# ApexGEO — GEO/AEO platform measuring brand mentions and citations across seven AI answer engines, with site audit and fixes. > Source: CitedIndex — https://citedindex.com/apexgeo (structured, researched, re-verified) > Facts last verified: 2026-09-20 ApexGEO is a generative-engine-optimisation platform that samples AI answer engines for brand mentions, citations and sentiment, audits a site for AI readability, and ranks fixes. It is built in Cape Town by Brightsphere Technologies and sold dashboard-first with a white-label agency mode. | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Website | https://apexgeo.app/ | | Price | from $19/month billed monthly, $15/month billed annually | | Free tier | Yes | Free plan at $0 with 1 brand, 1 user, 3 credits per month, Basic Monitoring and Basic Audit, no credit card required; separately, the homepage audit is free with no signup but limited to 5 audits per IP per month and cached 24h per domain. ## What it does **Monitors AI answers** · Yes — Core function: scheduled buyer-style prompts are dispatched to answer engines and every brand mention, citation, framing and competitor is recorded per prompt. > MONITOR — runs real buyer-style prompts against 7 core AI engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, DeepSeek, Google AI Overviews) on a schedule; records whether the brand is mentioned or cited > — https://apexgeo.app/llms.txt · Product section, MONITOR bullet **Optimises your content** · Yes — An audit module grades the existing site A+ to F on schema, entity clarity and structure, and a recommendation engine ranks the fixes to make. > AUDIT — technical site analysis for AI-readability: schema.org coverage, entity clarity, structure, metadata, accessibility; graded A+ to F. > — https://apexgeo.app/llms.txt · Product section, AUDIT bullet **Generates content** · Partly — A brand-voice Content Generator writes FAQs, how-tos and articles, but the pricing table lists it only from the Professional tier upward, not on Free, Starter or Growth. > Content Generator > — https://apexgeo.app/pricing · Plan cards, Professional feature list (absent from Free, Starter and Growth lists) **Publishes to your site** · Yes — The Create pillar carries a publish loop with a WordPress connector, hosted white-label blogs and an auto-publish mode, so drafts can go live without manual copy-paste. > CREATE — brand-voice content generation with a publish loop: WordPress connector, white-label hosted blogs, auto-publish autopilot. > — https://apexgeo.app/llms.txt · Product section, CREATE bullet **Technical AEO** · Yes — The technical audit covers schema and structured data, entity extraction and Core Web Vitals, with per-issue impact chips and fix trackers rather than a bare report. > Schema, structured data, entity extraction and Core Web Vitals — with per-issue impact chips, fix trackers, and percentile benchmarks. > — https://apexgeo.app/ · Section 07 Toolkit, Technical Site Audit card **Done-for-you service** · No — It is sold as self-serve software for agencies to operate themselves; the agency material describes the buyer's own operators running brands, not ApexGEO staff doing the work. > Operators manage all client brands from one account. Each brand has its own monitoring loop, score history, recommendation queue, and closed-loop fix-deployment audit trail. > — https://apexgeo.app/ai-visibility-tool-for-agencies · ApexGEO's agency operating model section ## Answer engines **ChatGPT** · Yes — ChatGPT is one of the seven core engines swept with category prompts, and grounded web search is used so citations reflect real retrieval. > ApexGEO sweeps 7 core AI engines — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, DeepSeek, Google AI Overviews — with category-relevant prompts and records every brand citation. > — https://apexgeo.app/what-is-apexgeo · What ApexGEO measures section **Perplexity** · Yes — Perplexity is named in the seven-engine core set, and Perplexity AI appears as a declared LLM-inference sub-processor receiving brand monitoring prompts. > ApexGEO sweeps 7 core AI engines — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, DeepSeek, Google AI Overviews — with category-relevant prompts and records every brand citation. > — https://apexgeo.app/what-is-apexgeo · What ApexGEO measures section **Gemini** · Yes — Gemini is in the core seven and is one of the four engines where monitoring runs real web-search grounding rather than recall from training. > ApexGEO now grounds monitoring in real web search on ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok, so a citation reflects what the engine actually retrieved rather than what it recalls from training. > — https://apexgeo.app/what-is-apexgeo · Beyond the score: grounding, traffic, and crawlers section **Google AI Overviews** · Yes — Google AI Overviews is sampled per tracked prompt for appearance, brand naming and cited sources, and reads Not measured when the weekly sample has not run. > For every tracked prompt ApexGEO samples the live Overview and reports whether it appeared, whether your brand is named inside it, and whether your URL is among its cited sources > — https://apexgeo.app/changelog · Google AI Overviews tracking release entry **Google AI Mode** · No — Google AI Mode appears nowhere on the site: the engine inventory names AI Overviews as the only Google answer surface, and the roll-out queue lists six other models instead. > ApexGEO tracks brand visibility on the 7 AI engines that drive AI-search market share today, with rollout to the wider long-tail in progress. > — https://apexgeo.app/ · Section 06 Coverage, engine table intro and the 7-row table (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, DeepSeek, Google AI Overviews) **Claude** · Yes — Claude is a core engine and Anthropic is declared as an inference sub-processor, so prompts genuinely reach the model rather than a proxy. > Anthropic | LLM inference (Claude) | Brand metadata, content samples, generated drafts > — https://apexgeo.app/trust · Sub-processors table, Anthropic row **Microsoft Copilot** · Yes — Copilot sits outside the headline seven but the vendor states it is dispatched today, and Microsoft is listed as the inference sub-processor for it. > Microsoft Copilot is also dispatched alongside the 7 core engines. > — https://apexgeo.app/llms.txt · Opening summary paragraph **Grok** · Yes — Grok is a core engine, is one of the four grounded-search engines, and appears with live recognised/sampled counts on the vendor's own public dashboard. > xAI | LLM inference (Grok) | Brand monitoring prompts > — https://apexgeo.app/trust · Sub-processors table, xAI row **DeepSeek** · Yes — DeepSeek is named in the core seven and DeepSeek is declared as an inference sub-processor in China receiving brand monitoring prompts. > DeepSeek | LLM inference (DeepSeek) | Brand monitoring prompts > — https://apexgeo.app/trust · Sub-processors table, DeepSeek row **Meta AI** · No — Meta AI is absent from the seven-engine inventory, from the Copilot addition, and from the six-model roll-out queue; no Meta inference vendor appears among the declared sub-processors. > Microsoft Copilot is also monitored today, alongside the 7 core engines above. > — https://apexgeo.app/ · Section 06 Coverage, note under the engine table, beside the roll-out list (Cohere, Mistral, Llama, YandexGPT, Kimi, Qwen) **Coverage in the vendor’s words** · Yes — The vendor states seven live core engines plus Copilot, with six further models in roll-out; frequency rather than engine count is what the tiers gate. > 7 AI engines ApexGEO monitors, with market description. Monitoring runs weekly by default; higher frequency is a paid add-on. > — https://apexgeo.app/ · Section 06 Coverage, engine table caption ## What it reports **Names the cited sources** · Yes — It records which sources each engine cited, ships a citation-source taxonomy with gap analysis, and separates grounded citations from ghost citations where content is used unnamed. > a citation-source taxonomy with gap analysis > — https://apexgeo.app/changelog · Insights & Brand Facts release entry **Competitor tracking** · Yes — Share of Model measures citations relative to rivals, and the platform seeds a competitor set per brand so rivals appear inside the same prompt view. > Share of Model — How often the brand is cited relative to competitors. > — https://apexgeo.app/what-is-apexgeo · ApexGEO score inputs list **Brand sentiment** · Partly — Sentiment is scored as one of the five visibility inputs and reported as a net figure, but the vendor describes polarity only, not which attributes AI associates with the brand. > Sentiment — Whether citations describe the brand positively. > — https://apexgeo.app/what-is-apexgeo · ApexGEO score inputs list **Recommendations** · Yes — It goes past reporting: recommendations are ranked by expected score impact and measured again after the fix ships, with rollback when nothing moves. > SMART RECOMMENDATIONS — ranks concrete fixes by expected score impact; the "what to do next" layer. > — https://apexgeo.app/llms.txt · Product section, SMART RECOMMENDATIONS bullet **AI crawler analytics** · Yes — A REST ingest endpoint and nginx log tailer classify AI crawlers and verify each source IP against the operator's published ranges to flag spoofed bots. > A REST ingest endpoint and an nginx log tailer classify GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and more, and verify each request's source IP against the operator's published address ranges to flag spoofed bots. > — https://apexgeo.app/changelog · LLM Crawler Analytics release entry **Wrong answers about you** · Partly — Accuracy of description is scored and a Brand Facts verification queue exists to pre-empt wrong basics, but no dedicated false-claim flag or alert is published. > The failure mode they prevent is quiet: an engine confidently states a wrong founding year or a discontinued product line, sourced from a page nobody remembers publishing. > — https://apexgeo.app/glossary/brand-facts · Definition section, second paragraph ## Plans and signing up **Prompt or credit allowance** · Yes — Plans meter in credits per month rather than prompts: 3 on Free, 20 on Starter, 40 on Growth, 100 on Professional, 200 on Agency, 500 on Enterprise. > 20 credits/month > — https://apexgeo.app/pricing · Plan cards, Starter feature list (Free 3, Growth 40, Professional 100, Agency 200, Enterprise 500) **Projects or brands** · Yes — Brand count is the main tier lever: one brand on Free and Starter, two on Growth, ten on Professional and Agency, unlimited on Enterprise. > 2 brands > — https://apexgeo.app/pricing · Plan cards, Growth feature list (Free/Starter 1 brand, Professional and Agency 10 brands, Enterprise unlimited) **Countries** · Yes — The vendor states monitoring works for any market despite the South African base, and claims prompt sweeps in English, Afrikaans, isiZulu and isiXhosa. > The platform monitors all major AI engines — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, DeepSeek, Google AI Overviews — regardless of geographic location. > — https://apexgeo.app/geo-tools-south-africa · FAQ, 'Is there a GEO tool built for South Africa?' answer **How often it checks** · Partly — Weekly is the default sweep on every plan and anything more frequent costs extra, though the vendor's own dashboard copy elsewhere claims daily refreshes. > Monitoring runs weekly by default; higher frequency is a paid add-on. > — https://apexgeo.app/ · Section 06 Coverage, engine table caption **Card required to start** · No — Neither the standing Free plan nor the seven-day trial on self-serve tiers asks for a card, and the homepage audit runs without any signup at all. > 7-day free trial, no card required > — https://apexgeo.app/pricing · Assurance strip beneath the plan cards **Self-serve signup** · Partly — Free through Agency sign up online with published prices, but Enterprise, the only tier carrying API access, is reachable only through sales. > Custom volume — annual contracts, contact sales > — https://apexgeo.app/pricing · Enterprise plan card, price sub-line ## Access and integrations **API** · Partly — API access is listed only in the Enterprise column, absent from all five cheaper tiers, so self-serve buyers cannot pull data into their own stack. > Enterprise — from $999/mo (contact sales). Custom volume, API access, and dedicated support. > — https://apexgeo.app/llms.txt · Pricing section, Enterprise bullet **BI export** · Partly — No BI or warehouse connector is published; reporting export is per-brand PDF. Enterprise adds API access, and custom integrations are offered on request. > ApexGEO integrates with Jira, Trello, Asana, Linear, Slack, Google Analytics, and Google Search Console, with alert delivery to email, Slack, and webhooks. > — https://apexgeo.app/ · Section 13 FAQ, item 08 "What integrations are available?" ## Coverage elsewhere | Source | Kind | Read | | --- | --- | --- | | brighttech.co.za | Independent source | 2026-08-24 | ## CitedIndex in AI answers 1 of 4 answers cite CitedIndex. | Engine | Result | Question | Asked on | Other sources | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Perplexity | Cites CitedIndex | ApexGEO alternatives | 2026-10-12 | agenticseotools.com, aisearchtoolrank.com, adaptify.ai, pepper.inc, apexgeo.app, olostep.com | | ChatGPT | Does not cite CitedIndex | ApexGEO alternatives | 2026-10-12 | apexgeo.app, paralect.com, bestgeosoftware.com, temso.ai, extrag.one, blog.hubspot.com | | Claude | Does not cite CitedIndex | ApexGEO alternatives | 2026-09-04 | g2.com, alternativeto.net | | Gemini | Does not cite CitedIndex | ApexGEO alternatives | 2026-09-04 | apexgeo.app, agenticseotools.com, launchory.app, yale.edu, esri.com, github.io | ## What changed - 2026-09-20 — Capabilities · Free tier - 2026-09-02 — Capabilities · Free tier - 2026-09-01 — Capabilities · Free tier · Price - 2026-08-31 — Capabilities · Free tier · Price - 2026-08-24 — Alternatives · Summary - 2026-08-23 — Alternatives · Documentation link · Summary · Tagline ## Corrections If you represent ApexGEO, or anything here is wrong or out of date, send a correction with a source. 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