citability.devFree scanHow much does an AI visibility audit cost?
An AI visibility audit from citability.dev costs $1,500 for a founder or small business and $3,500 for a team or agency with several properties. It is one payment, not a retainer, and it is delivered in 5 business days.
For context, published prices for a done-for-you audit in this category run from about $1,500 to $5,000 as of August 2026, and self-serve tools that track the same thing start near $49/month. The full ladder, including the agency and enterprise lanes, is on the pricing page.
What $1,500 buys
- Your real buyer questions, asked live across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google's AI
- The verbatim answers, so you can read who got named and who did not
- A gap score, and the competitors the engines actually named, taken from the answers rather than estimated
- The specific fixes, written so your web team can act on them without translating
- A strategy call to walk through what the answers mean for your category
- A 30-day re-test of the same prompt set, refunded in full if your citation rate has not improved
- The fee credited toward a sprint if you book one within 14 days
What it does not buy
Every vendor in this category publishes what is included. Almost nobody publishes the limits, which is exactly why the limits are the useful part.
It is not a promise that engines will cite you.
Nobody can sell that, and anyone who does is selling something they cannot control. What you get instead is the 30-day re-test and your money back if the number has not moved. A refund and a guarantee are different products, and the difference is the honest part.
It does not include the implementation.
The fixes are written down and prioritised. Somebody still has to ship them. If you want that done for you it is the Visibility Sprint, from $4,500, and it is sold with a retainer so the result gets measured instead of assumed.
It does not replace SEO or your Google Business Profile.
It measures a different surface that sits beside them. If your organic search is broken, this audit will tell you truthfully that AI visibility is not your first problem.
It is not a subscription.
One measurement, one date on it. Answers move between identical runs, so a single reading ages. Ongoing tracking is AI Visibility Monitoring at $49/month, separate and self-serve.
It covers four engines, not every AI surface.
ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google's AI answers. Copilot, Grok, and in-app assistants are outside the scope, and the report says so rather than implying full coverage.
It cannot make a category that is too young name you.
This is the one worth reading twice. In a two-year-old category, three engines asked the same buying question fifteen times named no vendor at all. If that is your category, the audit will tell you there is little to win yet, and that is a real answer that saves you a sprint you did not need.
It does not buy placement.
No paid inclusion, no sponsored mentions, no outreach campaign. What gets measured is what the engines say on their own.
Why a page like this usually does not get quoted
On 13 August 2026 I asked ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity 16 buying questions in two categories, five times each, and read all 480 answers. When the question was what this category costs, the three engines named no vendor and no number on all fifteen attempts. Competitor pricing pages, some of them months old, were sitting on the first page of an ordinary Google search the whole time. Asked the same pricing question about project management software, the same three engines answered every single time, with names and figures.
So publishing a price is demonstrably not sufficient here, and I am not going to pretend this page is a clever trick. I put the odds that an engine names citability.dev with a number within six months at about 15%, and I wrote that down with a date on it before publishing so it can be scored rather than quietly forgotten.
The page exists anyway for two reasons. A buyer comparing vendors should be able to read the number without booking a call. And the only way to find out what actually gets a price repeated by a machine is to have a page and then measure it.
The full study, the method, and all 480 raw answers are published at chudi.dev/blog/perplexity-does-not-name-brands. Check the counting if you like; that is what it is there for.
Questions people ask before buying
How much does an AI visibility audit cost?
An AI visibility audit from citability.dev costs $1,500 for a founder or small business and $3,500 for a team or agency with several properties. It is one payment, not a retainer, and it is delivered in 5 business days. The wider market for a done-for-you audit of this kind runs from roughly $1,500 to $5,000 as of August 2026. Self-serve tools that track the same thing monthly start near $49 a month.
What is included in the audit?
Your real buyer questions asked live across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google's AI; the verbatim answers; a gap score with the competitors the engines actually named; the specific fixes written for a web team; a strategy call; and a 30-day re-test of the same prompt set, refunded in full if your citation rate has not improved.
What is not included?
No promise of citations, no implementation, no paid placement, and no coverage of engines outside ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google's AI. It is one measurement rather than ongoing tracking, and it does not replace SEO or a Google Business Profile. It also cannot make a category that is too young start naming vendors.
Is there a cheaper way to find out where I stand?
Yes. The free scan runs 18 infrastructure and content checks in ~60 seconds with no card, and AI Visibility Monitoring tracks a domain every month for $49/month. The $1,500 diagnostic is for when you need the verbatim answers and a named list of what to fix.
How long does it take?
5 business days from intake. Intake is human-led rather than a form, because the questions have to be the ones your buyers actually type or the measurement is worthless.
Do you guarantee AI engines will cite my brand?
No. Engines change their answers between identical runs, so no vendor can honestly guarantee a citation. The guarantee offered here is narrower and checkable: re-test the same prompt set after 30 days, and if your citation rate has not improved, the fee is refunded.
Start where it costs you nothing
The free scan tells you whether AI engines can read your site at all, in about a minute. If the answer is yes and you still are not being named, that is when the $1,500 diagnostic earns its money.