MaxAEO vs Profound

MaxAEO

Answers a question SEO tools do not: when someone asks an assistant for a recommendation in your category, do you appear, and what did it read to decide. Citation tracing is the part with real work behind it, because it tells you which pages to fix. The tier design is the catch, since prompt counts are small at the bottom and four of the eight engines sit behind an enterprise quote.

Pros

• +Monitors eight assistants including Grok, Copilot and Google AI Mode
• +Traces which sources an assistant cited when recommending a brand
• +Competitor ranking and sentiment per prompt, refreshed daily
• +Named legal entity, HIII PTE. LTD., disclosed on the site

Cons

• −Starter tier covers only 10 prompts and four engines
• −All eight engines require the custom-priced enterprise plan
• −Steep jump from $15 to $119 a month for a usable prompt count
• −No API or data export path advertised

Profound

Profound is the enterprise end of AI-visibility measurement: it covers more answer engines than most rivals, adds crawler analytics and ChatGPT Shopping that the cheaper trackers lack, and has the funding and customer list to still exist next year. The price is the reason to hesitate - there is no published figure, the free trial is seven days of fifty prompts, and the self-serve agency plan exists only as a line in the FAQ. Mid-market teams will get most of the signal from a tracker with a public price; brands with real budget and a procurement team are the audience here.

Pros

• +Tracks up to nine answer engines, including AI Overviews, Copilot and DeepSeek, not just ChatGPT
• +Agent Analytics shows which AI crawlers visit and cite the site, a layer most trackers skip
• +Prompt Volumes estimates real user questions rather than relying on your own prompt list
• +SOC 2 Type II, SSO and an API, so it passes enterprise review

Cons

• −No published price; the only listed plans are a free trial and a custom Enterprise contract
• −Trial is 7 days, 50 prompts and three engines, with no exports or history
• −No legal entity, address or terms page found on the site
• −The agency plan is named in the FAQ but not in the plan table

Is MaxAEO cheaper than Profound?

MaxAEO starts at $15/mo; Profound prices on request, so a quote is the only way to compare.

Which has a public API, MaxAEO or Profound?

Profound ships a public API, as of our last verification. A public API for MaxAEO is not confirmed by us — check its developer docs before you plan an integration.