# Emergine — AI visibility tracking across Western and Chinese answer engines, with prompt discovery and citation analysis. > Source: CitedIndex — https://citedindex.com/emergine (structured, researched, re-verified) > Facts last verified: 2026-09-26 Emergine is a GEO/AEO monitoring platform that tracks how AI answer engines describe a brand across Western and Chinese platforms. It adds prompt discovery, citation analysis, optimisation recommendations and white-label reporting for agencies. | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Website | https://emergine.ai/ | | Price | from $29/month | | Free trial | Partly | The only free option is a 7-day free trial advertised on the homepage ('7-day free trial'); the cheapest standing plan is Lite at $29/mo. No $0 plan is published. ## What it does **Monitors AI answers** · Yes — Core purpose: it queries AI platforms and reports mention rate, rank, share of response and sentiment for your brand against competitors. > Track brand mentions, rankings, share of voice, and competitor visibility across AI platforms, languages, and markets. > — https://emergine.ai/ · Features section, 'Visibility Tracking' card **Optimises your content** · Yes — The vendor states it crawls your own pages and returns findings with the change to make, covering structure, citeability and technical readiness. > Emergine crawls your site the way an AI engine would and scores whether crawlers can reach and read you, how well your content answers tracked prompts, how winnable citations are in your category, and whether pages are structured to be quoted. > — https://emergine.ai/blog/emergine-vs-otterly-ai-visibility-tool-comparison/ · 'What you get with Emergine' section, 'Site Assessment, then Action Tasks' **Generates content** · Partly — The vendor says the platform helps create content needed to improve visibility, but describes no editor, brief or draft output in detail. > AI continuously identifies opportunities, recommends optimizations, and helps create the content needed to improve visibility. > — https://emergine.ai/ · Features section, 'Optimization' card **Technical AEO** · Yes — The FAQ names structured data and Schema markup among its website optimisation outputs, and the site audit scores crawler reachability and page structure. > Output actionable content plans, media release suggestions and official website optimization solutions (e.g. structured data, Schema markup) to directly improve brand GEO performance. > — https://emergine.ai/ · FAQ, 'How does the Emergine GEO tool work?', optimisation suggestions paragraph **Done-for-you service** · Partly — Emergine is software with a partner programme rather than a done-for-you service; only the custom Enterprise plan is described as managed, with personal onboarding. > The complete platform, tailored and managed around your brand. > — https://emergine.ai/ · Pricing section, Enterprise plan card description ## Answer engines **ChatGPT** · Yes — ChatGPT is named in the supported-platform FAQ inventory, in the homepage logo strip and as tracked in the vendor's own comparison table. > Emergine supports ten Chinese and global generative AI platforms: ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Doubao, Qwen, Yuanbao and YiYan. > — https://emergine.ai/ · FAQ, 'Which AI platforms does the Emergine GEO tool support?' **Perplexity** · Partly — The vendor's own pages disagree: the support FAQ lists Perplexity among ten platforms while its comparison post states Perplexity is not tracked. > Choose Otterly if your buyers are exclusively in Western markets and Perplexity or Claude are the engines that matter most to you. Emergine does not currently track either. > — https://emergine.ai/blog/emergine-vs-otterly-ai-visibility-tool-comparison/ · 'The short answer' section, second paragraph **Gemini** · Yes — Gemini appears in the ten-platform FAQ inventory and is marked Tracked in the vendor's engine-by-engine comparison table. > Ten: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, DeepSeek, Doubao, Yuanbao, Qwen, Baidu ERNIE and Kimi. > — https://emergine.ai/blog/emergine-vs-otterly-ai-visibility-tool-comparison/ · Common questions, 'Which engines does Emergine track?' **Google AI Overviews** · Yes — Google AI Overviews is listed in both engine inventories the vendor publishes, the support FAQ and the comparison post's tracked list. > Ten: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, DeepSeek, Doubao, Yuanbao, Qwen, Baidu ERNIE and Kimi. > — https://emergine.ai/blog/emergine-vs-otterly-ai-visibility-tool-comparison/ · Common questions, 'Which engines does Emergine track?' **Google AI Mode** · No — Google AI Mode sits under a 'Coming soon' heading beside the live platform strip and is absent from the FAQ's complete list of ten supported platforms. > Coming soon Google AI Mode > — https://emergine.ai/ · Hero platform strip, 'Coming soon' group (Google AI Mode, Kimi, Naver AI) **Claude** · No — Claude is absent from the vendor's complete ten-platform inventory and the comparison post states outright that Emergine does not currently track it. > Perplexity or Claude are the engines that matter most to you. Emergine does not currently track either. > — https://emergine.ai/blog/emergine-vs-otterly-ai-visibility-tool-comparison/ · 'The short answer' section, second paragraph, and Engine coverage table 'Claude — Not tracked' **Microsoft Copilot** · Yes — Microsoft Copilot is named second in the FAQ's list of ten supported platforms and carries a logo in the homepage platform strip. > Emergine supports ten Chinese and global generative AI platforms: ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Doubao, Qwen, Yuanbao and YiYan. > — https://emergine.ai/ · FAQ, 'Which AI platforms does the Emergine GEO tool support?' **Grok** · No — Grok appears nowhere on the site and is missing from the vendor's own closed inventory of the ten platforms it supports. > Emergine supports ten Chinese and global generative AI platforms: ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Doubao, Qwen, Yuanbao and YiYan. > — https://emergine.ai/ · FAQ, 'Which AI platforms does the Emergine GEO tool support?' **DeepSeek** · Yes — DeepSeek is one of the Chinese engines the product is built around, named in both inventories and queried in Chinese per the vendor. > DeepSeek, Doubao, Yuanbao, Qwen, Baidu ERNIE and Kimi are queried in Chinese, the way your buyers ask. > — https://emergine.ai/blog/emergine-vs-otterly-ai-visibility-tool-comparison/ · 'What you get with Emergine' section, 'China tracked natively' **Meta AI** · No — Meta AI is not named anywhere on the site and falls outside the vendor's explicit ten-platform support list and its 'coming soon' set. > Emergine supports ten Chinese and global generative AI platforms: ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Doubao, Qwen, Yuanbao and YiYan. > — https://emergine.ai/ · FAQ, 'Which AI platforms does the Emergine GEO tool support?' **Coverage in the vendor’s words** · Partly — The vendor claims ten platforms, but its two inventories disagree on which ten, and the $29 Lite plan buys only one platform of the set. > Emergine supports ten Chinese and global generative AI platforms: ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Doubao, Qwen, Yuanbao and YiYan. > — https://emergine.ai/ · FAQ, 'Which AI platforms does the Emergine GEO tool support?'; Pricing section, Lite plan '1 platform' ## What it reports **Names the cited sources** · Yes — Citation Intelligence reports which websites, publications and reviews each engine relies on for answers in your category, read per engine. > Understand which websites, publications, reviews, and content sources AI platforms rely on when answering questions about your category. > — https://emergine.ai/ · Features section, 'Citation Intelligence' card **Competitor tracking** · Yes — Competitors appear in the same brand comparison view with mentions, rank, sentiment, share of response and co-occurrence; Lite caps this at ten rivals. > Emergine reports every brand appearing beside yours in the answer, with mentions, rank, sentiment, share of response and co-occurrence on each. > — https://emergine.ai/blog/emergine-vs-otterly-ai-visibility-tool-comparison/ · 'What you get with Emergine' section, 'The competitors you did not name' **Brand sentiment** · Partly — Sentiment is scored 0 to 100 and trended per brand, but the vendor never claims to break out which attributes AI associates with a brand. > Sentiment | Three bands: enthusiastic, caveats, dismissed | Scored 0 to 100, trendable over time > — https://emergine.ai/blog/emergine-vs-otterly-ai-visibility-tool-comparison/ · 'What each platform reports' table, Sentiment row **Recommendations** · Yes — It goes past reporting: recommendations become assignable Action Tasks, and each site finding quotes the page and states the change to make. > Every finding quotes what was found on the page and states the change to make. Those findings become tasks your team can assign, work through and measure. > — https://emergine.ai/blog/emergine-vs-otterly-ai-visibility-tool-comparison/ · 'What you get with Emergine' section, 'Site Assessment, then Action Tasks' **AI crawler analytics** · No — The site audit checks whether AI crawlers can reach and read your pages; nowhere does the vendor claim to log which AI bots actually visited. > Emergine crawls your site the way an AI engine would and scores whether crawlers can reach and read you > — https://emergine.ai/blog/emergine-vs-otterly-ai-visibility-tool-comparison/ · 'What you get with Emergine' section, 'Site Assessment, then Action Tasks' **Wrong answers about you** · Partly — The vendor frames distorted or outdated AI claims as a risk it monitors through accuracy and sentiment tracking, but publishes no dedicated false-claim flagging feature. > Risk of distortion: AI may crawl outdated/incorrect information, conveying biased or even negative brand images. > — https://emergine.ai/ · FAQ, 'Why is GEO necessary?' ## Plans and signing up **Prompt or credit allowance** · Yes — The entry Lite plan states a hard allowance of fifteen prompts on one platform; Enterprise prompt counts are customised and unpublished. > 15 prompts > — https://emergine.ai/ · Pricing section, Lite plan feature list, second bullet **Projects or brands** · Partly — Lite is limited to a single brand with one user; several brands require the custom-quoted Enterprise plan, which the vendor calls customisable. > 1 project / brand > — https://emergine.ai/ · Pricing section, Lite plan feature list, first bullet **Countries** · Yes — Tracking runs across languages and markets, with Chinese engines queried in Chinese rather than through translated English prompts. > Track brand mentions, rankings, share of voice, and competitor visibility across AI platforms, languages, and markets. > — https://emergine.ai/ · Features section, 'Visibility Tracking' card **How often it checks** · Partly — Described as real-time crawling of AI platforms; no interval, schedule or per-plan frequency is published. > Data monitoring: Crawl mainstream AI platforms in real time to collect brand mention rate, keyword ranking, sentiment (positive/negative/neutral) and competitor benchmarking data. > — https://emergine.ai/ · FAQ, 'How does the Emergine GEO tool work?' **Self-serve signup** · Partly — Lite can be bought without sales via the register link and card or Apple Pay, but anything beyond one brand and one platform is a demo booking. > Card & Apple Pay > — https://emergine.ai/ · Pricing section, Lite plan feature list, last bullet, beside 'Get started' ## Access and integrations **API** · Partly — API access is listed only in the custom-quoted Enterprise plan and in the agency programme; the $29 Lite plan does not include it. > API & MCP > — https://emergine.ai/ · Pricing section, Enterprise plan feature list, penultimate bullet **MCP server** · Partly — MCP is named alongside the API as an Enterprise-plan entitlement, with no documentation of the server or how an agent connects. > API & MCP > — https://emergine.ai/ · Pricing section, Enterprise plan feature list, penultimate bullet **BI export** · Partly — Data leaves as branded PDF or CSV files; the vendor publishes no warehouse, Looker or Power BI connector, so any BI use is a manual import. > Our white-label report function allows you to customize report brand elements (Logo, title, color scheme, header & footer), exportable in PDF/CSV formats. > — https://emergine.ai/ · FAQ, 'Does the Emergine GEO tool support white-label report export?' ## Coverage elsewhere | Source | Kind | Read | | --- | --- | --- | | kawo.com | Independent source | 2026-08-24 | ## CitedIndex in AI answers 1 of 4 answers cite CitedIndex. | Engine | Result | Question | Asked on | Other sources | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Perplexity | Cites CitedIndex | Emergine alternatives | 2026-10-12 | itechguides.com, capterra.com.au, prescriber.io, revenue.land, cryptoslate.com | | ChatGPT | Does not cite CitedIndex | Emergine alternatives | 2026-10-12 | logowik.com, itechguides.com, freepng.com, x.com, rankscale.ai | | Claude | Listed no sources | Emergine alternatives | 2026-09-04 | — | | Gemini | Does not cite CitedIndex | Emergine alternatives | 2026-09-04 | tracxn.com, craft.co, softr.io, fabricate.build, codeconductor.ai, prismetric.com | ## What changed - 2026-09-26 — Capabilities · Free tier - 2026-09-25 — Capabilities · Free tier - 2026-09-24 — Capabilities · Free tier - 2026-09-22 — Capabilities · Free tier - 2026-09-02 — Capabilities · Free tier - 2026-09-01 — Capabilities · Free tier ## Corrections If you represent Emergine, or anything here is wrong or out of date, send a correction with a source. 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