GetCito is an agency and a software vendor at once. It publishes an open-source tracker anyone can self-host. Its paid plans add a team that writes content, fixes pages and earns brand mentions. Buyers comparing it with other tools should first decide which half they need.
The tracker is free. The paid plans buy people. Every paid GetCito plan bundles monitoring with a human GEO team, so you’re comparing an agency retainer with software subscriptions.
What is GetCito?
GetCito describes itself as a GEO marketing agency and the creator of an open-source AI search optimization tool. The company was previously called AI Monitor. Its site groups the software into four modules.
| Module | What it covers |
|---|
| AI Visibility Checker | Citations, domain citations, brand mentions, unique domains and sentiment by AI model |
| AI Competitor Radar | Benchmarks against competitors, competitor footprint and trend alerts |
| AI Crawlability Clinic | AI bot visits, crawl frequency and spoofed-bot detection through a site pixel |
| Prompt Volume Checker | Estimated prompt demand by platform and intent, from consented panel data |
Around the software sit agency services, from GEO and AEO work to Reddit marketing and link building. GetCito also sells courses. GetCito says more than 140 B2B SaaS and D2C brands use it.
Is GetCito open source?
Yes. The self-hosted edition lives in a public GitHub repository under the MIT license. Its README states that GetCito version 9 is a fork of Elmo, another MIT-licensed tracker, with both copyright notices kept.
The stack is TypeScript on PostgreSQL, shipped with Docker Compose. A white-label deployment mode with single sign-on is included.
Clone the repo → Start Docker Compose → Add AI and scraping provider keys → Prompts run on a schedule → Review the dashboard
Answers come from scraping providers such as Bright Data, Oxylabs, Cloro and DataForSEO, or from model APIs such as OpenAI and Anthropic. You pay those providers directly.
On the pricing page, the free self-host plan includes a full monitoring dashboard. Data updates weekly, analytics cover one domain, and support comes from the community. You run the servers, and you carry the provider bills.
Which AI platforms does GetCito monitor?
Coverage depends on the plan. The GetCito pricing page lists it as follows.
| Plan | AI platforms | Prompts |
|---|
| Self-host (free) | ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews; the README lists more | Set by you |
| Growth | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews | 50 |
| Scale | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews | 100 |
| Enterprise | Adds Google AI Mode, Claude, Copilot, DeepSeek and Meta AI, among others | Unlimited |
The free plan updates weekly. Growth and Scale refresh daily and cover one region each. Enterprise runs daily or weekly in custom markets.
What does GetCito measure?
The AI Visibility Checker reports four headline numbers: total citations, domain citations, brand mentions and unique domains. You can filter them by AI model to see where you lead and where you lag.
A queries view sorts prompts by buyer stage: awareness, interest, consideration and purchase. Sentiment tracking flags negative descriptions, and an AI recommendations panel ranks fixes by impact and effort.
On the website side, the Crawlability Clinic logs AI crawlers such as OAI-SearchBot and separates real bots from spoofed ones. A traffic report counts visits that arrive from AI platforms.
The Prompt Volume Checker answers a different question: which prompts are worth tracking. GetCito says it scales panel data to more than 180 million prompts a month, with confidence intervals. That puts it in the same family as other prompt volume datasets.
What do GetCito’s paid plans include?
The paid plans are sold as "Tool + Human GEO Team." Growth and Scale publish their deliverables; Enterprise is scoped with sales.
- A GEO strategist, a content writer, a frontend developer, a mention-acquisition expert and a community manager.
- Human-written or refreshed content pieces each month: 5 on Growth, 10 on Scale.
- Schema markup and technical GEO fixes on a set number of pages per month.
- Fixed hours for brand mention acquisition and for Reddit, Quora and forum work.
- Prompt Explorer and search volume data, plus sentiment reports.
- On Scale, a quarterly competitor benchmark, custom GEO playbooks and a monthly executive summary.
Growth and Scale prices are published on the pricing page and change often. Enterprise pricing is custom.
Is the off-site work worth paying for?
The community and mention hours target the sources AI engines cite most. In our tracking, Reddit took 14.5% of third-party citations and LinkedIn 10.4%. Source: Ansvisor tracking data, September 15 to October 14, 2026.
So the hours point at the right places. What matters is whether the work earns lasting mentions on threads and pages that engines already cite for your prompts. Ask for that list before you sign. Also ask how brand involvement is disclosed on Reddit, and how they’ll report which placements engines later cite.
Measure the agency with your own tracker. When the same vendor does the work and reports the results, keep an independent baseline on the prompts you care about.
Who should use GetCito, and where are its limits?
GetCito fits a brand that wants GEO done for it and has a short prompt list. It also fits developers who want to self-host a tracker and change the code.
Check these points before you commit:
- Growth and Scale cap tracking at 50 and 100 prompts in one region. For a multi-market brand, that’s pilot scale.
- Claude, Copilot and Google AI Mode appear only on the custom Enterprise plan.
- Self-hosting is free to license but not free to run. Provider bills grow with prompts, engines and run frequency.
- Someone has to patch the containers, back up the database and apply new releases.
Teams that track thousands of prompts across countries and languages usually want that volume in-house. For other self-hosted choices, start with our list of open-source AEO and GEO tools.
GetCito vs Ansvisor
| GetCito | Ansvisor |
|---|
| License | MIT, self-hosted edition forked from Elmo | MIT, cloud or self-hosted |
| Business model | Agency retainer with a tool included | Software platform for in-house teams and agencies |
| Getting started | Free self-host or a demo | 14-day free trial |
| Engines | Four on Growth and Scale, more on Enterprise | ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity; Claude on Enterprise plans |
| Beyond tracking | Done-for-you content and mention building | Mentions and citations reported separately, AI traffic and an action center |
Both projects publish their code. The Ansvisor repository is on GitHub under the MIT license. For more open projects, see our list of top GitHub repositories for AEO and GEO.
How Ansvisor helps
Ansvisor suits teams that want to run the GEO work themselves at scale. It tracks large prompt sets across countries and languages and turns changes into ranked tasks in the AI Search Action Center. If you hire an agency, use it as the independent baseline. Start a 14-day free trial.
