AI Rankings Tool

AI search visibility MCP and REST API. Measure brand mentions and relative position in one call.

Run AI Rankings from your connected AI tool or call it over REST. Supply one buyer query and 1 to 20 brand or domain terms. Cite42 returns mentionRate, relative avgPosition, and byModel position for every supplied term.

  • $1 free on signup
  • Credits never expire
  • No subscription
  • MCP native
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Step 1: Create your account

Get $1 in test credit to try your first calls.

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Step 2: Connect Cite42 MCP

Replace cite42_live_... with your key, then run this once.

Step 3: Ask inClaude Code

You ask your AIDo AI answers mention Acme CRM for “best startup CRM,” and where does it rank against Rival CRM and Legacy CRM?
MCP runsAI Rankings
Runs across the sources shown.
Your AI saysAcme CRM appears in 3 of 5 AI sources. Acme CRM is strongest for startup prompts; Rival CRM leads enterprise prompts...
HOW AI RANKINGS WORK

See where brands appear in AI answers.

Cite42 runs the terms you choose through selected AI models. It shows how often each appears, where it appears, and what each model says.

EXAMPLE TOOL PROMPTS

Ask for AI Rankings data.

Cite42 runs AI Rankings and returns structured data your AI can summarize.

  • Check whether Acme CRM, Rival CRM, and Legacy CRM appear for ‘best startup CRM’.

    You ask your AI“Check whether Acme CRM, Rival CRM, and Legacy CRM appear for ‘best startup CRM’.”
    MCP runsAI Rankings
    Your AI saysAcme CRM appears in 3 of 5 successful model answers. Its relative average position is 2.0, with each model’s position available in byModel. It includes the key result, source context, and next step...

  • Which AI surface mentions my brand first?

    You ask your AI“Which AI surface mentions my brand first?”
    MCP runsAI Rankings
    Your AI saysClaude places your brand first among the supplied terms. Gemini does not mention it in this result. It includes the key result, source context, and next step...
WAYS TO USE CITE42

Use Cite42 wherever research happens.

Give your AI agent live research tools through MCP, build directly with REST, or manage API access and saved tracker work in the dashboard.

MCP

You ask your AI

Where does Acme CRM rank for “best startup CRM”?

MCP

Cite42 returns

Rankings, citations, and a tracker draft when you need one.

Connect Cite42 to Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Claude, or ChatGPT. Ask in plain English to run every tool and workflow, create trackers, and retrieve saved reports.

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REST API

curl https://www.cite42.dev/api/v1/rankings \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer cite42_live_…" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query":"best startup CRM",
      "terms":["Acme CRM"]}
# structured JSON response

Call the same tools and workflows from your product, scripts, or automations. Send a request and receive structured JSON for your own workflow.

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WHAT WE QUERY

Sources Cite42 checks.

Cite42 queries AI answers, search demand, and conversation signals, then returns normalized results your app or agent can use.

  • ChatGPT

    OpenAI · Search when needed

  • Claude

    Anthropic · Search when needed

  • Perplexity

    Perplexity Sonar · Web-grounded

  • Gemini

    Google · Google Search grounding

  • Google AI Overviews

    Google Search · Live SERP

  • Google data

    Google data

    Search demand signal

  • Reddit

    Conversation signal

  • YouTube

    Video demand signal

AI answers are measured through each provider’s official API with native web search enabled, plus a live read of Google’s search results for AI Overviews — not by scraping consumer chat interfaces. How we measure.

PRICING

Pay per call for this tool.

Top up once ($25 minimum). Credits never expire, and this tool only charges when it runs.

AI Rankings
$0.01 to $0.06/model
Measure brand mentions and relative position in one call.
Sources
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All tools

Same API key, same credit balance, different question.

QUESTIONS

Questions about AI Rankings.

Yes. AI Rankings works directly through MCP and REST. A tracker is optional and adds weekly or monthly runs plus stored history.
One. Make another call for another query, or save several individual checks inside a tracker when you need recurring history.
Between 1 and 20 terms in the competitors field. Despite the field name, the list can include your own brand as well as competitors.
mentionRate is the fraction of successful selected-model answers that mention the term. avgPosition is its mean first-mention order relative to the other supplied terms, across answers where it appears.
No. The response contains query and rankings rows with competitor, mentionRate, avgPosition, and byModel.
READY WHEN YOU ARE

Give your AI on-demand visibility data.

Call rankings through MCP or REST whenever you need brand mentions and relative position for one query.

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