Summary
AI Sightline is a self-serve AI visibility platform that scans six answer engines for brand mentions, citations, sentiment and competitor share of voice. It adds server-side AI traffic analytics and recommendations ranked by predicted score lift.
- Best for
- A team that wants a free, low-friction first look at AI answer visibility, and that specifically needs server-side AI referral traffic attribution rather than just mention tracking.
- Not for
- Buyers who need Grok, DeepSeek or Meta AI coverage that AI Sightline does not track, or who want a long independent review history before committing budget.
- From
- Freethen $29.95/month
- Free tier
- Yes2 AI platforms (ChatGPT, Google AIO), 3 prompts, 10 keywords per brand, 1 brand, 1 seat, 7-day scan cycle, 100 API calls/mo, read-only MCP, 10,000 AI Traffic pageviews/mo, 7-day data retention. Permanent, no credit card.
What it does
- Monitors AI answers
- YesScans brand prompts on an automatic per-tier cycle and scores mention presence, quality and position per engine.
AI visibility monitoring measures how your brand appears when people ask AI assistants for recommendations.
aisightline.com/faq - Optimises your content
- YesAnalyses your existing pages and schema, then names the specific page-level change to make, ranked by predicted lift.
Our engine ranks actions by predicted score lift and effort so you always know what to fix next.
aisightline.com/features - Generates content
- NoThe published 22-row tier matrix covers only schema and citation analysis; no tier offers drafting or writing of new content.
Every feature, every tier. 22 rows, one table. Numbers resolve from our live tier config; no doc drift possible.
aisightline.com/pricing - Publishes to your site
- NoNothing in the full tier matrix or integrations list pushes content to a CMS; recommendations are handed to your own writer or developer.
Ship the work Hand off to your writer, dev, or agency. The portal tracks who shipped what.
aisightline.com/for/smb - Technical AEO
- PartlySchema analysis is tiered (none on Free, Basic on Starter, autogeneration only on Business and above) and it flags blocked bots and missing discovery files.
New recommendation types for blocked bots, thin content, missing discovery files, and underperforming AI landing pages.
aisightline.com - Done-for-you service
- NoSoftware only, sold self-serve by a solo founder; the vendor markets the absence of sales calls rather than done-for-you work.
Public pricing, self-serve No sales call. No procurement cycle. Click Start Pro, pay with a credit card, scan on Monday.
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Answer engines
- ChatGPT
- YesChatGPT is one of the two engines scanned on the permanent Free plan and is included on every tier above it.
Free gets 2 (ChatGPT + Google AIO).
aisightline.com/faq - Perplexity
- PartlyPerplexity is the most gated engine: it only appears on Business at $289.95/mo and on Agency, not on Pro.
Business and Agency add Perplexity to cover all 6.
aisightline.com/faq - Gemini
- PartlyGemini is excluded from the Free plan and unlocks on Starter, the cheapest paid tier, alongside Copilot.
Starter adds 2 more (Copilot + Gemini).
aisightline.com/faq - Google AI Overviews
- YesGoogle AI Overviews is scanned under the name Google AIO and, like ChatGPT, is available from the Free tier up.
Six: ChatGPT, Google AIO (AI Overviews), Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot.
aisightline.com/faq - Google AI Mode
- NoThe vendor enumerates its coverage as exactly six platforms and Google AI Mode is not among them on any tier.
Six: ChatGPT, Google AIO (AI Overviews), Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot. Free gets 2 (ChatGPT + Google AIO). Starter adds 2 more (Copilot +…
aisightline.com/faq - Claude
- PartlyClaude is gated to the $149.95 Pro tier and above; Free and Starter buyers cannot scan it at all.
Pro adds Claude.
aisightline.com/faq - Microsoft Copilot
- PartlyCopilot is not scanned on Free; it arrives with the $29.95 Starter tier as one of the two engines that plan adds.
Starter adds 2 more (Copilot + Gemini).
aisightline.com/faq - Grok
- NoGrok is absent from the vendor's own complete six-platform inventory and from the per-tier platform rows in the pricing matrix.
Six: ChatGPT, Google AIO (AI Overviews), Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot. Free gets 2 (ChatGPT + Google AIO). Starter adds 2 more (Copilot +…
aisightline.com/faq - DeepSeek
- NoDeepSeek appears nowhere in the six-platform inventory nor in any tier column of the published feature matrix.
Six: ChatGPT, Google AIO (AI Overviews), Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot. Free gets 2 (ChatGPT + Google AIO). Starter adds 2 more (Copilot +…
aisightline.com/faq - Meta AI
- NoThe FAQ inventory of six platforms omits Meta AI, although the site-wide meta description still advertises it; see notes for the contradiction.
Six: ChatGPT, Google AIO (AI Overviews), Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot. Free gets 2 (ChatGPT + Google AIO). Starter adds 2 more (Copilot +…
aisightline.com/faq - Coverage in the vendor’s words
- YesCoverage is six engines total but rationed by tier: two on Free, four on Starter, five on Pro, all six only from Business up.
Six: ChatGPT, Google AIO (AI Overviews), Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot. Free gets 2 (ChatGPT + Google AIO). Starter adds 2 more (Copilot +…
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What it reports
- Names the cited sources
- PartlyCitation analysis is tiered — Basic on Free, Full from Starter, trends on Business and export only on Agency — and results are labelled citation, reference or passing.
Full + trends + export
aisightline.com/pricing - Competitor tracking
- YesUnlimited competitors per brand on every tier, with share-of-voice by topic cluster and automatic gap analysis on each scan.
Automatic gap analysis surfaces queries competitors win where you are invisible.
aisightline.com/features - Brand sentiment
- PartlyA sentiment (BSI) score ships on every tier, but its trend line needs Starter and competitor BSI needs Pro; no attribute-level perception breakdown is documented.
Sentiment (BSI) score included on every tier
aisightline.com/features - Recommendations
- YesIt prescribes rather than only reports: each action carries a predicted score lift and effort rating, with an impact tracker comparing before and after.
Each comes with a predicted score lift and effort rating. Ship the top 3, wait for the next scan cycle, watch the score move.
aisightline.com/faq - AI crawler analytics
- PartlyAI bot crawls are tracked server-side on every plan, but the number of crawlers is capped by tier — 2 on Free rising to all 17 only on Agency.
Server-side tracking of AI bot crawls, AI referral clicks, and discovery-file activity.
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Not established: Wrong answers about you
Plans and signing up
- Prompt or credit allowance
- YesPrompts are distinct tracked queries — 3 on Free, 20 Starter, 75 Pro, 200 Business, 400 Agency — pooled across all brands on the subscription.
Free is 3 prompts / 10 keywords, Starter 20 / 25, Pro 75 / 100, Business 200 / 300, Agency 400 / 750.
aisightline.com/faq - Projects or brands
- YesMultiple brands live under one subscription, from a single brand on Free up to fifty on Agency, with quotas pooled across them.
Free covers 1 brand. Starter 3, Pro 10, Business 25, Agency 50. Quotas pool across brands so you allocate where they matter.
aisightline.com/faq - How often it checks
- YesCadence is set by tier on an oldest-first rolling dispatcher: every 7 days on Free, every 3 on Starter, daily from Pro upward.
Every prompt is re-scanned on an automatic cycle based on your tier: 7 days on Free, 3 days on Starter, daily on Pro and above.
aisightline.com/faq - Card required to start
- NoThe Free plan is a standing $0 tier with real scanning and takes no card; paid tiers are a separate Stripe checkout decision.
No. The Free plan is permanent, not a trial. Real scanning across 2 AI platforms, 3 prompts, 10 keywords, 100 API calls per month.
aisightline.com/faq - Self-serve signup
- YesEvery tier including the $549.95 Agency plan is bought through Stripe checkout without a demo, quote or contract.
Yes. Click Start Agency on /pricing. Stripe checkout, $549.95/mo, live immediately. No quarterly procurement cycle, no custom contract required.
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Not established: Countries
Access and integrations
- API
- YesA Bearer-authenticated REST API ships on all five tiers with published monthly call ceilings and rate-limit headers, keys self-issued in settings.
Yes. Free gets 100 calls/mo, Starter 500, Pro 2,500, Business 15,000, Agency 50,000. REST endpoints, JSON, Bearer auth.
aisightline.com/faq - MCP server
- PartlyFree and Starter get only a read-only subset; the full 37-tool server needs Pro, and it runs as a local stdio process rather than a hosted endpoint.
Pro and above get 30+ MCP tools. Free and Starter get a read-only subset. MCP runs as a local stdio process today (config in /for/developers); a…
aisightline.com/faq - BI export
- YesThe vendor names Looker and Snowflake as REST API destinations, and CSV export is listed on every tier for reporting.
Looker via REST API
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Every fact below comes from the vendor. Nothing here is independently corroborated yet.
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Answer-engine source observations0 of 4
0 of 4 collected answers have source URL/title annotations naming CitedIndex. These are the latest stored observations per engine, not current consumer-UI results. They do not measure product mentions or establish that a source supports a claim.
- ChatGPTNot assessable — no source annotationsModel: gpt-4o-mini · Collected on · 0 source annotationsQuery:
AI Sightline alternatives
- ClaudeCitedIndex domain not found in observed source annotationsModel: claude-haiku-4-5 · Collected on · 6 source annotationsQuery:
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Other source hosts (up to 6): capterra.com, getapp.com.au, us.fitgap.com - GeminiCitedIndex domain not found in observed source annotationsModel: gemini-2.5-flash · Collected on · 41 source annotationsQuery:
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Other source hosts (up to 6): g2.com, kime.ai, aisightline.com, aibuildingtools.com, buildsync.ai, vitruvisoftware.com - PerplexityCitedIndex domain not found in observed source annotationsModel: sonar · Collected on · 20 source annotationsQuery:
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Other source hosts (up to 6): sightlineintelligence.com, g2.com, aisightline.com, capterra.com, stackshare.io, sourceforge.net
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