Last updated: 2026-07-03
CiteLens tracks brand citations across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini from $0/month, with plans from $79 to $1,499 monthly and a citation explorer feature.
CiteLens is a Generative Engine Optimization platform that tracks how often ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini cite or recommend a brand, starting free and scaling to $1,499 a month for the Agency tier. It shows an AI Visibility Score, share of voice against named competitors, and the exact source pages AI engines pull answers from.
CiteLens is a Generative Engine Optimization platform built by Solustiq Yazilim ve Yapay Zeka Teknolojileri A.S. and founded by Alper Tekin, launched into general availability in June 2026. It measures how often ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews cite or recommend a brand when people ask AI systems for recommendations, a problem traditional SEO tools do not track because they only measure ranking on classic search results pages. The platform runs a brand's real customer questions across those five AI engines, captures the exact generated answers, and identifies which websites were used as sources for each one. From that data it reports an AI Visibility Score, a share-of-voice figure benchmarked against named competitors with statistical confidence intervals, and the sentiment of how the brand is described. Its Citation Explorer then maps which specific URLs earn citations for a given prompt, and its GEO Audit Tools check whether a site's pages are technically accessible and citable to AI crawlers at all before any content work begins. CiteLens is aimed at SEO managers at agencies and content marketing leads at small and mid-size brands who want a first measurement of AI search visibility without an enterprise budget. Agencies use the Growth tier and above to run separate workspaces per client, while solo marketers start free and only pay once they outgrow 10 tracked prompts. It is not built for Fortune 500 teams needing 10-plus language coverage or dedicated support, a gap where funded rivals Profound ($155M raised) and Peec AI ($29M raised) compete instead. Pricing runs from a $0 Free plan (10 prompts, 3 engines, no credit card) through Starter at $79/month, Growth at $249/month, Pro at $599/month with public API access, up to Agency at $1,499/month with white-label capability and 50 workspaces. CiteLens also sells a $499 done-for-you AI Visibility Audit and $299 GEO strategy sessions. The platform runs as a web dashboard only, with English and Turkish market support built in.
Free: $0/mo, 10 prompts, 100 engine calls, 3 engines. Starter: $79/mo, 25 prompts, 800 calls. Growth: $249/mo, 75 prompts, 3,000 calls, 4 engines ($0.06/extra call). Pro: $599/mo, 200 prompts, 9,000 calls, 5 engines, public API ($0.05/extra call). Agency: $1,499/mo, 600 prompts, 28,000 calls, 50 workspaces, white-label. Plus $499 AI Visibility Audit and $299 strategy sessions.
CiteLens is a Generative Engine Optimization platform launched by Solustiq Yazilim ve Yapay Zeka Teknolojileri A.S. and founded by Alper Tekin. It measures how often AI answer engines such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews mention or cite a brand when people ask for recommendations. The platform runs a brand's real customer questions across those engines and captures the generated answers. It then identifies which websites were used as sources for each answer. It reports an AI Visibility Score, a share of voice figure against named competitors, and the sentiment of how a brand is described. CiteLens launched into general availability in June 2026. It supports both English and Turkish markets with correct country and language targeting.
CiteLens has five tiers. Free costs $0 a month for 10 tracked prompts, 100 engine calls, 3 AI engines, 1 workspace, 2 seats, and 5 GEO audits, with a hard cap and no overage. Starter is $79 a month for 25 prompts and 800 engine calls across the same 3 engines. Growth is $249 a month, the most popular tier, for 75 prompts, 3,000 engine calls, and 4 engines, billed $0.06 per extra call past the cap. Pro is $599 a month for 200 prompts, 9,000 engine calls, and 5 engines, and adds public API access at $0.05 per extra call. Agency is $1,499 a month for 600 prompts, 28,000 engine calls, 50 workspaces, and white-label capability. CiteLens also sells a $499 done-for-you AI Visibility Audit and $299 one-off strategy sessions.
CiteLens centers on four capabilities. Brand and Domain Tracking monitors both name mentions and URL citations across AI engines in one dashboard. Citation Explorer reveals exactly which pages get cited for a given prompt so a team can see competitive positioning query by query. GEO Audit Tools check whether a site's pages are technically accessible to AI crawlers and citable at all, flagging blockers before content optimization starts. AI Recommendations turn every gap into a concrete next step, such as which page needs schema markup or which competitor is winning a specific query. Growth-tier and above adds multi-workspace support so agencies can separate client accounts. The Pro and Agency tiers layer public API access on top of all four core features.
Yes, CiteLens has a Free plan that costs $0 a month and requires no credit card. It covers 10 tracked prompts, 100 engine calls a month across 3 AI engines, 1 workspace with 2 seats, and 5 GEO audits a month. It is a hard cap with no overage billing, so usage simply stops once the limit is hit rather than incurring surprise charges. This makes it usable for a solo marketer or small brand who wants a first read on an AI Visibility Score before paying anything. Tracking more than 10 prompts, adding a fourth AI engine like Gemini, or unlocking more GEO audits requires upgrading to the $79 Starter tier or higher. There is also a 14-day free trial of premium features for teams that want to test a paid tier before committing.
Profound is the enterprise-grade alternative, having raised $155M at a roughly $1B valuation and serving Fortune 500 brands with the deepest breakdown of how AI engines construct answers. Peec AI is the closer mid-market rival, having raised $29M with over $4M in ARR in ten months, and it built an optimization layer that explains why a brand is not being cited and what to fix. Otterly is the budget alternative, starting near $29 a month with a simpler interface aimed at founders and marketers who are not SEO specialists. All three of those competitors, like CiteLens, diagnose citation gaps but leave the actual content creation and schema implementation to the brand's own team. Choose Profound for enterprise scale and language coverage. Choose Peec AI for built-in optimization guidance rather than raw diagnostics. Choose CiteLens for the lowest-cost entry point and native Turkish-market support.
CiteLens fits SEO managers at agencies and content marketing leads at small and mid-size brands who want a first measurement of AI search visibility without enterprise budget. An agency managing several client brands can use the Growth tier's 3 workspaces to separate accounts and track competitor share of voice for each client. A solo marketer can start on the Free plan and only pay once they need more than 10 tracked prompts or a fourth AI engine. It is not well suited to Fortune 500 marketing teams that need coverage across 10 or more languages or dedicated customer success support. It also is not a fit for teams that need engine coverage beyond the 5 AI engines CiteLens tracks on its top Agency tier. Teams in that position should look at Profound instead.
CiteLens offers public API access, but only on the $599 a month Pro tier and the $1,499 a month Agency tier. The Free, Starter, and Growth tiers do not include API access at all. The API lets a team pull AI Visibility Score, citation, and share-of-voice data into its own reporting stack rather than relying solely on the CiteLens dashboard. No Model Context Protocol server or native MCP integration has been published as of mid-2026. Connecting CiteLens data to an AI agent workflow currently requires building against the REST API directly rather than plugging into an existing MCP connector. Teams that need MCP-native tooling today should treat this as an open gap versus more developer-focused competitors.
Profound is the funded category leader with $155M raised and a roughly $1B valuation, built for Fortune 500 brands that need coverage across many languages and engines with dedicated support. CiteLens starts at $0 a month and its top Agency tier is $1,499 a month, dramatically cheaper than Profound's enterprise contracts. In exchange for that lower price, CiteLens covers at most 5 AI engines and 600 tracked prompts versus Profound's broader engine and prompt scope. Profound also brings a larger customer success organization suited to enterprise procurement, which CiteLens does not yet match. Pick Profound if budget is not the constraint and the brand needs enterprise-grade language coverage and support. Pick CiteLens if the goal is an affordable first GEO measurement, especially for brands with a Turkish-market audience.