# Distribb — AI SEO agent that researches, writes and publishes content, earns backlinks and tracks AI-engine citations. > Source: CitedIndex — https://citedindex.com/distribb (structured, researched, re-verified) > Facts last verified: 2026-09-25 Distribb is an AI SEO platform that researches buyer-intent keywords, writes and publishes articles to a connected CMS, and earns backlinks through an exchange network. It also tracks whether AI answer engines cite the brand. | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Website | https://distribb.io | | Price | from $97/month billed monthly, $79/month billed annually | | Free trial | Partly | A 3-day free trial on the Pro and Accelerator plans; no standing $0 plan is offered on the pricing section, and the API docs call the former Free Agentic plan deprecated. ## What it does **Monitors AI answers** · Yes — A built-in AI visibility tracker queries answer engines on prompts you track and reports whether you or a rival is cited, alongside Search Console data in the same dashboard. > the AI visibility tracker scans ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google's AI answers for the prompts your buyers ask, and shows when they cite you instead of your competitors. > — https://distribb.io/ · Built-in analytics section, 'Stop flying blind on your SEO.' **Optimises your content** · Yes — A weekly scan of connected Search Console flags underperforming pages, including pages Distribb did not write, and proposes a concrete rewrite for each one. > We scan your connected Google Search Console every week and flag underperforming pages, your Distribb articles and any other page that ranks. For each one we propose a rewrite you can download, or push straight to your CMS. > — https://distribb.io/ · Optimizations panel copy in the proactive-suggestions section **Generates content** · Yes — Article writing is the core of the product: plans are sold in articles per month and the platform drafts, schedules and publishes them automatically. > Articles are written, scheduled, and published with SEO and AI visibility in mind > — https://distribb.io/ · How it works, step 2 'We plan and publish' **Publishes to your site** · Yes — Articles push live to a connected CMS; the API exposes a publish endpoint covering WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, Ghost, Wix, Notion, Framer and a generic webhook. > Distribb handles the integration (WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, Ghost, Wix, Notion, Framer, or Webhook) based on the project's connected platform. > — https://distribb.io/api-docs · POST /articles/:id/publish endpoint description **Technical AEO** · Partly — Technical work is limited to on-page structure: FAQ schema, internal-link maps and topical clusters. Nothing on llms.txt, crawler directives or site-wide technical audits is claimed. > Distribb writes and publishes your first batch of SEO articles. 4,500+ words each, with images, internal links, and FAQ schema. > — https://distribb.io/ · 'Your first 7 days with Distribb', Days 2-3 **Done-for-you service** · Partly — Humans do part of the work, but the done-for-you video, Medium and Instagram distribution and the run-for-you outreach campaigns sit on the top Accelerator plan only. > 8 Done-For-You Videos (YouTube + Instagram) > — https://distribb.io/ · Pricing section, Accelerator plan feature list ## Answer engines **ChatGPT** · Yes — ChatGPT is named first among the engines the AI visibility tracker scans for the prompts a buyer tracks. > the AI visibility tracker scans ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google's AI answers > — https://distribb.io/ · Built-in analytics section **Perplexity** · Yes — Perplexity is listed among the engines scanned, and the API summary view returns a per-engine cited flag with perplexity as its example. > the AI visibility tracker scans ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google's AI answers > — https://distribb.io/ · Built-in analytics section **Gemini** · Yes — Gemini is named in the scanned-engine list on the marketing page and again in the MCP tool description for the visibility report. > the AI visibility tracker scans ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google's AI answers > — https://distribb.io/ · Built-in analytics section **Google AI Overviews** · Yes — Google's AI answers are covered by the same visibility scan that covers the chat engines, stated in the vendor's own sentence rather than only in a screenshot. > the AI visibility tracker scans ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google's AI answers > — https://distribb.io/ · Built-in analytics section **Claude** · Yes — Claude is named as one of the AI assistants covered by the visibility report exposed through the hosted MCP server and the REST API. > How often the brand is cited by AI assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Per... > — https://distribb.io/api-docs · MCP Server section, read-only tool 'ai_visibility_report' description **Microsoft Copilot** · No — Copilot is absent from the vendor's enumeration of the engines the AI-visibility tracker scans, and appears nowhere else on the site. > Then the AI visibility tracker scans ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google's AI answers for the prompts your buyers ask, and shows when they cite you instead of your competitors. > — https://distribb.io/ · Built-in analytics section, body paragraph **Grok** · No — Grok is absent from the vendor's enumeration of the engines the AI-visibility tracker scans, and appears nowhere else on the site. > Then the AI visibility tracker scans ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google's AI answers for the prompts your buyers ask, and shows when they cite you instead of your competitors. > — https://distribb.io/ · Built-in analytics section, body paragraph **DeepSeek** · No — DeepSeek is absent from the vendor's enumeration of the engines the AI-visibility tracker scans, and appears nowhere else on the site. > Then the AI visibility tracker scans ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google's AI answers for the prompts your buyers ask, and shows when they cite you instead of your competitors. > — https://distribb.io/ · Built-in analytics section, body paragraph **Meta AI** · No — Meta AI is absent from the vendor's enumeration of the engines the AI-visibility tracker scans, and appears nowhere else on the site. > Then the AI visibility tracker scans ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google's AI answers for the prompts your buyers ask, and shows when they cite you instead of your competitors. > — https://distribb.io/ · Built-in analytics section, body paragraph **Coverage in the vendor’s words** · Yes — Coverage is stated as one sentence naming four engines, with no tier limits attached; the MCP tool description adds Claude to that list, so the two statements disagree. > Then the AI visibility tracker scans ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google's AI answers for the prompts your buyers ask, and shows when they cite you instead of your competitors. > — https://distribb.io/white-label · Built-in analytics section, body paragraph ## What it reports **Names the cited sources** · Partly — The API returns cited pages and share of voice for your own project, so you see which of your pages are cited; there is no claim of a full domain-level citation index across the web. > Read AI-visibility data for a project: how often it is cited across AI answer engines, its share of voice, and tracked prompts. > — https://distribb.io/api-docs · GET /ai-visibility endpoint description **Competitor tracking** · Yes — Competitors are a first-class view in the AI-visibility data and competitor domains are a writable project setting used for content planning. > view | string | No | summary (default), prompts, competitors, cited_pages > — https://distribb.io/api-docs · GET /ai-visibility, Query Parameters table, view row **Recommendations** · Yes — It does not only report: each flagged page gets a staged rewrite you approve, regenerate or publish straight to the CMS through the suggestions endpoints. > Approve a `pending` suggestion; kicks off scrape + LLM rewrite. Poll until `ready` > — https://distribb.io/api-docs · POST /suggestions/:id/... endpoints table, approve row **AI crawler analytics** · No — The audit's seven dimensions and the analytics dashboard cover Search Console and on-site technical data; no AI-bot or crawler log reporting is offered anywhere, and the only crawl-side output is a Googlebot-view screenshot. > Distribb scans your site across seven dimensions: Technical SEO, Core Web Vitals, On-Page SEO, Structured Data, GSC metrics, Off-Site Authority, and Visual Screenshots. > — https://distribb.io/ai-seo-audit · How the SEO Audit Tool Works, step 2 **Wrong answers about you** · No — The AI-visibility pane is enumerated as citation frequency, share of voice and tracked prompts; nothing flags a false statement about the brand, and hallucination is never mentioned on the site. > Read AI-visibility data for a project: how often it is cited across AI answer engines, its share of voice, and tracked prompts. API-key mirror of the dashboard AI-visibility pane. > — https://distribb.io/api-docs · GET /ai-visibility, endpoint description ## Plans and signing up **Prompt or credit allowance** · Partly — Plans are metered in articles per month rather than prompts, and the article plan can be switched between preset sizes; no published cap on tracked AI-visibility prompts was found. > 30 SEO-Optimized Articles / month > — https://distribb.io/ · Pricing section, Pro plan feature list **Projects or brands** · Partly — Several sites are supported, but project slots are gated by the paid quantity on the account and extra slots must be bought when the limit is hit. > Project slots are gated by the account's paid quantity. At the limit, this returns a machine-readable body with a `purchase_url` the human can click to buy another slot > — https://distribb.io/api-docs · POST /projects, Response **Countries** · Partly — A per-project keyword region can be set to another market or worldwide, but that governs keyword research; no per-country AI-answer tracking is described. > keyword_region | string | e.g. "United States", "United Kingdom", "Worldwide" > — https://distribb.io/api-docs · PUT /projects/:id, Writable fields table, keyword_region row **How often it checks** · Partly — Optimization scans run on a weekly cron while AI-visibility scans are on demand under a shared daily cap, so cadence differs by surface rather than one setting. > Enforces a per-project daily manual-scan cap that is SHARED with the dashboard button and the Distribb Agent, so heavy API scanning draws from the same budget. > — https://distribb.io/api-docs · POST /ai-visibility/scan endpoint description **Self-serve signup** · Yes — Sign-up runs straight from the pricing cards into a plan-specific checkout with a trial and no sales contact, and cancellation is self-service. > 3-day free trial. **Cancel anytime.** > — https://distribb.io/ · Pricing section, Accelerator card, under the Get Accelerator button ## Access and integrations **API** · Yes — A documented REST API v1 with bearer-token auth covers projects, articles, publishing, backlinks, Search Console and AI visibility, with per-endpoint rate limits. > All API requests require a Bearer token in the **Authorization** header. Your API key is available in Integrations → AI Agents. > — https://distribb.io/api-docs · Authentication section **MCP server** · Yes — A hosted MCP server with OAuth 2.0 and PKCE exposes eighteen tools over streamable HTTP, and a self-hosted stdio server is offered as an alternative. > All 18 tools appear immediately and run against your own projects only. > — https://distribb.io/api-docs · MCP Server section, step 3 'Start working' ## Repository (as of 2026-08-30) | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Stars | 184 | | Forks | 34 | | Last push | 2026-08-21 | ## Coverage elsewhere | Source | Kind | Read | | --- | --- | --- | | aboahreviews.com | Independent source | 2026-08-22 | | rankpilot.dev | Independent source | 2026-08-22 | ## CitedIndex in AI answers 0 of 4 answers cite CitedIndex. | Engine | Result | Question | Asked on | Other sources | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ChatGPT | Does not cite CitedIndex | Distribb alternatives | 2026-10-12 | rankpilot.com.au, arshmanreviews.com, softwareadvice.co.uk, lindy.ai, beyond-the-ai.com, kintsu.ai | | Claude | Does not cite CitedIndex | Distribb alternatives | 2026-09-04 | alternativeto.net, distribb.io | | Gemini | Does not cite CitedIndex | Distribb alternatives | 2026-09-04 | alternativeto.net, distribb.io, pagetools.co | | Perplexity | Does not cite CitedIndex | Distribb alternatives | 2026-10-12 | sorank.com, alternativeto.net, thatmarketingbuddy.com, pagetools.co, distribb.io, enlisted.directory | ## What changed - 2026-09-25 — Capabilities · Free tier · Price - 2026-09-02 — Capabilities · Free tier · Terms - 2026-09-01 — Capabilities · Free tier - 2026-08-31 — Capabilities · Free tier · Price · Terms - 2026-08-30 — Capabilities · Links · Terms - 2026-08-24 — Summary ## Corrections If you represent Distribb, 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.