Profound Alternatives: 6 AI Visibility Tools Compared (2026)

Profound is the best-known enterprise AI visibility platform, and for large marketing teams it's a strong choice. But after its free trial there's no published price, only a demo call, and that alone sends a lot of smaller teams looking. I read Profound's pricing page and the pricing pages of six alternatives that publish their prices.

Full disclosure: I make Presence Scout, one of the six, so I'm not neutral. Every figure below comes from each vendor's own pricing page, linked in the text. Prices change, so check before you buy.

What Profound offers

Profound's pricing page has two plans:

• Trial (free): 50 prompts checked daily for 7 days on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, with limited credits for its AI Marketer agent, one language and one region. History, exports and the API aren't included.
• Enterprise (custom): a tailored prompt plan checked daily on up to 10 answer engines, including Perplexity, AI Mode, Claude and DeepSeek. It adds Agent Analytics (AI traffic from Cloudflare, Vercel, Google Analytics and others), Prompt Volumes, ChatGPT Shopping, CSV and JSON exports, an API, SSO/SAML, SOC 2 compliance and dedicated support.

Both plans include unlimited seats. It's a deep product, and if you need that depth, the alternatives below won't match all of it.

Why people look for an alternative

From what Profound's own page shows, the usual reasons are:

• No published price. After 7 days you need a sales call to know what it costs.
• Built for large teams. SSO, agent credits and dedicated specialists are worth paying for at enterprise scale, less so for one brand.
• No Google rankings listed. The pricing page doesn't mention keyword rank tracking, so you may still need a separate rank tracker.

Six Profound alternatives at a glance

#	Tool	Starting price	Prompts on entry plan	AI engines on entry plan	Checks	Free trial
-	Profound	Free 7-day trial, then custom	50 in trial	ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews	Daily	7 days
1	Presence Scout	Free; $29/mo	50	ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, AI Mode	Weekly	14 days, no card
2	Peec AI	$95/mo	50	Any 3 you choose	Daily	Not listed
3	Scrunch	$250/mo per brand	125	ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Copilot	5,000 responses/mo	7 days
4	Gauge	$599/mo	600	ChatGPT, AI Mode, Copilot	Daily	Not listed
5	Evertune	$60/mo	5,000 prompt credits	Up to 5	Daily	Not listed
6	Wellows	$29/mo	1,800 answers to spend	ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Overviews, AI Mode	Daily or weekly	7 days

Prices read on each vendor's pricing page in November 2026.

1. Presence Scout

• Best at: Google rankings and AI answers for the same topics in one dashboard, at a small team's budget.
• Key features: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode on Starter, plus Gemini on Growth. Every check keeps the full answer and the sources the engine cited. Competitor tracking, sentiment, PDF and CSV reports, and a Google rank tracker that includes the local map pack.
• Limits: no Claude or Copilot today, and none of Profound's enterprise extras such as AI traffic analytics or SAML single sign-on.
• Who it fits: small teams, founders and agencies who want AI visibility and Google rankings without two tools.
• Price: Starter is $29 a month for 50 prompts, 100 Google keywords and 3 brands. Growth is $99 for 200 prompts, 400 keywords, 10 brands and Gemini. The free plan covers 5 prompts and 10 keywords, and every new account gets a 14-day Starter trial with no card.

Checks run weekly, by design: the allowance goes into covering more of your buyers' questions and keywords instead of re-asking the same few every day. Where Profound is ahead of us: the engine list, AI traffic analytics, prompt volumes and enterprise security.

2. Peec AI

• Best at: daily AI search analytics with unlimited users on every plan.
• Key features: you choose 3 models from ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Naver AI Briefing, ERNIE and Bing AI Mode. Prompt volume scores, prompt and competitor suggestions, an ads library and SKU-level AI shopping tracking.
• Limits: three models on every self-serve plan; more models and SSO are on Enterprise. No Google keyword rankings.
• Who it fits: SEO and content teams that want daily data across a few chosen engines.
• Price: Peec AI Starter is $95 a month for 50 prompts and 1 project. Pro is $245 for 150 prompts, Advanced $495 for 350 prompts and multi-country tracking. I've compared it with us in Presence Scout vs Peec AI. For the two side by side, see Peec AI vs Profound.

3. Scrunch

• Best at: a self-serve start with an enterprise path, plus site optimization for AI.
• Key features: 125 prompts and 5,000 responses a month on ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews and Copilot. Citations, sentiment, query fan-out (limited on Core), 5 site audits a month and AI bot traffic.
• Limits: one country, one language and 5 competitors on Core. Claude, Gemini, AI Mode, API access and SAML SSO are on Enterprise.
• Who it fits: mid-size brands that may grow into an enterprise contract later.
• Price: Scrunch Core is $250 a month per brand, with 5 user licenses and a 7-day free trial. Each brand needs its own subscription. Enterprise is custom.

4. Gauge

• Best at: high daily volume on a published price, the nearest self-serve match to Profound's scale.
• Key features: 600 prompts checked daily on ChatGPT, AI Mode and Copilot, which Gauge counts as 54,000 answers a month. A content engine with 18 articles a month, the Ask Gauge agent, unlimited competitors, and GA4, Search Console and DataForSEO integrations. Claude and Grok can be added with your own API keys.
• Limits: three core engines and a single location on Growth. AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity, sentiment analysis and exports come with Enterprise.
• Who it fits: software and marketing teams that want daily data across hundreds of prompts.
• Price: Gauge Growth is $599 a month with 3 seats. Enterprise is custom.

5. Evertune

• Best at: AI visibility tied to ChatGPT ads.
• Key features: 5,000 prompt credits a month on Starter, across up to 5 models: ChatGPT Search, Gemini Search, AI Mode, AI Overviews and Copilot. Its calculator counts 50 prompts on one model, sampled 3 times a day, as 4,500 credits. Competitor benchmarking, ChatGPT Shopping insights, an agent that suggests next steps, and an Ads Agent that runs ChatGPT ad campaigns.
• Limits: Perplexity, Claude, DeepSeek and Meta AI, data downloads and the 100-samples-per-prompt statistical mode start on Pro. The Ads Agent takes 10% of media spend on Starter, free for the first 7 days.
• Who it fits: brands that already advertise, or plan to, inside ChatGPT.
• Price: Evertune Starter is $60 a month. Pro is $800 a month billed annually, with 100,000 credits and 11 models. Enterprise is custom.

6. Wellows

• Best at: flexible spending across all five engines on a small plan.
• Key features: instead of a prompt cap, you buy a monthly balance of AI answers (one prompt on one engine, once) and spend it across unlimited projects, prompts and seats. ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Overviews and AI Mode on every plan, with citation tracking, sentiment, content suggestions and a writing agent.
• Limits: the balance goes fast on daily checks. Basic's 1,800 answers cover 12 prompts daily on all five engines, or 84 weekly. Collection pauses at zero and unused answers don't roll over. No Google keyword rankings.
• Who it fits: agencies that want to spread one budget across many small client projects.
• Price: Wellows Basic is $29 a month for 1,800 answers, Standard $97 for 6,500, Growth $249 for 18,000 and Scale $497 for 36,000. Every plan has a 7-day free trial.

How to choose

• You need SSO, AI traffic analytics and 10 engines: stay with Profound and book the demo.
• You want enterprise-scale daily volume at a published price: Gauge or Scrunch.
• You want AI visibility and Google rankings together: Presence Scout. That's who I built it for.
• You run ChatGPT ads: Evertune.
• You want daily checks on a few chosen engines: Peec AI, or Wellows if you'd rather spend a balance.

For a wider list, see my roundup of the best AI visibility tools in 2026. And whichever you trial, run my five-minute test for AI visibility tools on it, to see whether its stored answers match what you get when you ask the engine yourself.