Cituna Review (2026): Seven AI Engines Tracked Daily for $39, With an MCP Server

When we compared the AI visibility tools in August, the cheapest verified way in was Otterly’s $29 plan, with four engines and Claude sold as an add-on. Cituna’s argument is that the add-on model is the wrong model. For $39 a month it checks seven engines every day, including Claude and Grok, and the engine list is the same on every plan.

That is a real position at the bottom of the market, and it comes with a second idea that is less common: an MCP server, so an AI agent such as Claude can read your scans and gaps and act on them from a chat. This review covers what Cituna measures, what it costs, how the fix and autopilot loop works, who it fits, and where its job ends. Every price below was checked on the Cituna pricing page on 6 October 2026.

What Cituna is

Cituna is run by Rahul Arora, who according to the about page runs it on his own sites first, in the same workspace customers use. The operating company is Eternum Capital FZE LLC in the United Arab Emirates, and the team says it did SEO for more than 500 brands before building the product. The homepage claims 1,783 businesses on the platform. That figure is the vendor’s, and we could not verify it independently.

The engine list is the headline: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode, checked daily on every plan. Microsoft Copilot is the one notable omission, and Cituna says so plainly in its own FAQ.

There is a second identity on the same site, and you need to know about it before you buy. The homepage calls Cituna “the AI visibility platform” in one section and “the SEO autopilot that writes, optimizes and publishes content proven to rank on Google and ChatGPT” in the footer. The three-step pitch in the middle of the page is “add your website, get content, publish and grow traffic”, with the promise of “100% of your SEO work, fully automated, from keyword to published article”. Both products are real, and they share one price list. Which one you are buying depends on which switches you leave on.

What it measures

Cituna’s unit is the buyer prompt: a real question your customers ask an AI engine before choosing. Each prompt runs across all seven engines and the tool records which brands each engine cites, compares you with competitors, and keeps the sources.

Where the prompts come from is the clever part. Cituna reads your Google Search Console data daily, takes the queries Google already shows your site for, expands them into the question form buyers type into a chat, and verifies each question against your real queries. The company’s own words: “nothing is invented”. For a small business that has never written a prompt list, that is a sensible way to start.

From the scans you get:

• A visibility grid: prompt by engine, cited or not, with the competitors that were cited instead.
• Gaps ranked by impact and effort.
• Citation sources: the pages each engine drew on, so you can see which third-party sites are deciding the answer.
• A Search Console tie-back, so AI citations sit beside the clicks and impressions those pages earn in Google.
• Weekly visibility reports, white-labelled on every plan.

The fixes and the autopilot

Every plan includes “every fix written for you”. When a scan shows a gap, Cituna generates the schema, FAQ markup, llms.txt and page changes it thinks will close it. On Starter these arrive as recommendations; on Pro and above they are auto-generated and you can act on them with alerts.

Then there is the autopilot. The SEO autopilot turns a buyer question into a published article that answers it, either with one click or on a daily automation, and publishes to WordPress, Shopify, Wix, Webflow, Notion, HubSpot, Ghost, a Next.js repo or anything with a webhook. Cituna’s own comparison pages say it writes 30 articles a month on Starter, in any of more than 50 languages.

This is where we would slow down. An article a day, written and published by a machine from a Search Console query, is a traffic strategy with a short history and a long list of ways to go wrong: thin pages, drift from your actual positioning, and a site that reads like everyone else’s autopilot. It is also precisely the kind of content AI engines have started to discount. Cituna gives you the switch; our advice is to leave the daily automation off, use the generated questions as a brief, and put a person between the draft and the publish button.

The MCP server

The feature most likely to matter to teams already working in an AI assistant is the MCP server. It exposes 26 tools (20 reads, 6 writes) to Claude on web, mobile, Desktop and Code, or to any MCP client through an npm package. The hosted connector needs no local setup.

Read tools cover the tracking grid, engine answers, audits, gaps, Search Console analytics, citation sources and the content queue, and they are included from the $39 Starter plan. Write tools, which let an agent run a scan, set prompts, change a gap’s status, queue an article, mark it published and update outreach, require Pro or above. The MCP server is not part of the free trial.

In practice this means you can ask Claude “which buyer questions did we lose on Perplexity this week, and which sources did it cite instead?” and get an answer from your real data rather than a guess. That is the right direction for the whole category.

Verified pricing (October 2026)

Every plan includes all seven engines on schedule, the Search Console integration, publishing to every major CMS, gaps ranked by impact and effort, generated fixes, 50+ languages, weekly reports and white-label reports. Self-serve billing is monthly only, with no annual discount. You can cancel any time, but a partial month is not pro-rated, because scans spend money with the AI providers the moment they run.

Three things to notice before comparing this with the rest of the market:

• The trial converts. Three days, card required, and it becomes a $39 Starter subscription when the trial ends unless you cancel or pick another plan. Put the reminder in your calendar before you start.
• Ten prompts is a small window. At $39 you track ten buyer questions. Wellows’ $29 plan covers 12 prompts on five engines daily, and Otterly’s $29 plan 15 prompts on four. Cituna wins on engines, not on prompt volume, and the prompt allowance is what tells you how much of your market you can actually see.
• Brands scale with the plan. Three brands on Pro and ten on Max make it a plausible small-agency tool at $119 and $399, with white-label reports included at every level.

Who it fits

Founders and small teams who want to see every engine. Seven engines for $39, with the prompts generated from your own Search Console data, is the fastest path from “I have no idea what AI says about us” to a daily answer.

Teams that work in Claude. If your marketing already runs through an AI assistant, the MCP server turns Cituna into a data source the assistant can query and, on Pro, act on.

Small agencies. Ten brands and white-label reports at $399 is a lower entry than most agency tiers in this category.

The honest caveats

Beyond the category-wide limits, five Cituna-specific ones:

1. No prompt-volume data. Cituna does not tell you how many people ask the questions you track, and its own comparison pages concede the point. Seven engines on a question nobody asks is still zero pipeline.
2. No Copilot. If your buyers live in Microsoft products, Cituna cannot see them. Ahrefs Brand Radar and Otterly can.
3. The autopilot is the risk. A daily machine-written article published without review is the opposite of how we think content should ship, and it is the default pitch on the homepage. Decide before you connect your CMS.
4. Thin independent evidence. A handful of Trustpilot reviews, a logo strip of well-known software companies with no case studies attached, and three anonymised Search Console charts as “real customer results”. The best-ranked third-party guides to the category that recommend Cituna are published by Cituna’s own team, which they disclose. Run the trial on your own domain and trust what you see.
5. A young company with two identities. The visibility platform and the SEO autopilot are sold as one product under one price list. That can be convenient. It can also mean the roadmap serves whichever half is selling.

Where Cituna ends and the content work begins

Cituna is the cheapest honest way to answer the first question in this category: across seven engines, are we in the answer, and who is instead? The fixes it writes for schema, FAQ markup and llms.txt are the kind of technical work that should be automated. The content is the part we would take back.

The page that earns a citation still has to be written in your voice, checked by someone who knows the product, illustrated, published, and then promoted to the people you already have: your email list, your LinkedIn followers, the visitor who arrives from an AI answer with the next question already formed. Cituna does not claim that work. Equally, Marqeable does not track or tune how you show up in AI search. The two stop where the other starts, and because both have an MCP connector, an assistant can sit between them.

So the loop for a team running both looks like this:

1. Cituna finds the gap. The scan says a buyer question is answered from a competitor’s page on five of seven engines, and names the sources.
2. Claude reads it. Through Cituna’s MCP server, your assistant pulls the lost prompts and the cited sources.
3. The brief lands in Marqeable. Through Marqeable’s connector, the same assistant drafts a content brief with the target question, the sources and the angle, and an agent drafts the post in your voice.
4. A person approves. Suggestions sit beside each passage, teammates comment in threads, and nothing publishes or sends until someone marks it Ready. The post goes to WordPress, and the email and LinkedIn post that promote it are drafted from the same brief.
5. Both tools prove the movement. Cituna’s next scan shows whether the engines moved. Marqeable’s attribution shows whether the visit became a lead and the lead became revenue.

For the assistant side of that loop, see Claude Code for marketers. For why the content has to be good rather than frequent, see how AI search chooses its sources.

Frequently asked questions

What is Cituna?

A flat-price AI visibility tool that asks your buyers’ questions daily in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode, records which brands each engine cites, ranks your gaps, and writes the fix: schema, FAQ markup, llms.txt, page changes and new articles. It connects to Search Console, publishes to most CMSs, and ships an MCP server for Claude and other agents.

How much does it cost?

Verified in October 2026: Starter $39/month (1 brand, 10 prompts, read-only API and MCP), Pro $119 (3 brands, 30 prompts, alerts, auto-generated fixes, MCP writes) and Max $399 (10 brands, 90 prompts). Monthly billing only; Enterprise adds annual invoicing. The 3-day trial needs a card and converts to Starter unless cancelled.

How is it different from Otterly or Wellows?

Engine breadth at the entry price: seven engines including Claude and Grok on every plan. Its limits are ten prompts at $39, no Copilot, a card-required trial, and an SEO autopilot that publishes on a schedule unless you switch it off.

What does the MCP server do?

It exposes 26 tools to Claude or any MCP client. Reads (grid, answers, audits, gaps, Search Console, sources, content queue) are included from Starter. Writes (run a scan, set prompts, queue an article) need Pro or above. It is not in the free trial.

The bottom line

Cituna is the widest view of AI search you can buy for $39, and the MCP server is the most forward-looking feature on any pricing page we have read in this category. If you have never seen what Claude or Grok say about your brand, three days and a card will tell you. Against that, ten prompts is a narrow window, the trial converts, the evidence base is thin, and the autopilot that writes and publishes an article a day is a choice we would not make.

Use it for the question it answers well, which is where you stand across seven engines and which sources decide it. Then do the work the score is waiting for with a person in the loop: write the page, review it, publish it, promote it, and turn the reader into a lead. That is how a citation becomes a customer.

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