Comparison

AEO.day vs Profound

Profound is the enterprise leader in this category and earned that position. This page lays out where it is genuinely ahead, and where a smaller team or an agency will find the economics and the measurement work differently.

Where Profound is strong

Profound has the deepest enterprise offering in AI visibility: a proprietary dataset built from hundreds of millions of real AI conversations, agent analytics, and depth built for Fortune 500 brands. If you are an enterprise that wants demand-side conversation data rather than sampled prompts, no one else currently offers what Profound offers.

The factual comparison

	AEO.day	Profound
Entry price	$0 free plan, then $79/mo Starter with 4 engines	$99/mo covering a single engine (ChatGPT); enterprise tiers commonly cited in the thousands per month in third-party reviews
Billing terms	Monthly on every tier. Annual discount available.	Annual contracts are a recurring theme in third-party agency reviews of its enterprise tiers
Free tier	Free forever monitoring: 10 prompts, 1 engine, weekly runs. The only persistent free monitor in the category to our knowledge	No persistent free monitoring plan listed
Confidence intervals	Yes. Repeated daily samples, Wilson intervals, published methodology	Not advertised, and no public measurement methodology we could find
Per-engine fees	None. Starter includes 4 engines, higher plans include all	Entry tier covers one engine; broader coverage sits in higher tiers
Seats	Unlimited on every plan	Seat limits on the entry tier per third-party reviews

Entry price

AEO.day$0 free plan, then $79/mo Starter with 4 engines

Profound$99/mo covering a single engine (ChatGPT); enterprise tiers commonly cited in the thousands per month in third-party reviews

Billing terms

AEO.dayMonthly on every tier. Annual discount available.

ProfoundAnnual contracts are a recurring theme in third-party agency reviews of its enterprise tiers

Free tier

AEO.dayFree forever monitoring: 10 prompts, 1 engine, weekly runs. The only persistent free monitor in the category to our knowledge

ProfoundNo persistent free monitoring plan listed

Confidence intervals

AEO.dayYes. Repeated daily samples, Wilson intervals, published methodology

ProfoundNot advertised, and no public measurement methodology we could find

Per-engine fees

AEO.dayNone. Starter includes 4 engines, higher plans include all

ProfoundEntry tier covers one engine; broader coverage sits in higher tiers

Seats

AEO.dayUnlimited on every plan

ProfoundSeat limits on the entry tier per third-party reviews

Competitor details from public pricing pages and third-party reviews as of August 2026. Tell us if something is out of date.

Which should you pick?

Pick Profound if you are an enterprise brand with an enterprise budget and you want its real-conversation dataset; that dataset is a genuine moat. Pick AEO.day if you are a team or agency that needs defensible per-engine measurement across 4 engines at $79/mo, monthly billing you can match to client retainers, and a free plan to prove value first.

Our measurement method is public in full on the methodology page. We encourage you to ask every vendor on this page for theirs.

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