CiteGraph vs CrowdReply
Both tools measure whether AI assistants name your brand. They disagree about what to do next. CrowdReply works off your site — it drafts replies that are, in its words, “Posted through trusted community profiles on your behalf.” on Reddit and Quora, and sells editorial links through a marketplace. CiteGraph works on your site — it shows the answers you lost, the page that got cited instead of yours, and the sentence missing from it.
Every CrowdReply fact below comes from their own pages, read on 25 August 2026 and linked at the bottom. Where they don’t publish something, this page says “not published” instead of guessing.
The core difference
Put your brand into the sources
AI answers cite Reddit threads, Quora answers and editorial posts, so CrowdReply places your brand in them. It finds relevant conversations, drafts a reply, posts it through community profiles, and sells backlink placements from 40,000+ vetted partner publishers. It is a distribution play: buy presence in the pages the models already read.
Make your own page the better answer
CiteGraph asks the buyer questions in your category, 3 times on each of 4 engines, and reads every answer. You get the questions you lost, the rival that won each one, the page cited instead of yours, and the missing sentence to add. It is a diagnosis play: find out why you lose, then fix your own page.
Side by side
| CiteGraph | CrowdReply | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $29/mo | $99/mo |
| Top published price | $149/mo | from $499/mo |
| Buyer questions tracked (entry plan) | 10 | 20 prompts |
| AI engines (entry plan) | 4, all included | Choose 2 of 7 |
| Each question asked more than once | Yes — 3× per engine | Not published |
| Margin of error published per number | Yes, on every rate | Not published |
| Shows which pages get cited | Yes | Yes — citation source intelligence |
| Tells you what to write on your own page | Yes — the missing sentence, per lost answer | Not the core offer |
| Posts comments in communities for you | No | Yes — Reddit, Quora |
| Backlink marketplace | No | Yes — 40,000+ vetted partner publishers |
| Social listening / keyword alerts | No | Yes — 20 to 200 keywords |
| Per-action cost on top of subscription | None | $7–$10 per Reddit comment |
| Free public category leaderboards | Yes, no signup | Not published |
| Trial | 7 days, card required | 7 days, free |
What CrowdReply actually costs
The subscription is not the whole bill. Each plan carries a monthly engagement credit, and comments are charged against it, so the real number depends on how much you post. Published prices, checked 25 August 2026.
| Plan | Price | Prompts | AI models | Engagement credit | Per Reddit comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $99/mo | 20 | Choose 2 | $50/mo | $10 |
| Growth | $299/mo | 75 | Choose 4 | $200/mo | $8 |
| Enterprise | from $499/mo | 200 | All 7 | $300/mo | $7 |
Worked example, using their published numbers: on Starter, the $50 credit covers five $10 comments. A sixth costs $10 more. Twenty comments in a month is $99 + $150 = $249. CiteGraph’s plans have no per-action charge, so the number on the plan is the number on the invoice.
Before you buy paid community comments
Paying for comments in communities is a real tactic and AI assistants genuinely do cite those threads. It also carries an obligation worth knowing before you start, whichever vendor you use. The FTC’s endorsement guides treat payment as a material connection that has to be disclosed clearly, placed with the endorsement itself rather than on a profile page — and they put that responsibility on the brand and the endorser, not the platform. Intermediaries can be liable too, but that does not move the duty off you.
So the question to ask any vendor in this category, CrowdReply included, is a practical one: whose accounts are these, and how is the paid relationship disclosed in the comment? CrowdReply’s site says replies are “Posted through trusted community profiles on your behalf.” It does not publish an answer to the disclosure question, so ask them. We are not suggesting anything improper — we are saying the duty lands on the buyer, and that is you.
Which one you should pick
Pick CrowdReply if you want the work done for you
If your constraint is time rather than knowing what to say, and you are comfortable paying for placement in communities and editorial links, CrowdReply does something CiteGraph does not do at all. It also tracks more prompts on its entry plan and adds social listening, which we do not offer.
Pick CiteGraph if you need to know why you lose
If you already own a site worth citing and want to know which answers you lose, to whom, and what one sentence would change it, that is the whole product. Every rate arrives with a margin of error, so you can tell a real move from noise.
Use both, honestly
They are not mutually exclusive. Measuring where you lose and placing yourself in the sources are different jobs. If you run both, use the measurement to decide which threads are worth engaging in, rather than posting everywhere and hoping.
What we could not compare
CrowdReply does not publish how many times it asks each prompt, or whether it reports a confidence interval, so those rows say “not published” rather than “no”. We have not run their product, so nothing here is a judgement about output quality. CrowdReply also was not named in any of the 60 answers in our own August measurement of this category — worth stating, though it says more about the questions we asked than about them. Their claims of “+47%” visibility and “2X increased sales” are marketing figures on their own site that we cannot verify, so we have not repeated them as fact.
Common questions
What is the difference between CiteGraph and CrowdReply?+
Both track whether AI assistants name your brand. The difference is what happens next. CrowdReply acts off your site: it drafts replies and, in its own words, they are "Posted through trusted community profiles on your behalf." on Reddit and Quora, and it sells editorial backlinks through a marketplace of 40,000+ vetted partner publishers. CiteGraph acts on your site: it shows the answers you lost, who won them, which page got cited instead, and the specific sentence missing from yours. One buys presence in the sources; the other tells you how to earn it.
How much does CrowdReply cost?+
CrowdReply publishes three plans: Starter at $99 a month, Growth at $299, and Enterprise from $499, checked on 25 August 2026. Engagement is billed separately — each plan includes a monthly credit ($50, $200 and $300) and Reddit comments cost $10, $8 and $7 each respectively, so the real monthly cost depends on how many comments you post. CiteGraph starts at $29 a month with no per-action charges.
Is CrowdReply cheaper than CiteGraph?+
No. CrowdReply's entry plan is $99 a month against CiteGraph's $29, and CrowdReply adds per-comment charges of $7 to $10 on top. CrowdReply's Starter does track 20 prompts to CiteGraph Starter's 10 buyer questions, but CiteGraph asks each question 3 times on each of 4 engines, which is what makes a margin of error possible.
Should I pay for comments to be posted on Reddit?+
That is your call, and it is a real tactic — AI assistants do cite community threads. Know what you are taking on: the FTC's endorsement guides say a material connection, including payment, has to be disclosed clearly and with the endorsement itself, and that the responsibility rests with the brand and the endorser rather than the platform. If you buy this kind of service, the disclosure obligation is yours, so ask any vendor how disclosure is handled before you start.
Does CrowdReply appear in CiteGraph's own leaderboard?+
Not in our August measurement of this category — the questions we asked returned Otterly, Peec AI, Profound and others, and CrowdReply was not named in any of the 60 answers. That is a fact about that specific run, not a judgement about the product, and the board is re-run periodically.
CrowdReply facts read from crowdreply.io ↗ and crowdreply.io/pricing ↗ on 25 August 2026. Pricing changes without notice — check before you buy. Not affiliated with CrowdReply.
Find out which answers you lose before you pay anyone to fix them.