AEO / GEO buying guide · Updated September 25, 2026
BotView vs Profound: $9 AI reviews or recurring tracking?
BotView combines free crawler evaluation with selected OpenAI API answer reviews from $9/month. Profound’s pricing page lists a free 7-day trial and custom Enterprise pricing; the earlier $99 Starter plan is no longer listed. BotView is the smaller, self-serve option.
Written by BotView, a product in this comparison. This is a comparison of published capabilities and prices, not an independent hands-on ranking. Sources were reviewed on .
| Tool / source | Price | Engines | Allowance |
|---|---|---|---|
| BotView | $0 Free · $9/month Pro · $39/month Agency | OpenAI API with web search | Pro: 20 individual AI answer runs/month plus 50 crawler scans. Agency: 100 answer runs. Free: 20 scans/month, up to 3 pages each. |
| Profound | Free 7-day trial · Enterprise custom pricing | Trial: ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews. Enterprise: 9 engines | Trial: 50 prompts run daily for 7 days. Enterprise: custom prompts, daily. |
USD where a dollar price is shown. Vendor billing terms, taxes, offers and add-ons can change. We do not divide subscription price by prompts: a saved prompt repeated daily and a single answer request buy different amounts of work.
Choose BotView for a small assessment
Use free page diagnostics to investigate access and rendering. With Pro, ask selected discovery and branded questions, inspect answers and sources, then rerun individual questions yourself.
Choose Profound for recurring tracking
The trial runs 50 prompts daily for 7 days on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. Enterprise adds six more engines, custom prompt volume and SSO. BotView has no equivalent recurring prompt panel.
A lower entry price with a smaller scope
BotView Pro includes 20 individual runs per month and 50 crawler scans. Profound Enterprise is priced by contract and tracks prompts daily, a different unit. We do not claim equal coverage or a lower cost per comparable response.
What screenshots prove
BotView shows human versus Googlebot-like browser rendering from its own infrastructure. It also checks crawler user-agent responses and robots.txt. Those probes do not reproduce a vendor’s crawler network or prove a cause for missing recommendations.
Choose by the job you need done
BotView: A small AEO/GEO review with crawler diagnostics and selected AI answers.
OpenAI API answers with web search, mentions, citations, manual reruns; separate page scores and human/Googlebot screenshots.
No automatic answer monitoring, multi-engine share of voice, consumer ChatGPT rankings or traffic analytics. A five-question assessment uses five checks.
Check BotView pricing and inclusions →Profound: Enterprise brand and source analysis with a sales-led contract.
Enterprise adds Perplexity, AI Mode, Copilot, DeepSeek, Claude and Exa, plus agent analytics, exports and SSO.
No self-serve monthly price is published for brands. The earlier $99 Starter plan is no longer listed.
Check Profound pricing and inclusions →BotView Pro includes 20 individual runs per UTC month: five questions use five checks; a rerun uses one. Failed answers are refunded. Checks do not roll over. Discovery and branded questions stay separate. See the recorded example.
Your next step · Pro
Does ChatGPT recommend your business?
We put the questions your customers ask to OpenAI with web search, then show whether you're named, who is recommended instead, and the sources the answers used.
- Your business: named or missing, and what the answer gets right or wrong.
- Your competitors: who appears instead, and the reasons the answer gives.
- Your next steps: the cited sources, so you can see which pages and listings to improve.
$9/month · 20 AI checks + 50 crawler scans · Cancel anytime
Start with a five-question analysis (5 checks). Rerun a question for 1 check. Answers come from the OpenAI API with web search, not consumer ChatGPT sessions; they are sampled answers, not measured rankings.