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Peec AI vs Cited: tool or team?
Peec AI is self-serve AI search analytics: your team tracks prompts on three engines of your choice, with unlimited users, and acts on the data. Cited is a done-for-you service: we track your prompts on every engine we cover, and our strategists and copywriters ship the content and listings that change the answers.
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The short answer
Peec AI and Cited measure the same thing: how often AI engines mention and cite your brand, and who they recommend instead. Peec gives your marketing team a well-built analytics product with clear plan limits. Cited gives you the analytics and the people who act on them. If you have the team, Peec is the simpler buy. If you don’t, the data alone won’t move your answers.
Peec AI and Cited side by side
| Peec AI | Cited | |
|---|---|---|
| What you buy | A self-serve analytics product | A service: the platform plus strategists and copywriters |
| Engines | Any 3 of ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Copilot, Gemini and Naver AI; more as paid add-ons; up to 13 models on Enterprise | ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Perplexity, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and Claude, plus Google Search |
| Prompts | 50, 150 or 350 on Starter, Pro and Advanced | Chosen with you on the first call |
| Price | $95, $245 or $495 a month (Starter, Pro, Advanced); Enterprise custom | Quoted for your business on a Strategy Call; three months to start, then month to month |
| Users | Unlimited on every plan | Your team and your clients, with read-only access for anyone you choose |
| Content | Recommended actions and agent actions | Copywriters write and publish content; we fix listings and technical SEO |
| Measuring results | Lists a visibility lift analysis and a lift predictor | Weekly report from your strategist; lift measured against untouched control prompts |
| API, MCP, Looker Studio | An API; MCP and CSV exports on every plan; Looker Studio from Advanced | Not offered |
| Free start | A free trial | A free AI visibility audit |
What Peec AI does well
Peec describes itself as “AI search analytics for marketing teams” and says it is trusted by more than 3,500 brands and agencies. Its feature table is long and practical.
- Clear limits. Starter, Pro and Advanced cover 50, 150 and 350 prompts, with 1, 2 and 5 projects, unlimited users and daily tracking.
- Source analytics. A fan-out overview, citation share, source classification and gap analysis show where competitors win.
- Breadth. Local GEO, AI Shopping, prompt volumes, personas, brand attribute scoring and agent analytics.
- Integrations. An API, MCP and CSV exports, and a Looker Studio connector from Advanced.
- Agencies. Credit-based agency plans with pitch projects, client users, view-only dashboards and scheduled client reports.
Where Cited is different
Peec tells you what to do; Cited does it. Our team turns the gaps into briefs, writes the pages and articles, fixes your profiles and listings, improves the technical SEO that decides whether engines can read you, and earns mentions on the sites the engines cite. Every week your strategist reports what moved and what comes next.
Peec lists a visibility lift analysis; we didn’t find its method documented, so we won’t compare the two in detail. Ours compares prompts that get new work with control prompts that don’t, so you can see what the work changed. You see it in the weekly report.
The trade-off: Cited has no self-serve plan, API, MCP or Looker Studio connector, and it costs more than a self-serve tool because it includes the people. If you need the data inside your own stack and have the people to act on it, Peec fits better.
For agencies: Peec’s agency plans and Cited
Peec sells separate agency plans priced in credits: Essential with 10,000 credits, Growth with 25,000, Scale with 65,000 and a custom Comprehensive plan. They include pitch projects for prospects, client users, view-only dashboards, Data Studio templates clients can open without a login, and automated client reporting through its MCP or agent.
Cited works for agencies as a partner rather than a reporting layer. Each client, brand or location gets its own workspace, with roles for your team and read-only access for the client, and our strategists and copywriters do the work you would otherwise staff for. If your agency already has writers and SEO specialists and needs client reporting, Peec’s agency plans fit that better.
Which should you choose?
Choose Peec AI if
- Your marketing team has the time and skills to act on the data each week.
- You want to pick your own prompts and engines and change them yourself.
- You need an API, MCP or Looker Studio for your own reporting.
Choose Cited if
- You want the content, listings and SEO done for you, not just recommended.
- You want every engine we cover included in the price, without add-ons.
- You want to see what the work changed, from a team that reports to you weekly.
Comparing more options? See our Peec AI alternatives and the best AI visibility tools roundup.
Questions
How much does Peec AI cost?
Peec’s pricing page lists Starter at $95 a month for 50 prompts, Pro at $245 for 150 and Advanced at $495 for 350, with 15% off annual billing and Enterprise priced on request. Extra engines are paid add-ons.
Which engines does Peec AI track?
Starter, Pro and Advanced let you choose 3 of ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini and Naver AI, and add more, including Perplexity, as paid add-ons. Enterprise lists up to 13 models, including Claude.
Does Peec AI write content?
Peec suggests next steps through recommended actions and agent actions. We found no done-for-you content service on its site. Cited’s copywriters write and publish the content for you.
Can I use Peec AI and Cited together?
You can, though you would be paying twice for tracking. Most teams need only one: Peec if they will do the work, Cited if they want it done.