Otterly.AI
A dedicated AI-search monitoring tool that tracks how your brand and links show up in AI answers on surfaces like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.
Pricing
The tools are free. Pro is optional.
CitationDesk is a free toolkit for AI visibility: the Score and every generator on this site cost nothing and need no signup, and that stays true permanently. The one thing we sell is Pro: a weekly citation-to-revenue report for publishers, €29/mo at the founding price. For real-time monitoring across many engines, we still recommend the dedicated tools below.
Every tool on CitationDesk, free.
AI Visibility Score
A 0–100 audit of any URL's readiness to be cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini — with the highest-leverage fix. Run it →
Fix generators
Fix Kit, llms.txt + schema generator, answer-block generator, title & meta rewriter, full-site audit. All tools →
Guides & benchmarks
How each AI engine cites, the full scoring methodology, and CC-BY-4.0 benchmarks. Read the guides →
Pro · founding cohort
Pro: a weekly citation-to-revenue report for publishers. €29/mo.
The free score is a point-in-time audit. Pro is the ongoing half for publishers: every week we find citations of your pages in the sources that actually expose them — Gemini grounding and OpenAI web search today, Perplexity not included yet — and estimate what they could mean for your traffic. Founding price €29/month, locked, first 50 publishers, cancel anytime.
Billed by Stripe through Read Stacks, our sister product (same owner): checkout and your card statement may show that name.
Not ready to subscribe? We'll send a free sample Pro report for your own site first — no list, no drip sequence.
Need continuous monitoring?
Then use a dedicated tool. CitationDesk gives you a point-in-time readiness audit. If you need ongoing tracking of when AI engines cite you — polls, alerts, competitor views — these are established tools worth evaluating, listed in alphabetical-ish order of focus.
Rankscale
An AI-search visibility platform built around tracking and improving how AI engines rank and cite your site.
Semrush
A full SEO suite whose AI-visibility features sit alongside rank tracking, site audits, and keyword research — a fit if you want one platform for everything.
SE Ranking
An SEO platform that includes AI-visibility tracking among its rank-tracking and audit features, aimed at agencies and in-house teams.
These recommendations are how this tool is funded: some links above are affiliate links, and we earn a commission if you sign up — at no extra cost to you. It is our only revenue, and it never changes a score or which tool we recommend, because the scoring runs on your page rather than on who pays us. See our affiliate disclosure.
Tools we partner with
These recommendations are how this tool is funded: some links above are affiliate links, and we earn a commission if you sign up — at no extra cost to you. It is our only revenue, and it never changes a score or which tool we recommend, because the scoring runs on your page rather than on who pays us. See our affiliate disclosure.
Want the full landscape? We compared the leading AI-visibility tools side by side.
Pricing FAQ.
Is CitationDesk really free?
Yes. The AI Visibility Score — plus the Fix Kit, llms.txt generator, answer-block generator, title & meta rewriter, and full-site audit — are free, run on demand, and need no signup. No trial clock, no credit card, no "you have 7 days left" emails. The optional Pro plan (€29/mo) is a separate weekly report for publishers — it never gates a tool.
What is the catch?
No catch, and here is exactly how it is paid for: the free tools are the product, and CitationDesk earns a commission when you sign up for some of the third-party tools it recommends — Rankscale and Mangools today, each marked as an affiliate link where it appears. Beyond that, our revenue is the optional Pro report. It costs you nothing extra, and it never changes a score or which tool we recommend: the scoring runs on your page, not on who pays us. See our affiliate disclosure for the current list.
How is Pro different from the monitoring tools below?
Monitoring platforms poll AI engines at scale, in real time, across many prompts — serious infrastructure that several dedicated teams already build well, and we will not ship a worse version of it. Pro answers a narrower, more commercial question for publishers: which citations of your pages exist in the citation-bearing sources (Gemini grounding and OpenAI web search today, Perplexity next), with an order-of-magnitude estimate of what they could mean for your traffic — one honest report, weekly.
Which monitoring tool should I pick?
Depends on your setup. If you only need AI-search monitoring, a dedicated tool like Otterly.AI or Rankscale keeps things simple. If your team already lives in a full SEO platform, Semrush or SE Ranking add AI-visibility tracking to the stack you have. Our /vs/ comparison pages go deeper.
Questions? Email hello@caslonmedia.com or visit /contact. Reply within 24h.