Citegrade vs Peec AI: editor vs monitor for AI search visibility
Peec AI tells you if you're cited. Citegrade tells you which paragraph to rewrite to change the answer. Here's the full feature, pricing, and fit breakdown.
Laxman Shah
Citegrade
Pricing and features per peec.ai/pricing and tryprofound.com/pricing (April 2026)
TL;DR: Peec AI is a monitoring platform trusted by 2,000+ marketing teams including Breitling, Hugo Boss, Attio, Squarespace, ElevenLabs, and Wix. It tracks whether AI models mention your brand, with four tiers: Starter $95/mo (50 prompts, 1 project), Pro $245/mo (150 prompts, 2 projects), Advanced $495/mo (350 prompts, 5 projects, multi-country), and Custom Enterprise. Citegrade is a page-level editor. It audits your pages across 6 citation-readiness dimensions, flags paragraph-level blockers, and generates one-click rewrites — starting free, scaling to $49.99/mo. Peec tells you if you're cited. Citegrade tells you what to change.
To answer the most common question directly: if you need to monitor brand visibility across AI engines, pick Peec AI. If you need to fix the pages that are costing you citations, pick Citegrade. For SaaS founders and indie website owners who want the shortest path to being cited, the editor does more than the monitor.
The core difference: editor vs monitor
Both tools exist because traditional SEO tools don't answer the question AI-era owners actually ask: “why isn't ChatGPT citing my page?” They answer it differently.
| Approach | What the tool does | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Peec AI (monitor) | Runs thousands of prompts against ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. Scrapes which brands and URLs get mentioned. Builds dashboards over time. | Visibility trends, share-of-voice data, cited-source lists, competitor benchmarks |
| Citegrade (editor) | Opens your page at paragraph-level. Scores 6 dimensions. Flags vague claims, buried answers, weak headings, and stale data. Generates before/after rewrites. | A prioritized issue list, one-click editorial fixes, CMS-ready output, direct citation verification in ChatGPT and Perplexity |
Per Citegrade's own research across 23,000+ AI citations, pages with answer capsules are the single most consistent predictor of citation. A monitor tells you your answer capsule is missing. An editor rewrites it. Choose the job you're hiring for.
Full feature comparison
| Feature | Peec AI | Citegrade |
|---|---|---|
| Category | AI visibility monitoring | AI citation editor |
| Free tier | — | Free — 2 audits/month |
| Entry paid | $95/mo Starter — 50 prompts, 1 project, 3 models | $9.99/mo Pro — 20 page audits, unlimited rewrites |
| Mid | $245/mo Pro — 150 prompts, 2 projects, 3 models | — |
| Upper | $495/mo Advanced — 350 prompts, 5 projects, multi-country | $49.99/mo Scale — 120 page audits, team workspace, API |
| Top | Custom Enterprise — all models, unlimited projects, API, SSO | — |
| Unit of work | Prompts tracked per month across AI engines | Full page audits with generated rewrites |
| Engines monitored | Choose 3 of major LLMs per tier; all models on Enterprise | ChatGPT + Perplexity citation verification per query |
| Multi-country tracking | From $495 Advanced tier | Global query testing (not per-country aggregates) |
| Users per plan | Unlimited on all tiers | 1 seat (Free/Pro), team workspace (Scale) |
| Page-level issue detection | Not primary focus (monitoring platform) | Yes — 6 dimensions, paragraph-level |
| One-click rewrites | Not primary focus (monitoring platform) | Yes — unlimited on Pro/Scale |
| Before / after diff | Not primary focus (monitoring platform) | Yes |
| CMS push | Not primary focus (monitoring platform) | Webflow, WordPress (beta) |
| API access | Enterprise tier only | Scale tier ($49.99/mo) |
| Notable customers | Breitling, Hugo Boss, Attio, Squarespace, Brevo, n8n, ElevenLabs, TUI Group, Wix (2,000+ marketing teams) | SaaS founders, indie brands, small agencies |
| Funding | $21M Series A (Nov 2025, $100M+ valuation) | Independent / bootstrapped |
| Best for | Marketing teams that need multi-engine, multi-project share-of-voice | SaaS founders, indie brands, agencies fixing specific pages |
When Peec AI is the right fit
Peec AI is the better pick when any of these apply:
- You operate across multiple countries and need geographic visibility data
- You need to report share-of-voice trends to stakeholders monthly
- Your team is 5+ people and you need unlimited seats without per-user pricing
- You care more about knowing where you're mentioned than changing whether you're mentioned
- Your content pipeline already has writers and editors — you just need diagnostics to feed them
Peec's customer list — Breitling, Hugo Boss, Attio, Squarespace, Brevo, n8n, ElevenLabs, TUI Group, Wix — signals who the product is sold to: serious marketing teams at established brands with existing content ops, not solo founders building a 20-page SaaS site.
When Citegrade is the right fit
Citegrade is the better pick when any of these apply:
- You have a small team (or are the team) and want the tool to do the editing, not just the diagnosis
- You publish pages on Webflow, WordPress, or a headless CMS and want to push improved content back
- Budget matters and you want to start at $0 to validate before paying
- You want to close the loop: scan → fix → verify citation → measure — inside one tool
- You care more about being cited than about dashboards showing your visibility over time
Citegrade's Free plan gives you 2 audits per month with full 6-dimension scoring and 2 rewrites per audit — no credit card. Most SaaS founders learn in the first free audit whether the tool fits their workflow. See a sample report before signing up.
Can you use both together?
Yes — the two tools are complementary, not substitutable. A credible stack for a mid-size team:
- Peec AI for monitoring: weekly/monthly tracking of whether your brand shows up across AI engines and countries.
- Citegrade for editing: when Peec surfaces that you're losing share of voice on a query, Citegrade audits the associated landing page and generates the rewrite.
- Close the loop: publish the rewrite, re-verify citation status in Citegrade, and watch Peec's dashboard reflect the lift over the following weeks.
For indie SaaS teams or small agencies under $200/month total tooling budget, Citegrade alone typically covers the workflow — its built-in citation verification handles the “am I cited?” question for the queries you actually care about.
Pricing compared
| Plan | Peec AI | Citegrade |
|---|---|---|
| Free | — | $0 — 2 audits/mo, 6-dimension scoring, 2 AI rewrites per audit, citation verification |
| Entry paid | $95/mo Starter — 50 prompts, 1 project, 3 models, unlimited users, daily tracking | $9.99/mo Pro — 20 page audits, unlimited rewrites, before/after diff, priority support |
| Mid | $245/mo Pro — 150 prompts, 2 projects, 3 models, unlimited users, daily tracking | — |
| Upper | $495/mo Advanced — 350 prompts, 5 projects, 3 models, multi-country, unlimited users, daily tracking | $49.99/mo Scale — 120 page audits, team workspace, API, white-label reports |
| Top | Custom Enterprise — fully customisable prompt tracking, all models, unlimited projects, daily or weekly frequency, API, SSO, dedicated support | — |
The dollars aren't directly comparable because the units aren't: Peec counts prompts tracked per month across AI engines; Citegrade counts full page audits with generated rewrites. At $95/mo Peec Starter monitors 50 prompts in one project. At $9.99/mo Citegrade Pro runs 20 full page audits with unlimited rewrites. Pick based on the job you're hiring the tool to do — measurement or editing.
Agency use cases
Agencies often need both sides. A typical setup:
- Monitoring client deliverable: Peec AI for monthly share-of-voice reports across engines and regions the client cares about.
- Implementation deliverable: Citegrade Scale ($49.99/mo) for auditing client pages, generating rewrites, and exporting white-label reports. Scale's 120 scans/month covers 8–12 client sites at typical audit cadences.
- API layer: Citegrade's Scale API lets agencies automate client reporting and embed scoring into their own dashboards.
Bottom line: Peec AI and Citegrade solve adjacent problems. Peec is the monitor — it tells you where you stand in AI search today. Citegrade is the editor — it changes where you stand. For indie SaaS and website owners, the editor delivers more outcome per dollar. For mid-market teams reporting to stakeholders, use both. Run a free Citegrade audit to see the editorial side in action.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Citegrade or Peec AI better for a 30-page SaaS site?
- Citegrade, for most 30-page SaaS sites. Peec AI tells you if ChatGPT is citing your brand across unlimited countries; Citegrade opens your 30 pages, flags the paragraphs costing you the citation, and generates one-click rewrites. If the question is 'how do I actually change the outcome,' Citegrade solves it directly. If the question is 'where am I cited globally,' use Peec.
- Do I need both Peec AI and Citegrade?
- Most indie SaaS teams don't. Use Peec AI if you need multi-engine, multi-country brand monitoring (common for European or global brands). Use Citegrade to audit and rewrite pages so they're actually cited. Mid-size teams sometimes use both — Peec for share-of-voice reporting, Citegrade for the editorial workflow that moves the numbers.
- How does Peec AI's pricing compare to Citegrade?
- Per peec.ai/pricing (April 2026), Peec AI has four tiers: Starter $95/mo (50 prompts, 1 project, 3 models), Pro $245/mo (150 prompts, 2 projects), Advanced $495/mo (350 prompts, 5 projects, multi-country), and Custom Enterprise (all models, unlimited projects, API, SSO). All tiers include unlimited users and daily tracking. Citegrade is Free (2 audits/mo), Pro at $9.99/mo (20 page audits, unlimited rewrites), and Scale at $49.99/mo (120 audits, team workspace, API). Direct price comparison is tricky because the units differ — Peec measures prompts tracked, Citegrade measures full page audits with rewrites.
- Why did Peec AI raise $21M?
- Peec AI closed its $21M Series A in November 2025 at a $100M+ valuation, reportedly the fastest funding trajectory of any platform in the AI-visibility category after reaching €650K ARR within 4 months of launch. The round validated the monitoring category for growth-stage teams — which makes Peec a serious player, but doesn't change the core job-to-be-done split between monitoring and editing.
- Can Peec AI fix my page for me?
- No. Peec AI is a monitoring platform — it shows you if AI models mention your brand, which sources they cite, and how your visibility trends over time. It does not open your page, flag vague paragraphs, or generate before/after rewrites. For the editorial layer, you need an editor tool like Citegrade.
- Does Citegrade track brand mentions across multiple AI engines?
- Citegrade verifies citations in ChatGPT and Perplexity per-query — the two engines where page-level editorial work drives the most measurable citation lift for SaaS and website content. For full multi-engine brand-mention tracking (Gemini, Claude, Google AI Overviews, and regional variants), Peec AI's monitoring coverage is broader.
- Which tool is better for agencies managing multiple client sites?
- Depends on the service you sell. Agencies selling monitoring and share-of-voice reporting should use Peec AI — the Advanced tier ($495/mo, 350 prompts, 5 projects, multi-country) or Custom Enterprise (unlimited projects, API, SSO) maps to multi-client workflows. Agencies selling editorial optimization and page-level implementation should use Citegrade Scale ($49.99/mo, 120 audits/month, team workspace, API access, white-label reports). Many agencies combine the two.