AI Cite WhoWhat can you inspect for a buyer question?
The table compares documented workflows. A prompt allowance, a monthly credit balance and a trial are different units; they are not interchangeable measures of coverage. On a narrow screen, scroll the table sideways to read every product column.
| Buyer task | AI Cite Who | OtterlyAI | Profound |
|---|---|---|---|
| Choose questions and repeat checks | Your generated or manual buyer questions; up to 10 per Plus audit or 20 per Pro audit. Saved runs retain their selected questions and answer language. | Lite lists 15 search prompts and daily tracking.1 | Documents daily prompt tracking with captured answers and sources.3 |
| Compare the cited evidence | Shows final-answer cited pages per question and confirmed competitor outcomes. Search-returned candidates are labeled separately. | Domain Sources compares all domains or your brand plus competitors, with categories and coverage.2 | Documents citation tracking by prompt and categories including owned, competitor and earned media.4 |
| Understand the metric | Separates a direct recommendation, a neutral mention and a citation. Citation gaps count distinct answers, not repeated names. | The checked page explains domain coverage; verify recommendation-versus-mention rules in a trial.2 | The checked pages describe visibility and citations; verify equivalent counting rules in a trial.34 |
| Choose engine coverage | ChatGPT only, using API web-search samples; English and Simplified Chinese answer languages. This is not every user’s ChatGPT conversation. | Lite lists ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot; additional engines are add-ons.1 | The trial lists ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews; Enterprise lists up to nine engines.5 |
| Budget a starting workflow | Free: public website analysis only. Plus: $49.90/month and 300 monthly credits. Pro: $99.90/month and 900 monthly credits. | Lite lists $29/month with monthly billing. Check annual billing, tax and add-ons separately.1 | The checked pricing page offers a free seven-day trial with 50 daily prompts and custom Enterprise pricing; no fixed paid entry price is stated there.5 |
| Move from evidence to work | Public website baseline plus question-linked actions with target pages, facts to verify and completion checks. Pro adds scheduling and HTML/Markdown report downloads. | Pricing lists GEO audits, recommendations and report exports; confirm their scope for your plan.1 | Documents content and workflow actions alongside prompt insights.3 |
When each workflow may fit
Start with the job you need to complete. These are selection criteria inferred from the documented scope, not a claim that one product delivers better answers.
- Consider AI Cite Who if you want a bounded ChatGPT check for a small SaaS, a public website baseline, and an evidence-linked backlog you implement yourself.
- Consider OtterlyAI if your priority is a daily prompt allowance across the engines included in its chosen plan; verify the sources and export fields you need during the trial.
- Consider Profound if your team wants the broader prompt, citation and content workflows it documents; use its trial or a scoped quote to check budget and fit.
Ask to see one complete evidence path
Choose a buyer question, then inspect the observed recommended options, the final-answer cited URLs and the proposed change. A search result returned during retrieval is not automatically a citation.
- Does the tool preserve the exact question and answer language for that run?
- Can you distinguish a recommendation from a passing mention?
- Can you inspect cited page URLs rather than only a domain score?
- Does a task identify a page, the observed evidence, facts to verify and a completion check?
Verify equivalence before comparing numbers
We have not run these three products against the same questions in paid accounts. Their sampling, engines, counting rules and billing units may differ. A feature absent from a checked page is unverified, not proven unavailable.
Test the same wording and language, record dates and engine settings, then inspect several results by hand. Even matching conditions cannot make a future answer deterministic. No change or vendor guarantees a recommendation.