Alvaro Peña de Luna 
Profound is the best-known enterprise platform for AI search visibility, with prompt volume data, agent analytics, ChatGPT Shopping tracking and content agents on top of answer tracking. It is also built to be bought through sales: beyond a free 7-day trial, its site shows no self-serve paid plan. If you want to start tracking this week, with a price you can read before talking to anyone, these are the alternatives worth a look.
Prices below are the public list prices on each vendor’s site on 29 September 2026. We build one of these tools, Mencoro, and describe the others as we would want ours described.
Why teams look for a Profound alternative
- No public price. The trial covers 50 prompts on three engines for seven days, and everything after that is a quote. Agency client workspaces are listed at $399 a month each.
- Enterprise scope. Profound is built for large brands and their content and PR teams. Smaller teams often pay for breadth they do not use.
- Learning curve. G2 reviewers praise the depth and mention that the amount of data is overwhelming at first.
Profound alternatives at a glance
| Tool | Entry price (list, Sep 2026) | Engines | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mencoro | €15/mo for 200 checks | ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overview, AI Mode, plus Google SERP | Mention quality at a small-team price |
| Peec AI | €85/mo, 50 prompts | 3 of your choice, more as add-ons | Daily tracking with strong source data |
| Otterly.AI | $29/mo, 15 prompts | ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot | The cheapest way to start |
| AthenaHQ | Free plan, Starter $295/mo | 11 on Starter | Broad engine coverage at a fixed price |
| Scrunch | $250/mo Core, 125 prompts | 4 on Core, 9 on Enterprise | A self-serve step into an enterprise tool |
| Rankscale | $20/mo Essentials, $99/mo Pro | 17+, priced in credits | Many engines on a small budget |
| Evertune | $800/mo Pro, via demo | 11, base models and apps | Enterprise measurement with statistical sampling |
| Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit | $99/mo per domain, 25 prompts | ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity | Teams already on Semrush |
The best Profound alternatives
Mencoro
Mencoro covers the part of Profound most teams use every week, tracking and analysis of AI answers, at a fraction of the entry cost. It runs your prompts on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overview and AI Mode, and your keywords on the Google SERP and Shopping, in one project. Each mention gets one of five mention types and a sentiment score, and share of voice is weighted by both. Pricing is per check from €15 a month, with unlimited projects, competitors and users, a REST API and an MCP server. What it does not have: Gemini, Claude or Copilot tracking, agent analytics or content agents.
Peec AI
Peec AI is the closest self-serve alternative in spirit: daily tracking, source analytics, prompt discovery with volume scores, AI Shopping and agent analytics. Starter is €85 a month (€70 billed yearly) for 50 prompts on three models you choose, with unlimited users. Extra models are add-ons and the API is Enterprise only. Compare the two in Peec AI vs Profound .
Otterly.AI
Otterly.AI starts at $29 a month for 15 prompts on ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity and Copilot, with GEO audits of your URLs. Standard, at $189, adds 100 prompts, the API, the MCP server and agent analytics. AI Mode, Gemini and Claude are add-ons.
AthenaHQ
AthenaHQ is the alternative to consider if engine coverage is why you looked at Profound. Its Starter plan, at $295 a month ($245 billed yearly), covers 11 engines with 3,600 credits and adds prompt volume estimates and a content optimization agent. A free plan gives 300 credits on five engines.
Scrunch
Scrunch, now a Sitecore company, is also enterprise-first, but it lists a self-serve Core plan at $250 a month for 125 prompts on four engines, with a 7-day trial. Its Enterprise plan adds five more engines and pages served to AI agents.
Rankscale
Rankscale covers more than 17 engines on every plan and charges credits per run, with different costs per engine. Pro is $99 a month for 1,200 credits, with page audits, shopping analysis and an MCP server.
Evertune
If you need Profound’s scale but a different method, Evertune runs each prompt up to 100 times per model across 11 engines, including base models without live search. Pro is listed at $800 a month for up to 100,000 prompts and bought through a demo.
Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit
For teams whose SEO already runs on Semrush, the AI Visibility Toolkit costs $99 a month per domain for 25 prompts on five engines, next to the keyword and backlink data you already use.
How to choose
- If you left because of the price, start with Mencoro, Otterly.AI or Peec AI and run the same prompt set in two of them for a week.
- If you need many engines, compare AthenaHQ’s fixed plan with Rankscale’s credits for the engines you actually need.
- If you need enterprise procurement anyway, Evertune and Scrunch are the peers to evaluate next to Profound.
For the full market, see our comparisons of AEO tools and AI visibility tools . To see how AI engines present your brand without a sales call, Mencoro starts at €15 a month .
