# Gauge — AI visibility tracking with an agent and content engine that writes and publishes the fixes. > Source: CitedIndex — https://citedindex.com/gauge (structured, researched, re-verified) > Facts last verified: 2026-10-05 Gauge is an AI marketing platform that runs tracked prompts through AI answer engines daily and records brand mentions, citations and sentiment. Its Ask Gauge agent and content engine turn the resulting gaps into articles published to a connected CMS. | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Website | https://www.withgauge.com/ | | Price | from $599/month | | Free trial | Partly | One-week free trial of Gauge Chat Growth; the docs say to add a payment method before the trial ends to keep access. A residual free plan exists but gates the dashboard, Action Center, content, audits, research, prompts, topics, citations and ads. ## What it does **Monitors AI answers** · Yes — Core function: tracked prompts run daily through eight answer engines and every mention of the brand is recorded alongside competitors. > Gauge monitors AI-generated answers across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, CoPilot, AI Mode, and AI Overviews to detect mentions of your brand. > — https://www.withgauge.com/ · Complete Control Over Your AI Presence section, 'Track' card **Optimises your content** · Yes — Existing pages are scored against a nine-criteria health score and the Action Center raises structural fixes on the ones scoring poorly. > Structural improvements, for pages scoring poorly on Gauge's 9-criteria health score. > — https://www.withgauge.com/features/action-center/ · FAQ, 'What kinds of actions does the Action Center recommend?' **Generates content** · Yes — The content engine drafts whole articles from brief through outline to review, with 18 publish-ready pieces a month on Growth. > Gauge's Content Engine generates data-driven articles designed to get your brand cited by AI automatically > — https://www.withgauge.com/features/content-engine/ · Page intro, under 'Turn AI Gaps Into Content That Gets Featured' **Publishes to your site** · Yes — Approved drafts push straight to four named destinations, including a pull request where the blog lives in a repository. > then publish to Webflow, Framer, or Sanity — or open a pull request if your blog lives in a repo. > — https://www.withgauge.com/features/action-center/ · How it works, step 03 'The agent does the work' **Technical AEO** · Partly — Page-level structural work and AI bot log analysis are covered, but the vendor does not state that it generates schema markup, llms.txt files or crawler directives. > Structural improvements, for pages scoring poorly on Gauge's 9-criteria health score. > — https://www.withgauge.com/features/action-center/ · FAQ, 'What kinds of actions does the Action Center recommend?' **Done-for-you service** · Partly — Gauge is software a team runs itself; hands-on work from Gauge's own people is limited to recurring implementation and strategy sessions on Enterprise. > Recurring implementation and strategy sessions with the Gauge team > — https://www.withgauge.com/pricing/ · Plans section, Enterprise — Custom bullet list ## Answer engines **ChatGPT** · Yes — ChatGPT is one of the six core platforms included on the entry plan, collected through the logged-out web experience with search on. > Gauge measures the default, logged-out ChatGPT experience with web search enabled. > — https://docs.withgauge.com/navigating/ai-engines.md · Engines Gauge Tracks, 'ChatGPT (OpenAI)' **Perplexity** · Yes — Perplexity is one of the six core platforms on Growth and the vendor treats it as its strongest citation signal. > 6 platforms: ChatGPT, Google AIO, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Microsoft CoPilot > — https://www.withgauge.com/pricing/ · Plans section, Growth — $599/mo bullet list **Gemini** · Yes — Google's standalone Gemini assistant is tracked as a separate engine from AI Overviews and AI Mode on the entry plan. > Google's standalone Gemini assistant answers questions in a conversational format, drawing on Google's index. > — https://docs.withgauge.com/navigating/ai-engines.md · Engines Gauge Tracks, 'Google Gemini' **Google AI Overviews** · Yes — Google AI Overviews is a distinct tracked surface included in the six core platforms on the $599 Growth plan. > AI Overviews are the AI-generated summaries that appear at the top of a standard Google search results page. > — https://docs.withgauge.com/navigating/ai-engines.md · Engines Gauge Tracks, 'Google AI Overviews (AIO)' **Google AI Mode** · Yes — Google AI Mode is tracked separately from AI Overviews and is named in the six core platforms on Growth. > AI Mode is Google's fully conversational search experience — a chat-style answer surface distinct from the AI Overviews that appear on classic results pages. > — https://docs.withgauge.com/navigating/ai-engines.md · Engines Gauge Tracks, 'Google AI Mode' **Claude** · Partly — Claude is collected by Gauge but the comparison table marks it No on Growth; it needs Enterprise or your own paid Anthropic key, which Anthropic bills separately. > Claude and Grok tracking isn't Enterprise-only — on any plan you can turn them on by connecting your own Anthropic or xAI API key, and the provider bills you directly for those nightly runs. > — https://www.withgauge.com/pricing/ · FAQ, 'What's the difference between Growth and Enterprise?' **Microsoft Copilot** · Yes — Microsoft Copilot is one of the six core platforms on Growth, collected through its Bing-backed answer surface. > Microsoft Copilot answers questions using Bing as its underlying search engine, and reaches users across Windows, Edge, and Microsoft 365. > — https://docs.withgauge.com/navigating/ai-engines.md · Engines Gauge Tracks, 'Microsoft Copilot' **Grok** · Partly — Grok is a supported engine but the plan table reads No for Growth; it arrives with Enterprise or by connecting your own billed xAI key. > | Grok (xAI) | No | Yes | > — https://www.withgauge.com/pricing/ · Compare plans, Monitoring & analytics table, 'Grok (xAI)' row **DeepSeek** · No — The documentation page that enumerates the engines Gauge monitors lists eight and DeepSeek is not among them, on any plan. > ChatGPT (OpenAI) … Anthropic (Claude) … Perplexity … Google Gemini … Google AI Overviews (AIO) … Google AI Mode … Microsoft Copilot … Grok (xAI) > — https://docs.withgauge.com/navigating/ai-engines.md · 'Engines Gauge Tracks' section headings, the full per-engine inventory **Meta AI** · No — Meta AI appears in neither the per-engine documentation inventory nor the plan comparison table, so it is not a tracked answer engine. > Gauge tracks ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, and Microsoft Copilot. Claude and Grok can also be enabled through BYOK > — https://docs.withgauge.com/resources/faq.md · FAQ, 'Which AI engines can I track?' **Coverage in the vendor’s words** · Yes — Six engines are included on Growth and eight exist in total, with Claude and Grok reaching Growth only via your own provider key. > 600 prompts, run daily — 108,000 AI answers tracked per month; 6 platforms: ChatGPT, Google AIO, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Microsoft CoPilot > — https://www.withgauge.com/pricing/ · Plans section, Growth — $599/mo bullet list ## What it reports **Names the cited sources** · Yes — Citation analysis reports which domains and URLs each engine cites, with trend data filterable by topic, model and date. > You'll see domain-level and URL-level citation data with trend graphs, filtered by topic, model, and date, so you know exactly where to focus your efforts. > — https://www.withgauge.com/ai-visibility/ · 'Find the Sources AI Platforms Actually Trust and Cite' section **Competitor tracking** · Yes — Competitors are captured on the same prompt runs and compared side by side, with unlimited competitors on both plans. > Gauge tracks competitor mentions across the same prompt set, so you can see side-by-side visibility for every brand in your category, broken down by topic, model, and date range. > — https://www.withgauge.com/features/prompt-tracking/ · FAQ, 'Can I track how competitors appear in the same prompts?' **Brand sentiment** · Yes — Sentiment analysis grades the tone and framing of each answer per model and ranks the weakest prompts by impact. > Gauge analyzes the tone and framing of how AI talks about your brand: positive, negative, neutral, or absent. > — https://www.withgauge.com/features/sentiment-analysis/ · How it works, step 02 'We Analyze the Language' **Recommendations** · Yes — The Action Center ranks suggested actions with the supporting data, hands them to the agent, then measures the result against the projection. > The Action Center finds the highest-value actions for your brand, shows the data behind each one, lets Gauge's agent do the work, then measures what it did to your citation rate and visibility. > — https://www.withgauge.com/features/action-center/ · Page intro, under 'The Work Finds You' **AI crawler analytics** · Partly — AI bot and coding-agent hits are reported per page, but only after you connect your own Cloudflare, Vercel or forwarded server logs. > Gauge reads your server logs through Cloudflare, Vercel, or manual forwarding and analyzes which pages LLMs are accessing. > — https://docs.withgauge.com/navigating/ai-traffic.md · AI Traffic overview paragraph **Wrong answers about you** · Partly — Branded prompts and sentiment surface where a model misdescribes the brand, but the vendor documents no dedicated false-claim flag or alert. > you get a clear picture of the lens AI takes when buyers are researching you — what it emphasizes, what it gets wrong, and how it frames your positioning. > — https://docs.withgauge.com/help/branded-prompts.md · 'Why Branded Prompts Matter' section ## Plans and signing up **Prompt or credit allowance** · Yes — Growth includes 600 tracked prompts run once per engine per day, which the vendor totals as 108,000 answers a month. > 600 tracked prompts, run every day across six AI platforms … That's 108,000 AI answers collected and analyzed for your brand every month. > — https://www.withgauge.com/pricing/ · FAQ, 'What do I get with Growth for $599/month?' **Projects or brands** · Partly — A Growth workspace tracks one brand with unlimited domains and competitors; separate per-client workspaces require an agency account billed per active client. > An agency account lets your team switch between separate client workspaces, each with its own prompts, competitors, and data. Billing combines a monthly agency base fee with a charge for each active client. > — https://docs.withgauge.com/resources/faq.md · FAQ, 'Can I manage multiple clients?' **Countries** · Partly — Growth is restricted to a single location; tracking additional markets is an Enterprise allowance set per organisation. > | Locations | Single location | Custom | > — https://www.withgauge.com/pricing/ · Compare plans, Monitoring & analytics table, 'Locations' row **How often it checks** · Yes — Every tracked prompt runs once per engine per day on a recurring schedule, and newly added prompts run immediately. > Gauge runs each prompt once per AI model per day. If you track one prompt across six models, Gauge collects six new answers for that prompt each day. > — https://docs.withgauge.com/navigating/prompt-runs.md · 'How Often Does Gauge Run Each Prompt?' section **Card required to start** · No — The trial banner asks for a payment method to continue after the trial ends, not to start it. > It shows how many days remain, a progress bar, and a reminder to add a payment method to continue after your trial ends. > — https://docs.withgauge.com/help/billing · Free Trial section **Self-serve signup** · Yes — Growth is bought by Stripe checkout with no sales call, and the vendor states agency signup is self-serve as well. > Growth includes a one-week free trial and does not require a sales call. > — https://www.withgauge.com/pricing/ · Plans section, Growth — $599/mo description line ## Access and integrations **API** · Partly — Gauge Chat data is reachable programmatically through the MCP endpoint with a bearer API key, while the documented REST API reference covers the separate Gauge Agents product. > API key authentication is also available for scripts, automation, and clients that do not support OAuth. > — https://docs.withgauge.com/help/mcp.md · Gauge MCP intro, second paragraph **MCP server** · Yes — Gauge runs its own MCP server at app.withgauge.com/mcp with OAuth or API-key auth, included on both plans. > Gauge runs an MCP server, so any MCP-compatible client — Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, Gemini, Windsurf, Zed, or your own tooling — can query your Gauge data and take actions on your behalf > — https://docs.withgauge.com/help/mcp.md · Gauge MCP intro, first paragraph **BI export** · Partly — Data leaves as filtered per-table CSV downloads, which are themselves plan-gated; no warehouse, Looker or Power BI connector is documented. > Data Exports let you pull the data behind a table straight out of Gauge as a CSV, with your current filters already applied. > — https://docs.withgauge.com/help/exports.md · Data Exports overview paragraph ## Coverage elsewhere | Source | Kind | Read | | --- | --- | --- | | checkthat.ai | A competitor's comparison | 2026-08-23 | ## CitedIndex in AI answers 0 of 4 answers cite CitedIndex. | Engine | Result | Question | Asked on | Other sources | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ChatGPT | Does not cite CitedIndex | Gauge alternatives | 2026-10-12 | menra.ai, linkedin.com, tryanalyze.ai, tryprofound.com, elmohq.com | | Claude | Listed no sources | Gauge alternatives | 2026-09-04 | — | | Gemini | Does not cite CitedIndex | Gauge alternatives | 2026-09-04 | digitechautosolutions.com, edmondindustries.com, wexfordins.com, fourdata.io, reddit.com, fuelsnap.com | | Perplexity | Does not cite CitedIndex | Gauge alternatives | 2026-10-12 | alternativeto.net, g2.com, dageno.ai, spotsaas.com, softwaresuggest.com, checkthat.ai | ## What changed - 2026-10-05 — Capabilities · Free tier - 2026-09-01 — Capabilities · Free tier - 2026-08-31 — Capabilities · Free tier · Price - 2026-08-23 — Alternatives · Summary ## Corrections If you represent Gauge, 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 catalogue needs no key to read, and each entry states its own auth.