Side-by-side matrix
| What you get | CitunaThat’s us | Peec AI | Rankscale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry price / month | $39 | $80 | $20 |
| Pricing model | Flat tiers | Flat | Credit-based |
| AI engines at entry | 6 | 3–6 | 9+ |
| Claude tracked | |||
| Grok tracked | |||
| Microsoft Copilot | |||
| Google AI Overviews | Not published | ||
| Refresh cadence | Daily | Not published | Not published |
| Search Console integration | |||
| MCP access at entry | |||
| Generated fixes | Page audits | ||
| Free trial | 3 days (card) | 3 days | Free credits |
Compiled from each vendor’s public pricing page: Peec AI figures from peec.ai/pricing, checked August 27, 2026; Rankscale figures from rankscale.ai/pricing, checked July 16, 2026. Peec AI: Starter covers three models; tier prices render client-side. Rankscale: credit-based; cost moves with usage. “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, Peec AI works out at about $13.33 per engine per month ($80 across 3–6) and Rankscale at about $2.22 ($20 across 9+). Rankscale is the better ratio, by roughly $11.11 per engine. Treat that as a sanity check rather than a verdict: an engine you do not care about is not worth anything, and Peec AI’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: Peec AI covers an MCP server and Rankscale does not; Rankscale covers Claude, Grok and generated fixes (page audits) and Peec AI 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 That is the whole difference on the rows both vendors publish, everything else in the matrix either matches or is unpublished by one of them, and an unpublished row is not a “no”.
Worth knowing before you shortlist either: neither Peec AI nor Rankscale offers Search Console integration. If any of those is a requirement, this comparison is the wrong shortlist and you should widen it rather than pick the better of two tools that both miss what you need.
The tier ladders are worth reading side by side, because the entry price means something different on each. Peec AI: Starter $80 (3 models) · higher tiers add models. Rankscale: Credit packs from ~$20. That is where most of the apparent price gap between these two either disappears or widens sharply, depending on which engines you actually need.
One practical difference that does not appear in any feature list: Peec AI bills as flat and Rankscale as credit-based. 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 Peec AI if…
Peec AI is the analytics-first choice: sentiment, multi-country and unlimited seats. Against Rankscale specifically, you are paying $60 a month more than Rankscale for it, it covers fewer engines at entry (3–6 against 9+) and and it bills as flat where Rankscale bills as credit-based.
- sentiment analysis and multi-country tracking, which is the deepest reporting layer among the self-serve tools here
- unlimited seats on paid plans, so the whole team can read the dashboard without a per-seat conversation
- an MCP server included on paid plans, and published data studies drawn from a very large source corpus
What you give up:
- neither Claude nor Grok appears on its published engine list, which is two of the six engines buyers most often ask about
- the Starter covers three of the six models it lists, so the entry price is not the full-coverage price
- tier prices render client-side, so a crawler that does not execute JavaScript sees no price at all: and no Search Console integration
Choose Rankscale if…
Rankscale is the widest engine list at the lowest nominal entry, paid for in credits. Against Peec AI specifically, it is the cheaper entry by $60 a month, it covers more engines at entry (9+ against 3–6) and and it bills as credit-based where Peec AI bills as flat.
- the lowest nominal entry price in the category alongside a nine-plus engine list, including Claude, Grok and Copilot
- free credits to start, so the first scan costs nothing
- broad coverage without an enterprise conversation
What you give up:
- credit-based billing means the $20 is an entry ticket, not a monthly cost: heavy use is not predictable from the headline
- no Search Console integration and no MCP server
- page audits rather than generated fixes, so the output is a finding rather than the change
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.