# CiteLens — A self-serve GEO tracker that splits brand-mention from domain-citation tracking with a disclosed confidence interval — but its own homepage confirms only ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude live today, while its own June 2026 launch press claimed five engines including Gemini and Google AI Overviews.

> Source: CitedIndex — https://citedindex.com/citelens (structured, researched, re-verified)
> Facts last verified: 2026-07-31

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).

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Website | https://citelens.ai |
| 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. |
| API | Yes |
| 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 five-week-old launch. |

## Pricing

| Tier | Price |
| --- | --- |
| Free | $0/month |
| Starter | $79/month |
| Growth | $249/month |
| Pro | $599/month |
| Agency | $1,499/month |

## Verdict

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.

## How it works

1. CiteLens 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. Citations 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. A 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. Every 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. Pricing 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 it's 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).

## Strengths and weaknesses

- ✓ Explicitly separates brand-mention tracking from domain-citation tracking as two distinct reported metrics, rather than one blended visibility score — a distinction most buyers in this category have to infer themselves.
- ✓ Every visibility score is computed from repeated prompt runs and reported with a stated 95% confidence interval rather than a single-run point figure, a rare disclosed-uncertainty practice in this index.
- ✓ A genuine $0 free plan (not just a time-limited trial) plus a 14-day free trial on every paid tier, letting a buyer test real usage before committing.
- ✗ CiteLens's own homepage, as of this listing's verification date, confirms only ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude as live, describing Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and Google AI Overviews as 'being added' — but its own June 23, 2026 general-availability press release claimed all five were already tracked at launch, five weeks earlier. CiteLens's two own sources disagree on current engine coverage; verify live status directly if any of the three unconfirmed engines matter to you.
- ✗ No independent reviews were found on G2, Capterra or similar platforms as of this listing's verification — the only public voice on the product is its founder's own launch quote, typical for a company that launched about five weeks earlier.
- ✗ The number of tracked AI engines is gated by price (3 on Free, 4 on Starter/Growth, 5 on Pro/Agency per CiteLens's own pricing page) — a buyer needing the higher engine count must upgrade past the $249/month Growth tier to the $599/month Pro tier.
- ⚠ Independent trade coverage (marketscale.com) describes CiteLens as applying a '95% Wilson confidence interval' by name and publishing a public cross-brand leaderboard by country and sector; CiteLens's own site describes the confidence-interval practice but not the Wilson method by name, and no public leaderboard page was found on citelens.ai as of this listing's verification — treat both specifics as reported, not vendor-confirmed.
- ⚠ Sources disagree on which three engines are live today: CiteLens's own homepage names ChatGPT/Perplexity/Claude, while one independent trade write-up (marketscale.com) names ChatGPT/Perplexity/Google AI Mode instead of Claude. Resolved here in favor of CiteLens's own current homepage as the freshest, most authoritative source — worth re-checking directly before relying on it.

## 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.

## 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.

## Sources

- https://citelens.ai/
- https://citelens.ai/features
- https://citelens.ai/pricing
- https://martechseries.com/predictive-ai/ai-platforms-machine-learning/citelens-launches-geo-platform-to-track-brand-visibility-across-ai-search/
- https://www.marketscale.com/industries/marketing-tech/ai-answer-engine-visibility-becomes-a-measurable-discipline-as-geo-platforms-multiply-in-2026