# Citation Radar review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Low-cost AI citation tracker for five AI assistants Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. 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. - **Category:** AI Search Visibility (AEO & GEO) - **Made by:** Citation Radar - **Website:** https://www.citationradar.ai - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you need daily numbers, as tracking re-runs weekly. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## 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. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **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 | $39 per 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 | $99 per 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 | $199 per 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 https://www.citationradar.ai/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Citation Radar before buying. ## 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. ## Good for - Solo marketers and consultants who want AI citation tracking on a small budget - Site owners who want a free one-off look at their AI visibility - Small agencies tracking up to five client sites ## 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. 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. - **Value for money: C.** Starter 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. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A 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. - **Features: C.** Citation 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. - **Ease of use: C.** No 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. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with no integrations listed. The API and white-label reports are both marked as coming soon. These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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. ## Where it stands among AI search visibility tools - 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. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-visibility ## Keep it, 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. - You could make: Schema markup: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: The same prompts asked of ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI answers every day, and the answers kept. - You could not: A score built from what the top results for each keyword cover. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** AI search visibility, Content optimization, Schema markup ## Alternatives - [Otterly.AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/otterly-ai): Daily brand and citation tracking across AI search engines. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/citation-radar-vs-otterly-ai) - [LLMrefs](https://toolgpa.com/tools/llmrefs): Keyword-based AI search visibility tracker with one flat plan. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/citation-radar-vs-llmrefs) - [Peec AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/peec-ai): AI search analytics that tracks brand prompts across AI models. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/citation-radar-vs-peec-ai) - [AIclicks](https://toolgpa.com/tools/aiclicks): AI search visibility tracker with prompt monitoring and an action plan. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/aiclicks-vs-citation-radar) - [Am I On AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/am-i-on-ai): ChatGPT and AI Overview visibility tracker with weekly action plans. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/am-i-on-ai-vs-citation-radar) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://www.citationradar.ai/ - https://www.citationradar.ai/blueprint-mode Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/citation-radar Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).