BeCited vs Gauge
A daily-refresh AI visibility platform for challenger brands: 600 prompts a day on six platforms, a content engine that publishes to your CMS, and an agent you can ask.
Gauge ("Be the Answer for AI") sells one self-serve plan, Growth at $599 per month with a one-week free trial, and an Enterprise plan on demo. Growth runs 600 tracked prompts every day across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot, which Gauge counts as 108,000 AI answers a month, with unlimited domains and competitors, five seats, GA4, Search Console and DataForSEO integrations, Slack, MCP access, and CMS publishing to Webflow, Framer, Sanity and GitHub. The content engine ships 18 publish-ready articles a month, an Action Center turns gaps into recommendations, and an Ask Gauge agent answers questions about the data. Claude and Grok are Enterprise-only, billed through your own Anthropic or xAI key.
BeCited differs on price, proof and the publish button. Gauge's entry point is $599 a month after a trial; BeCited's free report is a full audit and paid plans start at $39 (SEO) or $79 (GEO). Gauge refreshes daily and reports presence and share of voice; BeCited runs a dated matrix with deterministic CITE and SEO Health scores and repeat sampling on higher tiers, so a before/after delta survives a re-run. Gauge's content engine publishes straight to the CMS; BeCited's Content Agent drafts and a human always publishes. Gauge is the stronger pick for a marketing team that wants daily prompt volume, articles shipped, and a chat agent over the data; BeCited is the stronger pick when the budget is smaller, classic SEO has to be in the same score, and the number has to be defensible.
| BeCited | Gauge | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Free instant report; paid from $39/mo (SEO) or $79/mo (GEO) | Growth $599/mo after a 1-week trial; Enterprise on demo |
| Engines | Up to 7, same deterministic method on each | 6 platforms incl. AI Mode and Copilot; Claude and Grok on Enterprise via your own API key |
| Scoring model | Deterministic CITE + SEO scores, 0-100; the same re-run gives the same score | Presence, share of voice and sentiment across 600 daily prompts; repeatability not claimed on their site |
| Classic SEO track | SEO Health score in the same audit and fix list | GA4, Search Console and DataForSEO integrations; no separate SEO score |
| Fix loop | Prioritized fix list on every audit; fix tracker diffs each re-run against the last | Action Center recommendations |
| Content | Content Agent drafts citable passages (Growth/Scale); a human always publishes | 18 publish-ready articles/mo, CMS publishing to Webflow, Framer, Sanity, GitHub |
| Free tier | Free instant report, no signup and no card | 1-week free trial of Growth; no permanent free tier |
| MCP + API | MCP server + REST API, free teaser depth without a key | MCP access and Slack on Growth |
| Refresh | Monthly re-audit; weekly on Scale | Daily, 108,000 answers/mo counted |
Gauge details read from their public site on 2026-09-11. Their product moves; check their pricing page before deciding.
Choose Gauge if
- You want daily prompt volume at scale: 600 prompts a day, unlimited domains and competitors.
- You want articles written and pushed to your CMS every month without a human in the loop.
- You want an agent you can ask questions about your AI visibility data, plus GA4 and Search Console in the same view.
Choose BeCited if
- You want to start free with a full audit and pay a tenth of the price for a paid plan.
- You want a deterministic score whose before/after delta holds up in a client deck.
- You want classic SEO scored in the same audit, and a human on the publish button.
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