# CiteCue review (2026): is the free plan enough? > AI visibility tracking with drafted fixes it can serve to AI crawlers Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 24, 2026 by ToolGPA. CiteCue generates buying questions from a brand's site and tracks how AI engines answer them, with citations, competitors, sentiment and false claims to correct. Every plan runs a daily site audit and ranks the gaps into a fix queue. From the Pro plan it also drafts the fixes, and on sites behind Cloudflare it can serve AI-optimized versions of pages to AI crawlers without changing the site itself. - **Category:** AI Search Visibility (AEO & GEO) - **Made by:** CiteCue - **Website:** https://citecue.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if Perplexity, Claude or Copilot matter, as they're tracked only on the custom Enterprise plan. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, CiteCue has a free plan, and paid plans start at $29 per month, billed monthly. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** 1 brand project, 10 tracked prompts, 5 manual scans a month on Gemini, 10 assistant messages and the daily site audit. No card needed. - **Free trial:** 7-day free trial on the Pro and Agency plans; Starter has no trial. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | 1 brand, 10 prompts, 5 manual scans a month on Gemini only, the daily site audit and a shareable audit report. | | Starter | $29 per month for 50 prompts on ChatGPT, checked daily, billed monthly | 1 brand and 1 seat, 30 assistant messages and the full ranked fix queue, without drafted fixes. | | Pro | $89 per month for 100 prompts on 2 engines, daily, billed monthly | ChatGPT and Gemini, 3 brands, 3 seats, 25 AI fix kits and 10 page rewrites a month, AI answer pages and one-click Auto-Fix. | | Agency | $299 per month for 250 prompts on 4 engines, daily, billed monthly | Adds AI Overviews and AI Mode, 10 brands, 20 seats, 200 fix kits, 100 rewrites, Brand Risk, Autopilot, agent testing, API and MCP. | | Enterprise | Custom | All 9 supported engines, unlimited projects, continuous monitoring, SSO, white-label reports and dedicated onboarding. Sold through sales. | Read from https://citecue.com/pricing on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with CiteCue before buying. ## Key features - **Prompt monitoring:** Generates buying questions from your site, which can be grounded in Search Console demand, and tracks mention rate, citation share and position. - **Citations and competitors:** Shows which sites AI cites in your market and for each competitor, and why rivals are picked, using a 13-factor analysis. - **Sentiment and brand risk:** Reports how positively AI describes the brand and flags outdated or false claims, such as a wrong refund policy, to correct. - **Daily site audit and fix queue:** Checks crawlability and AI referrals every day on every plan and ranks the gaps; drafted fix kits and page rewrites start at Pro. - **AI Auto-Fix:** For sites on Cloudflare, serves approved AI-optimized page versions and llms.txt to AI crawlers at the edge, with no change to the CMS or visitors. - **Agent Usability:** On Agency, an AI agent tries real tasks on your site, such as signing up, finding pricing and checking out, and reports where it gets stuck. ## Good for - Teams that want fixes drafted for them, not only a list of problems - Online stores checking whether AI agents can find prices and check out - Agencies running up to 10 brand projects on one account ## Worth knowing - Free covers only Gemini and Starter only ChatGPT; Perplexity, Claude, Copilot, Grok and DeepSeek are tracked only on the custom Enterprise plan. - Drafted fixes and Auto-Fix start at Pro; Brand Risk, Autopilot, agent testing and API and MCP access need Agency at $299 a month. - AI Auto-Fix needs the site to run through Cloudflare. - Prices are monthly only, and the terms say fees are non-refundable except where the law requires. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 24, 2026. CiteCue tracks how AI engines answer buying questions drawn from your own site, runs a daily site audit on every plan, and from Pro drafts the fixes and can serve them to AI crawlers through Cloudflare. But engines are rationed by plan. Starter at $29 is ChatGPT only, AI Overviews wait for Agency at $299, and Perplexity and Claude need the custom Enterprise plan. - **Value for money: B.** Starter is $29 a month for 50 prompts checked daily, at the line where this category's cheaper quarter starts. It covers ChatGPT only and drafts no fixes, though. Pro is $89 for 2 engines, and prices are monthly only. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A free plan with no card: 1 brand, 10 prompts and 5 manual scans a month on Gemini only, plus the daily site audit. Pro and Agency have a 7-day free trial; Starter has none. - **Features: C.** Questions drawn from your site, citations, competitors, sentiment, false-claim alerts, a daily audit and drafted fixes from Pro. The gaps are in the listing: Perplexity, Claude, Copilot and Grok are Enterprise only, and Starter tracks one engine. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. The questions are generated for you, but Auto-Fix needs your site behind Cloudflare and each fix approved. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with no desktop or phone app. It connects Search Console, Google Analytics, WordPress, Cloudflare, Slack, Telegram, Discord and Claude, with the API and MCP on Agency. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from CiteCue'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 - CiteCue's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 125 of the 157 other AI search visibility tools we grade, and level with 20. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 120 of 157) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $29 a month, against a middle price of $59 for the category: 22 of the 128 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 6 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.** Nothing CiteCue does is plain enough to make in a weekend. The 4 things listed below take a company. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.4 is higher than 125 of the 157 other AI search visibility tools we grade. It costs $348 a year. - 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 crawler that checks every page of a site. - You could not: A score built from what the top results for each keyword cover. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Google Search Console, Google Analytics and WordPress among them, and has an API. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Google Search Console, Google Analytics, WordPress, Cloudflare, Slack, Telegram, Discord, Claude **Tags:** AI search visibility, Site audit, Content optimization, Public API ## Alternatives - [Otterly.AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/otterly-ai): Daily brand and citation tracking across AI search engines. 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[Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/citecue-vs-promptscout) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://citecue.com/pricing - https://citecue.com/ - https://citecue.com/about - https://citecue.com/terms Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/citecue Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).