Cloro
Summary
Calling AI search engine APIs directly gives you token counts and raw completions — not sources, not citations, not the structured shopping blocks or query fan-out data that actually matter for SEO analysis. Cloro exists to close that gap.
Cloro is a single API that sits in front of ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini, AI Mode, and Google AI Overviews, returning structured JSON with the text, markdown, HTML, parsed sources, citations, search queries, and shopping cards that the provider UIs surface but their direct APIs omit. A single request, a single auth token, a single response schema across providers — so your team stops maintaining six integration layers and one provider's breaking change stops your entire pipeline. The free tier caps at 500 credits per month with one concurrent job, which is enough to validate a use case but not enough to run production monitoring at any real keyword volume. Teams tracking hundreds of queries across multiple providers will exhaust that ceiling quickly and step up to a paid tier. Self-hosting is not an option.
Bottom line: Use Cloro when you need structured source and citation data from multiple AI search engines via one integration — plan for a paid tier the moment your monitoring expands past a handful of test queries.
Pricing Plans
Usage-Based- Free Tier
- 500 credits / month, 1 concurrent job, 1 seat
Free
500 credits / month, 1 concurrent job, 1 seat, community support
- 500 credits monthly
- 1 concurrent job
Lite
37,500 credits, $0.80 per 1k credits, 10 concurrent jobs, unlimited seats, email support
- 37,500 credits
- 10 concurrent jobs
Hobby
250,000 credits, $0.40 per 1k credits, 20 concurrent jobs
- 250,000 credits
- 20 concurrent jobs
Starter
650,000 credits, $0.39 per 1k credits, 50 concurrent jobs
- 650,000 credits
- 50 concurrent jobs
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Pros
Sign in to edit- Single API covers ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini, AI Mode, and AI Overview under one auth token and one response schema, so you stop writing and maintaining separate integrations for each provider every time one changes its API surface.
- Returns parsed sources, citations, search queries, and shopping blocks — the structured data the provider UIs show but direct APIs omit — which means your SEO analysis reflects what users actually see rather than a stripped-down completion.
- Response format is selectable (markdown, text, or HTML) with shopping cards and source positions included in the same response, so downstream parsing stays consistent regardless of which engine answered the query.
- Credit-based pricing scales with volume and the per-credit rate drops at higher tiers, so teams with predictable query volume can forecast costs in a way token-based provider pricing makes impossible.
- Python and TypeScript SDKs ship with the API, so integration into an existing data pipeline or monitoring script is a client instantiation and a method call rather than a custom HTTP layer.
Cons
Sign in to edit- The free tier allows only one concurrent job, so any monitoring workflow that runs queries in parallel hits a queue immediately — teams doing batch keyword tracking across providers will exhaust both the concurrency limit and the 500-credit monthly cap within a single test run and must commit to a paid tier before real work begins.
- No self-hosted deployment option exists, which means every query routes through Cloro's infrastructure — teams operating under data residency requirements or internal security policies that prohibit third-party intermediaries handling query content cannot use this tool and will revert to building and maintaining direct provider integrations themselves.
- Grok is listed as unavailable in the provider matrix, so teams whose analysis specifically requires X's AI search responses get no coverage here and must build a separate integration or switch to a tool that includes it.
- The credit model creates a layer of cost uncertainty at scale: each provider and query type consumes credits at rates that may vary, and teams running high-frequency monitoring across multiple engines can burn through tiers faster than a simple per-query estimate suggests — budget modeling requires testing actual consumption against real workloads before committing to a tier.
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About
- API Available
- Yes
- Self-Hosted
- No
- Last Updated
- 2026-07-24T22:22:44.135Z
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Who it's for
- SEO teams analyzing AI search results
- AI SEO companies requiring scalable data extraction
- Developers integrating multiple AI providers via one interface
What it does well
- Extracting AI-generated answers and citations for SEO analysis
- Monitoring responses from multiple AI search engines
- Pulling structured shopping and source data from AI outputs
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Is Cloro free?
- Cloro has a permanent free tier alongside paid upgrades. You can keep using a baseline version indefinitely without paying.
- Is Cloro open source?
- No — Cloro is a closed-source tool. Source code is not publicly available.
- Does Cloro have an API?
- Yes. Cloro exposes a developer API. See the official documentation at https://cloro.dev for details.
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Most direct LLM and AI search APIs return completion text and stop there. The sources panel, the citations list, the shopping cards, the query fan-out — everything an SEO team actually needs to understand how an AI engine is answering and attributing — those are UI-only features the API never exposes. Cloro wraps the main AI search providers (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini, Google AI Mode, AI Overview, and others) behind a single endpoint that returns all of it: text, markdown, HTML, parsed source URLs with labels and descriptions, search queries generated internally by the engine, and shopping block data where present.
The core differentiator is response fidelity to the UI. The vendor cites a Surfer study to make the point explicit: what a provider’s API returns and what a user sees in the interface are meaningfully different, and for SEO work the difference is the entire point. Cloro’s response schema surfaces the structured data that would otherwise require brittle scraping or manual observation.
For developers, the integration is a single SDK (Python and TypeScript clients provided, cURL supported) with a shared request pattern across providers — swap the endpoint path to swap the engine, everything else stays the same. That means one API key, one cost center, and one place to update when a provider changes behavior. The vendor states 99.99% uptime and reports over one billion monthly API calls across the platform, which signals production-grade reliability, though independent verification of those numbers is not available here.
The architecture has clear limits. Self-hosting is not available, so your data leaves your infrastructure on every request — a non-starter for teams with strict data residency requirements. Grok is listed as unavailable. The free plan’s single concurrent job means any parallelized monitoring workflow hits a queue immediately, and teams running multi-region or high-frequency keyword tracking will need to size their tier carefully against credit consumption rates.