Profound raised a $96M Series C in February 2026, then a $180M Series D at a $1.8B valuation in September 2026, 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 7-day free trial, no credit card required. Growth costs €79/month for up to 115 prompts across all 7 AI engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overview), with 1 project. Pro is €149/month for up to 231 prompts across all 7 AI engines and 3 projects. Agency is €299/month with 5,000 credits, unlimited projects, and all 7 AI engines.
Profound's pricing page now lists a 7-day free trial (50 prompts a day on ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews) and Enterprise pricing, which is custom. Engines like Claude, Copilot or Perplexity come with Enterprise.
The difference is in how you buy. For €79/month, Mentionable gives you all 7 AI engines at a public price. To get broad LLM coverage on Profound, you're looking at a custom Enterprise quote.
What Mentionable does well
Price to value stands out immediately. For €79/month, you get up to 115 prompts across all 7 AI engines. Profound publishes no self-serve price for comparable coverage.
The 7-day free trial lets you test all 7 AI engines before paying anything. Profound's 7-day trial covers 3 engines.
All 7 major AI engines are available on every plan: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Google AI Mode, and Google AI Overview. No gating individual platforms behind Enterprise tiers.
Mentionable also has an MCP server on Pro and Agency. Connect it to Claude Desktop, Cursor, Claude Code, or ChatGPT and query your visibility data from your AI assistant (Profound has one too). Agency customers get a one-shot GEO audit: a client-ready white-label report (competitor ranking, personas, competitor matrix, prompt coverage, recommendations, content ideas, top sources).
Every plan also includes an AI assistant built into the dashboard. Ask why a competitor gets cited more often and it answers from your own tracking data, then links to the page where you can act.
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.
Coverage of up to 9 AI engines on Enterprise is among the broadest in the market: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Claude, AI Overviews and Exa Search.
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, enterprise budgets, 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 all 7 AI engines from €79/month (Growth) or €149/month (Pro), 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 an enterprise budget, 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 7-day free trial and see if working with real GEO data changes your workflow, then plug it into Claude or Cursor on Pro. If you outgrow it and need enterprise features, Profound will be there.
