Profound alternatives in 2026: 20 tools with checked prices

Profound publishes no entry price: its plans are sold by custom quote. Of the 20 alternatives below, 20 publish a price, the cheapest paid plan is Rankscale at $20, and each entry shows which engines its entry plan covers, what costs extra, and the day its price was read.

Updated 2026-09-28

Method: every price below was read on the vendor's own pricing page on the date shown, and every tool whose price we could read is listed, cheapest first. Nothing is ranked by preference.

What Profound costs

Profound's entry plan: Custom quote. Engines at entry: ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews. Add-on fees: None listed. Free tier: Free trial: 50 prompts run daily for 7 days. Its pricing page was checked 2026-09-25.

20 Profound alternatives, cheapest first

Limelit (the maker of this page)

Entry price: $19.99 one-time Starter pack, about 1,100 answers
Engines at entry: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, AI Overviews, AI Mode
Add-on fees: None listed
Free tier: 1,000 free credits on signup, no card
Choose it if: Teams that want every engine on one account and pay only for the runs they make.

One-time prepaid credit packs, not a subscription. Claude answers cost more credits than the other five engines.

Limelit pricing page, checked 2026-09-28

Rankscale

Entry price: $20/mo
Engines at entry: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, DeepSeek, Grok, Copilot
Add-on fees: None listed
Free tier: 7-day free trial of Pro
Choose it if: Teams that want to pay per engine query from a monthly credit allowance.

Credit-based: each engine query spends credits, and Claude costs more credits than ChatGPT.

Rankscale pricing page, checked 2026-09-25

Otterly.AI

Entry price: $29/mo, or $25/mo billed annually
Engines at entry: ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot
Add-on fees: On Lite: Claude $29/mo, Gemini $9/mo, AI Mode $9/mo
Free tier: Free trial
Choose it if: Solo marketers and small teams who want four engines at a low monthly price.

MCP and API access start on the Standard plan, not Lite.

Otterly.AI pricing page, checked 2026-09-25

Ayzeo

Entry price: $39/mo
Engines at entry: ChatGPT, AI Overviews
Add-on fees: $29/mo per extra model (Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok)
Free tier: 14-day free trial
Choose it if: Small businesses that want ChatGPT and AI Overviews tracking for one site at a low monthly price.

The MCP server and the Google Search Console integration start on the Pro plan ($149/mo), not Starter. DeepSeek is added on request.

Ayzeo pricing page, checked 2026-09-25

Geoptie

Entry price: $49/mo, or $41/mo billed annually
Engines at entry: Pick 4 of ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, AI Mode, AI Overviews
Add-on fees: None listed
Free tier: None
Choose it if: Startups and agencies that want to pick four of seven engines on the cheapest plan.

The page opens on annual billing ($41/mo, $490 a year). The REST API and MCP server start on the Professional plan, not Starter.

Geoptie pricing page, checked 2026-09-25

AmICited

Entry price: €50/mo
Engines at entry: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews, AI Mode
Add-on fees: None listed
Free tier: 7-day free trial, card required
Choose it if: Teams that want Search Console and an MCP server on the cheapest plan.

Claude, Grok and DeepSeek start on the Premium plan; Copilot on Pro. Credit-based: each plan includes a monthly credit allowance.

AmICited pricing page, checked 2026-09-25

AIclicks

Entry price: $59/mo
Engines at entry: Pick 3 of ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Claude, Copilot, AI Mode, Grok, Meta AI, DeepSeek
Add-on fees: None listed
Free tier: 3-day free trial, no card
Choose it if: Small teams that want to choose their three engines from a long list.

MCP, API and GA4 start on the Pro plan, not Starter.

AIclicks pricing page, checked 2026-09-25

LLMrefs

Entry price: $79/mo
Engines at entry: ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Grok
Add-on fees: None listed
Free tier: 7-day free trial
Choose it if: SEO teams that want to track keywords rather than hand-written prompts.

The page marks the $79 price as limited time only.

LLMrefs pricing page, checked 2026-09-25

Peec AI

Entry price: $95/mo, or 15% off with annual billing
Engines at entry: Pick 3 of ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Copilot, Gemini, Naver AI
Add-on fees: One extra model $30/mo on Starter, billed annually
Free tier: Free trial
Choose it if: SEO and content managers who want to pick three engines to track.

Claude, Grok and DeepSeek are listed on the Enterprise plan only. Prices were shown in US dollars to a US visitor. The 15% annual discount is from the pricing page's FAQ as read on 2026-09-25; the page's annual price was not read.

Peec AI pricing page, checked 2026-09-26

Analyze AI

Entry price: $99/mo
Engines at entry: ChatGPT, AI Mode, Perplexity
Add-on fees: Gemini, Claude, Grok and DeepSeek as add-ons
Free tier: Free trial
Choose it if: Teams that want AI traffic analytics from GA4 next to tracking.

Analyze AI pricing page, checked 2026-09-25

Trakkr

Entry price: $100/mo
Engines at entry: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Grok
Add-on fees: None listed
Free tier: 14-day free trial
Choose it if: One brand that wants every model included with no engine add-ons.

The page says all 8 models are included and names these five.

Trakkr pricing page, checked 2026-09-25

Searchable

Entry price: $125/mo
Engines at entry: ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity
Add-on fees: Claude, Copilot and Grok as custom add-ons
Free tier: 14-day free trial
Choose it if: Growing businesses that want tracking, site audits and articles in one plan.

Searchable pricing page, checked 2026-09-25

Ryze AI

Entry price: $129/mo
Engines at entry: ChatGPT, Perplexity
Add-on fees: None listed
Free tier: 7-day free trial
Choose it if: Teams that want an autopilot to execute SEO and ad changes, not a tracker.

An SEO and paid-ads autopilot rather than a visibility tracker; its AI search work sits in SEO Autopilot.

Ryze AI pricing page, checked 2026-09-25

Semrush

Entry price: $199/mo, or $165.17/mo billed annually
Engines at entry: Not stated
Add-on fees: None listed
Free tier: Free trial
Choose it if: Teams already on Semrush for SEO that want AI prompt tracking in the same account.

The pricing page does not name the AI engines tracked. Search Console reporting is part of the paid report add-ons.

Semrush pricing page, checked 2026-09-25

Ahrefs Brand Radar

Entry price: $199/mo
Engines at entry: Not stated
Add-on fees: None listed
Free tier: None
Choose it if: Teams that want to research any brand across a large prompt database.

The pricing page quotes Brand Radar AI from $199/mo and does not name the AI engines tracked.

Ahrefs Brand Radar pricing page, checked 2026-09-25

Scrunch

Entry price: $250/mo
Engines at entry: ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Copilot
Add-on fees: None listed
Free tier: 7-day free trial
Choose it if: Teams that want to benchmark AI visibility before an enterprise rollout.

Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI and AI Mode, plus MCP access, are on the Enterprise plan.

Scrunch pricing page, checked 2026-09-25

AthenaHQ

Entry price: $295/mo
Engines at entry: ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI
Add-on fees: None listed
Free tier: Free plan with 300 credits
Choose it if: Teams that want a wide engine list on a credit allowance.

Credit-based: Starter includes 3,600 credits a month. Annual billing is 17% off.

AthenaHQ pricing page, checked 2026-09-25

Goodie

Entry price: $399/mo, billed annually
Engines at entry: ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity, AI Mode, Copilot
Add-on fees: None listed
Free tier: 7-day free trial
Choose it if: Brand teams that want tracking plus optimization work in one plan.

The $399 a month is the billed-annually price the page shows by default; the monthly-billing price was not read. Claude is tracked on the Enterprise plan only.

Goodie pricing page, checked 2026-09-25

Gauge

Entry price: $599/mo
Engines at entry: ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot
Add-on fees: None listed
Free tier: 1-week free trial
Choose it if: Teams that want a high daily prompt volume and a content engine included.

Claude and Grok need your own Anthropic or xAI API key, billed by that provider.

Gauge pricing page, checked 2026-09-25

Evertune

Entry price: $800/mo
Engines at entry: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Copilot, DeepSeek
Add-on fees: None listed
Free tier: None
Choose it if: Mid-market brands that want tracking, content and AI advertising from one vendor.

Pro is bought through a demo request. The pricing page says Pro tracks 11 AI models; the homepage names these eight plus Meta.

Evertune pricing page, checked 2026-09-25

All the prices in one table

The same tools side by side, with MCP and Search Console support, are in the AI visibility tool pricing table.

Questions

The things people ask us first.

Rankscale has the lowest published entry price on this list, $20 on its own pricing page. Profound publishes no entry price; its plans are sold by custom quote. Limelit, the maker of this page, has no subscription: its smallest purchase is a $19.99 one-time credit pack, after 1,000 free credits.

These start free: Limelit (1,000 free credits on signup, no card), Rankscale (7-day free trial of Pro), Otterly.AI (Free trial), Ayzeo (14-day free trial), AmICited (7-day free trial, card required), AIclicks (3-day free trial, no card), LLMrefs (7-day free trial), Peec AI (Free trial), Analyze AI (Free trial), Trakkr (14-day free trial), Searchable (14-day free trial), Ryze AI (7-day free trial), Semrush (Free trial), Scrunch (7-day free trial), AthenaHQ (Free plan with 300 credits), Goodie (7-day free trial) and Gauge (1-week free trial).

Claude is included by Limelit, Rankscale, Geoptie, AIclicks, LLMrefs, Trakkr, AthenaHQ and Evertune. Profound's pricing page does not list Claude on its entry plan.

Each price was read on the vendor's own pricing page, and every entry shows the day it was read. Every row is re-read monthly, and a tool whose price could not be read is left out rather than guessed.