Citenza vs Mencoro: flat rate or pay for what you measure

The price, properly compared

Mencoro publishes €15 per month, VAT included. Strip 21% and the base is roughly €12.40.

Citenza publishes ex-VAT prices because it sells only to businesses and professionals with a VAT number, where reverse charge applies. Its tiers start at €6 and climb with the answers measured per month.

Put in the same unit — taxable base, no VAT — the maths looks like this.

So why not just charge a flat rate?

Because a flat rate on top of a variable cost only works if somebody caps something. Every measured answer is a paid call to a provider: models bill per token and SERP providers bill per query.

A flat price with unlimited use means, in practice, that there is an unpublished limit somewhere — frequency, queue, depth — or that the customers who measure little are subsidising the ones who measure a lot. Neither is wrong, but it is worth knowing which one you are.

Citenza chose the opposite: let the price say what it costs. Measure little, pay little. Measure a lot and the bill grows with you, with no surprise "your account has hit a limit you did not know existed".

If your volume is high and steady, that choice works against Citenza compared to a flat rate, and it would be dishonest not to say so.

What each one measures

The three points where they really separate

Price aside, three differences change how the data gets used.

• Claude. Mencoro does not list it among its engines. If your customers or your sector use Claude — and in software, legal and consulting they do — that absence is a coverage gap, not a nuance.
• Declared fidelity. Measuring a model's API is not the same as using its chat app: they do not share memory, personalisation, or always the same model routing. Citenza labels each figure with the method behind it. It is the biggest limitation in this entire category, and a tool that does not declare it is still subject to it.
• Competitors against the same denominator. Comparing your 30% with a rival's 45% only means something if both come from the same set of answers. Citenza puts them in one table and shows the denominator; without that, the comparison is a hunch formatted as a number.

When to pick which

Mencoro fits better if you measure high volume on a flat, closed budget, if you need unlimited projects and competitors without thinking about tiers, and if built-in Google rank tracking saves you another subscription.

Citenza fits better if you need Claude in the mix, if you are going to show these figures to a client or a committee who will ask "out of how many answers?", if you want to pull the data out through an API or MCP into your own dashboards, or if you start small and would rather pay €6 than €12.40.

And if you run an agency with several accounts, look hard at the data isolation model of either tool before putting different clients in the same place. It is the question nobody asks until there is an incident.