Three-way comparison

Profound vs AirOps vs SEO Stuff

People compare Profound and AirOps because both come up when a team asks "how do we show up in ChatGPT", but they are different kinds of product. Profound is a tracker: it tells you, across up to nine answer engines, which prompts mention you, who is cited instead, and how that moves week to week. AirOps is a content platform with a strategy team attached: workflows that research, write, publish and refresh content at volume, with AI-search insights as a feature of that system.

Neither one writes your pages and earns your placements for a fixed price with a delivery date, which is what SEO Stuff does, so it sits here as the third column rather than a competitor to either. The honest version of this page is: pick Profound if you need to measure, pick AirOps if you need to produce at scale with help, and pick SEO Stuff if you need the result once and do not want a subscription.

Pick Profound if

  • You need to measure AI visibility across many engines, markets or brands, every day
  • You have an in-house team that will act on the dashboard
  • Enterprise requirements: SSO, API, dedicated support, unlimited seats

Pick AirOps if

  • Content volume is the bottleneck: dozens of pages a month, refreshed on a schedule
  • You want a strategy team working with you, not only software
  • Brand governance across writers and agents matters more than the tracking

Pick SEO Stuff if

  • You want the pages written and the placements earned, not a tool that says to
  • One price and a delivery date beat a subscription you have to staff
  • Twenty buyer questions, four assistants, before and after, is the proof you need

Side by side

What each one gives you, in the same words. The Profound and AirOps columns come from their own pricing pages; the dates are at the bottom.

What it is
ProfoundAn enterprise AI visibility platform: prompt tracking across up to nine answer engines, Prompt Volumes, Agent Analytics and an AI Marketer agent that researches and writes from the data.
AirOpsA platform for "AI discovery" that combines content agents, brand data and governance with a hands-on strategy team; it began as a content-workflow tool and now sells the strategy alongside the software.
SEO StuffNot a tracker: a fixed-price service that gets a business cited. A baseline of 20 buyer questions across four assistants, an audit and strategy guide within 7 business days, 10 pages written to be cited, 3 DR50+ placements, a dashboard and an after-report, delivered in 21 business days.
Price
ProfoundNo published price. A free 7-day trial runs 50 prompts a day across ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews; the Enterprise plan is custom, with unlimited seats, up to nine engines, all-time history, exports and API. Third-party roundups have quoted $99 and $399 a month for self-serve tiers that Profound's pricing page no longer shows.
AirOpsNo plan prices are published. Solo and Pro both "start for free"; Solo is priced by usage with a $0.025-per-task overage and tracks ChatGPT only, Pro adds unlimited seats and insights across "7+ answer engines", and Enterprise is quoted and adds onsite, offsite, social and community sources.
SEO Stuff$999 one time. Nothing renews; the pages and placements are yours. Research credits for do-it-yourself keyword and backlink work are separate: 400 for $49 or 3,000 for $99, bought once.
Answer engines
ProfoundUp to 9 (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Copilot, DeepSeek, Claude, AI Overviews, Exa)
AirOpsChatGPT on Solo; "7+ answer engines" on Pro
SEO StuffBaseline and after-report across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude
Free to try
ProfoundFree 7-day trial, 50 prompts, 3 engines
AirOpsSolo starts free; a 14-day trial is mentioned
SEO StuffFree manual SEO + AI search audit, report in 48 hours
Seats
ProfoundUnlimited
AirOpsSingle user on Solo; unlimited on Pro
SEO StuffOne dashboard for the order; no seats
Contract
ProfoundEnterprise, annual by negotiation
AirOpsUsage-based; Enterprise quoted
SEO StuffOne-time, nothing renews
Who does the work
ProfoundYour team, from the dashboard
AirOpsYour team, from the dashboard
SEO StuffSEO Stuff: the pages and placements are delivered
Best for
ProfoundEnterprise teams with budget and a dedicated owner
AirOpsContent teams that want workflows plus an expert team
SEO StuffA business that wants the work done once, for one price

Where Profound wins

Measurement. Profound covers more answer engines than anyone else on this page, nine on the Enterprise plan including DeepSeek and Exa, and it adds the two things the cheaper trackers do not: Prompt Volumes, a modelled estimate of how often a prompt is asked, and Agent Analytics, which shows which AI crawlers visit which pages. If your job is to report AI visibility to a leadership team every week across several markets, it is the most complete instrument here.

It also behaves like enterprise software, with unlimited seats, SSO, a data API, all-time history and a support SLA, which matters when five people in three departments need the same numbers.

Where AirOps wins

Production. AirOps's platform exists to turn research into published pages at a volume a human team cannot sustain by hand, with brand rules enforced across every agent and writer, and it now pairs that with a strategy team that sets the plan and runs it with you. Its own framing is "AI discovery" rather than visibility: the insights feed the content machine rather than a dashboard, and its reporting is built to tie activity to pipeline rather than to a score.

If you are a content team that already publishes weekly and wants to multiply that while staying on brand, AirOps is built for you in a way Profound is not.

Where neither fits

A business with one brand, a few dozen buyer questions, and no team to staff a platform. Profound will tell that business exactly where it is missing from AI answers and leave the fixing to it. AirOps will give it a factory it does not have the raw material or the hands to run, with pricing it cannot forecast because neither Solo nor Pro publishes a plan price.

SEO Stuff is built for that business. The Done-For-You Package starts with a baseline of twenty buyer questions across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude, then delivers the audit and strategy guide within 7 business days, ten pages written to be cited, three DR50+ placements on sites the assistants already quote, and the same twenty questions again afterwards, all within 21 business days for $999 once. For the weekly monitoring afterwards, the same team runs Rightcited at $499 a brand a month, which is the honest comparison to Profound for an ongoing check.

  • Profound: measure, across many engines, with a team to act on it
  • AirOps: produce content at volume with a strategy team, on usage-based pricing
  • SEO Stuff: have the pages and placements done once, for $999, with a before and after

If you are choosing between Profound and AirOps

Ask which problem is bigger: not knowing where you stand, or not being able to produce what the assistants cite. If it is the first, Profound; if the second, AirOps; and in both cases budget for the other half, because measurement without production changes nothing, and production without measurement is guessing. Most teams that can afford both are enterprises. Most businesses that are not should do the work once, measure before and after, and only then decide whether a monthly instrument is worth staffing.

A year, in dollars

Twelve months for a single brand, using each vendor's published pricing. Where a vendor publishes no price, that is what the row says.

Twelve months
ProfoundNot published; Enterprise is quoted. The 7-day trial is free.
AirOpsNot published; Solo and Pro start free and bill by usage, Enterprise is quoted.
SEO Stuff$999, once
What you have at the end
ProfoundTwelve months of data and a list of recommendations
AirOpsA content system and whatever your team published through it
SEO StuffTen pages, three placements, a baseline and an after-report, owned

Profound and AirOps prices checked October 9, 2026 on their pricing pages; neither publishes a plan price. Rightcited, from the SEO Stuff team, is $499 a brand a month for ongoing weekly checks and fixes.

Questions people ask

Is AirOps an AI visibility tracker like Profound?

Only partly. AirOps includes AI-search insights (ChatGPT on its Solo plan, "7+ answer engines" on Pro), but the product is a content platform with a strategy team, and its own site describes the goal as AI discovery and market share rather than a visibility score. Profound is a tracker first.

How much do Profound and AirOps cost?

Neither publishes a plan price as of October 9, 2026. Profound offers a free 7-day trial and a custom Enterprise plan; third-party roundups have quoted $99 and $399 a month for self-serve tiers its pricing page no longer shows. AirOps's Solo and Pro plans start free and bill by usage, with a $0.025-per-task overage on Solo; Enterprise is quoted.

Can SEO Stuff replace either of them?

It replaces the work they recommend, not the dashboard. The package delivers the pages and placements and shows a before-and-after on twenty buyer questions. If you want ongoing weekly monitoring afterwards, Rightcited from the same team is the closer comparison to Profound, at $499 a brand a month.

Which covers the most AI assistants?

Profound, with up to nine engines on its Enterprise plan. AirOps cites "7+ answer engines" on Pro. SEO Stuff's baseline covers four (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude), and its case-study figures also count Google AI Overviews and Copilot.

Do any of them guarantee results?

No, and none should. Profound and AirOps are instruments and systems; SEO Stuff guarantees the deliverables and the delivery date and shows you the baseline and after-report, not a specific answer from ChatGPT.

Three ways to start

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Sources

Profound and AirOps are trademarks of their owners; SEO Stuff is not affiliated with either. Their facts come from their public pages on the dates shown and may have changed since.