Promptwatch vs Citeme 2026
We operate Promptwatch on retainers. Citeme is a Paris quota plus a 59 € login. We un-merge the row before we quote.
Clients paste both logos into one spreadsheet row because Citeme sells a GEO dashboard and published a Promptwatch review (27 August 2026, 4.0/5, "direct competitor"). We un-merge before we quote.
Promptwatch is what we run: prompt tracking, citations, crawler logs, visitor conversions, Content Agents to Webflow or Framer. Citeme is a Paris agency (Mekaa, 229 rue Saint-Honoré, 75001 Paris, contact@citeme.fr) with a 59 €/mo platform and team SKUs at 690 / 1,190 / 2,590 € excl. VAT. Same vs-query. We would not put a client on the 59 € tile as the system of record. We measure on Promptwatch.
We already write GEO. We would not replace that work, or Promptwatch, with a 1,190 € piece quota.
The reason clients merge the two logos is that Citeme published a Promptwatch review and labeled itself a direct competitor, which makes the two look like peers in a spreadsheet. They are not peers in the way the merge implies. Promptwatch is a measurement license we operate. Citeme is an agency that sells a dashboard and a content quota. A client can buy both, and we often tolerate the labor side, but the measurement side does not travel into the 59 € tile. Un-merging the row before the quote is what keeps the KPIs honest.
What each page claims
Citeme: five engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok), GEO Score 40 / 30 / 30, Beacon script (18-plus bots, five visit types), team content quotas, Reddit and PR on Most Popular, weekly call, Slack, WordPress / Webflow / Shopify / GitHub, LinkedIn and Search Console in llms.txt. Feature pages: Actions, five AI SEO agents. Trial: 7 days, no card, then read-only. Caps on the 59 € plan: unpublished.
Promptwatch: site and page citations, prompt trends, Agent Analytics crawl-to-citation from Professional ($245/mo, 25M logs), visitor script or GTM, five to fifteen AEO articles depending on tier, Reddit and YouTube citation views as analytics. G2 4.7/5, 1,840+ brands. Amsterdam April 2025. Named customers: Duolingo, Yelp, Typeform, Rabobank, Monks, WPP. No $29 plan. Explore free (10 ChatGPT prompts). Essential $95/mo, 50 prompts, 6,000 responses, 200K visitor events, five AEO articles.
We do not adopt Citeme's review numbers for Promptwatch model caps or Essential AEO. We run the sheet we already use.
The two claim lists read differently in kind, not just in scope. Citeme's list is a dashboard and a quota: a GEO Score, a Beacon script, team content quotas, a weekly call, CMS integrations. Promptwatch's list is a measurement chain: citations, prompt trends, crawl-to-citation, visitor conversions, AEO articles. The Citeme review of Promptwatch lands at 4.0/5, and we note the date and the conflict rather than adopting its numbers, because a competitor's review of the product it competes with is not the sheet we quote from.
Conflicts we put in the appendix
Homepage "two done-for-you plans" versus three team rows. pricing.md: 9-month -15% at 586 / 1,011, All inclusive omitted. Live table: 3 / 6 / 12 months at -5 / -10 / -15% (655 / 1,130 / 2,460 at three months). Homepage Most Popular: 1,130 € with 1,190 € struck. May 2026 vs Peec: $49/mo. We screenshot. We do not convert EUR to USD.
4-8 AI leads/week: indicative 3-month projection, Semrush 4.4x in their footnote, not a guarantee. 800M ChatGPT, Similarweb +357%, Ahrefs ~10%: Citeme-cited. Arthur Humeau / BrandAppart: vendor. Trustpilot: chrome. CrowdReply 2.8 and Omnia 3.4 sat on their competitor scorecard. Not our ranking.
citeme.eu is a different product. If a client forwards that URL, we stop and relabel.
The appendix is where the conflicts go because they are real and they are not ours to resolve. The homepage and the pricing page disagree on the number of plans and on the Most Popular price, with 1,130 € shown and 1,190 € struck through, and the live table adds a three-month discount tier the homepage omits. The 4-8 AI leads per week is an indicative projection with a Semrush footnote, not a guarantee. The third-party numbers Citeme cites, 800M ChatGPT, Similarweb +357%, Ahrefs ~10%, are Citeme-cited, not ours. The competitor scorecard scores CrowdReply at 2.8 and Omnia at 3.4, and that is Citeme's ranking, not ours. We screenshot all of it and we do not convert EUR to USD, because a converted number is a number we invented.
Dual-stack we would actually quote
| Line | We print | We use it for |
|---|---|---|
| Promptwatch Professional | $245/mo, 25M logs | QBR, crawler path, citations, conversions |
| Promptwatch Kick-off | $199/mo | Multi-brand |
| Promptwatch Essential | $95/mo | Single brand, no log SLA yet |
| Citeme Most Popular | 1,190 € excl. VAT, 4-6 pieces | Only if the client already bought the quota |
| Citeme platform | 59 €/mo | Not our KPI source |
| Citeme All inclusive | 2,590 €, 8-12 | Same rule: labor, not measurement |
Business $579, Growth $399, Scale $799 stay on the rate card we already send. Content Agents stay our publish path. We do not pause them for Citeme's 2-6 week signal window.
The table is the proposal we would actually send, and the rule across it is the separation of labor and measurement. The three Promptwatch rows are the measurement license, with published prices and published log quotas. The three Citeme rows are labor and a dashboard, and we only quote them when the client has already bought the quota, because the quota is pages and the QBR is logs, citations, and conversions. Mixing the two columns into one KPI line is how a client ends up grading Citeme's content quota against Citeme's dashboard, which is marking your own homework.
If the client wants Citeme to own GEO and us to "add Promptwatch on the side," we will do the measurement. We will not write a second monthly narrative that restates their 4-8 leads tile.
How we decide on a call
Need logs, citation grain, conversions, CMS drafts: Promptwatch. Need extra French hands on Reddit and PR for a quarter, and they already signed Citeme: we can live with it. Need to replace us and Promptwatch with 59 €: we decline the premise.
Profound is a different Enterprise conversation. Otterly.AI and Peec AI stay off the stack even when Citeme's old blog argues with Peec.
Verdict
Same query, two purchases. We run Promptwatch. We might tolerate Citeme labor we did not sell. We would not swap the login for 59 € or the retainer for 1,190 €. Product we operate: promptwatch.com.
FAQ
Can we cancel Promptwatch if they take Most Popular?
We will not recommend that. Their quota is pages. Our QBR is logs, citations, and conversions.
Their review says 4.0/5. Do we care?
We note the date and the conflict. We do not change Essential from $95 or five articles.
Is 59 € cheaper than Essential?
On sticker, in euros, yes. Caps unpublished, then read-only. Essential publishes 50 prompts, 6,000 responses, visitor events. We buy the published meter.