aeotime vs Profound: Pricing, Engines and Features (2026)

aeotime and Profound both track how AI engines mention your brand, but they are built for different buyers. Profound is an enterprise AI marketing platform: custom pricing, prompt volume data, bot log analytics, ChatGPT Shopping tracking and AI agents. aeotime is a self-serve AI visibility tool: $99/month for 250 prompts across eight engines, with an Agency plan for client work. If you are a large brand with an enterprise budget, Profound has more depth. If you are a small or mid-size company or an agency that wants published pricing and every engine included, aeotime is the simpler fit.

Disclosure: aeotime is our product. We describe Profound from its own pricing and product pages as of September 2026.

Who is each tool for?

Profound says it serves more than 1,000 enterprise brands, and on September 15, 2026 it announced a $180M Series D at a $1.8B valuation. Its product has moved from tracking toward an "AI marketer" suite with agents that find work, draft content and request approval. It fits marketing organizations with several teams, security reviews, SSO requirements and budget for a sales-led contract.

aeotime fits teams that want to start today, pay a known price, and see all major engines at once: in-house marketers at SMBs and mid-market companies, founders, and agencies managing several clients. Setup is automatic: aeotime scans the site, builds a brand profile, suggests competitors and prompts, and can turn Google Search Console queries into prompts.

Pricing: aeotime vs Profound

	aeotime	Profound
Free option	7-day free trial (card required); free tools with no signup	Free trial: 50 prompts/day for 7 days
Entry paid plan	$99/mo, or $79/mo billed yearly	Enterprise, custom pricing
Prompts on entry plan	250	Custom
Agency plan	$349/mo or $279/mo yearly: 500 prompts	Agency plan priced per client workspace (third-party reports: $99/mo base + $399 per workspace)
Projects and seats	Unlimited on paid plans	Projects and collaboration on Enterprise
Trial	7 days (aeotime plan)	7 days
Buy without a sales call	Yes	No, as of September 2026

Profound removed its self-serve plans in September 2026. Its pricing page now shows the trial and Enterprise only.

Which AI engines does each track?

Engine	aeotime	Profound
ChatGPT	✓	✓ (trial and Enterprise)
Google AI Overviews	✓	✓ (trial and Enterprise)
Gemini	✓	✓ (trial and Enterprise)
Perplexity	✓	✓ Enterprise
Claude	✓	✓ Enterprise
DeepSeek	✓	✓ Enterprise
Google AI Mode	✓	✓ Enterprise
Grok	✓	Not listed
Microsoft Copilot	—	✓ Enterprise
Exa Search	—	✓ Enterprise

aeotime runs every engine on both plans. Profound's trial covers three engines and Enterprise covers up to nine. Each covers one or two engines the other doesn't: Grok for aeotime, Copilot and Exa for Profound.

A method note on aeotime: answers are collected through each engine's official API with web search turned on, and Google AI Overviews and AI Mode through SERP data. API answers can differ slightly from what a logged-in user sees in the consumer app.

Feature comparison

Feature	aeotime	Profound
Brand mention and position tracking	✓	✓
Share of voice vs competitors	✓	✓
Citation and source tracking	✓	✓
Competitor gap analysis	✓	✓
Sentiment	✓	✓
Fact-checking of AI claims about your brand	✓	✓ (FactCheck agent)
Prompt volume data	—	✓
AI bot log analysis	✓ (AI crawlers)	✓ (Agent Analytics)
ChatGPT Shopping / product tracking	Coming soon (marketplace and AI shopping listing audits)	✓ Enterprise, SKU-level
AI agents that draft content	—	✓
Site AI-readiness audit	✓	Not listed on pricing page
Google Search Console integration	✓ (turns GSC queries into prompts)	Not listed on pricing page
GA4 integration	✓	Not listed on pricing page
Automatic onboarding (site scan, competitor and prompt suggestions)	✓	Not listed on pricing page
White-label PDF reports	✓ Agency plan	Not listed on pricing page
Client view-only access	✓ Agency plan	Not listed on pricing page
API	Coming soon	✓ Enterprise
MCP server	Coming soon	✓
SSO / SAML, SOC 2	—	✓ Enterprise
Integrations	GSC, GA4	200+ listed

"Not listed" means we didn't find it on Profound's pricing page; it may exist in the product or be available on request.

Where Profound is stronger

Profound is ahead on several things, and it's better to say that plainly:

• Prompt volume data. Profound's Prompt Volumes feature estimates what people actually ask AI engines, from conversation data. If you don't know which prompts to track, this answers a question aeotime can't. aeotime has no prompt volume data set.
• Agent Analytics depth. Both tools show how AI crawlers hit your site; Profound's Agent Analytics is a larger enterprise product with more agent types and reporting.
• ChatGPT Shopping at SKU level. For retailers, product-level tracking inside ChatGPT Shopping is live on Profound Enterprise. aeotime's shopping and marketplace audits are coming soon.
• AI agents and content workflow. Profound's AI Marketer agents draft content and posts in your brand voice. aeotime tells you where you are missing; it doesn't write the content.
• Enterprise requirements. SSO/SAML, SOC 2, dedicated support, API access and 200+ integrations. Large companies often need these to buy at all.
• Copilot and Exa coverage. If Microsoft Copilot matters to your buyers, Profound tracks it and aeotime doesn't.
• Scale and funding. A $180M round funds a lot of product work. That matters if you are signing a multi-year contract.

Where aeotime is stronger

• Published pricing, all engines included. $99/month (or $79 yearly) covers 250 prompts on eight engines, including Claude, Grok and DeepSeek. No engine tiers, no sales call.
• Built for agencies. The Agency plan gives 500 prompts, white-label PDF reports, view-only client access and pitch workspaces for prospects, at $349/month (or $279 yearly). See aeotime for agencies.
• Faster setup. The site scan builds a brand profile and suggests competitors and prompts, so the first report doesn't depend on a strategist building a prompt list.
• Search Console-based prompts. Connecting GSC turns queries people already use to find you into prompts, which ties AI tracking to real demand for your site.
• Site AI-readiness audit included. The audit checks crawler access, structure and markup alongside visibility tracking, so you can fix what blocks citations. Our free AEO checker is a smaller version of it.
• Unlimited projects and seats on every paid plan.

Which should you choose?

Choose Profound if:

• you are an enterprise brand that needs SSO, SOC 2 and a dedicated team,
• prompt volume data is central to your planning,
• you sell products and need SKU-level ChatGPT Shopping tracking now,
• you want AI agents producing content inside the same platform.

Choose aeotime if:

• you want to start this week at a published price,
• you need ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Grok and DeepSeek on one plan,
• you are an agency that needs white-label reports and client access,
• you want prompts based on your own Search Console data and a site audit alongside tracking.

If you are still comparing, our Profound alternatives page covers six more tools, and AI visibility tracking explains what these tools measure.

Try it

Run the free AI visibility checker to see how AI engines describe your brand today, or start the 7-day trial from the pricing page.