CiteLens

What is CiteLens?

CiteLens is a self-serve generative-engine-optimization (GEO) platform built by Solustiq Yazılım ve Yapay Zeka Teknolojileri A.Ş., a Turkish software and AI company founded by Alper Tekin, with general availability announced June 23, 2026. It tracks whether and how a brand is mentioned and cited across AI answer engines, explicitly separating two metrics this directory's own buyer's-checklist article flags as commonly blended: a mention (the AI names the brand) and a domain citation (the AI links to or sources the brand's own site).

What does CiteLens do?

CiteLens runs tracked prompts against ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude — the three engines its own homepage confirms are live as of this listing's verification date, describing Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and Google AI Overviews as 'being added' — and records whether the tracked brand is mentioned, cited, or absent. Its Citations Explorer lists every URL an engine actually cited, categorized by source type and competitive position; Source Influence separately ranks which domains the tracked engines draw on most for a topic. A GEO Audit layer tests a site's crawlability and content structure for AI indexing, including direct checks for GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot access, and turns findings into a prioritized recommendation list. Every visibility score comes from repeated prompt runs reported with a stated 95% confidence interval rather than a single-run figure; independent trade coverage (marketscale.com) describes this specifically as a '95% Wilson confidence interval' and says CiteLens publishes a public cross-brand leaderboard by country and sector, though neither the named statistical method nor a leaderboard page was found on citelens.ai directly.

How CiteLens works

1. 1CiteLens runs tracked prompts against the AI engines included on the account's tier — 3 engines on Free, 4 on Starter/Growth, 5 on Pro/Agency per its own pricing page — and records whether the tracked brand is mentioned, cited, or absent.
2. 2Citations Explorer and Source Influence break results down by which URLs were actually cited and which domains the engine draws on most for the topic, rather than one aggregate score.
3. 3A GEO Audit layer separately tests the brand's own site for AI-crawler accessibility (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot) and content structure, generating a prioritized fix list.
4. 4Every score comes from repeated prompt runs reported with a stated 95% confidence interval, disclosed as a way to separate real visibility movement from run-to-run noise.
5. 5Pricing scales by tracked prompts and monthly 'engine calls' rather than a flat per-seat fee: Free ($0, 10 prompts/100 calls) through Agency ($1,499/month, 600 prompts/28,000 calls, white-label); all paid tiers include a 14-day free trial.

Who is CiteLens for?

• Small self-serve teams or solo marketers who want brand-mention and citation tracking specifically on ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude today, without an enterprise contract.
• GEO or SEO agencies wanting a white-label dashboard for multiple clients — the $1,499/month Agency tier is built for that (50 workspaces, 50 seats, white-label reporting).
• Buyers willing to re-verify engine coverage themselves before purchase, given the gap between CiteLens's own current homepage (3 engines live) and its own launch press release (5 engines claimed).

Key features

• Mention vs. citation split: Reports brand mentions and domain citations as two distinct tracked metrics rather than one blended visibility score.
• Citations Explorer + Source Influence: Lists every URL an AI engine actually cited, categorized by type and competitive position, and separately ranks which domains the tracked engines draw on most for a topic.
• GEO Audit + bot-crawlability checks: Tests a site's structure and crawlability for AI indexing, including direct checks for GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot access, then generates a prioritized recommendation list.
• 95%-confidence-interval scoring: Runs repeated prompts per tracked query and reports a stated 95% confidence interval on the resulting score rather than a single-run point estimate.

What are CiteLens's use cases?

• Tracking ChatGPT/Perplexity/Claude visibility on a self-serve budget: A small marketing team wants ongoing brand-mention and citation tracking across the three engines CiteLens currently confirms live, starting on the $79/month Starter tier rather than an enterprise contract.
• Agency white-label GEO reporting: A GEO or SEO agency runs CiteLens's Agency tier across up to 50 client workspaces and reports results back to clients under its own brand.

Pros & cons

CiteLens pricing

A genuine $0 Free plan (10 tracked prompts, 3 AI engines, 100 engine calls/month) plus four paid subscription tiers from $79/month (Starter) to $1,499/month (Agency, white-label); every paid tier includes a 14-day free trial, no card required to start on Free.

• Free$0/month
• Starter$79/month
• Growth$249/month
• Pro$599/month
• Agency$1,499/month

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CiteLens review

A genuinely differentiated newcomer on methodology — mention/citation separation and a disclosed confidence interval are real, useful practices most self-serve rivals don't state — but it launched roughly five weeks before this listing with no independent reviews yet, and its own two public sources (its current homepage and its own June 2026 launch press release) disagree on how many AI engines it actually tracks today. Worth a serious look for ChatGPT/Perplexity/Claude tracking on a self-serve budget; verify live engine coverage directly first if Gemini, Copilot or AI Overviews specifically matter to you.

Added 2026-07-31 after a live market scan surfaced it as a newly-launched (June 23, 2026) GEO entrant distinct from every tool already in this index; its own homepage and its own launch press release give two different answers on current engine coverage, disclosed here rather than silently resolved in either direction — re-verify before this listing's next refresh, since a young, actively-shipping product's 'being added' roadmap items are the most likely field to change.

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