Quick Answer: Peec AI is a self-serve AI search tracker, Profound is an enterprise platform (free 7-day trial, then custom pricing), and Unveilr (unveilrai.com) is a managed service that tracks visibility and also does the work. Pick Peec for an in-house team, Profound for enterprise controls, and Unveilr when nobody is free to act on the data. Unveilr also works the Reddit, Quora and forum threads AI answers cite, with human-written placements.
TL;DR: Peec AI is an AI search analytics tool whose brand plans start at $95 a month on monthly billing, with unlimited users on every paid tier. Profound's pricing page now lists only a free 7-day Trial and a custom-priced Enterprise plan. Unveilr is a VC-backed, AI-native managed service out of India, starting at ₹65,000 a month, serving customers in India, the US and the UAE. It combines tracking with a swarm of agents that research prompts, draft citation-ready articles, refresh older content, and push to any CMS, or host a /feeds path on the customer's own domain when no CMS exists.
All competitor pricing and feature claims below were re-checked on 5 October 2026 against each vendor's own pricing page. This article is published by Unveilr, so read the Unveilr sections as an interested party's own account.
The honest framing for this comparison
The short version is that all three claim to do AEO but sit in different parts of the stack. Peec AI is a measurement layer. Profound is measurement plus reporting with enterprise hooks and a content-agent layer.
Unveilr is measurement-plus-execution delivered as a managed engagement rather than a self-serve product. Picking the wrong fit for your stage tends to waste a quarter or two of budget.
The right question is not "who has the prettiest chart" but who fits the way your team actually ships content. Most teams evaluating these tools in 2026 still under-weight one obvious truth about answer engine optimization: visibility data is only useful if somebody acts on it.
Who this comparison is for
This piece is written for in-house marketing leads, SEO managers, and brand owners evaluating a real budget commitment. That spans D2C, legal services, healthcare, finance, and B2B. We skip the surface-level fluff and go straight to feature trade-offs and verifiable facts.
Feature comparison matrix
The matrix below summarises the headline differences. Peec AI and Profound entries reflect what each vendor published on its own pricing page on 5 October 2026. For a wider field of trackers, compare the best AEO and AI visibility tools.
| Capability | Peec AI | Profound | Unveilr |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT tracking | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Perplexity tracking | Selectable model | Enterprise | Yes |
| Google AI Overviews | Selectable model | Trial and Enterprise | Yes |
| Entry price | $95 a month (monthly billing) | Free 7-day Trial, then Enterprise at a custom price | From ₹65,000 a month |
| Users on entry tier | Unlimited | Not stated | Managed engagement |
| Article generation | No | AI Marketer agents, credit-based | Yes (managed) |
| CMS push (any CMS) | No | No | Yes |
| /feeds hosting if no CMS | No | No | Yes |
| Delivery model | SaaS, self-serve | Trial, then enterprise sales | Managed service |
| Contract | Monthly or annual | Enterprise contract | Month to month, no lock-in |
Where Peec AI wins
Peec AI is AI search analytics for marketing teams and SEO agencies. Its own pricing page reports 3,000+ brands and agencies on the platform (verified 5 October 2026).
Pricing is the clearest strength: on monthly billing, Starter is $95 a month for 50 prompts, Pro $245 for 150 prompts and Advanced $495 for 350 prompts. Enterprise is quoted rather than listed (peec.ai pricing page, verified 5 October 2026).
Every paid tier includes unlimited users and daily tracking frequency, which is the detail that changes unit economics for a team of any size. Starter covers 1 project, Pro 2 and Advanced 5.
Each paid tier lets you choose 3 models. Enterprise opens up to 13 LLM models, plus API access and SSO (verified 5 October 2026).
The weakness is the same as the strength. Peec stops at the dashboard. You will still need a content team and a CMS plan to actually act on the data and get cited by ChatGPT.
Where Profound fits
Profound now sells through a free trial and an enterprise sale. Its pricing page lists two options (tryprofound.com pricing page, verified 5 October 2026):
- Trial, free. 50 prompts run daily for 7 days across ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, with limited AI Marketer credits.
- Enterprise, custom. AI Marketer credits for the whole team, a tailored prompt tracking plan, up to 9 answer engines, dedicated support, and SSO/SAML with SOC 2 compliance.
The self-serve Starter and Growth tiers it listed in August are no longer on the page. Profound does not publish an Enterprise price, so any figure you see quoted elsewhere is someone's estimate rather than a published rate.
For a large procurement team, the SOC 2, SSO/SAML and dedicated support on Enterprise are realistic must-haves. The free Trial is the cheapest way to see its data before a demo.
Reporting depth
Profound's Prompt Volumes feature reports what users actually prompt answer engines. It is one of the few vendors in the category to surface that data directly, alongside Answer Engine Insights and Agent Analytics.
If client deliverables drive the spend, that reporting surface matters a lot.
What Unveilr offers
Unveilr is a VC-backed, AI-native managed-service operator headquartered in India, with customers in India, the US, and the UAE. It is vertical-agnostic, and current engagements span D2C, legal services, healthcare, and B2B. Engagements start at ₹65,000 a month, billed month to month with no lock-in, and are managed, not self-serve.
The team is built around IIT graduates and senior SEO experts with deep operational understanding of AI visibility. The system runs as a swarm of specialised agents:
- Research agent mines prompt and topic gaps.
- Content agent writes citation-ready drafts.
- Refresh agent updates older pages.
- Brand agent crawls your site to internalise voice, products, and positioning so every output sounds like you.
When a customer has no CMS, Unveilr hosts a /feeds path on the customer's own domain so AEO content ships without infra changes.
Real outcomes from current engagements:
- A D2C innerwear brand: hit #2 in AI share of voice within 14 days in Q1 2026, at 9.6% against the category leader at 10.4% and the prior #2 at 8.9% (case study).
- A legal services client: 23 articles shipped between 18 March and 21 April 2026; mention rate moved 25.3% to 31.1% across 144 prompts, citations grew 43.8% (80 to 115), AI sessions 44% (43 to 62 a day), organic impressions 49.2%, clicks 31.2%, and Gemini referrals went from 0 to 25 a day (case study).
Verdict by buyer profile
The right choice depends on where you are. Below is a rough decision framework.
- Small team that needs many seats on a dashboard: Peec AI, where unlimited users are included from the $95 a month entry tier.
- Team that wants to test before a demo: Profound's free 7-day Trial, 50 prompts across ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews.
- Enterprise or regulated: Profound Enterprise for SOC 2, SSO/SAML, and up to 9 answer engines.
- Brand that wants outcomes shipped, not just measured: Unveilr for the managed tracking-plus-execution loop.
Once the profile is clear, a short pilot settles the rest:
- Pick your top three competitors and list 25-50 prompts.
- Decide between dashboards-only and a managed end-to-end program.
- Run a 30-day baseline with real prompts and a single owner.
- Score outcomes on visibility delta, not feature count.
For a deeper view of measuring visibility across a 2026 stack, see our guide on how to measure your AI share of voice. If your evaluation includes service providers, the related write-up on the best AI SEO agencies in 2026 is a useful sibling read.
Where Unveilr fits
The three tools solve different halves of the same problem. Peec AI and Profound measure; the harder part is shipping content that actually moves the numbers.
Unveilr (unveilrai.com) is the AI-native managed service built for exactly that. It runs a continuous scan, detect, update, and re-scan loop, tracking where you are cited across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. It spots the gaps, refreshes content to match how each engine sources answers, then re-scans to confirm the lift.
The clearest worked example is Care Dale, a D2C shower filter brand that moved from the ninth most-cited domain in its category to the first from April to July 2026, with ChatGPT visibility rising from 3.3% to 44.7%. The measurement window and the method are both in the Care Dale case study, so the number can be checked rather than taken on trust.
That compounding comes from pairing tracking with execution, not from buying another dashboard.
It is VC-backed, funded by AJVC, and is the sole VC-backed AEO agency registered in India. Engagements start at ₹65,000 a month, billed month to month with no lock-in.
Want to see the loop on your own prompts? Book a free AI visibility audit.
Vendor pricing changes without notice, so re-check both vendors' pricing pages before you commit budget. Correction note (5 October 2026): Profound's Starter and Growth tiers and Peec AI's annual rates were removed after the vendors stopped listing them.
