# CiteLens — Tracks brand mentions and domain citations inside ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude answers. > Source: CitedIndex — https://citedindex.com/citelens (structured, researched, re-verified) > Facts last verified: 2026-09-21 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. | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Website | https://citelens.ai | | Price | free, then from $79/month | | Free tier | Yes | 10 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** · Yes — Core 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. > — https://citelens.ai/ · Homepage hero paragraph **Optimises your content** · Partly — It 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 more. > — https://citelens.ai/docs/recommendations · Recommendations doc, opening paragraph **Generates content** · No — Nothing 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, which prompts you're losing, and which sources you need mentions on > — https://citelens.ai/faq · FAQ, 'How CiteLens works', 'Does CiteLens just measure, or tell me how to improve?' **Publishes to your site** · No — There 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 account. > — https://citelens.ai/faq · FAQ, 'Getting started', 'Do I need to install anything or change my site?' **Technical AEO** · Partly — It 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 run. > — https://citelens.ai/docs/geo-audit · GEO audit tools doc, 'What each check looks for' list **Done-for-you service** · Yes — Alongside 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 > — https://citelens.ai/services · Services page hero ## Answer engines **ChatGPT** · Yes — ChatGPT 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 questions. > — https://citelens.ai/faq · FAQ, 'How CiteLens works' section, 'Which AI engines do you track?' **Perplexity** · Yes — Perplexity 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 questions. > — https://citelens.ai/faq · FAQ, 'How CiteLens works' section, 'Which AI engines do you track?' **Gemini** · No — Gemini 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 questions. > — https://citelens.ai/faq · FAQ, 'How CiteLens works' section, 'Which AI engines do you track?' **Google AI Overviews** · No — Google 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 questions. > — https://citelens.ai/faq · FAQ, 'How CiteLens works' section, 'Which AI engines do you track?' **Google AI Mode** · No — Absent 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 questions. > — https://citelens.ai/faq · 'How CiteLens works' — answer to 'Which AI engines do you track?' **Claude** · Yes — Claude 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 questions. > — https://citelens.ai/faq · FAQ, 'How CiteLens works' section, 'Which AI engines do you track?' **Microsoft Copilot** · No — Microsoft 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 questions. > — https://citelens.ai/faq · FAQ, 'How CiteLens works' section, 'Which AI engines do you track?' **Grok** · No — Grok 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 questions. > — https://citelens.ai/faq · FAQ, 'How CiteLens works' section, 'Which AI engines do you track?' **DeepSeek** · No — DeepSeek 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 questions. > — https://citelens.ai/faq · FAQ, 'How CiteLens works' section, 'Which AI engines do you track?' **Meta AI** · No — Meta 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 questions. > — https://citelens.ai/faq · FAQ, 'How CiteLens works' section, 'Which AI engines do you track?' **Coverage in the vendor’s words** · Partly — Three 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 > — https://citelens.ai/pricing · Compare every plan table, 'AI engines' row ## What it reports **Names the cited sources** · Yes — The 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 of you. > — https://citelens.ai/features · Features page, 'Citations explorer' card **Competitor tracking** · Yes — Competitors 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. > — https://citelens.ai/faq · FAQ, 'How CiteLens works', 'Can I track competitors?' **Brand sentiment** · Partly — Sentiment 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. > — https://citelens.ai/docs/dashboard · Dashboard doc, 'The four headline metrics' list **Recommendations** · Yes — Beyond 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 target. > — https://citelens.ai/features · Features page, 'AI recommendations' card **AI crawler analytics** · Partly — It 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. > — https://citelens.ai/docs/geo-audit · GEO audit tools doc, annotated screenshot item 2 ## Plans and signing up **Prompt or credit allowance** · Yes — Plans 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 > — https://citelens.ai/pricing · Compare every plan table, 'Tracked prompts' row **Projects or brands** · Partly — Free 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. > — https://citelens.ai/pricing · Pricing FAQ, 'How many workspaces can I create?' **Countries** · Partly — The 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. > — https://citelens.ai/faq · FAQ, 'Data & methodology', 'Do you support languages other than English?' **How often it checks** · Partly — Every 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. > — https://citelens.ai/pricing · Note directly beneath the Compare every plan table **Card required to start** · No — Both 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. > — https://citelens.ai/faq · FAQ, 'Getting started', 'Can I start for free?' **Self-serve signup** · Yes — Every 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. > — https://citelens.ai/faq · FAQ, 'Pricing & plans', 'How much does CiteLens cost?' ## Access and integrations **API** · Partly — A 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. > — https://citelens.ai/docs/api · Public API doc, opening paragraph **BI export** · Partly — CSV 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. > — https://citelens.ai/faq · FAQ, 'Security, teams & agencies', 'Can I export my data / reports?' ## Coverage elsewhere | Source | Kind | Read | | --- | --- | --- | | martechseries.com | Independent source | 2026-07-31 | | marketscale.com | Independent source | 2026-07-31 | ## CitedIndex in AI answers 2 of 4 answers cite CitedIndex. | Engine | Result | Question | Asked on | Other sources | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ChatGPT | Cites CitedIndex | CiteLens alternatives | 2026-10-12 | caimpare.ai, qwairy.co, zerorank.ai, rankai.ai | | Perplexity | Cites CitedIndex | CiteLens alternatives | 2026-10-12 | citelens.ai, hokai.io, citelens.app, ithub.global.ssl.fastly.net | | Claude | Does not cite CitedIndex | CiteLens alternatives | 2026-09-04 | g2.com, aitoolnet.com | | Gemini | Does not cite CitedIndex | CiteLens alternatives | 2026-09-04 | github.com | ## What changed - 2026-09-21 — Capabilities · Free tier - 2026-09-02 — Capabilities · Free tier - 2026-09-01 — Capabilities · Free tier - 2026-08-31 — Capabilities · Free tier · Price - 2026-08-23 — Alternatives · Summary · Tagline - 2026-08-19 — Summary ## Corrections If you represent CiteLens, or anything here is wrong or out of date, send a correction with a source. The operations this site accepts from an agent are listed at https://citedindex.com/.well-known/agents.json — that catalog needs no key to read, and each entry states its own auth.