AI brand monitoring

The AI brand-monitoring MCP + API: track prompts daily, get pinged when they move. No monitoring product to pay for.

One-off rank checks are easy. Catching the moment a competitor takes your slot in ChatGPT takes daily monitoring, and that loop is just a scheduled call plus a diff. Cron /v1/rankings (or /v1/compare for a whole field) and compare runs, or tell your MCP agent to "watch these 20 prompts daily and ping me when my mention rate drops." Same pay-per-call price, no separate monitoring tier.

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POST /v1/rankingslive

1. You ask your AI, in plain English
Watch penflow across my 20 prompts every morning.

2. Cite42 re-runs the set on every model, daily
→ ChatGPT · Claude · Perplexity · Gemini

3. You get pinged only when something moves
mention_rate 0.71 → 0.58 — competitor took 3 slots.

WHAT YOU CAN ASK

Ask in plain language. Get structured JSON.

Each is one call against the endpoint, ask in plain English through the MCP, or hit the API directly. Same key, same credit balance.

You ask“Did my mention rate move since yesterday?”

You get{ "mention_rate": 0.58, "change": -0.13, "alert": true }

You ask“Which model dropped me overnight?”

You get{ "by_model": { "chatgpt": -0.18, "claude": 0.00 } }

You ask“Did a competitor overtake me this week?”

You get{ "overtaken_by": ["northcrm"], "prompts": 3 }

Why schedule, not subscribe

Monitoring AI brand mentions is a cron job and a diff, not a product.

A one-off rank check tells you where you stand today. Catching the morning a competitor takes your slot in ChatGPT takes the same prompts run on a schedule and compared against yesterday. That loop is the entire job, and it is two primitives you already have: a scheduled call and a diff.

So Cite42 doesn't sell a monitoring tier. /v1/rankings re-runs your prompt set across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini for $0.07 per model per call, and /v1/compare does the same against a whole competitor field. Cron it, diff the runs, alert on a delta that crosses your threshold, wire the alert into wherever you already work. Or hand the loop to your MCP agent and tell it to watch 20 prompts daily and ping you when your mention rate drops.

A 20-prompt daily sweep across all four models is $5.60/day; narrow to ChatGPT alone and it is $1.40/day.
Diff mention_rate run-over-run to catch a competitor_overtake the morning it happens.
Identical prompts replay from the cross-customer cache at $0, so a quiet day costs nothing.

AI MODELS (4)

Every model, one API key.

One call reaches all 4 AI models, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini, or pass “models” to narrow to the ones you need. Billed per model queried.

ChatGPT
OpenAI
Web search on
The highest-traffic AI surface
Claude
Anthropic
Web search tool
Cited, source-grounded answers
Perplexity
Perplexity Sonar
Web-grounded
Always answers from live sources
Gemini
Google
Google Search grounding
Google's own model layer
Google AI Overviews
Google Search
Live SERP
The AI summary atop Google results

PRICED FOR REAL WORK

Real scenarios. Real numbers.

Real workflows, real call counts, real totals, see what this looks like before you commit. Credits never expire.

growth lead
Watch 20 prompts every morning
Cron a 20-prompt /v1/rankings sweep across all four models daily and diff against yesterday, so you catch a slip the morning it happens. 80 calls · $5.60/day (~$168/mo).
solo founder
A cheap single-model daily watch
Track 20 prompts against just ChatGPT every morning and skip the other three until something moves. 20 calls · $1.40/day (~$42/mo).
agency
Monitor a whole competitor field nightly
Run one /v1/compare on 25 client prompts against the full competitor set across all four models each night, alert on any 10pt delta. 100 calls · $7.00/night.

vs. a monthly AI-monitoring subscription

Pay per sweep you actually run, not a flat monthly floor.

GEO monitoring platforms bundle scheduling, alerts, and a dashboard into a monthly seat you renew whether you swept once or every hour. The underlying work, re-run prompts and diff the results, is a few lines of cron against a data API. Same daily answer, no subscription floor.

	Cite42	Monthly monitoring subscription
Integration	One endpoint, one key; cron /v1/rankings and diff the runs	A dashboard and a seat; their schedule, their UI
Coverage	ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini in one sweep	Whatever models the tier includes, often gated by plan
Alerts	You own the trigger, fire to Slack, your DB, or PagerDuty	Built-in alerts, but only where the vendor lets them go
Billing	$0.07 per model per call, pay only for sweeps you run	Flat monthly floor whether you swept once or never
Repeat queries	Quiet day? Identical prompts replay from cache at $0	Flat fee regardless of how little moved
Cost, daily 20-prompt sweep	$5.60/day across four models, or $1.40/day on ChatGPT alone	Monthly seat priced for the platform, not your usage

PRICING

Pay per call. $25 minimum deposit. Credits never expire.

This page's endpoints below. See /pricing for the full per-endpoint table.

Endpoint	Price	What you get
POST/v1/rankings	$0.07/model	Run on a schedule and diff the deltas, the core monitoring primitive
POST/v1/compare	$0.07/model	Monitor your brand vs. a whole competitor set in one scheduled call

See all endpoints and the model coverage table →

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QUESTIONS

Questions about brand monitoring.

Each /v1/rankings call is $0.07 per model per call. A 20-prompt daily sweep across all four models is ~$5.60/day; narrow to one model and it's ~$1.40/day. Run it weekly instead if you want lower spend.

You own the loop, and that's the point. Cite42 is a stateless data API: scheduling a sweep, diffing runs, and firing an alert is a few lines of cron (or one instruction to your MCP agent). We deliberately don't sell a stateful monitoring tier with its own subscription; you pay per call for the data and wire the trigger wherever you already work, Slack, your DB, PagerDuty.

Yes. Use /v1/compare to track your brand against a whole competitor set in a single scheduled call, or run /v1/rankings per brand for agency portfolios. Either way it's $0.07 per model per call, $0.28 across all four, or $0.07 to watch a single model.

Yes, that's the cleanest path. With the MCP server installed, tell your agent "track these 20 prompts daily and ping me when my mention rate drops." It schedules the sweep, holds the deltas, and alerts you, calling the same /v1/rankings or /v1/compare endpoints under the hood. No infra for you to run.

A rank tracker watches Google search positions. This watches mention rate × position in AI answers across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini. Same conceptual job, different surface, different metric, increasingly different buyer journey.

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