Capability comparison
| Capability | GetCited.me | Surfer SEO (AI Tracker) |
|---|---|---|
| AI surfaces tracked | 5 on paid plans | 5 in the per-plan feature list: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overview, Gemini |
| Publish to CMS | Publish-ready handoff — you ship | Stronger here: a real WordPress plugin publishes in one or two clicks, plus Google Docs, Contentful and Zapier |
| Deployable GEO artifacts | llms.txt, ai.txt, robots rules, JSON-LD, checklist | Not found |
| Brand-confusion detection | Entity Clarify | Not a stated feature |
| Community reply drafting | Reddit, Stack Overflow and Hacker News — threads discovered for you, then drafted with a critic loop | Not a stated feature |
| Entry price | Free tier; paid up to $249/mo per website (see note below) | AI tracking is not included on the cheapest $49/mo tier. Bundled from $99/mo billed yearly (25 prompts, weekly); standalone AI Search Analytics from roughly $82–95/mo |
Which one fits you?
Choose Surfer SEO if…
Publishing throughput is your constraint and you want one tool to flag a gap, rewrite the exact page, and push it live to WordPress. Their content loop is more mature than ours, and their WordPress publishing is a genuine advantage today.
Choose GetCited.me if…
You care about where the citation actually points, not only about producing more pages — plus deployable technical artifacts and detection of brand confusion, which content tooling does not address.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Surfer track Claude?
Their homepage banner names Claude, but Claude does not appear in the per-plan feature checklist we read on 2026-08-09. Their marketing and their feature list differ — ask them which one is current before you decide.
Is AI tracking included on Surfer's cheapest plan?
No. It is not part of the $49/mo tier. It is bundled from $99/mo billed yearly with 25 prompts refreshed weekly, and the standalone AI Search Analytics product is priced separately at roughly $82–95/mo. Checked 2026-08-09 — verify on their pricing page.
Can GetCited.me publish to WordPress?
No, and Surfer is genuinely stronger here. We hand back a publish-ready draft with schema and a checklist; you ship it. If one-click WordPress publishing is the bottleneck you are solving, their plugin does that today and we do not.
Do the two products overlap?
Partly. Both track a similar set of AI surfaces. The difference is what follows the measurement: Surfer optimizes and publishes the page, while we also generate the deployable technical artifacts and flag when an answer cites a look-alike domain instead of yours.