Menciona starts at $17 with the full service and every model included, while Profound starts at $99 and tracks just a single model on its most basic plan. Same focus, a fraction of the price, and tracking that turns into a biweekly list of fixes you can ship.
| Profound | Menciona | |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Enterprise and larger marketing teams | Founders, marketers, and agencies that want a focused workflow |
| What you get | A broad AEO platform: agent analytics, prompt volumes, automation | Visibility tracking, biweekly audits, and a ranked fix list |
| Setup | Configured like a platform, sales-assisted | Add a domain and prompts, see a score in minutes |
| After tracking | Dashboards and workflows to interpret | The next fix named, with the exact page to change |
| Your data | Dashboards, API, and MCP | History you keep after canceling, plus MCP for your own AI |
| Entry price | Paid plans from about $99/mo | $17/mo, 14-day free trial |
Profound and Menciona both track how AI engines talk about your brand. The difference is scope and price. Profound is a broad platform for teams that want agent analytics, prompt-volume research, and automation, with paid plans that start around $99 a month and climb. Menciona starts at $17 and stays focused: track your prompts, keep the history, query it from your own AI through MCP, and get a ranked list of fixes every two weeks. If you want a platform to operate, choose Profound. If you want momentum without the overhead, choose Menciona.
Profound covers everything a category leader does: answer-engine research, prompt volumes, agent analytics, benchmarking, integrations. That breadth earns its keep when you already have a content team, an analytics owner, and budget for a platform. If your real question today is where you show up and what to fix first, most of that surface area sits unused while you pay for it.
Plenty of tools can tell you that you barely show up. Menciona is built around what you do about it. Every two weeks it audits your site, ranks the problems by impact, and names the exact page to change, so the work is obvious instead of another dashboard to read. Your history stays in the dashboard even if you cancel, and MCP lets your own AI assistant analyze it, draft reports, and spin up new prompts.
We built Menciona after looking for solid AI-visibility tracking and finding nothing good under $100 a month, so Menciona starts at $17. Profound is the broader, pricier tool, with paid plans that begin around $99 and climb from there. If you need an enterprise platform to operate, Profound fits. If you want focused tracking and clear fixes for a startup price, start with us.