# CiteVista — GEO and AEO analytics measuring brand citations in ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, priced in credits. > Source: CitedIndex — https://citedindex.com/citevista (structured, researched, re-verified) > Facts last verified: 2026-09-03 CiteVista is a GEO and AEO analytics platform that simulates customer prompts against large language models to measure whether they cite a brand's pages or a competitor's. A separate technical audit checks whether AI crawlers can read the site at all. | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Website | https://www.citevista.com/ | | Price | from $15/100 credits pay-as-you-go | | Free tier | Yes | 50 free credits on signup, no credit card required; credits never expire and work across every feature. At the single published rate of 10 credits per Brand Perception report, the grant covers about five such reports. ## What it does **Monitors AI answers** · Yes — Runs prompts against the models and scores how often the brand's pages get cited versus rivals, but each check is a manual run rather than continuous monitoring. > CiteVista measures your brand's citation visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and more — showing you exactly where you appear, where competitors appear instead > — https://www.citevista.com/ · Hero section, paragraph beneath the headline **Optimises your content** · Partly — It analyses a page you own and ranks what failed, but the findings are technical and structural (bot access, headings, JS rendering, schema) rather than guidance on the copy itself. > The report identifies your Top Critical Issues automatically — the highest-weight failed checks across all three modules, sorted by impact. > — https://www.citevista.com/solutions/ai-technical-audit · Full Technical Audit — All Three Modules in One Report section **Generates content** · No — The only thing it generates is prompt clusters and analysis reports; the vendor describes its own scope as simulate, measure and understand, with no writing feature on any page. > CiteVista gives brands and marketing teams the ability to simulate, measure, and understand their visibility inside AI-generated responses. > — https://www.citevista.com/about · What CiteVista Does, first paragraph **Publishes to your site** · No — The five enumerated modules are all analysis and audit tools; no CMS, WordPress or Webflow connection is named anywhere on the site, terms or privacy policy. > GEO and AEO analysis tools built to measure brand visibility in AI-generated answers. Explore each module below. > — https://www.citevista.com/ · CiteVista Solutions section, intro line above the five module cards **Technical AEO** · Yes — A dedicated audit checks robots.txt and per-bot permissions, heading and language structure, JavaScript render dependency and JSON-LD schema including sameAs; it diagnoses rather than fixes. > The AI Technical Audit checks whether your site is technically visible to LLMs: bot access permissions, content structure, JavaScript render dependency, and schema markup > — https://www.citevista.com/ · CiteVista Solutions section, AI Technical Audit module card **Done-for-you service** · No — The terms rule out human delivery explicitly: every report is produced by software, so there is no done-for-you GEO engagement behind any tier. > We do not provide any 1:1 consulting, manual services, or bespoke customized products. > — https://www.citevista.com/terms · 2. Description of Service ## Answer engines **ChatGPT** · Yes — One of three selectable models for citation and query analysis; note the vendor's own caveat that ChatGPT sources reflect pages retrieved, not necessarily pages cited. > Choose which AI model to analyze — ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity. Then enter your brand domain. > — https://www.citevista.com/solutions/citation-visibility-analysis · How It Works, Step 1 **Perplexity** · Yes — Selectable alongside ChatGPT and Gemini in Citation Visibility and Query Intelligence, though the Brand Perception module still lists Perplexity as coming soon. > Choose which AI model to analyze — ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity. Then enter your brand domain. > — https://www.citevista.com/solutions/citation-visibility-analysis · How It Works, Step 1 **Gemini** · Yes — The best-covered engine: selectable everywhere and the only model currently live in Brand Perception, where its cited sources are described as a direct measure of citation behaviour. > Choose which AI model to analyze — currently Google Gemini, with ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity coming soon. > — https://www.citevista.com/solutions/brand-perception · How It Works, Step 1: Select Your AI Model & Data Source **Google AI Overviews** · No — Google AI Overviews is the subject of a long Insights essay but is not a surface you can run: the selector offers three chat models and no SERP-based engine. > Choose which AI model to analyze — ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity. Then enter your brand domain. > — https://www.citevista.com/solutions/citation-visibility-analysis · How It Works, Step 1 **Google AI Mode** · No — Google AI Mode is never mentioned on the site and falls outside the closed three-model selector that defines what the platform can query. > Choose which AI model to analyze — ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity. Then enter your brand domain. > — https://www.citevista.com/solutions/citation-visibility-analysis · How It Works, Step 1 **Claude** · No — Claude is named only as coming soon in Brand Perception and is absent from the three-model selector elsewhere; ClaudeBot appears solely as a crawler-permission check in the audit. > Choose which AI model to analyze — currently Google Gemini, with ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity coming soon. > — https://www.citevista.com/solutions/brand-perception · How It Works, Step 1: Select Your AI Model & Data Source **Microsoft Copilot** · No — The model selector is a closed list of three chat engines and Copilot is not among them; the word appears nowhere on the site, terms or privacy policy. > Choose which AI model to analyze — ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity. Then enter your brand domain. > — https://www.citevista.com/solutions/citation-visibility-analysis · How It Works, Step 1 **Grok** · No — Grok is not offered: the analysis modules enumerate ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity only, and xAI is not mentioned on any page of the site. > Choose which AI model to analyze — ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity. Then enter your brand domain. > — https://www.citevista.com/solutions/citation-visibility-analysis · How It Works, Step 1 **DeepSeek** · No — Absent from the three-engine selector and from every other page; DeepSeek is not named even in the audit's list of six AI crawlers. > Choose which AI model to analyze — ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity. Then enter your brand domain. > — https://www.citevista.com/solutions/citation-visibility-analysis · How It Works, Step 1 **Meta AI** · No — Meta AI is not a selectable model and is nowhere on the site; the enumerated coverage stops at ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity. > Choose which AI model to analyze — ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity. Then enter your brand domain. > — https://www.citevista.com/solutions/citation-visibility-analysis · How It Works, Step 1 **Coverage in the vendor’s words** · Partly — Coverage depends on the module: Citation Visibility and Query Intelligence offer ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, while Brand Perception is Gemini-only with the other three listed as coming soon. > Choose which AI model to analyze — currently Google Gemini, with ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity coming soon. > — https://www.citevista.com/solutions/brand-perception · How It Works, Step 1: Select Your AI Model & Data Source ## What it reports **Names the cited sources** · Yes — This is the core report: the specific source URLs each model pulled, ranked citing domains, and per-query source frequency averaged over repeated runs of the same prompt. > Results show your citation score, which competitors get cited instead, which specific URLs AI is pulling from, and the actual AI-generated response. > — https://www.citevista.com/solutions/citation-visibility-analysis · How It Works, Step 3: Get Your Results **Competitor tracking** · Yes — Rivals surface automatically from the same run, ranked by citations, and drill down per prompt and URL; the site describes no way to pre-set a fixed watchlist of named competitors. > Click any competitor to see their citation breakdown by individual prompt and which URLs they're getting cited for. > — https://www.citevista.com/solutions/citation-visibility-analysis · Two Analysis Modes, Prompt Cluster analysis **Brand sentiment** · Yes — A whole module returns market position, tone of voice, core keywords and a dominant trait with a 0-100 confidence score, run against live web search or training data. > The dominant communication attributes AI associates with your brand — the voice your brand carries in the model's understanding. > — https://www.citevista.com/solutions/brand-perception · What You Get, Tone of Voice **Recommendations** · Partly — Technical audits rank your highest-impact failed checks, but the vendor itself frames guidance on why visibility gaps exist and what to do about them as still being built. > CiteVista measures both — and is actively expanding toward actionable guidance on why visibility gaps exist and what to do about them. > — https://www.citevista.com/about · What CiteVista Does, closing paragraph **AI crawler analytics** · Partly — It reports whether six named AI crawlers are permitted for a URL, including CDN rules that silently override robots.txt, but these are permission checks, not log-based counts of real bot hits. > Access Control — robots.txt availability, URL-level blocking rules, per-bot AI crawler permissions (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, Bytespider) > — https://www.citevista.com/solutions/ai-technical-audit · Module 1 — Basic Indexing Check, What it checks list **Wrong answers about you** · Partly — Brand Perception flags where the model's representation diverges from your intended positioning; there is no false-claim detector. > This analysis reveals exactly what that opinion is: how AI positions you in your market, which entities and keywords it associates with you, your dominant tone of voice, and whether its understanding of your brand actually matches your positioning. > — https://www.citevista.com/ · CiteVista Solutions section, Brand Perception card ## Plans and signing up **Prompt or credit allowance** · Yes — Metered in credits rather than prompt seats: 50 free at signup, packs of 100, 200 or 300, and one published unit rate of ten credits per Brand Perception report. > Users purchase credits which are then consumed to initiate specific automated analyses (e.g., 10 credits for a Brand Perception report). > — https://www.citevista.com/terms · 4. Credit-Based Fulfillment Model, Fulfillment **How often it checks** · Partly — On demand only: every analysis is a run the user initiates and pays credits for at that moment, and no scheduled daily or weekly re-check is described on any page. > Fulfillment occurs the moment the analysis is initiated or the report is generated by the AI system. > — https://www.citevista.com/terms · 4. Credit-Based Fulfillment Model, Instant Delivery **Card required to start** · No — The 50-credit grant needs no card and there is no subscription to cancel; a card is only involved when you buy a credit pack through the merchant of record. > No monthly subscriptions. No credit card required. Start with 50 free credits and only pay for what you use. > — https://www.citevista.com/ · Simple, Credit-Based Pricing section, intro paragraph **Self-serve signup** · Yes — Sign in, spend the free credits and buy packs without talking to anyone; the vendor calls delivery fully automated. Only the Custom Enterprise tier routes through a contact form. > CiteVista is a 100% automated Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform providing AI-powered visibility analysis and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) tools. > — https://www.citevista.com/terms · 2. Description of Service _Not established: Projects or brands, Countries_ ## Answer-engine source observations 1 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. | Engine | Model | Collected on | Query | CitedIndex in source annotations | Source annotations | Other source hosts (up to 6) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Perplexity | sonar | 2026-09-04 | CiteVista alternatives | Directory domain found | 20 | en.wikipedia.org, libguides.mq.edu.au, reddit.com, yourlegalladder.com, guides.library.georgetown.edu, guides.library.utoronto.ca | | ChatGPT | gpt-4o-mini | 2026-09-04 | CiteVista alternatives | Not assessable — no source annotations | 0 | — | | Claude | claude-haiku-4-5 | 2026-09-04 | CiteVista alternatives | Directory domain not found in observed annotations | 8 | g2.com, staquest.com, atlasworkspace.ai, sourceforge.net | | Gemini | gemini-2.5-flash | 2026-09-04 | CiteVista alternatives | Directory domain not found in observed annotations | 19 | atlasworkspace.ai, llmrefs.com, zotero.org, arizona.edu, reddit.com, scribbr.com | ## Provenance Every fact above comes from the vendor. Nothing here is independently corroborated yet. ## Coverage elsewhere None recorded. Every fact above comes from the vendor and is not independently corroborated yet. ## What changed - 2026-09-03 — Capabilities · Free tier · Price - 2026-09-01 — Capabilities · Free tier · Price ## Correcting this record Anything marked "Not established" is a question we have not answered — it is not a No. If you represent CiteVista, or anything here is wrong or out of date, you can supply it with a source: the operations this site accepts from an agent are listed at https://citedindex.com/.well-known/agents.json — that catalogue needs no key to read, and each entry states its own auth. Supplying evidence is free. Nothing that can be bought here changes what a field says, whether a gap is closed, or how this record is scored.