Comparison · enterprise AI visibility
AEOVisor vs Profound for AI search visibility
Profound is a credible enterprise platform with the sales motion, procurement support and price tag that implies. If you need SSO, contractual SLAs and a dedicated CSM, that's what they're built for. If you need to know how AI engines describe your brand and what to do about it, that starts at $14 a month here.
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Profound is an established enterprise AI visibility platform, and for large organisations with formal procurement it's a serious option. Entry pricing starts around $399/mo. AEOVisor covers the same core job — tracking how AI engines describe your brand, which competitors get cited, and what to fix — from $14/mo, with eleven free tools you can run before creating an account. What we don't offer is enterprise procurement machinery: no SSO/SAML, no contractual SLAs, no dedicated success manager.
Where the two differ
Four differences that actually change which tool you should buy — each with the specific evidence behind it.
A twenty-eighth of the entry price
Profound's entry point is roughly $399/mo. Ours is $14, and our top self-serve tier is $79. That difference decides whether AI visibility is a budgeted programme or something a growth team can start this afternoon.
$14/mo vs ~$399/mo entry
Evaluate without talking to sales
Enterprise tools gate evaluation behind a demo call because that's how enterprise sales works. We put eleven tools in front of the signup wall so you can test the thing before anyone asks for your budget.
11 free tools · no signup · no demo call
Scoring you can audit
The AI Visibility Score is built from multiple measured signals rather than a single mention count, and every score in the product links to the AI answer that produced it — so you can check the number instead of trusting it.
Every score traceable to a source answer
The fixes, not just the dashboard
The Action Center converts tracker results, Search Console data and audit findings into a prioritised list. Crawl simulation, llms.txt validation and schema generation close the loop from measurement to change.
Audit → prioritised actions → re-measure
Feature by feature
Profound publishes less detail publicly than we'd like, so several rows below are marked unverified rather than guessed. We'd rather leave a gap than claim something we haven't confirmed.
| Feature | AEOVisor | Profound |
|---|---|---|
| Engine coverage | ||
| Purpose-built for AI answer engines | Yes | Yes |
| AI engines trackedChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek and AEOVisor AI | 8 | Not verified |
| Google AI Overviews tracking | Yes | Yes |
| Engines included at entry tier | 3 engines | Not verified |
| Data & measurement | ||
| Citation tracking & source classification | Yes | Yes |
| Sentiment & framing analysis | Yes | Yes |
| Answer prominence / mention positionWhere in the answer you appear, not just whether | Yes | Not verified |
| Google Search Console integration | Yes | Not verified |
| Classic SERP position tracking | Yes | Yes |
| Evidence links to raw AI answersTrace any score to the sentence that produced it | Yes | Not verified |
| Score traceable to source answers | Yes | Not verified |
| Optimisation workflow | ||
| Technical AEO / site audit | Yes | Not verified |
| AI crawler simulationGPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot vs your robots.txt | Yes | Not verified |
| llms.txt generation & validation | Yes | Not verified |
| Competitor benchmarking | Yes | Yes |
| Prioritised action list | Yes | Partial |
| White-label PDF reports | Yes | Yes |
| Pricing & access | ||
| Public API access | Yes | Not verified |
| Permanent free tier (not a trial) | Yes | No |
| Free tools with no signup | 11 tools | No |
| Entry price | $14/mo | ~$399/mo |
| Self-hosted option | No | No |
Pricing side by side
Profound doesn't publish full pricing, so treat the figure above as indicative and confirm directly. Enterprise pricing usually varies with brand count, seats and contract length.
AEOVisor
Our pricing- Free1 tracker · 5 prompts · 1 AI engine$0
- Starter2 trackers · 3 AI engines · GSC$14/mo
- Growth3 trackers · + Perplexity · SERP + AI Overviews$29/mo
- Agency10 trackers · white-label · API access$79/mo
- EnterpriseUnlimited everything · 2-year historyCustom
Profound
Their pricing- EntryConfirm current pricing with them~$399/mo
- EnterpriseContact salesCustom
Who gets the most out of AEOVisor
AI visibility touches SEO, content, PR and engineering. Here’s what each team actually uses.
Report on AI visibility the way you report on rankings
You already own organic performance, and now leadership is asking what happens when ChatGPT answers the question instead of Google. AEOVisor gives you a defensible number, a trend line, and the evidence behind both.
- A single 0–100 AI Visibility Score, with the evidence behind it
- Week-over-week trends across every engine you track
- Google Search Console data joined to AI visibility
- Every score traceable to the AI answer that produced it
Find the prompts you're losing and the pages that would win them
Knowing you're invisible isn't useful on its own. The Action Center turns tracker data into a prioritised list of what to write, what to fix, and which competitor is being cited in your place.
- Prompt-level win/loss against named competitors
- Citation gaps — domains citing rivals but not you
- Content opportunities surfaced from real Search Console demand
- Schema and FAQ generation for answer-ready pages
Ten client brands, white-labelled reports, one $79 subscription
AI visibility is the easiest new line item to sell right now, and the hardest to prove. Run every client from one account and hand over a report with your own branding on it.
- 10 trackers on the Agency tier — no per-brand pricing
- White-label PDF reports with your logo and accent colour
- Public API access for your own dashboards
- Free tools as a lead magnet for pitching new clients
Check whether AI recommends you before you commit to anything
Eleven free tools, no signup, no sales call. Simulate an AI crawl, validate your llms.txt, check your schema, and see your visibility score in about thirty seconds.
- AI crawl simulator for GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot
- llms.txt generator and validator
- Schema markup validation
- Public API on the Agency tier for custom integrations
When Profound is the better choice
If you're an enterprise that needs formal procurement, SSO/SAML, contractual SLAs, a dedicated customer success manager, or the assurance that comes with a larger vendor and a longer track record, Profound is built for that and we are not. Organisations where security review and vendor risk assessment gate every purchase will have a far smoother path with them.
We include this section on every comparison page. A comparison that wins every row isn’t a comparison — it’s an advert, and you’d be right to discount it.
Switching takes about ten minutes
There’s no data migration in AI visibility — measurement is live, so you start generating history from day one.
Add your brand and competitors
Enter your domain, brand aliases and up to three competitors. Takes about two minutes — there's no data import step because AI visibility is measured live, not backfilled.
Bring your prompts across
Paste the prompts you're already tracking, or let the prompt library suggest a set from your category and Search Console demand. Nothing is locked to a vendor.
Run your first tracker
Results stream in engine by engine, usually inside a minute. You'll have a baseline score and evidence the same day rather than waiting for a scheduled run.
Connect Search Console
Optional, but it's what turns AI visibility from a vanity metric into an opportunity list grounded in real search demand.
AEOVisor vs Profound: common questions
Straight answers, including where we're the weaker option
For the core job — tracking brand visibility across AI answer engines, analysing citations, benchmarking competitors and producing a fix list — yes. For enterprise procurement requirements like SSO/SAML, contractual SLAs and a dedicated success manager, no. Be honest with yourself about which of those you actually need.
Sources & verification
Every claim about Profound on this page was checked against public sources on . Pricing in this category changes often — if something here is out of date, tell us and we’ll correct it.