Peec AI vs Profound: Pricing, Engines and Which to Pick
Peec AI and Profound both run your buyers' questions through AI engines and report how often your brand comes up. The real split is how you buy them. Every price and engine below was checked on each vendor's pricing page on 1 November 2026.
Peec AI if you want to pay today: €85 to €425 a month, 3 engines of your choice. Profound if you are an enterprise that wants up to 9 engines and will go through sales.
Peec AI: Starter €85, Pro €205, Advanced €425 a month ($95, $245, $495 on its US page).
Profound for brands: free 7-day trial, then custom Enterprise.
In 129 AI answers about AI visibility tools, Profound was named 36 times and Peec AI 22. When an answer named both, Profound came first 12 times out of 16.
Peec AI vs Profound side by side
| Peec AI | Profound | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | €85 a month ($95 US) | Free 7-day trial, then custom |
| Self-serve paid plan | Yes, three tiers | No, for brands |
| Prompts on the entry plan | 50, your own | 50, a fixed set picked for your industry |
| Engines on the entry plan | 3 you pick from 6 | ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews |
| Claude | Enterprise, or the €675 agency plan | Enterprise |
| Perplexity | Paid add-on | Enterprise |
| Most engines | Up to 13 (Enterprise) | 9 (Enterprise) |
| Team seats | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| API | Pro and up | Enterprise |
Pricing
| Peec AI plan | Monthly | Prompts | Projects |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | €85 ($95) | 50 | 1 |
| Pro | €205 ($245) | 150 | 2 |
| Advanced | €425 ($495) | 350 | 5 |
| Enterprise | Custom, annual | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Every self-serve Peec plan tracks daily. Another engine, Perplexity included, costs €25, €55 or €115 a month on annual billing, by plan. Peec offers a free trial without saying how long it runs.
Profound's brand pricing has two options. The trial runs 50 prompts daily for 7 days, with no history, exports or API, and trial users "cannot customize their prompts". Enterprise is by demo.
Many comparisons still quote Profound Starter at $99 and Growth at $399 a month, as did Profound's own Peec AI review in November 2025. Its pricing page no longer shows either plan for brands:
More in our Profound review.
Cost per tracked answer
Peec lists how many AI answers each plan collects a month: prompts x 3 engines x 30 days. Dividing the price by that gives a number you can hold any quote against:
| Plan | AI answers a month | Price | Per answer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peec Starter | 4,500 | €85 | 1.9 cents |
| Peec Pro | 13,500 | €205 | 1.5 cents |
| Peec Advanced | 31,500 | €425 | 1.3 cents |
| Profound trial | 1,050 (50 x 3 x 7 days) | Free, once | 0 |
When a Profound Enterprise quote arrives, divide it by its prompts x engines x 30 to compare like for like. Before paying for either, you can check by hand whether ChatGPT mentions your brand.
Engines tracked
Peec's three self-serve plans let you run 3 of these at once: ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, AI Overviews, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini and Naver AI. Enterprise adds Claude, GPT 5 Search, Grok, DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral, Meta Spark and Perplexity, and labels every one of those except Perplexity "API".
Profound's trial covers ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. Enterprise lists 9: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Copilot, DeepSeek, Claude, AI Overviews and Exa Search.
So Perplexity is a paid add-on on Peec and Enterprise-only on Profound. Claude needs Enterprise on Profound, and Enterprise or the €675 agency plan on Peec.
Agency plans
Peec publishes agency prices: Essential €205, Growth €425 and Scale €675 a month. Each is a credit pool shared across clients, where 1 prompt on 1 engine for 1 day uses 1 credit. Growth is pitched at 3 to 10 clients and Scale at 11 to 25 or more. Every tier includes free pitch projects that run 7 days.
Profound's agency tab lists Agency Growth: 10 pitch workspaces a month, and full client workspaces at $399 a month each, with 400 credits a month per client workspace. The plan itself shows no price, so 5 client workspaces add $1,995 a month on top of it. Peec's €425 Growth plan is pitched at up to 10 clients.
Which one AI engines name first
MentionAgent's AI visibility scans asked ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini buyer questions about AI visibility and GEO tools between 27 July and 1 November 2026. Of 129 answers:
| Engine | Answers | Named Peec AI | Named Profound | Named both | Profound first |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini | 43 | 9 | 15 | 8 | 6 of 8 |
| Claude | 43 | 10 | 14 | 7 | 5 of 7 |
| ChatGPT | 43 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 of 1 |
| All three | 129 | 22 | 36 | 16 | 12 of 16 |
Profound was named more often on every engine and usually listed ahead of Peec AI. They are not always a pair, though: in the 9 answers to questions that asked about Profound by name, Peec AI never came up. ChatGPT named them least: Peec AI in 3 of its 43 answers, Profound in 7.
Method: MentionAgent production records, answers marked ok, harvest segment and outreach workspaces excluded, questions matching AI-visibility and GEO-tool terms, including questions that name one of the tools. "Profound" counted only as a capitalised brand name, since it is also an English word. Small sample: read it as direction.
Which to pick
- You want to pay by card today: Peec AI.
- Your buyers use Perplexity: Peec AI with the add-on.
- Your buyers use Claude: Profound Enterprise, or Peec's Enterprise or Scale agency plan.
- Agency with 3 to 25 clients and a known budget: Peec AI's agency plans.
- Enterprise that wants ChatGPT Shopping tracking on a 9-engine plan: Profound.
- You want the mentions themselves: neither pricing page lists sending pitches to other sites. MentionAgent finds blogs in your niche and emails their owners a pitch, from $99 a month, and tracks ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini while it does.
More options are in Peec AI alternatives and Profound alternatives.
Frequently asked questions
Is Peec AI cheaper than Profound?
For a brand that wants to pay today, yes. Peec AI starts at €85 a month ($95 on its US page). Profound gives brands a free 7-day trial and then custom Enterprise pricing with no listed price.
Does Peec AI track Claude and Perplexity?
Perplexity is a paid add-on on Starter, Pro and Advanced. Claude is on Enterprise and on the €675 Scale agency plan. Profound lists both on Enterprise only.
Which is better for agencies?
Peec AI publishes agency prices: €205, €425 and €675 a month for a shared credit pool across clients. Profound charges $399 a month per full client workspace on its Agency Growth plan.
Does Profound still have a $99 plan?
Not for brands on its pricing page as of 1 November 2026. Brands get a free 7-day trial, then custom Enterprise. Agencies pay $399 a month per client workspace.
Do Peec AI and Profound offer free trials?
Yes. Profound's trial runs 50 fixed prompts daily for 7 days on ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews. Peec offers a free trial and does not say how long it lasts.
Does either tool get my brand mentioned?
Both suggest actions. Neither pricing page lists sending pitches to other sites. MentionAgent does that part, from $99 a month.