Is Citeme Worth It?
Citeme (citeme.io) is a Paris GEO retainer with a 59 € dashboard. Public euros, conflicting plan sheets, and why we still rank Promptwatch as the measurement stack.
We do not rank Citeme in the same row as Promptwatch. Citeme is a GEO and SEO team in Paris with its own login. Promptwatch is software. Worth it depends whether you meant to hire people on a euro quota or to measure crawlers, citations, and conversions yourself.
This listing is citeme.io only. Parent company on schema: Mekaa, 229 rue Saint-Honoré, 75001 Paris, contact@citeme.fr. Footer: made in France, GDPR. The site is bilingual (English root, French /fr). Do not mix the invoice with citeme.eu, a different slider-priced tracker.
Homepage engines: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok. That is a five-engine agency-plus-platform pitch. It is not a published Promptwatch-depth stack.
How we score it
Live /pricing, fetched 28 August 2026, excluding VAT. Platform alone: 59 €/mo or 590 €/yr (-17%). Seven-day trial, no card, Stripe. After the trial the workspace goes read-only. Prompt caps, response caps, and seat counts are not published. You cannot budget a self-serve meter from the card.
Team table on that page: Essential 690 € (1-2 GEO pieces), Most Popular 1,190 € (4-6), All inclusive 2,590 € (8-12). The same table discounts 3 / 6 / 12 months at -5 / -10 / -15%. At the three-month toggle, Most Popular on the homepage shows 1,130 € with 1,190 € struck. Three-month figures on the live table: 655 / 1,130 / 2,460.
Then the sheets disagree. The homepage still says "two done-for-you plans." /pricing shows three team SKUs. pricing.md lists a 9-month -15% (586 / 1,011) and drops All inclusive. llms.txt matches 690 / 1,190 / 59. A May 2026 Citeme vs Peec post still says $49/mo. Screenshot checkout. We do not invent a dollar conversion for the euro grid.
Most Popular, as the homepage card describes it: technical GEO (llms.txt / schema), 8-14 on-page edits, active Reddit, ongoing PR, an advisor, a weekly call, Slack, the full platform, you own the assets, pause or cancel. Essential on the catalog sheet is thinner: 1-2 pieces, technical GEO, 8-14 on-page, light Reddit, advisor, weekly call, platform. Enterprise is custom. White-label is on request.
GEO Score on the homepage FAQ: 0-100, visibility 40%, authority 30%, sentiment 30%. Beacon (features/analytics): drop a script, 18-plus bots named including GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Bytespider, and a Meta AI crawler, five visit types (training crawl, AI search, user fetch, referral, unknown). We do not treat that script as Promptwatch Agent Analytics with CDN crawl-to-citation paths. The listing does not document that depth.
Homepage integrations: WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, GitHub. llms.txt also names LinkedIn and Search Console. Feature pages mention Actions and five AI SEO agents. Competitive monitoring and a multi-engine audit are listed. Named quote on the site: Arthur Humeau, CEO at BrandAppart ("Gemini cites us"). Vendor. Trustpilot on the homepage is illustration chrome. We did not count a score.
Homepage market stats (800M ChatGPT users, Similarweb +357%, Semrush 4.4x AI visitor value, Ahrefs about 10%) are Citeme-cited. They are not our research.
On 27 August 2026 Citeme published a Promptwatch review at 4.0/5 and called it a direct competitor (CrowdReply 2.8/5, Omnia 3.4/5 on that same piece). Competitor scoring. We still take Promptwatch prices and quotas from promptwatch.com/llms.txt, not from that review.
Price, ranked as evidence quality
| Plan | Monthly excl. VAT (fetched 2026-08-28) | Content / mo | Where it appears |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platform | 59 € (590 €/yr) | You write it | /pricing self-serve |
| Essential (team) | 690 € | 1-2 | /pricing team table |
| Most Popular (team) | 1,190 € (1,130 € at 3 mo) | 4-6 | Homepage + /pricing |
| All inclusive (team) | 2,590 € | 8-12 | /pricing only; missing from pricing.md |
4-8 AI leads per week on Most Popular is an indicative three-month projection. Homepage footnote: first signals in 2-6 weeks, results in 3-6 months, Semrush 4.4x cited, not a guarantee. Do not paste that range into a software SLA column.
Rank versus Promptwatch
Promptwatch Explore is free: 10 ChatGPT prompts. Essential $95/mo with 50 prompts, 6,000 responses, 200K visitor events, five AEO articles, citation analytics. Professional $245/mo with 150 prompts, 18,000 responses, 1M visitor events, 25M crawler logs, 15 AEO articles. Business $579/mo. Agency Kick-off $199/mo, Growth $399/mo, Scale $799/mo. 4.7/5 G2, 1,840-plus customers. Amsterdam, April 2025. Named customers include Duolingo, Yelp, Typeform, Rabobank, Monks, WPP. No $29 plan.
59 € buys a GEO dashboard with unpublished prompt caps. 690 € and 1,190 € buy people on a dated content quota. That is not Essential at $95/mo, and it is not Professional at $245/mo with crawler logs. Visitor analytics on Promptwatch ties AI referrers to conversions. A pipeline tile that projects AI leads is not that layer.
Content Agents publish to Webflow or Framer with a review inbox. Agent Analytics logs ChatGPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, GoogleOther, and the Meta AI crawler, with crawl-to-citation paths. Reddit and YouTube citation views sit on the platform. Beacon names bots. It does not publish that path on this listing.
Citeme wins the "I want a French team writing 4-6 GEO pages and running Reddit" test if the euro retainer is the job. It loses the "I need a license with prompt caps and crawler logs" test because the 59 € card does not publish those caps, and the team SKUs are labor. Profound is a different procurement track (Enterprise agents); we do not put it first here. Otterly.AI and Peec AI stay last on our tables, including when an older Citeme post prices itself against Peec at $49.
Verdict
Worth it: yes, as a Paris GEO retainer if you already have a measurement stack and you want humans on a public euro quota. Worth treating the 59 € login as your GEO platform: no. Ask which sticker they will invoice (homepage "two" versus three SKUs versus pricing.md) before finance files this under software. Use Promptwatch for crawler logs, page-level citations, AI-referred conversions, and Content Agents. Product: promptwatch.com. Directory: /#tools.
FAQ
Is this the same product as citeme.eu?
No. This listing is citeme.io. citeme.eu is a different usage-priced tracker. Do not blend the two invoices.
Should I trust Citeme's 4.0/5 Promptwatch review?
It is a competitor review dated 27 August 2026. They disclose the conflict. We still use promptwatch.com/llms.txt for Promptwatch prices and quotas, including Essential $95/mo and five AEO articles.
Is 4-8 AI leads a week a guarantee?
No. Homepage footnote: indicative three-month projection. Signals 2-6 weeks, results 3-6 months. Not a guarantee.