How We Compare

Most tools show you the gap.
We close it.

One type of AI visibility product shows you a number. The other fixes the reason behind it. Here's the difference.

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White-hat, penalty-proof methodology
5 live LLM platforms tracked per audit
On-site + off-site: both layers covered
Client-ready reports, not just dashboards
Two very different approaches

What the market offers vs what we do

The AI search visibility category has two fundamentally different approaches. Understanding the difference determines whether you build a durable AI presence or rent one.

What most products offer
The surface layer approach
Plant your brand in external conversations (forums, communities, social platforms) so that AI picks up those mentions when it crawls the web. See a dashboard of where you're mentioned. Watch your share of voice number move.
  • ✕Does nothing to your website: your own content may be structurally uncitable
  • ✕Dependent on platform rules that can change overnight, taking your investment with them
  • ✕No diagnostic depth: you get a number, not the reason behind it
  • ✕No E-E-A-T assessment, no schema, no llms.txt, no crawler audit
  • ✕No hallucination detection: AI could be recommending you with wrong information
  • ✕Shared infrastructure means rate limits and credit caps hit all users simultaneously
  • ✕Dashboard output only: no deliverable you can share with a board or a client
What Cited By AI® does
The foundation approach
Fix the structural reasons AI does or doesn't cite you: your content, your schema, your authority signals, your crawler access. Then measure the result in real LLM responses across every platform simultaneously.
  • ✓CPS® scores every content block on your site, with specific rewrite guidance
  • ✓White-hat methodology: every change is permanent, unpenalisable, and yours to keep
  • ✓Full diagnostic: why aren't you cited, which stage, which platform, which competitor wins
  • ✓Schema, llms.txt, E-E-A-T, crawler audit: the technical layer others skip entirely
  • ✓Hallucination detection built in: flags when AI invents wrong information about your brand
  • ✓BYOK model: your API keys, your infrastructure, no shared limits
  • ✓Full report + Excel tracker + CPS® Scorecard: client-ready, boardroom-ready
Feature comparison

A complete feature comparison

How Cited By AI® compares to monitoring-only tools and broader ASEO platforms. Features marked Exclusive are not available in any publicly listed ASEO tool at time of publication.

Feature
Monitoring
tools
Broader ASEO
platforms
Cited By AI®
Most complete
📊 Visibility & tracking
AI platforms tracked simultaneouslyLive query results, not estimates
1–2
3–5Gemini & AI Mode cost extra
5 + Google AIAll included, no add-ons
Full platform coverage, no add-on feesAll 5 LLMs + Google AI Mode included in base price
—
+$59–$149
per extra engine/mo
✓Included
SOV by buyer journey stageAwareness, Consideration, Decision
—
—
✓Exclusive
SOV by buyer personaFirst-time, Experienced, Decision-ready
—
—
✓Exclusive
Branded vs unbranded SOV split
Partial
✓
✓
Google AI Overview & AI Mode trackingSeparate surface from LLM tracking
—
Partial
✓
Monthly trend tracking with run-over-run delta
—
Partial
✓
🎯 Competitive intelligence
Head-to-head competitive win rateWho AI favours when both brands appear
—
—
✓Exclusive
Hallucination detectionFlags when AI invents wrong brand info
—
—
✓Exclusive
Brand attribute intelligenceWhat words AI uses to describe you vs competitors
—
—
✓Exclusive
Zero-gap Topic × Intent MatrixContent brief for every empty cell
—
—
✓Exclusive
Citation source intelligenceWhich third-party domains AI trusts in your category
Basic
Partial
✓
Sentiment drift across funnel stages
—
—
✓
⚙️ Technical & content readiness
Citation Probability Score® (CPS®)0–100 per content block, 5-pillar model
—
—
✓Exclusive
E-E-A-T structured assessment20 credibility checkpoints across 4 dimensions
—
—
✓
Schema & structured data generationJSON-LD ready to deploy
—
—
✓
llms.txt generationAI crawler instruction file, deploy-ready
—
—
✓
AI crawler access audit15 named bots checked against robots.txt
—
—
✓
Platform-specific optimisation strategyTailored per AI: Perplexity ≠ Gemini ≠ ChatGPT
—
—
✓
🚀 Action & reporting
Publish-ready content blocks generatedPre-scored before delivery
—
—
✓Exclusive
GA4 traffic correlationAI-referred sessions vs organic, by platform
—
Partial
✓
Downloadable client reportWord + Excel + CPS® Scorecard PDF
—
—
✓
Human spot-check layerReal device, real UI: not just API scraping
—
—
✓
Audit modules per engagement
3–5
8–12
28
Ethical methodologyNo managed account networks, no ToS risk
Varies
Varies
✓

Based on publicly available feature listings and pricing pages as of March 2026. Features marked Exclusive are not available in any publicly listed ASEO product at time of publication. Platform add-on pricing refers to publicly listed per-engine fees charged by broader ASEO platforms for Gemini and Google AI Mode tracking; a Standard-tier user requiring all 6 platforms pays a minimum of $307/mo in add-on fees under those models. Cited By AI® includes all 5 LLMs and Google AI Mode in every plan at no additional charge.

Things worth knowing

Questions to ask any AI visibility provider

Before committing to any product in this category, it is worth understanding how the underlying mechanics work and what happens if those mechanics change.

🏗️
Does it fix your website, or just work around it?
A brand with low citability scores on its own pages won't get consistent AI citations no matter how many external mentions are planted. The website is the foundation. Ignore it and you're building on sand.
⚖️
Is the methodology platform-compliant?
Some providers post brand content via third-party managed accounts, a practice that violates most platform terms of service. If those placements get removed, your investment goes with them. Ask exactly how placements are made.
🔍
Can it detect when AI says something wrong about you?
AI models can recommend your brand with incorrect information: wrong location, wrong pricing, wrong services. If your visibility tool doesn't flag hallucinations, you're amplifying inaccurate citations without knowing it.
📋
Does it explain why, or just show what?
Share of voice is a metric, not a strategy. Knowing you appear in 22% of relevant AI answers is useful. Knowing why you're absent in the other 78%, which competitor wins those responses, and what to create to close the gap is actionable.
📊
Can it produce a deliverable, not just a dashboard?
If you have internal stakeholders, you need a report you can share. A dashboard that requires login credentials isn't a deliverable. Ask what the output looks like and who can actually use it.
🔒
Whose API infrastructure are you sharing?
Shared API pools mean all users compete for the same rate limits. When usage spikes (product launch, multiple clients auditing simultaneously) the system hits capacity walls. Ask whether you're using your own API credentials or theirs.
What you get with Cited By AI®

The foundation, not just the surface

28 audit modules. 5 AI platforms. A report your team can act on immediately, built on a methodology that cannot be penalised, reversed, or removed.

Exclusive
📐
Citation Probability Score® per page
Every content block on your site is scored 0–100 across five weighted pillars: Content Structure, Fact Density, Answer Structure, Self-Containment, and Freshness. You get a grade, the reason it is what it is, and the rewrite.
Exclusive
🔭
Funnel-stage SOV breakdown
Your AI Share of Voice broken down by Awareness, Consideration, and Decision stage. Most brands are visible at Decision and invisible at Awareness. We show you exactly where the gap is and what to create to close it.
Exclusive
🥊
Head-to-head competitor win rate
When AI mentions you and a competitor in the same response, who gets positioned more favourably? We measure that per competitor, per platform. It's the intelligence that changes your content strategy.
Exclusive
⚠️
Hallucination detection
We flag every instance where an AI platform invents false information about your brand. Wrong services, wrong location, wrong pricing. If AI is recommending you incorrectly, you need to know before your customers do.
🔧
Technical readiness layer
Schema markup (6 JSON-LD types, ready to deploy), llms.txt generation, 15-bot crawler access audit, E-E-A-T assessment across 20 credibility checkpoints. The technical layer most agencies skip entirely. Want to see what AI bots can currently read on your site? Try the free AI Crawler Simulator →
Exclusive
✍️
Publish-ready content, pre-scored
Our AEO Content Writer generates a citability-scored content block for every high-priority gap identified in the audit. You get the insight and the fix in the same report. No other ASEO product does this.
Start with the foundation

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