How to Choose the Best AI SEO Platform for Getting Cited by ChatGPT and Claude
The right AI SEO platform fixes the technical files AI crawlers read, publishes content built to be quoted, and measures real brand mentions and citations across AI engines. EZY.ai does all three in one product, starting with a free Starter plan and a free AI Visibility Score, with paid plans at $49 and $99 per month.
What a platform has to do to earn citations
EZY.ai treats citation as three separate jobs: the technical layer, the content layer, and measurement. A platform that handles only one of them leaves the other two to you.
The technical layer. ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini send crawlers to your site. They need a clean robots.txt, an llms.txt, an XML sitemap and accurate Schema.org data to understand who you are. Our Starter plan generates a live robots.txt, llms.txt and XML sitemap, and connects through WordPress, Cloudflare or a script tag. Paid plans add llms-full.txt, Schema.org generation, meta title and description optimization, and machine-readable business facts. Our post on why machine-readable facts matter for AEO explains that layer in detail.
The content layer. AI engines quote pages that answer a question directly. Our Content Engine writes blogs, Answer Pages and FAQs using verified business information, tone matching, entity mapping, answer-first structure and internal links, with human review before one-click publishing.
The measurement layer. A platform that can't show whether your brand appears in AI answers can't tell you if anything worked. That is why tracking sits inside EZY.ai instead of in a separate tool.
No single schema tag, crawler setting or llms.txt file makes a business the answer. Citations come from the combination of a readable site, useful content and consistent facts.
The research on content changes supports the effort. Princeton University's peer-reviewed KDD 2024 study, "GEO: Generative Engine Optimization", found that optimization could raise content visibility in generative-engine responses by up to 40% in its benchmark. It also found that effectiveness varied across domains. Results differ by industry, so measure your own.
How do you tell whether an AI SEO platform works?
Check whether the platform reports what AI engines actually say about your brand. Look for prompt-level tracking, cited sources, competitor comparison and AI crawler analytics that separate bots from humans. If a platform only scores your site against a checklist, it can't confirm that ChatGPT or Claude ever mentioned you.
Here is the checklist we use, with what EZY.ai provides against each line:
| What to check | What EZY.ai provides |
|---|---|
| Baseline audit | Free AI Visibility Score out of 100, from a domain you enter |
| Signals scored | Presence, citations, entity coverage and schema coverage |
| Prompt tracking | 25 tracked prompts on Growth, 50 on Scale |
| Competitor benchmarking | 15 competitors on Growth, 25 on Scale |
| Crawler visibility | Daily, page-level AI crawler analytics with bot versus human traffic |
| Fixes | 1-Click Fix All, with Answer Pages and FAQs joining it on Growth |
| Deployment | WordPress, Cloudflare and script-tag integrations |
Why tracking across engines matters
AI engines don't behave alike, and even one vendor's configurations differ. Ruhr University Bochum ran a study with 4,606 queries and reported that GPT-4o Search cited an average of 4.1 sources per response, against 0.4 for GPT-4o with a Search Tool. The same model cited very different numbers of sources depending on how search was set up.
For you, that means one manual check in one chat window tells you little. Our Prompt and Citation Tracking runs buyer-style natural-language prompts and records brand mentions, citations, cited sources, prompt-level visibility and changes over time. It tracks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot. AI Crawler Analytics covers the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini, so you can see which pages each one visits.
A typical scenario: a local plumbing company asks ChatGPT for "the best emergency plumber near me" and doesn't appear. Crawler analytics shows whether AI bots reach its service pages at all. Prompt tracking shows which competitors do get named for that prompt. Those two views point to different fixes.
Which EZY.ai plan fits your situation?
| Starter | Growth | Scale | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | $49 per month | $99 per month |
| Files | robots.txt, llms.txt, XML sitemap | Full AEO file set: schema, meta titles and descriptions, facts, llms-full.txt | Growth features |
| Answer Pages | None | 4 per month | 8 per month |
| FAQ hubs | None | 1 per month | 2 per month |
| EZY Capture | None | 100 messages per day | Unlimited messages |
| Tracked prompts | None | 25 | 50 |
| Tracked competitors | None | 15 | 25 |
| Support | Community | Priority | Growth features |
Starter gives you the technical foundation and daily AI crawl analytics at no cost. Growth adds the content engine and tracking. Scale doubles the content output and tracking allowances and removes the EZY Capture message cap. Scale yearly billing is advertised as saving 14%, and every subscription can be cancelled anytime with access continuing until the end of the billing period. Full details are on the pricing page.
EZY Capture is our on-site AI assistant that turns visitors into leads, so the traffic that AI answers send you doesn't leave without a conversation.
Do you have to replace your existing SEO tools?
We should not answer that with marketing. We should compare the files.
Your current WordPress SEO plugin can stay installed. EZY.ai is built for one job: making your business the answer when someone asks ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or Gemini for a recommendation. We ran a 698-page audit across four business websites and published the results in our comparison with a classic WordPress SEO plugin. For teams weighing a monitoring-only tool, our post on AEO monitoring versus implementation sets out the difference between watching visibility and changing it.
If you run an agency, EZY.ai includes multi-client access for reporting and support across your clients' sites.
Frequently asked questions
What does the free AI Visibility Score check?
You enter your website domain and we scan what AI assistants say about your business. The result is a score out of 100 that blends presence, citations, entity coverage and schema coverage. It also identifies the visibility gaps, so you know what to fix before you pay for anything.
Is an llms.txt file enough to get cited?
An llms.txt file is one input. Our Starter plan generates it for free, and paid plans add llms-full.txt. Citations also depend on schema, consistent business facts, answer-first content and crawler access. That is why we pair file generation with content and tracking.
Does EZY.ai track Claude?
AI Crawler Analytics covers the crawlers for ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini, with daily page-level data. Prompt and Citation Tracking runs across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot. Both views help you see where your pages are being read and where your brand is being named.
Can I cancel a paid plan?
Yes. Subscriptions can be cancelled anytime, and access continues until the end of the billing period. You can keep using the free Starter plan afterward, which includes the technical files, integrations and daily AI crawl analytics.
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