Honest comparison
Cite vs Okara.
Both help you show up in AI search answers. Here is where each one goes further. Every Okara cell below comes from okara.ai, checked on 23 October 2026.
The rows where Okara is ahead are in the table too.
| Capability | Cite | Okara |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | €99/month | $129/month (AI CMO Lite) |
| Annual discount | ~17% (2 months free) | 2 months free ($1,290 a year for Lite) |
| Trial mechanism | €24.90 paid 7-day onboarding (credits toward month 1) | Free plan: 5 one-time credits, analysis and strategy only |
| Different evaluation models: paid delivered work versus a free usage allowance. | ||
| Portable Voice Operating Manual (.md export) | Yes: founder owns the file | A Brand Voice document inside the product; exporting it is not documented |
| Independent Quality Gate | Yes: a full-context writing pass is scored 0–100 by a separate review; below 80 doesn’t ship | Articles are reviewed for AI-sounding phrasing (Writer Agent, Pro); a scored gate is not documented |
| Published methodology | Yes: /cite/methodology | A GEO audit skill file describes its measurement method (full file after sign-in) |
| EU/Finnish-language readiness | Yes: Finnish-language voice patterns + content | Not documented |
| 95% CI share-of-voice methodology | Yes: 30-day window, normal-approximation CI | Not documented |
| Reddit engagement agent | Not in product | Yes. A Reddit agent finds conversations and drafts replies (Pro) |
| Hacker News agent | Not in product | Yes. Drafts Show HN posts that you submit yourself (Pro) |
| Technical SEO coding agent | Not in product | Yes. Ships on-page SEO fixes as GitHub pull requests you approve |
| AI search citation tracking | ChatGPT and Claude, plus your own Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini; up to 15 prompts on Lite |
| Earned-media citation detection | Yes: 85.5% lever (5W, 2026) | Not documented |
| Competitor displacement scoring | Yes: prescriptive angles | Shows competitor AI share of voice; prescriptive angles are not documented |
| Social drafts (X/LinkedIn) | Yes | Yes. An X agent from Lite and a LinkedIn agent on Pro, at least 30 posts a month each |
| WordPress publishing | Yes | Yes, on Pro |
| Founded | 2025 (Finland) | Singapore (founding year not stated) |
| Launch reach | Not published | 14M launch video views in March 2026, per its About page |
Okara cells checked on 23 October 2026 on okara.ai: the pricing page, the docs (plans, credits, channels), the agent pages and the About page. Prices in USD. If something here is out of date, tell us at support@feedsquad.com.
Honest read.
When Cite is the right choice
- ·You want every long-form draft scored by a separate review before it ships
- ·You want your voice as a file you keep: Cite hands you the Voice Operating Manual as a .md file
- ·You want to audit the citation tracking: Cite publishes its full methodology without a sign-in
- ·You're shipping content in Finnish, German, French, or other EU languages
- ·You want measurement rigor: 95% CI share-of-voice, earned-media detection, first-citation stamping
When Okara might be the right choice
- ·You want help on Reddit and Hacker News: Okara has an agent for each on its Pro plan, and Cite has neither
- ·You want on-page SEO fixes shipped as pull requests to your code
- ·You need a free tier to evaluate: Cite instead begins with €24.90 of paid, delivered onboarding work
Where the products overlap
- ·Yearly billing saves about two months on both
- ·Both check how ChatGPT and Claude cite you
- ·Both are built for visibility in AI search
- ·Both draft social posts for LinkedIn and X
- ·Both publish to WordPress
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