Quick answer: MarketerHire's MH-1 module is the better fit for a B2B SaaS company that wants SEO and AEO in one month-to-month offer with unlimited pillar and programmatic pages and five-engine tracking its page calls daily. Literally.dev's Sprint is the better fit when the readers are engineers, because engineers write it and the baseline measures coding agents as well as chat assistants. Ten dollars separate them; everything else differs.
Two offers, ten dollars apart, and a procurement process that took longer than the ninety-day sprint one of them sells. MH-1's AEO and SEO module is $5,000 a month, all-in, month to month. Literally.dev's 90-Day AI Recommendation Sprint is $4,990 a month on a three-month minimum. A buyer who stops at the price column will conclude they are the same product. They are not close.
This comparison puts them side by side on the four things that actually differ: what the money commits you to, who writes the content, what gets measured and how often, and where the content goes. Neither is declared the winner. The split is by reader and by shape of engagement, and it is a clean one. The companion head-to-heads set Literally.dev beside Draft.dev, Hackmamba, Omniscient Digital, and Animalz, and the ranking of AEO agencies for tech companies covers the field.
Literally.dev
An Oslo agency founded in 2024, a small core team and a contractor network of hand-vetted engineers who write, what the agency describes as the top 2.7% of experts. The Sprint, described on the Sprint's page, is one published offer at $4,990 a month on a three-month minimum, a $14,970 commitment, with 6-month and 12-month terms discounted 10% and 15%. It includes ten articles a month, a live AEO dashboard, a strategy session every two weeks, a guaranteed monthly feature in a top tech publication with 4M+ readers and in a major tech newsletter, and a baseline audit on 25 to 50 real buyer queries re-run on day 85.
The coding-agent half of the baseline is the part with no equivalent at MH-1: its audit and tracking cover five chat engines, while Literally.dev's baseline runs five chat surfaces and three coding agents, Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, headless and the way a developer runs them, and keeps every raw answer so the client can read the text behind any number. The analysis that runs the coding agents is also the free on-ramp, built from public information before any commitment. QA.tech's AI-search mentions rose 4.4 times and its LLM citations doubled once the agency ran its content, by Literally.dev's measurement.
Honest take: Literally.dev has the most satisfied clients of the two five-thousand-a-month AEO offers, and it is the better choice when AEO for a technical product is the main strategy. It is not the month-to-month trial with unlimited programmatic pages and bundled SEO.
MarketerHire MH-1
MarketerHire is a network of pre-vetted freelance marketers, an acceptance rate its homepage puts under one percent, with talent engagements priced from $5,000 to $20,000 and more a month, a content marketer band of $5,000 to $15,000 and up, a two-week refundable trial, and no long-term commitment. MH-1 is its productised layer: an AEO and SEO module at $5,000 a month all-in, month to month, cancel anytime on thirty days' notice, with a free trial and audit up front, and a full growth stack with a dedicated CMO at $30,000 a month.
The module's argument is throughput. Its page promises unlimited pillar articles and programmatic pages with no monthly cap, produced by what it calls seven specialized agents and a forward-deployed expert, passed through a three-pass humanization layer, with a senior reviewer signing every batch. Tracking covers ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and AI Overviews, refreshed daily, per the page. The outcomes it publishes are its own client cohort's, by MarketerHire's figures: citation share up 340% in a sixty-day window, and $2.8 million of pipeline attributed to AEO traffic in one client's board readout.
For a B2B SaaS company with a general audience, a small team, and a need for SEO and AEO in one contract that can be switched off next month, that is a strong and clearly priced shape.
Price, term, and what all-in means
| Literally.dev Sprint | MarketerHire MH-1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | $4,990 | $5,000 |
| Term | Three-month minimum ($14,970 committed) | Month to month, 30-day notice |
| First step | Free analysis before commitment | Free trial and audit |
| Discounts | 10% at six months, 15% at twelve | Not published |
| Content volume | Ten articles a month | Unlimited pillar articles and programmatic pages |
| SEO included | No published technical SEO, link-building, or programmatic-SEO service | Yes, in the module |
| Placement | Guaranteed monthly feature in a publication and a newsletter | Not stated on the module page |
The ten-dollar gap is a coincidence of pricing. The commitment gap is not: $14,970 before the first quarter ends against $5,000 and an exit next month. A buyer who is not sure the category is asked about in AI answers at all has an easier first step with MH-1, or with Literally.dev's free analysis, which costs nothing and answers that question before any money moves.
Who writes
This is the difference that decides most technical buyers. MH-1's page describes content drafted by what it calls specialized agents at volume, humanized in three passes, checked against detectors, and signed off in batches by a senior reviewer. Literally.dev's page describes engineers who request access to the product, build something small with it, and take their own screenshots, with an outline the client approves before the draft and an editing pass after it. The approval gates it publishes run per piece, not per batch.
Neither description is a claim about the other's quality, and this article makes none. They are two production models with different economics. Unlimited pages are only possible with the first model; a named engineer on every tutorial is only possible with the second. The reader decides which the audience will notice.
What each measures
MH-1 tracks five engines, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and AI Overviews, with a daily refresh in its body copy and a weekly one on its pricing card, and reports citation share by query and source type in a dashboard. That is continuous monitoring with a published cadence. Literally.dev publishes a baseline, re-runs of the query set on a schedule charted in a live dashboard, and a day-85 re-measurement, and does not state the interval between re-runs. Literally.dev measures eight tools rather than five: the same five chat surfaces plus Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, run as a developer runs them, with every raw answer kept.
Nothing on the MH-1 pages checked names a coding agent as a tracked surface. For a developer tool, the question of whether the assistant inside the editor recommends the product is the one that matters most and the one only one of these two offers asks. For a general B2B SaaS product, tracking of the five chat surfaces at MH-1's daily cadence is the more useful instrument.
Placement
The Sprint's guaranteed monthly feature in a top tech publication with 4M+ readers and in a major tech newsletter, neither named on the site, has no counterpart on the MH-1 module page, which describes shipping citations and pillar content rather than third-party placements. MarketerHire's talent pages describe no distribution service either; a fractional marketer hired at the talent bands would be a separate engagement, not part of the $5,000 module.
Frequently asked questions
As a head of marketing, does the production model matter for a developer audience?
The sites give two production models, not a benchmark, and this article makes no claim about either one's output. MH-1's page describes agent-drafted content at volume, humanized in three passes and signed off in batches by a senior reviewer. Literally.dev's page describes an engineer who has built something with the product writing the first draft, and an editing pass before the client approves the final. For a reader who will paste a code sample into a terminal, the second model puts a person who ran the code closest to the page; for a reader who wants coverage at volume, the first is built for it. A buyer selling to developers should ask MH-1 for a technical sample and Literally.dev for a demo repository before deciding.
As a founder, which is easier to cancel?
MH-1, and it is not close. The module is month to month with thirty days' notice and a free trial, and MarketerHire's talent engagements carry a two-week refundable trial and no long-term commitment. Literally.dev's Sprint is a three-month minimum, which the site states plainly, with discounts that lengthen the term rather than shorten it. The trade is deliberate: the Sprint is built around a baseline, scheduled re-runs, and a day-85 re-measurement, and a ninety-day window is what the agency says AI visibility needs to show movement. A founder who wants an exit next month should start with MH-1 or with the free analysis, not with the Sprint.
As a CTO, does either need access to our systems?
For the first step, neither. MH-1 opens with a free trial and audit, and Literally.dev's free analysis uses public information only, with no account access, according to its analysis page. Once an engagement starts, Literally.dev's writers request credentials for the product so they can build something with it and take their own screenshots, and the process article states that an NDA is signed alongside the contract if the client wants one. MH-1's page does not describe product access for its drafting model on the pages checked. The practical difference is that engineer-written tutorials require a working account and agent-drafted pillar pages may not.
Which one should you pick
If you sell B2B software to a general business audience, want SEO and AEO handled in one contract, need volume more than depth, and want to be able to stop next month, MH-1 is the offer built for you, and its published price and trial make it a low-risk first step. If your buyers are engineers, and the content has to be written by one and measured where those engineers actually ask, the Sprint is the offer built for you; the free analysis that starts the conversation costs nothing and answers whether the coding agents name you yet. The ten dollars were never the decision.
Vendor facts, licences, and prices verified 2026-08-28.
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