# Local Falcon — Geo-grid tracking of local rankings and AI answer visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews, AI Mode and Grok. > Source: CitedIndex — https://citedindex.com/local-falcon (structured, researched, re-verified) > Facts last verified: 2026-10-11 Local Falcon is a local search platform that samples AI answers and map rankings at every point of a geographic grid. It reports share of voice, sentiment and cited sources per location, and acts on findings through a built-in agent. | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Website | https://www.localfalcon.com | | Price | from $24.99/month billed monthly, $24.99/month billed annually | | Free trial | Partly | 100 free credits granted on account creation, with no credit card required; the vendor calls this its free trial. There is no standing $0 plan, and credits on paid monthly plans expire at the end of each billing cycle. ## What it does **Monitors AI answers** · Yes — Runs repeated prompts at each geo-grid point and reports how five AI platforms mention the brand, with share-of-voice, sentiment and cited sources per location. > Track your brand's AI search visibility across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Grok, and AI Mode. Monitor how AI search engines talk about your brand. > — https://www.localfalcon.com/features/ai-search-visibility · Hero section, opening paragraph **Optimises your content** · Partly — Falcon AI returns optimisation recommendations from scan data for 25 credits per report, and the agent audits an existing site, but analysis is framed around listings and local pages rather than page-by-page rewriting. > Using Falcon AI to receive AI-powered analysis and optimization recommendations for a scan always costs just 25 credits per report. > — https://www.localfalcon.com/pricing · Pricing FAQ, 'How much does Falcon AI cost?' **Generates content** · Partly — Falcon Agent drafts review replies and Google Business Profile posts and suggests copy, but the writing is listing and review text rather than site articles; the agent needs Basic or above. > Suggest content and copy that win in local and AI search > — https://www.localfalcon.com/features/falcon-agent · 'A sample of what Falcon Agent can do' — Website & Content list **Publishes to your site** · Partly — It publishes to Google Business Profile — posts, hours, photos, review replies — but the vendor documents no push to a website CMS, so published output stays inside the listing. > Publish and manage Posts > — https://www.localfalcon.com/features/falcon-agent · 'A sample of what Falcon Agent can do' — On Your Google Business Profile list **Technical AEO** · Partly — The agent audits site metadata and schema and crawls pages AI platforms cite, but the vendor describes auditing and recommending rather than generating llms.txt or crawler directives. > Audit your site's local SEO: metadata, schema, on-page SEO > — https://www.localfalcon.com/features/falcon-agent · 'A sample of what Falcon Agent can do' — Website & Content list **Done-for-you service** · No — Self-serve software with automation standing in for the practitioner; the vendor sells plans and an in-product agent, and sends buyers wanting people to a separate firm. > Falcon Agent is your AI-powered local SEO professional that runs on its own. > — https://www.localfalcon.com/features/falcon-agent · Hero section, opening paragraph ## Answer engines **ChatGPT** · Yes — ChatGPT is one of the five AI platforms selectable as a scan data source, with its own per-platform tracking guide and knowledge-base article. > ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Grok, and more coming soon! > — https://www.localfalcon.com/answers/205-what-ai-platforms-does-local-falcon-track-my-visibility-in · FAQ answer body **Perplexity** · No — Perplexity appears in neither the vendor's answer to which platforms it tracks nor its stated seven-platform inventory; the FAQ closes with 'more coming soon', so it is not yet a data source. > Local Falcon tracks visibility across 7 platforms: Google Maps, Apple Maps, ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, and Grok. > — https://www.localfalcon.com/llms.txt · Platform coverage paragraph, third paragraph of the overview **Gemini** · Yes — Gemini is a selectable scan platform with its own tracking guide, and the vendor says it maps Gemini presence across a service area on the geo-grid. > Local Falcon monitors your business mentions across Gemini AI responses, showing when your brand appears, which queries trigger inclusion, and how your presence compares to competitors. > — https://www.localfalcon.com/features/ai-search-visibility · FAQ, 'How does Local Falcon track my visibility in Gemini?' **Google AI Overviews** · Yes — Google AI Overviews is named as a tracked platform in the engine list and has a dedicated feature page and knowledge-base guide of its own. > ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Grok, and more coming soon! > — https://www.localfalcon.com/answers/205-what-ai-platforms-does-local-falcon-track-my-visibility-in · FAQ answer body **Google AI Mode** · Yes — Google AI Mode is tracked with the same geo-grid method, and the vendor says each grid point shows how the business appears in those generated answers. > Local Falcon uses advanced geo-grid rank tracking to map your AI Mode visibility across your service area. > — https://www.localfalcon.com/features/ai-search-visibility · FAQ, 'How does Local Falcon track my visibility in AI Mode?' **Claude** · No — Claude is a client that can query Local Falcon through the Claude Connector, but it is absent from the seven-platform tracking inventory, so Claude answers are not themselves monitored. > Local Falcon tracks visibility across 7 platforms: Google Maps, Apple Maps, ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, and Grok. > — https://www.localfalcon.com/llms.txt · Platform coverage paragraph, third paragraph of the overview **Microsoft Copilot** · No — Microsoft Copilot is named only as a consumer of Local Falcon data via integration guides, and does not appear in the vendor's enumerated list of tracked platforms. > Local Falcon tracks visibility across 7 platforms: Google Maps, Apple Maps, ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, and Grok. > — https://www.localfalcon.com/llms.txt · Platform coverage paragraph, third paragraph of the overview **Grok** · Yes — Grok is a tracked platform with its own guide; the vendor maps where the business appears in Grok responses across the service area. > Local Falcon monitors when and where your business appears in Grok responses, mapping your visibility across your service area with geo-grid rank tracking. > — https://www.localfalcon.com/features/ai-search-visibility · FAQ, 'How does Local Falcon track my visibility in Grok?' **DeepSeek** · No — DeepSeek is absent from both the FAQ answer naming tracked platforms and the vendor's count of seven tracked platforms, so no tier queries it today. > Local Falcon tracks visibility across 7 platforms: Google Maps, Apple Maps, ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, and Grok. > — https://www.localfalcon.com/llms.txt · Platform coverage paragraph, third paragraph of the overview **Meta AI** · No — Meta AI is named nowhere in the vendor's platform inventory or its per-platform tracking guides, which cover only ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews, AI Mode and Grok. > Local Falcon tracks visibility across 7 platforms: Google Maps, Apple Maps, ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, and Grok. > — https://www.localfalcon.com/llms.txt · Platform coverage paragraph, third paragraph of the overview **Coverage in the vendor’s words** · Yes — The vendor states a closed inventory of seven platforms, five of them AI answer engines, selectable as scan data sources on every plan with no per-tier engine limit. > Local Falcon offers AI platforms, including Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Grok, as data sources you can choose when setting up a new Quick Scan or Campaign Scan. > — https://www.localfalcon.com/answers/328-is-local-ai-visibility-tracking-included-in-every-plan · FAQ answer body, 'Is local AI visibility tracking included in every plan?' ## What it reports **Names the cited sources** · Yes — Reports name the websites and content each platform referenced about the brand, with citation patterns compared across platforms and gaps in source coverage flagged. > Discover which sources ChatGPT, Gemini, and other AI platforms reference when discussing your business. > — https://www.localfalcon.com/features/ai-search-visibility · 'AI Search Source Tracking for GEO Insights' section **Competitor tracking** · Yes — Competitor mentions sit in the same view across every tracked platform, and a dedicated Competitor Report compares rivals point by point on the same grid; included from the entry plan. > Compare your brand mentions against competitors across all AI platforms in your market. > — https://www.localfalcon.com/features/ai-search-visibility · 'Competitive AI Search Visibility Analysis' section **Brand sentiment** · Yes — A Brand Phrases section lists the attributes and services AI associates with the business and scores sentiment, alongside a Buyer Persuasion Score from -10 to +10. > the Brand Phrases section of your AI visibility reports includes an overview of the AI's sentiment when it uses specific phrases to describe your business > — https://www.localfalcon.com/answers/238-do-local-falcons-ai-visibility-scan-reports-include-sentiment-analysis · FAQ answer body **Recommendations** · Yes — Falcon AI turns a scan into named improvement steps for 25 credits per report, and the agent can recommend new pages and internal links from visibility gaps. > Using Falcon AI to receive AI-powered analysis and optimization recommendations for a scan always costs just 25 credits per report. > — https://www.localfalcon.com/pricing · Pricing FAQ, 'How much does Falcon AI cost?' **AI crawler analytics** · No — No AI-bot or log-file analytics appears in the plan feature list; AI crawlers are only defined in the FAQ glossary. > Falcon AI Find Relevant Citations Looker Studio Connector Zapier & n8n Integration Local Falcon API MCP Server Falcon Agent Automated Review Response Sales Enablement White Label Reports > — https://www.localfalcon.com/pricing · Plan comparison table, feature label column **Wrong answers about you** · Partly — The vendor frames monitoring AI descriptions as the way to catch wrong hours, locations or descriptions, but publishes no dedicated false-statement flag. > Monitoring how AI tools describe your business helps you catch and correct these errors before they reach customers. > — https://www.localfalcon.com/answers · FAQ answer to "What is an AI hallucination?" ## Plans and signing up **Prompt or credit allowance** · Yes — Metered in credits, one per grid point, with the entry plan carrying 7,500 credits a billing cycle and sample count per prompt set by the user. > Credits Per Billing Cycle: 7,500 credits > — https://www.localfalcon.com/pricing · Plan comparison table, Starter monthly column, Credits Per Billing Cycle row **Projects or brands** · Yes — Every published plan, including the cheapest, carries unlimited locations and unlimited keywords, so several brands or sites can be tracked without a tier change. > Locations: Unlimited > — https://www.localfalcon.com/pricing · Plan comparison table, Locations row, Starter monthly column **Countries** · Yes — Global availability is a ticked row on every plan including Starter, and scans are aimed at any chosen point with a radius from 0.1 to 100 miles. > Global Availability: Yes > — https://www.localfalcon.com/pricing · Plan comparison table, Global Availability row, Starter monthly column **How often it checks** · Yes — Checks run on demand or on a schedule the buyer sets; the vendor recommends weekly or bi-weekly for cost, with monthly and daily both possible. > Weekly and bi-weekly scheduled scans are the most cost-effective options, as they offer a good balance between data frequency and credit usage. > — https://www.localfalcon.com/answers/63-what-scan-frequency-should-i-choose-for-campaign-scans · FAQ answer body **Card required to start** · No — The pricing page states no card is needed and grants 100 credits on sign-up, so the free credits can be spent before any payment detail is entered. > No credit card needed. Cancel anytime. +100 Free Credits on sign up. > — https://www.localfalcon.com/pricing · Page header, sub-heading under 'Local Falcon Pricing' **Self-serve signup** · Yes — All four published plans have Sign Up buttons and no card is required to start; only the separately published enterprise packages route through a sales page. > No credit card needed. Cancel anytime. +100 Free Credits on sign up. > — https://www.localfalcon.com/pricing · Page header, sub-heading above the plan cards with Sign Up buttons ## Access and integrations **API** · Partly — The data-retrieval REST API is ticked on every plan including Starter, but the on-demand API that returns scans in real time is a separate $199/month subscription plus per-request fees. > Access to Local Falcon's on-demand API requires a subscription fee of $199 per month. There are also reasonable usage fees of $0.0032 per request or $3.20 for 1,000 requests. > — https://www.localfalcon.com/pricing · Pricing FAQ, 'How much does Local Falcon's on-demand API cost?' **MCP server** · Yes — An MCP server is ticked on every plan in both hosted and self-hosted form, plus a native Claude Connector the vendor says costs nothing extra. > MCP Server: Yes > — https://www.localfalcon.com/pricing · Plan comparison table, MCP Server row, Starter monthly column **BI export** · Yes — A Looker Studio connector is ticked on every published plan, beside Zapier, n8n and CSV or PDF exports for moving scan data into other dashboards. > Looker Studio connector - Visualize your Local Falcon data alongside other marketing metrics in custom dashboards > — https://www.localfalcon.com/answers/224-can-i-export-or-use-my-local-falcon-data-outside-the-platform · FAQ answer body, 'Integrations & API' list ## Repository (as of 2026-08-30) | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Licence | MIT | | Stars | 23 | | Forks | 3 | | Last push | 2026-06-25 | ## Coverage elsewhere | Source | Kind | Read | | --- | --- | --- | | g2.com | Review platform | 2026-08-22 | | brightlocal.com | 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 | Local Falcon alternatives | 2026-10-12 | growthaipro.in, mobilestalk.net, brandfetch.com, freepng.com, logowik.com, flaticon.com | | Claude | Listed no sources | Local Falcon alternatives | 2026-09-04 | — | | Gemini | Does not cite CitedIndex | Local Falcon alternatives | 2026-09-04 | localdominator.co, sureshotsystems.com, avafaconsulting.com, rankmax.com.au, gmbapi.com, searchatlas.com | | Perplexity | Does not cite CitedIndex | Local Falcon alternatives | 2026-10-12 | sureshotsystems.com, marketraa.com, filipkonecny.com, birdeye.com, localdominator.co, flento.io | ## What changed - 2026-10-11 — Capabilities · Free tier - 2026-09-02 — Capabilities · Terms - 2026-09-01 — Capabilities · Free tier - 2026-08-31 — Capabilities · Free tier · Price · Terms - 2026-08-30 — Capabilities · Free tier · Links · Price · Terms - 2026-08-22 — Alternatives · Crunchbase link · Documentation link · LinkedIn link · Repository · Summary · Tagline ## Corrections If you represent Local Falcon, or anything here is wrong or out of date, send a correction with a source. 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