Tool
CiteCue
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Free · $99/mo Pro · $399/mo Agency · Enterprise custom · 5 engines · verified 2026-07-20
Editor’s choiceOur reasoning, and what we recommend instead for particular buyers, is set out in our disclosures.
How much does CiteCue cost?
Free · $99/mo Pro · $399/mo Agency · Enterprise custom. 7-day free trial on Pro and Agency.
| Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 1 brand project, 1 seat, 10 active prompts, 5 manual scans/mo, Gemini only, shareable audit reports. No card required. |
| Pro | $99/mo | 1 project, 3 seats, 50 active prompts, daily Gemini scans plus weekly full sweep, 10 manual scans/mo, ChatGPT + Gemini, 100 Assistant messages/mo, 10 AI page rewrites/mo. |
| Agency | $399/mo | 3 projects, 15 seats, 100 active prompts, daily scans, 25 manual scans/mo, ChatGPT + Gemini + Perplexity, 12 Agent Usability runs/mo, 15 Autopilot drafts/week, 100 AI page rewrites/mo, 1,000 Assistant messages/mo, Insights, Brand Risk and agent analytics. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Unlimited projects, continuous monitoring, all engines including Claude, SSO, white-label reports, API + MCP access, dedicated support and onboarding. |
Which AI engines does CiteCue cover?
CiteCue covers ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, AI Overviews. Engine access is tiered: Gemini on Free, ChatGPT + Gemini on Pro, Perplexity added on Agency, Claude and all engines on Enterprise.
- ChatGPT
- Gemini
- Perplexity
- Claude
- AI Overviews
Who is CiteCue for?
Teams that want the diagnosis and the fix in one place, at a price a single marketer can sign off.
The most complete AEO platform we have assessed. Measurement is competitive with tools costing three times as much, and the automation layer is a category ahead.
What are CiteCue’s strengths and limitations?
Strengths
- The only platform in this set that both diagnoses citation gaps and applies the fix, via Autopilot and AI Auto-Fix.
- Agent Usability testing is genuinely rare: an agent attempts real tasks on your site and reports the exact step where it fails.
- 13-factor citation analysis explains why a competitor won a citation instead of just recording that they did.
- The ✦ Assistant answers questions against your own scan data, which removes most of the export-to-spreadsheet work.
- Real free tier, and Pro is $99/mo against $295-$399 for comparable mid-market plans.
- MCP access on Enterprise means AI coding agents can query your visibility data directly.
- Reports average position when mentioned, not just whether you appeared - several competitors discard that distinction entirely.
- Crawler serve rate is included, so the technical half of AEO is measured rather than assumed.
- Brand Risk flags false claims AI makes about you explicitly, which is the highest return-per-hour fix available in AEO.
- Generates and serves llms.txt automatically, so the file cannot rot the way hand-maintained ones do.
- Agency tier covers three brand projects and fifteen seats at the same price as competitors' single-seat entry plans.
- Shareable audit reports on the free tier make it unusually easy to get internal buy-in before spending anything.
- Topic-level visibility rankings group prompts into subject areas, which makes the reporting legible to non-specialists.
- Pricing is fully published, including what each tier meters - no quote process required to evaluate.
Limitations
- Engine coverage is tiered rather than flat: Perplexity needs Agency, Claude needs Enterprise.
- Assistant messages and AI page rewrites are metered per tier rather than unlimited.
- Free plan runs Gemini only, so a genuine multi-engine picture needs a paid tier.
- API and MCP are Enterprise-only, so smaller teams cannot script against it.
Assessment of CiteCue
What can CiteCue do?
23 of 23 capabilities documented
More than any other platform we track — the next is Profound at 10. CiteCue is the only platform here documenting 11 of them: False-claim detection; Ranked citation-factor analysis; Agent task testing; Prioritised fix queue; Scheduled autopilot drafts; Automatic page variants; llms.txt generation and serving; Grounded AI assistant; Free plan; MCP server; White-label reports.
The same 23 capabilities we apply to every tool. A dash means we could not verify it in public documentation, not that it is absent — see our methodology.
| Capability | CiteCueOur pick |
|---|---|
| MeasurementWhat the tool can tell you about where you stand today. | |
| Prompt-level trackingTrack individual buyer questions rather than only aggregate scores. | Yes |
| Citation and source analysisWhich domains AI engines cite when answering your prompts. | Yes |
| Competitor benchmarkingSide-by-side visibility against named rivals. | Yes |
| Share of voiceYour proportion of brand mentions within a topic. | Yes |
| Sentiment analysisWhether AI describes you positively, neutrally or negatively. | Yes |
| False-claim detectionFlags incorrect statements AI makes about your brand. | Yes |
| AI crawler analyticsServer-log view of which AI crawlers reached which pages. | Yes |
| AI referral trafficSessions arriving from AI answer surfaces. | Yes |
| DiagnosisWhether the tool explains the cause, not just the symptom. | |
| Ranked citation-factor analysisAttributes a citation win or loss to specific, named factors. | Yes13-factor citation analysis |
| AI readiness auditCrawlability and render checks for AI user agents. | Yes |
| Agent task testingAn AI agent attempts real tasks on your site and reports where it fails. | YesAgent Usability: an agent attempts real tasks and reports where it gets stuck |
| Topic-level visibilityRankings grouped by subject area rather than single prompts. | Yes |
| ActionWhether the tool closes the loop or hands you a to-do list. | |
| Prioritised fix queueGaps converted into ordered, ready-to-apply changes. | Yes |
| Content draftingGenerates draft copy aimed at winning citations. | Yes |
| Scheduled autopilot draftsProduces fix drafts on a recurring cadence without being asked. | YesContent Fixes & Autopilot, from 15 drafts/week on Agency |
| Automatic page variantsServes AI-optimised variants of live pages. | YesAI Auto-Fix serves optimised page variants automatically |
| llms.txt generation and servingBuilds and hosts an llms.txt manifest for you. | YesGenerated and served as part of AI Auto-Fix |
| Grounded AI assistantA chat analyst answering questions against your own scan data. | Yes✦ Assistant, grounded in live scan data |
| PlatformHow well the tool fits an existing stack. | |
| Free planA no-cost tier, not just a time-limited trial. | Yes |
| API accessProgrammatic read access to your data. | YesEnterprise tier |
| MCP serverModel Context Protocol endpoint so AI coding agents can query the data directly. | YesEnterprise tier |
| White-label reportsClient-facing reports under your own brand. | YesEnterprise tier |
| SSOSingle sign-on for team access control. | YesEnterprise tier |
✓ Documented~ Partial✗ Absent– Not documentedA dash means we could not verify the capability publicly, not that the tool lacks it. See methodology.