Comparison
Citelane vs Ahrefs Brand Radar
Ahrefs Brand Radar measures how often brands appear across AI platforms using a large prompt index, on top of a paid Ahrefs plan. Citelane samples your own buyer questions and turns the gap into one fact-checked page edit you can verify.
Updated October 2, 2026 · Citelane
Ahrefs Brand Radar is best for market-level share of voice across many AI platforms, using Ahrefs’ prompt index. Citelane is best when you want to test your own buyer questions on one page and ship a specific, verified fix, for free.
At a glance
| Citelane | Ahrefs Brand Radar | |
|---|---|---|
| Main job | Ship one evidence-backed page edit | Measure brand mentions and share of voice in AI answers |
| Questions | Your own buyer questions (a few per page) | Ahrefs’ AI prompt index, plus custom prompts |
| Platforms | GPT-5 mini, Perplexity Sonar, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Claude Haiku 4.5 (APIs) | AI Overviews, Gemini, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Claude, AI Mode and more |
| Checks the fix is live | Yes | No |
| Price | Free during beta | Needs a paid Ahrefs plan; custom prompts from €47/month, AI visibility index from €179/month |
Ahrefs facts from ahrefs.com/brand-radar, checked 2026-10-02. Prices vary by platform and location.
Where Ahrefs Brand Radar is stronger
- Market-wide share of voice from a large prompt index.
- Many AI platforms and locations.
- Sits next to Ahrefs’ backlink and keyword data.
Where Citelane is different
- Ends in a shipped change. Each opportunity becomes a draft written only from facts you confirmed, a rule-based claim check, an approval tied to a hash of the exact text, an export, and a check that the words are live on your page.
- Honest numbers. Mention and citation rates come with 95% ranges from repeated answers; missing samples are shown as missing, not as “not mentioned”. No composite “GEO score”.
- Checks the boring blockers first. noindex, canonical, robots.txt rules for search and AI crawlers, sitemap and server-rendered text, before any rewrite.
- Free to start. The free diagnosis needs no sign-in, and everything that works today is free during the beta.
Citelane’s limits
- Citelane is in beta and samples a small panel of buyer questions (a few per page), not hundreds of prompts.
- It uses official model APIs. API answers can differ from what people see inside the ChatGPT or Gemini apps, and Citelane labels them that way.
- No prompt-volume estimates, no consumer-app scraping, no Google AI Overviews tracking yet.
- It does not publish to your site. You export the edit and publish it yourself.
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Is Ahrefs’ free AI visibility checker the same as Citelane’s?
Both are free checks of how a brand shows up in AI answers. Ahrefs’ shows how a brand appears across several AI platforms; Citelane’s asks live assistants the buyer questions for the specific page you paste, checks whether AI crawlers can read it, and gives a shareable report.