Cituna vs AthenaHQ
Cituna: AI visibility tracker for seven AI engines, with a site's Search Console data alongside. AthenaHQ: AEO and GEO platform that tracks AI search visibility and recommends content actions. Here is how they compare on price, free plan, platforms and the jobs each does best, from each vendor's own pages.
| Cituna | AthenaHQ | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | AI visibility tracker for seven AI engines, with a site's Search Console data alongside | AEO and GEO platform that tracks AI search visibility and recommends content actions |
| Pricing | Free trial | Free plan |
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| Cheapest paid plan | $31/mo billed annually (Starter) | $245/mo billed annually (Starter) |
| Free trial | 3-day free trial of Starter; a card is required, and it becomes Starter ($39/month) unless cancelled | None stated |
| Platforms | Web, API | Web, API |
| Integrations (vendor's figure) | Not stated | Not stated |
| Open source | No | No |
| Made by | Eternum Capital FZE LLC | AthenaHQ |
Choose Cituna if…
- Price matters: its cheapest paid plan is $31/mo against $245/mo.
- The job is checking whether AI assistants name a business when buyers ask about its market.
- The job is tracking AI visibility alongside a site's Google Search Console data.
Choose AthenaHQ if…
- You want a free plan: Cituna does not have one.
- The job is trying AI visibility tracking on a free plan before paying.
- The job is getting AI visibility tracking and content recommendations in one tool.
Still weighing it up?
If neither is quite right, Cituna and AthenaHQ are also compared with their other rivals: Profound vs AthenaHQ, Cituna vs Profound and Cituna vs Peec AI.
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What Cituna does
- Daily checks on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode on every plan
- Records which brands each engine names and which pages it cites
- Google Search Console integration on every plan, with buyer questions drawn from your own Search Console queries
- Written fixes, such as schema, FAQ markup, llms.txt and articles, with gaps ranked by impact and effort
- Publishes to CMSs including WordPress, Shopify, Wix, Webflow and Ghost
- API and MCP access: read-only on Starter, write actions from Pro
Watch out for
- No free plan; the 3-day trial needs a card and becomes a paid Starter plan unless cancelled
- Does not track Microsoft Copilot
- Starter tracks 10 buyer prompts for one brand; competitor tracking is listed from Pro
What AthenaHQ does
- Tracks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI and Mistral on the Starter plan
- Credit-based usage: one credit is one AI response
- Prompt and response analysis with source and competitor insights
- Content recommendations and a content optimization agent
- Smart robots.txt and llms.txt management for AI crawler access
- Google Analytics (GA4), Google Search Console, Shopify and Webflow integrations
Watch out for
- The only paid self-serve plan costs $295 a month ($245 billed annually)
- API access and extra credits are paid add-ons on Starter, priced on request
- Tracking in multiple regions and languages is an Enterprise feature
Questions
Is Cituna or AthenaHQ cheaper?
On published entry prices, Cituna is cheaper: $31/mo billed annually (Starter) for Cituna against $245/mo billed annually (Starter) for AthenaHQ. What each plan includes differs, so compare the limits too.
Do Cituna and AthenaHQ have free plans?
AthenaHQ does; Cituna does not, though it offers a 3-day free trial of Starter; a card is required, and it becomes Starter ($39/month) unless cancelled.