How much do Citead and Temso cost in the first month?

Citead Starter costs €29 per month (50 credits, 1 site) and Pro €79 per month (200 credits, 5 sites), or €25 and €59 per month billed annually. Temso Core costs $299 per month for 1 project, $254 per month billed annually, and Scale $1,999 per month. Temso's prices were surveyed on 16 October 2026.

Can both tools be tried without a credit card?

Citead offers a 14-day trial without a credit card, and its page analysis is available without an account. Temso announces a 7-day trial on its /ai-info page; its terms do not say whether a card is requested.

Is Temso available in French?

No. Temso's website is available in English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and German, with no French version as of 16 October 2026. Citead offers its website in French and English, its support in French and an interface in 9 languages.

What data does each tool collect and where is it hosted?

Every week, Citead asks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews the prompts you track, records whether your domain is cited, the cited excerpt and the competitors cited; the data is hosted by Scaleway in Paris. Temso tracks brand mentions, cited sources, sentiment and AI bot CDN logs daily; where its data is hosted is not stated in our sources.

Comparison surveyed on 16 October 2026

Citead or Temso: which one to track your citations in AI answers?

Temso AI is a platform that tracks brand visibility in AI answer engines. It was created in 2025, runs with a team of 5 and is registered both in Delaware (Temso AI, Inc.) and in London (TEMSO LTD). It targets agencies first, with dedicated plans, then marketing teams without an SEO specialist. This page compares its prices and features with Citead's, for a marketing or SEO lead who hesitates between the two before opening a trial.

Citead

Citead suits a company or an agency that wants to measure how citable its pages are, fix them and check its citations every week on four engines, from €29 per month.

Temso

Temso suits an agency that manages several clients and needs white-label reports, daily tracking on up to 8 engines and data integrations (BigQuery, Snowflake, Zapier).

Criterion by criterion

Criterion	Citead	Temso
Entry price	€29 per month (Starter, 50 credits, 1 site), €25 per month billed annually, surveyed on 16 October 2026	$299 per month (Core, 1 project, 200 prompts), $254 per month billed annually; Launch agency plan at $10 per month billed annually, limited to sales pitches; surveyed on 16 October 2026
Free trial	14 days, no credit card	7 days (/ai-info page); credit card required: not stated
Language	Interface in 9 languages, website in French and English, support in French	Website in English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and German; no French version
Engines tracked	ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, checked weekly (10 prompts per week and per site on Starter, 25 on Pro)	OpenAI, Gemini, Copilot and Google AI Overviews included in Core; Claude, Perplexity, Grok and Muse as paid options; 8 engines on Scale ($1,999 per month); daily checks
Analysis without an account	Yes: GEO score of any URL, online editor, llms.txt generator and public ranking, no sign-up	No brand analysis without signing up; 3 free tools (robots.txt generator, ChatGPT button, meta preview)
Page score	GEO score from 0 to 100 with the detail of each criterion and the fixes to apply	No published page citability score; site audits by crawl and CDN logs of AI bots
Fix editor	Yes, the score updates while the text is edited	Content generation in the brand's voice with human review; page fix editor: not stated
Content generation	1 credit per article, 0.5 to 2 credits per rewrite (50 credits on Starter, 200 on Pro)	10 pieces of content per month on Core, 50 on Scale; 10 more for $49 per month
Integrations	WordPress publishing, free public MCP server, ChatGPT Ads and Google Ads Editor exports; no documented public API besides MCP	Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools, WordPress, Zapier, n8n, Looker, BigQuery, Snowflake, OpenAPI, MCP server
White label	No	Yes, white-label reports in the Growth agency plan ($199 per month billed annually)
Affiliate program	20% to 30% of the amount before tax for 12 months, depending on the number of active paying customers	20% recurring for life
Headquarters and team	TW3 Partners SAS, Paris; hosted by Scaleway in Paris	Temso AI, Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware) and TEMSO LTD (London); 5 people; funded by its customers, no fundraising found

The facts about Temso come from its public pages, surveyed on 16 October 2026; prices are those displayed on that date. Report a discrepancy to support@citead.com.

What Temso does that Citead does not

Up to 8 engines tracked (OpenAI, Gemini, Copilot, Google AI Overviews, Claude, Perplexity, Grok, Muse), where Citead tracks 4.
Daily prompt checks, against weekly checks at Citead.
A complete agency offer: white-label reports, unlimited clients, pitch projects for prospects.
Data integrations Citead does not have: Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools, Zapier, n8n, Looker, BigQuery, Snowflake, and AI bot tracking through CDN logs.
A documented OpenAPI and an MCP server, unlimited users from the Core plan.

What Citead does that Temso does not

Entry price of €29 per month against $299 per month for Temso's Core plan, which covers a single project.
14-day trial without a credit card, against 7 days at Temso.
Free analysis of a page without creating an account, which Temso does not offer.
Page GEO score from 0 to 100 with a published method (arXiv:2609.07559); Temso publishes no page citability score.
Perplexity included in every plan, while it is a paid option on Temso Core; data hosted in France.

Where Citead falls short

Citead does not track Claude, Grok or Copilot.
Citead offers neither white label, nor BigQuery, Snowflake, Zapier or n8n integrations, nor AI bot tracking through CDN logs.
Citead checks citations every week, Temso every day.
Citead has no documented public API besides its MCP server.

Which one to choose

Choose Temso: Choose Temso if you are an agency that must deliver white-label reports to several clients, track prompts every day on Copilot, Claude or Grok, or push data to BigQuery, Snowflake or Zapier.
Choose Citead: Choose Citead if you manage one to five sites, want a page score and a fix editor on top of citation tracking, and prefer a tool from €29 per month with data hosted in France.

To get an idea without an account, the free analysis of a page gives the score and the fixes in under a minute; the 14-day trial asks for no card.

Frequently asked questions

How much do Citead and Temso cost in the first month?: Citead Starter costs €29 per month (50 credits, 1 site) and Pro €79 per month (200 credits, 5 sites), or €25 and €59 per month billed annually. Temso Core costs $299 per month for 1 project, $254 per month billed annually, and Scale $1,999 per month. Temso's prices were surveyed on 16 October 2026.
Can both tools be tried without a credit card?: Citead offers a 14-day trial without a credit card, and its page analysis is available without an account. Temso announces a 7-day trial on its /ai-info page; its terms do not say whether a card is requested.
Is Temso available in French?: No. Temso's website is available in English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and German, with no French version as of 16 October 2026. Citead offers its website in French and English, its support in French and an interface in 9 languages.
What data does each tool collect and where is it hosted?: Every week, Citead asks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews the prompts you track, records whether your domain is cited, the cited excerpt and the competitors cited; the data is hosted by Scaleway in Paris. Temso tracks brand mentions, cited sources, sentiment and AI bot CDN logs daily; where its data is hosted is not stated in our sources.