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Shopify vs EcomIndex
Keep using Shopify's AI tools. They show how your products do inside Shopify's own catalog. EcomIndex shows the rest of the shelf: which brands AI answers name instead of you, across three engines, and which websites those answers cite.
Side by side
| What you want to know | Shopify, built in | EcomIndex |
|---|---|---|
| Sends your products to AI shopping channels | Yes. Agentic Storefronts lists eligible products in AI channels run by OpenAI, Microsoft, Google and Meta, through Shopify Catalog, on by default for eligible stores. | No, that's Shopify's job. The Playbook checks the catalog data and policies it sends. |
| Reports AI-channel sales and orders | Yes. Agentic home shows sales, orders and sessions for each AI channel. | No. We count answers, not sales. |
| Shows searches where your products appeared | Yes, for AI-channel searches that run through Shopify Catalog. It also previews the top 10 Catalog results for any search, and lists top AI searches in your category where you don't appear yet. | For 20 buyer questions written for your store, whether each engine's answers name you, three runs each. |
| Shows which brands AI answers name instead of you | Within Shopify Catalog only. The preview ranks Catalog products, not the brands an AI answer names from across the web. | Yes. Every brand the answers name, on Shopify or not, with each engine's count. |
| Shows which websites AI answers cite | No. | Yes. The review sites, forums and retailers the answers cite, most cited first, with the pages underneath. |
| Scores your product listings | Yes. Listing quality from five signals: descriptions, images, verified reviews, variants and policies. | The Playbook checks your product pages, structured data, policies and catalog data, and puts the fixes in order. |
| Gives AI agents your store facts | Yes. The knowledge base drafts facts such as your return window from your pages, and you publish the ones agents may use. | The Playbook checks those facts against your policy pages. |
| Writes titles and product descriptions | Yes. Sidekick suggests titles and meta descriptions, and the product editor can draft descriptions. | Get on the shelf picks the pages that matter from your data and rewrites them from verified facts. Nothing goes live until you approve it. |
| Reads your Google Search Console | No. | Yes, in the Playbook: the searches where your pages sit just off the top, and the pages shown often but rarely clicked. |
| Price | Included in your Shopify plan. | $99 or $750 once, or $1,750 a month. |
Shopify and EcomIndex
Keep using these
- Agentic Storefronts, so your products can show up in AI shopping channels.
- Agentic home, for AI-channel sales and the Catalog searches your products appear in.
- The knowledge base, for the store facts AI agents read.
- Merchant Center's AI performance insights, for your share of Google's AI shopping results.
What EcomIndex adds
- The competitors AI answers name across up to three engines, counted out of every completed answer.
- The websites those answers cite, so you know who to pitch.
- What the answers repeat from your top competitors' pages, and whether yours says it (Playbook).
- A 90-day plan built on your Search Console, or the work done for you.
How they work together
The Playbook asks Shopify buyers for three screenshots from Sales channels > Agentic: AI-channel performance, Catalog eligibility and listing quality. Your plan then starts from what Shopify already shows you.
Its checks cover what Shopify can't see from inside your admin: the AI crawlers your robots.txt lets in, the answers that name your competitors, and the sites those answers trust.
Start with a report
- AI Shelf ReportWho AI names in your category, and the sources the answers cite.
- $99
- Report and PlaybookThe report, plus your Search Console, site and catalog checks, and a 90-day plan.
- $750
- Get on the shelfWe do the work: pages rewritten from verified facts, buying guides and disclosed outreach.
- $1,750 a month
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Checked on Nov 4, 2026. Platforms change these features often. If something here is out of date, email hello@ecomindex.ai.
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