# Rank.ai — Tracks ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini answers daily, then writes and publishes the articles that win them. > Source: CitedIndex — https://citedindex.com/rank-ai (structured, researched, re-verified) > Facts last verified: 2026-10-13 Rank.ai asks ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini the buying questions a brand's customers ask, records who each answer names and cites, and tracks Google and Google Maps rankings. It then writes articles for the losing questions and publishes them to WordPress, Webflow, Shopify or Next.js. | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Website | https://www.rank.ai | | Price | free, then from $49/month billed monthly, $39/month billed annually | | Free tier | Yes | Free is $0 a month with no card: 1 site, 3 articles published a month, 3 Google keywords, 500 credits and every free tool, but no AI questions to win, no map scans and no MCP server. Every new account additionally gets 14 days of Growth, up to 10 articles, with no card, then drops to Free. ## What it does **Monitors AI answers** · Yes — Daily tracking of customer questions in ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini is the core of the product, run through each engine's own API with web search enabled rather than scraped chat sessions. > Every day, Rank.ai asks ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini the questions your customers ask, through each engine's API with web search on. > — https://www.rank.ai/product/ai-visibility · Hero paragraph under 'Get named when your customers ask AI who's best.' **Optimises your content** · Partly — It researches each question against the pages already ranking and the free AI grade returns prioritised fixes, but the advice is framed around new articles rather than a rewrite plan for pages you already have. > Three fixes What to fix first, with a brief for the first article. > — https://www.rank.ai/docs/mcp · Closing 'See how often ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini name you' block, third bullet **Generates content** · Yes — Writing full articles is a metered deliverable on every plan, from three a month on Free to three hundred pooled on Agency, researched against live results before writing. > One finished, published piece: researched against live search results and the pages already ranking, outlined, written, given a featured image and published to your site. > — https://www.rank.ai/pricing · Frequently asked, 'What counts as one article?' **Publishes to your site** · Yes — Articles push live to four named site platforms on every plan including Free, either on a schedule or held for a human review step before publishing. > Publishing to your siteWordPress, Webflow, Shopify or Next.js, with a review step or on a schedule. > — https://www.rank.ai/pricing · Compare table, 'Publishing to your site' row **Technical AEO** · Partly — Technical AEO is delivered as free standalone checkers for schema, robots.txt and llms.txt rather than as monitored, fix-tracked work inside the paid product itself. > AI crawler checker See which of 14 AI crawlers and tokens your robots.txt blocks, and which of them feed AI search. llms.txt generator Draft an llms.txt file from your sitemap > — https://www.rank.ai/free-tools · Free tools listing, AI crawler checker and llms.txt generator entries **Done-for-you service** · Yes — A done-for-you line exists with published monthly prices in three tiers, where Rank.ai staff choose the questions, run the tracking and publish the articles. > Done-for-you is $2,000 a month for Core, $5,000 for Scale and $10,000 for Enterprise. We run Rank.ai for you > — https://www.rank.ai/pricing · Frequently asked, 'How does done-for-you work?' ## Answer engines **ChatGPT** · Yes — ChatGPT answers every tracked question every day on any plan that includes AI questions, costing the same eight credits as the other default engines. > ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini answer every question you track, asked every day through each engine's API with web search on. > — https://www.rank.ai/pricing · Frequently asked, 'Which AI engines are included?' **Perplexity** · Partly — Perplexity is opt-in per question rather than a default engine, and the comparison table shows the 'More AI engines' switch is absent from the Free plan. > More AI enginesSwitch on Perplexity, Grok or DeepSeek for any question, at the same cost per answer. > — https://www.rank.ai/pricing · Compare table, 'More AI engines' row **Gemini** · Yes — Gemini is one of three default engines asked every tracked question daily through its API, and the vendor publishes recorded Gemini answers with their citations. > ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini answer every question you track, asked every day through each engine's API with web search on. > — https://www.rank.ai/pricing · Frequently asked, 'Which AI engines are included?' **Google AI Overviews** · Partly — Paid keyword tracking only flags where an AI Overview appears; checking whether the Overview actually cites your site is a one-off free tool rather than daily monitoring. > Google keywords to rank forChecked every day, with a flag when Google shows an AI Overview, and worked into the articles Rank.ai writes. > — https://www.rank.ai/pricing · Compare table, 'Google keywords to rank for' row **Google AI Mode** · No — The vendor's own competitor scorecard marks Google AI Mode tracking as absent from Rank.ai while crediting it to the rival's enterprise plan, so no tier covers it. > Microsoft Copilot and Google AI Mode No Yes Enterprise > — https://www.rank.ai/vs/profound · The scorecard table, 'Microsoft Copilot and Google AI Mode' row, Rank.ai column **Claude** · Yes — Claude is a default engine on every plan that tracks AI answers, and the vendor states it is not reserved for a higher tier. > Claude tracking Yes On every plan that tracks AI answers, from $49 > — https://www.rank.ai/vs/profound · The scorecard table, 'Claude tracking' row, Rank.ai column **Microsoft Copilot** · No — Microsoft Copilot sits in the same scorecard row as AI Mode and is marked 'No' for Rank.ai, and it appears in none of the six engines the product lists. > Microsoft Copilot and Google AI Mode No Yes Enterprise > — https://www.rank.ai/vs/profound · The scorecard table, 'Microsoft Copilot and Google AI Mode' row, Rank.ai column **Grok** · Partly — Grok is an optional engine switched on per question at the same eight credits per answer, and the plan table withholds the switch from the Free tier. > More AI enginesSwitch on Perplexity, Grok or DeepSeek for any question, at the same cost per answer. > — https://www.rank.ai/pricing · Compare table, 'More AI engines' row **DeepSeek** · Partly — DeepSeek is available only as a per-question opt-in alongside Perplexity and Grok, and the row is marked No for the Free plan in the comparison table. > More AI enginesSwitch on Perplexity, Grok or DeepSeek for any question, at the same cost per answer. > — https://www.rank.ai/pricing · Compare table, 'More AI engines' row **Meta AI** · No — The vendor states its engine count as six and names all of them; Meta AI is in none of the default three nor the three opt-in engines, so no tier reaches it. > 6 AI engines: ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini on every question, and Perplexity, Grok and DeepSeek when you switch them on > — https://www.rank.ai/product/ai-visibility · Statistics block beside the hero, '6 AI engines' figure and caption **Coverage in the vendor’s words** · Yes — Coverage is stated plainly: three engines on every question by default, three more opt-in, with no engine locked behind a higher plan and a flat eight credits per answer. > You can switch on Perplexity, Grok or DeepSeek for any question. No engine needs a higher plan, and each answer costs the same 8 credits. > — https://www.rank.ai/pricing · Frequently asked, 'Which AI engines are included?' ## What it reports **Names the cited sources** · Partly — Every answer keeps its citations and the cited sites are ranked by how many answers use them, but the Free plan does not include the cited-pages view at all. > Competitors and cited pagesWho each answer names in your place, your share of the mentions, and the pages the answers cite. > — https://www.rank.ai/pricing · Compare table, 'Competitors and cited pages' row **Competitor tracking** · Partly — Rival brands appear in the same share-of-answers view and can be tracked individually through the MCP tools, but the whole competitor view is withheld from the Free plan. > Competitors and cited pagesWho each answer names in your place, your share of the mentions, and the pages the answers cite. > — https://www.rank.ai/pricing · Compare table, 'Competitors and cited pages' row **Recommendations** · Yes — It does not stop at reporting: a losing question becomes a planned, written and published article, which is the acted-on recommendation itself. > Pick a question where a competitor gets named and you don't, and Rank.ai plans an article that answers it. > — https://www.rank.ai/product/content · 'Plan — Articles for the questions you're losing' section **AI crawler analytics** · Partly — AI bot analytics shows which crawlers read which pages but requires installing a snippet on your server, and the Free plan is excluded from the feature. > AI bot analyticsWhich AI crawlers read your site, and which pages, from a snippet on your server. > — https://www.rank.ai/pricing · Compare table, 'AI bot analytics' row ## Plans and signing up **Prompt or credit allowance** · Yes — Allowances are published per plan as tracked questions plus a pooled credit budget, with the per-answer cost stated so volume can be calculated before buying. > Your plan includes 500, 5,000, 12,000 or 40,000 a month. A Google keyword uses 1 credit a day. An AI question uses 8 credits each time one engine answers it > — https://www.rank.ai/pricing · Frequently asked, 'What is a credit?' **Projects or brands** · Yes — Several brands are supported by plan: one site on Free and Starter, three on Growth, and fifteen client sites on Agency with a per-site fee beyond that. > SitesWebsites you connect and publish to. 1 1 3 15, then $19 a month each > — https://www.rank.ai/pricing · Compare table, 'Sites' row across Free, Starter, Growth and Agency **Countries** · Partly — Each connected site carries its own language and country setting with 107 languages available, but this is stated for article writing rather than as a market selector for AI answer tracking. > 107 languages. Each site has its own language and country, English and the United States by default. > — https://www.rank.ai/product/content · Content FAQ, 'Which languages can it write in?' **How often it checks** · Yes — Tracked questions and Google keywords are both checked daily, while Google Maps grid scans are run on demand rather than on a schedule. > Map scansYour Google Maps rank at each point of a grid around a location, whenever you run a scan. > — https://www.rank.ai/pricing · Compare table, 'Map scans' row description, beside the daily-checked keyword and question rows **Card required to start** · No — Neither the standing Free plan nor the fourteen-day Growth trial asks for payment details, and the account falls back to Free when the trial ends. > Yes. Every new account gets the Growth plan for 14 days, up to 10 articles, and no card is asked for. > — https://www.rank.ai/pricing · Frequently asked, 'Is there a free trial?' **Self-serve signup** · Partly — Free through Agency are bought by signup with no sales contact, but the Local add-on for extra map locations and the done-for-you tiers are sold only on a call. > Local adds map scans for more locations than your plan includes: $19 a location a month, 10 locations at least, or $9 a location on Agency. Our team sets it up, so talk to sales to add it. > — https://www.rank.ai/pricing · Frequently asked, 'How does Local pricing work?' ## Access and integrations **API** · No — The vendor answers its own FAQ with a flat no: there is no public API, and programmatic reach is limited to the MCP server plus CSV downloads. > Do you have a public API? No. On Agency, the MCP server (Beta) lets AI tools query your data, and CSV exports cover keywords, AI questions and locations on every plan. > — https://www.rank.ai/integrations · Questions about integrations, 'Do you have a public API?' **MCP server** · Partly — A hosted MCP server with read and write tools exists and accepts bearer API keys, but it is labelled Beta and excluded from the Free and Starter plans. > The Growth and Agency plans and every done-for-you plan, including the 14 day Growth trial. The Free and Starter plans do not include it. > — https://www.rank.ai/mcp · Questions about the MCP server, 'Which plans include the MCP server?' **BI export** · Partly — Data leaves only as CSV files of keywords, questions, answers and locations; no warehouse, Looker or Power BI connector is documented anywhere on the integrations page. > CSV export Export tracked keywords, AI questions and their answers, and locations on every plan. > — https://www.rank.ai/integrations · 'Getting your data out of Rank.ai' section, CSV export entry ## What changed - 2026-10-13 — Capabilities · Free tier · Price - 2026-08-19 — Created ## Keeping it current These facts are re-checked against Rank.ai's own pages and updated when they change. If you represent Rank.ai, sign in and update the listing from your dashboard at https://citedindex.com/dashboard. 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.