Cite42 - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

Cite42 is a cloud-based, pay-per-call API and hosted MCP server for AI visibility monitoring. It accepts a prompt and a list of brands, queries any combination of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews live via their official APIs with web search enabled, and returns structured data covering brand mention rates, average first-mention position, cited source URLs, sentiment descriptions, and head-to-head competitor comparisons. Because checks run the exact prompt at call time rather than querying a cached database, results reflect current AI-generated answers. The REST API and hosted MCP server (mcp.cite42.dev) expose identical tools, so a check run interactively inside Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, or Cursor via MCP can move into production code unchanged.

Cite42 targets developers, SEO professionals, marketers, and AI agents that require programmatic AI visibility data. It suits one-off audits, ongoing brand-monitoring programs, and automated pipelines alike. Saved Trackers store up to 30 prompts that rerun weekly or monthly with history retained, while keyword volume and Google Trends data are included on the same account. Coverage extends to five AI platforms including Claude, which competing APIs do not cover. Pricing operates on a prepaid balance starting at $25.00 that never expires and is charged only on successful calls, with $1.00 of free credit on verified signup. A one-off audit of a few prompts costs well under a dollar per prompt, making the platform accessible for small workloads as well as large data pipelines.