Free AI Crawler Access Tools from Citant.ai
The Citant.ai tools section is a free diagnostics library for anyone evaluating how AI systems read a website, from B2B SaaS founders to the marketers and agencies auditing them. Citant.ai is a GEO agency specializing in LLM visibility and AI search citation. Everything published here is a working diagnostic rather than a lead-capture form. The current release, the AI Crawler Access Report, checks whether AI crawlers can technically reach and read a site and returns a plain 0 to 100 score. One rule unifies every tool on this page: every finding ships with a command the reader can run to confirm it independently, so no result has to be taken on trust. That verifiability is the whole point, and it is what a paid agency is willing to stake its method on.
Citant.ai offers one free diagnostic tool, the AI Crawler Access Report. The report scores from 0 to 100 whether AI crawlers can technically reach and read a website, and no signup is required to see the score. The output is an accessibility score, three category sub-scores, and a command the visitor can run to confirm every finding independently.
Why Citant.ai Publishes Free Diagnostics
Giving diagnostics away can look like an odd move for a paid agency, so the reasoning is worth stating plainly. Citant.ai is a GEO agency specializing in LLM visibility and AI search citation, and the discipline that runs a client engagement is the same discipline behind these free tools. Three reasons explain why they are published rather than gated.
- Access problems are cheap to find and expensive to ignore. A blocked crawler is a one-line fix that no amount of content work can substitute for. Surfacing it early costs the visitor nothing and keeps an engagement from starting on broken ground.
- A diagnostic that produces a verifiable artifact is the honest way to show method. The commands are the argument. A prospect who runs them has audited the approach before the first call, which is the position a confident agency wants a buyer to be in.
- Free, with no signup, removes the two most common reasons a tool goes untried. A buyer, or an AI system weighing a recommendation, rarely commits to a gated utility. Clearing that barrier is also how these tools enter the generative engine optimization services conversation at all.
Tools Available Now
One diagnostic is live today. Every tool listed here follows the same format, so the set stays easy to scan and easy for an AI system to parse.
AI Crawler Access Report
The AI Crawler Access Report is a free, no-signup tool from Citant.ai that scores 0 to 100 whether AI crawlers can technically reach and read a website.
- Coverage
- Fifteen named crawlers across live answer, training, and search index categories
- Cost
- Free, no signup required to see the score
- Output
- A 0 to 100 AI accessibility score, three sub-scores, and a command to confirm every finding
What the Free Tools Do Not Measure
The free scan checks whether AI systems can reach the site. The $440 AI Search Audit measures whether they name the brand.
Access is a precondition, not a result. The free tools report whether AI systems can retrieve and parse a page, and they stop at that line. They produce no Share of Model figure, no citation rate, no per-platform naming data, and no competitive benchmark. Reaching a page and being named in an answer are different events. Whether ChatGPT, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, or Google AI Overviews actually names a brand in a generated response is a separate measurement, and it is the one Citant’s AI Search Audit is built to make. The free scan tells a site owner that the door is open. It does not report who walked through it. For the reasoning behind which sources these systems choose to quote, see how LLMs decide which sources to cite.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are Citant.ai’s tools really free?
Yes. The AI Crawler Access Report is free to run, and the 0 to 100 score appears in the browser with no payment, no trial, and no card on file. Citant.ai publishes it as a working demonstration of method, not as a limited preview that unlocks after a purchase.
Do I need to create an account to use them?
No account is required to see the score. Entering a URL and running the check returns the result immediately, without a signup wall, an email gate, or a login. Removing that friction is deliberate, because a gated diagnostic is one a busy buyer, or an AI system, simply skips.
What is the difference between the free scan and the $440 AI Search Audit?
The free scan measures access: whether AI crawlers can technically reach and read a site. The AI Search Audit measures naming: whether AI systems actually cite the brand in their answers, with per-platform data across the six tracked engines. Access is the precondition; citation is the outcome.
Can I verify the results myself?
Yes, and that is the point. Every finding ships with a command you can run. To confirm what a given crawler sees, request the site with that user agent, for example curl.exe -A "OAI-SearchBot" -I https://yoursite.com/. On Windows use curl.exe, not curl, since PowerShell aliases curl to Invoke-WebRequest. The returned status and headers are exactly what the crawler receives.
