Profound alternatives with prices you can see
Profound alternatives are worth a look if you want to start without a sales call.
Short answer
- On 14 October 2026, Profound showed a free 7-day trial and a custom-priced Enterprise plan, and no public paid price.
- Cheapest public prices we saw: Rankscale $17/mo (yearly) and Otterly.AI $29/mo.
- Most alternatives only track. GetMint and AthenaHQ say they also write and publish content.
- Large brands that need many engines, SSO and SOC 2 are who Profound is built for.
Updated 14 October 2026 · By Michael Nefedov, noetio
Profound vs the alternatives
Entry prices from each vendor's pricing page, 14 October 2026. Some show euros or pounds by location.
| Tool | Job | Entry price | Fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Profound | Tracks, marketing agents | Free 7-day trial, then custom | Large brands, after a demo |
| Peec AI | Tracks | €85/mo, 50 prompts | Marketing teams and agencies that want daily tracking |
| Otterly.AI | Tracks | $29/mo, 15 prompts | A cheap first look at ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity and Copilot |
| Rankscale | Tracks | $17/mo yearly; Pro $99/mo | Many engines on a credit budget |
| Scrunch | Tracks, audits pages | $250/mo | Brands that also want page audits |
| AthenaHQ | Tracks, writes content | $295/mo | Teams that want tracking plus a content agent |
| Ahrefs Brand Radar | Tracks | £159/mo | Teams already on Ahrefs |
| GetMint | Tracks, writes, publishes | €74/mo | Teams that want content made and published, on site and off |
| AirOps | Content workflows | Not public | Content teams that build their own workflows |
We haven't tested these tools hands-on. The facts come from their own pages. Compare the prompt count and engines, not only the price.
What Profound offers today
7 days
free trial: 50 prompts a day on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. No exports, no API.
Profound pricing. Source
Some comparison pages still list a $99 Profound plan, for example SE Ranking's list. We didn't find that plan on Profound's pricing page on 14 October 2026.
Trackers vs tools that do the work
Trackers
Peec AI, Otterly.AI, Rankscale, Scrunch, Ahrefs Brand Radar. They tell you where you stand. Someone still has to do the work.
Tools that also do the work
GetMint and AthenaHQ say they write and publish content. Check whether anything waits for your approval.
Pick by the job you need. If your team does the work, a tracker is enough. If not, look at tools that do it. Either way, check how they measure first: ask the 8 questions in how LLM SEO tools measure.
Where Compass fits
Compass is our product, so read this as our view. It is an AI SEO agent: it does the SEO and AI search work on your site and drafts posts and pitches beyond it, and every change waits for your OK. It is not open yet. More tools: AI SEO tools by the job they do.
Questions
Profound has a free 7-day trial: 50 prompts a day on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, with no exports or API. After that, its pricing page shows Enterprise with a custom price.
Of the tools on this page, Rankscale showed the lowest entry price on 14 October 2026: $17 a month billed yearly. Otterly.AI started at $29 a month. Cheap plans track few prompts, so compare the prompt count, not only the price.
Some say they do. GetMint says it publishes content on your site and on the sources AI answers trust, and AthenaHQ says it publishes content through its Shopify integration. Compass, our product, is built to do the SEO and AI search work with your approval, and is not open yet.
Compass does this work for you
Compass is an AI SEO agent. It does your SEO and AI search work every day, on your site and beyond it, and nothing goes live without your OK. Get early access below.