A First Page Sage alternative for devtool and tech companies

Literally.dev vs First Page Sage

Q: How much does First Page Sage cost?

First Page Sage does not publish pricing on its service pages as of August 2026; it says all engagements run month to month. Literally.dev publishes its price: $4,990 a month with a 3-month minimum.

Q: Does First Page Sage measure AI visibility?

Its site reports a 68% average increase in client mentions in AI results but does not describe the tool or method. Literally.dev runs its own pipeline and shows you the baseline and the re-measure.

Q: What does First Page Sage's GEO service include?

List creation and optimization, database inclusion, website authority, review management, achievement publicization, and social sentiment monitoring. Literally.dev's AEO is engineer-written content placed where AI assistants read, measured before and after.

Q: Is First Page Sage right for a devtool company?

First Page Sage serves 48 industries with an enterprise-heavy client list. Literally.dev works only with devtool and tech companies, and every writer is an engineer.

Q: Should we build an in-house AEO team or hire an agency?

An in-house hire gives you one generalist. An agency gives you a team, the tooling, and the publication network on day one. The people best qualified to write technical content are engineers, and most of them would rather build product. We bring the engineers, measure where AI ranks you, and place the content where AI assistants read. You keep your team on the product.

Q: Self-serve AEO tools or a full-service agency?

A self-serve tool shows you where you stand. It does not write the content, get it published, or get it cited. We run our own measurement pipeline and pair it with engineer-written content and distribution, then re-measure at day 85 so you see what moved. If you already have writers and distribution, a tool may be enough. If you need the work done, you need the agency.

Pick First Page Sage for an SEO-led lead generation program across industries. Pick Literally.dev if your buyers are developers and you want AI visibility measured on your own questions.

Literally.dev

Literally.dev is AEO-first for devtool and tech companies: engineers write, our own pipeline measures AI visibility, and distribution with guaranteed placements is built in, for $4,990 a month.

First Page Sage

First Page Sage is a 17-year SEO agency that says it launched the first GEO service in May 2023, with in-house writers, month-to-month terms, and enterprise logos from Salesforce to Verizon. It does not publish pricing.

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Andrei Gaspar, Founder of Literally.dev

What each costs

Both prices below come from public pages. Where a vendor does not publish a price, we say so instead of guessing.

Literally.dev

$4,990 / month

3-month minimum engagement

Published. The price is for The 90-Day AI Recommendation Sprint: 10 engineer-written articles a month, distribution, a guaranteed publication and newsletter feature, and a live AEO dashboard.

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First Page Sage

Not published

Month to month

The site says everything runs month to month with no long-term contracts. There is no pricing page as of August 2026.

Verified against First Page Sage's published pages on 2026-08-28. Prices change. Check their site before you decide.

Side by side

Facts from each vendor’s own site. A line means the vendor does not say, not that the answer is no.

Capability	Literally.dev	First Page Sage
Team
Who writes the content	Hand-vetted engineers, the top 2.7% of experts	In-house writers, researchers, and conversion optimizers
Where the team is based	Oslo, Norway; core team in Europe	—
Built for	DevTool and tech companies	48 industries; enterprise-heavy
Content
Content volume	10 articles a month in the Sprint	6 to 7 pieces a month
Technical documentation	Yes	—
AEO and measurement
Named AEO service	Yes	GEO, launched May 2023
AEO baseline audit before work starts	Yes	—
AI visibility measurement	Owned pipeline (xEO), live dashboard	—
Results re-measured and reported	Yes	—
Distribution
Publishing and distribution handled	Yes	Outside PR placements, list and database outreach
Guaranteed monthly publication and newsletter features	Yes	—
Commercial
Pricing published	$4,990 a month	No
Minimum term	3 months	Month to month
Performance guarantee	We keep working free until the numbers move	—
Time to start	5 days or less	Month one is strategy; content starts month two

Verified against First Page Sage's published pages on 2026-08-28. Prices change. Check their site before you decide.

Who should pick which?

Pick First Page Sage if

You want an SEO-led lead generation program from a large, long-tenured agency.
You are in an industry outside tech and want month-to-month terms.
GEO as list, database, and reputation work fits your brand.

Pick Literally.dev if

Your buyers are developers and you want engineers writing the content.
You want AI visibility measured on your own buyer questions, with a dashboard and a day-85 re-measure.
You want a published price and a guaranteed monthly feature in a tech publication and newsletter.
You want a team built for devtool and tech companies only.

What our clients measured

Higher Conversion

5×

AppSignal readers converted at five times the rate of their old content. Measured in 90 days.

* AppSignal engagement, 2026

Seen by AI

4.4×

QA.tech mentions in AI search grew 4.4× after we took over their content.

* QA.tech engagement, 2026

Launches That Land

Product of the Day on Product Hunt for a QA.tech launch we backed with content.

* QA.tech launch, Product Hunt

Chris — Head of Marketing, QA.tech

Antonija — Content Lead, Aviator

Armend — Founder, GlassFlow

“I worked with 5-8 content/marketing agencies and you guys are the best experience I ever had.”

Chris — Head of Marketing, QA.tech

The 90-Day AI Recommendation Sprint

In 90 days, when your buyers ask AI what to use, your name comes up. Our analytics prove it.

Baseline audit: where AI ranks you today, on 25–50 real buyer queries
Live AEO dashboard — watch your rankings move
10 articles a month from the top 2.7% of experts — hand-vetted engineers, posted where AI reads
Guaranteed feature every month in a top tech publication with 4M+ readers
Guaranteed feature every month in a major tech newsletter
A 90-minute marketing workshop to nail your strategy and titles
A content strategy session every two weeks
Day 85: we re-run your baseline and show you exactly what moved
BONUS: you join our client network — amazing tech companies that promote each other with guest posts, backlinks, and mentions