Pricing · CitePulse.ai — by GeoFlow Solutions
What it costs to know when AI recommends a competitor instead of you
Prices and limits as of 11 October 2026. Billed in USD (your card issuer converts). This page is the reference; the homepage summarises it.
Short answer. Monitoring costs $49, $89, $169 or $399 a month, measured every day across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and DeepSeek, with Claude from Shield up and Grok plus Mistral on Protect and Scale. Every number is a real answer from the engine, with live web search where the engine offers it. Every plan starts with a 7 to 10 day trial (card at the start, nothing charged if you cancel in time) and an annual option 23% cheaper, with the price locked for 12 months. Not ready to subscribe: a free audit (no card) shows your current baseline, and a $39 one-time Full Audit adds the per-category competitor breakdown and a fix plan.
1. Plans
Starter
$49 / month
One brand, first daily monitoring.
7 day trial
- ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, DeepSeek; Google AI Overviews and AI Mode read as sources
- 15 of your own buying questions (+5 from your audit)
- Daily measurement, every question read in a window of 3 measurements
- Competitor and source tracking, alerts, Action Center
Shield
$89 / month
One brand that wants Claude and more questions.
7 day trial
- Starter engines plus Claude (weekly check with live web search); DeepSeek twice a day
- 30 of your own questions
- Fact Integrity: 10 approved facts watched for drift
- Alerts, Action Center (5 experiments), bot-log totals
Protect · most chosen
$169 / month
A brand actively working on its AI visibility.
10 day trial
- Shield engines plus Grok and Claude, twice a week each, Mistral monthly; DeepSeek three times a day
- 50 of your own questions
- Priority alerts, Fact Integrity (20 facts), 15 experiments
- Full AI bot logs: which pages each crawler reads
Scale
$399 / month
Agencies and multi-brand teams.
10 day trial
- Protect engines for every client domain (Grok and Claude weekly, Mistral monthly)
- Up to 10 client domains, 25 own questions each, measured every two days
- White-label reports, agency dashboard, API, per-client badges
- Partner programme with commission (see agencies)
| Plan | Price (follows the toggle above) | Engines measured | Cadence | Trial |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $49 / month | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, DeepSeek | daily | 7 days |
| Shield | $89 / month | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, DeepSeek, Claude (weekly) | daily | 7 days |
| Protect | $169 / month | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok (twice a week), Claude (twice a week), Mistral (monthly) | daily | 10 days |
| Scale | $399 / month | same as Protect per client domain (Grok and Claude weekly, Mistral monthly) | every 2 days per client domain | 10 days |
| Before you subscribe: one-time options | ||||
| Free audit | $0, no card | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini; Google AI Overviews read as a source | on demand, one per site | see who AI recommends instead of you |
| Full Audit (one-time) | $39 + $9 per extra service area (first 2 included) | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Mistral | once, usually within minutes | per-category competitor breakdowns and a fix plan |
"ChatGPT" in the product means the GPT-4o model family accessed through OpenAI's API with web search, not the consumer app. Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode answers are read as sources on every monitoring plan. DeepSeek has no live web search in its API, so it counts whether your brand is named, not which pages it cites; it is asked two to three times a day from Shield up. Mistral is measured once a month and shown next to your score, not inside it. Details of every engine and the detection rule: methodology.
2. What every plan includes
- Real answers, not estimates. Every number comes from a real answer of the engine to your buying question, with live web search where the engine offers it (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Mistral). We keep the answer text and the pages it cited. A measured answer costs more to produce than an estimate from third-party data; that is what you pay for, and why an alert from CitePulse is worth acting on.
- Daily measurement with a 3-measurement window. Every buying question is asked once a day per engine; your score, alerts and trend read the last three measurements, so a single odd answer never moves your number.
- Who AI recommends instead of you, per question and engine, and the pages the engines cite (Source Intelligence).
- Alerts when your score drops, a competitor takes your answer or a crawler goes silent.
- Action Center: log a fix, read the before and after against how much the engines move on their own.
- Question suggestions from your Google Search Console queries and the gaps where a competitor is cited and you are not.
- Auto-Fix files (schema, llms.txt, robots) generated from your gaps, VAT invoice, cancellation any time.
3. Limits per plan
| Limit | Starter | Shield | Protect | Scale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Your own buying questions (on top of the 5 from your audit) | up to 15 | up to 30 | up to 50 | up to 25 per client domain |
| Measured answers per month (questions × engines × daily runs; DeepSeek two to three times a day from Shield; plus the twice-weekly Grok and Claude and the monthly Mistral) | about 2,400 | about 5,400 | about 10,900 | about 2,500 per client domain |
| Fact Integrity: approved brand facts checked for drift | 5 | 10 | 20 | 30 per client |
| Action Center: active before/after experiments | 3 | 5 | 15 | 30 per client |
| AI bot logs (GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Googlebot, Bingbot …) | totals per crawler | totals per crawler | full: pages per crawler, read × cited, robots vs reality, silent-crawler alerts | full, per client domain |
| Manual re-run of monitoring | 1 per 7 days | 1 per 7 days | 3 per 7 days | 3 per 7 days per client |
| Client domains | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 included |
| White-label reports, agency dashboard, API keys, per-client badges | — | — | — | included |
4. In the price here, an add-on elsewhere
Competitor prices read from their public price pages on 11 October 2026; they change, check before you compare.
| What | CitePulse | Elsewhere |
|---|---|---|
| Measurement method | real engine answers with live web search where the engine offers it; answer text and cited pages kept for every measurement | varies: some tools estimate from public data or sample a few answers; ask what the vendor stores per measurement |
| Claude in the plan | included from Shield ($89) | Otterly: add-on from $29 a month; Peec: each extra model from $30 a month |
| Grok (X's assistant) | included from Protect ($169) | Trakkr: from $100; Otterly: not offered |
| Questions at the entry price | 15 of your own (+5) at $49, 30 at $89, 50 at $169 | Otterly: 15 at $29; Mentions.so, AIClicks: 25 to 30 at $49 to $59; Peec: 50 at $95 |
| White-label for 10 client domains | $399 (every engine per client, API, badges) | Trakkr Scale: $500; Peec: $495 |
| Trial | 7 to 10 days, card at the start | Trakkr: 14 days with card; Profound: 7 days; AthenaHQ: free tier limited to 300 credits |
| Annual plan | 23% off, price locked for 12 months | Trakkr, AthenaHQ: 17%; Otterly, Peec: 15% |
| Before paying | free audit with no account, $39 one-time Full Audit with Claude and Mistral | sign-up or credits first; no one-time audit |
5. Extras and what is not charged
- Full Audit extra service areas: $9 each beyond the first two.
- Scale, client domains above 10: $30 per client domain per month. Flagged in the agency dashboard before it is billed.
- Not charged: alerts, bot logs, Fact Integrity checks, Action Center, question suggestions, own questions within the caps, Auto-Fix files from the free audit, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek and Mistral inside the plans that list them.
- Done-for-you implementation is a separate service, quoted per scope after the audit: AI Visibility Setup.
6. Trial, billing, invoices, cancellation
- Trial: 7 days on Starter and Shield, 10 on Protect and Scale. You add a card at the start (3-D Secure where your bank asks for it); the first charge happens when the trial ends. We e-mail you 3 days before. Cancel during the trial from the Stripe billing portal and nothing is charged. One trial per company; prepaid and single-use cards are not accepted for the trial.
- Monthly plans renew until cancelled; access runs to the end of the paid month, and the price does not increase for 12 months from signup. Annual plans are billed up front, 23% below twelve monthly payments, and renew yearly; the price is locked for the paid year whatever happens to AI API prices (that risk is ours). Cancel within 14 days of the first annual charge and it is refunded in full (Refund Policy §4); after that, access runs to the end of the paid year.
- Payments by card through Stripe. Currency USD; your card issuer converts to your local currency.
- Every payment gets a VAT invoice issued by GeoFlow Solutions Marcin Gamża, NIP 6381506247, Rudołtowice, Poland. EU businesses with a valid VAT number are invoiced with reverse charge.
- Rules for refunds and cancellation: Refund & Cancellation Policy. The one-time Full Audit is delivered as an HTML and PDF report, usually within minutes.
No tool can guarantee a citation; CitePulse sells the measurement, the alerts and the fix loop, not a placement. Details in the disclaimer.
7. Start
The buttons follow the billing period you chose above. Not ready to subscribe? Check your current baseline free (no card) or configure a $39 Full Audit.
Enterprise (many domains, SSO, SLA): [email protected]. Machine-readable version of this page: pricing.md. What the plans monitor and how alerts work: AI visibility monitoring. Wrong prices and facts in AI answers: Fact Integrity.
8. Questions
How much does it cost to monitor my visibility in ChatGPT?
At CitePulse, monitoring costs $49 a month (Starter: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, DeepSeek), $89 a month (Shield: adds Claude), $169 a month (Protect: adds Grok and Claude twice a week and 50 of your own questions) or $399 a month (Scale: agencies, up to 10 client domains, white-label reports and API). Every plan measures daily and starts with a 7 to 10 day trial. The first audit is free with no card; a one-time Full Audit costs $39 plus $9 per extra service area.
How often does CitePulse check the AI answers?
Every day on Starter, Shield and Protect, every two days per client domain on Scale. Each buying question is read in a window of the last three measurements, so a one-off wobble in an AI answer does not move your score. Claude runs weekly on Shield and Scale and twice a week on Protect; Mistral once a month on Protect and Scale.
How do you measure?
We ask the engines your buying questions ourselves, every day, with live web search where the engine offers it (ChatGPT through OpenAI's API with search, Perplexity, Gemini with grounding, Claude with web search, Mistral with web search), and we keep every answer and every page it cited. DeepSeek has no live search in its API, so it counts whether you are named. Nothing is estimated from rankings, keyword volumes or third-party data. The detection rule and the exact models are on the methodology page.
Is there a free trial?
Yes. Starter and Shield start with 7 free days, Protect and Scale with 10. You add a card at the start, and the first charge happens only when the trial ends. Cancel during the trial from the Stripe billing portal and nothing is charged. One trial per company.
Are there hidden costs or add-ons?
No usage fees inside a plan. Claude, Grok, DeepSeek and Mistral are inside the plans that list them, not add-ons. The only extras are $9 per additional service area on the one-time Full Audit and, on Scale, $30 a month per client domain above the 10 included.
Can I cancel, and do I get an invoice?
Monthly plans cancel any time from the Stripe billing portal in your dashboard; you keep access until the end of the paid period. Annual plans are billed up front, 23% below twelve monthly payments, with the price locked for the year and a full refund if you cancel within 14 days of the first annual charge. Every payment gets a VAT invoice issued by GeoFlow Solutions Marcin Gamża (Poland), in USD; your card issuer converts to your currency.