# RankZero — Done-for-you AI SEO services paired with a self-serve brand visibility tracking platform.

> Source: CitedIndex — https://citedindex.com/rankzero (structured, researched, re-verified)
> Facts last verified: 2026-09-01

RankZero is a done-for-you AI SEO agency that runs audit, content, technical work and earned citations as a monthly retainer. The same tracking engine is sold self-serve as a platform that monitors brand mentions across ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI.

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Website | https://www.rankzero.io |
| Price | from €29/month billed monthly, €24.92/month billed annually |
| Free tier | Partly |

No free plan on the platform (cheapest tier is Lite at €29/month). The free entry point is the AI SEO audit tool: free, any public URL, no account required.

## What it does

**Monitors AI answers** · Yes — Prompts are re-run daily against AI engines and every answer is stored

> RankZero keeps the full answer text from every tracked run across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Gemini, scores the sentiment on each mention, and maps the sources behind the answer
> — https://www.rankzero.io/platform/claim-accuracy · "What is AI Claim Accuracy?" section, opening paragraph

**Optimises your content** · Yes — Retainer includes in-depth optimisation of existing pages; platform ships an audit and to-dos

> Optimize 10 to 20 pages in-depth
> — https://www.rankzero.io/pricing · Tier 1 "The Inquiry Engine" card, "What's done for you every month" list

**Generates content** · Partly — The agency retainer writes new pieces every month; the platform's own Content Generation is marked Soon

> 10 new content pieces / templates
> — https://www.rankzero.io/pricing · Tier 1 "The Inquiry Engine" card, monthly deliverables list

**Publishes to your site** · Yes — The managed program publishes into the client's CMS (WordPress, Webflow, Framer, Shopify shown)

> Publish to your CMS: 4 to 6 articles + 2 to 4 optimizations
> — https://www.rankzero.io/services · "How it works" pipeline, "Create & publish" step

**Technical AEO** · Yes — Schema/structured data and llms.txt are explicit deliverables, plus an llms.txt generator in every plan

> We fix crawling, rendering, schema, and llms.txt so Google indexes your site and AI assistants can actually quote it.
> — https://www.rankzero.io/services · "Our services" cards, Technical SEO Agency card

**Done-for-you service** · Yes — Core offer is a managed monthly retainer run by RankZero's team

> We are a done-for-you AI SEO agency. We run the strategy, the technical work, and the content that gets your brand cited and recommended inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, and we report every result back to you on a monthly rhythm.
> — https://www.rankzero.io/pricing · "Questions, answered" FAQ, "What exactly does RankZero do for me?"

## Answer engines

**ChatGPT** · Yes — ChatGPT is one of the base tracked platforms on every paid plan and has its own tracker

> Run the RankZero engine yourself. Track your brand across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI on a plan that scales with you.
> — https://www.rankzero.io/platform/pricing · Page header, subtitle under "Software pricing"

**Perplexity** · Yes — Perplexity is a base tracked platform on Starter and above and has its own tracker

> Track mentions in Perplexity and monitor source citations. See exactly when Perplexity cites your content and improve your AI search visibility.
> — https://www.rankzero.io/trackers · "One tracker per engine" grid, Perplexity tracker card description

**Gemini** · Yes — Gemini answers are recorded per engine and have a dedicated tracker

> ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Gemini disagree about the details, and Claude is available on request, so each is tracked on its own.
> — https://www.rankzero.io/platform/claim-accuracy · "What you get" section, "Every engine, recorded separately" tile

**Google AI Overviews** · Yes — Google AI Overviews is tracked as an engine; the plan table also lists "AI Overview" among platforms addable for a fee

> Track how often Google AI Overviews cite and recommend your brand, which queries trigger them, and what to fix when a competitor owns the answer instead.
> — https://www.rankzero.io/trackers · "One tracker per engine" grid, Google AI Overviews tracker card

**Google AI Mode** · Partly — AI Mode is listed as a platform you can add to a plan for an additional fee, not included in the base plans

> * Add more for an additional fee.
> — https://www.rankzero.io/platform/pricing · Footnote under the plan comparison table, above the chips Copilot / Grok / AI Overview / AI Mode / Search / News / Claude

**Claude** · Partly — Claude is not in the base platform set: it is available on request and listed among the extra-fee platforms

> ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Gemini disagree about the details, and Claude is available on request, so each is tracked on its own.
> — https://www.rankzero.io/platform/claim-accuracy · "What you get" section, "Every engine, recorded separately" tile

**Microsoft Copilot** · Partly — Copilot is offered as a chargeable add-on platform, not part of any listed plan's platforms

> * Add more for an additional fee.
> — https://www.rankzero.io/platform/pricing · Footnote under the plan comparison table, above the add-on chips (first chip: Copilot)

**Grok** · Partly — Grok appears only in the extra-fee add-on platform chips

> * Add more for an additional fee.
> — https://www.rankzero.io/platform/pricing · Footnote under the plan comparison table, above the add-on chips (second chip: Grok)

**DeepSeek** · No — Absent from both the per-engine tracker list and the chargeable add-on platform list

> Each engine names a different set of brands and cites a different set of sources. Every tracker below runs daily and rolls up into the same dashboard.
> — https://www.rankzero.io/trackers · "Every major engine / One tracker per engine" section intro, above the five tracker cards (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Claude, Gemini)

**Meta AI** · No — Not among the five engine trackers nor the paid add-on platforms

> Each engine names a different set of brands and cites a different set of sources. Every tracker below runs daily and rolls up into the same dashboard.
> — https://www.rankzero.io/trackers · "Every major engine / One tracker per engine" section intro, above the five tracker cards

**Coverage in the vendor’s words** · Partly — Base plans track ChatGPT, Google and Perplexity (Lite shows Google only); Claude, Copilot, Grok, AI Mode, Search and News cost extra

> Run the RankZero engine yourself. Track your brand across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI on a plan that scales with you.
> — https://www.rankzero.io/platform/pricing · Page header subtitle; Platforms row of the plan comparison table (Lite: 1 icon, Starter/Pro/Enterprise: 3 icons)

## What it reports

**Names the cited sources** · Yes — Domain and URL level view of which sources AI answers used, with usage % and average citations

> The Sources page shows which websites and specific URLs AI models use when generating responses to your prompts.
> — https://www.rankzero.io/docs/sources · "Sources & Citations" docs page, opening paragraph

**Competitor tracking** · Yes — Competitors ranked in the same view; limits run 3 / 20 / 200 / unlimited by plan

> Industry Ranking How your competitors rank for this specific prompt.
> — https://www.rankzero.io/docs/prompts · "Individual Prompt Performance Table" section

**Brand sentiment** · Yes — 0-100 sentiment score per response, for the brand and each competitor named

> The sentiment score measures the overall tone of a prompt's response on a scale from 0 to 100.
> — https://www.rankzero.io/docs/metrics/sentiment · Sentiment docs page, opening paragraph

**Recommendations** · Yes — Ships prioritised to-dos and an AI SEO audit, not only reporting

> This AI SEO audit checks 5 signals that determine whether AI platforms cite your brand: LLMs.txt, structured data, AI crawler access, content answer-density, and authority signals.
> — https://www.rankzero.io/tools/ai-seo-audit · "Key takeaways" list, first bullet

**AI crawler analytics** · Partly — Crawl and index health comes from Bing Webmaster, not AI-bot log analysis of your own site

> crawlStats: the freshest daily crawl breakdown, fetched live: inIndex, crawledPages, code2xx / code4xx / code5xx, blockedByRobotsTxt, containsMalware, crawlErrors, date.
> — https://www.rankzero.io/docs/api-reference · GET /brands/{brand}/bing endpoint, field list

**Wrong answers about you** · Yes — Claim accuracy checks what engines assert about the brand against the facts and traces wrong claims to their source

> checks those statements against the facts
> — https://www.rankzero.io/platform/claim-accuracy · "What is AI Claim Accuracy?" section, opening paragraph

## Plans and signing up

**Prompt or credit allowance** · Yes — Platform plans meter tracked prompts: 5 (Lite), 25 (Starter), 100 (Pro), custom (Enterprise); retainer tiers track 25/50/100

> Track 5 prompts
> — https://www.rankzero.io/platform/pricing · Plan comparison table, Prompts row, Lite column

**Projects or brands** · Yes — Multiple brands per account, shared across an organisation; Pro/Enterprise add 10 active pitch brands

> Purpose: Lists up to 20 brands you have access to.
> — https://www.rankzero.io/docs/claude-mcp · "Available Tools" section, list_brands entry

**Countries** · Partly — Each prompt runs from a chosen country, but geo proxies exist only for ChatGPT and AI Overviews

> Geo: Country where the prompt is run from (geo proxies available for ChatGPT and AI Overviews only)
> — https://www.rankzero.io/docs/prompts · "Reading Your Prompts Dashboard" section

**How often it checks** · Yes — Every prompt re-runs on a 24-hour cycle on all plans

> RankZero runs them across multiple AI models once every 24 hours, giving you fresh insights on how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews respond and who they highlight.
> — https://www.rankzero.io/docs/prompts · "Why Prompts Matter" section

**Card required to start** · No — The free AI visibility audit needs neither an account nor a card; paid plans start at €29/month

> The audit is free, runs on any public URL, and requires no account.
> — https://www.rankzero.io/tools/ai-seo-audit · "Key takeaways" list, fourth bullet

**Self-serve signup** · Yes — Platform plans are buyable without sales contact; only Enterprise and the retainer require a call

> Yes. The same engine we run for clients is available on our platform if you would rather self-serve, or if you are an agency.
> — https://www.rankzero.io/pricing · FAQ, "Can I use the software myself instead?"

## Access and integrations

**API** · Partly — A documented REST API exists but keys are issued on request and scoped to one account; no plan row grants it

> Keys are issued on request. A key is scoped to one account - it can only read that account's brands (brands the account owns or shares via its organization). There is no all-brands access.
> — https://www.rankzero.io/docs/api-reference · "Authentication" section

**MCP server** · Yes — Hosted MCP server with nine tools, connected from the Integrations page in the dashboard

> This MCP server connects Claude directly to your RankZero account securely, allowing you to interface with your SEO data, Google Analytics 4, Google Search Console, AI visibility tracking, and competitors without leaving the chat.
> — https://www.rankzero.io/docs/claude-mcp · MCP Comprehensive Guide, opening paragraph

**BI export** · Partly — JSON over the REST API or MCP is the only documented egress; no CSV, Google Sheets, warehouse, Power BI or Looker connector is stated, and Looker Studio is named only as work the MCP replaces.

> Skip building complex Looker Studio dashboards.
> — https://www.rankzero.io/docs/ga4-integration · Section 'Use Cases with RankZero MCP', sub-heading '2. Instant Reporting'

## Answer-engine source observations

2 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.

| Engine | Model | Collected on | Query | CitedIndex in source annotations | Source annotations | Other source hosts (up to 6) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gemini | gemini-2.5-flash | 2026-09-04 | RankZero alternatives | Directory domain found | 35 | sourceforge.net, rankzero.io, elmohq.com, useomnia.com, aiclicks.io, searchinfluence.com |
| Perplexity | sonar | 2026-09-04 | RankZero alternatives | Directory domain found | 12 | sourceforge.net, omr.com, beconova.de, topbusinesssoftware.com, pepper.inc, g2.com |
| ChatGPT | gpt-4o-mini | 2026-09-04 | RankZero alternatives | Not assessable — no source annotations | 0 | — |
| Claude | claude-haiku-4-5 | 2026-09-04 | RankZero alternatives | Not assessable — no source annotations | 0 | — |

## Provenance

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## Coverage elsewhere

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| Source | Kind | Read |
| --- | --- | --- |
| aeoengine.ai | A competitor's comparison | 2026-08-23 |

## What changed

- 2026-09-01 — Capabilities · Free tier
- 2026-08-31 — Capabilities · Free tier · Price
- 2026-08-22 — Alternatives · One-liner · Summary

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