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b/cited vs Rankscale

Credit-based tracking across the widest engine list in the category, with a published price at every level.

Every Rankscale figure below is from their own pricing page, read on . If they have changed it since, trust their page over this one.

What each costs.

b/cited

From the plan table on /pricing
  • Free$0

    5 prompts, run on request

  • Solo$39/mo

    25 prompts, run nightly

  • Pro$129/mo

    75 prompts, run nightly

  • Agency$399/mo

    250 prompts, run nightly

ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity on every tier.

Rankscale

From rankscale.ai, read
  • Essentials$20/mo

    Yearly billing only (their yearly view shows $17/mo); 120 credits a month; 2 brand dashboards; 10 page audits

  • Pro$99/mo

    1,200 credits a month; 10 brand dashboards; 50 page audits; unlimited seats; free trial

  • Pro+$229/mo

    3,000 credits a month; 25 brand dashboards; 100 page audits; REST API

  • Growth$385/mo

    5,500 credits a month; 50 brand dashboards; white-label dashboard links; agency programme

  • Enterprise$780/mo

    12,000 credits a month; 100 brand dashboards; priority support; dedicated onboarding

17+ engines on every plan: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, DeepSeek, Mistral, Anthropic Claude, Microsoft Copilot and Meta Muse Spark among them. Each run costs credits, and the cost varies by engine.

Where Claude sits.

Claude is on every Rankscale plan, but their credit calculator prices it at 2 credits a run against 0.25 for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini or AI Mode, so Claude prompts use eight times the allowance. On b/cited, Claude is included on every tier at no different cost, Free included.

Not listed on Rankscale’s page: Google Search Console integration, A free tier (their Pro plan has a free trial), Content brief generation. That means absent from the page b/cited read, not absent from the product — ask them.

What Rankscale does better.

  • Engine breadth: 17+ engines including Google AI Mode, AI Overviews, Gemini, DeepSeek, Mistral, Copilot and Meta Muse Spark, none of which b/cited tracks.
  • All regions on every plan, with scheduling from hourly to monthly. b/cited runs nightly and has no geographic segmentation.
  • Page audits, local results, shopping analysis, ad analytics and AI-visit tracking on every paid plan from the $99 tier up.
  • Agency tooling on Growth: white-label dashboard links, a partner directory entry, lifetime affiliate commissions and client discounts.
  • A published monthly price at every level including Enterprise, plus credit rollover and in-app top-ups.
  • Unlimited team seats from the $99 tier, MCP on every plan and a REST API from Pro+.

Which to choose.

Choose Rankscale if

You need engines beyond ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity, you track across regions or on a custom schedule, or you run an agency and want white-label reporting. Rankscale covers that and b/cited does not.

Choose b/cited if

You want Claude tracked at the same cost as every other engine, a free tier that keeps running, and the Search Console side: what the site already ranks for, clustered, with briefs written against the citation gaps.

Common questions.

Is Rankscale cheaper than b/cited?

Rankscale Essentials is $20/month billed yearly for 120 credits, the lowest published price among the tools compared on this site; their Pro plan is $99/month for 1,200 credits. b/cited Solo is $39/month for 25 prompts on three engines with no credit arithmetic, and Free is free. On Rankscale a Claude run costs 2 credits, so 120 credits buys 60 Claude answers a month before anything else is tracked.

Does Rankscale track Claude?

Yes, on every plan. Their credit calculator prices a Claude run at 2 credits against 0.25 for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini or Google AI Mode and 1 for DeepSeek. b/cited tracks Claude on every tier with no per-engine weighting.

How do Rankscale credits work?

Their page says each query to an AI engine costs a fraction of a credit, typically 0.25 per engine per prompt, with Claude at 2 and DeepSeek at 1. Plans include a monthly allowance that renews each cycle, rolls over up to two or three times depending on the plan, and can be topped up in the app. Work out one month of the prompts and engines you need before comparing against a per-prompt price.

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Source: https://rankscale.ai/pricing, read . Prices change; verify before deciding. bcited.ai is not affiliated with Rankscale.

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