Profound raised $96M at a $1B valuation in February 2026 and moved to enterprise-only pricing — every signup is a sales call. AEOlens delivers the same brand-in-AI-answer tracking loop self-serve, with the structural fix list baked in, starting at $35/mo.
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Profound used to publish a $99 self-serve tier and a $399 mid-tier — that pricing was retired after their Series C. Today the public pricing page lists only enterprise. If you can afford the contract, Profound is one of the best-funded products in the category. If you can't, AEOlens gives you a comparable visibility loop plus the fix list for under $100/mo.
Profound's move to enterprise-only is a deliberate strategy — chase the highest-budget brands (Ramp, DocuSign, Figma, Target, Walmart, MongoDB), build deep integrations like CMS publishing and the Conversation Explorer, and run a sales-led motion. That motion can't economically serve the millions of websites with $30–$300/mo to spend on AEO. AEOlens is built for that segment: self-serve, fix-first, transparent pricing, no procurement cycle.
Profound is fundamentally a monitoring product — you set up prompts, the platform runs them daily across answer engines, you see how often your brand is cited and where. That's valuable for tracking trends but doesn't tell you what to change. AEOlens runs a structural audit (48 checks per URL) and an AI Buyer Simulation across 5 models, then turns every failing check into a ranked, copy-paste fix. You see the gap and the path to close it in the same dashboard.
Honest answer: Profound's Conversation Explorer (real-time AI search-volume data) and CMS publishing into WordPress / Sanity / Contentful are genuinely unique in the category. If those are critical to your workflow and your budget supports it, Profound is hard to beat. AEOlens doesn't ship those today — and our plan is to add multi-page site audits and content brief generation next rather than chase enterprise feature parity. We're explicit about it: different products for different buyers.
Paste your URL and AEOlens shows you exactly which signals AI search engines are catching and missing — no signup needed. Then decide for yourself how it stacks up against Profound.
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Yes — paste a URL on the AEOlens homepage and the public scan returns a partial AEO audit with no signup. The Free plan keeps one full scan per month with the top 3 fixes. Starter ($35/mo) and Growth ($99/mo) are instant credit-card signups.
Profound's public pricing page now lists only enterprise / custom pricing as of 2026. Historic third-party reviews mention a $99 Starter and $399 Growth tier, but the company has since moved to a sales-led, enterprise-only motion following its $96M Series C.
The AI Buyer Simulation runs against ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Grok. AI Agent Analytics tracks crawler activity from 8 bot families including GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Bytespider, and Meta-ExternalAgent.
AEOlens serves agencies and SMBs today via the Agency plan ($249/mo with white-label PDF and 25 tracked competitors). Roadmap items for true enterprise — SSO, dedicated CSM, multi-region SLA, SOC 2 attestation — are not yet shipped. If those are hard requirements, Profound or a similarly enterprise-focused tool is the right pick.
Run a free AEOlens scan from the box above — you see your score, the category breakdown, and the top 3 weakest signals in under 60 seconds, no email required. Then run the same URL through a Profound demo and compare what each tool surfaces. The contrast is usually obvious.
