Summary
Archytas AISpy is a free desktop application that records which brands and domains AI answer engines cite for a set of tracked prompts. It runs locally on your own provider API keys, keeping every response in a SQLite database on your machine.
- Best for
- solo SEO/GEO consultants and small in-house marketing teams who want unlimited AI-visibility tracking across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews without a monthly subscription, and are comfortable supplying their own API keys
- Not for
- teams that want a hosted, no-setup SaaS dashboard, a proven review track record, or native MCP/agent integration today
- From
- Free
- Free tier
- YesThe whole application is free with no paid tier, account or card. You supply and pay for your own OpenAI, Anthropic, Google AI Studio, Perplexity and DataForSEO API usage; prompt, brand and project counts are uncapped. Windows and macOS builds are downloadable (macOS is Apple Silicon only); the Linux download is marked Coming soon.
What it does
- Monitors AI answers
- YesThe whole product is prompt-level monitoring of what LLMs say and cite about a brand, over time.
Benchmark your brand across every major LLM. Fully understand who and what is cited across prompts, across models, and across time.
archytasdigital.com - Optimises your content
- PartlyIt infers where content falls short from citation and fanout-query patterns; the vendor documents no crawl or on-page audit of your own URLs.
surfaces the content types, page structures, and topics Google's AI is consistently rewarding - and where your current content is falling short
archytasdigital.com/usecases/aimode - Generates content
- NoThe enumerated feature set is tracking, dashboards, scheduling and export; no writing capability is claimed anywhere on the site.
AI visibility tracking for Mac, PC and Linux
archytasdigital.com - Publishes to your site
- NoOutputs are CSV, XLSX, PDF and a local SQLite database; the enumerated destinations are BI and spreadsheet tools, with no CMS among them.
Because the data is structured and accessible, you can wire it into Looker Studio, Tableau, Power BI, a Jupyter notebook, or a Google Sheet with a…
archytasdigital.com/help/exporting-data - Technical AEO
- PartlyThe vendor publishes a free Common Crawl index checker as a separate web tool; AISpy itself does no schema, llms.txt or crawler-directive work.
Many LLMs are trained on data sourced from Common Crawl. Enter a domain to check whether it appears in the latest Common Crawl index.
archytasdigital.com/tools/commoncrawlch… - Done-for-you service
- PartlyThe app is self-serve, but the same company sells freelance AEO/GEO and technical SEO consultancy on a separate page.
I can support you in navigating the fast-evolving field with strategic consulting across technology, content and earned media.
archytasdigital.com/seoconsultancy
Answer engines
- ChatGPT
- YesTracked through your own OpenAI API key; a dedicated ChatGPT tracker page documents it.
To track your visibility in ChatGPT, you'll need an API key from OpenAI. Archytas AISpy handles the rest - you just paste it in and point it at your…
archytasdigital.com/supportedllms/chatg… - Perplexity
- YesDedicated Perplexity tracker page; the vendor's two pages disagree on whether the key is a Perplexity key or a DataForSEO key (see notes).
Track your brand's presence in Perplexity - the search-first AI that always cites its sources.
archytasdigital.com/supportedllms/perpl… - Gemini
- YesQueried via the official Gemini API with a Google AI Studio key; model tiers are tracked separately.
Benchmark your brand in Google's Gemini - across Flash, Pro and beyond - alongside Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's own AI Overviews.
archytasdigital.com/supportedllms/gemini - Google AI Overviews
- YesCollected through DataForSEO rather than a Google API, because Google exposes no official endpoint.
No - you need DataForSEO API credentials, not a Google key. AI Overviews and AI Mode aren't exposed through an official Google API, so AISpy uses…
archytasdigital.com/supportedllms/google - Google AI Mode
- YesTreated as its own surface with dedicated views, sourced through DataForSEO alongside AI Overviews.
Google AI Mode surfaces a curated set of sources for every query. Archytas AISpy benchmarks your visibility against competing domains, showing you…
archytasdigital.com/usecases/aimode - Claude
- YesTracked with your own Anthropic key; Haiku, Sonnet and Opus can be tracked as separate models.
Benchmark your brand in Anthropic's Claude - from Haiku to Opus - alongside ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google.
archytasdigital.com/supportedllms/claude - Microsoft Copilot
- NoThe vendor enumerates its providers as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Perplexity plus DataForSEO for Google AI surfaces; Microsoft Copilot is not among them.
To track visibility in an LLM, you'll need the relevant API keys from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or Perplexity.
archytasdigital.com - Grok
- NoxAI is absent from the vendor's own provider list and from the five-platform bar shown on every product page.
To track visibility in an LLM, you'll need the relevant API keys from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or Perplexity.
archytasdigital.com - DeepSeek
- NoDeepSeek is absent from the enumerated provider list; only OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Perplexity and DataForSEO are named.
To track visibility in an LLM, you'll need the relevant API keys from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or Perplexity.
archytasdigital.com - Meta AI
- NoMeta is absent from the enumerated provider list; only OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Perplexity and DataForSEO are named.
To track visibility in an LLM, you'll need the relevant API keys from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or Perplexity.
archytasdigital.com - Coverage in the vendor’s words
- YesFive providers covering six surfaces: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews and AI Mode. One free build, so no tier gating; you supply a key per provider and can track as few as one.
Track your domains visibility, who else is appearing, and how the larger landscape across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Google AI…
archytasdigital.com/usecases/scheduling
What it reports
- Names the cited sources
- YesA domain-by-model matrix records every cited domain and URL per prompt, drillable to the individual response.
The matrix gives you an at-a-glance view of which domains were cited across every model and prompt.
archytasdigital.com/help/tracking-visib… - Competitor tracking
- YesEvery cited domain and brand mention is stored, so competitors are discovered rather than pre-declared.
The dashboards are designed to be website-agnostic; every citation and mention is stored and can be surfaced.
archytasdigital.com/usecases/dashboards - Brand sentiment
- YesEntity and language analysis maps the people, products and topics AI associates with your prompts; sentiment comes from a follow-on question you define.
Archytas AISpy surfaces the people, organisations, products, and locations AI models discuss with each prompt, alongside a breakdown of the key…
archytasdigital.com/usecases/dashboards - Recommendations
- PartlyIt exposes fanout queries and citation gaps for you to act on; it issues no prescribed change list.
If you can see that LLMs are firing a specific query when someone asks about your space-and your content doesn't address that query-you have a clear…
archytasdigital.com/usecases/fanoutquer… - AI crawler analytics
- NoThe app records model responses and citations only; it never sees your server, and the separate Common Crawl checker tests index presence, not bot hits.
AISpy records who and what each model cited. This page covers how to interpret those results.
archytasdigital.com/help/tracking-visib… - Wrong answers about you
- PartlyYou can read every stored response and fire your own classification follow-up, but no automatic false-claim flagging is described.
For any response, you can ask a follow-up question using any model you choose — classify sentiment, extract every brand mentioned, or summarise the…
archytasdigital.com/help/tracking-visib…
Plans and signing up
- Prompt or credit allowance
- YesUnlimited prompts; the ceiling is provider rate limits and the API bill you pay directly.
Archytas AISpy doesn't impose any limits on the number of scheduled prompts. AISpy is a Bring-Your-Own-Key solution - the practical ceiling is the…
archytasdigital.com/usecases/scheduling - Projects or brands
- YesMultiple projects, each with its own cadence, and no cap on brands or sites tracked.
Frequencies are set at the project level, so you can, for example, have one project with a set of prompts running daily and another bigger set…
archytasdigital.com/usecases/scheduling - How often it checks
- YesPer-project schedules from every minute to monthly, running while the app is open, with automatic export on completion.
Archytas AISpy can be set to track LLM Visibility on a Minute by Minute, Hourly, Daily, Weekly or Monthly schedule, and can automatically export the…
archytasdigital.com/usecases/export - Card required to start
- NoThe vendor takes no payment at all: installers download directly and every cost is billed to you by the model providers.
AISpy never ships with credentials of its own — you connect your own provider keys so that all usage is billed transparently to you, and all data…
archytasdigital.com/help/managing-api-k… - Self-serve signup
- YesDownload the installer, paste a provider key, run a prompt; no sales contact anywhere in the flow.
Install AISpy, add your first API key, and run your first visibility check in a few minutes.
archytasdigital.com/help
Not established: Countries
Access and integrations
- API
- NoAISpy exposes no API of its own and no headless mode; programmatic access is to its local SQLite file, not to a service.
We're afraid that AISpy is, right now, a GUI-only based application, there is no headless mode at present.
archytasdigital.com/usecases/scheduling - MCP server
- NoThe vendor states MCP is not supported and is only on the roadmap.
Not yet. It's on the roadmap!
archytasdigital.com - BI export
- YesScheduled CSV/XLSX exports plus direct read access to the unencrypted local SQLite database for BI tools and warehouses.
Because the data is structured and accessible, you can wire it into Looker Studio, Tableau, Power BI, a Jupyter notebook, or a Google Sheet with a…
archytasdigital.com/help/exporting-data
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Coverage elsewhere3
Answer-engine source observations4 of 4
4 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.
- ChatGPTCitedIndex domain found in source annotationsModel: gpt-4o-mini · Collected on · 10 source annotationsQuery:
Archytas AISpy alternatives
Other source hosts (up to 6): hexus.ai, intelligenttools.co, nightwatch.io, asleep.ai, navtools.ai, arize.com - ClaudeCitedIndex domain found in source annotationsModel: claude-haiku-4-5 · Collected on · 7 source annotationsQuery:
Archytas AISpy alternatives
Other source hosts (up to 6): sourceforge.net - GeminiCitedIndex domain found in source annotationsModel: gemini-2.5-flash · Collected on · 31 source annotationsQuery:
Archytas AISpy alternatives
Other source hosts (up to 6): sourceforge.net, slashdot.org, venn.com, gartner.com, paloaltonetworks.com, snyk.io - PerplexityCitedIndex domain found in source annotationsModel: sonar · Collected on · 20 source annotationsQuery:
Archytas AISpy alternatives
Other source hosts (up to 6): g2.com, alternativeto.net, slashdot.org, peerpush.com, sourceforge.net
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- Capabilities · Free tier
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