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AI Search Monitoring / AI-agent analytics and AI-search visibility platform
Siteline
Measure AI-agent traffic, crawl behavior, and AI-search visibility from real site data
AI-agent analyticsAI-search visibility monitoringTechnical crawlability analysis
Why it stands out
Observed agent and crawler behavior plus prompt visibility.
Source review: · Public-source research, not a hands-on test
Current official branding is Siteline; older GPTrends plugin, API, and documentation references remain relevant to the rebrand boundary.
↗ Best for
Marketing and SEO teams measuring AI-agent referrals and visibility.
! Know before you buy
Siteline; older surfaces use GPTrends
01 / Editorial assessment
Is Siteline for you?
The AICiteKit take
Siteline is a credible candidate for teams that need observed AI-agent behavior alongside simulated AI-search visibility. Official pages describe agent and crawler analytics, blocker detection, prompt runs, products and competitors, exports, MCP access, and a reporting API on paid tiers. The evidence is stronger for identity, current plan signals, and advertised scope than for measurement quality or outcomes: the WordPress plugin has no reviews, Authoritas is dated competitor context, and vendor case studies are promotional. Shortlist it for a bounded pilot, but verify the GPTrends-to-Siteline migration, sampling, raw exports, privacy, retention, API/MCP permissions, and attribution before purchase.
A good fit if you are…
- Marketing and SEO teams measuring AI-agent referrals and visibility.
- Developer teams checking whether documentation is fetched by coding agents.
- Agencies managing multiple client sites or competitors.
- Teams able to define a stable prompt and event panel.
Consider another option if…
- Buyers requiring independently audited citation accuracy.
- Teams needing a complete public data-contract specification.
- Organizations demanding causal revenue attribution.
- Teams seeking only conventional SEO tracking.
02 / Scope, not promises
Features & coverage
- Usage allowances
Free 50K events/1 site; Starter 500K/2; Scale 2M/5; Pro 10M/unlimited sites
Archived researchResearch excerpt · Pricing and limits- Prompt runs
Starter 500/month; Scale 1,100/month; Pro 4,000/month
Archived researchResearch excerpt · Pricing and limits- Current identity
Siteline; older surfaces use GPTrends
Archived researchResearch excerpt · Rebrand and product identity
Agent and crawler analytics
Monitor AI bots, agents, crawlers, page fetches, blockers, and user-initiated AI activity.
AI visibility tracking
Track products, competitors, monthly prompts, and major AI platforms on paid tiers.
Integrations
Named integrations include Vercel, Cloudflare, Netlify, Azure CDN, AWS CloudFront, Next.js, WordPress, and Fastly.
MCP and Reporting API
MCP access and a Reporting API are shown on paid tiers; permissions and quotas require confirmation.
A focused evaluation workflow
- Connect a site through an available integration, plugin, SDK, or setup path.
- Review agent and crawler activity, page fetches, and technical blockers.
- Configure products, competitors, prompts, and AI platforms.
- Use exports, Reporting API, or MCP where the plan includes them.
- Compare stable observations over time without treating them as universal market share.
03 / Commercial boundaries
Pricing & limits
Terms below reflect the 2026-10-20 source review, not a new live quote. Confirm currency, billing term, tax and required scope with the provider.
- Public plans
Free; Starter $49/month; Scale $99/month; Pro $299/month; Enterprise custom
Archived researchResearch excerpt · Pricing and limits
Your buying checklist
Get these answers first.
- How are GPTrends accounts, API hosts, and historical data migrated to Siteline?
- Which models, versions, regions, languages, and prompts are sampled?
- What raw events, answers, citations, and timestamps can be exported?
- What are the API/MCP permissions, quotas, retention, and data-residency terms?
- How are AI referrals separated from correlation and causal revenue attribution?
Pricing context & qualifications
Official Siteline plan cards checked October 20, 2026: Free; Starter $49/month with 2 sites, 500K events, and 500 prompt runs; Scale $99/month with 5 sites, 2M events, and 1,100 prompt runs; Pro $299/month with unlimited sites, 10M events, and 4,000 prompt runs; Enterprise custom. Confirm billing, overages, retention, and rebrand continuity.
04 / The tradeoffs
Strengths & weaknesses
Reasons to shortlist
- Observed agent and crawler behavior plus prompt visibility.
- Public event, website, and prompt allowances.
- Free tier with named integrations, MCP, and reporting API.
- Clear distinction between ingestion, referrals, and modeled visibility.
Reasons to pause
- Incomplete public methodology for models, sampling, identity, and citations.
- GPTrends-to-Siteline rebrand requires migration checks.
- No meaningful independent review or controlled benchmark found.
- No proof of causal visibility, traffic, conversion, or revenue lift.
Siteline; older surfaces use GPTrends
05 / Choose by the job
Alternatives to consider
Editorial fit comparisons—not performance rankings or claims that one option always wins.
Profound
Otterly AI
Conductor
06 / What we can substantiate
Reviews & evidence
No meaningful independent user-rating sample or controlled benchmark was found. WordPress.org shows no plugin reviews; Authoritas is dated competitor context; official case studies and Product Hunt badges are promotional.
AICiteKit assessment: public-source research, not a hands-on product test. Official materials establish stated scope; reviews are dated and may concern the broader platform. Neither establishes guaranteed citations, traffic or revenue.
Sources & original verification dates
| Source | Evidence type | Checked |
|---|---|---|
| Siteline official homepage ↗ | official | |
| Siteline Agent Analytics ↗ | official | |
| GPTrends Agent Analytics on WordPress.org ↗ | independent | |
| Gptrends vs Authoritas AI Tracker ↗ | independent | |
| Siteline on Product Hunt ↗ | promotional | |
| CitedIndex GPTrends listing ↗ | directory |
Original review evidence & date context
Preserved from the published research. Dates, review counts and product-scope qualifications below have not been refreshed by this layout migration.
Medium confidence for current Siteline identity, advertised AI-agent/AI-visibility scope, named integrations, and plan signals. Low confidence for measurement efficacy and outcomes: WordPress.org has no reviews, Authoritas is dated competitor context, and vendor case studies are promotional. No checked source proves citation precision, complete bot identification, repeatability, causal visibility lift, incremental traffic, conversions, or revenue attribution.
Research notes & unresolved discrepancies
- The CitedIndex snapshot was used only to prioritize the absent GPTrends candidate; it is not quality evidence.
- Current official branding is Siteline, while the WordPress plugin and older API references retain GPTrends branding.
- WordPress.org reports no plugin reviews; absence of reviews is not a negative quality rating.
- Vendor case studies, customer logos, Product Hunt badges, and percentage outcomes are not independent validation.
Layout migration: October 4, 2026. The original MDX research is retained in the repository; this reorganization does not refresh its factual verification dates.