Pricing
We haven't priced it yet, so we won't invent one for you.
citat.ai is being shaped alongside its first cohort of brands going global. Price will follow engine lines and prompt volume — until then, rather than hang a fake table on the wall, let's work out what you need measured.
The first customers get our roughest product, and our longest phone calls.
Our competitors' prices are public, though. So here they are.
Sooner or later you will ask what this class of thing costs. Rather than be vague about it, here is the anchor — every figure below is “a competitor's public list price”, not ours.
The Chinese field: both ends occupied, nothing in the middle
GEOBase starts at ¥299/mo covering Doubao / DeepSeek / Tongyi / Ernie / Yuanbao / Kimi plus the overseas engines. At the other end, GenOptima's entry tier starts at ¥9,800/mo with annual contracts of ¥300k–2M — but that is a service-and-agency play, not a self-serve product. Between ¥299 and ¥9,800, essentially nobody.
| Tier | Price | Representative tools |
|---|---|---|
| Entry | $29–$99 / mo | Otterly · HubSpot AEO · Rankscale · Semrush AI · Profound Starter |
| Core | $199–$399 / mo | Peec · Otterly · Profound Growth · Goodie · Rankscale Growth · Athena |
| Enterprise | $780–$2k+ / mo | Scrunch · Ahrefs all-in · Rankscale |
Where this table stops
- Price snapshot as of 2026-07-16. Intelligence in this category has a short half-life — when we ran it, Peec had just repriced and Semrush had just been acquired by Adobe. Re-check before you rely on it.
- The enterprise row only includes vendors who publish a list price. Actual custom deal prices are disclosed first-hand by nobody in this industry — we have no evidence for the five-figure annuals that circulate online, so we don't print them.
- Annual billing generally means “two months free”, roughly 17% off.
- The headline price is often not what you pay. Credit systems and per-engine add-ons are this category's single most common complaint: once you add on, the bill stops being predictable. Ask about this against any price table — including ours, later.
Source: a 2026-07 snapshot of comparable GEO/AEO tools' “public pricing pages”. Figures are vendor list prices; third-party estimates are excluded from this table.