AI Competitors · MCP & API

See which competitors AI models recommend instead of your brand

AI Competitors compares your brand with up to 10 competitors on one buyer question: who AI models mention, who comes first and who gets named together. Via MCP or API.

  • MCP native
  • 5 AI models
  • $1 free on signup
  • No subscription
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Step 1: Create your account

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Step 2: Connect Cite42 MCP

Run this in your terminal. Your browser opens to sign in, no API key needed.

Step 3: Ask inClaude Code

You ask your AICompare Acme CRM, Rival CRM, and Legacy CRM for “best startup CRM.”
MCP runsAI Competitors
Runs across the sources shown.
Your AI saysRival CRM owns enterprise CRM language. Legacy CRM is framed as the budget option, while Acme CRM wins for fast setup...
HOW AI COMPETITORS WORKS

Compare your brand with competitors.

Cite42 asks selected AI models the same buyer question. It shows how the brands you choose rank and where they appear together.

EXAMPLE TOOL PROMPTS

Ask for AI Competitors data.

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

  • Compare Acme CRM with Rival CRM and Legacy CRM for ‘best startup CRM’.

    You ask your AI“Compare Acme CRM with Rival CRM and Legacy CRM for ‘best startup CRM’.”
    MCP runsAI Competitors
    Your AI saysRival CRM has the highest mentionRate in this result. Acme CRM is mentioned alongside Legacy CRM by three successful model answers. It includes the key result, source context, and next step...

  • Which competitors does AI mention alongside us?

    You ask your AI“Which competitors does AI mention alongside us?”
    MCP runsAI Competitors
    Your AI saysYour strongest co-mention pair is with Rival CRM: four successful selected-model answers name both brands. It includes the key result, source context, and next step...
TRACK WEEKLY

Run AI Competitors every week or month.

Save the same check as a tracker and Cite42 runs it on a schedule, keeps every result, and shows what changed. Creating and managing a tracker is free; each run costs $0.13 per saved prompt across the 3 default AI surfaces.

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WAYS TO USE CITE42

Use Cite42 wherever you already work.

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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Dashboard

Account overview

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Trackers

Reports

Request logs

Usage

Billing

Balance

Create API keys, review tracker reports, inspect usage, and manage your balance from one place in the browser.

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WHAT WE QUERY

Sources Cite42 checks.

AI perspectives

One query across five answer engines

  • ChatGPT
  • Claude
  • Perplexity
  • Gemini
  • Google AI Overviews

Search & audience data

Keywords, trends, discussions, and video signals

  • Google dataGoogle Ads
  • Google dataGoogle Trends
  • Reddit
  • YouTube

We use official AI APIs with web search and live Google results for AI Overviews, not scraped chat apps (how we measure).

PRICING

Pay per call for this tool.

Top up once ($25 minimum). Your balance never expires, and this tool only charges when it runs.

AI Competitors
$0.01 to $0.06 / model
Compare one brand with up to 10 competitors.
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KEEP EXPLORING

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Questions about AI Competitors.

AI Competitors compares your brand with up to 10 competitors on one buyer question. It shows how often AI models mention each brand, which one they name first, and which brands they mention together, so you can see who AI recommends instead of you.
Up to 10 competitors plus your own brand, for one buyer question per check. For more questions, run more checks or save them in one AI Competitor Tracker.
A co-mention is when two brands appear in the same AI answer. AI Competitors counts how many AI models name both brands together, which shows who you are compared with most often.
AI Visibility scores any list of up to 20 brands. AI Competitors is built around your brand: you name it plus up to 10 competitors, and it adds which brands appear together in the same answers.
$0.01 to $0.06 per AI model: $0.13 across the three default models or $0.20 across all five. You only pay when the check succeeds.
READY WHEN YOU ARE

Give your AI current competitor data.

Compare one brand with named competitors through MCP or REST, whenever the question comes up.

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