Rankfender

Summary

Rankfender is an SEO and generative-engine platform from 361SEO that scores brand visibility in AI answers and generates articles to close the gaps it finds. It couples Google Search Console, GA4 and keyword data with an autonomous assistant, RAISA.

Best for: Marketing teams that want broad LLM tracking bundled with content production from a 2024-founded vendor.
Not for: buyers who need API access on an entry-level budget, or who weight an established third-party review base heavily

Captured 2026-09-08 · citedindex.com

From: $89/month$89 monthly · $73.83 billed annually
Free trial: Yes7-day free trial on Essential, Professional and Business with full access to all features and no credit card; cancel anytime. There is no free plan, but a free AI Visibility Checker tool is offered at /en/free-ai-tools/.

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What it does

Monitors AI answers: YesThe RAIVE engine submits real prompts to seven AI systems and returns a 0-100 visibility score per system.It tests your brand across all 7 AI systems with real prompts and delivers visibility scores, share of voice, and actionable insights.rankfender.com/en/pricing
Optimises your content: PartlyOptimization insights start on Professional (Essential has none), and the dedicated on-page auditor ROSE is not shipped.ROSE v1.0 (coming soon) audits and fixes on-page issues before they hit prod.rankfender.com/en
Generates content: YesThe RCGE content engine drafts articles through an 8-stage pipeline; plan caps run 5 to 60 articles a month.8-stage article pipeline with content calendar, auto-publish, and bulk generation. Up to 60 articles per month.rankfender.com/en
Publishes to your site: YesOne-click publishing to WordPress, Shopify and Wix on every plan, plus webhooks for any other CMS.Yes. Rankfender supports one-click publishing to WordPress, Shopify, and Wix. You can also connect any CMS via webhooks.rankfender.com/en/pricing
Technical AEO: PartlyPublished articles carry schema markup and are pushed to Google's Indexing API, but the technical-fix and sitemap module is unreleased and no llms.txt or crawler-directive control is documented.complete with title tags, meta descriptions, categories, tags, featured images, and schema markuprankfender.com/en/features/integrations
Done-for-you service: NoRankfender sells the software agencies use to deliver the work themselves; the only human element is a dedicated account manager and priority support on the Agencies plan.Offer the service no other agency can: comprehensive AI visibility monitoring, content optimization, and white-label reporting.rankfender.com/en/solutions/agencies

Answer engines

ChatGPT: YesScored as one of the seven systems; the docs name the queried model as GPT-4o-mini.Score and analyze how OpenAI's ChatGPT positions, cites, and recommends your brand across training data, browsing citations, and plugin surfacesrankfender.com/en/features/raive-engine
Perplexity: YesTracked with citation position and source-authority measurement.Measure citation position, URL prominence, and source authority in Perplexity answersrankfender.com/en/features/raive-engine
Gemini: YesTracked across several Google surfaces in a single Gemini score.Track brand presence across all Gemini surfaces simultaneously: AI Overviews in Search, Knowledge Graph entries, Workspace integrations, and Shopping…rankfender.com/en/features/raive-engine
Google AI Overviews: YesAI Overviews is named as one of the Gemini surfaces the engine tracks.Gemini spans five Google surfaces simultaneously: AI Overviews, Knowledge Graph, Workspace, Shopping, and YouTube.rankfender.com/en/features/raive-engine
Google AI Mode: NoThe vendor enumerates the five Google surfaces it covers and Google's AI Mode is not among them; it appears nowhere on the site or docs.Gemini spans five Google surfaces simultaneously: AI Overviews, Knowledge Graph, Workspace, Shopping, and YouTube.rankfender.com/en/features/raive-engine
Claude: YesTracked as one of the seven systems; the docs name Claude 3 Haiku as the queried model.Analyze how Anthropic's Claude positions your brand in reasoning chains, multi-step analysis responses, and enterprise-context conversationsrankfender.com/en/features/raive-engine
Microsoft Copilot: NoMicrosoft Copilot is absent from the vendor's enumerated list of the seven monitored systems.Rankfender monitors 7 major AI systems simultaneously: ChatGPT (GPT-4o), Gemini Pro, Claude 3, Perplexity (with real-time web), DeepSeek, Grok, and…rankfender.com/en/pricing
Grok: YesTracked, with the X/Twitter signal loop called out as the reason its scores move differently.Track how xAI's Grok weaves real-time X (Twitter) signals into brand mentionsrankfender.com/en/features/raive-engine
DeepSeek: YesTracked as one of the seven systems, including derivative open-source deployments.Monitor brand visibility in DeepSeek's global training corpus, open-source deployment variants, and developer API usagerankfender.com/en/features/raive-engine
Meta AI: PartlyThe seventh engine is Meta's Llama model and its fine-tunes, not the consumer Meta AI assistant, which the vendor never names.Audit brand visibility not just in Meta's reference deployments but across the entire Llama fine-tune ecosystemrankfender.com/en/features/raive-engine
Coverage in the vendor’s words: YesSeven systems are supported and each can be toggled per project, but plans cap how many you may monitor: 5 on Essential, 7 on Professional, 10 on Business, unlimited on Agencies.Rankfender monitors 7 major AI systems simultaneously: ChatGPT (GPT-4o), Gemini Pro, Claude 3, Perplexity (with real-time web), DeepSeek, Grok, and…rankfender.com/en/pricing

What it reports

Names the cited sources: PartlyIt measures your own citation rate, citation position and the authority of the cited URL per engine; the vendor does not describe an inventory of every domain an engine cites.Citation rate and citation position tracking (1st, 2nd, 3rd source cited)rankfender.com/en/features/raive-engine
Competitor tracking: YesCompetitors are auto-detected and compared head-to-head; reports cover up to 5 competitors across all AI systems.Your brand's share of voice compared to up to 5 competitors across all AI systems.rankfender.com/en/features/reports-anal…
Brand sentiment: YesEvery captured response is sentiment-classified per platform, and sentiment is 10% of the AI Citation Score.Sentiment polarity breakdown: positive / neutral / negative per platformrankfender.com/en/features/raive-engine
Recommendations: YesReports close with prioritised per-engine recommendations, and RAIVE gaps pre-populate Content Engine briefs.RAIVE-powered recommendations for improving visibility on each AI system, prioritized by impact and effort.rankfender.com/en/features/reports-anal…
AI crawler analytics: NoInbound data comes from Google Search Console, GA4, Bing Webmaster and DataForSEO only; no AI-bot log or crawl analytics is offered.Rankfender ingests data from four major sources every dayrankfender.com/en/features/integrations
Wrong answers about you: YesA claim-level audit grades every assertion AI makes about the brand as accurate, outdated or incorrect.whether those claims are accurate, outdated, or incorrectrankfender.com/en/features/reports-anal…

Plans and signing up

Prompt or credit allowance: YesMetered in tracked prompts and AI responses: 15 prompts / 300 responses on Essential, 30 / 1,500 on Professional, 80 / 5,000 on Business, unlimited on Agencies.15 AI prompts trackedrankfender.com/en/pricing
Projects or brands: YesOne brand on Essential, two on Professional, five (or one brand in five languages) on Business, unlimited on Agencies.5 Brands, or 1 Multilanguage Brand (up to 5 languages)rankfender.com/en/pricing
Countries: YesEach scan is calibrated to a target language and region; multi-language brands need the Business plan or above.RAIVE identifies the target language, regional context, and AI system locale settings for each scan.rankfender.com/en/features/raive-engine
How often it checks: YesScan frequency is tiered: weekly on Essential, every 2 days on Professional, daily on Business, daily or near-real-time on Agencies.AI checks every 2 daysrankfender.com/en/pricing
Card required to start: NoThe 7-day trial on all self-serve plans starts without a card.No credit card required to start.rankfender.com/en/pricing
Self-serve signup: YesEssential, Professional and Business sign up directly from the site; only the Agencies tier routes to sales.Yes. All plans come with a 7-day free trial with full access to all features.rankfender.com/en/pricing

Access and integrations

API: YesDocumented REST API at api.rankfender.com/v1 with bearer API keys; included on every plan, rate-limited 100/500/2,000 requests per hour by tier.The Rankfender API allows you to programmatically access and manage your content, keywords, AI visibility data, and more.docs.rankfender.com/en/docs/api
MCP server: NoThe vendor states its automation surface as REST API, webhooks and native integrations; no MCP server appears anywhere on the site or in the docs.Connect Rankfender to your stack with our REST API, webhooks, and native integrations.docs.rankfender.com/en/docs
BI export: PartlyContent, keyword and AI-visibility data export as CSV, JSON, HTML or Markdown via API, with an async bulk-export endpoint and PDF reports; no Looker, Power BI or warehouse connector is published.Rankfender allows you to export your data in multiple formats for backup, analysis, or integration with other tools.docs.rankfender.com/en/docs/api/exports

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For agenciesAI OverviewsAPIChatGPTClaudeContent optimizationFree trialGeminiPerplexity

Sources and updates

The pages we read13

Every fact below comes from the vendor. Nothing here is independently corroborated yet.

Coverage elsewhere1

sourceforge.netReview platform2026-08-23

Answer-engine source observations0 of 4

0 of 4 collected answers have source URL/title annotations naming CitedIndex. These are the latest stored observations per engine, not current consumer-UI results. They do not measure product mentions or establish that a source supports a claim.

ChatGPTNot assessable — no source annotationsModel: gpt-4o-mini · Collected on 2026-09-04 · 0 source annotationsQuery: Rankfender alternatives
ClaudeNot assessable — no source annotationsModel: claude-haiku-4-5 · Collected on 2026-09-04 · 0 source annotationsQuery: Rankfender alternatives
GeminiCitedIndex domain not found in observed source annotationsModel: gemini-2.5-flash · Collected on 2026-09-04 · 40 source annotationsQuery: Rankfender alternativesOther source hosts (up to 6): producthunt.com, g2.com, zapier.com, semrush.com, youtube.com, mbe.group
PerplexityCitedIndex domain not found in observed source annotationsModel: sonar · Collected on 2026-09-04 · 17 source annotationsQuery: Rankfender alternativesOther source hosts (up to 6): g2.com, sourceforge.net, aigtmstack.com, mentionova.com, rankfender.com, producthunt.com

Updates3

2026-09-01Capabilities · Free tier
2026-08-31Capabilities · Free tier · Price
2026-08-23Alternatives · Documentation link · LinkedIn link · One-liner · Summary