Citation Radar review (2026): is the free plan enough?
Low-cost AI citation tracker for five AI assistants
Citation Radar report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Oct 23, 2026
Best for weekly AI citation checks
Citation Radar asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Grok the questions your buyers might ask, and shows where you get cited and where a rival wins instead. Starter is $39 a month for one site and 50 questions. It checks weekly, not daily, Google's AI Overviews and Copilot aren't covered, the free plan is a one-off look, and the API is still coming soon.
Who Citation Radar is for
- Fits if you're a solo marketer tracking 50 questions on one site
- Works for small agencies with up to five client sites, on Agency at $199 a month
Who Citation Radar is not for
- Skip it if you need daily numbers, as tracking re-runs weekly
- Not for you if Google's AI Overviews or Copilot matter most to you
- Too light for agencies who need white-label reports or an API today, as both are coming soon
- Tight if you stay free: 5 questions, 3 platforms and no weekly re-runs
Why Citation Radar gets a 2.0
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- CValue for moneyStarter is $39 a month for 1 site and 50 questions on all five platforms. That's above the cheaper quarter of this category, which starts at $29, and under its $49 middle, so it sits on the low side of ordinary.
- CFree plan and trialA free plan with no card: 1 website and 5 generated questions, checked on ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini. That's a one-off look, though, as weekly re-runs are paid only.
- CFeaturesCitation tracking on five assistants, an AEO score, a share-of-voice leaderboard, content gaps and Blueprint Mode for draft pages. The gaps are real: checks are weekly, AI Overviews and Copilot aren't covered, and the API is still coming soon.
- CEase of useNo rating on record. It's self-serve and generates questions for you, but you still pick what to track and read the scores before it tells you much.
- CPlatforms and integrationsWeb only, with no integrations listed. The API and white-label reports are both marked as coming soon.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Citation Radar's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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Citation Radar's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 29 of the 157 other AI search visibility tools we grade, and level with 38.
Its paid plans start at $39 a month, against a middle price of $59 for the category: 43 of the 128 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 34 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 158 AI search visibility tools we grade, cut by the letter each got. Citation Radar’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 19 of 157, level with 100
- CFree plan and trialAbove 63 of 157, level with 88
- CFeaturesAbove 6 of 157, level with 118
- CEase of useAbove 0 of 157, level with 145
- CPlatforms and integrationsAbove 0 of 157, level with 50
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 131 AI search visibility tools. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Keep Citation Radar, or make your own?
Keep it
The plain part of Citation Radar you could make: schema markup. What surrounds it you could not. The 2 things listed below take a company, not a weekend.
That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 90 of the 157 other AI search visibility tools grade higher. It costs $468 a year.
What you could make
- Schema markup: an app builder makes this well.
What you could not
- The same prompts asked of ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI answers every day, and the answers kept.
- A score built from what the top results for each keyword cover.
What this rests on. Citation Radar’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Citation Radar?
Citation Radar asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Grok the questions a site's buyers might ask and reports where the site is cited, where competitors win instead and how ready the site is for AI answers. Paid plans re-run tracked questions every week, and Blueprint Mode drafts a page aimed at a chosen question. It is self-serve, with a free tier.
Worth knowing
- Tracking runs weekly, not daily, and only on paid plans.
- The free plan checks 3 platforms; Claude and Grok need a paid plan.
- Google AI Overviews and Copilot are not among the platforms the site lists.
- The API and white-label reports are marked as coming soon.
Key features
- AI citation tracking
- Shows which buyer questions get your site cited, and which do not, on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Grok.
- AEO score
- A single score for how ready a site is to be cited by AI, broken down by platform for each analysis.
- Competitor share of voice
- A leaderboard of where rivals are cited more than you, with the pages that earn their citations.
- Content gaps
- Questions competitors win and you do not, sorted into quick wins, strategic plays and long-term bets.
- Blueprint Mode
- Pick a question and get a draft page built for AI answers, with schema markup, structure and citations.
- Weekly auto-tracking
- Paid plans re-run tracked questions every week to build share-of-voice trends over time.
Citation Radar pricing
As of Oct 23, 2026, Citation Radar has a free plan, and paid plans start at $39 per month for 1 site and 50 questions.
- Starts at
- $39 per month for 1 site and 50 questions
- Free plan
- 1 website, 5 generated questions checked on ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini. No card needed.
- Free trial
- None listed
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 1 website and 5 generated questions, checked on ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini. |
| Starter | $39per month for 1 site and 50 questions | For solo marketers: 50 tracked questions on all 5 AI platforms, weekly re-runs and 50 AI content suggestions a month. |
| Pro | $99per month for 3 sites and 100 questions per site | For in-house teams: all 5 AI platforms, weekly re-runs and 100 AI content suggestions a month. |
| Agency | $199per month for 5 sites and 100 questions per site | All 5 AI platforms, unlimited AI content suggestions and priority support. White-label reports are listed as coming soon. |
Read from citationradar.ai on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Citation Radar before you buy.
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Common questions
Does Citation Radar have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Citation Radar is listed for Web.
Does Citation Radar have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Citation Radar is listed for Web.
Is Citation Radar open source?
Citation Radar is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Oct 23, 2026.
Sources for this page
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