Ayzeo vs Profound: Which AI Visibility Platform Fits Your Team?

If you researched Profound in 2025, much of what you read — including an earlier version of our own comparison hub — is now out of date. Profound was long described as sales-led, with no self-serve signup and no trial. Self-serve Starter and Growth tiers were listed earlier in 2026 but are not on the pricing page as of October 2026. Brands now see two plans: a free Trial that runs 50 prompts daily for 7 days across ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, with unlimited seats but no API, exports, SSO, or support, and a custom-priced Enterprise plan that holds the headline capabilities: coverage of up to 9 answer engines, the Prompt Volumes dataset, API access, SSO/SAML, and SOC 2. For agencies, full client workspaces are an add-on at $399/month each; the base Agency Growth price is not published.

The bigger shift is what Profound has become. Beyond monitoring, it now ships AI Marketer, a credit-based layer that acts on the gaps the platform finds (credits are limited on the trial and custom on Enterprise), orchestrated by a layer called Aim, plus Agent Analytics with CDN and WordPress integrations for tracking how AI crawlers and agents hit your site. This execution stack is Profound's real differentiator, and it is genuinely ahead of the category. The honest caveat is packaging: execution is metered by credits, the deepest data is Enterprise-only, and there is no published price to plan a budget around.

Entry tiers are where the two platforms diverge most sharply. Profound no longer publishes a self-serve price: brands start with a free 7-day trial (50 prompts run daily across ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, unlimited seats, no API or exports), and continuing past it means a custom-priced Enterprise plan. Ayzeo's entry plan costs $39/mo, month to month, for 20 tracked prompts across two engines (ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews), unlimited seats, and the full optimization toolkit: JSON-LD generator, LLMs.txt creator, AI content generation, meta-tag tools, and the WordPress plugin.

Profound's trial is generous while it lasts: 50 prompts versus Ayzeo's 20, and three engines versus two, though Ayzeo can narrow the prompt gap with stackable +10-prompt packs at $15/mo each. The difference is what happens after day seven. Ayzeo keeps running at a published monthly price with no annual lock-in, unlimited seats, and tools to fix what the monitoring finds without spending credits; Profound moves you to an Enterprise quote. Teams that need more model coverage can add Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, or Grok to Ayzeo at $29/mo per model per project (DeepSeek on request), so the same three engines Profound's trial covers (ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews) cost $68/mo on Ayzeo, with implementation included. For SMBs and agencies weighing cost against actionability, that is the trade that usually decides it.