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CiteHawk vs RankScale.
CiteHawk gives you a full weekly sweep instead of a credit meter: 9 platforms on every plan, an AI Visibility Score, agency tools, and branded reports, built for teams that need real monitoring.
Free AI visibility report · No credit card · 50 prompts · 10 engines
Feature-by-feature comparison
Competitor pricing and features as published in each vendor’s own materials, read on the dates below. “Not published” means the vendor’s public materials didn’t specify a value at the time of reading.
Sources
- [1] RankScale pricing page · checked September 2, 2026
Review log
- September 2, 2026. Every cell re-read on RankScale’s pricing page. Corrected: the entry cell (was "$20/mo, 120 credits"; now Essentials from $20 and Pro at $99 for 1,200 credits), the coverage cell (was "17+ engines"; the page now says coverage depends on which engines you select), the white-label cell (was "Not published"; Growth now includes white-labeled dashboard links), the scoring cell (the "AI Readiness Score" name no longer appears on the page; it now describes metered page-level AI visibility audits), and the agency narrative that followed from it.
- July 20, 2026. First reading, from the 37-vendor pricing sweep.
Disclosure: CiteHawk is our own product and this comparison is ours. We do not publish an AI visibility tools board in the CiteHawk Index, so there is no self-ranking behind this page. Every board we do publish is computed from AI responses only and is not for sale, ours included. How the Index is built →
Depth on a flat plan.
RankScale’s Pro plan is $99/month for 1,200 credits, spent across whichever engines and cadence you select, with an Essentials plan from $20/month. CiteHawk starts at $99/month and never meters the weekly sweep: every prompt, every week, across every platform on your plan, with on-demand runs drawing from a monthly run budget, a composite AI Visibility Score, prompt discovery, action items, and full citation tracking with source URLs.
- A full weekly sweep of every prompt vs rationing credits across the engines you select
- Visibility + Brand Health scores built from Presence, Authority, Sentiment, and Accuracy
- Prompt discovery reveals which queries trigger brand mentions
Agency tools, compared.
RankScale’s Growth plan ($385/month) adds white-labeled dashboard links, an affiliate commission and an agency directory listing. CiteHawk’s agency kit is a client delivery system: branded client portals, white-label reports and multi-project portfolios, with the hosted funnel and prospect audits on the Agency plan.
- Branded client portal with read-only access for stakeholders
- White-label reports with your agency logo on the Agency plan
- CSV and JSON export plus the API and MCP server for your reporting stack
Deeper data, better insights.
CiteHawk captures full AI response text, extracts source URLs from citations, and records the model version on every data point. This level of detail lets you understand not just whether you were mentioned, but what the AI said, what it cited, and how that changes over time.
- Full response evidence stored for every monitored query
- Source URL extraction shows which content AI platforms reference
- Model version tracking reveals how visibility shifts across model updates
Frequently asked questions
They take different approaches. RankScale meters credits across the engines you select, from $20/month on Essentials and $99/month for 1,200 credits on Pro. CiteHawk runs all 9 major platforms on flat plans with a full weekly sweep of every prompt, plus the client portal, white-label on the Agency plan, and prompt discovery.
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Free AI visibility report · No credit card · 50 prompts · 10 engines