AirOps vs Profound
Both pair AI answer tracking with tools that produce content. AirOps is built around content: Insights tracks answers daily, and Playbooks, Workflows and Grids write and publish pages, with a Solo plan it describes as free and no price shown for Pro. Profound centers on tracking up to 9 engines, with content agents, a 7-day trial for brands and Enterprise by quote.
Checked against airops.com's and tryprofound.com's own pages between October 7, 2026 and October 14, 2026. Sources at the foot of the page.
What each one costs, plan by plan.
AirOps
AirOps says Solo is free and shows no price for Pro.
Profound
Profound prices brand plans on request.
TrialFree for 7 days
50 prompts, run daily for 7 days[4]
Agency Growth$99 a month
Plus add-ons; no yearly price shown
For an agency's pitches; a client's workspace costs extra.
10 pitch workspaces a month: 25 prompts each, daily, for 7 days[5]
EnterpriseBy quote
A prompt count set per contract, run daily[4]
Agency EnterpriseBy quote
Pitch and client workspaces set per contract[5]
How AirOps and Profound work.
| What you get | AirOps | Profound |
|---|---|---|
| Free to try | AirOpsAirOps describes Solo as free with 35,000 tasks a month, while its billing docs say a new free-tier workspace gets 1 task; Pro has a Start for free button with no price shown; a 14-day trial asks for no payment details until it ends[1, 2, 6] | ProfoundA 7-day trial with 50 prompts a day on ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews; a free AEO Report[4, 7] |
| Engines | AirOpsChatGPT only on Solo; 7+ on Pro, from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google's AI Mode and AI Overviews, Copilot, Grok and Claude, with Claude on by default only on Enterprise[1, 8, 9] | ProfoundUp to 9 on Enterprise: ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Perplexity, Copilot, Claude, DeepSeek and Exa Search[4] |
| How answers are collected | AirOpsLive queries to each engine, refreshed daily; AirOps doesn't say whether they run through the apps or the APIs[3] | ProfoundCaptured from the consumer apps, not API outputs[7] |
| Prompts | AirOpsYour own, by CSV upload, plus weekly recommendations; no prompt count published for Solo or Pro, and each answer uses a task (4 on Claude)[1, 6, 10, 11] | ProfoundTrial: a recommended set you can't edit. Enterprise: your own[4] |
| How often | AirOpsDaily: one answer per prompt, engine, region and persona each day[6, 10] | ProfoundDaily[4] |
| How sure the numbers are | AirOpsPoint values from published formulas; one answer per prompt and engine a day unless Enterprise turns on Multi-Answer Collection[9, 12] | ProfoundPoint values, with published formulas[13] |
| AI crawler checks | AirOpsAgent Analytics counts AI crawls and AI agent visits from CDN logs on Cloudflare, CloudFront, Netlify or Vercel[14] | ProfoundAgent Analytics reads AI crawler visits from server logs[15] |
| API and MCP | AirOpsThe pricing table lists the AirOps MCP and API on all three plans; MCP data tools need a paid workspace or a paid-tier trial[1, 16, 17] | ProfoundMCP for Enterprise customers; API on Enterprise[4, 18] |
| Agencies and white-label | AirOpsNo white-label reports on the pricing page; Solo and Pro include 1 Brand Kit, Enterprise unlimited[1] | ProfoundAgency Mode, with client and pitch workspaces[19] |
Where their own pages disagree.
Pick by what you need.
Choose AirOps if
You want one platform that tracks answers and also writes, refreshes and publishes content to your CMS, with human review.
Choose Profound if
You want answers captured from the consumer apps on up to 9 engines, and an agency mode with client and pitch workspaces.
Where GEOFast stands against both.
GEOFast is a tracker: it publishes prices from $29 a month, states how it collects each engine's answers and puts a 90% range on how often you're mentioned and picked first, which neither reports. It writes briefs for pages, never the pages themselves, and unlike both it reads no AI crawler visits from logs.
Questions about AirOps and Profound.
Is AirOps or Profound cheaper?
AirOps says Solo is free and shows no price for Pro; Profound prices brand plans on request. Seats, engines and prompts differ by plan, so compare the plan that fits your size.
Do AirOps and Profound say how they collect answers?
Profound says its answers are captured from the consumer apps, not API outputs. AirOps says it runs live queries to each engine, refreshed daily, without saying whether through the apps or the APIs.
Can I try AirOps or Profound for free?
AirOps describes Solo as free, tracking ChatGPT only, and has a 14-day trial that asks for no payment details until it ends. Profound has a free 7-day trial with 50 prompts on ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews, and a free AEO Report.
Where each fact comes from.
Every claim about another tool links to that vendor's own page, read between October 7, 2026 and October 14, 2026. Prices are as each vendor lists them, in US dollars unless marked; vendors change them, so check before you buy.
- 1AirOps: Pricingairops.com/pricing
- 2AirOps: AI Instructionsairops.com/ai-instructions
- 3AirOps: Enterpriseairops.com/enterprise
- 4Profound: Pricingtryprofound.com/pricing
- 5Profound: Pricing for agenciestryprofound.com/pricing?tier=agencies
- 6AirOps: Billingdocs.airops.com/your-workspace/settings/billing
- 7Profound: Free AEO Reporttryprofound.com/aeo-report
- 8AirOps: Analyticsdocs.airops.com/insights/analytics
- 9AirOps: Insights settingsdocs.airops.com/insights/analytics/settings
- 10AirOps: Your promptsdocs.airops.com/insights/prompts/your-prompts
- 11AirOps: Recommended promptsdocs.airops.com/insights/prompts/recommended-prompts
- 12AirOps: Analytics overviewdocs.airops.com/insights/analytics/overview
- 13Profound: How metrics are calculateddocs.tryprofound.com/cookbook/metrics/how-metrics-are-calculated
- 14AirOps: Agent Analyticsdocs.airops.com/insights/onsite/traffic
- 15Profound: Agent Analyticstryprofound.com/features/agent-analytics
- 16AirOps: MCP overviewdocs.airops.com/developers/mcp-server
- 17AirOps: Insights APIdocs.airops.com/developers/api
- 18Profound: The Profound MCP Evolution, Part 1 (May 20, 2026)tryprofound.com/blog/the-profound-mcp-evolution-part-1
- 19Profound: Agency Mode overviewhelp.tryprofound.com/articles/8593548222-agency-mode-overview
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