How Citare works

Three structural differences. (1) Coverage: Brand Radar runs against all 5 platforms (AIO + ChatGPT + Gemini + Claude + Perplexity); most alternatives cover 1-3. (2) Persona-anchored dispatch: every query runs with explicit persona context to capture audience-specific visibility gaps. (3) Citation context classification: we parse recommended / compared favorably / cited as authority / passing reference — not just mention count. Plus Citare ships the full Ahrefs-IA SEO suite alongside, not just AI search.

AIO content is not exposed via Google's API — it has to be captured from the live SERP. Brand Radar uses Cloudflare Browser Rendering + Playwright to screenshot the AIO answer block from geo-seeded SERPs, then routes the screenshot through Haiku's vision API for structured extraction (cited URLs, brand names, answer text). Robust to AIO DOM swaps because we don't parse class names — we read pixels.

Cadence depends on tier. Free: monthly dispatch. Pulse ($35/₹2,999): monthly. Pro ($119/₹9,999): weekly. Agency ($299/₹24,999): weekly × up to 10 ICPs. Enterprise ($1,200+/₹99,999+): daily. All tiers include historical archive for trend analysis.

Yes — CSV upload supported. Drop your Ahrefs/Semrush export, map your columns, and Citare ingests with full historical data preserved. Most teams complete the migration in under 15 minutes.

Yes. INR pricing native via Razorpay (UPI, NetBanking, Cards). GST invoicing included. Pricing auto-detects by IP — Indian visitors see ₹ pricing on /pricing; you can also toggle currency manually. Tier pricing: Free ₹0, Pulse ₹2,999, Pro ₹9,999, Agency ₹24,999, Enterprise from ₹99,999.

Citare's MCP (Model Context Protocol) server exposes 37 tools that Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and other MCP-compatible agents can call directly. Run a Brand Radar dispatch, fetch keyword data, check a URL's citation readiness — all from inside your agent. MCP gates at Pro tier and above. Ahrefs gates MCP at Enterprise, which is one of the key differentiation lines in /vs/ahrefs.

Use them. 20 free tools at /tools — llms.txt generator, AI bot UA detector, JSON-LD inspector, citation scorer, sitemap checker, keyword rank checker, SERP checker, and 13 more. No signup, no rate limits beyond reasonable per-IP. The free tools are how most users first encounter Citare.

First dispatch runs within minutes of signup. Initial surface rate baseline is established in the first run. Trends become meaningful at 4-8 weeks (Pro+ weekly cadence) or 2-3 months (Pulse monthly cadence). The actions you take to lift surface rate typically register in 4-12 weeks depending on the lever (robots.txt fix = 4 weeks; schema deployment = 8-12 weeks; original research = 8-16 weeks).