AmICited amicited.comCan AI replace AmICited?
The scoring loop is genuinely weekend-buildable, but a faithful replacement is not, and that gap is the honest reason to keep paying. The naive personal build sends your questions through the model APIs, but API answers are not what a real user sees when they open ChatGPT, Perplexity, or AI Overviews, so that number is only a proxy. AmICited does not use LLM APIs at all: it drives real browsers to ask the actual consumer surfaces the way a person in a given country would, a browser-automation fleet routed through country-level proxies, kept working as every surface changes. The other gaps are the historical archive that compounds from day one and cannot be backfilled, an MCP server that lets your AI agents act on your visibility gaps, and, on higher plans, human AEO consulting from real experience that no script replaces. You can build the weekend proxy; the prompt below is that honest consolation build, with its limits stated plainly.
Replacing a paid app means you set it up and keep it running: hosting, updates and backups can be on you. What you give up.
01What it costs
Checked Aug 13, 2026 · source: amicited.com.
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $57.73 | $52.91/mo | 50 credits; 3,000 responses; 1 domain; 200 prompts/domain; 10 competitors; 10 articles; 1 workspace; 1 member. |
| Pro | $138.54 | $127/mo | 120 credits; 8,000 responses; 5 domains; 800 prompts; 30 competitors; 50 articles; 15 workspaces; 10 members/workspace. |
| Premium | $577.25 | $529.15/mo | 500 credits; 33,000 responses; 50 domains; 3,200 prompts; unlimited competitors; 500 articles; 50 workspaces; 100 members/workspace. |
| Enterprise | — | $1,731.75/mo | Custom or unlimited limits; annual agreement. |
Hidden costs: 1 response consumes 0.015 credit, while agents/articles consume more; unused credits and article allowances do not roll over; extra credits are sold as top-ups; upgrades can be prorated
02Could AI build it for you?
The core job: Run your buyer questions through the answer-engine APIs on a schedule, store each answer, and score brand and competitor mentions plus cited sources, as a rough personal proxy for the real consumer-surface answers.
What a working version needs:
- headless browser automation (Playwright/Puppeteer) to reach the real consumer surfaces, not just model APIs
- residential or geo-targeted proxies to query from specific countries
- a scalable scheduler/queue and the infra to run and retry many browser sessions in parallel
- durable per-run storage that never overwrites an answer, so history compounds
- ongoing upkeep as each engine and surface changes its UI, models, and citation format
The scoring is a weekend project; the geo-proxied real-browser fleet, the compounding archive, and the human consulting behind it are not. Recheck EUR pricing before merge.
03What you'd give up
- the faithful signal: API answers only approximate what the ChatGPT app, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Copilot, and Grok actually serve real users, which is what AmICited measures with real browsers
- country-level results: what users see varies by geography, which needs a proxy fleet a solo build will not stand up
- scale and reliability: running and retrying thousands of real browser sessions in parallel is the hard engineering, not the scoring
- months of stored answers and competitor baselines, without which a single week's visibility number is noise, and which you cannot backfill once you start late
- human AEO consultations on higher plans, advice from real experience acting on your data, which no self-hosted script reproduces
Because the scoring is the cheap half and everything real is the expensive half. AmICited does not call the model APIs, it drives real browsers through country-level proxies to capture what users genuinely see, which is faithful and hard to run at scale and keep working as the surfaces change. It stores every full answer so the value compounds into a history you cannot recreate once you start late, exposes an MCP server so your AI agents can act on the gaps, and on higher plans adds human AEO consulting that acts on your data from real experience. A personal API script gives you a rough proxy; it does not give you any of that.
04Free and cheaper alternatives
Self-hosted AEO tracker covering the API-proxy scoring loop; it queries model APIs, which is exactly the faithfulness gap the paid product exists to cross.
elmohq.com →05The build prompt
The complete build prompt, plus 11 step-by-step prompts from research to launch, a design system file, a page-by-page spec, the data model and a launch checklist.
Get the Build Kit · $9 →One-time payment. Delivered on screen and by email.
06Free open-source starting points
- Elmo: MIT-licensed self-hosted AEO/GEO tracker: runs your prompts across the major answer engines and records mentions, competitors, and cited sources
- llm-brand-tracker: Small research-grade toolkit for monitoring brand visibility in LLM search; a reasonable starting point
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