AIReadinessAIQ vs Surfacly
Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Oct 13, 2026 for AIReadinessAIQ, Nov 10, 2026 for Surfacly.
The short answer
- Both list a free plan. Paid plans start at $4.99/month for AIReadinessAIQ and $49/month for Surfacly.
- Surfacly lists 13 features AIReadinessAIQ’s listing doesn’t mention, including Analytics, Automations, Content analysis.
Head to head
- United States
Free
- · 10 sample AI credits on install
- · AI Readiness Score on every scan
- · Live agent preview and llms.txt
- · Unlimited basic scans (free)
- · Upgrade for monthly AI credits
Starter
- · +$0.15 per extra AI credit
- · 90 AI credits included per month
- · AI fixes for titles, meta, FAQs
- · Bulk fixes across your catalog
- · Everything in Free, plus
Growth
- · +$0.10 per extra AI credit
- · 260 AI credits included per month
- · Channel readiness for AI shoppers
- · Everything in Starter, plus
- · Schema embed and structured data
Pro
- · +$0.07 per extra AI credit
- · 525 AI credits included per month
- · Best rate for high-volume stores
- · Everything in Growth, plus
Free
- · 1 store
- · 30 credits / month
- · ChatGPT only
- · Up to 25 SKUs
- · Weekly audit
Starter
- · 1 store
- · 200 credits / month
- · All 4 AI channels
- · Email support
- · Up to 250 SKUs
- · Weekly auto-audit
Growth
- · 1,000 credits / month
- · 5 seats included
- · All 4 channels
- · Daily audit + AI fix drafts
- · Up to 1,500 SKUs
- · Up to 10 workspaces
Scale
- · 4,000 credits / month
- · All channels + new ones first
- · Dedicated support engineer
- · Hourly audit · auto-publish
- · Unlimited seats · SSO
- · Unlimited workspaces
Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.
See every featureAIReadinessAIQ measures how well AI shopping assistants can read your products and fixes what they cannot. Get an AI Readiness Score per product, then use AI to generate clearer titles, descriptions, alt text, meta tags, and FAQs from your own data. You review and edit every suggestion before it saves. Designed to help ChatGPT, Gemini, and similar assistants understand your catalog.
Shoppers increasingly ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Copilot for product recommendations—but AI assistants skip products they can't read. Surfacly scans every product and scores how well AI can understand it, then shows the exact issues holding each one back.
- AI Readiness Score shows how readable each product is to AI shopping assistants
- AI generates titles, descriptions, alt text, meta tags, and FAQs you approve
- Fix one product or apply the same fix in bulk across your whole catalog
- Add Product and FAQ structured data and publish llms.txt for AI assistants
- Score every product on how well AI assistants can read it
- See the exact issues keeping each product out of AI answers
- Apply AI-written fixes for titles, descriptions, and meta tags
- Add image alt text so products are described for AI and shoppers
All the numbers
Every figure, side by side
A green dot marks the app ahead on a measured figure. Estimates, gaps and apps that leave no storefront trace never take the lead.
Adoption
| Measure |  AIReadinessAIQ |  Surfacly |
|---|---|---|
| Detected stores | Not published | 3 |
| Net store change, 28 days | 0 | 0 |
| Stores added, 28 days | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Big-brand share | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Top store categories | Not published | Health & Beauty, Home & Garden |
| Top store countries | Not published | United States |
Reviews
| Measure | AIReadinessAIQ | Surfacly |
|---|---|---|
| App Store rating | Not published | Not published |
| App Store reviews | Not published | Not published |
| New reviews, 28 days | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Reviewers a year or more in | Not enough data | Not enough data |
Pricing
| Measure | AIReadinessAIQ | Surfacly |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Lowest paid monthly plan | $4.99/month(ahead) | $49/month |
| Longest free trial | Not listed | 7 days |
| Plans listed | 4 | 4 |
Listing
| Measure | AIReadinessAIQ | Surfacly |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify category rank | #930 | #318(ahead) |
| Shopify App Charts | Not on this week’s charts | Not on this week’s charts |
| Built for Shopify | No | No |
| Launched | Jun 29, 2026 | Sep 22, 2026 |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Developer | AIQCollective | somotomox |
FAQ
AIReadinessAIQ and Surfacly: common questions
- Is AIReadinessAIQ or Surfacly cheaper?
- Both list a free plan. Paid plans start at $4.99/month for AIReadinessAIQ and $49/month for Surfacly. Shoplist compares base prices only between monthly plans in the same currency; usage charges and annual plans vary, so check each plan’s limits.
- What features does each app list that the other doesn’t?
- AIReadinessAIQ lists 1 the others don’t mention, such as Bulk editing. Surfacly lists 13 the others don’t mention, such as Analytics, Automations, Content analysis, Content optimization. A feature missing from a listing may still be supported; this compares what each App Store listing says.
- Where does this comparison’s data come from?
- Shoplist crawls Shopify storefronts to detect which apps each store runs, and reads each app’s Shopify App Store listing for reviews, pricing, features and integrations. Store counts are as of Oct 13, 2026 for AIReadinessAIQ, Nov 10, 2026 for Surfacly; estimated figures are labeled.
How Shoplist compares apps
Store counts come from Shoplist’s crawl of Shopify storefronts, which detects the apps each store runs; they are as of Oct 13, 2026 for AIReadinessAIQ, Nov 10, 2026 for Surfacly. Reviews, ratings, plans, features and integrations come from each app’s Shopify App Store listing. 28-day figures are labeled when estimated, and a figure that is missing or estimated never decides who leads. Read the methodology.