Legit.Show measured Cite AI's Security frame at 25/100. No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS. Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.

How does Legit.Show measure Cite AI?

Legit.Show scores seven frames — Performance, Accessibility, Security, Privacy, Reliability, Standards and Discoverability — deterministically from the public surface (URL, HTTP headers, real Lighthouse), with no LLM in the scoring path. See legit.show/methodology.

Data & Analytics

Cite AI

Last updated 2026-09-05 · benchmark measured 2026-09-05 — deterministic & reproducible

Cite AI tracks brand and category visibility across major AI answer engines.

80/100

7/7 frames

Top 44% of 14,181 measured · #68 of 109 in ai visibility tracker

Legit Benchmark — the simple average of 7 measured frames. Frames we could not measure are left out of the average, never counted as zero. Every frame is shown below with its evidence.

Checked 2026-09-05 · scores move as sites change

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Legit.Show scored Cite AI 80/100 on 2026-09-05, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/usecite-ai/2026-09-05

Is Cite AI production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Cite AI 80 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Cite AI (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Privacy; its weakest is Security. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

Performance — 62/100
Accessibility — 94/100
Security — 25/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
Privacy — 100/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
Reliability — 100/100
Standards — 92/100
Discoverability — 87/100

What we measured

No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
Real Lighthouse performance run — 72 ms to first byte.
Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
Has a reachable privacy policy.
Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Discoverable: structured data, sitemap, canonical URL.

Who it's for

SEO professionals · Local service businesses · Brand marketers · Agencies · Competitive analysts

Pricing

$19/mo (Starter), $49/mo (Growth), $99/mo (Pro), $299/mo (Agency), custom pricing for 1000+ prompts

Sources and updates

Description: Taken from usecite.ai's own website on 2026-09-05.
Operator: Bestall Ventures, LLC, as named in usecite.ai's terms, privacy page or footer.
Benchmark: Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-05.

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