We were about to pay $400/month for an AI citation dashboard, so we built one
Dev.to AI
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Generative AI
Hosted AI citation dashboards (Profound, AthenaHQ, Otterly, Ahrefs Brand Radar) start at $295 to $499 per month. They tell you which URLs ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Bing cite for any query. That data is mostly available through each vendor's own API. The dashboard is the product; the data is commodity. So we built Citation Intelligence MCP - a free, self-hosted MCP server that does the same job, with 12 tools, no backend, and per-query costs measured in cents.