Profound raised $20 million in seed funding and built the enterprise solution for AI visibility. They're the G2 Leader for Winter 2026 in the AEO category. Mentionable fits consultants, founders and in-house teams who want visibility tracking without the enterprise price tag.
These tools serve completely different markets. Understanding that makes the choice clearer.
Pricing and what you get
Mentionable offers a 4-day free trial on all plans. Growth costs €79/month for 40 prompts across 3 LLMs chosen from 7 (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok, Copilot, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overview), with 2 projects. Pro is €149/month for 80 prompts across 4 LLMs and 4 projects. Agency is €299/month with 5,000 credits, unlimited projects, and up to 7 LLMs.
Profound's Starter plan is $99/month for 50 prompts, but that only covers ChatGPT. Growth costs $399/month for 100 prompts across 3 platforms. To get Claude, Gemini, or Grok, you need Enterprise pricing, which is custom and significantly higher.
The comparison at similar price points is stark. For roughly €79 to $99/month, Mentionable gives you a choice of 3 LLMs from 7 (or 4 on Pro at €149/month) while Profound gives you 1. To get broad LLM coverage on Profound, you're looking at Enterprise tier.
What Mentionable does well
Price to value stands out immediately. For €79/month, you get 40 prompts across 3 LLMs chosen from 7. Profound's $99/month tier only tracks ChatGPT.
The 4-day free trial lets you test before paying anything. Profound requires the $399/month Growth plan for their 4-day trial.
All 7 major LLMs are available to pick from on paid plans: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok, Copilot, Google AI Mode, and Google AI Overview. Growth activates 3, Pro activates 4, Agency can cover up to 7. No gating individual platforms behind Enterprise tiers.
Mentionable also ships a public MCP server. Connect it to Claude Desktop, Cursor, Claude Code, or ChatGPT and query your visibility data from your AI assistant. Agency customers get a one-shot GEO audit: a client-ready white-label report (competitor podium, prompt coverage heatmap, top citation sources, quality backlinks, AI-generated diagnostic, recommended content plan). Profound offers neither.
The workflow is simpler. Prompt suggestions help you get started quickly. Profound is built for marketing teams with compliance workflows, which means more setup.
What Profound does well
Real-time tracking sets Profound apart from most tools that update daily or weekly. If you need to react immediately to visibility changes, Profound's near real-time data matters.
Enterprise compliance is comprehensive. SOC 2 Type II certification, SSO with SAML/OIDC, priority Slack support. If your company requires security documentation, Profound has it covered.
10 platform coverage on Enterprise is the broadest in the market: ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI, and ChatGPT Shopping.
API and integrations with Akamai, AWS, Cloudflare, GA4, Vercel, and Netlify let you build AI visibility into your infrastructure. If you need programmatic access, Profound has the APIs.
G2 Leader status represents real user satisfaction at the enterprise level. They're the top-rated AEO tool on the platform.
Different products for different markets
Profound is built for Fortune 500 marketing teams with compliance requirements, budget for $399+/month, and need for real-time tracking and enterprise integrations.
Mentionable fits consultants, founders and in-house teams who want to know if AI recommends them, without paying enterprise prices or navigating compliance workflows.
If you're choosing between them, budget and use case should make the decision straightforward.
Which one fits you?
Mentionable works well if you're a consultant, a founder or part of an in-house team whose daily tool is already an AI agent (Claude, Cursor, n8n), want a choice of LLMs from €79/month (3 LLMs) or €149/month (4 LLMs), don't need SOC 2 or SSO, prefer prompt suggestions over manual setup, and find scheduled updates sufficient.
Profound works well if you're at a Fortune 500 or large enterprise, your company requires SOC 2 compliance, you need SSO and enterprise security, have budget for $399+/month, and real-time visibility tracking is essential to your operations.
These tools aren't really competing for the same customer. If you're enterprise with compliance needs and budget, Profound is the market leader. If you want a GEO data layer plugged into your AI stack at a sane price point, Mentionable exists for you.
Start with Mentionable's 4-day free trial. Plug it into Claude or Cursor and see if working with real GEO data changes your workflow. If you outgrow it and need enterprise features, Profound will be there.
