Comparison
Cited Monitor vs Peec AI
Peec AI takes a UI-scraping approach to monitoring. Cited Monitor uses your own API keys for direct access to every model.
| Cited Monitor | Peec AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Approach | Direct API calls with your keys | UI scraping (interacts as a user) |
| Pricing model | Flat monthly + your API costs | Per-prompt pricing (from $89/mo) |
| Models included | 13+ (all included) | 3 (more are paid add-ons, $30–$140/mo each) |
| REST API | Yes | Yes |
| Webhooks | Yes | No |
| Team seats | Per plan | Unlimited on all plans |
| Actionable recommendations | No — monitoring and data | Yes |
Comparison based on publicly listed pricing and features as of June 2026.
API vs UI scraping
Peec AI scrapes the web interfaces of AI models, interacting with them as a real user would. This captures exactly what end users see, including formatting and web search results.
Cited Monitor calls the APIs directly using your keys. This is faster, more reliable, and lets you choose specific models and parameters. It also means you control the costs directly.
The trade-off used to be larger. We now run OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral and Perplexity with live web search enabled, so for those models the gap with the consumer UI is small. Open-weight models served via Together have no native search — and we label every run so you know which is which.
When Peec AI might be better
If you need unlimited team seats, actionable content recommendations, or want to capture exactly what the consumer web UI shows (including browsing-enabled responses), Peec AI is designed for that.
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