

Breadth of tracking or depth of follow through

LLMrefs is tracking only. It tells you which prompts name you, which name a competitor, and how that changes. It does not listen to social platforms, does not draft, and does not post. For a founder who already runs a content calendar, that is a clean measurement layer.

Oetzi covers five engines: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok, and Google AI. That is fewer. What it does with each answer is the trade. A share of model check lists who was named instead of you and the threads and pages each answer cited. Those citations are the pressure point, so Oetzi drafts two reply variants in your voice for any cited thread and one to three variants of a post. Nothing publishes without your approval.

Prompt volume is measured differently too. LLMrefs includes 500 prompts. Oetzi charges two credits per question across every engine, and the $49 plan includes 100 credits. That means Oetzi is built around a smaller prompt set of the buying questions that matter, not a broad sweep. Which you need depends on whether you are mapping a category or working a shortlist.

Oetzi also listens on seven social platforms with intent scoring, and every capability is reachable through MCP, REST, and a CLI. LLMrefs does not publish agent access.

Pick LLMrefs if

• You want 11 or more engines tracked and five is not enough for your market.
• 500 prompts a month is the volume you need and one flat plan is how you want to pay.
• You have a writer or you are one, and you only need the measurement.
• You want a trial before you commit.

Pick Oetzi if

• Five engines covers where your buyers ask, and you want the cited threads surfaced afterward.
• You want a reply and a post drafted in your voice, waiting for your approval.
• You want social listening with intent scores in the same plan.
• You run agents and need quotes and spend caps on every paid call.

Questions

Is LLMrefs cheaper than Oetzi?

No, at list price. LLMrefs' single plan is priced above Oetzi's $49 a month, and the table above shows the current figure. LLMrefs includes 500 prompts across 11 or more engines for that price, so per prompt it can be the cheaper way to track a wide set. Oetzi's $49 includes 100 credits that also pay for drafting and listening.

How many prompts can I track in Oetzi?

As many as your credits allow. Each question costs two credits across all five engines per check. The 100 included credits cover 50 question checks a month if you spend on nothing else, and top-ups are $1 a credit. Most founders track a short list of buying questions and spend the rest on replies and posts. See pricing.

Does LLMrefs draft replies or posts?

No. LLMrefs tracks and reports, nothing more. It shows which prompts name you and which name competitors across its engines. Writing the reply in a cited thread or the post that earns the next citation is left to you. Oetzi drafts both and waits for approval.