Side-by-side matrix
| What you get | CitunaThat’s us | LLMrefs |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price / month | $39 | $79 |
| Pricing model | Flat tiers | Flat monthly |
| AI engines at entry | 6 | 11 |
| Claude tracked | ||
| Grok tracked | ||
| Microsoft Copilot | ||
| Google AI Overviews | Not published | |
| Refresh cadence | Daily | Weekly |
| Search Console integration | ||
| MCP access at entry | ||
| Generated fixes | Free tools | |
| Free trial | 3 days (card) | 3 days + free tier |
Compiled from each vendor’s public pricing page: LLMrefs figures from llmrefs.com/pricing, checked July 16, 2026. “Not published” marks a row the vendor does not state publicly; it is not a “no”. Cituna checks all six engines daily and does not track Microsoft Copilot. MCP read tools are included from $39, write tools from Pro ($119); MCP is not exclusive to us. Prices change often: verify before buying. Spot an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
Reading the difference
On cost per engine at entry, the crudest useful way to normalise these two, Cituna works out at about $6.50 per engine per month ($39 across 6) and LLMrefs at about $7.18 ($79 across 11). Cituna is the better ratio, by roughly $0.68 per engine. Treat that as a sanity check rather than a verdict: an engine you do not care about is not worth anything, and LLMrefs’s number improves immediately if its engine mix happens to be the one you need.
The confirmed capability split between these two is narrow enough to state exactly: Cituna covers Search Console integration and an MCP server and LLMrefs does not; LLMrefs covers Microsoft Copilot and Cituna does not. That is the whole difference on the rows both vendors publish, everything else in the matrix either matches or is unpublished by one of them, and an unpublished row is not a “no”.
The tier ladders are worth reading side by side, because the entry price means something different on each. Cituna: Starter $39 · Pro $119 · Max $399. LLMrefs: Free single-keyword tier · paid from $79. That is where most of the apparent price gap between these two either disappears or widens sharply, depending on which engines you actually need.
They also genuinely overlap on Claude, Grok and generated fixes, so those rows should not carry weight in the decision even though both vendors market them.
One practical difference that does not appear in any feature list: Cituna bills as flat tiers and LLMrefs as flat monthly. A credit-metered plan and a flat plan are hard to compare over a year because only one of them has a predictable ceiling, so run your expected prompt volume through both before treating the entry prices as comparable at all.
Which to choose
Choose Cituna if…
Cituna is the fix loop: find the gap, generate the fix, prove it in Search Console. Against LLMrefs specifically, it is the cheaper entry by $40 a month, it covers fewer engines at entry (6 against 11) and and it bills as flat tiers where LLMrefs bills as flat monthly.
- all six engines, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Grok and Google AI Overviews, checked daily on the $39 entry tier, with no engine held back for a higher plan
- generated fixes rather than a chart: schema, FAQ markup, llms.txt and content changes produced from the exact prompts where you are missing
- a native Google Search Console integration, so an AI-visibility change can be tied back to real clicks instead of stopping at a score
What you give up:
- no Microsoft Copilot tracking: if Copilot is a reporting requirement, this is a genuine gap and several tools here cover it
- no sentiment analysis or multi-country breakdowns; the product optimises for the fix, not for the dashboard
- the trial is 3 days and asks for a card up front: you are not charged during it and can cancel anytime, but it is not a no-card start
Choose LLMrefs if…
LLMrefs is the longest engine list in the category, refreshed weekly. Against Cituna specifically, you are paying $40 a month more than Cituna for it, it covers more engines at entry (11 against 6) and and it bills as flat monthly where Cituna bills as flat tiers.
- eleven engines, the longest published list of any tool here, including Claude, Grok and Copilot
- a genuinely free single-keyword tier that keeps working rather than expiring
- a set of free standalone tools alongside the tracker
What you give up:
- a weekly refresh rather than daily, so a change made on Monday may not be visible until the following week
- no Search Console integration and no MCP server
- the free tier is limited to one keyword, which is a snapshot rather than a monitor
Drafted with AI assistance from our own research and Search Console data, and reviewed by Rahul A before publishing. Rules and prices change; check the linked official source before you act.