Quick Facts: CitableReport
- Pricing Model: Freemium
- Primary Audience: Website owners, marketers and teams (from small businesses to universities and nonprofits) who want their site to be cited as a source in AI assistant answers rather than only ranking in search results.
- Official Website: citablereport.com
- Research Verification Date: October 17, 2026
What is CitableReport?
CitableReport audits a website's AI visibility by reading it the way AI crawlers do and running 40 checks across five layers, producing one AI Visibility Score out of 100 plus a prioritized list of fixes that shows how easily assistants like ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity can find, read, trust and quote the site.
Documented & Verified Features
- AI Visibility Score out of 100 based on 40 checks across five layers: Crawl and access, Content structure, Fact density, Entity and trust, Measurement
- Crawler-access testing for 17 crawlers including OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, GPTBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Bingbot and Applebot
- Crawls robots.txt, sitemap and up to 20 key public pages without running JavaScript, mimicking an AI crawler
- Full report lists every problem in order of importance with the evidence found and an example fix; includes a score for each page
- Two free re-checks (post-fix reports) within 60 days showing new score beside old, what was fixed/improved/worse, per page
- Free tier provides the instant score plus six of the 40 checks with no signup
- Five measurement checks that cannot be seen externally are handled as five unscored yes-or-no questions; scoring uses only the 35 verifiable checks (weighted 1-3 points, partial passes earn half)
- No access to the website backend or analytics is required; only publicly visible content is read
Primary Use Cases
- Check whether AI crawlers (e.g., GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot) are allowed in via robots.txt, firewalls, sitemaps and indexing directives
- Identify content-structure, fact-density and entity/trust issues that stop pages from being quoted as sources in AI answers
- Re-scan a site after making fixes to compare new versus old scores, page by page, via post-fix re-checks
- Understand how AI visibility differs from SEO and which measurement signals (llms.txt, AI referral tracking) are missing
Pricing & Plans
- Free Tier / Trial: Free instant AI Visibility Score (delivered in about 60 seconds) plus six of the 40 checks, no signup required
- Full report: US$9 one-time payment (no subscription) – includes all 40 checks, every fix with an example, per-page scores, and two bonus free re-checks within 60 days
Documented Limits & Restrictions
Free tier covers only the score and six of the 40 checks; audit reads up to 20 public pages; sites that block the crawler, render empty without JavaScript, or have fewer than three readable pages cannot be audited (no charge and the scan does not count toward free scans); 60-day window applies to the two free re-checks; five measurement checks are unscored self-reported questions
Editorial Transparency Note: Information on this directory page was collected and verified from CitableReport’s official documentation on October 17, 2026. Features and pricing may change over time.
