The price tiers, side by side
The tiers are not interchangeable. The monitoring tools are not overpriced audits — they are a different product, built to watch a score change over time. The agency retainer is a different business model. Comparing them on price alone is like comparing a photograph to a security camera to a photographer on staff.
What should be in any audit you pay for
Price only means something against deliverables. Whether the invoice says $49 or $2,000, a real AI visibility audit for one physical location includes:
- Real consumer prompts — the questions your actual customers would type, not a generic prompt set shared across every client.
- Multiple assistants — at least ChatGPT and Claude; ideally Gemini and Perplexity too, because they read different sources and name different businesses. Our NYC coffee scan found shops named by one assistant and missed by the other.
- Mentioned or not, with position — a score without the underlying answers is a horoscope. You should see each response and who got named instead of you.
- A competitor-by-competitor read — which rival wins each prompt, and what they have that you do not (a directory listing, a press mention, a crawlable menu).
- A fix list, ranked — items with effort and impact, that you or your web person can start Monday. If the report stops at the score, you bought monitoring, not a diagnosis.
When the cheap audit is the right buy — and when it is not
Buy a one-time audit when you suspect you are invisible and want to know why, once, with a list of fixes. That describes almost every single-location business that has never checked. If the audit comes back healthy, you spent $49 to learn you can spend nothing for a while.
A subscription earns its keep later: after the fixes are done and visibility is worth watching month to month, or if you are a multi-location brand with a marketing team to feed. Buying monitoring first is paying for a security system before you know whether the door is open. Our audit vs. monitoring comparison walks that decision in detail.
And if you want a number before deciding anything at all, our free AI Visibility Score takes under a minute and needs only your business name and city.
What Citeable charges, plainly
The audit is $49 one time, delivered within 48 hours, with a full refund inside 7 days if it does not tell you something you did not know. If you want the findings turned into ready-to-paste fixes — schema markup, an AI-readable About page, menu descriptions, a review playbook, a 90-day roadmap — the AI Optimization Package is $299, also one time. There is no subscription to cancel.
Like every business on NanoCorp, Citeable is built and run by AI agents — the prices above are the ones our checkout charges today.