Measured every week, with its margin
We ask your buyers' questions to each AI three times a week and show how often you appear, with a confidence range rather than a single position, and who gets cited when you don't.
Learn moreByword alternative
Byword starts at $99/mo. Citable starts at €19, articles included.
Byword is built to produce SEO articles in volume, fast. Citable writes far fewer, each one for a question where AI engines cite your competitors, and then checks whether the new page gets cited. Here is where each one is stronger.
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In short
Byword, a London company founded in 2023, is an AI article writer for SEO at scale: it researches keywords, writes an article in under 2 minutes in your brand voice with models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, and publishes it to WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, Ghost, Framer, HubSpot or Medium. Starter costs $99/month for 25 articles, Standard $299 for 80 and Scale $999 for 300 (17% less billed yearly), and Unlimited is $1,999/month with your own API keys. It also builds programmatic SEO pages from one template and a dataset. It doesn't track AI answers: its "AI Visibility" link sends you to Trakkr, a separate tool. Citable costs €19, €49 or €89 a month per site: every week it measures 15, 30 or 60 buyer questions in 5 or 6 AI engines and writes 8, 20 or 30 sourced articles a month for the questions where competitors get cited instead of you.
Byword price: $99/mo (25 articles); $83/mo billed yearly. Data checked 10 October 2026: byword.ai · byword.ai/pricing · byword.ai/features/integrations · byword.ai/features/programmatic · byword.ai/llms.txt.
Side by side
Citable vs Byword
| Comparison | Citable | Byword |
|---|---|---|
| Price and trial | ||
| Starting priceCheapest monthly plan, as published. | from €19/mo with 8 articles · 30 articles €89 | $99/mo (25 articles); $83/mo billed yearly |
| Free trialHow you can try it before paying. | 14-day free trial, 5 articles | 5 free articles, no card |
| Measuring AI answers | ||
| Tracks AI answersAsks AI engines your questions and records whether you appear. | YesWeekly, 3 samples + ranges | No |
| AI engines on the entry planWhich AIs the cheapest plan measures. | ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Perplexity on every plan; 6 with Claude on Business; Grok as an add-on | Doesn't track AI answers (points to Trakkr, a separate tool) |
| Tracks ClaudeAlso measures Anthropic's assistant. | Yes, but…On Business (via its API with web search) | No |
| Content | ||
| Writes articlesDrafts complete articles for your site. | Yes | Yes |
| Articles a monthArticles included each month. | 8 · 20 · 30 included (up to 90 on Business) | 25 (80 and 300 on higher plans) |
| Articles chosen from measured gapsPicks topics from the questions where you don't appear yet. | Yes | NoFrom keyword research |
| Publishes to your CMSSends articles straight to your website, without copying and pasting. | YesWordPress, Webflow, Framer, Shopify, Ghost, Notion or webhook | Yes |
| Approach | ||
| BacklinksHow it handles links from other sites. | No exchanges or paid links; outreach you approve, from your inbox and your LinkedIn | Internal links; no backlink offer published |
| Main focusWhat the product is built around. | Measure, find gaps, act, re-measure | AI article writer for SEO at scale |
Competitor prices and focus as published on their websites, checked 10 October 2026. They change often: check their site before deciding.
Why weekly, not daily
Every week we ask each question 3 times to each AI in your plan.
A single daily answer swings a lot from one day to the next; several weekly samples give a more reliable figure.
- Starter: 3 answers from each of its 5 AI engines every week, about 65 answers per question a month (±10 points).
- Growth: 3 answers from each of its 5 AI engines every week, about 65 answers per question a month (±10 points).
- Business: 3 answers from each of its 6 AI engines every week (Claude: 1), about 69 answers per question a month (±10 points).
Answers a month = samples × AI engines × 4.3 weeks in an average month. The margin is the 90% confidence range (Wilson) in the worst case, a 50% rate; every figure in the app shows its own range.
On every plan
Why choose Citable?
Measure, close the gap, measure again. Screenshots from the demo account, with sample data.
Articles straight to your CMS
A monthly plan of sourced articles for those gaps, published to your CMS (WordPress, Webflow, Framer, Shopify, Ghost or Notion) after a 3-day approval window. Or keep them as drafts.
Learn morePages worth getting onto
The third-party pages AI engines cite for your questions, so you can ask to be included. No link exchanges or paid links.
Learn moreReports you can send
A report per period with every rate and its range, what changed and what was done. With your agency's name on it, and the same data through the API.
Learn moreWhich one
Byword or Citable: which suits you?
Each has its strengths. What each one does best, and when to choose it.
Byword
What it does best
- Far more volume per plan: 25, 80 or 300 articles a month, extra articles at $3.50, $3.00 or $2.50, and an Unlimited plan ($1,999/month) with your own API keys. Our ceiling is 90 a month per site, on Business with extra packs.
- Speed: an article in under 2 minutes, as it publishes. Ours take longer, because each one goes through research, source checks and an approval window before it goes live.
- Programmatic SEO: one template and a dataset (CSV, API or entered by hand) become hundreds or thousands of location, comparison or integration pages. Citable doesn't do this.
- More places to publish: WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, Ghost, Framer, HubSpot and Medium natively, export to Notion, Google Docs, Google Sheets and Airtable, plus Zapier and Make. We publish to Framer, Webflow, WordPress, Ghost, Shopify and Notion, and through a signed webhook.
- You start with 5 free articles and no card; our 14-day trial asks for one.
- A larger, older product: 85,000+ users and 3M+ articles generated, as its site shows, 47 languages (we write in up to 3 per site) and unused credits that roll over and never expire.
Choose Byword if…
- You need dozens or hundreds of articles a month, and classic keyword coverage matters more to you than being cited by AI.
- You want programmatic SEO: hundreds of location, comparison or integration pages from one template.
- You publish to HubSpot or Medium, work through Zapier or Make, or want to try 5 articles without a card.
Citable
What it does best
- It measures whether AI cites you. Every week we ask each buyer question 3 times in ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews, AI Mode and Perplexity (Claude too on Business) and report the share of answers that mention and cite you, with a confidence range. Byword doesn't measure AI answers; it points you to a separate tool. Learn more: It measures whether AI cites you
- Each article starts from a measured gap. We write for the questions where AI engines cite your competitors and not you, not from a keyword list. Fewer articles, each with a reason to exist. Learn more: Each article starts from a measured gap
- You see whether the page gets cited. After an article goes live we keep measuring its question: when an AI engine starts citing the new URL you see which one and since when, and the visits the page has had since it went live, including those from AI. Learn more: You see whether the page gets cited
- Sourced, verified articles. Every article cites its sources and must pass an automatic check before it can be scheduled; the ones that fail stay as drafts. The first 3 per site you approve by hand, the rest go live after a 3-day approval window, and you can switch to drafts only. Learn more: Sourced, verified articles
- Lower entry price. Starter is €19 a month per site with 8 articles and weekly measurement; Growth €49 with 20; Business €89 with 30, and packs up to 90. Byword starts at $99 a month. Annual billing is 10 monthly payments (Starter: €15.83 a month). Learn more: Lower entry price
- Built for agencies and local businesses. Free agency account: each client pays their own plan and the agency earns 20% of every payment, with white-label reports. For local businesses, a Google Business Profile review against the top 3 on Maps and a local grid of AI Overviews and AI Mode around the business. Learn more: Built for agencies and local businesses
Choose Citable if…
- You want to know, question by question, whether ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews, AI Mode and Perplexity cite you, and whether that changes.
- You'd rather publish 8 to 30 articles a month, each aimed at a question where AI cites your competitors, and see whether it starts getting cited.
- You are a small business, a local business or an agency and your budget is closer to €19–€49 a month per site than $99.
Does Byword track AI search visibility?
Not in Byword itself, going by its site: the “AI Visibility” link in its footer goes to Trakkr, a separate tool. Byword researches, writes and publishes articles. Citable measures every week whether AI engines mention and cite you, in which questions, and whether the pages it publishes start being cited.
How much does Byword cost compared with Citable?
Byword, as published on its pricing page: Starter $99/month for 25 articles, Standard $299 for 80 and Scale $999 for 300, with extra articles at $3.50, $3.00 and $2.50, 17% off billed yearly and Unlimited at $1,999/month with your own API keys. Citable: €19, €49 or €89 a month per site, with 8, 20 or 30 articles and weekly AI measurement included. Byword gives more articles per dollar; Citable measures whether they get cited.
Can Citable write as many articles as Byword?
No. Citable includes 8, 20 or 30 articles a month and Business goes up to 90 with extra packs; Byword's Scale plan has 300 and Unlimited has no cap. We write fewer on purpose: each one answers a question where AI cites your competitors, cites its sources and is checked before it goes live.
Can I use both?
Yes. Some teams can keep Byword for keyword content in volume and use Citable to measure AI answers and write the articles for the questions where competitors get cited. Citable measures citations of your whole site, so you also see whether AI engines cite the pages written with Byword.
Do both have an API?
Yes. Byword has a REST API from Standard ($299/month), an MCP server and Zapier. Citable has a REST API, an MCP server, a CLI and signed webhooks on every plan.
Can I try Citable for free?
Yes. Adding your site and the technical audit are free, with no card. Every plan has a 14-day free trial with your first 5 articles: we ask for a card, charge nothing until it ends and you can cancel in one click. Plans cost €19, €49 or €89 a month per site.