Summary
CiteLens is a GEO visibility platform that repeatedly queries buyer prompts across AI answer engines and reports how often a brand is mentioned and its domain cited, with confidence intervals. It adds competitor benchmarking, a citations explorer and crawlability audits.
- Best for
- Small, self-serve teams or GEO agencies that specifically need ChatGPT/Perplexity/Claude mention-and-citation tracking with disclosed uncertainty, and can accept Gemini/Copilot/AI Overviews as roadmap items rather than live coverage.
- Not for
- Buyers who need confirmed Gemini, Copilot or Google AI Overviews coverage today, or who need an established, independently-reviewed vendor rather than a June 2026 launch.
- From
- Freethen $79/month
- Free tier
- Yes10 tracked prompts, 100 engine calls/mo, 3 AI engines, 1 workspace with 2 seats, 5 GEO audits/mo, no API, hard capped with no overage; no card required.
What it does
- Monitors AI answers
- YesCore product: it queries buyer prompts against AI engines repeatedly and reports how often the brand is named or its domain cited.
CiteLens measures how often ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude mention and cite your brand — and shows you who they recommend instead.
citelens.ai - Optimises your content
- PartlyIt audits pages you own for crawlability and quotability and generates recommendations, but the fuller recommendation set is a paid-plan experience.
Recommendations turn your visibility gaps into a prioritized to-do list: exactly which page, source or topic to target next to get mentioned or cited…
citelens.ai/docs/recommendations - Generates content
- NoNothing on the site offers content writing; the product suggests prompts and actions, and the vendor frames output as a to-do list rather than copy.
Does CiteLens just measure, or tell me how to improve? Both. Alongside the measurement it generates recommendations: which pages aren't citable,…
citelens.ai/faq - Publishes to your site
- NoThere is no CMS integration; the vendor states measurement happens outside your site with no code, plugin or DNS change at all.
No. CiteLens measures from outside your site — it queries the AI engines on your behalf. There's no code, plugin or DNS change; you just create your…
citelens.ai/faq - Technical AEO
- PartlyIt checks robots.txt, AI user-agent blocking, status codes and render-without-JS, plus content quotability, but does not generate schema or llms.txt.
Crawlability — robots.txt rules, blocking of AI user-agents, HTTP status, redirects and whether the page renders without JavaScript the crawler won't…
citelens.ai/docs/geo-audit - Done-for-you service
- YesAlongside the software the vendor sells done-for-you audits and a paid 1:1 strategy session run by its own team.
Want to show up when AI recommends brands in your category — without doing it yourself? Our team measures, benchmarks and fixes your AI visibility
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Answer engines
- ChatGPT
- YesChatGPT is one of the three engines the product queries live today, named first in every engine statement on the site.
ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude (with web search). Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and Google AI Overviews are being added — anywhere your customers ask…
citelens.ai/faq - Perplexity
- YesPerplexity is in the shipped tracked set, queried live with the answers and cited sources parsed back.
ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude (with web search). Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and Google AI Overviews are being added — anywhere your customers ask…
citelens.ai/faq - Gemini
- NoGemini is listed as being added rather than tracked; only ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude are stated as engines the product queries today.
ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude (with web search). Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and Google AI Overviews are being added — anywhere your customers ask…
citelens.ai/faq - Google AI Overviews
- NoGoogle AI Overviews is named as being added, so it is not part of the tracked set a buyer gets on any published plan today.
ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude (with web search). Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and Google AI Overviews are being added — anywhere your customers ask…
citelens.ai/faq - Google AI Mode
- NoAbsent from the engine list the vendor tracks and from the list it says it is adding.
ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude (with web search). Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and Google AI Overviews are being added — anywhere your customers ask…
citelens.ai/faq - Claude
- YesClaude with web search is the third shipped engine; the vendor qualifies it as the web-search variant rather than the plain model.
ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude (with web search). Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and Google AI Overviews are being added — anywhere your customers ask…
citelens.ai/faq - Microsoft Copilot
- NoMicrosoft Copilot sits in the same not-yet-shipped group as Gemini and AI Overviews in the vendor's own tracked-engine statement.
ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude (with web search). Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and Google AI Overviews are being added — anywhere your customers ask…
citelens.ai/faq - Grok
- NoGrok appears nowhere on the site; the vendor's complete tracked-and-coming list names six engines and Grok is not among them.
ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude (with web search). Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and Google AI Overviews are being added — anywhere your customers ask…
citelens.ai/faq - DeepSeek
- NoDeepSeek is absent from the vendor's full enumeration of engines tracked today and engines being added, and from every other page.
ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude (with web search). Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and Google AI Overviews are being added — anywhere your customers ask…
citelens.ai/faq - Meta AI
- NoMeta AI is not in the vendor's stated tracked set nor in the roadmap set of engines being added to CiteLens.
ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude (with web search). Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and Google AI Overviews are being added — anywhere your customers ask…
citelens.ai/faq - Coverage in the vendor’s words
- PartlyThree engines are live with three more announced, and plans cap engine count at three, four or five without naming which engines each tier unlocks.
AI engines | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5
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What it reports
- Names the cited sources
- YesThe citations explorer lists every cited URL per prompt, categorised as owned, competitor or reference, with the engines that surfaced it.
See every URL AI cites when answering your tracked prompts — categorized (owned / competitor / reference), which engines surface it, and who's ahead…
citelens.ai/features - Competitor tracking
- YesCompetitors are added in setup and measured on the same prompts, producing a share-of-voice ranking in the same dashboard view.
Yes. Add your competitors and CiteLens measures them side by side with you on every prompt.
citelens.ai/faq - Brand sentiment
- PartlySentiment is one of four headline dashboard metrics, but the vendor describes it as overall positivity rather than a breakdown of associated attributes.
Sentiment — how positive the language around your brand is across mentions.
citelens.ai/docs/dashboard - Recommendations
- YesBeyond reporting it produces a prioritised action queue naming the page, source or topic to target, with open/in-progress/done states.
Not generic advice. An executable action list generated from your visibility gaps that tells you exactly which page, which source and which steps to…
citelens.ai/features - AI crawler analytics
- PartlyIt tests whether AI crawlers are permitted to fetch a URL, which is a robots-level check rather than log analytics of actual bot visits.
Crawlability Checker — paste any URL; CiteLens checks whether AI crawlers like GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot are allowed to fetch it.
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Plans and signing up
- Prompt or credit allowance
- YesPlans meter both tracked prompts and engine calls, from 10 prompts and 100 calls free up to 600 prompts and 28,000 calls on Agency.
Tracked prompts | 10 | 25 | 75 | 200 | 600
citelens.ai/pricing - Projects or brands
- PartlyFree and Starter allow a single workspace, so multi-brand tracking starts at Growth and reaches fifty workspaces only on Agency.
By plan: Free and Starter 1, Growth 3, Pro 10, Agency 50 workspaces. Each workspace tracks one brand/project and takes a slice of your prompt pool.
citelens.ai/pricing - Countries
- PartlyThe vendor claims multilingual prompt support and a Turkish interface, but publishes no country or market selector for the self-serve product.
Yes. CiteLens supports multilingual prompts and the interface runs in English and Turkish.
citelens.ai/faq - How often it checks
- PartlyEvery paid plan scans weekly with two repeats and the free plan shows no scan frequency at all in the comparison table.
All paid plans scan weekly with 2× repeats and include a 14-day free trial.
citelens.ai/pricing - Card required to start
- NoBoth routes in — the standing free plan and the fourteen-day trial on any paid plan — are stated to need no card.
Yes. The free plan includes 10 prompts, and every paid plan has a 14-day trial — both with no card required.
citelens.ai/faq - Self-serve signup
- YesEvery tier including Agency is bought by registering and checking out; the pricing page publishes real numbers rather than a quote request.
Pricing is transparent and listed with real numbers on the pricing page — no waiting for a quote.
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Access and integrations
- API
- PartlyA read-only REST v1 API exists with key auth, but it is withheld from Free, Starter and Growth and starts at the $599 Pro plan.
The public API is read-only, scoped to your organization, and available on the Pro and Agency plans.
citelens.ai/docs/api - BI export
- PartlyCSV export and white-label PDF reports are offered plus raw data via the API, but no named warehouse or BI connector is documented.
Yes. You can export results as CSV and, for agencies, as white-label PDF reports; the API also gives you programmatic access to the raw data.
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