About
Who publishes Cited·Index
The neutral index of AI-visibility & GEO tools.
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The short version
- Compare tools with sourced pricing, features and practical trade-offs.
- Research stays independent of payment. Read how we research and order listings.
- Entries are researched from primary sources and dated. Anything we cannot source, we leave out rather than guess.
- If we have something wrong, tell us and we will correct it and say that we did.
Who we are
Cited·Index is published and edited by CitedIndex Editorial, independently of the tools it covers. Correspondence reaches a person at hello@citedindex.com.
CitedIndex Editorial is accountable for what this index publishes, including corrections and delisting decisions.
What this index is for
CitedIndex helps you choose with the details that matter: what each tool costs, where it fits, what it does not do and the sources behind those findings.
Each listing includes strengths and limitations so you can judge the fit for your own needs.
How an entry gets here
We discover entries through research and public submissions. Both must meet our publication standards.
- We found it. Most entries are ones we went looking for. Because nobody asked us to write about them, we will not publish one sourced only to that company's own pages. Somebody independent has to have written about them too.
- Someone submitted it. Anyone can submit for review, free. We research the submission before deciding whether to publish and explain our decision.
Every entry must meet the same research and sourcing requirements before publication. Read the methodology andeditorial policy for our standards.
How this index is made
CitedIndex is researched and drafted by automated systems working against a published standard, with the standard itself, the quality gate and the editorial decisions owned by people.
Listings link to their sources and show when the facts were checked. Automated research can miss context or make mistakes. Confirmed errors are corrected, with material changes recorded publicly.
How we pay for it
CitedIndex earns from advertising, paid listing placement, paid express review (which includes a followed website link and, optionally, a sponsored article) and email digest sponsorship. Commercial links are disclosed on the page where they appear. Our methodology explains how we keep research independent.
If you ever find a place where that is not obvious, tell us — we will fix it.
Reaching us
Corrections, delisting requests, data requests, security reports and everything else have their own routes on the contact page. The general address is hello@citedindex.com.
Why we split the category four ways
"AI visibility" gets used as one word for four different jobs, and a buyer picking a tool needs to know which one they're actually solving. AI visibility monitoring tools tell you whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and AI Overviews already mention or cite your brand today: watching and measuring, changing nothing. AI rank tracking tools go a layer deeper and track your position and share of voice inside those answers over time, across engines and prompts, the way a classic rank tracker does for the blue links.GEO and content optimization tools are the ones that act: they shape a site's content, structure and entities so an answer engine is more likely to pick it in the first place. Citation services are agencies that run that same GEO work as a managed program instead of software you operate yourself.
It matters here specifically because a monitoring tool and a GEO tool solve opposite halves of the same problem, and vendors on both sides often use identical marketing language to describe themselves. We tag every listing with which job it does, and for the monitoring and tracking tools, which of ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Copilot and Google AI Overviews it actually covers. That single fact decides whether a tool is useful to a given buyer, more than its price or interface does.
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